From mcunha at ipca.pt Thu Apr 3 08:21:09 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 13:21:09 +0100 Subject: [Sigtis-l] International Workshop on Big Data Management and Applications Message-ID: <201404031221.s33CL2I0001252@mail.asis.org> ============================================================================= International Workshop on Big Data Management & Applications To be held in CENTERIS /ProjMAN/ HCist 2014 Troia, Portugal, 15-17 October 2014 http://centeris.scika.org | http://projman.scika.org | http:// hcist.scika.org AIS Affiliated Conferences ============================================================================= WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE Big Data Management & Applications 2014 addresses the emerging need of organizations to manage massive data. This large amount of data has the potential to transform science, society and the way businesses are carried out. Such massive data defines the concept of Big Data and the emerging discipline of Data Science. This workshop focuses on new management models, applications and architectures involving Big Data on Enterprises. Authors are expected to present contributions of Big Data Management & Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunications, Government, Public Sector and Society in General. WORKSHOP TOPICS AND AREAS OF INTEREST (not limited to) - Big Data Foundations - Big Data Analytics - Big Data Visualization - Big Data Open Platforms - Big Data Software Systems - Enterprise and Application Architectures - Big Data Infrastructure Management - Big Data as a Service - Industry Standards - Project Management and Deployment - Knowledge management SUBMISSIONS We welcome full research papers, short papers, posters and practitioner papers on the workshop theme. Submitted manuscripts must be written in English. Each manuscript should not exceed the maximum number of pages predefined for each submission type, considering the format available for download at the conference webpage. Manuscript should be submitted electronically at the CENTERIS webpage until April 30, 2014. Submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis, and authors will be notified of the review process results by May 26, 2014. Authors of accepted papers can receive recommendations to revise their manuscript according to the reviewers? comments and should submit the revised version until June 10, 2014. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: April 30, 2014 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 26, 2014 Revised version: June 10,2014 Conference Date: October 15-17, 2014 PUBLICATION Accepted full and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings (with ISSN). Poster and practitioner papers will be published in the conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). Authors of a selection of papers will be invited to enhance their manuscripts for inclusion in a book of chapters or in a journal. WORKSHOP SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Paulo Belfo, Instituto Polit?cnico de Coimbra, Portugal Iryna Yevseyeva, University of Newcastle, UK Jos? M?ndez Reboredo, University of Vigo, Spain Michael Emmerich, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Rafael Zancan Frantz, Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Raquel P?rez Est?banez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain WORKSHOP CHAIRS Ant?nio Trigo (aribeiro at iscac.pt) Instituto Polit?cnico de Coimbra, Portugal V?tor Basto Fernandes (vitor.fernandes at ipleiria.pt) Instituto Polit?cnico de Leiria, Portugal From zimmerm at uwm.edu Mon Apr 7 15:28:29 2014 From: zimmerm at uwm.edu (Michael Zimmer) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 14:28:29 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] New book in Information Society series: "Pirate Politics" by Patrick Burkart References: <22F51033-0E77-4A2D-9E0E-2800DB79454F@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <4B595895-4C21-47E8-9F3B-918ABACD1873@uwm.edu> Colleagues: (apologies for cross-posts) I?m very pleased to announce that the sixth book in the MIT Press collection ?Information Society Series? I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis has been released: Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests by Patrick Burkart http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-politics The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing search engine. The Swedish Pirate Party, and later the German Pirate Party, came to be identified with a ?free culture? message that came into conflict with the European Union?s legal system. In this book, Patrick Burkart examines the emergence of Pirate politics as an umbrella cyberlibertarian movement that views file sharing as a form of free expression and advocates for the preservation of the Internet as a commons. He links the Pirate movement to the Green movement, arguing that they share a moral consciousness and an explicit ecological agenda based on the notion of a commons, or public domain. The Pirate parties, like the Green Party, must weigh ideological purity against pragmatism as they move into practical national and regional politics. Burkart uses second-generation critical theory and new social movement theory as theoretical perspectives for his analysis of the democratic potential of Pirate politics. After setting the Pirate parties in conceptual and political contexts, Burkart examines European antipiracy initiatives, the influence of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the pressure exerted on European governance by American software and digital exporters. He argues that pirate politics can be seen as ?cultural environmentalism,? a defense of Internet culture against both corporate and state colonization. About the Author Patrick Burkart is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University and the author of Music and Cyberliberties and Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox (with Tom McCourt). About the Series Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Series on Technology, Law, and Society Series Editors, Laura DeNardis and Michael Zimmer MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/information-society-series The Information Society Series addresses the social, legal, and policy implications of the Internet and new information technologies and will especially feature works from the growing global ranks of interdisciplinary scholars in information schools; communications departments; science, technology, and society programs; and programs in law, technology, and culture. We are accepting book proposals for the series. Preference will be given to monographs rather than edited volumes and books that are interdisciplinary, normative, and global in scope. Book proposals should include: ? a prospectus (brief description, outstanding features and uniqueness of work, audience and market considerations, status of book, and recommended reviewers); ? a detailed table of contents; ? sample chapters; and ? the authors curriculum vitae. Please submit completed proposals to denardis at american.edu and zimmerm at uwm.edu -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org From mcunha at ipca.pt Fri Apr 11 06:34:40 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:34:40 +0100 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) 5(4) Message-ID: <201404111034.s3BAYfqr022534@mail.asis.org> Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) 5(4) The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 5, Issue 4, October - December 2013 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1938-0194; EISSN: 1938-0208; Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA www.igi-global.com/ijwp Editor(s)-in-Chief: Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal), Jo?o Varaj?o (University of Minho, Portugal) INTERVIEW Editorial Preface Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Insitute of Cavado and Ave, Barcelos, Portugal), Jo?o Varaj?o (University of Minho, Guimar?es, Portugal) To obtain a copy of the Editorial Preface, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=103976&ptid=71669&ctid=15&t=Editorial Preface ARTICLE 1 Using Web Portals to Model and Manage Enterprise Projects Sergey Zykov (Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia), Alexey Kukushkin (Moscow Aviation Institute, National Research University, Moscow, Russia) Enterprise content management is quite an issue because of heterogeneity, complexity and size. Moreover, this burden is exponentially growing. In order to efficiently handle the enterprise content, a systematic approach is required, which embraces object-based models and software engineering tools. The paper outlines the approach, and gives the primary attention to the formal models for content management. The formal models are fully supported by problem-oriented languages and CASE level tools. The proposed approach has been extended for application in project integration management. The paper also suggests the method of dynamic modeling of planning and change management processes taking into account particular project constraints, priorities, environment etc. This method is based on ER-model of project structures (WBS, OBS, TRM, network etc.) and the Selective-function Linear resolution for Definite Clause. The resolution procedure defines the sequence of the project structures determination i.e. the management process including inputs and outputs on the basis of specified initial conditions. This method was applied in a consulting project in public management domain. It could be implemented as a web-service for another web-based Enterprise Project Management Systems or as a stand-alone solution with GUI. The approach has been approved by a number of successful enterprise-scale implementations in oil-and-gas industry, public management, trading and banking enterprises, nuclear power plant construction and other areas. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/using-web-portals-to-model-and-manage-enterprise-projects/103979 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=103979 ARTICLE 2 Project Management Simulation Portal: Proposal, Features and Construction Process Jo?o Nascimento (School of Management and Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Santar?m, Santar?m, Portugal), Paulo Resende da Silva (School of Social Sciences, University of ?vora, ?vora, Portugal), Jo?o Samartinho (School of Management and Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Santar?m, Santar?m, Portugal) Simulation, in the context of Project Management teaching / learning process, has been described as an effective way to achieve better outcomes. There are already some tools developed to simulate the management of technical work. Still, project management is much more than dealing with technical tasks. The system developed aims to sustain the process of teaching / learning the subject of project management in a broad range. When compared with other work in the field, there are two aspects that stand out from the product described in this paper: (1) the use of the Web to enhance the interaction between the agents involved in the teaching / learning process, and (2) the variety of skills considered in the system. More than focusing on a small set of processes dealing with technical work management, the solution presented here involves nearly the full project management life cycle. This paper proposes a simulation system for Project Management, based on the Web environment (Project Management Virtual Environment). It also presents the process of the system's construction and describes its features. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/project-management-simulation-portal/103980 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=103980 ARTICLE 3 Using Mobile Devices with BYOD Georg Disterer (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover, Germany), Carsten Kleiner (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover, Germany) Using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets offers many advantages and has become very popular in private life. Using them in the workplace is also popular, but nobody wants to carry around and handle two devices: one for personal use, and one for work-related tasks. Therefore ?Bring Your Own Device? (BYOD) may be appropriate: users make their personal devices available for company use. Apart from improved convenience this also incurs additional opportunities and risks for companies at the same time. We describe and discuss organizational issues, technical approaches, and solutions. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/using-mobile-devices-with-byod/103981 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=103981 ARTICLE 4 The Quality of Portuguese Obesity Websites Diana Clarisse Pires Martins (Health School, Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Braganza, Portugal), Sandra Emanuela da Silva Soares (Health School, Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Braganza, Portugal), Marta Maria Monteiro de Jesus (Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Health School, Braganza, Portugal), Joana Isabel Almendra Gomes (Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Health School, Braganza, Portugal), T?nia Gisela Miranda Dias (Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Health School, Braganza, Portugal), Ant?nio Jos? Gon?alves Fernandes (Agriculture School, Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Braganza, Portugal & Centre of Transdisciplinary Development Studies, University of Tr?s-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal), Vera Ferro-Lebres (Health School, Polytechnic Institute of Braganza, Braganza, Portugal) The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of Portuguese obesity websites. A cross-sectional, quantitative and observational study was designed. The evaluation of 127 sites found using the Google in ?Advanced Search? option ?pages in Portuguese?, country ?Portugal? was performed. The quality criteria used in this study resulted from the merger/adaptation from several authors previously published. The information on obesity was evaluated according to the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network: Management of Obesity, a National Clinical Guideline, 2010. The quality criteria most mentioned in the websites, were the purpose (80.3%) and authority (73.2%). On the other hand, the editorial review (7.9%) and references (15.7%) were mentioned in the narrowest websites. The websites analyzed had a mean quality score of 5.2 points (? 2.1) out of 11. A significant correlation was found between the score of information on obesity and quality score for adults group (0.282) and both ages group (0.437). In Portugal, the websites that provide information on obesity had, generally, a low quality score. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/the-quality-of-portuguese-obesity-websites/103982 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=103982 ARTICLE 5 Facet of Modeling Web Information Systems from a Document-Centric View B?lint Moln?r (Information Systems Department, E?tv?s University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary), Andr?s Bencz?r (Information Systems Department, E?tv?s University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary) The modeling of Information Systems in general, and Web Information Systems (WIS) especially, is a permanent issue so that there have been already several attempts and proposals for representing various facets of WIS. In our proposed approach, we focus on the organizational and business activity modeling and we concentrate on documents that represent the information of enterprises in the form of unstructured and semi-structured documents. The compilation of documents mirrors implicitly or explicitly the structure of enterprises, the interrelationship of business processes, and activities and tasks within processes. The documents represent, at the same time, the system roles along with tasks and activities. Our modeling approach concentrates on the co-existence and co-operation of documents and activities of business. The Story Algebra, or more generally the process algebra approach provides a formal framework that promises a formal describing method for modeling precisely the event triggered processes coupled with data in document format within an Enterprise Architecture Framework. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/article/facet-of-modeling-web-information-systems-from-a-document-centric-view/103983 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=103983 For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: www.igi-global.com/isj. CALL FOR PAPERS Mission of IJWP: The mission of the International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) is to be a primary forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate the evolving theory and practice related to Web portals, providing comprehensive coverage and understanding in its technological, business, organizational, and social dimensions. IJWP expands knowledge on all types of portals, from personal and corporate to domain specific, including government, news, cultural, collaborative, and business oriented portals. The journal publishes original contributions concerned with all aspects of planning, development, implementation, management, and exploitation, including literature reviews and case studies. Coverage of IJWP: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: Business process integration and management Cloud and grid solutions Content Management Systems Customization e-Commerce and e-Business applications Evolution of portals Frameworks for portal design and development Infrastructures Mobile technologies and applications Project management Resource management, performance issues, and administration issues Security issues Semantic Web services and federated architectures in Web portals Tools and development environments User interface issues Web services Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-web-portals-ijwp/1113 From jlorince at indiana.edu Mon Apr 14 16:56:05 2014 From: jlorince at indiana.edu (Jared Lorince) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:56:05 -0400 Subject: [Sigtis-l] WebSci '14 deadline extensions and paper/poster notification delay Message-ID: The WebSci Data Visualization Challenge deadline has been EXTENDED until April 29. $1000 in prizes! For details, see: http://websci14.org/#call-for-data-visualization-challenge. We also regret to inform you that paper/poster notifications have been delayed, and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. ***We will post the updated notification date on social media tomorrow.*** We anticipate extending the workshop submission deadline, as well, and will announce the updated deadline concurrently. Please stay tuned on Twitter and Facebook for updates, and thank you for your patience. Twitter: @WebSciConf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Web-Science-Trust/169268288947 ACM Web Science 2014 will be held 23-26 June 2014 at Indiana University, Bloomington. Further information available at http://www.websci14.org/. 