From news at iccss2015.eu Mon Dec 1 10:04:38 2014 From: news at iccss2015.eu (news at iccss2015.eu) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:04:38 +0200 Subject: [Sigiii-l] LAST CALL: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WILL BE CLOSED ON DECEMBER THE 7th (ICCSS Helsinki) Message-ID: <20141201170438.Horde.DVx8dOxC-FohmS5gqJAeEg1@box451.bluehost.com> ***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Conference on Computational Social Science Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015 WEBSITE http://www.iccss2015.eu/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstract submission: 7 December 2014, 23:59 GMT Opening of registration: 15 January 2015 Conference dates: 8-11 June 2015 CONFERENCE FEE We are seeking continuously funds for the conference, but we can anticipate that the conference fee for early registration will be of about 350 euro for regular participants and around 200 euro for students. EVENT OVERVIEW The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments. PROGRAM CHAIRS Karen Cook (Stanford) Santo Fortunato (Aalto University) Michael Macy (Cornell) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Opening talk by Michael Macy (Cornell) Lada Adamic (Facebook) Sinan Aral (MIT) Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University and CEU) Nicholas Christakis (Yale) Robin Dunbar (Oxford) Andreas Flache (University of Groeningen) Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) Matthew Jackson (Stanford) David Lazer (Northeastern University) Jure Leskovec (Stanford) Alex Pentland (MIT) Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University) Duncan Watts (Microsoft) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Santo Fortunato (Aalto University) Aristides Gionis (Aalto) Heikki H?mm?inen (Aalto) Kimmo Kaski (Aalto) Walter Quattrociocchi (IMT Lucca) Jari Saram?ki (Aalto) Juuso Valim?ki (Aalto) TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to) Social networks Social contagion Communication dynamics Information diffusion and other spreading phenomena Social influence Crowd-sourcing Popularity dynamics Smart cities Attention economics Social design and user behavior Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis Human mobility Mobility and context-awareness Economics of trust SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Contributions to the conference have to be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2), the name of the event there is IC2S2. Each submission consists of an extended abstract of max 2 pages. Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work, put at least one figure, otherwise it will be difficult for the PC to assess its relevance. Short, paper-like abstracts will not be considered. Abstracts do not need to refer to unpublished work. If the work is published or under submission elsewhere it is fine. We want to give to everyone the opportunity to present the most relevant work to the topics of the conference. There will be no proceedings, but we are going to have a special issue in EPJ Data Science (http://www.epjdatascience.com/), where selected contributions will be published. Authors of those contributions would be invited to submit full papers after the conference. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by two PC members. Abstracts can be submitted from September the 15th till December 7th, 2014. We will do out best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, we are probably going to have a poster session as well. During the submission process, you will be asked to specify whether your contribution is intended for a) Plenary session presentation, b) Parallel session presentation or c) Poster session presentation. The final allocation of each contribution will be decided by the Program Committee. CONTACT For any question you might have please contact Prof. Santo Fortunato (santo.fortunato at aalto.fi) From imma.subirats at gmail.com Thu Dec 4 04:20:35 2014 From: imma.subirats at gmail.com (Imma Subirats) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 10:20:35 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] CALL for OR2015 Scholarship Programme Applicants Message-ID: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 2015 Read it online: http://www.or2015.net/scholarship-programme/ The Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories (http://www.or2015.net/) , OR2015, will take place on June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis (Indiana, USA). The organizers are pleased to invite you to apply to the 2015 Scholarship Programme. The Open Repositories Steering Committee is delighted to announce that for OR2015 we will again be running our Scholarship Programme. This programme will enable us to provide support for a small number of full registered places for the 2015 conference in Indianapolis. The programme is open to librarians, repository managers, developers, and researchers in digital libraries and related fields. Applicants submitting a paper for the conference will be given priority consideration for funding (please provide details of your submission in the application form). Two questions in the application form ask 'What is it about Open Repositories that interests you' and 'What do you expect to gain from attending the conference?' You may wish to prepare answers to these before completing the form, as the responses to these will be critical to the success of your application. Please note: the Scholarship provides funding only for a full conference registration (including dinner and the poster reception). It does not cover other costs such as accommodation, travel, and subsistence. It is anticipated that the applicant's home institution will provide financial support to supplement the OR Scholarship Award. Application Form http://goo.gl/Vv03F4 (via