From rlitwin at gmail.com Fri May 5 10:47:33 2017 From: rlitwin at gmail.com (Rory Litwin) Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 07:47:33 -0700 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information Message-ID: Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information (Please forward to appropriate individuals and groups.) 1. Nature of the Award 1.1 The award shall consist of $1,000, given annually to a graduate student who is working on a dissertation on the philosophy of information (broadly construed). As we see it, the range of philosophical questions relating to information is broad, and approachable through a variety of philosophical traditions (philosophy of mind, logic, philosophy of information so-called, philosophy of science, etc.). 2. Purpose of the Award 2.1 The purpose of this award is to encourage and support scholarship in the philosophy of information. 3. Eligibility 3.1 The scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications: (a) Be an active doctoral student whose primary area of research is directly philosophical, whether the institutional setting is philosophy or another discipline; that is to say, the mode of dissertation research must be philosophical as opposed to empirical or literary study; (b) Have completed all course work; and (c) Have had a dissertation proposal accepted by the institution. 3.2 Recipients may receive the award not more than once. 4. Administration 4.1 The Litwin Books Award for Ongoing Doctoral Dissertation Research in the Philosophy of Information is sponsored and administered by Litwin Books, LLC, an independent scholarly publisher. 5. Nominations 5.1 Nominations should be submitted via email by June 1, to award at litwinbooks.com. 5.2 The submission package should include the following: (a) The accepted dissertation proposal; (b) A description of the work done to date; (c) A letter of recommendation from a dissertation committee member; (d) An up-to-date curriculum vitae with current contact information. 6. Selection of the Awardee 6.1 Submissions will be judged on merit with emphasis on the following: (a) Clarity of thought; (b) Originality; (c) Relevance to our time; (d) Evidence of good progress toward completion. 7. Notification 7.1 The winner and any honorable mentions will be notified via letter by July 1. Advisory Board Jonathan Furner Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Ron Day School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Melissa Adler College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky Marlene Manoff Independent Scholar, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Kay Mathiesen University of Arizona Past Winners 2016 Robert Montoya, of the UCLA Department of information studies, for his dissertation project, tentatively titled, tentatively titled, "Articulating Composite Taxonomies: Epistemology and the Global Unification of Biodiversity Databases." 2015: Quinn DuPont, of the University of Toronto Faculty of Information, for his dissertation pr?cis, titled, "Plaintext, Encryption, and Ciphertext: A History of Cryptography and its Influence on Contemporary Society." 2014: Patrick Gavin, of the University of Western Ontario FIMS, for his dissertation propsoal, titled, "On Informationalized Borderzones: A Study in the Politics and Ethics of Emerging Border Architectures." 2013: Steve McKinlay, of Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia, for his dissertation proposal, titled, "Information Ethics and the Problem of Reference." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From buckland at ischool.berkeley.edu Mon May 8 18:13:12 2017 From: buckland at ischool.berkeley.edu (Michael Buckland) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:13:12 -0700 Subject: [Sighfis-l] =?utf-8?q?_ISKO-France_Conference_on_=22francophone_p?= =?utf-8?q?ioneers=E2=80=9D_July_11th-12th=2C_in_Paris=2E?= Message-ID: <5a892882-e32a-dd36-626e-98325b0b56b6@ischool.berkeley.edu> Registration is now open for ISKO-France Conference on ?Epistemological and theoretical foundations of Information ?Documentation science: a tribute to francophone pioneers? July 11th-12th, in Paris. More details and the Conference program will be shortly available on the ISKO-France website: http://www.isko-france.asso.fr/colloque2017/en/registration/ Michael Buckland -- Michael Buckland Emeritus Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/ From kherold at adelphi.edu Mon May 15 15:11:52 2017 From: kherold at adelphi.edu (Ken Herold) Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 15:11:52 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Cretsos award - June 1st deadline fast approaching Message-ID: Hi there! A gentle reminder about my last email to you regarding your eligibility for the Cretsos award. The June 1st deadline for applications is fast approaching. The Cretsos Leadership Award marks excellence in leadership activities in ASIS&T among new members. We hope you will apply! The nomination process is outlined at https://www.asis.org/awards /leadershipaward.html Good luck! *Crystal* Chair of Cretsos Leadership Award Subcommittee ************************************************ Dr. Crystal Fulton Associate Professor Deputy Head of School, Director of Research, Innovation & Impact & Assessment Quality Assurance Manager School of Information & Communication Studies Room C113, Newman Building University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (e) *Crystal.Fulton at ucd.ie * | (t) +353 1 716 8394 <+353%201%20716%208394> | (w) *http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/informationcommunicationstudies/assoc%20professorcrystalfulton/ * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri May 19 13:26:40 2017 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 19:26:40 +0200 Subject: [Sighfis-l] ACM MEDES 2017 (Bangkok, Thailand): Submission deadline has been extended Message-ID: * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** (Extended submission date: June 26th, 2017) *** Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, published by Springer *** The 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'17) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/17/ November 7-10, 2017 Bangkok, Thailand Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and 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. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) 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 web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, 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, intelligent 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 big 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 Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", 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. MEDES 2016 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2017 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Software ecosystems for software engineering - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks 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: June 26th, 2017 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2017 - Camera Ready: September 1st, 2017 - Paper Registration: September 1st, 2017 - Conference Dates: 7-10 November 2017 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Program Chairs ---------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Toshikazu Kato, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From kherold at adelphi.edu Wed May 31 10:37:56 2017 From: kherold at adelphi.edu (Ken Herold) Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 10:37:56 -0400 Subject: [Sighfis-l] Bob Williams History Fund Awards - deadline end of June! Message-ID: Hello HFIS, Please encourage our scholars to submit to the paper and research awards for this year. https://www.asist.org/about/awards/history-fund-awards/ Best, Ken ChaIr, SIGHFIS Ken Herold, MLIS, Berkeley '84 Associate Dean of Libraries, Digital Initiatives and Automated Services Adelphi University Garden City NY 11530 USA 1(516) 877-3531 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: