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CALL FOR PAPERS

Pervasive Informatics in the Digital Economy 
12th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in
Organisations 
IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference (approval pending)

July 19-21, 2010, Reading, UK 
www.orgsem.org/2010

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The 12th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in
Organisations, (ICISO 2010), previously named International Conference
on Organisational Semiotics (ICOS), is the twelfth in a series of
international events devoted to the latest research in informatics in
organisations and organisational semiotics. 

In the present era, information and knowledge are key to the
development of the current society and economy. The digital economy is
driven by the effective use of information and communication
technology to help enhance the quality and transform the lives of
individuals, society and business. Information is the critical
resource on which humans are constantly dependent in conducting
purposeful activities and achieving their objectives. 

Pervasive Informatics, as an emergent discipline, studies how
information affects humans in built environments. The built
environments provide spatial contexts for business organisations,
government institutions, commercial enterprises, and other business
settings, as well as buildings and spaces for working and living. The
majority of human activities (e.g. related to social, economic and
scientific purposes) take place in a built environment. Increasingly,
information is provided pervasively to the users within the built
environment. With the support of appropriate technology, the users can
access to the information as they need; although often they may also
have to face with the information even if not wanted. A user may
therefore be immersed in the field of information whether or not it is
desired by the user. Such a phenomenon of pervasiveness has been
bringing revolutionary impact to the human society. Pervasive
Informatics helps us to understand the nature and characteristics of
information from its creation, representation, processing and
utilisation, embedded within the complex interactions between humans
and built environments. It is concerned with approaches and methods on
how information can be managed and used to enhance the effectiveness
of work and quality of life.

Following tradition, ICISO 2010 aims to provide a focal forum for
active researchers, practitioners, business and industrial
professionals and academics from diversified domains of information
management and information systems, and from business and engineering.
They will be able to share their latest research achievements and
practical experiences, to exchange in-depth findings and innovative
ideas, and in particular to harness the greatest challenges in the
changing era and thinking seriously into the future. The ICISO 2010
will also continue the effort of the international research community
in the development of the emergent discipline of informatics and its
applications. It will focus not only on theory building, but also on
the practical benefits gained so far through applications of methods
and techniques derived from various approaches. 

Research papers describing original work in relevant areas are
invited. Industrial and work-in-progress papers are also welcome. 

Topics
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Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Organisational Semiotic theory, concepts, methods and techniques,
and their practical applications 
• Semiotically motivated approaches to information systems 
• Pragmatic web and context-aware approaches and applications 
• Semantic web and applications 
• Service-oriented architecture, design and implementation
• Business and IT strategies 
• Alignment and integration of business and technical systems 
• Adaptive architecture for information systems 
• Enterprise information systems and value chain management 
• Enterprise applications for logistics, customer relationship
management  and supply chain management 
• Information engineering and complex systems 
• Agent-based information systems and business intelligence in
organisations 
• Collaborative systems for organisations
• E-government, e-commerce, mobile and pervasive commerce 
• Business process and workflow modelling, analysis, integration and
management 
• Digital economy: theory, methods and techniques for design and
applications 
• Pervasive informatics in organisations
• Intelligent spaces and built environments for working and living 
• Construction informatics for sustainable environment
• Information utilisation and technology management for sustainable
economy
• Digital content management 

Important dates
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Full paper submission: 1 February, 2010 
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2010 
Camera-ready version: 15 May 2010 
Conference: 19 – 21 July 2010
 
Submission Guidelines 
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that must not be published elsewhere and not currently under review
for any other publication. The manuscripts in English must be
submitted in the provided format (both as Word and Adobe PDF files)
and may not exceed 8 pages. 

Publication 
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The papers will be selected based on a peer review by three
independent members of the program committee. This review process will
be anonymous in order to ensure quality and to avoid prejudice. At
least one author per accepted paper is required to register and attend
the conference. 

Conference proceedings will be published by Aussino Academic
Publishing House. Same as previous conferences, all accepted papers
will be submitted to ISTP and EI for indexing.

Invitation for Proposals of Workshops and PhD Consortium
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The ICISO 2010 invites proposals for workshops and PhD consortium.
Please contact the Conference Secretary if anyone intends to submit a
proposal. 

Parallel Sessions at Satellite Site in Beijing
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A satellite conference site for ICISO2010 will be provided in Beijing
to allow participants to join if they cannot attend the main
conference in Reading. Video links will be provided between the two
sites for the paper presentations; and the keynote presentations will
be shared live by both sites. Wherever the participant has chosen to
attend, all paper submissions, peer reviews and participation
registrations will follow the standard procedures executed by the
conference programme committee. All papers will be submitted to the
conference through the EasyChair system. All accepted papers will be
included in one proceeding.


Conference Co-chairs
Rene Jorna, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, England

Secretariat
Hubert Grzybek, University of Reading, England

Host institution
Informatics Research Center, University of Reading, England

Conference Contact Details
Conference website:
www.orgsem.org/2010

Conference email address:
ICISO@reading.ac.uk
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