GoogleDocs) The deadline for applications is 30 January 2015. LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS OR2015 is the tenth OR conference, and this year's overarching theme reflects that milestone: Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads. It is an opportunity to reflect on and to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication, and research data over the last decade. More critically however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping, and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. OR2015 will provide an opportunity to explore the demands and roles now expected of both repositories and the staff who develop, support, and manage them - and to prepare them for the challenges of the next decade. We welcome proposals on this theme, but also on the theoretical, practical, organizational, or administrative topics related to digital repositories. Full details on the Call for Proposals http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/ From rhill at asis.org Mon Dec 15 11:31:46 2014 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:31:46 -0500 Subject: [Sigiii-l] 2015 ASIS&T Annual Meeting now open Message-ID: <388-2201412115163145981@LEN-dick-2011> 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting November 6-10, 2015 - Hyatt Regency - St. Louis, MO USA Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community http://www.asis.org/asist2015/am15cfp.html This year?s conference theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers ? including academics and practitioner researchers ? to discuss the impact of their research on industry, on government, on local/national/global community groups, on individuals, on information systems, on libraries/museums/galleries, and on other practice contexts. The theme highlights the introduction of a new conference focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts. Submissions are encouraged that present theoretical or applied research with results that demonstrate one or more of the following themes: Impact on Individuals Impact on Society Impact on Organizations Impact on Systems & Technology Impact on Information Contexts Important Dates Papers, Panels, Workshops & Tutorials Submissions: April 30, 2015 Notifications: June 11, 2015 Final copies: July 15, 2015 Posters, Demos & Videos: Submissions: July 1, 2015 Notifications: July 30, 2015 Final copies: August 20, 2015 Conference Chair: Lisa Given Paper Co-Chairs: Brian Detlor, Hazel Hall Panel Co-Chairs: Heather O'Brien, Alison Brettle Poster Co-Chairs: Lynn Westbrook, Michael Khoo Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From imma.subirats at gmail.com Wed Dec 17 05:23:02 2014 From: imma.subirats at gmail.com (Imma Subirats) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:23:02 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Submit Your OR2015 Proposal: Conference System Now Open Message-ID: *Apologies for cross-posting* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 2014 The Tenth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2015, will be held June 8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis (Indiana, USA). The organizers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. The conference theme is LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS. It is an opportunity to reflect on and to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication, and research data over the last decade. More critically, however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping, and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. The organizers invite you to review the full call for proposals here: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/, and to submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2015/ by January 30, 2015. There are several different formats provided to encourage your participation in this year's conference, all described on the OR2015 website. CODE OF CONDUCT The Open Repositories Steering Committee is pleased to announce the release of the new OR Code of Conduct http://www.or2015.net/code-of-conduct/. The OR Code of Conduct underscores the OR Conference core value of openness by providing a welcoming and positive experience for everyone, whether they are in a formal session or a social setting, or are taking part in activities online. KEY DATES 30 January 2015: Deadline for submissions and Scholarship Programme applications 27 March 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference 10 April 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to Interest Groups 8-11 June 2015: OR2015 conference The conference system is now open and is linked from the conference web site: http://www.or2015.net/ We look forward to welcoming you to Indianapolis! --------------------- Program Co-Chairs Holly Mercer, University of Tennessee William J Nixon, University of Glasgow Imma Subirats, FAO of the United Nations contact: or15-program-chairs at googlegroups.com From Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu Wed Dec 17 17:01:39 2014 From: Selenay.Aytac at liu.edu (Selenay Aytac) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:01:39 +0000 Subject: [Sigiii-l] The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories (DIM'2015) Message-ID: <4E341855441A604ABC4A3B69110F00739A620CBB@U-EXH-MBX3.liunet.edu> The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories (DIM'2015) Conference and Exhibition Affiliated with the People?s Forum of CHoGM 2015 Valletta, 24-25 June 2015 First Call for Papers OBJECTIVES The Commonwealth is one of the most striking examples of extensive relocation and migration on a world-wide scale. This proposal aims to bring together two ways of exploring the topic of Diasporas, Identities and Memories ? as a subject for academic study and discussion, and as a theme captured in artistic expression. The concept behind the conference is to bring for discussion state-of-the-art research related to the theme which will inspire the exhibition taking place during the CHoGM forum. The conference aims to bring together academics specializing in social history, history, information science, art history as well as curators, archivists and librarians interested in the theme. TOPICS OF INTEREST: The conference welcomes contributions that focus on, but are not limited to the following themes: - What role do researchers have in the capturing and articulation of diasporas, memories and identities? - How do memory institutions support engagement with researchers and the general public? - How the artistic expression captures identity and changes and conflicts related to it? - How to capture and convey trans-generational and community memories? - How does the right to forget manifest in the diasporas? memories? - What are the specific issues around capturing memories and experiences of children and young people? - What has been the role of Commonwealth institutions or Commonwealth-based supra-national organisations in the formation of memory/identity/diasporas? - How do memory institutions contribute to the development and management of heritage? - How memory institutions across the Commonwealth countries could cooperate better to serve diasporas? - What educational activities targeting memory institutions across the Commonwealth could help cooperation? - How social media are transforming engagement and participation in archival processes? - How is transnationalism influencing the transmission of cultural values? - How much can technologies be of help in capturing memories/nostalgia and in representing identities? SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers related to the aforementioned topics. We invite: - regular papers (8 to 12 pages) - short papers (2 to 6 pages) All submissions are required to be in PDF format. Long and short paper submissions must be formatted according to Springer?s LNCS format (www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Please submit your manuscript using the EasyChair online submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dim2015. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted for the conference should be presented during the event. Papers will be published in open access proceedings, with selected papers will be published as a special issue of a journal (currently negotiated with The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs). IMPORTANT DATES: - Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2015 - Acceptance Notification: 20 March 2015 - Camera-ready papers: 30 April 2015 - Conference: 24-25 June 2015 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Selenay Aytac (Long Island University, USA) Nilufer Bharucha (University of Mumbai, India) Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, Malta) Joanne Evans (Monash University, Australia) Neil Forbes (University of Coventry, England) Lorna Hughes (National Library of Wales, Wales) Marinos Ioannides (Technical University Cyprus, Cyprus) Gabriella Ivacs (Open Society Archives, Budapest, Hungary) Marc Kosciejew (University of Malta, Malta) Triantafillia Kourtoumi (Archives Thessaloniki, Greece) Alice Nemcova (OSCE Archives, Czech Republic) Gillian Oliver (Victoria University, New Zealand) Seamus Ross (University of Toronto, Canada) Maria Roussou (Hellenic Diaspora Archive, KCL, UK) Daniela Sime (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Beverley Wood (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica) FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information please contact Prof. Milena Dobreva, milena.dobreva at um.edu.mt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Mon Dec 22 11:23:00 2014 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:23:00 +0100 Subject: [Sigiii-l] Fwd: 2nd Call for Papers: ISI 2015, The 14th International Symposium of Information Science In-Reply-To: <201412211020.sBLAKlAj009166@easychair.org> References: <201412211020.sBLAKlAj009166@easychair.org> Message-ID: <54984564.6010501@orange.fr> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: ISI 2015, The 14th International Symposium of Information Science Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:20:47 +0100 From: ISI 2015 ============== ISI 2015 | CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, PANELS, DOCTORAL THESIS PRESENTATIONS, GERHARD LUSTIG MASTER THESIS AWARD =============== ISI 2015, The 14th International Symposium of Information Science MAY 19 - 21, 2015 - Zadar, Croatia General page: http://isi2015.de Call for Papers: http://isi2015.de/?page_id=220 Submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isi2015 === SUBMISSION DETAILS === Submissions can be made in the following forms: - Long papers (max. 12 pages) - Short papers (max. 5 pages) - Posters (max. 2 pages) - Panel suggestions (max. 2 pages, incl. naming of a panel chair, participants and a topic plan) - Student presentations - Doctoral thesis presentations Besides these submission options, there is a special call for the Gerhard Lustig Master Thesis Award - sponsored by FIZ Karlsruhe (http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/index.php?id=15). ZBW (http://www.zbw.eu) and DIPF (www.dipf.de). === IMPORTANT DATES === - Submission deadline: January 10, 2015 - Notification: beginning of February 2015 - Camera Ready Contributions: end of February, 2015 Print proceedings will be published by Verlag Werner H?lsbusch (vwh Verlag). Articles will be archived in the free access ZENODO and INFODATA open digital repository. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward your contributions. With kind regards, Franjo Pehar & Christian Schloegl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: