From rhill at asis.org Mon Jun 4 09:03:01 2007 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:03:01 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Watson Davis Award Message-ID: <419-220076141331493@RHILL-IBM> ********************************* Who should be awarded the 2007 Watson Davis Award? It's time to start thinking about nominations. This award recognizes members who have exemplifies outstanding service to ASIS&T. Nominations are due July 15, 2007. More information can be found at http://www.asis.org/awards/watsondavisaward.html. Questions can be directed to Elise Lewis (elewis at unt.edu) Thank you, Watson Davis and Membership Committee Past recipients of the Watson Davis Award: 2006 Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Steve Hardin 2005 Michael Buckland 2004 Joseph Busch 2003 Nancy Roderer 2002 Thomas Hogan 2001 Julie Hurd 2000 Candy Schwartz 1999 Jessica L. Milstead 1998 Judy Watson 1997 Karla Petersen 1996 Marjorie K. Hlava 1995 Martha Williams and Donald Kraft 1994 Audrey Grosch 1993 Debora Shaw 1992 Marianne Cooper 1991 Mickie Voges-Piatt 1990 Julie Virgo 1989 Madeline Henderson and G. Daniel Robbins 1988 Bonnie C. Carroll 1987 George Abbott and Barbara Flood 1986 N. Bernard Basch 1985 Lawrence Woods and Michel Menou 1984 Robert Tannehill, Jr. 1983 Toni Carbo and Margaret T. Fischer 1982 Edmond Sawyer 1981 Jan Krcmar 1980 Gerard O. Platau 1979 Frank Slater 1978 Mary C. Berger, Joe Ann Clifton, Charles H. Davis 1977 Arthur W. Elias, Irene Farkas-Conn, Simon M. Newman, Roy D. Tally 1976 James M. Cretsos, Laurence B. Heilprin, Lois F. Lunin, Gerald J. Sophar, Herbert S. White Sent for Elise Lewis Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From ldavolio at mii.ucla.edu Mon Jun 11 13:53:23 2007 From: ldavolio at mii.ucla.edu (Leonard Davolio) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:53:23 -0700 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Opening Medicare Data for Research - new legislation Message-ID: <200706111735.l5BHZfaL024166@mail.mii.ucla.edu> FYI - an issue that cuts across many of the specialties of SIGMED folks: There's legislation recently introduced in the Senate that would require Medicare to share data with private organizations for research purposes. As someone who works with patient data, this is an exciting prospect. The opportunities to detect potentially harmful trends and improve upon less than optimal pathways of care are tremendous. A governmental ultimatum may also help to diffuse standards for clinical data, or least for how clinical data intended for research is published. But one has to wonder how all of this will work in practice. The greatest de-identification software is still not capable of making anonymous all 17 types of PHI data contained in the medical record with 100% accuracy and likely never will be. And just who are "private organizations" and what will the processes be for access and handling? I hope this isn't a bill sponsored by and for big pharma but the cynic in me can't help but wonder. In any case, this should be an interesting one to follow: http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/html/news/NewsStory.cfm?articleId=15280 Leonard D'Avolio Ph.D. Candidate NLM Medical Informatics Fellow Dept. of Information Studies Dept. of Medical Informatics University of California, Los Angeles http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/ldavolio From casmith24 at wisc.edu Mon Jun 11 15:16:03 2007 From: casmith24 at wisc.edu (Catherine Arnott Smith) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:16:03 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Opening Medicare Data for Research - new legislation In-Reply-To: <200706111735.l5BHZfaL024166@mail.mii.ucla.edu> References: <200706111735.l5BHZfaL024166@mail.mii.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <466D9F73.5030001@wisc.edu> Leonard Davolio wrote: > The greatest de-identification software is > still not capable of making anonymous all 17 types of PHI data contained in > the medical record with 100% accuracy and likely never will be. And just > who are "private organizations" and what will the processes be for access > and handling? I hope this isn't a bill sponsored by and for big pharma but > the cynic in me can't help but wonder. In any case, this should be an > interesting one to follow: > > http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/html/news/NewsStory.cfm?articleId=15280 > > > Thomas.gov should have the bill text in a few days, but at the moment, sure looks like this is a quality initiative aimed at letting consumers "choose" and "be informed" about their healthcare. The quotations are there not because I don't agree these are good goals, but because I question how much "choice" really exists even with available "information". Then there's the other problem--discussed at length at Spring AMIA--that the reason hardly anybody has Personal Health Records is that hardly anybody has electronic medical records on which to build. So even if the data could be hypothetically cleaned up to HIPAA's satisfaction (you are right-100% accuracy