From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Mar 3 04:22:05 2014 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:22:05 +0100 Subject: [Sighfis-l] ACM MEDES 2014: Call for Papers Message-ID: <6F1D6476-3D21-47D9-9781-BB79A5BD3ED4@insa-lyon.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/ September 15-17, 2014 Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital ecosystems composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. The digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data management, innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM 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 conference seeks related original research papers, industrial papers and proposals for demonstrations. Topics ------- MEDES 2014 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Cloud computing 3. Emergent Intelligence 4. Service systems and Engineering 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- Submission Deadline: 12 May 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 25 June 2014 Camera Ready: 20 July 2014 Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014 Special Tracks: ---------------- Big Data Processing and Management Computational Intelligence Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals. The list of journals will be announced later. General Chair -------------- Obaid Al Motairy, Qassim University, KSA Richard Chbeir, UPPA University, France Mohammed Alodib, Qassim University, KSA Lamri Laouamer, Qassim University, KSA Program Chair -------------- Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada Saad Harous, United Arab Emirates University, UAE International Advisory Board Members ------------------------------------ Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Philippe De Wilde, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Yasuo Matsuyama, Waseda University, Japan Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Members -------------------------- Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC, Thailand Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK Keynote Speakers ---------------- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr Fri Mar 7 08:26:39 2014 From: fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr (Fidelia Ibekwe) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:26:39 +0100 Subject: [Sighfis-l] CFP "Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web" Message-ID: <5319C90F.1040903@univ-lyon3.fr> ------------------------Apologies for multiple postings*----------------------- * *Call for Papers* *Archives, libraries and museums in the era of the participatory social Web* Special issue of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ *Guest editors* Dr. Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, Department of Information and Communication, University of Lyon 3 Dr. Elaine M?nard, School of Information Studies, McGill University *Themes* The term "Web 2.0" refers to a set of Web tools that enhance and support user-generated content. Web 2.0 has made possible -- and intensified -- global collaborative mechanisms for the production of content. For nearly fifteen years, it has been gradually transforming the traditional Web, based on a dissemination model mainly structured by service providers and content providers. This participatory and collaborative capacity of the Web 2.0 may, in some cases, erase old boundaries and hierarchies between professionals and amateurs in various areas, whether in the private or public domains (e.g., Journalism 2.0, citizen journalism, etc.). Professions related to the creation and dissemination of content and knowledge seem to be particularly affected (e.g., publishers, artists, graphic designers, journalists, librarians, competitive intelligence specialists, librarians, archivists, information managers, etc.). The participatory Web's massive implementation of technology by the public has led to a reconfiguration and repositioning of the stakeholders in these sectors. This special issue aims to investigate mutations or changes under way within the institutions and among the stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and online media due to the spread of Web 2.0 digital practices. The guest editors of this special issue of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ invite researchers from different disciplines to submit original unpublished work in connection with the changes brought about by Web 2.0 in these sectors. Contributions may cover different aspects: epistemological, technological, sociological, economic and political impact of Web 2.0 in the context of libraries, archives, museums and new media. More specifically, contributions should address the following questions: 1.How can institutional repositories (nomenclatures, classification languages, catalogues, thesauri, controlled vocabulary indexing) produced by professionals (librarians, archivists, journalists, curators) accommodate the participatory culture of the social Web and content generated by users? 2.How do Web 2.0 digital devices transform (or not) the relationship that libraries, museums and archives have with the public and vice versa? To what extent are the concepts/phenomena of participatory libraries or museums becoming a reality? Are we moving away from non-participatory past practices toward new practices that are rather participatory? 3.How does the public receive the innovative applications of Web 2.0 technology in libraries, archives and museums? 4.Do technical participatory tools (such as mashups, podcasts, blogs, social tagging/folksonomies, social bookmarking, use of social networks including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn or museum informatics, etc.) create new gateways or new modes of interaction with documentary, archival or museum artifacts? 5.How do physical institutions (museums, libraries, archives) coexist alongside their virtual platforms? Will this coexistence continue (e.g., the threatened closure of libraries in some countries) or will the multiplication of virtual forms of libraries, museums and archives not result in the disappearance or deterritorializationof these institutions as physical places? 6. Is the institutional and historical distinction between archives, libraries and museums challenged by digital phenomena? Are the boundaries between them becoming porous due to new needs generated by the public social Web (e.g., "museo-libraries")? 7.What socio-professional changes or epistemological repositioning under way among stakeholders of libraries, archives, museums and media are caused by these new digital devices? 8.What is the impact of opening up public data for these institutions? Proposals will be evaluated by two blind reviewers according to the standard practice of the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/. *The journal* Established in 1976, the /Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ is the official journal of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Its objective is to promote the advancement of information science in Canada. *Languages* Submissions are accepted in either English or French. *Deadline* ?March 2014: Call for submissions ?October 31, 2014: Deadline for submission of the first draft of the article ?January 15, 2015: Decision of the review committee sent to authors ?March 1, 2015: Submission of the final version of the article ?June 2015: Publication of the special issue *Submission* For questions about this special issue, please contact the guest editors. Send your manuscripts in electronic format (Word or RTF) to: Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Associate Professor Department of Information and Communication University of Lyon 3 Lyon, France fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-lyon3.fr Elaine M?nard Assistant Professor School of Information Studies McGill University Montreal, Canada elaine.menard at mcgill.ca Guidelines for authors are available online on the journal's website at http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm. Please indicate at the beginning of your submission which point(s) or theme(s) your paper will address. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Ph.D. (MCF-HDR) Associate Professor - Dept. of Information & Communication University of Lyon 3 - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ EPICIC colloquium : http://www.epicic.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jlorince at indiana.edu Fri Mar 14 00:12:31 2014 From: jlorince at indiana.edu (Jared Lorince) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:12:31 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] 2014 ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14) - Still accepting poster and data challenge submissions! Message-ID: ***Apologies for duplicate postings*** The paper deadline for the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14) has passed. We are thrilled to announce that we received 160 paper submissions! 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URL: From rhill at asis.org Tue Mar 18 13:44:09 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:44:09 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] =?US-ASCII?Q?Deadline_Reminder_=96_ASIS&T_Annual_Meeting?= Message-ID: <385-22014321817449648@LEN-dick-2011> April 30 is the deadline for submitting proposals for Panels, Contributed Papers, and tutorials and workshops. Additional information below. Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities 77th ASIST Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, 2014 Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ SUBMISDSION URL: https://www.conftool.pro/asist2014/index.php?page=login The Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. The ASIST AM gathers leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share innovations, ideas, research, and insights into the state and future of information and communication in play, work, governance, and society. ASIST AM has an established record for pushing the boundaries of information studies, exploring core concepts and ideas, and creating new technological and conceptual configurations -- all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology. The conference celebrates plurality in methods, theories and conceptual frameworks and has historically presented research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIST?s many special interest groups: Arts & Humanities; Bioinformatics; Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts; Classification Research; Critical Issues; Digital Libraries; Education for Information Science; Health Informatics; History & Foundations of Information Science; Human Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Needs, Seeking and Use; Information Policy; International Information Issues; Knowledge Management; Library Technologies; Management; Metrics; Scientific & Technical Information; Social Informatics; and Visualization, Images & Sound. Important Dates Papers, Panels, and Workshops: Submissions: April 30th Notifications: June 11th Final copies: July 15th Posters: Submissions: July 1th Notifications: July 30th Final copies: August 20th (All deadlines: midnight, Hawaii Standard Time) . Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900