From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sat Oct 5 15:50:28 2013 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 21:50:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sighfis-l] ACM MEDES'13: Call for participation - Luxembourg (28-31 oct. 2013) In-Reply-To: <24347655.3837604.1379471683098.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> References: <1619833220.1063422.1378673582388.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> <24347655.3837604.1379471683098.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> Message-ID: <1833664661.8120815.1381002628214.JavaMail.root@u-bourgogne.fr> ** Apologies for cross-postings. ** ** Kindly forward to interested colleagues and doctoral students.** =========================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =========================================================================== The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2013) Technically Sponsored by: ACM SIGAPP ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/ October 28-31, 2013 Abbey of Neumunster, Luxembourg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For registration and hotel reservations, please visit the conference web site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. The MEDES addresses a large number of themes and issues including the following regular session topics: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Big Data - Services - Cloud Computing - Emergent Intelligence - Trust, Security & Privacy - Data & Knowledge Management - Web and Standards - Networks and Protocols -------- PROGRAM: -------- For full program details, please visit the conference web site at: http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/. Some of the highlights of the program include: (1) A half-day tutorial: From data to services: the creation of services from Open Data and Semantic data sets By Dr. Muriel Foulonneau, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Dr. Geraldine Vidou, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg (2) Keynote presentations from field leaders including; Explaining Recommendations in time-aware Location-based Social Networks Dr. Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ecosystem of CNRTA in Brazil Dr. Silvio A. Spinella, Information Technology Center Renato Archer, Brazil ------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS: ------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be published by the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in affiliated journals and special issues. Special tracks affiliated with MEDES 2013 include: * Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) * EU-Brazil innovation and Best Practice in IT Ecosystems * DEEP: experiences and perspectives of Digital Ecosystems European Projects ------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE : ------------------- General Chair ------------- Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Peter A. Bruck, Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria Antonio Montes, Centro de Tecnologia da Informacao Renato Archer, Brazil Program Chairs -------------- Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Local Organizing Chairs ------------------------------- Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Ingrid Zantis, Zantis-Consulting, Luxembourg Jean-Paul Hengen, ICT Sector Development, Luxembourg International Program Committee: (see the web site for the full list) From sarahab at utexas.edu Mon Oct 7 10:48:07 2013 From: sarahab at utexas.edu (Sarah A Buchanan) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 09:48:07 -0500 Subject: [Sighfis-l] HFIS election - polls open till 10/11 Message-ID: HFIS members, Please record your vote in this year's election for SIG HFIS Chair-Elect. This term runs from October 2013-2014 and this candidate will become Chair in October 2014 ending in 2015. You will find bio statements for our two candidates at the link below; poll will be open from Monday October 7th through Friday October 11th. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WWJF6FN Vote! Thank you! on behalf of the SIG HFIS nominating committee Sarah Buchanan Kathryn La Barre Lai Ma -- Sarah Buchanan Information Studies, Ph.D. Student http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~buchanan/ From sarahab at utexas.edu Wed Oct 9 11:05:43 2013 From: sarahab at utexas.edu (Sarah A Buchanan) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:05:43 -0500 Subject: [Sighfis-l] HFIS election - polls open till 10/11 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If you've not yet voted for HFIS Chair-Elect, take a minute and vote today! please see below: On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Sarah A Buchanan wrote: > HFIS members, > > Please record your vote in this year's election for SIG HFIS > Chair-Elect. This term runs from October 2013-2014 and this candidate > will become Chair in October 2014 ending in 2015. > > You will find bio statements for our two candidates at the link below; > poll will be open from Monday October 7th through Friday October 11th. > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WWJF6FN > > Vote! Thank you! > > on behalf of the SIG HFIS nominating committee > Sarah Buchanan > Kathryn La Barre > Lai Ma > > > -- > Sarah Buchanan > Information Studies, Ph.D. Student > http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~buchanan/ From rhill at asis.org Wed Oct 23 13:43:30 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (rhill at asis.org) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:43:30 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Tony Debons, RIP Message-ID: <3CA7BDDDEBC347AF82172C147AAC3B71@asist.local> Dr Anthony Debons, one of pioneers in Information Science, Professor Emeritus at University of Pittsburgh, died Oct 19, 2013. Tony won the ASIST Best Book Award twice: 1989 Anthony Debons, Ester Horne, and Scott Cronenweth Information Science: An Integrated View 1981 Anthony Debons, Donald King, Una Mansfield, and Donald L. Shirey The Information Profession: Survey of an Emerging Field Dick Hill From sarahab at utexas.edu Fri Oct 25 09:40:29 2013 From: sarahab at utexas.edu (Sarah A Buchanan) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:40:29 -0500 Subject: [Sighfis-l] SIG HFIS update for Montreal Message-ID: 1. Please join me in welcoming the following officers for 2013-14: Chair, Lai Ma Chair-Elect, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Secretary, Emma Zhang Past Chair, Sarah Buchanan We are recruiting for a webmaster/communications officer - feel free to be in touch. 2. The SIG HFIS Annual Activities Report for the past year can be read here: http://www.asist.org/SIG/SIGHFIS/admininstrative/Annual%20Report%202013.pdf 3. SIG HFIS' 2013 Business Meeting will be held on Monday November 4, 5-6pm, in Salon 5 of Le Centre Sheraton. Be sure to join us! 4. These are four SIG HFIS-sponsored sessions at the 2013 AM (all at different times!): - Sun. 11/3, 3:30PM: "The Concept Formerly Known as Information? (Jenna Hartel, Karen Pollock, Rebecca Noone, Jens-Erik Mai, Kiersten Latham, Marcia Bates) - Mon. 11/4, 10:30AM: "Preserving and Accessing the History of ASIS&T and Information Science" (Kathryn La Barre, Sarah A. Buchanan, Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Robert V. Williams) - Mon. 11/4, 1:30PM: "Crossing the Boundaries in Information Science: Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity" (Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Isto Huvila, Lai Ma, Virginia Ortiz-Repiso Jimenez, Julian Warner) - Tues. 11/5, 8:30AM: "Uncovering Epistemological Assumptions Underlying Research in Information Studies" (Steve Fuller, Birger Hjorland, Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Lai Ma, Jens-Erik Mai, Joseph Tennis, Julian Warner) 5. SIG HFIS representatives will also be attending the following AM events: SIG Cabinet (Sunday 11/3, 10AM), New Members and First Conference Brunch - presenting HFIS (Sunday 11/3, 12PM), Welcome Reception (Sunday 11/3, 7PM). SIG HFIS is also co-sponsoring the 9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI): The Social Informatics of Information Boundaries (Sat. 11/2, 8:30AM-12:30PM). Looking forward to a great year and our meeting in Montreal! Thank you, Sarah Buchanan SIG HFIS Chair -- Sarah Buchanan Information Studies, Ph.D. Student http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~buchanan/