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The book is a collection of twelve papers that provides a state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics. Two papers review the history of social informatics, and show that its intellectual roots can be found in the late 1970s and early '80s and that it emerged in several different locations around the world before it coalesced in the US in the mid-1990s. The evolution of social informatics is described under four periods: foundational work, development and expansion, a robust period of coherence, and a period of diversification that continues today. Five papers provide a view of the breadth and depth of contemporary social informatics, demonstrating the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that can be used. Five papers explore the future of social informatics and offer provocative and disparate visions of its trajectory, ranging from arguments for a new philosophical grounding for the social informatics, to calls for a social informatics based on practice thinking and materiality. This book presents a view of SI that emphasizes the core relationship among people, ICT and organizational and social life from a perspective that integrate aspects of social theory and demonstrates clearly social informatics has never been a more necessary research endeavor than it is now. It will be especially useful for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in learning about social informatics research. To learn more about the book (including a Table of Contents), see http://ils.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/si-book14/si-book.html To order the book from the publisher, see http://www.cambridgescholars.com/social-informatics-6 To order the book from Amazon, see http://www.amazon.com/Social-Informatics-Past-Present-Future/dp/1443855766/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397099699&sr=1-1&keywords=social+informatics+past From mcunha at ipca.pt Fri Apr 18 12:13:06 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:13:06 +0100 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call for Chapter Proposals: Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine Message-ID: <201404181613.s3IGD5wu025514@mail.asis.org> - This mail is a HTML mail. Not all elements could be shown in plain text mode. - Call for Chapter Proposals: Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine http://bit.ly/1hMjfbr Editors Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha - Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal Isabel Miranda - Municipality of Guimar?es, Portugal Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: May 18, 2014 Full Chapters Due: September 30, 2014 Use this link to Propose a chapter for this book Introduction Health and social care, e-Health, Telemedicine, are at the center of the research policies, on the research agenda of the world governments and are facing major developments. This publication intends to put together, in a comprehensive way, the problems of ageing, health, health care, social care, mobility, ageing well, quality of life of people with special needs, user needs analysis, and the recent approaches provided by ICT, such as e-Health and Telemedicine, new technologies, new applications, emerging trends, the ethical and legal implications (eg. clinical records) and case studies. It is an ambitious project of addressing the social, technological, organizational, ethical and legal aspects of the topic. Objective The mission of the Encyclopedia of e-Health and Telemedicine is to discuss the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and trends related to this new field of knowledge able to transform the way we live and deliver services, from the social, technological and organizational dimensions, in a very comprehensive way, and to disseminate current developments and practical solutions and applications. The overall objectives are: To discuss the importance of e-Health, Telemedicine, ICT-based healthcare and social care delivery, and the emerging technological developments and practical solutions. To introduce the state-of-the-art supporting technology. To introduce and discuss the challenges associated with e-Health developments, from the social, organizational and technological perspectives. To introduce recent technological developments and associated human, ethical and legal implications. Target Audience The encyclopedia intends to be a tool for researchers, academics, professionals of medicine, healthcare and social care, professionals of IT, providing some of the most advanced research, concepts, applications, developments, discussions and case studies on digital crime and digital threats from one side, and security, privacy, information assurance, law and regulation, and human aspects, on the other. Recommended Topics The Encyclopedia intends to collect the most recent contributions on the social and technological dimensions of the largely multidisciplinary field of e-Health and Telemedicine. It is intended to cover the following aspects: The technological dimension that enables and supports teleservices, telemedicine, teleoperation and telemonitoring. The technological dimension includes: Information systems and technologies Communication technologies Monitoring technologies Information and systems integration Electronic medical records Electronic devices The social and human dimensions, which explores motivations, benefits and emergent effects of e-Health project implementations, and which include, for example: Increased quality of life Increased life expectancy Trust and privacy issues Ethical aspects Legal aspects Training Organizational aspects and management of e-health services Business and entrepreneurial perspective focusing on the added value of specific applications Impact, implications and challenges (social and technological) of e-Health On individuals, families and communities On organizations and business On scientific knowledge and on research Ongoing developments, applications and case studies Emerging solutions Relevant R&D projects Integration between applications and solutions Current development trends Integration with other disciplines: Sociology Psychology Gerontology Distributed technologies and systems Knowledge management Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a chapter proposal (an extended abstract of around 300 to 500 words) clearly explaining the mission and concerns of a proposed chapter by May 18, 2014 .. Submissions should be made through the link at the bottom of this page. Please include all information about the author and co-authors, affiliations and email addresses when submitting your chapter proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 25, 2014 about the status of their proposals. Full articles (at around 3,000 to 5,000 words) are expected to be submitted by September 30, 2014 .. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com .. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2015. Important Dates Proposal Submission Deadline: May 18, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2014 Full chapter submission: September 30, 2014 Notification of acceptance: December 30, 2014 Revised version of accepted chapters: January 15, 2015 Submission of Final Chapters: February 15, 2015 Inquiries Isabel Maria Miranda, isabel.m.f.miranda at gmail.com Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, mcruzcunha at gmail.com Propose a chapter for this book http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1355 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Research that considers the impacts of cultural values (e.g. on adaptive user interfaces) * Research on global Cloud sourcing strategies * Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of ICT adoption, use and development (e.g. Internet diffusion and impacts compared between different economies) * Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices (e.g. pricing strategies) * Issues relating to globally distributed teams (e.g. the adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams, worker motivation, and human error diversity) * Issues relating to Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level (e.g. digital infrastructure sophistication across countries) *Issues relating to global knowledge management (e.g. different knowledge-sharing cultures in multi-national corporations) *Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation (e.g. implications of different regulations governing Green IT in the EU vs. US or Asian countries) * Issues relating to global ICT governance (e.g. sustainable strategies for standardization and harmonization in evolving business networks) * Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts (e.g. impact of ICT policies on a transition economy) * Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development (e.g. e-commerce adoption involving multiple countries) * Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations Minitrack Organizers: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman at indiana.edu Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria; edward.bernroider at wu.ac.at Erran Carmel, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C.; carmel at american.edu About HICSS conferences: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: * A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. * Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. * A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. * A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). * Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. * Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. * A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. * Best Paper Awards in each track which recognize superior research performance. * HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: * June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. * Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. * Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) 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URL: From fichman at indiana.edu Tue Apr 29 08:56:12 2014 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:56:12 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identit Message-ID: <7CFBA5E7-C223-4B54-AAB4-EDEFEF0AA597@indiana.edu> [Apologies for cross-posting] CFP HICSS minitrack Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity Track: Digital and Social Media Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48, January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers Due: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm We live surrounded by socially constructed identities. Some examples are organizations, nations, websites, companies, products and even persons. These identities are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions, a kind of distributed cognition. Communication requires not only a representation in an individual?s mind but also the knowledge that there is a similar representation in the minds of others. Platforms built on top of the Internet have changed the way we can create such shared representations. They allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people ? and maybe machines in the form of artificial intelligences ? to negotiate identities. We can build collective intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. The collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge. While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational structures, in which already committed members of a community are deployed to create or improve ideas. And the traces of these new organizations are also varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. The output often takes the form of digital media. We are interested in papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these organization structures and the innovations they produce, papers that simulate this production through software, papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production, and design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes. We are particularly open to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviours, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions. We are interested in applying the ideas of James March, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems. We are looking for papers about the mechanisms (in the sense of Bhaskar) that explain the emergence of collective identity. In sum, the content of the track is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure, and in particular the social construction of identity and roles.. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these relations. In this minitrack, we are aiming to attract an audience from five groups: first, those interested in collective intelligence and crowdsourcing and who find a home in information systems departments; second, those in information schools who study these topics; third, computer scientists who are interested in the analysis of network and crowd processes, fourth, those who use social networks to describe social structure and fifth, industry practitioners. Minitrack Organizers: Donald Steiny, The Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy; steiny at steiny.com Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; fichman at indiana.edu Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology; jnickerson at stevens.edu About HICSS conferences: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Now in its 48th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include: ? A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies. ? Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research. ? A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail. ? A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US). ? Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences. ? Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues. ? A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts. ? Best Paper Awards in each track which recognize superior research performance. ? HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. Important deadlines for authors: ? June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind. ? Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. ? Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) Early Registration fee: $625 ? Oct 2: General Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014) ? Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified. ? Dec 2: Late Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference) ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcunha at ipca.pt Tue Apr 29 09:18:46 2014 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:18:46 +0100 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call for Chapter Proposals: Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine Message-ID: <201404291318.s3TDIlt3027985@mail.asis.org> - This mail is a HTML mail. Not all elements could be shown in plain text mode. - Call for Chapter Proposals: Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine http://bit.ly/1hMjfbr Editors Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha - Polytechnic Institute of C?vado and Ave, Portugal Isabel Miranda - Municipality of Guimar?es, Portugal Call for Chapters Proposals (abstract) Submission Deadline: May 18, 2014 Full Chapters Due: September 30, 2014 Use this link to Propose a chapter for this book http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1355 Introduction Health and social care, e-Health, Telemedicine, are at the center of the research policies, on the research agenda of the world governments and are facing major developments. This publication intends to put together, in a comprehensive way, the problems of ageing, health, health care, social care, mobility, ageing well, quality of life of people with special needs, user needs analysis, and the recent approaches provided by ICT, such as e-Health and Telemedicine, new technologies, new applications, emerging trends, the ethical and legal implications (eg. clinical records) and case studies. It is an ambitious project of addressing the social, technological, organizational, ethical and legal aspects of the topic. Objective The mission of the Encyclopedia of e-Health and Telemedicine is to discuss the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and trends related to this new field of knowledge able to transform the way we live and deliver services, from the social, technological and organizational dimensions, in a very comprehensive way, and to disseminate current developments and practical solutions and applications. The overall objectives are: To discuss the importance of e-Health, Telemedicine, ICT-based healthcare and social care delivery, and the emerging technological developments and practical solutions. To introduce the state-of-the-art supporting technology. To introduce and discuss the challenges associated with e-Health developments, from the social, organizational and technological perspectives. To introduce recent technological developments and associated human, ethical and legal implications. Target Audience The encyclopedia intends to be a tool for researchers, academics, professionals of medicine, healthcare and social care, professionals of IT, providing some of the most advanced research, concepts, applications, developments, discussions and case studies on digital crime and digital threats from one side, and security, privacy, information assurance, law and regulation, and human aspects, on the other. Recommended Topics The Encyclopedia intends to collect the most recent contributions on the social and technological dimensions of the largely multidisciplinary field of e-Health and Telemedicine. It is intended to cover the following aspects: The technological dimension that enables and supports teleservices, telemedicine, teleoperation and telemonitoring. The technological dimension includes: Information systems and technologies Communication technologies Monitoring technologies Information and systems integration Electronic medical records Electronic devices The social and human dimensions, which explores motivations, benefits and emergent effects of e-Health project implementations, and which include, for example: Increased quality of life Increased life expectancy Trust and privacy issues Ethical aspects Legal aspects Training Organizational aspects and management of e-health services Business and entrepreneurial perspective focusing on the added value of specific applications Impact, implications and challenges (social and technological) of e-Health On individuals, families and communities On organizations and business On scientific knowledge and on research Ongoing developments, applications and case studies Emerging solutions Relevant R&D projects Integration between applications and solutions Current development trends Integration with other disciplines: Sociology Psychology Gerontology Distributed technologies and systems Knowledge management Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a chapter proposal (an extended abstract of around 300 to 500 words) clearly explaining the mission and concerns of a proposed chapter by May 18, 2014 .. Submissions should be made through the link at the bottom of this page. Please include all information about the author and co-authors, affiliations and email addresses when submitting your chapter proposals. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 25, 2014 about the status of their proposals. Full articles (at around 3,000 to 5,000 words) are expected to be submitted by September 30, 2014 .. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com .. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2015. Important Dates Proposal Submission Deadline: May 18, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2014 Full chapter submission: September 30, 2014 Notification of acceptance: December 30, 2014 Revised version of accepted chapters: January 15, 2015 Submission of Final Chapters: February 15, 2015 Inquiries Isabel Maria Miranda, isabel.m.f.miranda at gmail.com Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, mcruzcunha at gmail.com Propose a chapter for this book http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1355 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: