[AISWorld] CFP: IFIP EGOV-EPART 2017 CONFERENCE

Fri Nov 4 12:01:23 EDT 2016

Call for papers - IFIP EGOV-EPART 2017 CONFERENCE

4-7 September 2017

St. Petersburg, Russia
http://wg85.ifip.org

OVERVIEW
The IFIP EGOV-EPART conference will be held from Monday, September 4 to Thursday, September 7, 2016 under the local auspices of the ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia (http://en.ifmo.ru/en/). ITMO University s a large state university in Saint Petersburg and is one of Russia’s National Research Universities. The PhD colloquium will be on Sunday, September 3, 2017.

The annual international IFIP EGOV conference is the top-2 ranked core conference in the domain of e-Government or ICT in the public sector and the public sphere. Each year, scholars from all over the globe present the most recent advancements and findings of research and innovations in e-Government, e-Governance and related fields of study. The annual international ePart conference is the top-ranked conference in the domain of electronic participation and the 5th-ranked overall conference dedicated to information technologies in the context of public administration and the public sphere.

The dual conference is organized by the IFIP Working Group 8.5 on information systems in the public sector. Since the beginnings of EGOV in 2001 and the inauguration of ePart in 2009, the two conferences have provided important guidance for research and development in this fast-moving domain of study. The dual IFIP EGOV—ePart conference brings together leading researchers and professionals from across the globe and from a number of disciplines.

The 2016 edition of the dual IFIP (WG 8.5) conference will continue to host five topical tracks. Two general tracks will maintain the tradition of EGOV and ePart in the way, with which former conference attendees have become familiar. In addition, three special-topics tracks are intended to expand the reach and scope of the dual IFIP WG 8.5 conference:

⎯ The General E-Government Track (EGOV LNCS Proceedings)

⎯ The General eParticipation Track (ePart LNCS Proceedings)

⎯ The Open Government & Open and Big Data Track (EGOV LNCS Proceedings)

⎯ The Policy Modeling and Policy Informatics Track (ePart LNCS Proceedings)

⎯ The Smart Governance, Smart Government, & Smart Cities Track (EGOV LNCS Proceedings)

Although the five tracks overlap in certain areas, they cover and emphasize distinct areas of research and appeal to specific and important sub-communities within the overall EGOV—ePart scholarly community. Therefore the tracks have their separate and detailed call for papers, a short version of which is shown below.

TRACKS

For the dual IFIP EGOV-EPART conference we seek contributions that include but are not limited to:

The General EGOV Track (Track Chairs: Hans Jochen Scholl (lead), Maria Wimmer, and Marijn Janssen)

The General EGOV Track serves as an umbrella for all e-Government-related topics except the special-topics tracks on Open Government & Big Data and the Smart Governance, Smart Government, & Smart Cities (see below). In particular, it also covers emerging and special topics in e-Government research.

The General eParticipation Track (Track Chairs: Efthimios Tambouris (lead), Panos Panagiotopoulos, Øystein Sæbø)

The General ePart Track serves as an umbrella for all eParticipation-related topics, except the special-topic track on Policy Modeling and Policy Informatics Track (see below).  Its principal aim is to review advances in research in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new theories, concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation with the support of innovative ICT.

The Open Government & Big Data Track (Track Chairs: Ida Lindgren (lead), Bram Klievink, and Robert Krimmer)

The Open Government & Big Data Track focuses on practices and methods for opening the government resulting in enagement, transparency, accountability, public big data sharing, data for improving public value and data analytics.

The Policy Modeling and Policy Informatics Track (Track Chairs: Theresa A. Pardo (lead), Maria A. Wimmer, and Yannis Charalabidis)
The Policy Modelling and Policy Informatics Track focuses on supporting public policy making with innovative ICT therewith involving relevant stakeholders. It heavily involves multi-disciplinary research. The scope ranges from policy analysis and conceptual modeling to programming and visualization of simulation models, to help policy makers and stakeholders deliberate and evaluate policy decisions and explore new models of governance.

The Smart Governance, Smart Government, & Smart Cities Track (Track Chairs: Peter Parycek (lead), Olivier Glassey and Karin Axelsson)

The Smart Governance, Smart Government, Smart Cities & Smart Regions Track focuses on the orchestrated interplay and balance of smart governance practices, smart public administration, smart resource and talent leverage in urban and regional spaces facilitated by novel uses of ICTs and other technologies.

The PhD Colloquium is a venue for PhD candidates to present their research and to gain feedback from  (PhD Colloquium chairs: Anneke Zuiderwijk (Lead), Ramon Gil-Garcia, and Ida Lindgren)

Submission Guidelines
The conference allows for four distinct types of submissions:
·         Research papers (max 12 pages, published in LCNS Springer);
·         Ongoing research and innovative projects papers (max 8 pages, published by IOS Press);
·         Workshops and panels on pertinent issues (2 pages, published by IOS Press);
·         Poster proposals (2 pages, published by IOS Press);
·         PhD colloquium submissions (8 pages, published by IOS Press).
Completed research papers
Papers submitted in this category should deal with completed research. They should have both relevance and a strong focus on scientific rigour and may be a maximum of 12 pages. Papers in this track will be peer reviewed for rigour, relevance, originality and clarity of presentation. Abstracts or incomplete papers will not be accepted.
On-going research papers
These types of papers should describe novel concepts, works-in-progress, policy, or other ideas and issues that are not currently suitable for a completed research paper. They may be a maximum of 8 pages. Papers in this section will also be peer reviewed, but the emphasis is on relevance more than scientific rigour.

Workshops and Panels
Proposals for workshops and panels (2 pages) should include rationale, objectives, expected outcomes and approach to audience participation.

Posters
Proposals for posters (2 pages) will not be blind reviewed. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to bring their posters which will be displayed to the conference audience.

PhD Colloquium Submissions
Prior to the conference, a PhD student colloquium will be held providing an international forum for doctoral students under the guidance of senior scholars for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. Papers of accepted submissions will be included in the proceedings.
All papers must contain original material not previously published or currently submitted elsewhere. Paper submissions should be anonymous and follow the relevant templates. Submissions must be made through the conference’s management system by going to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egovepart2017<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egovepart2017%0d>

Proceedings

All accepted completed research papers will be published by Springer Verlag (LNCS). In 16th IFIP International Conference on eGovernment (IFIP EGOV2017) or 9th IFIP International Conference on eParticipation (IFIP ePart2017). Accepted submissions in all other categories will be published by IOS Press.
After the conference, both LNCS volumes will be submitted to Thompson Reuters for evaluation in order to be indexed in Web of Science Conference Proceedings.
Conference venue
Important Dates
15 February: Submission of papers
15 March: Submission of workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium contributions
1 April: Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions for papers/workshops/panels/posters/PhD colloquium contributions
20 May: Camera-ready papers of accepted completed research/ongoing research/workshop/panel/ poster/PhD colloquium contributions
*** due to the visa application process<http://students.washington.edu/wtmenten/egov/#/Attend/>, the decisions need to be made early, so that accepted paper authors can get their visas in due time***
Conference Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (2017 Lead Organizer)
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA (Lead General EGOV Track)
Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece (Lead General EPART Track)
Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden (Lead Open Government & Big Data Track)
Theresa A. Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (Lead Policy Modeling & Informatics Track)
Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria (Lead Smart Governance Track)
Dimitri Trutnev, ITMO University, Russia (Local Host)
Andrei V. Chugunov, ITMO University, Russia (Local Host)

Inquiries: egovepart2017 at easychair.org<mailto:egovepart2017 at easychair.org>

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