[AISWorld] 2nd CfP: European Academy for Standardisation (EURAS) Annual Conference

[Kai Jakobs]

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Kai.



SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
www.euras.org


20th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference
'The Role of Standards in Transatlantic Trade and Regulation' 

22 - 24 June 2015
Copenhagen, Denmark


Organised by
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The European Academy for Standardisation (EURAS) 
The Danish Standards Foundation


TTIP is a highly important and topical political project full of potential, challenges and controversies for Europe, North America, and the world - a great number of which are related to standardisation. TTIP has triggered controversies in the realms of politics and law as well as in e.g. policy making, business, and consumer relations. Standards in TTIP have important implications for economics, public health, innovation, regulation, the environment, and international affairs, to list but a few key areas. Accordingly, discussions about the role(s) of standards in TTIP should be highly relevant for many stakeholder groups, from all parts of society. Specifically, the topic offers an almost unlimited variety of topics for academic research on standardisation and avoidance of technical barriers to trade. This includes, among many other aspects, the role of standards in national or multinational regulation, technology, business, manufacturing, innovation, consumer or environmental protection, or international affairs. These activities may offer relevant information for the ongoing TTIP negotiations.

The EURAS 2015 conference seeks to receive academic papers on the above theme. Sample paper topics include:  
 
- Standardisation as a policy tool
- Standards and barriers to trade
- National or international policy and standardisation
- Standardisation and Europe's research and innovation agenda
- Relationship between standardisation and legislation 
- Standards as a driver for innovation 
- Standards and conformity assessment  
- Standardisation and IPR
- Standards and knowledge transfer
- The impact of standards and standardisation
- Quality of standards
- Role of industry and their associations in standardisation 
- Standardisation via industry consortia 
- History of standardisation 
- Standardisation processes 
 
EURAS conferences provide a platform for those interested in standardisation research. Therefore, other standardisation papers not specifically related to the conference theme are also welcome. Full papers (up to 30 double spaced pages; rtf. .doc or .docx 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 double blind reviewed 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 International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research or to a special issue on Smart IT of the Journal of ICT Standardization.
 
Programme Committee 
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Nizar Abdelkafi, Fraunhofer MOEZ, DE
Martin Adolph, ITU, CH
Knut Blind, Fraunhofer FOKUS & TU Berlin, DE; Erasmus U., NL
Axel Czaya, Helmut-Schmidt U., DE
Frank Steven Dahl Andersen, Danish Standards, DK
Panagiotis Delimatsis, Tilburg U., NL
Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, NL
Vladislav Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT
Christian Frankel, CBS, DK (tbc)
Stephan Gauch, Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE
Martina Gerst, Tsinghua U., CN
Ian Graham, U. of Edinburgh, UK 
Jean-Christophe Graz, UNIL, CH (tbc)
Christophe Hauert, UNIL, CH (tbc)
Eric Iversen, NIFU, NO 
Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE
Geerten van de Kaa, TU Delft, NL
Thomas Kalling, Lund U., SE
Walter Mattli, Oxford U., UK 
Devin McDaniels, WTO, CH
Art?ras Medei?is, ITU-T, LT
Ivana Mijatovic, Belgrade U., SRB
Anne Mione, U. Montpellier 1, FR
Marta Orviska, UMB, SK
Tim Pohlmann, TU Berlin, DE (tbc)
Megan Quinlan, Imperial College London, UK 
Kristian Philipsen, U. of Southern Denmark, DK 
Cesare Riillo, STATEC, LU
Harm Schepel, U. of Kent, UK 
Kees Stuurman, Tilburg U., NL
Klaus Turowski, U. Magdeburg, DE
Taavi Valdlo, Estonian IT Standardization Technical Committee, EE 
Henk de Vries, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
Marc van Wegberg, U. of Maastricht, NL
Robert van Wessel, ApexIS & Erasmus U., NL (tbc)

Organisers
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Danish Standards, Katrine Bergh Skriver
EURAS Board

Deadlines 
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Paper submission: 28 February 2015
Notification:      4 April 2015
Final paper due:  27 April 2015

Local Organisation and Enquiries
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Please send any enquiries to Katrine Bergh Skriver, uni at ds.dk   


Conference Venue
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Danish Standards, Copenhagen; www.ds.dk/venue 

For information about Copenhagen: http://www.visitcopenhagen.com/ 

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


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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:  +49-241-80-22222
Kai.Jakobs at comsys.rwth-aachen.de 
<http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/>

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>