is impossible)--we're still only going to be looking at clinical data that is available digitally, which ain't the medical record for most places. (Mayo, Kaiser, Partners in Boston excepted, for example). Now clinical data mining could happen easier than medical record mining, but clinical data mining is digging in lots of big silos. So I'm not sure what good this all does anybody. -- Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies Room 4263 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1334 Fax: (608) 263-4849 *** The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery *** Form is never more than the extension of content. --Robert Creely [quoted in C. Olson, "Projective Verse", 1950.] From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri Jun 15 09:22:48 2007 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:22:48 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] IEEE ICDIM'07: Extended Submission Deadline June 22, 2007 Message-ID: <1181913767.467292a7f4207@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> --------------- ** Apologies for cross-postings ** --------------- ###### New submission deadline : June 22, 2007 ##### The Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management Sponsored by IEEE and in Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr http://icdim.insa-lyon.fr October 28-31, 2007 Lyon, FRANCE Description ----------- The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people from academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference invites original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The conference is hosted by the "Institut National des Sciences Appliqu?es de Lyon" (INSA-Lyon). Topics ------- We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to): * Information Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Natural Language Processing * Digital Libraries * Data and Information Quality Management * Data Grids * Data and Information Quality * Database Management * Web Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Data Mining * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 * E-Learning, eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment * Web Metrics and its applications * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology * Human-Computer Interaction * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * Knowledge Management * Ubiquitous Systems * Peer to Peer Data Management * Interoperability * Mobile Data Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain * Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes * Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis * Security and Access Control * Information Content Security * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Paper Submission ----------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be uploaded using the conference website. The papers should not exceed 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 qualified reviewers. 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. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. Important Dates --------------- Full Papers Submission (Extended): June 22, 2007 Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 03, 2007 Camera Ready Papers Due: August 17, 2007 Early Bird Registration: September 15, 2007 Late Registration: September 28, 2007 Journal Publication ------------------- Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (ISSN 0972-7272) 2. Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) (ISSN 1554-1010) 3. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (ISSN 0973-1873) 4. International Journal for Infonomics (IJI) ( ISSN 1742-4712) 5. International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (IJITST)(ISSN 1748-569X) 6. International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM)(ISSN: 1743-5110) Committees ----------- Programme Chairs: Youakim Badr, P (INSA-Lyon, France) Pit Pichappan (Annamalai University, India) Richard Chbeir (University of Bourgogne, France) Programme Co-Chairs: Ajith Abraham (Chung-Ang University, Korea) Frederic Andres (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Antony Satyadas (IBM, USA) Workshops Chairs ---------------- Djamal Benslimane (Lyon 1 University, France) Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates) International Programme Committee --------------------------------- Abramowicz Witold (Poznan University of Economics, Poland) Agrawal Dharma (University of Cincinnati, USA) Alpaslan Ferda Nur (METU University, Turkie) Badard Thierry (Universite Laval, Canada) Badica Costin (University of Craiova, Romania) Baresi Luciano (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Berkovsky Shlomo (University of Haifa, Israel) Biennier Frederique (Insa de Lyon, France) Boulanger Danielle (University of Jean Moulin-MODEME, France) Boulicaut Jean-Francois (Insa de Lyon, France) Bourque Pierre (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada) Brunie Lionel (Insa de Lyon, France) CachedaSeijo Fidel (Universidad de a Coruna, Spain) Chaim Zins ( Knowledge Mapping Research, Israel) Chandrasekhar Anantaram (Tata Consultancy Services) Chen Yuehui (University of Jinan, China) Corchado Emilio (University of Burgos, Spain) Corchado Juan (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) Crestani Fabio (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Cuzzocrea Alfredo (University of Calabria, Italy) Damiani Ernesto (University of Milan, Italy) Dusan Husek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic) Elnaffar Said (UAE University, UAE) El-Qawasmeh Eyas (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan) Fayolles Jacques (ISTASE University, France) Ferri Fernando (IRPPS-CNR, Italy) Flory Andr? (INSA de Lyon, France) Flory Laurent (University of Lyon 1, France) Franke Katrin (Gjovik University College, Norway) Frasincar Flavius (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Gabillon Alban (Pau Univeristy, France) Gasevic Dragan (Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada) Ghosh Hiranmay (Innovation Lab - TCS & Adjunct Faculty, India) Godart Claude (University Henri Poincare, France) Goswami P.R. (NASSDOC, India) Grifoni Patrizia (National Research Council of Italy, Italy) Grosan Crina (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Grosky William (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) Hacid Mohand-Said (University of Lyon 1, France) Halonen Raija (University of Oulu, Finland) Hansen Preben (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Haraty Ramzi (LAU, Lebanon) Harish Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India) Hassan Safar Maytham (Kuwait University, Kuwait) Ishikawa Hiroshi (Shizuoka University, Japan) Jacobs Daisy(University of Zululand, South Africa) Jouffe Lionel (Societe Bayesia, Laval) K. Bhargava Bharat (Purdue University, USA) Kawatrakul Asanee (Kasetsart University, Thailand) Kazushi Ohya (Tsurumi University, Japan) Knapskog Svein (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Kosch Harald (University of Passau, Germany) Koukam Abder (UTBM University, France) Kozlak Jaroslaw (University of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland) Kretschmer Hildrun (Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany) Kwasnicka Halina (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) Lu James J. (Emory University, USA) MarkowskaKaczmar Urszula (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) Morad Benyoucef (University of Ottawa, Canada) Mostefaoui Ahmed (University of Franche Comte, France) Muthaiyah Saravanan (George Mason University, USA) Narendra Nanjangud (IBM India Research Lab, India) N. Ocholla Dennis (University of Zululand, South Africa) Oria Vincent (NJIT, USA) Painho Marco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Palade Vasile (Oxford University, UK) Palakal Mathew J. (Indiana University Purdue University, USA) Panda Brajendra (University of Arkansas, USA) Petit Jean-Marc (Insa de Lyon, France) Pokorny Jaroslav (FEE CTU Prague, Prague) R. Raje Rajeev (Indiana University, USA) Sanyal Sugata (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) Shen Heng Tao (University of Queensland, Australia) Shoniregun Charles (University of East London, UK) Snasel Vaclav (FEECS, VSB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic) Stanchev Peter (Kettering University, USA) Sung Y. Shin (South Dakota State University,USA) Thiran Philippe (Namur University, Belgium) Tiwary Uma Shankar (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India) VandeWeghe Nico (Ghent University, Belgium) Vangenot Christelle (EPFL of Lausanne, Switzerland) VargasSolar Genoveva (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Verdier Christine (University of Grenoble, France) Vijayakumar J.K. (American University of Antigua, Antigua) Virendra C. Bhavsar (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Yague Mariemma (University of Malaga, Spain) Yetongnon Kokou ( Bourgogne University, France) Yinghua Ma (Shanghai JiaoTong University, China) Detailed information can be found at http://icdim.insa-lyon.fr --eof-- #################################################### # Richard CHBEIR, Ph.D. in Computer Science # # Associate Professor # # Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS) # # Bourgogne University # # Aile de l'Ing?nieur # # Office GS 16 # # BP 47870 # # 21078 Dijon CEDEX France # # Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55 # # Fax: +333 80 39 68 69 # # Email: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr # # Web: http://www.le2I.com # #################################################### From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri Jun 22 12:52:07 2007 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:52:07 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] IEEE SITIS 2007: Second CFP... Message-ID: <1182531127.467bfe3777d04@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> ------------------ ** Apologies for cross-postings ** ------------------ !!!!! Call For Papers !!!!! The 3rd International Conference IEEE SITIS 2007 December 16-19 2007 Jiangong Jinjiang Hotel Shanghai, China (in cooperation with ACM Sigapp.fr) http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/sitis The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing. SITIS 2007 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on three main tracks. Track Information Management & Retrieval Technologies (IMRT) ------------------------------------------------------------ The focus of this track is on emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of information accessible in distributed computing environment. The topics of interest of the track include: Data Semantics - Multiple representation - Ontology - Conceptual data modeling - Knowledge representation and reasoning - Web semantics and semi structured data - Semantic caching - Data warehousing and semantic - Semantics in data visualization - Semantic services for mobile users - Applications of semantic-driven approaches - Semi-structure data management, meta data, and xml - Semantic modeling and management of web-based databases Spatial information systems and applications - Spatial modeling data modeling - Conceptual and logical models for gis - Ontologies for gis applications - Semantics issues in gis - Gis service modeling - Spatial data query and retrieval - Gis and information grid - Spatio-temporal data modeling - Schema mapping and evolution - Geographical search engines - Digital geographical libraries - Query languages and interfaces - Spatial information integration - Spatial information visualization - Spatial data mining and data warehousing - Location-based services - Peer-to-peer computing for gis - Interoperability and standards - Metadata management - Gis middleware architectures - Environmental and urban gis - Gis and remote sensing Multimedia and application - Image and video databases - Image and video indexing and retrieval - Emergent semantics in content retrieval systems - Semantics and meta data in multimedia systems - Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of multimedia data - Approximate search techniques and the quality of answers - High-dimensional clustering for indexing - Query languages and query processing for multimedia retrieval - Multimedia data modeling and visualization - Tools, benchmarks, evaluation protocols and standards - Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications - Multimedia networking and qos - Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming - Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems - Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems - Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing - Visualization - Multimedia and multimodal user interfaces and interaction models - Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval - Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption - Information security - Fundamental services on network and distributed systems Track Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The track is devoted to emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for creating an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, and communities of users with similarly interests can be formed while addressing security threats that are present more than ever before. The topics of interest of the track include: Information system interoperability - Digital libraries - Semantic interoperability and semantic mediators - Ontologies interoperability - Cooperative database systems and workflow management - Agent-oriented architectures for database interoperability - Data interoperability issues in advanced applications Emergent semantics - Context-dependent semantics - Contextual reasoning in distributed ontologies - Communication in multi-agents systems - Emergent semantic interoperability in large-scale systems - Emergent semantics in content retrieval systems - Semantics for trust management Agent-based systems - Agents for distributed systems - Agent-based approaches for web applications - Security of systems using agents - Agents for grid computing solutions - Intelligent agents for p2p computing - Agent-oriented software engineering and methodologies - Ontologies and agent systems - Agents support for applications (e-commerce, e-gov, ..) Distributed, parallel, grid, p2p, mobile information management - Information sharing - Clusters/data grids/p2p computing and applications - Knowledge and semantic grid - Security frameworks - Semantics of peer data management systems - Mobile systems and computing - Distributed trust models - Distributed architectures and algorithms - Resources allocation and management - Reputation information management - Mobile data management and mobile database systems Web-centric systems - Semantic web/web services - Web services and service computing - Composition and integration of web services - Web engineering/mining/searching and crawling - E-commerce and e-learning Security and integrity issues for the web - Web usability and accessibility - Formal methods for web applications - Security modeling, architectures and protocols - Intrusion avoidance, detection, response and prevention - Web security and supporting systems security - Ecommerce, ebusiness and egovernment