From fichman at indiana.edu Wed Feb 10 14:45:04 2016 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:45:04 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP > International Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Access (AMCIS'16 mini track) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <98551034-1496-462A-9ACC-8A3520786E0E@indiana.edu> Call for Papers: 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems August 11 - 13, 2016, San Diego, CA, USA Dear Colleagues, We welcome submissions for the mini track entitled ?International Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Access?, for AMCIS 2016 Track: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS) Mini Track: International Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Access Description: Networks and systems within the contemporary information society are in many ways constrained by access to ICT, including availability, awareness, ability or literacy, and infrastructural support for ICT use and ICT-mediated processes. All dimensions of ICT access are highly unequal globally. Current efforts to improve infrastructure and availability?including broadband speeds, reliability of connectivity, stability and maintenance of systems, and interoperability?often span geographic boundaries and include both the public and private sectors. Furthermore, efforts to impact awareness and literacy are highly culturally context dependent. Outcomes associated with ICT access initiatives vary significantly, both between countries and within them, and differences in outcomes are often associated with contextual differences in policy interpretation and adoption strategies. This mini-track will focus on all stages of collaborative and independent access initiatives?including policy, planning, implementation, and evaluation?supporting the improvement and sustainability of ICT access and infrastructure across local, national, and regional borders. Call for Papers: Why is ICT access so unequal globally? Why do plans for ICT improvement lead to different outcomes in different contexts? Global variation in ICT access, particularly availability and infrastructure, is extreme, which has serious implications for global communications, relationships, business, and other processes. Efforts to address both imbalances and insufficiencies lead to highly divergent outcomes, despite efforts to replicate successful projects. It is important to understand the status of access from a comparative international perspective, so as to understand the roles of social, political, and cultural factors in shaping outcomes. How successful are international efforts to improve ICT access? Given the increasing interdependence of ICT access internationally, as multinational corporations and global travel and migration, leads people and systems to depend on different infrastructural systems to support their connectivity needs, there has been increased attention toward collaboration, interoperability, and common regulation of ICT access worldwide. Research needs to address international ICT access improvement, so as to better support the reliability and sustainability of global systems and to better design future initiatives. What is the role of culture in shaping the policy process surrounding ICT access improvement? Given the variation in infrastructure, even in instances of collaborative efforts, contextual variation, including the influences of culture, seemingly plays an important role in how initiatives relating to ICT are implemented. Further exploration of how aspects of context shape all stages of initiatives, including planning, implementation, and evaluation, is significant to understanding differences in outcomes. This mini-track invites submissions that address collaborations relating to ICT access, as well as comparative analyses on ICT infrastructure status and initiatives and case studies. Submissions addressing infrastructure and governance of infrastructure at city, state, regional, geographical, national, and international levels are welcome. Potential Topics: Integrated cross-border infrastructure Standardization of ICT access and ICT access regulation Initiative failures associated with internationalization or comparative cultural differences Case studies addressing culture Cross-country, cross-state, or cross-regional ICT infrastructure analysis Impact of supra-national governance on ICT access Interoperability across contexts Comparative evaluation of ICT access initiative outcomes Inequality in access or reliability across contexts, as impacts multinational business SUBMISSION SITE http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2016 Submissions may be of two types: ? Completed research papers (< 5000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures) ? Research-in-progress papers (< 3500 words, excluding references, tables, and figures) All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2016 For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2016 website at http://amcis2016.aisnet.org IMPORTANT DATES January 4, 2016: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 begin March 2, 2016: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST CHAIR CONTACT INFORMATION Madelyn Sanfilippo, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University mhomuth at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Chair, Department of Information and Library Science Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Thu Feb 25 01:03:32 2016 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:03:32 +0100 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP: ACM MEDES 2016 (Biarritz, France) Message-ID: * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * The 8th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/16/ November 1-4, 2016 Biarritz, France Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2016 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2016 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Cyber Physical Systems - Systems of Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: July 25th, 2016 - Camera Ready: August 25th, 2016 - Paper Registration: August 25th, 2016 - Conference Dates: 1-4 November 2016 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chairs ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Program Chairs ---------------- Ismail Biskri, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From rhill at asis.org Mon Feb 29 09:54:38 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:54:38 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Survey - Perceptions and experiences w/ AAIAT Publications Message-ID: <3815-220162129145437932@LEN-dick-2011> [Please excuse duplication] Dear all, The ASIS&T Publications Committee would like to collect information about your perceptions of, and experiences with, ASIS&T publications, specifically The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), The Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (The Bulletin), and The Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting Proceedings (The ASIS&T Proceedings). As an ASIS&T Publications user (author, reader, and/or reviewer), your responses are extremely important to us. We depend on your input to improve the format, content scope, publication process, and delivery mechanisms of ASIS&T publications to better serve your needs. Those who complete this survey can be entered into a random drawing. Ten randomly chosen respondents will be given a free book of his/her choice from the ASIS&T Online Bookstore! Your name and contact information will not be collected from this questionnaire. If you would like to be involved in the random drawing, and/or are willing to participate in the follow-up interview, there is a separate survey for you to provide your availability and contact information. Any contact information collected for interviewing purposes will not be linked to your responses in this survey. There are a total of 37 questions (8 questions are open-ended). It took an average of 24 minutes for our pilot testers to complete this survey. Below is the link to the survey. Please complete the survey no later than March 18, 2016. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASISTPubs2016 We deeply thank you for your valuable input! ASIS&T Publications Committee Rong Tang (Co-Chair) Lorraine Mon (Co-Chair) Jamshid Beheshti (Board Liaison) Julia Caffrey Samuel Chu Yuelin Li Chaoqun Ni Danielle Pollock Lu Xiao Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From rhill at asis.org Mon Feb 29 10:07:35 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:07:35 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Corrected Survey - Perceptions and experiences w/ ASIS&T Publications Message-ID: <3815-22016212915735546@LEN-dick-2011> [Please excuse duplication. Apologies for earlier typo] Dear all, The ASIS&T Publications Committee would like to collect information about your perceptions of, and experiences with, ASIS&T publications, specifically The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), The Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (The Bulletin), and The Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting Proceedings (The ASIS&T Proceedings). As an ASIS&T Publications user (author, reader, and/or reviewer), your responses are extremely important to us. We depend on your input to improve the format, content scope, publication process, and delivery mechanisms of ASIS&T publications to better serve your needs. Those who complete this survey can be entered into a random drawing. Ten randomly chosen respondents will be given a free book of his/her choice from the ASIS&T Online Bookstore! Your name and contact information will not be collected from this questionnaire. If you would like to be involved in the random drawing, and/or are willing to participate in the follow-up interview, there is a separate survey for you to provide your availability and contact information. Any contact information collected for interviewing purposes will not be linked to your responses in this survey. There are a total of 37 questions (8 questions are open-ended). It took an average of 24 minutes for our pilot testers to complete this survey. Below is the link to the survey. Please complete the survey no later than March 18, 2016. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASISTPubs2016 We deeply thank you for your valuable input! ASIS&T Publications Committee Rong Tang (Co-Chair) Lorraine Mon (Co-Chair) Jamshid Beheshti (Board Liaison) Julia Caffrey Samuel Chu Yuelin Li Chaoqun Ni Danielle Pollock Lu Xiao Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900