-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Extended Deadline: 17th Int. Conference of the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:07:20 +0100 From: Kai Jakobs kai.jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de Organization: RWTH Aachen University To: AISWorld aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 17th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference - Standards and Innovation -

18 - 20 June 2012 Kosice, Slovakia

------------------------------------------ *****EXTENDED DEADLINE: 18 March 2012***** ------------------------------------------

Organised by the ---------------- Faculty of Economics at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica (UMB) Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Kosice (TUKE).

We welcome original and innovative submissions papers from all areas of standardisation. But the theme of the 17th EURAS conference is the significance of standards and standardisation for innovation. At this point in our history, innovation is critical for helping to move forward from the global economic crisis, mitigate the impact of climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help resolve the food crisis. The critical role of standards and standardisation for innovation has long been recognised. As codified knowledge, standards acquire an even greater role in the development of the global knowledge economy. We particularly welcome theoretical and empirical papers that will contribute to greater awareness of how and where standards can facilitate, hamper, or otherwise impact on innovation in all its many dimensions. Examples include, but are not limited to:

* Standardisation& infrastructure development * Standards, globalisation and national authenticity * Conformity assessment for innovation * The relation between standards and the development of science/technology/society/economy * Standardisation, globalisation and innovation * Education on standardisation and innovation * Legal and regulatory issues in standardisation * Standards setting and implementation processes * History and future of standards * Standardisation policies * Economics of standardisation * Management of standards * Research and standardisation * Standards and technology transfer * Quality standards and management strategies * Markets and dominant technologies * International accounting standards

Full papers (up to 40 double-spaced pages; pdf, rtf, or .doc format) should be submitted to Kai Jakobs at Kai.Jakobs@cs.rwth-aachen.de. Authors of accepted papers are expected to serve as discussants upon request. All papers will be reviewed (double blind) by members of the Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as part of the 'EURAS Contributions to Standardisation Research' book series. Particularly good and relevant papers will be fast-tracked to the review process of either the EURAS- Yearbook or the Int. Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). The conference provides the opportunity to get feedback on standardisation education papers intended for the special issue of the International Journal of Technology and Design Education. For more detailed information please consult the EURAS website (www.EURAS.org).

Organisers ---------- The EURAS Board

General Co-Chairs ----------------- Marta Orviska (UMB, SK) Vincent Soltes (TUKE, SK)

Programme Committee ------------------- Knut Blind (Fraunhofer FOKUS& TU Berlin, DE; RSM. NL) Tineke Egyedi (TU Delft, NL) Vladislav Fomin (Vytautas Magnus U., LT) Stephan Gauch (TU Berlin, DE) Ian Graham (U. of Edinburgh, UK) Jean-Christophe Graz, (UNIL, CH) Vladimir Hiadlovsky (UMB, SK) John Hudson (Bath University, UK) Eric Iversen (NIFU STEP, NO) Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen U., DE) Geerten van de Kaa (TU Delft, NL) Peter Kristofik (UMB, SK) Detlev Langmann (AKM, DE) Pauline Mazumdar (U. of Toronto, CA) Arturas Medeisis (Vilnius Gediminas TU, LT) Ivana Mijatovic (Belgrade U., SRB) Marta Orviska (UMB, SK) Megan Quinlan (Imperial College London, UK) Tomas Sabol (TUKE, SK) Eberhard Seifert (WU Vienna, AT) Vincent Soltes (TUKE, SK) Klaus Turowski (Magdeburg, U., DE) Taavi Valdlo (Ministry of Economic Affairs, EE) Henk de Vries (Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL) Marc van Wegberg (U. of Maastricht, NL)

Deadlines --------- Paper submission: 18 March 2012 Notification: 8 April 2012 Final paper due: 29 April 2012

Local Organisation and Enquiries -------------------------------- Marta Orviska, marta.orviska@umb.sk Emilia Jakubikova, emilia.jakubikova@tuke,sk

Conference Venue ---------------- Hotel Yasmin, Kosice, http://www.hotel-yasmin.sk/.

For more information about Kosice: http://www.kosice.sk/. For more information about EURAS http://www.euras.org.

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Kai Jakobs

RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22222 Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/

EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. http://www.euras.org

The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr

The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142

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