[AISWorld] Book in IT Service Systems and intelligent DSS/DMSS: high quality chapters are required!

mmora at securenym.net mmora at securenym.net
Wed Sep 5 13:11:12 EDT 2012


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CALL FOR CHAPTERS: deadline has been extended to October 31, 2012
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Book on: "Engineering and Management of IT-based Service Systems: an
Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems Approach"


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

High quality fundamental or applied research-oriented chapters are welcome
on the following key topics:

Section I.  Foundations on IT-based Service Systems

Topics: fundamental concepts, models/architectures, frameworks/schemes or
theories for planning, designing, building, operating or evaluating
IT-based service systems using i-DMSS.

Section II. Cases on Engineering and Management of IT-based Service
Systems supported by i-DMSS

Topics: cases of innovative real or potential (proof of concept) i-DMSS
applications for supporting the planning, designing, building, operating
or evaluating of IT-based service systems in the main service domains such
as: financial, legal, healthcare, logistics, educational, and military.
AI-based technologies as such: logic rule-based systems, ontology-based
systems, machine learning techniques,  multi-agent systems techniques,
neural networks systems, fuzzy logic systems, cased-based reasoning
systems, genetic algorithms techniques, data mining algorithms,
intelligent agents, user intelligent interfaces among others are welcome.

Section III. Trends and Challenges on Engineering and Management of
IT-based Service Systems supported by i-DMSS

Topics: emergent AI-based technologies, integrations of these
technologies, and the implications, challenges and trends for supporting
the individual, team, organizational or inter-organizational
decision-making processes applied to IT-based service systems, from a
technical and organizational perspective.

IMPORTANT DATES:

October 31, 2012 – submission deadline of first version of full
chapters.
December 15, 2013 – notification deadline of editorial results
(definitively accepted chapter, conditioned chapter, or definitively
rejected chapter).
February 28,  2013 – submission deadline of second improved
version of conditioned chapters.
March 31, 2013 – notification deadline of definitive editorial
decision on conditioned chapters.
April 15, 2013 – submission deadline of camera-ready versions of
accepted chapters.
November to December 2013 – estimated publishing period.


SUBMISSION PROCESS:

Interested authors, please send your full chapter before or on October 31,
2012, to Dr. Manuel Mora at mmora at securenym.net with copy to
dr.manuel.mora.uaa at gmail.com. Each chapter will be evaluated by at least
two academic peers on related themes in a blind mode. Conditioned chapters
will have an additional opportunity for being improved and evaluated. In
the second evaluation, a definitive editorial decision among: accepted or
rejected will be reported. All of the accepted chapters must be submitted
according to the Editorial publishing format rules timely. Instructions
for authors can be downloaded at:
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/T1-book.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-392600-0


EDITORS:

Manuel Mora, EngD, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico
Jorge Marx Gómez, PhD,  Oldenburg University, Germany
Leonardo Garrido, PhD, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, México
Francisco Cervantes-Pérez, PhD, CCADET, UNAM, México

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