[AISWorld] CfP: European Academy for Standardisation

Thu Feb 3 07:40:21 EST 2011

Dear list,

Another Call for a conference on the broad range of issues relating to
standards and standardisation. My earlier remark re target group and
apologies applies here as well.

Hope to see some of you in Kaunas.

Cheers,
Kai.

CALL FOR PAPERS

16th EURAS Annual Standardization Conference
- Standards for Development -

8 - 10 June 2011
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

The critical role of standards and standardization for economic and
societal development has been recognized at least since
industrialization. As codified knowledge, standards acquire an even
greater role in the development of the global knowledge economy. While
the developed countries have long been leading players on the
international standardization arena, developing and many transition
countries remain largely passive and reap far less benefits than they could. 

The 16th EURAS conference is soliciting original and innovative
submissions focusing on the significance of standards and
standardization for development. We are inviting theoretical and
empirical papers that will contribute to greater awareness of how and
where standards can create potential for progress in developing and
transition countries. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Standards for regional development
* Standardization infrastructure development in transition countries
* Standards, globalization and national authenticity
* Conformity assessment for development
* The relation between standards and the development of science /  
  technology / society / economy
* Developing countries and standardization
* Standardization, globalisation and innovation
* Participatory issues in standardization
* Education on / in standardization and development
* Standards and technology transfer
* History and future of standards 
* Legal and regulatory issues in standardization
* Corporate standards and strategies
* Markets and dominant technologies
* Research and standardization 
* Economics of standardization
* Standardization policies 
* management of standards 
* Standards setting and implementation processes_

Full papers (up to 40 double-spaced pages; pdf, rtf, or .doc format)
should be submitted to Kai Jakobs at Kai.Jakobs at cs.rwth-aachen.de. 

Authors of accepted papers are expected to serve as discussants upon
request. All papers will be reviewed (double blind) by members of the
Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings, as part of the 'EURAS Contributions to
Standardisation Research' book series. Particularly good and relevant
papers will be fast-tracked to the review process of either the EURAS-
Yearbook, the Int. Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research
(JITSR), or the Journal of Technological And Economic Development Of
Economy (Taylor & Francis). For more detailed information, please
consult the EURAS website (www.EURAS.org).

Deadlines 
Paper submission: 	28 Feb 2011
Notification:     	21 March 2011
Final paper due:  	17 April 2011

Organisers
The EURAS Board

General Chair
Vladislav Fomin (Vytautas Magnus University, LT)

Programme Committee 
Irena Bakanauskiene (Vytautas Magnus U., LT)
Knut Blind (TU Berlin, DE) 
Borka Jerman Blazic (Jo_ef Stefan Institute, SI)
Francoise Bousquet (ZFIB Conseil, FR)
Tineke Egyedi (TU Delft, NL) 
Vladislav Fomin (Vytautas Magnus U., LT) 
Stephan Gauch (TU Berlin, DE)
Ian Graham (U. of Edinburgh, UK)
Jean-Christophe Graz, (UNIL, CH) 
John Hudson (Bath University, UK) 
Eric Iversen (NIFU STEP, NO) 
Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen U., DE)
Geerten Van de Kaa (TU Delft, NL)
Detlev Langmann (Momentum Consulting, DE) 
Pauline Mazumdar (U. of Toronto, CA)
Arturas Medeisis (Vilnius Gediminas TU, LT)
Ivana Mijatovic (Belgrade U., SRB) 
Janis Eriks Niedritis (Turiba School of Business Admin., LV)
Marta Orviska (U. Mateja Bela, SK) 
Jan Pawlowski (U. of Jyväskylä, FI)
Megan Quinlan (Imperial College London, UK) 
Eberhard Seifert (WU Vienna, AT) 
Eva Söderström (U. Skövde, SE) tbc
Klaus Turowski (U. of Augsburg, DE)
Taavi Valdlo (Ministry of Economic Affairs, EE) 
Jack Verhoosel (TNO, NL)
Daiva Vitkute-Adzgauskiene (Vytautas Magnus U., LT)
Henk de Vries (Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL) 
Marc van Wegberg (U. of Maastricht, NL) 

Local Organisation and Enquiries
Vladislav Fomin, mailto:euras2011 at if.vdu.lt

Conference Venue
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas.
For more information 
* about Vytautas Magnus University: http://www.vdu.lt
* about Kaunas: http://vdu.lt/en/simplepages/905/tid/893HYPERLINK

For more information about EURAS please see
http://www.euras.org.

________________________________________________________________

Kai Jakobs

RWTH Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
Fax:  +49-241-80-22220
Kai.Jakobs at comsys.rwth-aachen.de 
<http://www.nets.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/kai/kai_home.html>

EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. 
<http://www.euras.org>

The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. 
<http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr>

The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization
Research' book series.
<http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142>