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Fwd: [AISWorld] IEEE ICDM 2020 - Call for Papers (deadline June 11)
by Gustaf Neumann 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] IEEE ICDM 2020 - Call for Papers (deadline June 11) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:04:24 -0500 From: Carson Leung (IEEE ICDM 2020) <icdm(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org IEEE ICDM 2020 - Call for Papers 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2020) November 17-20, 2020, Sorrento, Italy http://icdm2020.bigke.org/ AIMS AND SCOPE The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world's premier research conference in data mining. It provides an international forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software, systems, and applications. ICDM draws researchers, application developers, and practitioners from a wide range of data mining related areas such as big data, deep learning, pattern recognition, statistical and machine learning,databases, data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high-performance computing. By promoting novel, high-quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundations, algorithms, models and theory of data mining, including big data mining. * Deep learning and statistical methods for data mining. * Mining from heterogeneous data sources, including text, semi-structured, spatio-temporal, streaming, graph, web, and multimedia data. * Data mining systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, security and privacy. * Data mining for modelling, visualization, personalization, and recommendation. * Data mining for cyber-physical systems and complex, time-evolving networks. * Applications of data mining in social sciences, physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, web, marketing, finance, precision medicine, health informatics, and other domains. We particularly encourage submissions in emerging topics of high importance such as ethical data analytics, automated data analytics, data-driven reasoning, interpretable modeling, modeling with evolving environment, cyber-physical systems, multi-modality data mining, and heterogeneous data integration and mining. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of ten (10) pages, in the IEEE 2-column format ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html), including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 10 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be triple-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to scope of the conference, originality, significance, and clarity. The following sections give further information for authors. Triple blind submission guidelines Since 2011, ICDM has imposed a triple blind submission and review policy for all submissions. Authors must hence not use identifying information in the text of the paper and bibliographies must be referenced to preserve anonymity. Any papers available on the Web (including Arxiv) no longer qualify for ICDM submissions, as their author information is already public. What is triple blind reviewing? The traditional blind paper submission hides the referee names from the authors, and the double-blind paper submission also hides the author names from the referees. The triple-blind reviewing further hides the referee names among referees during paper discussions before their acceptance decisions. The names of authors and referees remain known only to the PC Co-Chairs, and the author names are disclosed only after the ranking and acceptance of submissions are finalized. It is imperative that all authors of ICDM submissions conceal their identity and affiliation information in their paper submissions. It does not suffice to simply remove the author names and affiliations from the first page, but also in the content of each paper submission. How to prepare your submissions The authors shall omit their names from the submission. For formatting templates with author and institution information, simply replace all these information items in the template by "Anonymous". In the submission, the authors should refer to their own prior work like the prior work of any other author, and include all relevant citations. This can be done either by referring to their prior work in the third person or referencing papers generically. For example, if your name is Smith and you have worked on clustering, instead of saying "We extend our earlier work on distance-based clustering (Smith 2005)," you might say "We extend Smith's earlier work (Smith 2005) on distance-based clustering." The authors shall exclude citations to their own work which is not fundamental to understanding the paper, including prior versions (e.g., technical reports, unpublished internal documents) of the submitted paper. Hence, do not write: "In our previous work [3]" as it reveals that citation 3 is written by the current authors. The authors shall remove mention of funding sources, personal acknowledgments, and other such auxiliary information that could be related to their identities. These can be reinstituted in the camera-ready copy once the paper is accepted for publication. The authors shall make statements on well-known or unique systems that identify an author, as vague in respect to identifying the authors as possible. The submitted files shall be named with care to ensure that author anonymity is not compromised by the file names. For example, do not name your submission "Smith.pdf", instead give it a name that is descriptive of the title of your paper, such as "ANewApproachtoClustering.pdf" (or a shorter version of the same). Algorithms and resources used in a paper should be described as completely as possible to allow reproducibility. This includes experimental methodology, empirical evaluations, and results. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their code and data publicly available whenever possible. In addition, authors are strongly encouraged to also report, whenever possible, results for their methods on publicly available datasets. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, short paper or poster tracks during submission. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in online submission system ( http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/icdm20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=DM). We do not accept email submissions. BEST PAPER AWARDS Awards will be conferred at the conference to the authors of the best paper and the best student paper. A selected number of best papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://kais.bigke.org/) published by Springer. ATTENDANCE ICDM is a premier forum for presenting and discussing current research in data mining. Therefore, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete the conference registration and present the paper at the conference, in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings and conference program. All deadlines are at 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time. * Full paper submissions: June 11, 2020 * Contest requirement specification and sample data available: June 12, 2020 * Contest team registration begins. Data sets are available: June 26, 2020 * Demo and tutorial proposals: July 10, 2020 * Contest final submission deadline: 23:59, July 31, 2020. * Workshop paper submissions: August 24, 2020 * Conference paper, tutorial, demo notification: August 20, 2020 * Contest notifications to shortlisted teams for web applications: 23:59, August 10, 2020 * Contest finalist notifications: August 28, 2020 * Workshop paper notification: September 17, 2020 * Camera-ready deadline and copyright forms: September 24, 2020 * Conference dates: November 17-20, 2020 * Contest prize presentations at ICDM 2020: November 19, 2020 PROGRAM CHAIRS * Claudia Plant, University of Vienna, Austria * Haixun Wang, WeWork, New York, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS * Ting Bai, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China * Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada * Washio Takashi, Osaka University, Japan MORE INFORMATION More information about ICDM 2020: http://icdm2020.bigke.org/ Email: icdm2020chairs(a)gamil.com _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Announcing an AIS Forum on Covid-19 and Higher Education
