[AISWorld] CfP: 23rd EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference

[Kai Jakobs]

***With apologies for cross-posting***


Folks,

The 23rd EURAS Annual Standardisation conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland, on 13 - 15 June 2018 (i.e. preceding Bloomsday; see 
<http://jamesjoyce.ie/bloomsday/>.

And if you liked any further information - please do ask.


Cheers,
Kai.







                             Call for Papers

              23rd EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference
                   - Standards for a Smarter Future -

                            13 - 15 June 2018
                             Dublin, Ireland


Organised by
The European Academy for Standardisation (EURAS) 
The National Standards Authority of Ireland

Hosted by
Dublin City University 



Standards will play a key role in ensuring a smarter future for all European businesses and citizens.  In the context of the Digital Single Market, the EU has prioritised the following 5 ICT areas for standardisation - Cyber Security, 5G, IoT, Cloud and Big Data. Additive Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Augmented/Virtual Reality have also recently become a focus area for international standards development.  

The 'Digital Transformation' of traditional industries and businesses across all sectors is now a top priority for governments and companies across Europe and worldwide - as they try to understand how these emerging technologies could transform enterprise and labour markets. Risks and concerns include cyber security, data privacy, job displacements and digital skills deficits. In this 'smart digital future', standards will be critical in order to ensure interoperability, security and safe human-centred solutions for all businesses and communities.

EURAS 2018 solicits papers on the above theme. However, papers on other standardisation topics will also be considered. Sample topics include:

- Standardisation of reference architectures and for systems engineering. 
- Standardisation of converging technologies.
- Smart standardisation.
- Standardisation roadmaps.
- Standardisation and Open Source.
- Standards as a policy tool.
- Standards and barriers to trade.
- National or international policy and standardisation.
- Standardisation and Europe's research and innovation agenda.
- Relation between standardisation and legislation.
- Standards as a driver for innovation. 
- Standardisation and quality infrastructure.
- Legal aspects of standardisation. 
- Standards and knowledge transfer.
- The impacts of standards and standardisation.
- Quality of standards.
- Role of industry and their associations in standardisation. 
- Standardisation via industry consortia. 
- History of standardisation. 
- Standardisation processes. 

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. 

All papers will be double blind reviewed by members of the Technical 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 papers will be fast-tracked to the Int. Journal of Standardization Research.


Deadlines
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Paper submission: 11 February 2018
Notification:     20 March 2018
Final paper due:   3 April 2018


Local Organisation and Enquiries
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Please send any enquiries to Mary White; mary.white at nsai.ie


Conference Venue
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DCU, Glasnevein Campus, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
http://www.dcu.ie/info/campus.shtml 

For information about Dublin: https://dublin.ie/

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


Technical Programme Committee
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Martin Adolph, ITU, CH
Marie Barani, Vectis, UK
Rudi Bekkers, TU Eindhoven, NL
Knut Blind, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE; 
Franceco Bolici, U. Cassino, IT
Nils Brunsson, Uppsala U., SE 
Axel Czaya, Helmut-Schmidt U., DE 
Panagiotis Delimatsis, Tilburg U., NL
Sandra Drechsler, KIT, DE 
Tineke Egyedi, DIRoS, NL
Vladislav Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT
Andrea Fried, Linköping U., SE
Martina Gerst, Tsinghua U., CN  
Ian Graham, U. of Edinburgh, UK 
Jae-Yun (Jane) Ho, U. Cambridge, UK
Eric Iversen, NIFU, NO
Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE
Geerten van de Kaa, TU Delft, NL
Thomas Kalling, Lund U., SE
Devin McDaniels, WTO, CH 
Niclas Meyer, Fraunhofer ISI, DE  
Ivana Mijatovic, Belgrade U., SRB
Anne Mione, U. Montpellier, FR 
Craig Murphy, Wellesley College, US
Anke Piepenbrink, Rennes Business School, FR
Marta Orviska, UMB, SK
Megan Quinlan, Imperial College London, UK
Cesare Riillo, STATEC, LU
Jan Smits, TU Eindhoven, NL
Kees Stuurman, Tilburg U., NL 
Klaus Turowski, U. Magdeburg, DE 
Taavi Valdlo, Estonian IT Standardization TC, EE
Francesco Virili, U. Sassari, IT 
Henk de Vries, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
Marc van Wegberg, U. of Maastricht, NL
Robert van Wessel, ApexIS, NL
Paul Wiegmann, Erasmus U., NL
JoAnne Yates, MIT, US



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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 Standardisation. 
<http://www.euras.org>

The International Journal of Standardization Research. 
<https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-standardization-research-ijsr/145878>

The 'Advances in Standardization Research' book series.
<https://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-standardization-research/154747>