From michel.menou at orange.fr Fri Dec 1 12:10:41 2017 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:10:41 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Fwd: [km4dev-l] Global Knowledge Index 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [km4dev-l] Global Knowledge Index 2017 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:18:14 GMT From: Mariam Itani Reply-To: KM4Dev To: KM4Dev Dear All, Though am not a frequent sender, but an active reader and follower, I am glad I finally got the opportunity to share with you our final product after a whole year of working on preparing the Global Knowledge Index 2017. Looking forward to receiving your feedback and further discussions, Mariam *Switzerland, Singapore and Finland Take the Lead in the Global Knowledge Index Ranking* // * /Announcing the results of the Global Knowledge Index (GKI) 2017 at the Knowledge Summit in Dubai/ * /The GKI is developed as a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme and Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation/ * /The GKI 2017 seeks to establish an objective tool to measure knowledge in the context of supporting the achievement of sustainable development around the world. The index includes in its first edition 131 countries / // Dubai, 26 November 2017 ? As part of the Knowledge Summit in Dubai, the Knowledge Project launched its first edition of the Global Knowledge Index (GKI 2017). The GKI 2017 is a unique initiative that focuses on knowledge as a comprehensive interdisciplinary concept related to all aspects of human life, including cultural, social and economic activities. It is also based on the belief that knowledge is a vital driver for achieving sustainable and comprehensive human development. According to the Index, Switzerland is the best-performing country in the world with a total score of 71.8 out of 100, followed by Singapore (69.5), Finland (68.5), Sweden (68.3), the Netherlands (68) and the United States of America (67.2), Luxembourg (66.2), United Kingdom (65.6), Denmark (65.2) and Norway (64.3). Other countries of notable performance include the Philippines ranking 4^th and Azerbaijan 11^th at the global level in the Technical Vocational Education and Training Index; and the UAE ranking 2^nd at the global level in the Economy Index. Mr. Michael O?Neill, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, noted during presentation of the GKI that ?access to and availability of such data is important to design evidence-based policies that will be effective to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.? The GKI is a composite index structured around seven sectoral indices, namely Pre-University Education; Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET); Higher Education; Research, Development and Innovation (RDI); Information and Communication Technology (ICT); Economy; and General Enabling Environment. It brings together 133 variables from the most reliable and updated international data sources. It builds on the work of the Knowledge Project over the past ten years which led to remarkable results, including the Arab Knowledge Report, the Arab Knowledge and Reading indices, and the cutting-edge Knowledge4All e-portal and mobile application. The Global Knowledge Index is published by the Knowledge Project, a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF), supported by a core team of authors, and an advisory board with leading international experts in the areas related to the sectoral indices and knowledge. Advisory board includes: Ahmed ElSherbini from the ITU, Anuja Utz from the World Bank, Hugo Hollanders from the Innovation Systems Indicators and Policy program at Maastricht University, Jan Sturesson the founder of RESTING-Advice from the Future, Laurent Probst the leader of Research & Development activities Unit at PwC, Leif Edvinsson, Professor of Intellectual Capital at Lund University in Sweden, Milorad Kovacevic, Chief Statistician at HDRO-UNDP; Luis Serven from the World Bank; Jean-Louis Laville from CNAM; Ali Hadi from the American University in Cairo, Shyamal Majumdar from UNESCO-UNEVOC, and Sid-Ahmed Soussi from the University of Quebec in Montreal. Dr. Hany Torky, Chief Technical Advisor of the Knowledge Project, described this index as ?a major step in supporting sustainable development efforts with new innovative and helpful datasets and indicators, especially that it includes in its first edition 131 countries selected based on data availability.? On future plans, Torky said that ?the Project aspires to become a key reference in supporting policymakers and stakeholders in the area of knowledge-based development, and to include more countries in future editions?. Torky highlighted that ?One of the main findings of the GKI is that it statistically confirms the correlation between knowledge and development, which are interrelated and mutually influenced.? His Excellency Jamal bin Huwaireb, MBRF Chief Executive Officer, stressed that ?based on the results of the index, governments should invest in and promote knowledge which is key to their progress and development?. The Report is available in full for free download at the following links: Country Results: http://knowledge4all.com/uploads/files/KI2017/Country_Results_en.pdf Executive Report: http://knowledge4all.com/uploads/files/KI2017/Summary_en.pdf More information about the Index and the Knowledge Project, in addition to interactive country profiles can be found at: http://www.knowledge4all.com ** *-ENDS-* ---------- Mariam Itani *Researcher ? Arab Knowledge Project* *Phone*+961 1 981640 ext. 154 *Email*mariam.itani at undp.org Follow us on Twitter @KnowledgeIndex and Facebook at ArabKnowledgeProject KM4Dev is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches. 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URL: From katy at indiana.edu Fri Dec 1 21:50:56 2017 From: katy at indiana.edu (Borner, Katy) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 02:50:56 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Call for Macroscope Tools for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit (2018) - Deadline is 1/31/2018 Message-ID: Dear all, we are seeking engaging, relevant, interactive data visualizations of science and technology developments that help people make smarter decisions in their personal and professional lives. The Call for Submissions has been posted at scimaps.org/call and we welcome your help in spreading the word. This year?s submissions are due by January 31, 2017. More information on maps and macroscopes included in the exhibit can be found at http://scimaps.org/iteration; interviews with select map and macroscope makers can be found at http://scimaps.org/mapmakers.html. The exhibit currently features 100 framed maps, 12 macroscopes, an award-winning short film, touch screen interactives, and sculptural elements created by more than 230 leading experts in the natural, physical, and social sciences, visual arts, and the humanities. It has been displayed in various formats in 28 countries on six continents and exhibit materials are available in five languages. Thank you and kind regards, Dr. Katy B?rner & Lisel Record CNS, SICE Indiana University 1320 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405 812-856-7034 scimaps.org About the Places & Spaces exhibition: Drawing from across cultures and across scholarly disciplines, Places & Spaces: Mapping Science demonstrates the power of maps to address vital questions about the contours and content of human knowledge. An interdisciplinary and international advisory board chose each one of the works in the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit as an outstanding example of how visualization can bring patterns in scientific data into focus. The exhibit is curated by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. The exhibit has been on display at over 350 venues in 28 countries on 6 continents. It showcases the work of 239 mapmakers that hail from 17 different countries. For further information, please visit our website at scimaps.org. About the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS): CNS is a research center at Indiana University?s School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in Bloomington, Indiana (http://cns.iu.edu/). For more than 20 years, CNS has played a leading role in the field of data visualization, developing open source tools for the creation of data visualizations, offering the IVMOOC, co-organizing international workshops and conferences, and promoting network science and visualization through international initiatives. CNS?s research, teaching, and software development efforts benefit from long-term collaborations with colleagues in academia, government, and industry. -- Katy Borner Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org ISE and ILS, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Wells Library 021, 1320 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 From: Borner, Katy Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:58 PM To: SOCNET at LISTS.UFL.EDU; SCISIP at LISTSERV.NSF.GOV; ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics ; sigmetrics at mail.asis.org; 'infovis at infovis.org' ; 'POLNET-L at LISTSERV.SIU.EDU' ; ieee_vis_open_positions at listserv.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: New deadline: January 1st. NSF-NRT PhD Fellowship in Complex Networks and Systems at IU Dear all, Please share the below Fellowship opportunity with interested students. Happy Thanksgiving everyone, k From: Rocha, Luis M. Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 11:34 AM Subject: [CNS-NRT-Faculty] New deadline: January 1st. NSF-NRT PhD Fellowship in Complex Networks and Systems NEW DEADLINE: Applications Due January 1, 2018 [cid:image001.jpg at 01D36AEE.7428ADA0] Interdisciplinary Training in Complex Networks and Systems Understanding complex networked systems is key to solving some of the most vexing problems confronting humankind, from discovering how dynamic brain connections give rise to thoughts and behaviors, to detecting and preventing the spread of misinformation or unhealthy behaviors across a population. Graduate training, however, typically occurs in one of two dimensions: experimental and observational methods in a specific area such as biology and sociology, or in general methodologies such as machine learning and data science. With more and more students seeking to gain sufficient expertise in mathematical and computational methods on top of domain-specific laboratory and social analysis methodologies, a greater demand for more efficient interdisciplinary training is emerging. The Indiana University National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) addresses this growing need with an integrated dual PhD program that trains students to be ?bidisciplinary? in Complex Networks and Systems (CNS) and another discipline of their choosing from the natural and social sciences. It will seamlessly integrate traditional education with interdisciplinary hands-on research in a culture of academic and human diversity. [cid:image002.jpg at 01D36AEE.7428ADA0] The training program capitalizes on the new Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI). The Institute's 165+ faculty members will serve in interdisciplinary PhD program committees to be co-chaired by research mentors from both CNS and the target empirical domain. Project-driven, team-based research at IUNI will seamlessly integrate academic education with interdisciplinary hands-on scientific and industrial research. Trainees will learn to connect the general-purpose, computational expertise of CNS to the deep, domain-specific research methodologies of the natural, behavioral, and social sciences thus bridging the gap between distinct training cultures. They will be a new breed of STEM scientists that escapes the silos of disciplinary training to address the complex problems of the 21st century. NEW DEADLINE: Applications Due January 1, 2018 For more information on how to apply please contact: infograd at indiana.edu. For information about research and academic components, please see our website https://cns-nrt.indiana.edu, contact the program director Prof. Luis M Rocha, or other members of the executive committee: [CNS-NRT Animated Logo]Executive Committee ? Luis M. Rocha, Director ? Katy B?rner, Evaluation Committee Chair ? Bernice Pescosolido, Colloquia and Outreach Committee Chair ? Armando Razo, Education and Training Committee Chair ? Olaf Sporns, Recruiting and Admissions Committee Chair ? Tara Holbrook, Project Coordinator Research Themes Complex networks and systems Network neuroscience Social network science Health & health care Science of science Finance and economy networks Biological and chemical networks Many others Program Benefits $34,000 stipend on prestigious NSF Fellowship Tuition and health insurance Develop dual proficiency Interdisciplinary training Early integration in research via Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI) National and international internships Academic and industrial professional development including travel support Diverse, collaborative cohorts Interaction with world-renowned external board members and speakers NSF fellow must be US citizens residents. IU fellowships and NRT affiliates available for international students. Academics Dual PhD program in CNS and another domain such as Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Economics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Sociology, Political Science, Physics, etc. Hands-on training in general-purpose methodologies of CNS, computational and data science, as well domain-specific methodologies of a chosen natural, behavioral, or social science. ______________________________________________________ Luis Mateus Rocha, Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science Director, NSF-NRT Interdisciplinary Training in Complex Networks and Systems Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Indiana University, 919 E. 10th St Bloomington IN, 47408, USA http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, Oeiras, Portugal http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt/research/unit/76 ______________________________________________________ Any analytical approach to understanding simplicity always turns out to be very complex. 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Thanks! ***** Call For Papers ***** 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (BIGDATA CONGRESS/CLOUD/EDGE/ICCC/ICIOT/ICWS/SCC) ====================================================================================== JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Website: http://conferences.computer.org/services/2018/ 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2018) will be held on July 2-7, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco, California, USA. The scope of the Congress will cover all aspects of innovative services computing and applications, current and emerging. It involves various systems and networking aspects, such as cloud, edge, and Internet-of-Things (IoT), as well as other research and technologies, such as intelligent computing, learning techniques, and big data, including quality factors, such as high performance, security, privacy, dependability, trustworthiness, and cost-effectiveness. The Congress with the following seven conferences/congresses is solely sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society under the auspice of the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC). Original manuscripts are invited to submit to these conferences/congresses considered with most suitable from the technical point of view. IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigDataCongress) --------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada; co-chair: Francisco Henrrera, University of Granada, Spain; Program chair: Shadi Ibrabim, INRIA Rennes, France; co-chair: Isaac Triguero, Nottingham University, UK IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) -------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, USA; co-chair: Daniel Reed, University of Iowa, USA; Program chair: Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA; co-chair: Jia Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE) ------------------------------------------------------ General chair: Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia; co-chair: Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA; Program chair: Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK; co-chair: Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC) ----------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Jeffrey Tsai, Asia University, Taiwan; co-chair: Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy; Program chair: Xiaoqing Frank Liu, University of Arkansas, USA; co-chair: Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT) --------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA; co-chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA; Program chair: Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; co-chair: Zibin Zheng, Sun Yat-Sen University, China IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) ---------------------------------------------------- General chair: Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; co-chair: Nimish Radia, Ericsson Research, USA; Program chair: Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas Dallas, USA; co-chair: Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) --------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; co-chair: Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA; Program chair: Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA; co-chair: Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia *** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information *** Language: English. Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style. Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review. Abstract length: Approximately 1500 characters. File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. *** Key Dates *** Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018. Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018. Congress date: July 2 - 7, 2018. SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Steering Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair) Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Finance Chair: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Publication Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, Japan Publicity Team: Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Young Yoon, Hongik University, Korea Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India Uwe Breitenb?cher, University of Stuttgart, Germany Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa, South Africa Send inquiries to ieeecs.services at gmail.com ? From Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca Sat Dec 2 11:35:01 2017 From: Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca (Patrick Hung) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 16:35:01 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2018) Message-ID: <1512232499533.99653@uoit.ca> Apology for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! ***** Call For Papers ***** IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2018) ================================================================== 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Website: http://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2018/ IEEE CLOUD is the flagship conference focusing on Innovative cloud computing across all the "as a service" categories (such as Networks, Infrastructure, Platform, Software, and Function). The IEEE CLOUD 2018 is solely sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society under the auspice of the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC). Contributions addressing all areas related to cloud computing technology, systems, applications and business innovations are solicited. CLOUD 2018 will organize refereed paper reviews in 11 research areas (themes): Cloud as a Service * Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) * Platform as a service (PaaS) and Cloud Foundry * Software as a service (SaaS) * Storage as a service * Network as a service * Information as a service Cloud Infrastructure * Cloud Computing Architectures * Storage and Data Architectures * Distributed and Cloud Networking * Infrastructure Technologies * Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds Cloud Management and Operations * Cloud Composition, Federation, Bridging, and Bursting * Cloud Migration * Hybrid Cloud Integration * Compliance Management in Cloud * Green and Energy Management of Cloud Computing * Cloud Configuration and Capacity Management * Cloud Workload Profiling and Deployment Control * Self-service Cloud Portal, Dashboard, and Analytics * Cloud Metering and Monitoring * Service Management Automation Cloud Security * Cloud Security * Data Privacy * Cloud Privacy * Security as a service Blockchain * Blockchain Platforms * Blockchain Mechanisms * Enterprise Blockchain Solutions and Applications Performance, Scalability, and Reliability * Performance of Cloud Systems and Applications * Cloud Availability and Reliability * Microservices-based Architecture Systems Software and Hardware * Virtualization and Composition * Cloud Provisioning Orchestration * Architecture Support for Cloud Computing, including ASICs and FPGAs Data Analytics in Cloud * Analytics Applications * Scientific Computing and Data Management * Big data Management and Analytics * Storage, Data, and Analytics Clouds Software Engineering Practice for Cloud * Cloud Solution Design Patterns * Cloud Programming Models * Cloud Development Tools * Service Life Cycle Management * Autonomic Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds * Cloud Modeling * Research on Cloud Software * User Experience Design Cloud Applications * Large Scale Cloud Application * Innovative Cloud Applications and Experiences * Social and Mobile Clouds * Mobile Services Cloud Economics * Cloud Strategy for Enterprise Business Transformation * Cloud Service Level Agreements (SLAs) * Economic and Business Model of Clouds and Cloud Services * ROI Analysis * Cloud Quality Management * Cloud Computing Consulting * Cloud Cost and Pricing *** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information *** Language: English. Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style. Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review. Abstract length: Approximately 1500 characters. File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. *** Key Dates *** Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018. Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018. Congress date: July 2 - 7, 2018. General Chair: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA General Co-Chair: Daniel Reed, University of Iowa, USA Program Chair: Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA Program Co-Chair: Jia Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing Chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Steering Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair) Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Finance Chair: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Publication Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, Japan Publicity Team: Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Young Yoon, Hongik University, Korea Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India Uwe Breitenb?cher, University of Stuttgart, Germany Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa, South Africa If you have any questions or queries on IEEE CLOUD 2018, please send email to: ieeecs DOT cloud AT gmail DOT com. ? 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It covers the science and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model, create, operate, and manage business services. Like its predecessors, SCC 2018 will contribute in building the pillars of this important science and shaping the future of Services Computing. Services Computing currently shapes the thinking of business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development and deployment. The global nature of Services Computing leads to many opportunities and challenges and creates a new networked economic structure for supporting different business models. SCC 2018 will help in bridging the gap between business services and information technology by driving research in technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, service engineering, cloud computing, and Web 2.0. The International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) covers the whole lifecycle of innovation research and enabling technologies, which includes enterprise modeling, business consulting, solution creation, services delivery, services orchestration, services optimization, services management, services marketing, services delivery and cloud computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, and Web services technologies and standards. All topics relevant to Internet services lifecycle is of interest. SCC 2018 will organize refereed paper reviews in 9 research areas (themes): Foundations of Services Computing - Services Science - Service Modeling and Implementation - Service Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance Service - Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks - Service-based Grid/Cloud/Autonomic Computing - Services Computing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) - Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration - Service Security, Privacy, and Trust - Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) - Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing - Services Repository and Registry - Formal Methods for SOA - Service Discovery - Services Engineering Practices and Case Studies Scientific Workflows - Data-Intensive Workflows - Collaborative Scientific Workflows - Workflow Discovery, Selection, and Recommendation - Workflow Composition - Workflow Scheduling Business Process Integration and Management - Mathematical Foundation of Business Process Modeling, Integration and Management - Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture - Collaborative Business Processes - Extended Business Collaboration (eBC) Architecture and Solutions - Business Process-Based Business Transformation and Transition - Enabling Technologies for Business Process Integration and Management - Performance Management and Analysis for Business Process Integration and Management - Security, Privacy, and Trust in Business Process Management - Return On Investment (ROI) of Business Process Integration and Management - Requirements Analysis of Business Process Integration and Management - Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus - Monitoring of Services, Process Mining, and Quality of Service - Case Studies in Business Process Integration and Management - SOA Tools, Solutions and Services Microservices - Development and deployment models of microservices and containers - Deployment environments with microservices where discovery, dynamic binding and version control are managed services provided by the infrastructure. - DevOps and how microservices and containers help achieve DevOps in IT Organizations High Assurance Services - Service-level Fault-tolerance - Robustness and Resilience - Availability and Reliability - Trusted and Reliable Services Modeling of Services Systems - Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment - Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology and Utilities - Intra- or Inter- Enterprise for Business-to-Business Service Control - Service Revenue Models and Utility Computing, e.g., Fee-for-Transaction and Fee-for-Service - Service Strategic Alliance and Partners - Ontology and Business Service Rules - Trust and Loyalty in Services-Centric Business Models - Cultural, Language, Social and Legal Obstacles in Services-Centric Business Models - Commercialization of Services Computing Technologies - Industry Service Solution Patterns - Service Interaction Patterns - Case Studies in Services-Centric Applications (e.g., healthcare, financial, aviation, etc) Service security and privacy ? Service Security ? Service Security Assurance ? Service Privacy SOA Service Applications ? Data Intensive Services ? Mobile Services ? Cloud Services ? Social Services ? IoT Services Service Lifecycle Management ? SOA Tooling Practices and Examples ? Service Monitoring and Tracking ? Service Evolving and Adaptation Management ? Systematic Design Method for SOA Solutions ? SOA-based Consulting Services and Design Services ? SOA Delivery Excellence ? Services for Sustainability and Everyday Living The technical program of SCC 2018 will include a research track, an application track, and a short paper track. The SCC 2018 will highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond the limits of existing business services platforms and products, including experimental efforts, innovative systems and investigations that identify weaknesses in the existing services computing technology. *** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information *** Language: English. Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style. Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review. Abstract length: Approximately 1500 characters. File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. *** Key Dates *** Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018. Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018. Congress date: July 2 ? 7, 2018. SCC 2018 General Chairs ======================= Prof. Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Prof. Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA SCC 2018 Program Chairs ======================= Dr. Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Prof. Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing Chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Steering Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair) Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Finance Chair: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Publication Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, Japan Publicity Team: Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Young Yoon, Hongik University, Korea Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India Uwe Breitenb?cher, University of Stuttgart, Germany Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa, South Africa If you have any questions or queries on IEEE SCC 2018, please send email to: ieeecs DOT scc AT gmail DOT com. ? From Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca Wed Dec 6 00:33:11 2017 From: Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca (Patrick Hung) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 05:33:11 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] CFP: The Second IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (IEEE ICCC 2018) Message-ID: <1512538391720.48784@uoit.ca> Apology for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! ***** Call For Papers ***** The Second IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (IEEE ICCC 2018) ================================================================================ 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Website: http://conferences.computer.org/iccc/2018/ The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2018) focuses on the integration of cognitive computing with service computing for providing intelligence as a service. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: I. Cognitive Computing Technologies and Infrastructure - Cognitive Computing Fundamentals such as Mind, Language, Perception, Memory, Attention, Reasoning, Emotion, Prediction, and Problem Solving - Cognitive Computing Techniques using Artificial Intelligence, Pattern and Speech Recognition, and Natural Language Processing - Cognitive Approaches using Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Techniques - Consciousness and Awareness - Cognitive Data Analytics - Systems for Brain - Machine Interface - Collective Intelligence and Wisdom - Semantics for Conversation and Pragmatics - Service Science for Cognitive Computing II. Cognitive Computing Systems and Applications - Deep Learning for Cognition - Brain Analysis for Cognition - Big Data Infrastructure for Cognition - Distributed Processing for Cognition - Consciousness and Awareness Framework - Cognitive Agents and Robots - Semantics for Conversation and Pragmatics - Service Technologies for Cognitive Computing - Cyber cognitive systems and services - Internet of Cognitive Things - Big Data Analytics for Cognition III. Intelligence of Innovation Lifecycle and Sensing - Intelligence Innovation Lifecycle (Such as Intelligence Producing, Extracting, Understanding, Perceiving, Responding, Inferencing, Correlating, Propagating, Billing, Exchanging, Trading, Replicating, Destroying, and Repairing) - Cognitive Sensing (Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, and Touch) - Cognitive Data (Image, Sound, Text, Web Data, Sensor Data, and Machine Generated Data) - Cognitive Environment (Kinesthesia, Balance, Acceleration, and Internal Stimuli) *** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information *** Language: English. Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style. Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review. Abstract length: Approximately 1500 characters. File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. *** Key Dates *** Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018. Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018. Congress date: July 2 ? 7, 2018. ICCC 2018 General Chairs ======================== Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, Asia University, Taiwan Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy ICCC 2018 Program Chairs ======================== Xiaoqing ?Frank? Liu, University of Arkansas, USA Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing Chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Steering Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair) Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Finance Chair: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Publication Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, Japan Publicity Team: Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Young Yoon, Hongik University, Korea Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India Uwe Breitenb?cher, University of Stuttgart, Germany Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa, South Africa If you have any questions or queries on IEEE ICCC 2018, please send email to: ieeecs DOT iccc AT gmail DOT com. ? From Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca Wed Dec 6 00:54:57 2017 From: Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca (Patrick Hung) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 05:54:57 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] CFP: The 2018 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (IEEE BigData Congress 2018) Message-ID: <77beee1562af4fa4940ea3db5e7d5104@itdcexdag02.oncampus.local> Apology for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! ***** Call For Papers ***** The 2018 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (IEEE BigData Congress 2018) ============================================================================= 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Website: http://conferences.computer.org/bigdatacongress/2018/ 2018 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (IEEE BigData Congress 2018) aims to provide an international forum for both researchers and engineers in academia and industry to present their latest research findings and practice on major and emerging topics in Big Data. We also define the technical scope of big data research broadly from the 5V perspective. In addition to the traditional definition of big volume and high velocity, we also encourage submissions that describe techniques and tools for handling big variety and high veracity. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Big Data Models and Algorithms - Foundational Models for Big Data - Algorithms and Programming Techniques for Big Data Processing - Big Data Analytics and Metrics Big Data Architectures - Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data - Big Data as a Service - Big Data Open Platforms Big Data Management - Big Data Persistence and Preservation - Big Data Quality and Provenance Control - Big Data Storage and Retrieval Big Data Security and Privacy - Big Data System Security and Integrity - Big Data Information Security - Privacy-Preserving Big Data Analytics - Usable Security and Privacy for Big Data Quality of Big Data Services - Big Data Service Performance Evaluation - Big Data Service Reliability and Availability - Real-Time Big Data Services Big Data Science and Optimization - Usage of Big Data Science for Optimization - Usage of Optimization for Big Data Science - Big Data Science for Operational Research Big Data Mining and Visualization - Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search - Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search - Machine Learning based on Big Data - Visualization Analytics for Big Data - Big Social Media Mining Enabling Resources for Big Data Research - Big Data for Enterprise, Government, and Society - Case Studies of Big Data Value Creation - Big Data for Science and Engineering Research - Big Data Sets - Big Data Application Benchmarks - Survey of Big Data Research Papers and/or Big Data Sets *** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information *** Language: English. Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style. Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review. Abstract length: Approximately 1500 characters. File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. *** Key Dates *** Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018. Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018. Congress date: July 2 ? 7, 2018. BigData Congress 2018 General Chairs ==================================== Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain BigData Congress 2018 Program Chairs ==================================== Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Isaac Triguero, University of Nottingham, UK Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing Chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Steering Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair) Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Finance Chair: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Publication Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, Japan Publicity Team: Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Young Yoon, Hongik University, Korea Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India Uwe Breitenb?cher, University of Stuttgart, Germany Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa, South Africa If you have any questions or queries on IEEE ICCC 2018, please send email to: ieeecs DOT bigdata AT gmail DOT com. ? From conference at icdim.org Wed Dec 6 23:54:46 2017 From: conference at icdim.org (conference at icdim.org) Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 10:24:46 +0530 Subject: [Sigmetrics] ICADIWT 2018 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <742c10531913d0eb26e41edaaeaf2a21@icdim.org> CALL FOR PAPERS The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) June 25-27, 2018 Porto, Portugal http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) is a forum for researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Digital Technologies is embeeded in the research activiites of large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies has been carried out in many directions using various resources and tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the international conference. This edition will address the following outlined themes (but not limited to) Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Adaptive Systems Internet of Things Internet of breath Augmented Reality Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems/ Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Actuators and sensors Robotics and Machine Vision Smart cities and structures Control Automation Human-machine interfaces Real-time simulation Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs Publication and Indexing The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed. Important Dates Submission of papers- April 01, 2018 Notification-May 10, 2018 Camera ready-June 10, 2018 Registration-June 15, 2018 Conference Dates-June 25-27, 2018 PROGRAM COMMITTEES Honorary Chair Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland) General Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Contact diwt at dirf.org or icadiwt at socio.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------- From d.herrmannova at gmail.com Fri Dec 8 09:47:50 2017 From: d.herrmannova at gmail.com (Drahomira Herrmannova) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:47:50 -0500 Subject: [Sigmetrics] 2018 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Message-ID: Dear Sigmetrics list members, The 2018 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries which will take place in June in Fort Worth, TX, is currently accepting submissions. I wanted to bring their CFP to your attention, as a number of the topics the conference is focusing on seem very relevant. Topics of interest: http://2018.jcdl.org/topics_of_interest General instructions for submissions: http://2018.jcdl.org/general_instructions Submission deadlines: http://2018.jcdl.org/submission_deadlines Kind regards, Dasha Herrmannova https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2730-1546 ????????????????????????????????????? The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2018 (JCDL 2018L: https://2018.jcdl.org/ ) will be held in conjunction with UNT Open Access Symposium 2018 (https://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2018 ) on June 3 - 6, 2018 in Fort Worth, Texas, the rustic and artistic threshold into the American West. JCDL welcomes interesting submissions ranging across theories, systems, services, and applications. We invite those managing, operating, developing, curating, evaluating, or utilizing digital libraries broadly defined, covering academic or public institutions, including archives, museums, and social networks. We seek involvement of those in iSchools, as well as working in computer or information or social sciences and technologies. Multiple tracks and sessions will ensure tailoring to researchers, practitioners, and diverse communities including data science/analytics, data curation/stewardship, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, hypertext (and Web/network scie! nce), multimedia, publishing, preservation, digital humanities, machine learning/AI, heritage/culture, health/medicine, policy, law, and privacy/intellectual property. General Instructions on submissions of full papers, short papers, posters and demonstrations, doctoral consortium, tutorials, workshops, and panels can be found at https://2018.jcdl.org/general_instructions . Below are the submission deadlines: ? Jan. 15, 2018 - Tutorial and workshop proposal submissions ? Jan. 15, 2018 - Full paper and short paper submissions ? Jan. 29, 2018 - Panel, poster and demonstration submissions ? Feb. 1, 2018 - Notification of acceptance for tutorials and workshops ? Mar. 8, 2018 - Notification of acceptance for full papers, short papers, panels, posters, and demonstrations ? Mar. 25, 2018 - Doctoral Consortium abstract submissions ? Apr. 5, 2018 - Notification of acceptance for Doctoral Consortium ? Apr. 15, 2018 - Final camera-ready deadline for full papers, short papers, panels, posters, and demonstrations Please email jcdl2018 at googlegroups.com if you have any questions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca Fri Dec 8 08:23:38 2017 From: Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca (Patrick Hung) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 13:23:38 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] CFP: The IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (IEEE ICIOT 2018) Message-ID: <1512739416878.24268@uoit.ca> Apology for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! ***** Call For Papers ***** The IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (IEEE ICIOT 2018) ======================================================================= 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Website: http://conferences.computer.org/iciot/2018/ The Internet of Things (IoT) is concerned with all aspects related to the network connected objects, such as physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items, which are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity. IoT allows these objects to collect and exchange data. IoT enables objects to be perceived and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems, and promoting efficiency, accuracy, and economic benefit. IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (IEEE ICIOT 2018) provides a platform and opportunities for participants to exchange the new advances, applications, experiences, and research results in the fields related to Internet of Things. It covers state-of-the-art technologies and best practices, as well as emerging standards and research topics that will define the future of Internet of Things. It also facilitates the knowledge sharing among engineers, scientists, scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students across the world. IEEE ICIOT 2018 seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of IoT and related services. Papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of Internet of Things. Topics of interest to include, but are not limited to, the following: * IoT Solution Reference Architectures and Instances * Next Generation Infrastructure for IoT * Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) for IoT * Open Platforms for IoT and Web of Things * Wearable Devices for IoT * IoT-Enabled Blockchain, Big Data, Geospatial Analytics, and Contextual Computing * Artificial Intelligence for IoT * IoT-Based Vertical Services & Solutions in Auto Driving, Business Process Management, Enterprise Management, Intelligent Manufacturing, Medical & Healthcare, Robots, Smart City, Smart Home, Smart Education Systems * IoT Core Technologies in System Design Modeling and Evaluation, Real Time and Embedded Systems, Large Scale Deployments, Networks and Distributed Systems, Distributed Sensing and Control, and Security, Privacy and Trust * IoT programming models, middleware and systems architectures * Federated IoT + Cloud systems and applications * IoT Standards * IoT Application Scenarios * Blockchain-based IoT Applications, Platforms, Systems and Frameworks * IoT-based Geospatial Analytics *** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information *** Language: English. Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style. Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review. Abstract length: Approximately 1500 characters. File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. *** Key Dates *** Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018. Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018. Congress date: July 2 - 7, 2018. ICIOT 2018 General Chairs ========================= Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA ICIOT 2018 Program Chairs ========================= Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Zibin Zheng, Sun Yat-Sen University, China SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing Chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Steering Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair) Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Finance Chair: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Publication Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, Japan Publicity Team: Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Young Yoon, Hongik University, Korea Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India Uwe Breitenb?cher, University of Stuttgart, Germany Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa, South Africa For the conference technical program information, send inquiries to dustdar at dsg.tuwien.ac.at and zhzibin at mail.sysu.edu.cn. If you have any questions or queries on IEEE ICIOT 2018, please send email to: ieeecs DOT iciotservices AT gmail DOT com. ? From Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca Mon Dec 11 11:28:47 2017 From: Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca (Patrick Hung) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:28:47 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] CFP: THE 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES (ICWS 2018) Message-ID: <1513009726775.76587@uoit.ca> Apology for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! ***** Call For Papers ***** THE 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES (ICWS 2018) ================================================================== 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Website: http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2018/ The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) has been a prime international forum for researchers, academics, businesses, industry, and standard bodies to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web-based services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web-based services. Internet/Web-based services are not limited to Web services. In 2018, we will strive to advance the largest international professional forum on Internet/Web-based services. The Proceedings of ICWS is EI indexed. >From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry. As a major implementation technology for modernizing services industry, Web services are Internet-based programmable application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols. In its 23rd version, the program of ICWS 2018 will continue to feature research papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Web-based services. Some of the topics include Web services specifications and enhancements, Web services discovery and integration, Web services QoS (e.g., security, performance, reliability, fault tolerance, etc.), Web services standards and formalizations, Web services modeling, Web services engineering, Web services testing, Web services-based applications and solutions, Web services realizations, semantics in Web services, Web services supporting Cloud Computing, Web services lifecycle management, and all aspects of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure and middleware. All topics relevant to Internet/Web based services are of interest. ICWS 2018 will organize refereed paperreviews in 7 research areas (themes): Services Discovery, Selection and Recommendation - Service publishing - Service search engine - Collaborative filtering - Service mining - Service recommendation Services Composition - Automatic service composition - Scientific workflows - Business process integration and management - Service coordination and cooperation - Service selection and composition - Service orchestration and choreography for the future Internet - Service-based data integration Services QoS Management - Quality-of-Service (QoS) modeling and management - Service QoS evaluation and prediction - Autonomic services - Web services testing - Service management and governance - Performance aspects of cloud and service virtualization - Validation and testing for Web services - Service monitoring - Services reliability management - Service level agreements Services Security, Privacy and Trust - Internet service security - Privacy and trust - Dependable and secure services - Encryption, authentication and authorization - Interactions with underlying protocols Services Applications beyond the Web - Service implementation and deployment - Data-centric big services - Web services for Internet of Things - Mobile Web services - Social services - Scientific service - Grid and utility services - Embedded services - Cloud services - Personalized services - Embedded services systems - Internet-based Services - Web 2.0 and Web X.0 in Web services - XaaS (everything as a service) - Cloud Computing for Internet-based services - Big Data for Internet-based services - Social network as services - RESTful Web services - Other applications Semantic Services - Semantic Web services - Semantic service modeling - Semantics-based service discovery - Semantics-based service composition Service Oriented Software Engineering - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Service specification and modeling - Service evolution - Service Oriented Software Engineering methodologies- - Future of Software Engineering for/in the Cloud - Engineering mobile service oriented systems - Formal methods in services - Empirical research in/for service-oriented systems engineering - Software engineering for adaptive service-oriented systems *** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information *** Language: English. Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style. Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review. Abstract length: Approximately 1500 characters. File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. *** Key Dates *** Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018. Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018. Congress date: July 2 - 7, 2018. ICWS 2018 General Chairs ======================== Prof. Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University USA Dr. Nimish Radia, Ericsson Research, USA ICWS 2018 Program Chairs ======================== Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas Dallas, USA Prof. Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing Chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Steering Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair) Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Finance Chair: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Publication Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, Japan Publicity Team: Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Young Yoon, Hongik University, Korea Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India Uwe Breitenb?cher, University of Stuttgart, Germany Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa, South Africa If you have any questions or queries on IEEE ICWS 2018, please send email to: ieeecs DOT icws AT gmail DOT com. ? From stacy at altmetric.com Tue Dec 12 10:18:59 2017 From: stacy at altmetric.com (Stacy Konkiel) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:18:59 -0500 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Altmetric's Top 100 is here! Message-ID: **With apologies for cross-posting** Dear Colleagues, It?s that time of year again: the Altmetric Top 100 for 2017 is here This annual list highlights the academic research that has attracted the most attention amongst academics and a wider audience over the previous 12 months. The list places research debunking the commonly held belief that fat consumption is bad for your health as the No.1 article of the year (a finding I personally am thrilled to hear about--bring on the cheese!). It was joined in the top three by papers highlighting the negative impact of stress on mental health, and the positive impact choosing a female doctor can have on your longevity. You can explore the Top 100 in full at: https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2017/ For those who enjoy podcasts, our friends at Digital Science have produced a fantastic episode featuring authors from the top 3 papers and an interview with Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, who discusses the importance they place on disseminating research. Find it here: https://soundcloud.com/digitalsci/the-altmetric-top-100 We'd love to know what you think - tweet us @altmetric or join the conversation on #altmetrictop100! Kind regards, Stacy Konkiel Altmetric PS The underlying dataset for the Top 100 is also available for further analysis, check it out! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cassidysugimoto at gmail.com Wed Dec 13 13:58:08 2017 From: cassidysugimoto at gmail.com (Cassidy R. 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Using negative binomial regression analysis, we find very small coefficients, but the effects of international collaboration are positive and statistically significant, whereas the effects of government funding are negative, an order of magnitude smaller, and statistically non-significant (in two of three analyses). 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URL: From ipekscn at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 05:32:48 2017 From: ipekscn at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?xLBwZWsgxZ5lbmNhbg==?=) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:32:48 +0300 Subject: [Sigmetrics] 8th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW2018): Third Call for Papers Message-ID: **Apologies for cross posting** Dear List Members: IMCW2018: 8th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, November 1-3, 2018, Hacettepe University Beytepe Campus, Ankara, Turkey Third Call for Papers Symposium web site: http://imcw2018.bilgiyonetimi.net/ SCOPE IMCW2018: The ?8th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World? will take place in Ankara, Turkey from November 1-3, 2018. It is organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. The main theme of the Symposium is ?Post-truth and Information Management?. The Oxford Dictionary?s selection of the term ?Post-truth? as the word of the year in 2016 puts forward the need of questioning the accuracy of the information. Post-truth is defined as ?relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief? and can be effective in information dissemination processes, information seeking behaviors of individuals, production and use of information. Information management discipline has a very important function in terms of raising awareness of individuals for distinguishing the fake information and facts. For this reason, it is extremely important that the concept of ?Post-truth? and its influences be discussed within the framework of the Information Management discipline and by its professionals. CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions can be theoretical as well as technical and practical. Informative case studies are also welcome. Contributions are not limited with the main theme: all types of papers, posters and presentations on information management in general are also welcome. The audience will be information professionals, data librarians, data curators, data managers, knowledge managers, researchers, information scientists, data scientists and computer engineers, among others. We accept extended abstracts (no less than 750 words) for full papers; short communications, Research in Progress reports, and posters on all aspects of Post-truth and also information management. Extended abstracts for student papers and posters are also welcome. Extended abstracts of PhD students to present the interim findings of their ongoing research will also be considered. Please use the template available on the Symposium web site soon to prepare your contributions and send them to us using the Conference Management Software (openconf) by 1 February, 2017. We also encourage session proposals. The coordinator of a special session will be responsible for the selection of papers (4-6 papers) and will chair the session. For session coordinators, registration fee will be waived. Accepted extended abstracts and proposals will appear in the ?Book of Abstracts? to be published prior to the Symposium. Accepted extended abstracts may be developed as full papers. A short list of papers will be selected so that the revised and extended versions of these papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book. REGISTRATION Registration pages will be available on April, 2018. Registration fee is $100. It includes the participation for all IMCW 2018 sessions, proceedings, and the conference package. MAIN TOPICS Main topics of the Symposium are as follows but all types of papers, posters and presentations on information management in general are also welcome: - Post-truth and Information Management - Recent Developments in Information Management and Innovative Services - Records and Archive Management - Organization of Information and Description of Sources - Information Management Training - User Studies - Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Digitization - Enterprise Content Management - Management of Information Centers - Information Management in Museums - Lifelong Learning, Information Literacy and other Literacies - Data Management - Open Data, Open Science - Open Access and Institutional Repositories - Theoritical Perspectives in Information Management - Professional Ethics - Information Law - Information Privacy - Information Policy - Information Economy - Information Society - Consortiums in Information Management - New Technologies in Information Management - E-government Applications - Digital Divide - Green Libraries and Sustainability - Scholarly Communication - Bibliometrics - Data Mining - Data Visualization - Information Systems - Databases - Electronic Records Management Practices/Applications - Information Retrieval - Information Architecture - Human-computer Interaction and Usability - User Experience - Geographical Information Systems - Interoperability - Interdisciplinary Studies IMPORTANT DATES - First Call: July 2017 - Second Call: September 2017 - Third Call: December 2017 - Last date to send all types of extended abstracts and proposals: Extended until February 1, 2018 - Authors notification: March, 2018 - Submission of extended abstracts in final form: April 2018 - Registration starts: April 2018 - Submission of full papers (if desired): July 2018 - Notification of acceptance of full papers: November 2018 - Submission of full papers in final form: December 2018 - Symposium: November 1-3, 2018 All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about possible invited speakers at imcwconf at gmail.com. B?lent Y?lmaz and ?zg?r K?lc?, General Co-chairs Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 297 82 00 <(0312)%20297%2082%2000> Fax: +90 312 299 20 14 <(0312)%20299%2020%2014> E-mail: byilmaz at hacettepe.edu.tr, kulcu at hacettepe.edu.tr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Philipp.Mayr-Schlegel at gesis.org Sat Dec 16 13:12:35 2017 From: Philipp.Mayr-Schlegel at gesis.org (Mayr-Schlegel, Philipp) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:12:35 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] 2nd CfP: 7th Int. Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval @ECIR2018 In-Reply-To: References: <272F7581-0330-4C75-AB90-17578E1E14AD@univ-tlse3.fr> Message-ID: == Second Call for Papers == You are invited to participate in the upcoming 7th international workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2018), to be held as part of the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018). === Important Dates === - Submissions: 15 January 2018 - Notifications: 15 February 2018 - Camera Ready Contributions: 15 March 2018 - Workshop: 26 March 2018 in Grenoble, France The keynote will be given by Cyril Labb? (Universit? Grenoble Alpes). Title of the keynote talk: "Trends in Gaming Indicators: On Failed Attempts at Deception and their Computerised Detection" === Aim of the Workshop === In this 7th workshop we aim to engage with the IR community about possible links to bibliometrics and complex network theory which also explores networks of scholarly communication. Bibliometric techniques are not yet widely used to enhance retrieval processes, yet they offer value-added effects for users. Our interests include information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, network analysis, and natural language processing. The goal is to apply insights from bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics to concrete practical problems of information retrieval and browsing. See proceedings of the former BIR workshops at ECIR 2014 , ECIR 2015 , ECIR 2016 , ECIR 2017 , JCDL 2016 and SIGIR 2017 . Retrieval evaluations have shown that simple text-based retrieval methods scale up well but do not progress. Traditional retrieval has reached a high level in terms of measures like precision and recall, but scientists and scholars still face challenges present since the early days of digital libraries: mismatches between search terms and indexing terms, overload from result sets that are too large and complex, and the drawbacks of text-based relevance rankings. Therefore we will focus on statistical modelling and corresponding visualizations of the evolving science system. Such analyses have revealed not only the fundamental laws of Bradford and Lotka, but also network structures and dynamic mechanisms in scientific production. Statistical models of scholarly activities are increasingly used to evaluate specialties, to forecast and discover research trends, and to shape science policy. Their use as tools in navigating scientific information in search systems is a promising but still relatively new development. We will explore how statistical modelling of scholarship can improve retrieval services for specific communities, as well as for large, cross-domain collections. Some of these techniques are already used in working systems but not well integrated in larger scholarly IR environments. The availability of new IR test collections that contain citation and bibliographic information like the iSearch collection or the ACL collection could deliver enough ground to interest (again) the IR community in these kind of bibliographic systems. The long-term research goal is to develop and evaluate new approaches based on informetrics and bibliometrics. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different domains, such as information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, bibliometrics, scientometrics, network analysis, natural language processing, digital libraries, and approaches to visualize search and retrieval to move toward a deeper understanding of this research challenge. === Workshop Topics === To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - IR for digital libraries and scientific information portals - IR for scientific domains, e.g. social sciences, life sciences etc. - Information Seeking Behaviour - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Query expansion and relevance feedback approaches - Science Modelling (both formal and empirical) - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - (Long-term) Evaluation methods and test collection design - Collaborative information handling and information sharing - Classification, categorisation and clustering approaches - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) - Recommendations based on explicit and implicit user feedback - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - (Social) Book Search - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following Springer LNCS author guidelines (6 to 12 pages) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Springer LNCS: EasyChair: Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). == Program Committee == Iana Atanassova, CRIT, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, France Joeran Beel, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Universit? - CNRS (LSIS), France Marc Bertin, Universit? Lyon 1, France Jose Borbinha, IST / INESC-ID, Portugal Cornelia Caragea, Kansas State University, USA Zeljko Carevic, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, National University of Singapore, Singapore Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany C. Lee Giles, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Bela Gipp, Universit?t Konstanz, Germany Gilles Hubert, University of Toulouse, France Peter Ingwersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kokil Jaidka, University of Pennsylvania, USA Roman Kern, Know-Center GmbH, Germany Petr Knoth, The Open University, UK Marijn Koolen, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands Rob Koopman, OCLC, The Netherlands Cyril Labb?, Grenoble University, France Vincent Larivi?re, EBSI-UdeM, Canada Stasa Milojevic, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Peter Mutschke, GESIS ? Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Philipp Schaer, TH Cologne, Germany Andrea Scharnhorst, DANS-KNAW, The Netherlands Vivek Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India Henry Small, SciTech Strategies, USA Cassidy Sugimoto, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Lynda Tamine, University of Toulouse, France Ludovic Tanguy, University of Toulouse, France Simone Teufel, Cambridge University, UK Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer IPA-PAMB, Germany Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Haozhen Zhao, Navigant, USA === Program Chairs === Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France This cfp on Twitter , please retweet! -- Dr. Philipp Mayr Team Leader GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8,? D-50667 K?ln, Germany Tel: + 49 (0) 221 / 476 94 -533 Email: philipp.mayr at gesis.org Web: http://www.gesis.org From cassidysugimoto at gmail.com Wed Dec 27 15:39:08 2017 From: cassidysugimoto at gmail.com (Cassidy R. Sugimoto) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 15:39:08 -0500 Subject: [Sigmetrics] PEERE Conference on Peer Review Message-ID: ******** PEERE Conference on peer review 2018 - Call for Papers --------------------------- The First International Conference on Peer Review, organized by the TD1306 COST Action PEERE: New Frontiers of Peer Review. March 7-9 2018, Rome, Italy. http://www.peere.org/conference/conference-submission/. Important dates --------------- January 15, 2018 (AOE): abstract and papers deadline February 1, 2018: notifications March 7-9, 2018: conference in Rome Scope ----- The TD1306 COST Action PEERE organises an interdisciplinary conference on peer review. The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share evidence on peer review in different fields, e.g., medicine, computer science, social sciences and humanities. It aims to stimulate the use of evidence-based research in the design and implementation of peer review in a variety of fields and encourage more systematic research. The conference welcomes any contribution (e.g., original research, position papers, literature reviews) that uses any method (e.g., quantitative, experimental or qualitative) to investigate peer review in a variety of scientific domains (e.g., scholarly journals, funding agencies, research assessment). Interdisciplinary research is especially welcome. Main topics of interest ----------------------- The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: ? Quantitative and qualitative analysis of peer review in scholarly journals and funding agencies ? Estimating editorial and reviewer bias ? The impact of different peer review models (single vs. double blind, confidential vs. open etc.) on reviewer attitudes and editorial decisions ? Incentives, motivation and recognition in peer review ? Social network analysis of peer review and editorial policy ? Models and theories of peer review: principles, functions and management ? Applications of bibliometrics, altmetrics and scientometrics to peer review ? Perspectives from policy makers, grant funding agencies, libraries, and publishers ? Computer simulation studies of peer review dynamics and outcomes Submission and publication -------------------------- All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. We encourage two types of submissions: full papers, 10 to 12 pages, single column, max 8000 words or extended abstracts, 3 to 4 pages max, single column. Submissions should include title, author(s), including affiliations and corresponding author address, abstracts (in case of full papers), keywords, text (including tables and figures) and references. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Each submission will be peer -reviewed by at least two programme committee members. External reviewers will be used in case of lack of expertise of the programme committee members. The peer review process will follow a single-blind procedure. To manage submissions, we use Easychair. To submit, please click on this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=peerewic2018. Grants for early career researchers ------------------------ The conference organisers will financially support the participation of several early career researchers who have their paper accepted to the conference. Contact: info at peere.org. More info: http://www.peere.org/conference/conference-conference-grants/. Invited speakers ------------------------ Isabelle Boutron (University of Paris Descartes, France) Edward Hackett (Brandeis University, USA) Others will follow Program committee chairs ------------------------ Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy) Francisco Grimaldo (University of Valencia, Spain) Ana Marusic (University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia) Mario Paolucci (CNR, Rome, Italy) Program committee ----------------- Petra Ahrweiler (European Academy, Ahrweiler, Germany) Judit Bar-Ilan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Elise Brezis (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Federico Bianchi (University of Brescia, Italy) Aliaksandr Birukou (Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany) Giangiacomo Bravo (Linnaeus University, V?xj?, Sweden) Niccol? Casnici (University of Brescia, Italy) Stephen Cowley (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Pierpaolo Dondio (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Anuska Ferligoj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Aileen Fyfe (St. Andrews University, Scotland) Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) Carole J. Lee (University of Washington at Seattle, USA) Benedetto Lepori (USI Lugano, Switzerland) Mario Mali?ki (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Bahar Mehmani (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Elizabeth Moylan (BioMed Central, London, UK) Olgica Nedic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) Simone Righi (University of Bologna, Italy) Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Marco Seeber (Ghent University, Belgium) Kalpana Shankar (University College Dublin, Ireland) Jeroen Smits (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar, Croatia) K?roly Takacs (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Didier Torny (CNRS, Paris, France) Ludovic Trinquart (Boston University School of Public Health, USA) Elizabeth Wager (Sideview, UK) Lucija Wejmelka (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Michael Willis (John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, UK) Paul Wouters (Leiden University, Netherlands) -- Cassidy R. 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