by Gustaf Neumann 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Announcing an AIS Forum on Covid-19 and Higher Education Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:22:25 -0400 From: Richard Watson <rickwatson(a)mac.com> To: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear Colleagues In the initial posting to a new AIS forum, AIS President Alan Dennis calls on us to explore and help to document “the new world” that we see emerging almost as rapidly as Covid-19 races around the world. As Alan predicts: “The pandemic will end, and will leave behind a new set of technologies and social structures. We will have new customs and new ways of working that will persist long after the pandemic is a fading memory. In the future, we will more carefully choose how we work together, having learned that FTF is not the “normal” way of working together.” Several of us have considered the challenges in a series of discussions focused on the implications of the pandemic for higher education. It was soon apparent that such discussions would be of interest to, and benefit from, the entire AIS community. Therefore, with the assistance of AIS staff, we have started a new AIS forum to blog and discuss how this crisis will change our world <>( <>https://aisnet.org/page/covidforum). Please visit the site to read the postings and please share the link with others. You need not be an AIS member to read the postings, but only AIS members will be able to recommend, reply, and create postings. Starting this week, and every couple of days, one of us will post to the new AIS Forum on one of the topics listed below. We hope the contributors to our original discussion will repost their comments and will join us in encouraging others to join the conversation. THE BIG PICTURE: Overarching Assumptions / What are the Implications for higher education? OUR STUDENTS: How will this Impact Student Demand? Next Semester/Next year/Ongoing? How Does it threaten our graduates? What Challenges does it present? What does it mean for Ph.D. students in particular? We look forward to hearing from some of them. EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS: What Changes Can We Expect to See in education overall or in IS Education? What about other areas - e.g., health sciences? UNIVERSITY FINANCES & STRUCTURE: What Financial Risks Does Higher Education Face? What Can We Expect Regarding Budgeting / Cost Reductions? How Might This Impact Industry Structure / Competition? The Sports-Academy Deadly Embrace? University Infrastructure? FACULTY: What are the threats / opportunities for faculty overall or faculty in IS? What are the research opportunities? We hope you will tune in and consider posting. If you post, we ask that you keep your posts under 500 words and relate them to the “Covid-19 and Higher Education theme.” Please also avoid instigating political squabbles. Instead, we favor hearing success stories, proposals, and well thought out predictions - i.e., less whining and more winning. We appreciate the efforts of the AIS staff to put together a forum at short notice, while they deal with Covid-19’s impact on our association. We hope to meet you at the Forum (https://aisnet.org/page/covidforum)!!! — Dennis Galletta, Blake Ives, Munir Mandviwalla, John Mooney, and Rick Watson _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CFP (extended deadline): IMHE Workshop @ ITS 2020
by Gustaf Neumann 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP (extended deadline): IMHE Workshop @ ITS 2020 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:36:11 +0300 (EEST) From: Elvira Popescu <popescu_elvira(a)software.ucv.ro> To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org First International Workshop on Intelligence Support for Mentoring Processes in Higher Education (IMHE 2020) at ITS 2020 (16th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems) 8-12 June 2020 https://its2020.iis-international.org/ Mentoring is the activity of a senior person (the mentor) sharing domain knowledge to a less experienced person (the mentee). Mentoring support is based on a trustful, protected and private atmosphere between the mentor and the mentee. The goal is to develop a professional identity and to reflect the current situation. At universities, mentors are senior academics or skilled employees while mentees are mostly students with different competences. Intelligent tutoring systems have a long tradition, focusing on cognitive aspects of learning in a selected domain. They were successfully applied especially in such areas, where the domain knowledge can be well formalised with the help of experts. Nevertheless, in the learning process also motivations, emotions and meta-cognitive competences play a crucial role. These can be nowadays quite well recognised and monitored through big educational data and a wide spectrum of available sensors. This enables the support also for the mentoring process, which is more spontaneous, holistic and depends on the needs and interests of the mentee. Psychological and emotional support are at the heart of the mentoring relationship, underpinned by empathy and trust. Various roles and success factors for mentoring have been identified as well. We want to look at these aspects and investigate how they were technologically supported, in order to specify the requirements for intelligent mentoring systems. This should help us to answer the following questions: How can we design educational concepts that enable a scalable individual mentoring in the development of competences? How can we design intelligent mentoring systems to cover typical challenges and to scale up mentoring support in universities? How can we design an infrastructure to exchange data between universities in a private and secure way to scale up on the inter-university level? How can we integrate heterogeneous data sources (learning management systems, sensors, social networking sites) to facilitate learning analytics supporting mentoring processes? == Topics include but are not limited to: * Pedagogical models of mentoring * Peer mentoring & crowdsourcing mentoring * Workplace & career mentoring * Meta-cognitive competences of mentoring * Chatbots in Mentoring * Mixed Reality Mentoring * Wearables and Sensors for mentoring * Self-regulated mentoring, nudging & behaviour change * Mentoring analytics * Mentoring support in learning management systems * Mobile mentoring support * Design and research methodologies for mentoring support * Measuring and Analysing mentoring support * Visualization techniques for mentoring support * Motivation and gamification of mentoring support * Deep learning, machine learning and data mining in mentoring support * Recommender technologies for mentoring support (mentor-mentee matching) * Semantic technologies for mentoring support (ontologies, domain & mentoring models) * Distributed mentoring environments (cloud & p2p platforms) * Mentoring for specific domains & subjects (math, engineering, social sciences, pedagogy) * Affective computing for mentoring * Requirements of intelligent mentoring systems == Paper submission and publication Position papers should be written in English and they should be 6-8 pages in LNCS format. Please submit your papers as a PDF document via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imhe2020. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. A publication of the accepted papers is planned as a volume in the CEUR-WS.org series. We will also develop the workshop contributions into an article collection in Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence. == Important dates 27 April 2020 – Paper submission deadline (extended) 8 May 2020 – Notification of acceptance/rejection 20 May 2020 – Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication TBA - Deadline for at least one author of each paper to register for the workshop == Workshop Organizers Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Milos Kravcik (DFKI, Germany) Elvira Popescu (University of Craiova, Romania) Viktoria Pammer-Schindler (Graz University of Technology, Austria) _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] [CfP] Special Session: Women in Logic Programming - ICLP2020
by Gustaf Neumann 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] [CfP] Special Session: Women in Logic Programming - ICLP2020 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:39:57 +0200 From: Laura Pandolfo <lpandolfo(a)uniss.it> Reply-To: Laura Pandolfo <lpandolfo(a)uniss.it> To: wi(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de [Apologies for cross-posting] /IMPORTANT NOTE: The conference general chairs together with the program chairs and the ALP Executive, have decided to hold ICLP2020 as a fully virtual conference on the original week. More details will be forthcoming./ ======================================== *Call for papers - Special Session: Women in Logic Programming** **ICLP 2020 - The 36th International Conference on Logic Programming* September 18 - September 24, 2020 University of Calabria, Rende, Italy https://iclp2020.unical.it ======================================== This special session aims to increase the visibility and impact of women in LP, fostering awareness of one another’s work. To have good role models is very important for female students and this session is an opportunity to celebrate women’s work in the community. We hope this will be particularly attractive to early-career women. The session will include one or two invited talks and presentations by women in logic programming. Contributions are solicited in all areas of logic programming and related areas, with a special focus on applications that are beneficial to society in the large, and to the role of women in society in particular. Any (female) student willing to participate to ICLP can submit their application on the site: https://women.acm.org/scholarships/ Submission Process: ============ The submissions to this special session must be made via the EasyChair conference system (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iclp20200). All submissions must be written in English and co-authored by at least one woman. Authors should select the right track when submitting. Two types of submissions are invited: Regular and short. • Regular papers must be in the condensed TPLP format (template here) and not exceed 14 pages including bibliography. Regular papers may be supplemented with appendices for proofs and details of datasets which do not count towards the page limit and which will not be made available as appendices to the published paper. • Short papers (7 pages in EPTCS format (http://info.eptcs.org/), including references) can describe original preliminary work or express a position on the special focus of the session. The accepted short papers will be published as Technical Communications, along with the selected ICLP-TC papers. All TCs will be presented during the conference, preferably by women. Authors of accepted papers will, by default, be automatically included in the list of ALP members, who will receive quarterly updates from the Logic Programming Newsletter at no cost. Keynote Speakers: =========== To be announced. Important Dates: ========== Abstract registration (regular papers): May 8, 2020 Paper submission (regular paper): May 15, 2020 Notification to authors (regular paper): June 19, 2020 Paper Submission (short papers): June 30, 2020 Revision submission (TPLP papers): July 6, 2020 Final notifications (TPLP papers): July 17, 2020 Camera-ready copy due: July 27, 2020 Main Conference starts: September 19, 2020 Special Session: Women in Logic Programming Chairs: ================================= Francesca Alessandra Lisi, University of Bari Aldo Moro Alessandra Mileo, INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University -- Mailing-Liste: wi(a)lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request(a)lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi -- *Dona il 5x1000* all'Università degli Studi di Sassari codice fiscale: 00196350904

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CENTERIS / ProjMAN / HCist 2020 *** Extended submission deadline: May 2 *** Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal), October 21-23
by Gustaf Neumann 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CENTERIS / ProjMAN / HCist 2020 *** Extended submission deadline: May 2 *** Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal), October 21-23 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 04:31:59 +0100 From: Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha <mcunha(a)ipca.pt> Reply-To: mcunha(a)ipca.pt To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org ------- CENTERIS 2020 International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems https://centeris.scika.org/ ------- HCist 2020 International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies https://hcist.scika.org ------- ProjMAN 2020 International Conference on Project MANagement http://projman.scika.org ------- ------- AIS affiliated Conferences ------- Scopus CPCI ------- Crowne Plaza Hotel, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal ------- October 21-23, 2020 ------- Dear Colleagues, We hope this message finds you and your loved ones safe and in good health, as the world grapples with this catastrophe. Due to several requests, the organizers of the CENTERIS / ProjMAN / HCist 2020 conferences decided to extend the submission deadline to May 2, 2020. ------- ------- Important dates - Extended paper submission deadline: May 02, 2020 - Notification of results: June 14, 2020 - Revised version due: July 11, 2020 ------- ------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage until May 02, 2020. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines also available at the conference webpage. - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be two to three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed. ------- ------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. ------- ------- New topics to consider In addition to the topics suggested on the conference’s webpages, articles related to experiences and lessons learned in various scientific fields in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak are welcome. ------- ------- Vilamoura is one of the largest single tourist complex in Europe. It is Portuguese, but also truly cosmopolitan. Away from the hectic pace and the stress of the modern world, all who visit are revitalised by the lifestyle, the convenience and the hospitality of this truly special place (portugalvirtual.pt/_tourism) ------- The Organizing Committee wishes you and your families good health and protection during this hard time. Francesca Bianchi and Marco Fernando (on behalf of the Organizing Committee) _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] CfPs: IST'2020 Track within FedCSIS'2020
by Gustaf Neumann 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfPs: IST'2020 Track within FedCSIS'2020 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:15:46 +0200 From: Ewa Ziemba <ewzi60(a)gmail.com> To: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Track 4: Information Systems and Technologies IST'2020 within 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems FedCSIS'2020 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 06-09 September 2020 https://fedcsis.org/2020/ist Dear friends and colleagues, Are you interested in sharing and discussing your research on integrating and creating synergy between disciplines of information technology, information systems, and social sciences, i.e. economics, management, business, finance, and education? If yes, then please consider submitting our Track 4 IST'2020. The track addresses the issues relevant to information technology and necessary for practical, everyday needs of business, other organizations and society at large. This track takes a socio-technical view on information systems and, at the same time, relates to ethical, social and political issues raised by information systems. It seeks new studies in many disciplines to foster a growing body of conceptual, theoretical, experimental, and applied research that could inform design, deployment and usage choices for information systems and technology within business and public organizations as well as households. Extended versions of high-marked papers presented at technical sessions of IST 2015-2019 have been published with Springer in volumes of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing: LNBIP 243, LNBIP 277, LNBIP 311, LNBIP 346, and LNBIP 380. Extended versions of selected papers presented during IST'2020 will be published in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series (LNBIP, Springer). Authors can submit their paper to the technical sessions: Advances in Information Systems and Technology (AIST'20), https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/aist; Data Science in Health, Ecology and Commerce (DSH'19) (2nd Special Session DSH'20), https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/dsh; Information Systems Management (15th Conference ISM'20), https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/ism; Knowledge Acquisition and Management (26th Conference KAM'20), https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/kam; Important dates: Paper submission (sharp / no extension): May 15, 2020 Position paper submission: June 9, 2020 Author notification: June 30, 2020 Final paper submission and registration: July 15, 2020 Conference date: September 6-9, 2020 COVI-19 Information: We would like to assure everybody that FedCSIS 2020 will take place, the submitted and accepted papers will be published and sent for indexations as usual. In case the conference cannot be staged in real setting of beautiful Sofia, we will provide a virtual web-based avenue for it. We look forward to receiving your contributions as usual and guarantee that FedCSIS 2020 will be another memorable and rewarding conference. Chairs of IST'2020 Track: Ewa Ziemba, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland Guangming Cao, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates Daphne Raban, University of Haifa, Israel _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [AISWorld] Journal of Information Technology (JIT) ICIS Special Collection "Innovation in the Digital World" Still in Open Access
by Gustaf Neumann 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Journal of Information Technology (JIT) ICIS Special Collection "Innovation in the Digital World" Still in Open Access Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:40:34 +1000 From: Daniel Schlagwein <schlagwein(a)sydney.edu.au> To: AIS World Mailing List <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org> Dear colleagues, Reminder: JIT's ICIS special collection on "Innovation in the Digital World" is still in open access until the end of the month. Special collections are thematic selections of previously published JIT articles made available as open access for a limited time. The special collection includes: *Generative innovation: a comparison of lightweight and heavyweight IT* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1057/jit.2016.15> Bendik Bygstad This paper proposes a simple terminology for understanding and dealing with two current phenomena; we suggest calling them heavyweight and lightweight IT. Heavyweight IT denotes the well-established knowledge regime of large systems, developing ever more sophisticated solutions through advanced integration. Lightweight IT is suggested as a term for the new knowledge regime of mobile apps, sensors and bring-your-own-device, also called consumerisation and Internet-of-Things. The key aspect of lightweight IT is not only the cheaper and more available technology compared with heavyweight IT, but the fact that its deployment is frequently done by users or vendors, bypassing the IT departments. Our theoretical lens is generativity, the idea that complex phenomena arise from interactions among basic elements. In the context of IT, generativity helps to explain the creative potential of flexible digital technology for knowledgeable professionals and users. The research questions are: how is generativity different in heavyweight and lightweight IT, and what is the generative relationship between heavyweight and lightweight IT? These questions were investigated through a study of four cases in the health sector. Our findings show that (i) generativity enfolds differently in heavyweight and lightweight IT and (ii) generativity in digital infrastructures is supported by the interaction of loosely coupled heavyweight and lightweight IT. The practical design implication is that heavyweight and lightweight IT should be only loosely integrated, both in terms of technology, standardisation and organisation. *Copy, transform, combine: exploring the remix as a form of innovation* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1057/s41265-017-0043-9> Christoph M. Flath, Sascha Friesike, Marco Wirth, Frédéric Thiesse The reuse of existing knowledge is an indispensable part of the creation of novel ideas. In the creative domain knowledge reuse is a common practice known as “remixing”. With the emergence of open internet-based platforms in recent years, remixing has found its way from the world of music and art to the design of arbitrary physical goods. However, despite its obvious relevance for the number and quality of innovations on such platforms, little is known about the process of remixing and its contextual factors. This paper considers the example of Thingiverse, a platform for the 3D printing community that allows its users to create, share, and access a broad range of printable digital models. We present an explorative study of remixing activities that took place on the platform over the course of six years by using an extensive set of data on models and users. On the foundation of these empirically observed phenomena, we formulate a set of theoretical propositions and managerial implications regarding (1) the role of remixes in design communities, (2) the different patterns of remixing processes, (3) the platform features that facilitate remixes, and (4) the profile of the remixing platform’s users. *The digital platform: a research agenda* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1057/s41265-016-0033-3> Mark de Reuver, Carsten Sørensen, Rahul C. Basole As digital platforms are transforming almost every industry today, they are slowly finding their way into the mainstream information systems (ISs) literature. Digital platforms are a challenging research object because of their distributed nature and intertwinement with institutions, markets and technologies. New research challenges arise as a result of the exponentially growing scale of platform innovation, the increasing complexity of platform architectures and the spread of digital platforms to many different industries. This paper develops a research agenda for digital platforms research in IS. We recommend researchers seek to (1) advance conceptual clarity by providing clear definitions that specify the unit of analysis, degree of digitality and the sociotechnical nature of digital platforms; (2) define the proper scoping of digital platform concepts by studying platforms on different architectural levels and in different industry settings; and (3) advance methodological rigour by employing embedded case studies, longitudinal studies, design research, data-driven modelling and visualisation techniques. Considering current developments in the business domain, we suggest six questions for further research: (1) Are platforms here to stay? (2) How should platforms be designed? (3) How do digital platforms transform industries? (4) How can data-driven approaches inform digital platforms research? (5) How should researchers develop theory for digital platforms? and (6) How do digital platforms affect everyday life? *Digital innovation and institutional entrepreneurship: Chief Digital Officer perspectives of their emerging role <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1057/s41265-018-0055-0>* Sanja