From jandrews at cas.usf.edu Thu Nov 5 07:43:07 2009 From: jandrews at cas.usf.edu (Andrews, James) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:43:07 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] SIG MED Name Change... Message-ID: <7DCB81B2D76D0C448915FB5CDE6AB4F5020280F7@MAILBOX2.cas.usf.edu> Hi All, I am looking forward to seeing everyone in Vancouver... At last year's SIG MED Planning Meeting we agreed to change the name of SIG MED to SIG Health. The prevailing idea was that this would suggest a broader scope for the SIG, and thus encourage more members to become active. For instance, those with interests, say, in health communication, health-related information behaviors, health services management, or other areas not falling with what might be considered more "core" areas of medical informatics. We can discuss writing a more cogent description (i.e. for the website and promotional materials) at the planning meeting this year. However, to make this change official it needs to be on the agenda for the SIG Cabinet meeting this weekend. I am therefore querying the membership for a vote or any feedback you'd like to provide. Please respond as soon as possible. Action: Change the name SIG Medical Informatics (SIG MED), to Health Informatics (SIG Health): __YES __NO Additional Comments: James E. Andrews, Ph.D. Interim Director, Associate Professor University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CIS 1040 Tampa, FL 33620 813-974-2108 Fax: 813-974-6840 jandrews at cas.usf.edu http://uweb.cas.usf.edu/~jandrews/Index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <1258403902.4b01b83e3896f@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> ----- Sorry for cross-postings ----- ########################################################################################################################## The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2010) with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes October 26-29, 2010 Bangkok-Thailand 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, and tutorials and workshops. Topics ------- In this call, 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): - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Web Technologies - Social Networks - Data & Knowledge Management Systems - Multimedia Information Retrieval - Ontology Management - Services systems and Engineering - E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government - Emergent Intelligence - Game Theory - Networks and Protocols - Security & Privacy - Standardization and Extensible Languages - Human-Computer Interaction - Business Intelligence - B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement - Digital Library - Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. Submissions 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. 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. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Date: June 20th, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance: September 5th, 2010 - Camera Ready: September 20th, 2010 - Conference Dates: October 26-29, 2010 Program Chair -------------- Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France) Local Organizing Committee Chair --------------------------------- Asanee Kawtrakul (NECTEC, Thailand) International Program Committee ------------------------------- (see the web site for the full list)