security Track Signal & Image Technologies (SIT) --------------------------------------- The track focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques. The topics of interest of the track include: Image Processing and Analysis - Image filtering, Restoration, Enhancement - Image segmentation - Image Acquisition Image manipulation and compression - Image synthesis - Pattern analysis and recognition - Shape matching - Learning and classification - Colour Imaging - Multispectral processing - Stereoscopic and 3D processing - 3D Object Extraction - Surface reconstruction - Geometric algorithms - Computational geometry - Image databases - Content-based image retrieval Image/Video Coding and Authentication - Coding standards - Image and video over networks - Error resilience - Video processing - Video streaming - Motion detection and estimation - Object tracking - Image sequence processing and analysis Multimedia processing - Video streaming - Watermark Embedding and Detection - Stochastic Aspects of Data Hiding - Reliable Watermark Recovery Signal processing - Theory and Methods - Gibbs models and mrfs - Digital Filters and Filter Banks design - Wavelets and Multirate Signal Processing - Spectral analysis - Time-frequency signal analysis - Non-linear and Multidimensional Signal Processing - Variational formulations - Pdes /Radar, sonar /Antennas - Mobile Signal Processing Fast algorithms - Real time signal processing - Signal noise control Applications - Archiving - Digital video broadcasting - Biomedical Imaging - Nuclear X-ray, and magnetic resonance imaging - Tomographic imaging - Remote Sensing - Document Image Processing and Analysis - Astronomy - Geosciences and environment - Artificial intelligence applications - Neural networks applications - Fuzzy logic application Submission and publication -------------------------- SITIS 20007 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to the topics of the corresponding track. Papers must be up to 8 pages long and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. The proceedings will be mailed by the IEEE CS press directly to registered authors after the conference. CD copies of the proceeding will be available during the conference. Selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in major journals. Tutorial proposals should be submitted to sitis at u-bourgogne.fr. Important Dates --------------- Tutorial proposals September 9th, 2007 Paper Submission September 9th, 2007 Acceptance/Reject notification October 15th, 2007 Final paper/registration November 3rd, 2007 General Chair ------------- Li Jianzhong, HIT, China Jianhua Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Local Committee Co-chairs ------------------------- Xue Zhi, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Shenghong Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yinghua Ma, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Members: Liya Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Gongshen Liu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Guiyang Su, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Junhua Tang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Mingzheng Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yu Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Track Organizers ---------------- Information Management & Retrieval Technologies (IMRT) track Lei Chen, HKUST, China Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS) track Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Signal & Image Technologies (SIT) track Abert Dipanda, Bourgogne University, France Jerzy J. Korczak, Strasbourg University, France Program Committee (To be completed) ------------------------------------ * Abder Koukam (UTBM University, France) * Agma Juci Machado Traina (University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil) * Ahmed Mostefaoui (U. of Franche Comte, France) * Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Firenze, Italy) * Ana Cavalli (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) * Chirine Ghedira (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France) * Christelle Vangenot (EPFL of Lausanne, Switzerland) * Clement Leung (Victoria University, Australia) * Danielle Boulanger (Universite Jean Moulin, France) * Dimitri Theodoratos (NJIT, USA) * Djamal Benslimane (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France) * Ernesto Damiani (U. of Milan, Italy) * Faiez Gargouri (ISIM Institute, Tunisia) * Ferda Nur Alpaslan (METU University, Turkey) * Fernando Ferri (IRPPS-CNR, Italy) * Fernando Lopez Pelayo (Escuela Politecnica Superior De Albacete, Spain) * Flavius Frasincar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherland) * Genevieve Jomier (Universite Paris Dauphine, France) * Harald Kosch (University of Passau, Germany) * Heng Tao Shen (University of Queensland, Australia) * Ingo Wolf (T-Systems, Germany) * Ismael Rodriguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Jacques Fayolles (ISTASE University, France) * Jaroslaw Kozlak (U. of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland) * Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) * Jim