Tumbas, Nicholas Berente, Jan vom Brocke In this study, we explore the role of Chief Digital Officer (CDO) through the perspectives of CDOs in thirty-five organizations. In enacting their emerging role, CDOs must navigate the existing institutionalized context of established information technology (IT) roles and respective jurisdictional claims. We find that CDOs intentionally draw on the term “digital” to distance themselves from existing executive roles in order to gain legitimacy. CDOs as institutional entrepreneurs take a focal role in both: (1) articulating and developing the emerging “digital” logic of action and (2) enacting this digital logic through strategies such as grafting, bridging, and decoupling to navigate tensions between the existing and emerging approaches to innovation with digital technologies. *The role of discourse in transforming digital infrastructures* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0268396219831994> Egil Øvrelid, Bendik Bygstad Radical shifts in large information technology programmes or digital infrastructures are unusual, but they do occur, usually as a consequence of problems or misalignment. What we know less about is the role of discourse in these shifts. Our interest in this article is to investigate the role of discourse when digitalisation programmes encounter problems. Building on Foucault’s theory of discourse, our research question is: what is the role of discourse in the transformation of digital infrastructures? Our research approach is a critical realist case study, discussing three cases from eHealth innovation. We use Foucault’s archaeological methodology to identify the emerging discursive formations when a programme encounters difficulties. This enables us to analyse the causal relationship between discursive formations and other mechanisms in the infrastructure. We offer two contributions: first, we outline a framework to understand the role of discursive formations in digital transformation; second, we propose a set of configurations to explain how contextual factors and causal mechanisms contingently lead to the transformation of a digital infrastructure. *Disruption as worldview change: A Kuhnian analysis of the digital music revolution* <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0268396219835101> Kai Riemer, Robert B. Johnston Why is it that technology-enabled industry disruptions appear entirely inevitable with hindsight, yet practitioners in disrupted businesses typically struggle to detect and respond appropriately to disruption while it is unfolding? We term this surprising contradiction ‘interpretive discontinuity’ and use it to problematize the established understanding of disruption in the literature. We suggest that the contradiction at the heart of interpretive discontinuity holds an important key to what exactly changes during disruption and why. By juxtaposing an empirical case of disruption in the music industry with theoretical resources sensitive to the nature of radical change – Thomas Kuhn’s work in the unrelated field of scientific practice – we demonstrate that it is productive to understand disruption as a Kuhnian paradigm shift. We are then able to trace interpretive discontinuity to the gestalt switch in worldview that accompanies such a paradigm shift. This insight sheds new light on both what is actually ‘disruptive’ about disruption and also on the limitations of prior work theorizing disruption. Our work is important because it adds to the literature on disruptive innovation important yet overlooked conceptual tools in Kuhn’s work – the role of exemplars, the worldview aspect of a paradigm, and paradigm incommensurability. Special Issue Call for Papers: *Regulation in the Age of Digitalization <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/JIN/JIT%20CFP%20SI%20Regu…>* (deadline 2020-12-31) Editors: Danny Gozman, Kalle Lyytinen, Tom Butler Subscribe to receive JIT's special issue call for papers and online-first publications alerts: https://journals.sagepub.com/connected/JIN#email-alert <https://journals.sagepub.com/connected/JIN#email-alert> JIT homepage (note, we are publishing now with SAGE, not Palgrave/Springer as previously) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jin Best wishes Daniel ------------------------------ *Dr Daniel Schlagwein* Associate Professor | The University of Sydney Business School | Business Information Systems <http://sydney.edu.au/business/information_systems> Co-Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Information Technology <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jin> *The University of Sydney* Abercrombie Building (H70), Room 4072 | The University of Sydney NSW 2006 | Australia +61286277407 | schlagwein(a)sydney.edu.au | sydney.edu.au/business/schlagwein <https://sydney.edu.au/business/about/our-people/academic-staff/schlagwein.h…> / USYD Profile <https://business.sydney.edu.au/staff/schlagwein> | Research: Digital Work <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Digital-Work-Digital-Nomadism> | Digital Nomadism <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Digital-Work-Digital-Nomadism> | Crowdsourcing <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Crowdsourcing-24> | Openness <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Openness-and-Information-Technology> <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Openness-and-Information-Technology> _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] CfP The 13th Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2’20)
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Apr '20

18 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] CfP The 13th Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2’20) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:14:24 +0200 From: rainer.schmidt(a)hm.edu Reply-To: rainer.schmidt(a)hm.edu To: wi(a)lists.kit.edu The 13th Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2’20) Call for Papers As part of BPM 2020 18th International Conference on Business Process Management September 14, 2020, Seville, Spain Deadline for workshop paper submissions: May 29, 2020 Workshop Theme The involvement of human aspects into Business Process Management takes place both on a social and individual level. Social information systems such as social media, Enterprise 2.0, and social platforms are spreading quickly in society, organizations, and economics. Enterprises use social information systems to improve their business processes and create new business models. The integration of business process management and social information systems becomes more and more widespread. New approaches for using social information systems in combination with business process management appear frequently. Social information systems are used both in external and internal business processes. Companies can co-create products and services, e.g., companies integrate customers into product development to capture ideas and features. Thus, communication with the customer is increasingly bi-directional. The integration of business process management and social information systems enables the creation of new business models using social platforms. Social platforms enable the creation of cross-side network effects and therefore called two- or multi-sided markets . Prominent examples are Tripdadvisor, UBER, and AirBnB. By using the value-creating mechanisms of social information systems, business models became possible, which were not realizable before. E.g. the AirBnB uses a crowdsourcing model for quality control by using users’ reviews of apartments. In this way, a quality assessment of products and services became possible that was too costly so far. Social information systems also create new possibilities to enhance internal business processes by improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to speed up decisions, etc. Social information systems enable value-creating interactions such as weak ties, social production, egalitarianism. These value-creating interactions open up new possibilities and potentials for the design of processes. Weak ties enable the flexible integration of process participants, social production paves the way for the bottom-up definition of business processes, and egalitarian decisions change how decisions are made in business processes. The use of value-creating interactions is tightly intertwined with new forms of involvement of human beings into business process management. Human aspects complement the social perspective on business process management. The fact that more and more enterprises are using business process management implies that the human individual is involved in a multitude of business processes. Individuals must cope with multiple process contexts and thus must administer data appropriately. Digital assistants such as Alex integrate individuals in processes that could not interact with conventional computers. In this way, new forms of interaction between processes and humans arise. Furthermore, individuals must integrate the external business processes into their work environment or even to couple several external business processes. Human aspects of business process management relate to the individual who creates a process model, to the communication among people, during and after the process execution, and to the social process of collaborative modeling. They also relate to the interaction / collaboration / coordination / cooperation that should be implemented in the business process or to specific human-related aspects of the business process itself and their representations in models. Before this background, the goal of the workshop is to explore how social information systems integrate with business process management, and how business process management may profit from this integration. Furthermore, the workshop investigates the human aspects introduced into Business Process Management by involving human users. Examples are the use of crowdsourced knowledge and tasks, the need for new user interfaces, e.g. augmented reality and voice bots. The workshop will discuss three topics. Social Business Process Management, Social Business and Platforms, and Human Aspects of Business Process Management. Social Business Process Management is the use of Social information systems to support one or multiple phases of the business process life cycle. 1. Social Business Process Management (SBPM) - Social information systems in the BPM lifecycle e.g. Design, Deployment, Operation, and Evaluation - BPM methods and paradigms to cope with Social information systems - Influence of weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service provisioning on BPM - Trust and reputation in business processes management carried through Social information systems - Influence of weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service provisioning in the design and management of business processes? - Integration of Social information systems with WFMS or other business process support systems? - Conceptual modelling for knowledge intensive and social business processes? 2. Social Business and Social Platforms: Social information systems supporting business processes - New opportunities offered by Social information systems for the support of business processes - Social platforms and their support for business processes and new business models - Value (co-)creation in social business and social platforms - Sociality requirements of business processes according to their nature (predictable/non predictable; production/collaborative/ad hoc) - Use of Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business processes - Fitting between types of Social information systems and phases of the BPM lifecycle - New trends in business knowledge modelling leveraged by social production 3. Human Aspects of Business Process Management - Concepts, technologies, and services to support individuals acting in business processes - Digital Assistants such as Google, Siri etc. in business process management and business processes - Human aspects of business process management - Human-centric business processes - Human resource management in business processes (workloads, skills, preferences, affinities, context, mobility, etc …) Goal Based on the twelve previous successful BPMS2 workshops since 2008, the goal of the BPMS2’20 workshop is to promote the integration of business process management with social information systems and social software and to enlarge the community pursuing the theme. Workshop paper format Position papers of up to 2500 words are sought. Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or unsuccessful practice, or describe experience will all be welcome. Position papers will be assigned a 20-minute presentation. Short papers of up to 1000 words can also be submitted and will be assigned a 10-minute presentation. Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. The length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (There is no possibility to buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report). Please use Easychair for submitting your paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2020 The paper selection will be based on the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post- proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. Activities All papers will be published on workshop wiki (www.bpms2.org) before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants. A blog will be used to encourage and support discussions. The workshop will consist of long and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. The workshop report will be created collaboratively using a wiki. A special issue over all workshops will be published in a journal (decision in progress). Important dates Deadline for workshop paper submissions: May 29, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: June 29, 2020 Camera-ready papers deadline: July 13, 2020 Workshop: September 14, 2020 Primary Contact Rainer Schmidt Munich University of Applied Sciences Rainer.Schmidt(a)hm.edu Phone: +49 89 1265 3740 Fax: + 49 89 1265 3780 Selmin Nurcan Sorbonne Management School - University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Centre de Recherche en Informatique (CRI) France Selmin.Nurcan(a)univ-paris1.fr -- 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] IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 (Call for Papers)
by Gustaf Neumann 18 Apr '20

18 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 (Call for Papers) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:57:45 -0400 From: Weina Wang <weinaw(a)cs.cmu.edu> To: AISWORLD(a)lists.aisnet.org *** IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 *** 38th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation November 2nd-6th, 2020, Milan, Italy https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/ Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ** UPDATE: COVID-19 ** IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 conference organizers are continuously monitoring the COVID-19 situation from local authorities and the World Health Organization. The conference is seven-month away, and we hope that COVID-19 emergency will pass over and the conference will be held in November, as planned. However, if necessary, alternative solutions, such as postponement, remote presentations, etc. will be looked into and identified. ** UPDATE: SPECIAL ISSUES ** Regular papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier journal Performance Evaluation (PEVA). Alternatively, authors may opt-out in favor of submission to other special issues in journals related to Performance Evaluation and Operations Research. Special Issues will appear in: - ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS, https://tompecs.acm.org) - Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications (QUESTA, https://link.springer.com/journal/11134) - Stochastic Systems (https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/stsy) ** UPDATE: TUTORIALS ** The following tutorials have also been announced: - Reliability and Availability Modeling in Practice, by Prof. Kishor Trivedi (Duke University, North Carolina, USA) and Prof. Andrea Bobbio (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy) - Load balancing, redundancy, and multi-type job and server systems, by Prof. Urtzi Ayesta (IRIT, Toulouse, France) - AI4NETS – AI/ML for data communication Networks by Dr. Pedro Casas (Austrian Institute of Technology, Leoben, Austria) ** CONFERENCE TOPICS ** The IFIP Performance conference aims to bring together researchers interested in understanding and improving the performance of computing and communication systems by means of state-of-the-art quantitative models and solution techniques. Research papers on the design of algorithms, mathematical analysis and modeling, simulation and measurement techniques for computer systems or communication networks are solicited. Topics of interest include the following. Performance-oriented methodologies including: - Stochastic modelling, statistical analysis and simulation - Capacity planning, resource allocation, routing, scheduling and Quality of Service - Energy-efficient computing and networking - Computer architectures and operating systems - Network architectures, protocols and congestion control - Storage systems and datacenters Evaluation techniques, and algorithms for: - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Blockchains and crypto-currency - Cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, fog computing - Data centers, content delivery, cloud computing and virtualization - Internet and web services - Network economics and markets - Security systems - Social networks, multimedia systems and smart grid - Wireless, ad-hoc and cellular networks ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Abstract submission: May 10th, 2020 Full paper submission: May 17th, 2020 Notification to authors: July 19th, 2020 ** PAPER SUBMISSION ** Performance 2020 accepts submissions in two categories: - Regular papers: 12 pages - Short papers: 6 pages Regular papers should not exceed 12 pages double-column and single-spaced including figures, tables and references in standard ACM format. Short papers are limited to 6 pages. In addition (both for regular and short paper submissions), a 2-page appendix is permitted, which is not included in the page-count. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable pdf form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Both the strict and alternate styles are acceptable for submission. No changes to margins, spacing or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Authors of rejected Sigmetrics 2020 papers are invited to submit a revised version of their paper, which would then be reviewed again as new by at least one of its Sigmetrics reviewers to aid consistency. The authors are allowed to include a response to the Sigmetrics reviews in a clearly-marked appendix that will not count against the page limit. Papers can be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=performance2020 All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure double-blind reviewing, authors names and affiliations should not appear in the paper and bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity. Warning: It is ACM policy not to allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be rejected immediately from all conferences/journals involved. Accepted short papers (limited to 6 pages ) and abstracts of accepted regular papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Performance Evaluation Review (PER). ** SPECIAL ISSUES ** Regular papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier journal Performance Evaluation (PEVA). Alternatively, authors may opt-out in favor of submission to other special issues in journals related to Performance Evaluation and Operations Research. Eligible papers are: - extensions of short-papers and - long papers that opt-out of publication in Performance Evaluation (PEVA). Authors need to make sure that their work falls within the scope of the respective journal. All the papers will be reviewed according to the standards of the journal. Special Issues will appear in: 1. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS). The editors will invite the authors of a few papers (short or long) to submit a full-length manuscript. Prepare your manuscript using the same manuscript preparation guidelines as the ones for regular TOMPECS submissions. 2. Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications (QUESTA) All conference papers (short and long papers that opt-out of PEVA) may submit to the SI. The conference version of the paper published in PER should be no more than 6 pages. Accepted full papers that opt out of PEVA will have to be shortened by the authors if they wish to have their paper submitted to Queueing Systems. Prepare your manuscript using the same manuscript preparation guidelines as the ones for regular QUESTA submissions. 3. Stochastic Systems The conference version of the paper published in PER should be no more than 6 pages. Accepted full papers that opt out of PEVA will have to be shortened by the authors if they wish to have their paper submitted to Stochastic Systems. Prepare your manuscript using the same manuscript preparation guidelines as the ones for regular stochastic systems submissions. ** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ** General Chair: Danilo Ardagna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jim Dai (CUHK, Shenzhen, China and Cornell University, USA) Peter Harrison (Imperial College London, UK) Nidhi Hegde (University of Alberta, Canada) Steering Committee: Sem Borst , Vice-Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, TU Eindhoven and Bell Labs NOKIA Mark S. Squillante, Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, IBM Research Benny Van Houdt, Secretary, IFIP WG 7.3, University of Antwerp Publication Chair Zhenhua Liu, Stony Brook University, USA Workshop Chair Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California, USA Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA Tutorial Chairs Michela Meo, Politecnico Torino, Italy Marco Mellia, Politecnico Torino, Italy Travel grant Chairs Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Riccardo Lancellotti, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Publicity Chairs Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico Torino, Italy Daniel Sadoc Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Weina Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Technical Program Committee: TPC available at the Performance 2020 web site at https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/?page_id=89 _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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Fwd: [WI] CfP AJIS Special Section: Ethics in Social Media Research
by Gustaf Neumann 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] CfP AJIS Special Section: Ethics in Social Media Research Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:41:50 +0200 From: Stefan Stieglitz <stefan.stieglitz(a)uni-due.de> Reply-To: Stefan Stieglitz <stefan.stieglitz(a)uni-due.de> To: wi(a)lists.kit.edu *Call for Papers: Australasian Journal of Information Systems, **Special Section: Research on Applied Ethics - Ethics in Social Media Research * */Description/* The enormous growth of social media usage has led to an increasing accumulation of data. Social media platforms offer many possibilities of data formats, including textual data, pictures, videos, sounds, and geolocations (Stieglitz et al., 2018). This diverse social media data has spawned numerous attractive opportunities for researchers and practitioners to analyse social media users and their behaviour. In general, social media data can be used for the benefit of individuals and society. For example, by analysing social media data one might develop a better understanding about thoughts and preferences of people on such things as political or social topics. During crisis situations, social media analysis might help to identify useful information in real-time. For companies, social media could be investigated to identify new trends in client behaviour or ways to improve their products. Therefore, social media can be analysed by journalists, political parties and companies to target their products and ideas to social media users who are the most open to their messages. This form of microtargeting is one example that raises a scientific and societal discussion about the ethical implications of profiling social media users. While some users might enjoy being confronted with news, politics and advertisements which match their mindset, the profiling of social media users can be a double-edged sword. The often highly personal data i.e. extracted social media data, can range from sexual orientation and religious beliefs to ethnic background, and might be misused. For instance, undemocratic societies could be interested in identifying potential regime opponents, and also the leaders of democratic societies can misuse social media data to spread fake news and influence opinion formation processes, as was highlighted by the Cambridge Analytica Scandal. Social media analytics presents IS researchers with typical epistemic concerns. The way that conclusions are drawn from the data that is tracked by researchers can lead to inconclusive, inscrutable and misguided evidence (Mittelstadt et al., 2016). So there is a huge ethical concern for academics and industry alike, as wrong conclusions about individuals might be drawn, bearing in mind that social networks do not always reflect the society as a whole for e.g. the widely researched platform Twitter appears to attract a specific type of user (Boyd and Crawford, 2012). Researchers sometimes lose track of what are simple correlations of data and what can be interpreted as a causal connection (Illari and Russo, 2014). Researchers now find themselves in a conflict with ethical concerns and data protection regulations and research objectives including the analysis of personal data that may contribute to the greater good of society (Bunker et al., 2019). If this conflict limits the possibilities of researchers to investigate and understand social media platforms, it will increase the knowledge divide between platform providers that own and use all the data, and researchers who are limited by restricted access, terms of trade and ethical concerns. The analysis of social media data in crisis situations to support emergency service agencies, is one example where such research has a morally good aim. Researchers, but also journalists, politicians and managers need to ask what constitutes ethical rules and approaches of responsible social media analysis (Zook et al., 2017)? Besides ethical behaviour towards social media research, consequences for the researchers need also to be reflected. For example, analysing violent content (e.g. videos, images, texts) can have harmful psycho-social impact on the researcher. Information systems as a discipline has the ability to suggest and design technical solutions that can support ethical behaviour and avoid problematic actions (e.g. by digital nudging). But until now this has not been well considered within the design of software tools for researchers. Call for Papers This special section aims to develop scholarship which discusses and develops: a) the current status of ethics in social media analysis (SMA); b) the conflict between protecting the individual and research for a greater good; and c) the measures IS researchers should take to establish ethical guidelines for SMA. This special section also seeks to start a discussion on the role of ethics in social media research. While we are looking for scientific papers based on empirical studies we will also consider conceptual papers, researcher reflections on past projects, essays and opinion pieces that argumentatively tackle important issues which address the special section theme. Typical topics of interest for this special section may be (but are not limited to): * Current ethical practices in social media research i.e. problems and issues; * Theoretical consideration of ethics in social media research; * Pitfalls and challenges of strict ethical regulations; * Issues in the development of ethical frameworks; * Problems confronting researchers in the implementation of ethical research approaches in social media; * Digital nudging as an approach to promote ethical behaviour; * Psycho-social impact of social media research on the researcher; * Designing information systems to address ethical challenges; * Individual right to protection versus research for the greater good; and * Provision and use of effective financial, personal and technological resources to conduct ethical SMA. Authors are encouraged to check with one of the special section editors, prior to paper submission, if they feel their paper may be at the boundary of the theme. */Key Dates /* * Submissions Due: 21 September 2020 * 1st Round Acceptances: 20 December, 2020 * 2nd Round Review Submissions: 20 February, 2021 * Final Paper Acceptances: 20 March, 2021 Author guidelines including the URL are available at: http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/about/submissions Information about the special section: https://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/announcement/view/179 */Editors/* * Deborah Bunker, University of Sydney, Australia * Stefan Stieglitz, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Shirlee-ann Knight, Curtin University, Australia */References/* * Boyd, D. and Crawford, K. (2012). “Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a Cultural, Technological, and Scholarly Phenomenon.” Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), p. 662-679. * Bunker, D., Stieglitz, S., Ehnis, C., and Sleigh, A. (2019). “Bright ICT: Social Media Analytics for Society and Crisis Management”. In Yogesh Dwivedi, Emmanuel Ayaburi, Richard Boateng, John Effah (Eds.) (Eds.), ICT unbounded : social impact of bright ICT adoption : IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2019, Accra, Ghana, June 21-22, 2019, proceedings, (pp. 536-552). Cham: Springer. * European Union (2018) General Data Protection Regulation accessed at www.gdpr-info.eu <http://www.gdpr-info.eu> * Illari, P. and Russo, F. (2014). Causality: Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Mittelstadt, B.,Allo, P., Taddeo, M., Wachter, S. and Floridi, L. (2016). "The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate” Big Data & Society, p. 1-21. * Stieglitz, S., Mirbabaie, M., Ross, B. and Neuberger, C.(2018) "Social media analytics – Challenges in topic discovery, data collection, and data preparation” International Journal of Information Management, 39, p.156-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2017.12.002 * Zook, M., Barocas, S., Boyd, D., Crawford, K., Keller, E., Gangadharan, S.P., et al. (2017) "Ten simple rules for responsible big data research". PLoS Comput Biol 13(3): e1005399. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005399 -- *Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz* Head Research Group Professional Communication in Electronic Media / Social Media <https://www.uni-due.de/proco/index_en.php> Honorary Professor The University of Sydney Business School <https://sydney.edu.au/business/> Director Competence Center Connected Organization <https://connected-organization.de/> University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of /Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science/ Research Group /Professional Communication in Electronic Media / Social Media/ (PROCO <https://www.uni-due.de/proco/index_en.php>) - Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz P: +49 203 379 2320 A: Forsthausweg 2 (LE 310), 47057 Duisburg, Germany Web: uni-due.de/proco <https://www.uni-due.de/proco/> | FB: @rgstieglitz <https://www.facebook.com/rgstieglitz/> | TW: @rgstieglitz <https://twitter.com/rgstieglitz> | IN: @rgstieglitz <https://www.instagram.com/rgstieglitz/> *New project:* RISE_SMA EU Horizon2020 "Social Media Analytics for Society and Crisis Communication <https://social-media-analytics.org/>, Twitter: @RISE_SMA <https://twitter.com/rise_sma> -- 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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