[AISWorld] CALL FOR TUTORIALS:10th IEEE International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS 2016)

[Irina Rychkova]

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS:
10th IEEE International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION 
SCIENCE
*RCIS2016*
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1-3 June 2016, Grenoble, France

http://rcis-conf.com/
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RCIS has become a recognised conference on research challenges in 
information sciences. Organised for the tenth time in a row, RCIS 2016 
will be held from June 1-3, 2016, in Grenoble, France.

RCIS will feature several tutorials. Tutorials are 90 minutes free 
format sessions, where the presenter(s) share(s) a specific and top of 
the art practical know-how to conference attendees that are willing to 
participate. Tutorials run in parallel with other conference tracks, and 
participation is included in the attendees’ conference fee. We invite 
proposals for tutorials that may address one or more of the listed 
topics below, although authors should not feel limited by them.

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*IMPORTANT DATES:*

•    Tutorial Submission deadline: February 21, 2016 (23:59 Central 
European Time)
•    Tutorial Notification: April 1, 2016
•    RCIS 2016 Conference: June 1‐3, 2016
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*TOPICS ON INTEREST*

At RCIS 2016, among other regular topics a special attention will be 
given to the special topic “Information science for a socially and 
environmentally responsible world”. The theme is intended to explore how 
information science methods and tools can empower people and 
organisations and pave the way towards making the world a better place.
Environmental and equality movements; transparency and participative 
democracy; social economy and ethical banking; free press and the wisdom 
of the crowd.

Besides the works on “Information science for a socially and 
environmentally responsible world” and the implications of this fact in 
the field of Information Science, which is the special topic of this 
edition, RCIS welcomes tutorial submissions from any domain of 
Information Science. The list of interested topics includes, but is not 
limited to:

Information Systems and their Engineering
•    Requirements Engineering
•    Software Engineering and Testing
•    Model-Driven Engineering
•    Information Systems Development Methods and Method Engineering


Data and Information Management
•    Databases and Information
•    Information Search and Discovery
•    Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies
•    Information Security and Risk Management
•    Big Data, Right Data

Applications
•    E-Health
•    E-Government
•    E-Commerce
•    Web-Based Applications and Services
•    Smart Cities

Information Infrastructures
•    Cyber-Physical Systems
•    Web Information Systems
•    Grid Computing and Cloud Computing
•    Internet of Things
•    Pervasive and Mobile Computing

User-Oriented Approaches
•    Human-Computer Interaction
•    Social Computing and Social Network Analysis
•    User-Centred Approaches
•    Collaborative Computing
•    Information Science and the Wisdom of the Crowd

Enterprise Engineering
•    Business Process Engineering and Management
•    Process Mining
•    Enterprise Modelling
•    Information Science within Reengineering Scenarios
•    Context-aware Organisations

Business Intelligence
•    Big Data & Business Analytics
•    Decision Information Systems
•    Knowledge Management
•    Knowledge Discovery from Data
•    Information and Value Management


Reflective Research and Practice
•    Research Methodologies in Information Science
•    Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual
•    Lifecycle Models
•    Design Science and Rationale
•    Action Research and Case Studies in Information Science

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*INSTRUCTIONS FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS*

Tutorial proposals are limited to 5 pages. They must include:

1.    A title;
2.    A 150 words abstract;
3.    Value of the tutorial for the attendees;
4.    Learning objectives aligned with the value statement;
5.    Description of how the activities in the tutorial support the 
learning objectives and how the proposer will pass his/her messages onto 
the attendees;
6.    Expected background of the attendees;
7.    A concise description of material(s) that will be provided to 
attendees;
8.    Timetable that clearly indicates how the interaction with the 
audience will develop over time;
9.    A short bio of the presenter(s);
10.    A history of the tutorial: has this tutorial (or any derived 
version of it) already been given? If so, detail where and when, and how 
it has been received. Proven track record has to be balanced with the 
innovative aspect of the tutorial.

In preparing your proposal, you are encouraged to include some creative 
techniques to teaching and learning. Any teaching approach that ensures 
active interaction would be greatly appreciated by the RCIS audience. We 
encourage you to craft a tutorial that can deliver high quality content 
in an enjoyable way.

Please also consider including printed or online take away material for 
attendees. For example, templates, checklists, frameworks etc. that 
attendees can employ in their own settings.

We finally encourage authors to optionally include a 1 or 2 minutes 
video of the speakers teasing their tutorial.

By submitting a tutorial proposal, authors implicitly agree that they 
will indeed attend the conference to deliver the tutorial.

*SUBMISSION WEBSITE:*

Proposals must be submitted using the conference submission site 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2016), where you choose 
“Tutorial paper”.

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*TUTORIAL PROPOSALS WILL BE SENT TO AND EVALUATED BY*

Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean
chkallon at aegean.gr

Kecheng Liu, University of Reading
k.liu at henley.ac.uk

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*COMPENSATION*

Tutorial speakers will receive a fixed honorarium of 350 Euros per 
tutorial (i.e., multiple speakers must share the honorarium). 
Additionally, free registration for the conference will be offered to 
the main presenter (one speaker, unless he is the only paying author of 
a paper presented at the conference).

An updated version of this call can always be found in http://rcis-conf.com/