From seramar at umich.edu Mon Jul 4 05:40:05 2011 From: seramar at umich.edu (Maria Souden) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:40:05 +0100 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Call for Participation: 11th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-posting** Call For Participation- ASIST AM 2011 SIG-USE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM The following announcement may be of interest to those addressing health information issues. The SIG-USE Research Symposium at ASIST 2011 will feature paired keynotes of researchers and practitioners working within several domains external to information science, including Health. Please join us for what is sure to be a lively and engaging session! Please circulate widely. --- Maria Souden, MSI, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow School of Information and Library Studies University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland +353.1.716.7660 maria.souden at ucd.ie maria.souden at gmail.com On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Agosto,Denise wrote: > > WHERE YOUR WORLD MEETS MINE: INFORMATION USE ACROSS DOMAINS > > Date: October 12, 2011 > Location: ASIS&T Annual Meeting at the New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, LA, USA > Conference website: http://asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html > > ?The 11th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) will explore the intersections of information seeking and use with domains outside of information science. ?In the last decade, information science?s attention to cross-disciplinary questions has remained a central focus of the field. ?To some degree, working in information science inherently means working across boundaries. ?As information behavior researchers and practitioners, we must not only be immersed in information science practices and perspectives, but able to entertain, incorporate, and challenge the perspectives of the various other domains in which we work. > > ?This Symposium invites researchers, graduate students, and practitioners to reflect on and discuss experiences in their own work of boundary crossing, boundary living, and boundary pushing. ?A series of keynote dialogues will pair information behavior researchers with practitioners from related domains of study, with the goal of stimulating lively and focused discussion sessions among participants. ?Participants will emerge with new understandings of and reflections on how working across a wide range of disciplines and domains enables synergies between our world and the worlds of our collaborators. > > CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > ?An advance written submission is encouraged, but not required. ?Advance written information will enable workshop organizers to create working groups based on participants? shared interests. ?Workshop attendees may choose any of the following options for participating: > > 1. REGISTRATION PLUS POSITION PAPER. ?Those interested in writing brief papers are invited to submit one-page position papers explaining how your work involves other domains outside of information science, including research, practice, service, collaboration, and teaching. ?Position papers will be posted on the SIG USE website prior to the workshop (with authors? permission). > > 2. REGISTRATION PLUS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS/PROBLEM IDENTIFICATIONS. In lieu of writing a position paper, registrants may submit two or three discussion questions or problems related to the idea of information seeking and use across domains. These may be general questions and problems, or questions and problems closely related to your own work (e.g., ?How are changing information practices affecting the field of digital humanities?? or ?information privacy issues in organizational contexts?). ?The organizing committee is particularly interested in questions or problems that would be useful for guiding small group discussions at the workshop. > > 3. REGISTRATION PLUS IDENTIFICATION OF DOMAIN(S) OF INTEREST. ?Those with interests in specific domains can choose to list up to three domains of interest for the organizing committee to consider as topic areas for small group discussion. > > 4. REGISTRATION PLUS ANY COMBINATION OF OPTIONS 1 ? 3, ABOVE. ?You may choose to submit any two or all three of the above items (position paper, discussion questions/problem identifications, and domains of interest). > > 5. REGISTRATION ONLY. Those interested in attending the workshop without submitting written materials may register at any time prior to the beginning of the workshop, provided that workshop spaces remain. > > For advance submissions, please use the following submission guidelines: > ?* Submit all files as pdf documents. > ?* Put your name, title, and institutional affiliation in the upper left-hand corner of the first page. > ?* Put page numbers in the upper right hand corner of all pages. > ?* Name your file as follows: > ? ? ? 2011_SIGUSEworkshop_yourlastname.pdf > > N.B.: Indicate in your email message whether or not you would like your submission to be posted publically on the SIG USE website as a part of the pre- and post-workshop materials. ?Submissions are due by midnight local time on SEPTEMBER 9, 2011. > > Email submissions to: > Maria Souden (maria.souden at ucd.ie). > > REGISTRATION FEES > ?* $105 for SIG USE members. > ?* $110 for nonmembers. > The registration fee will cover workshop costs, a light breakfast, coffee breaks, and lunch. > > STUDENT BLOGGERS > ?SIG USE will pay the registration fees for two graduate students to attend the workshop and provide live blogging during the event. ?If you are interested in serving as a student blogger, indicate your interest via email to Maria Souden at maria.souden at ucd.ie. ?Student bloggers will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. > > WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: > ?* Denise Agosto, Drexel University (chair) (dea22 at drexel.edu) > ?* Maria Souden, University College Dublin (maria.souden at ucd.ie) > ?* Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina (wildemuth at unc.edu) > ?* Xiaojun Yuan, University at Albany, State University of New York (xyuan at albany.edu) > > --------------------------- > Denise E. Agosto, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > 2011 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence in the Field of Library & Information Science Education > College of Information Science & Technology > Drexel University > 3141 Chestnut St. > Philadelphia, PA ?19104 > From Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Mon Jul 11 10:51:24 2011 From: Richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:51:24 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Extended Deadline: ACM MEDES 2011 - San Francisco, USA Message-ID: <2BsRPrh1VKrP5I7NCRNzxitVc7o8TUit5NEehuF2thSW@u-bourgogne.fr> * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * -=-=-=-=-= Submission deadline extended to August 20th, 2011 =-=-=-=-=- *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2011) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/11/ November 21-24, 2011 San Francisco, California, USA 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 ------- 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 - Service systems and Engineering - Emergent Intelligence - Data & Knowledge Management Systems - Multimedia Information Retrieval - Ontology Management - Social Networks - Game Theory - Networks and Protocols - Green computing - Security & Privacy - Standardization and Extensible Languages - Human-Computer Interaction - Business Intelligence - E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government - 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. 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 ---------------- - Extended Submission Date: August 20th, 2011 - Preliminary Notification of Acceptance: September, 5th 2011 - Rebuttal Date: September 15th, 2011 - Final Notification of Acceptance: September, 20th 2011 - Camera Ready: September 30th, 2011 - Conference Dates: November 21-24, 2011 Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals. -International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC) -International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) -International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM) General Chair -------------- William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Xiaohua Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA Program Chair -------------- Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France 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 -------------------------- 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 ---------------- Paul Hofmann, VP Office of the Chief Scientist at SAP Labs Ruoyi Zhou, Senior Manager at IBM Almaden Research Center Publicity Chair ---------------- Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, UK Publication Chair ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list)