Geller (NJIT, USA) * Kalpdrum Passi (Laurentia University, Canada) * Manuel Nunez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Maria Luisa Sapino (Universita di Torino, Italy) * Mario Bravetti (Universita di Bologna, Italy) * Mercedes Merayo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Michael Granitzer (I-Know Center, Austria) * Michel Scholl (CNAM, France) * Nabila Benharkat (INSA Lyon, France) * Natalia Lopez Barquilla (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) * Nico Van de Weghe (Ghent University, Belgium) * Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain) * Ousmane Kone (IRIT Toulouse, France) * Pedro Isaias (Portuguese Open University, Portugal) * Pit Pichappan (Annamalai University, India) * Rafik Bouaziz (ISIM Institute, Tunisia) * Ralf Klamma (University of Manchester, UK) * Ramzi Haraty (LAU, Lebanon) * Richard Chbeir (University of Bourgogne, France) * Sean Wang (University of Vermont, USA) * Shin'ichi Satoh (NII, Japan) * Solomon Atnafu (U. Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia) * Stefanos Gritzalis (University of Aegean, Greece) * Sviatoslav Braynov (University of Illinois, USA) * Thierry Badard (University of Laval, Canada) * Andreas Uhl (Salzburg University, Austria) * Vincent Charvillat (ENSEEIHT Informatique, France) * Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA) * Kokou Yetongnon (University of Bourgogne, France) * Youakim Badr (INSA Lyon, France) * Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia) * Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, U.A.E.) -- #################################################### # Richard CHBEIR, Ph.D. in Computer Science # # Associate Professor # # Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS) # # Bourgogne University # # Aile de l'Ing?nieur # # Office GS 16 # # BP 47870 # # 21078 Dijon CEDEX France # # Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55 # # Fax: +333 80 39 68 69 # # Email: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr # # Web: http://www.le2I.com # #################################################### From rhill at asis.org Tue Jun 26 14:34:47 2007 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:34:47 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Strengthening ASIS&T's international position - Response requested Message-ID: <419-220076226183447618@RHILL-IBM> Dear fellow ASIS&T members [Sending for Michel Menou, to whom replies should be addressed: micheljmenou [at] gmail[dot]com As you may have noticed the Board of Directors decided to establish an International relations Committee. See for its remit and membership. The main immediate task of IRC is, in brief, to submit to the Board an international strategy to expand the society's international presence, membership and activities There are 2 key requirements for this strategy to be successful. First if should reflect the vision and aspirations of ASIS&T members. Second it should be supported by the active involvement of all bodies of the society and the members who are engaged in international activities. We would therefore appreciate if all SIGs and Chapters (including student chapters) would make sure that they maintain a liaison with IRC. Once appointed the liaison will have access to the IRC list and wiki with a view to facilitate a two way interaction. We urge all members who have regular membership in sister societies whether international or national to let us know and share their views about the ways to establish effective cooperation between these societies and ASIS&T. We would very much appreciate your views about the items below: 1) What should ASIS&T do in order for its members to be more connected with, contribute to and be visible in the international Information Science and Technology arena ? 2) What should ASIS&T do in order to increase its international membership, how can US members benefit more from international members, how can international members benefit more from their membership, how can US and international members develop more beneficial interaction ? 3) What is required in order to make the global system of information science societies and their activities (e.g. regular conferences, publications, representation in scientific and policy fora, etc.) more effective in responding to the needs of information scholars and professionals ? 4) What should ASIS&T do in order to enhance its profile and participation in the global system of information science societies and activities ? 5) Any other relevant item Please keep in mind that proposals need to be financially and operationally realistic. Send your contributions to michel[dot]menou[at]wanadoo[dot]fr and not to the list from which you received this message. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you in advance. International Relations Committee -- ===================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College London, U.K. Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Chair ASIS&T International Relations Committee Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900