---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [CfP]: ACM SAC: Track on Standardisation in IT Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:18:23 +0000 From: Kai Jakobs Kai.Jakobs@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Hello Folks,

The CfP below might be of interest to some of you (I hope).

Greetings from Aachen, and cheers, Kai.

ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2002 March 10 - 13, 2002 Madrid, Spain

Track on

STANDARDISATION IN IT

Track chair: Kai Jakobs, Technical University of Aachen, Germany http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/sac02/cfp.html

In the networked world of today the terms 'information exchange', 'compatibility' and 'interoperability' have become ubiquitous. Yet, without underlying standards there would be no such thing as e.g., interoperability. Standards - in a broad sense of the word - govern the way information is formatted, transmitted, and represented. Accordingly, a better understanding of, for example, the processes that ultimately shape these standards, the driving technical, application and organisational requirements,and the economic consequences of the adoption of a particular standard are crucial. This track aims at contributing to a greater awareness of these, and other, problems and issues surrounding standardisation, and ideally, to suggest some solutions.

The list of topics to be discussed includes, but is definitely not limited to:

- The role of standards in information infrastructures. - Corporate/national/regional/global standardisation policies. - The economic dimension of IT standards. - Corporate 'standards' vs consortium specifications vs formal standards. - Inter-relationship between consortia and formal standards bodies. - New forms of standards setting. - Domain-specific standardisation (e.g. for electronic commerce).

Instructions for Authors Both short papers (around 1500 words) and full papers (around 4000 words) are solicited. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the full address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) of the contact author (in the case of electronic submission this should be sent separately from the main paper). To facilitate blind review the author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper. Papers must not have been previously published, nor be currently submitted for journal publication. Papers should be sent to the track chair, preferably as an e-mail attachment in PDF, to Kai.Jakobs@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Only if electronic submission is not possible, please send 4 copies of the paper to

Kai Jakobs Technical University of Aachen, Computer Science Dept., Informatik IV, Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany.

Important dates September 1, 2001 Paper submissions October 15, 2001 Author notification November 1, 2001 Camera-ready copy due

For additional information, please check the SAC web page: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2002

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Kai Jakobs

Technical University of Aachen Computer Science Department Informatik IV (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-8888-220 Kai.Jakobs@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

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