From youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr Mon Apr 7 09:09:29 2014 From: youakim.badr at insa-lyon.fr (Youakim Badr) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:09:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Sigifp-l] CFP: The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems In-Reply-To: <1943844428.11244823.1396875741638.JavaMail.root@insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <1605356022.11246523.1396876169800.JavaMail.root@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 zimmerm at uwm.edu Mon Apr 7 15:28:29 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 14:28:29 -0500 Subject: [Sigifp-l] New book in Information Society series: "Pirate Politics" by Patrick Burkart References: <22F51033-0E77-4A2D-9E0E-2800DB79454F@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <4B595895-4C21-47E8-9F3B-918ABACD1873@uwm.edu> Colleagues: (apologies for cross-posts) I?m very pleased to announce that the sixth book in the MIT Press collection ?Information Society Series? I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests by Patrick Burkart http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-politics The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing search engine. The Swedish Pirate Party, and later the German Pirate Party, came to be identified with a ?free culture? message that came into conflict with the European Union?s legal system. In this book, Patrick Burkart examines the emergence of Pirate politics as an umbrella cyberlibertarian movement that views file sharing as a form of free expression and advocates for the preservation of the Internet as a commons. He links the Pirate movement to the Green movement, arguing that they share a moral consciousness and an explicit ecological agenda based on the notion of a commons, or public domain. The Pirate parties, like the Green Party, must weigh ideological purity against pragmatism as they move into practical national and regional politics. Burkart uses second-generation critical theory and new social movement theory as theoretical perspectives for his analysis of the democratic potential of Pirate politics. After setting the Pirate parties in conceptual and political contexts, Burkart examines European antipiracy initiatives, the influence of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the pressure exerted on European governance by American software and digital exporters. He argues that pirate politics can be seen as ?cultural environmentalism,? a defense of Internet culture against both corporate and state colonization. About the Author Patrick Burkart is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University and the author of Music and Cyberliberties and Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox (with Tom McCourt). About the Series Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Series on Technology, Law, and Society Series Editors, Laura DeNardis and Michael Zimmer MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/information-society-series The Information Society Series addresses the social, legal, and policy implications of the Internet and new information technologies and will especially feature works from the growing global ranks of interdisciplinary scholars in information schools; communications departments; science, technology, and society programs; and programs in law, technology, and culture. We are accepting book proposals for the series. Preference will be given to monographs rather than edited volumes and books that are interdisciplinary, normative, and global in scope. Book proposals should include: ? a prospectus (brief description, outstanding features and uniqueness of work, audience and market considerations, status of book, and recommended reviewers); ? a detailed table of contents; ? sample chapters; and ? the authors curriculum vitae. Please submit completed proposals to denardis at american.edu and zimmerm at uwm.edu -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org From blloveday at gmail.com Sun Apr 27 05:14:37 2014 From: blloveday at gmail.com (Brandi Loveday) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 05:14:37 -0400 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Fwd: [Neasis-l] NEASIST Spring Networking Dinner - Keynote by Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths -- May 7 at MIT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Beata Panagopoulos" Date: Apr 25, 2014 4:51 PM Subject: [Neasis-l] NEASIST Spring Networking Dinner - Keynote by Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths -- May 7 at MIT To: "asis-l at asis.org" , "neasis-l at asis.org" < neasis-l at asis.org>, "sla-cne at sla.lyris.net" Cc: THE NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INVITES YOU TO JOIN US FOR OUR 2014 ANNUAL NETWORKING DINNER: The Spider and the Web: Can the Information Age Survive Another 25 years? An Address by Dr. Jos?-Marie Griffiths, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bryant University and past ASIST President WHEN: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm WHERE: MIT Pappalardo Room (Bldg 4-349) http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4Cambridge, MA RSVP: on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-networking-dinner-the-spider-and-the-web-tickets-11227065455 DESCRIPTION Join your colleagues for an evening of conversation as we explore the future of the Information Age with Dr. Jos?-Marie Griffiths ( http://www.bryant.edu/news/university-news/story.htm?id=3706 )and celebrate the awardees of the 2014 NEASIST Awards. Dr. Griffiths will discuss: The Spider and the Web: Can the Information Age Survive Another 25 years? The World Wide Web, arguably the platform that fully launched our Information Age, is 25 years old this year. There are now more than 600 million websites worldwide, and the Web has changed life forever across the globe, allowing people to access and share information in a way not possible even 30 years ago. But as the Web expands in size and complexity, there is increasing concern about its potential fragility and vulnerability. Dr. Griffiths will explore some of the trends that are straining the interwoven strands of our information universe, from net governance and neutrality to data policy and stewardship to individual privacy (or the lack thereof). Society, especially knowledge stewards, face a plethora of choices in these areas. How we choose to address these challenges correlates in many ways with how a spider constructs, monitors and repairs its web. Can the Information Age survive another 25 years? Understanding the interrelationships of the spider and the web, and the different roles and principles that undergird them, are critical to all of us in both the near and distant future. Dr. Griffiths will lay out the issues and some of the choices we face, and the potential impacts of those choices to the survival of our present and future knowledge ecosystem. PROGRAM 6:00pm Registration & Networking 6:30pm Buffet dinner served 7:00pm Award presentations 7:15pm NEASIST welcomes Dr. Jos?-Marie Griffiths--Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bryant University and past ASIST President For more information visit http://neasist.org/2014/04/09/2014-annual-neasist-networking-dinner/ _______________________________________________ Neasis-l mailing list Neasis-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/neasis-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: