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Emergent Web Intelligence

Call for Book Chapters

Emergent Web Intelligence

To be published by Springer Verlag

in the series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/DBconf/Springer/
Description

The current Internet changes our daily life by redefining the
meanings and processes of business, commerce, marketing, finance,
publishing, education, research, etc. and by revolutionizing the way we
produce, store, process, retrieve and use information. Although
individual Web-based information systems are regularly being deployed,
new efficient techniques and approaches for developing and for
benefiting from collective Web intelligence are required more than ever
to help users avoid irrelevant web search results (pages, links, etc.),
fraud e-business transactions, non-personalized web information, even
wrong web decisions, etc.

The novel intelligent web theory exploits advanced information
technology and IA to explore the next generation of web-empowered
systems, services, and environments, and to design and provide hybrid
web systems that serve wired and wireless users more efficiently.

In this book, we aim at gathering the latest advances of various
topics in web intelligence and reporting how organizations can gain
competitive advantages by applying the different emergent techniques in
the real-world scenarios. Papers and studies which couple the
intelligence techniques and theories with specific web technology
problems are cordially invited. Survey articles that emphasize the
research and application of web intelligence in a particular domain are
greatly welcome.

Topics

Topics to be addressed in the book include, but are not limited to:

* Web Information Retrieval
* Knowledge Networks and Management
* Information Management and Data Representation
* Web Mining
* Web Farming
* Web Agents and Agent-based Systems
* Web Security
* Information Filtering and Access Control Models
* Ontologies
* Semantic Web
* Social Intelligence Design
* Web-based Support Systems
* Human-Web Interaction
* E-Applications and Systems
* Web Technologies and Protocols

Submission Guidelines

Authors are kindly invited to upload their submissions at:
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/DBconf/Springer/Submission/

Chapter proposals (title and abstract) are to be uploaded before Feb. 15th
2008.
This will facilitate the planning of the review process.
All chapter proposals will be peer reviewed.
Full chapters will be expected by April 28th 2008.
All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

Careful preparation of the manuscripts will help keep production time
short and ensure satisfactory appearance of the finished book. Please
prepare the manuscript as follows:

* Please centralize all tables and figures with appropriate legends.

* Please carefully check for typos inside the figures/legends etc.

* All equations must be numbered and please try to use standard fonts.

* Produce a LaTeX version of your chapter using the template provided
(see Author Guidelines at http://www.softcomputing.net/cec06/author-kit.zip)

Original artwork and a signed copyright release forms will be required for all accepted chapters.

Important Dates
Deadline for chapter proposals ( title and short abstract): February 15, 2008
Deadline for full chapters: April 28, 2008
Notification of acceptance/rejection of chapters: June 30, 2008
Deadline for submission of final chapters: July 15,2008
Publication of book “Emergent Web Intelligence”: Second half of 2008

Volume Editors

– Richard CHBEIR (Main Contact)
Laboratoire LE2I (UMR – CNRS)
Bourgogne University, Aile de l’Ing�nieur
21078 Dijon CEDEX France
Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55
Email: richard.chbeir@u-bourgogne.fr
URL: http://www.le2I.com

– Aboul-Ella Hassanien
Kuwait University
College of Business Administration, Quantitative Methods and IS Department
P.O. Box 5486 Safat, 13055 Kuwait
Tel: +965-4839364
Email: Abo@cba.edu.kw
URL: http://www.cba.edu.kw/abo

– Ajith Abraham
Center for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems
Norwegian University of Science & Technology,
Trondheim, Norway
Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org
URL: http://www.softcomputing.net

– Youakim Badr
INSA de Lyon, Batiment Blaise Pascal
7 Avenue Jean Capelle
69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Tel: +334 72 43 62 73
Email: youakim.badr@insa-lyon.fr
URL: http://www.insa-lyon.fr/liesp

About the series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”
The series “Studies in Computational Intelligence” (SCI) publishes new
developments and advances in the various areas of computational
intelligence. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and design
methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields of
engineering, computer science, physics and life science, as well as the methodologies
behind them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes
in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural networks,
connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation,
artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems,
soft computing, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems. Critical
to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and
world-wide distribution – this permits a rapid and broad dissemination
of research results. For more details, go through
http://www.springer.com/series/7092.

Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX)

14-17 October, 2008, London, UK
http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/

Submission deadline for all contributions: May 1, 2008.

The availability of information across media and genres, across
languages, and across modalities constantly increases. How people
access this information is highly dependent on the context of their
interaction and this context is influenced by a range of factors
such as the time, place, and history of interaction, the tasks
motivating the interaction and the technical possibilities of the
information systems. Although the use of information systems is
heavily affected by contextual factors, Information Retrieval and
Seeking research is largely conducted out of context.

IIiX will explore the relationships between the contexts that
affect Information Retrieval and Seeking, how these contexts impact
on information behaviour, and how knowledge of information contexts
can help design truly interactive information systems.

IIiX invites research contributions that approach information
contexts from a broad range of perspectives, such as context
surrounding documents, context influencing seeking, humans and
their tasks, the context of information seekers and providers,
the context of interactive search, and the technical contexts of
information systems.

IIiX encourages the submission of original, high quality research
papers that have not been previously published and are not under
review for another conference or journal, in any of the symposium
topics of interest. All submissions will be reviewed by an
international programme committee, and all accepted research papers
will be published in the symposium proceedings by a major
publisher. Submissions may either be full research papers
(max 5000 words) or research in progress papers (max 2000 words).
Full details on submissions are available on the symposium web page
(http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/).

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

* Case studies, field experiments, simulations, etc. of
context-sensitive information seeking & retrieval
* Context-aware retrieval models
* Relevance feedback – implicit & explicit – and query modification
issues for capturing context
* Other approaches to eliciting, identifying and
expressing/capturing contextual information
* Task-based interactive information retrieval and seeking behaviour
* The effect of genre, media, language, modality and structure on
context
* Personalised and collaborative information access in context
* Contextual information interaction theory
* Interactive information retrieval and interface issues
* Nature of relevance in contexts
* Measures of performance in context and situation-sensitive
information access
* Test collections for context-sensitive research

**** IMPORTANT DATES ****

Full papers or Research-in-Progress papers: May 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2008
Camera-ready copy due: July 2008

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Symposium co-chairs:
Mounia Lalmas & Anastasios Tombros
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Symposium Programme co-chairs:
Pia Borlund & Jesper W. Schneider
Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Thematic Programme Chairs:
Diane Kelly (Interactive IR)
University of North Carolina, USA

Arjen de Vries (Laboratory IR)
CWI, Netherlands

John Feather (Information Behaviour)
University of Loughborough, UK

Tutorial co-chairs:
Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science

Doctoral Forum co-chairs:
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Erica Cosijn, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Local organization chair:
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK

Web site:
Murat Yakici, University of Strathclyde, UK


Nicholas J. Belkin
Professor (II) of Information Science
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
Rutgers University
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071, USA
Phone +1 732 932 7500 x8271
Fax +1 732 6916
Email nick@belkin.rutgers.edu
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~belkin/belkin.html

IT Governance and Privacy Management from an End User Computing Perspective

CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSALS
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

JOEUC Special Issue Proposals

JOEUC invites proposals from well-published senior scholars for a special issue on IT Governance and Privacy Management from an End User Computing Perspective. If you are interested, please send a proposal to the editor.

JOEUC Mission:

The primary purpose of the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC) is to provide a forum to information technology educators, researchers, and practitioners to advance the practice and understanding of organizational and end user computing. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in JOEUC. The journal publishes empirical and theoretical research concerned with all aspects of organizational and end user computing. The journal is especially interested in those research studies that show a significant contribution to the area by relating organizational and end user computing to organizational and end user performance and productivity, strategic and competitive advantage, and electronic commerce. It publishes full-length research manuscripts, insightful research and practice notes, and case studies from all areas of organizational and end user computing.

JOEUC Coverage:
Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on how to increase organizational and end user productivity and performance, and how to achieve organizational strategic and competitive advantage:

Organizational and end user computing (OEUC) productivity and performance; OEUC and how it affects organizational strategic and competitive advantage; OEUC and how it relates to information resources management; using and managing emerging OEUC technologies including electronic commerce; OEUC satisfaction; OEUC in various management functions; OEUC usage; OEUC privacy, security, and copyright issues; OEUC success factors; OEUC controls for security and privacy; OEUC risk factors; OEUC management; OEUC hardware and software; OEUC supports and training.

In general, the journal seeks contributions concerning any aspect of organizational and end user information processing including development, usage, satisfaction, performance, productivity, success, failure, policies, strategies, and management. The journal invites contributions from educators, researchers, and practitioners involved in research, management, and utilization of organizational and end user computing.

JOEUC Submissions:
All manuscripts submitted to JOEUC will undergo a two-way blind review. Authors are asked to submit electronically as an email attachment or mail four copies of their original, previously unpublished manuscript that satisfies the following conditions:

� Must not be currently under review by another journal.
� Must be written in APA (American Psychological Association) editorial style.
� Should not exceed 25 double-spaced typed pages.
� Must be accompanied by a cover page with author(s)’ name, address, telephone number, and affiliation.
� Should be accompanied by a 150-200 word vita of author(s) on a separate sheet.
� Must be accompanied by a 150-200 word abstract on a separate sheet with appropriate key words for the papers.

JOEUC also invites significant and insightful research and practice notes, case studies, editorials, and book reviews from all areas of organizational and end user computing. Submitted pieces for this section should not exceed 15 double-spaced pages.

JOEUC Review process:
To ensure high quality of the published materials, JOEUC utilizes a group of experts to review submitted manuscripts. Upon receipt of a manuscript, two reviewers are selected from the Editorial Review Board of the journal to review the manuscript. The selection is based on the area of expertise of the reviewers, matched to the subject matter of the submission. An additional ad-hoc reviewer (usually an author who has previously published in JOEUC and who has expertise in the area) is also selected to review the manuscript. Each submission is, therefore, blind reviewed by at least three reviewers. If at least two reviewers make favorable recommendations on a manuscript, the author(s) are given an opportunity to revise the manuscript. The revised manuscript is blind reviewed by an associate editor (AE) and finally reviewed by the editor. Return of a manuscript to the author(s) for revision(s) does not guarantee an acceptance of the manuscript for publication but it is a step in the right direction. The final decision on a manuscript is made based on comments of the reviewers and AE, and the quality of the revised manuscript.

ALL SUBMISSIONS AND QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO:

M. Adam Mahmood, Editor
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
Department of Information & Decision Sciences
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968, USA
Tel: 915/747-5496 or 7754
Fax: 915/747-5147
Email:mmahmood@utep.edu

17th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2008)

Paphos, Cyprus, August 25-27, 2008

http://isd2008.cs.ucy.ac.cy

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers submission: April 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2008
Camera-ready papers: July 15, 2008
Conference: August 25-27, 2008
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Chair
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Advisory Committee
Gregory Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA
Wita Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Joze Zupancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Organizing Committee, Track Chairs and Programme Committee
See http://isd2008.cs.ucy.ac.cy/committee.html

OVERVIEW

Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually
creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts
and approaches emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes
from research as well as from practice. Over the past 16 years, the
ISD conference has acted as an international forum for the exchange of
ideas and experiences between researchers, academy and industry, and
as a means to stimulate exploration of new solutions.

The 17th International Conference on Information Systems Development
(ISD 2008) will be organized by the University of Cyprus. The
conference venue is the exclusive 5* Anabelle Hotel in Paphos,
one of the most well known touristic locations of Cyprus.

The theme of ISD 2008 is “Towards a Service-Provision Society”.
The conference features a number of tracks covering a wide spectrum
of contemporary topics in the field of Information Systems
Development. These tracks are the following ones:

* Information Systems Research Methodology
* Service-Oriented Analysis and Design of Information Systems
* IT Service Management
* Philosophical and Theoretical Issues in ISD
* Model-Driven Engineering in ISD
* Enterprise Systems Development & Adoption
* Intelligent Information Systems
* Public Information Systems Development
* Agile and High-Speed Systems Development Methods
* Information Systems Engineering & Management
* Business Systems Analysis & Design
* Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in ISD
* ISD Education
* ISD in Developing Nations
* Legal and Administrative Aspects of ISD

Please visit the conference web site for more information regarding
the topics covered by each one of the above tracks.

The language of the conference will be English and we invite full
research papers (4000-7000 words) as well as industry project reports
(2500-4000 words), work-in-progress papers, and position papers.

All submissions will be blind-reviewed by an international programme
committee. Springer Science and Business Media are contracted to publish
the proceedings as a hard cover book after the conference.

Full details about the conference, including fees, travel,
accommodation, and submission instructions, can be accessed on the
conference Web site at:

http://isd2008.cs.ucy.ac.cy

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information about the ISD 2008 conference, please contact:

George A. Papadopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
75 Kallipoleos Street
POB 20537, CY-1678
Nicosia, Cyprus

E-mail: isd2008@cs.ucy.ac.cy
Telephone: +357-22-892693
Fax: +357-22-892701

ALA Anaheim Poster Sessions

Please submit your proposal for the 2008 ALA Annual Conference Poster Sessions. More information can be found at http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/howto.aspx
The deadline for proposals is January 31st, 2008.

Notifications of selected poster sessions for 2008 will be sent on or before March 31st, 2008.

If you have questions about the status of your submission, or need to change information on a submission, please e-mail Candace Benefiel, Poster Session Review Panel Chair.

Thank you for your interest in the ALA Poster Sessions!

Third International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection

Please consider to contribute to and distribute to the appropriate groups the following

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICIMP 2008, The Third International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection

June 29 – July 5, 2008 – Bucharest, Romania

Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICIMP08.html
Committees: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ComICIMP08.html

Submission deadline: February 5, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized journals.

ICIMP 2008 Tracks (details in the CfP on site):

* TRASI: Internet traffic surveillance and interception
* IPERF: Internet performance
* RTSEC: Security for Internet-based real-time systems
* DISAS: Disaster prevention and recovery
* EMERG: Networks and applications emergency services * MONIT: End-to-end sampling, measurement, and monitoring
* REPORT: Experiences & lessons learnt in securing networks and
applications
* USSAF: User safety, privacy, and protection over Internet
* SYVUL: Systems vulnerabilities
* SYDIA: Systems diagnosis
* CYBER-FRAUD: Cyber fraud
* BUSINESS: Business continuity
* RISK: Risk assessment
* TRUST: Privacy and trust in pervasive communications
* RIGHT: Digital rights management
* BIOTEC: Biometric techniques

Workshop PROSIT -PROducing Standards for the ‘Internet of Things’

Workshop PROSIT -PROducing Standards for the ‘Internet of Things’

Zurich, Switzerland, 26 March 2008
http://www.prosit-ws.org

Background and Scope

Imagine a network with literally billions of mobile nodes, without any
pre-defined communication infrastructure, whose nodes are primarily
sensors and actuators with limited processing capabilities. Such
networks exhibit specific communication requirements between individual
nodes, and between nodes and central access points that provide
connectivity with the outside world.

Many, if not most of these nodes are integrated into everyday devices;
they will be found inside cars, at home, and in the shopping mall. The
application areas based on such networks are varied and numerous,
including, for example, intelligent homes, car safety, and item
tracking. Many such applications will become part of our lives, and are
prone to collect information that would be considered as private by
many. For the average user, it will be next to impossible to establish
who has access to these information, and for which purposes.

This unprecedented penetration of virtually everyone’s life suggests the
need for a close scrutiny of the various processes to be associated with
the development of such a technology and its subsequent wide deployment.
International standardisation of information and communication
technologies (ICT) is among the most important of these processes. It is
linked to both the technological development and the policy and legal
frameworks within which the technology is to be developed and deployed.
Accordingly, this Workshop aims to discuss the development of adequate
standards setting processes for the Internet of Things. The analysis of
the current situation in ICT standards setting, the current legal
situation with respect to standards, and the development of
recommendations on how to adapt the processes to adequately serve the
environment created by the IoT will be addressed through insights from
various disciplines.

Sample topics to be discussed by the Workshop include:

* aspects of the standards process’ necessary democratic legitimacy,
* potential barriers of entry to certain stakeholders (e.g., SMEs, NGOs,
consumers),
* the necessary level of openness of the process (i.e., level of
consensus required, observation of due process, ‘equality’ of
participants, etc),
* the different stakeholders’ requirements on the process,
* analysis of today’s standard setting processes with respect to their
suitability for the IoT,
* legal implications of standards today and tomorrow (including IPR issues),
* new forms of participation in the process,
* how to manage relations between relevant standards (e.g., UMTS,
CAPWAP, Zigbee, ISO 18000) and associated standards setting bodies
(ETSI, 3GPP, IETF, ITU-T, etc).

The Workshop aims at serving as a platform for the exchange of ideas and
views. It will, therefore, devote much time to the interaction between
participants. To this end, not only submissions of ‘traditional’ papers
are solicited, but also proposals of topics for round-table discussions
or other forms of moderated interactions.

The Workshop will be held in conjunction with the Int. Conference
‘Internet of Things 2008’; see http://www.the-internet-of-things.org/

Submission guidelines

We solicit contributions from both academia (draft papers of up to 6,000
words) and practice (extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words). Also,
proposals for interactive activities are solicited (1000 words;
providing information about topic, format, speakers, etc). Submissions
should be sent in .rtf, .doc, or .pdf to the workshop organiser at
kai.jakobs@cs.rwth-aachen.de. All draft papers will undergo a double-
blind peer-review process; all other proposals will be evaluated more
informally, based their on suitability and originality.
Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Int. Journal
of IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR).

Important dates:

27 January 2008: Workshop paper submission deadline
9 February 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection of papers
23 February 2008: Submission of final papers

Programme Committee

Knut Blind, FhG ISI & TU Berlin, DE
Yves Chauvel, ETSI, FR
Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, NL
Simao Ferraz de Campos-Neto, ITU-T, CH (tbc)
Vladislav Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT
Ole Hanseth, U. of Oslo, NO
Eric Iversen, NIFU STEP, NO
Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE
Ken Krechmer, ICSR, US,
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U., US
Roy Rada, U. of Maryland, US
Kai Reimer, RWTH Aachen DE
Mostafa H. Sherif, AT&T, US
Henk de Vries, ERASMUS U., NL
Willem Wakker, ACE Cons., NL
Marc van Wegberg, U. of Maastricht, NL
Robin Williams, U. of Edinburgh, UK

Performing Feminist Motherhood:Outlaw Mothers in Music, Media, Arts and Cultural Expression

Call for Panelist, Performing Feminist Motherhood:
Outlaw Mothers in Music, Media, Arts and Cultural Expression
May 16, 2008 in New York City

We have two papers, seeking a third.

In exploring change and continuity in women’s communities, it is essential
to explore and interrogate the world of the internet. The emerging
scholarship thus far has privileged blogs over online communities. Our
papers deal with groups of women in various phases of motherhood on the
internet. One paper explores the use of the internet by expectant mothers
by following a group of women on the public website babycenter.com. The
second paper suggests a new way to understand motherhood culture, one that
recognizes the strong role of the internet in certain women’s everyday lives
while concurrently recognizing the role of friendship in the experience of
motherhood. I will introduce one small, private, group of online friends and
mothers and discuss how, for this group, motherhood is a lived experience
not only in real-life interactions between mothers and their children, but
also, intriguingly, between online friends.

We are seeking a third paper that explores other uses of internet
communities by mothers.

Interested panelists should contact mmoravec@rosemont.edu by February 1.
The CFP deadline is 2/15.

Michelle Moravec, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Rosemont College
Sarah Leavitt, Ph.D.
Project Director, House and Home
National Building Museum

For more information about the conference, see
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/PerformingFeministMotherhood.html

Michelle Moravec, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Rosemont College
1400 Montgomery Avenue
Rosemont, PA 19010
mmoravec@rosemont.edu

International Conference on the Arts in Society

Dear Colleague,

The International Conference on the Arts in Society is pleased to announce its 3rd annual Conference, to be held at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, UK, 28-31 July 2008.

This year’s Arts Conference will feature arts educators, artists, practitioners, researchers and theorists in all forms of disciplinary practice through paper presentations, workshops and colloquia. Submissions are invited for papers, workshops and alternative presentation formats for consideration in the Conference program. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of Journal. While submissions in all areas of the arts will be considered, we especially welcome presentations in keeping with this year’s conference theme: Art and Communication.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 14 February 2008. Proposals are reviewed within three weeks of submission.

Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website –
http://www.Arts-Conference.com

Yours Sincerely,

Prof. Mario Minichiello
Head of Department and Chair of Visual Communications
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Birmingham City University
United Kingdom

Information Online

The Convenors of Information Online 2009, Linden Fairbairn and Kay Harris, welcome you to the 14th Information Online Conference & Exhibition. The Conference & Exhibition will be held at Darling Harbour Exhibition and Convention Centre, Sydney from the 20th to 22nd January 2009.

Information Online 2009 is already shaping up to be the biggest event we have ever held. For 2009 the Executive Committee is looking forward to presenting delegates with an innovative programme, so are calling for papers that will educate and inspire the delegates.

Papers for 2009 can be nominated for peer-review. If you would like to submit a paper, please download the details from our website:

http://www.information-online.com.au. Deadline for submitting is 28th March 2008.