From GDELEOZ at ut.edu Sun Feb 25 06:11:47 2018 From: GDELEOZ at ut.edu (Gerard De Leoz) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:11:47 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2018: FEB. 28 DEADLINE [Call for Papers] - Fake News, Rumors and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities Message-ID: <1D9D2EA8-92C6-43F9-8AB7-9F588FB68D6B@ut.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) August 16-18, 2018, New Orleans, LA MINITRACK 5: Fake News, Rumors, and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities. In alignment with the Digital Disruption theme of AMCIS 2018, we are pleased to invite submission of completed research papers and research-in-progress papers for this mini-track. This mini-track is under the Virtual Communities and Collaboration track (http://amcis2018.aisnet.org/?page_id=111#toggle-id-29). MINITRACK DESCRIPTION: Virtual communities enabled by social media are providing new opportunities for people to engage with each other. Such engagements span across personal, political, social, or economic spheres. Recently, such engagements have been exploited to spread fake news, rumors, biased reporting, or for promoting unsupported viewpoints. Some other unintended effects include cyberbullying, suppression of alternate viewpoints, or promotion of narratives disconnected from facts. These reflect unintended consequences of engagement in virtual communities that have the potential to significantly influence the discourse of social, political, moral, or economic debate. It cannot be denied that virtual communities hold a lot of potential for beneficial and positive engagement among the community members but there is a need to examine some of these unintended consequences prevalent in virtual communities. The objective of this mini-track is to provide a forum for discussion and presentation of original research highlighting some of these unintended consequences and subsequent challenges/or solutions to deal with them. We seek papers that address nature of unintended consequence of engagements in virtual communities from a theoretical, conceptual, or empirical perspective. Both quantitative and qualitative studies are welcome. Generally, topics of interest are those that model and analyze the impacts, spread and drivers of unintended consequences, which include, but are not limited to: ? Models analyzing spread of fake news in virtual communities ? Models identifying rumors/ fake news ? Impact of rumors/fake news on participation in virtual communities ? Drivers of rumors/fake news in virtual communities ? Harassment, intimidation and stalking ? Damaged reputation due to rumors or gossips ? Online deception ? Sex and violence ? Inadvertent disclosure of private information ? Changes to relationships between public and private sphere ? Suppression of alternate viewpoints ? Promotion of narratives disconnected from facts ? Data mining in virtual communities with malicious intent ? Use of personal data by third-parties, hacking and identify theft IMPORTANT DATES: January 15, 2018: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2018 begins February 28, 2018: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2018 due April 18, 2018: Authors notified about the disposition of their papers MINITRACK CHAIRS: Vikas Jain, University of Tampa, vjain at ut.edu Vishal Midha, Illinois State University, vmidha at illinoisstate.edu Gerard De Leoz, University of Tampa, gdeleoz at ut.edu ------------------- Vikas Jain, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Information and Technology Management Sykes College of Business, Box O The University of Tampa 401 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606 Ph: 813-257-3968 Email: vjain at ut.edu From ilia at ibissoft.se Sun Feb 25 08:27:52 2018 From: ilia at ibissoft.se (ilia) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:27:52 +0100 Subject: [AISWorld] STPIS 2018 - the submission system is open (Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development) Message-ID: <83e3cdee-ba7c-a1c5-8e2e-49e0fdcdda63@ibissoft.se> Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting to the 1st call of 4th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development (STPIS'18), Tallinn, Estonia 12th June 2018 This is the reminder for the 1st call with a submission deadline of *4 March 2018* The main */purpose /*of the workshop is to arrange */discussions /*on using a socio-technical perspective in IS development, the long term goal being to make this workshop a/*meeting place for the community of IS researchers and practitioners*/ interested in the socio-technical approach. Following the purpose, only part of the workshop is devoted to presentations, the rest is designated for collaborative work. This year we follow the practice established during STPI'17 and will be working on a *real case from the local industry*. We are now discussing a potential case with the local CAiSE'18 organizers. It will be announced on our WEB site as soon as it becomes certain. Attached to CAiSE'18 conference https://caise2018.ut.ee/ Full description see at http://stpis2018.blogs.dsv.su.se/ Short description is presented below --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite that a socio-technical perspective has been around for over a half century, it is often forgotten in the Information Systems (IS) discourse today. Consequently, many ?new approaches? appear to reflect on IS systems problems, such as modern IT systems poorly adjusted to the external or/and internal environment (e.g. market, organizational culture) of organizations in which they are (to be) deployed. We strongly believe that it is high time the social-technical perspective took its proper place in IS research, practice and teaching. The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange discussions on using a socio-technical perspective in IS development, the long term goal being to make this workshop a meeting place for the community of IS researchers and practitioners interested in the socio-technical approach. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: ?? * Case studies using socio-technical approach ?? * Information system design using socio-technical approach ?? * Socio-technical comparative studies of technology/IS adoption ?? * Socio-technical analysis, design, development and integration of ??? ? health care systems ??? ? crisis management systems ??? ? information security management systems ??? ? learning systems ??? ? privacy enhanced technology ?? * Societal Security from a socio-technical perspective ?? * Ethnographic and Anthropological aspects of IS design and adoption ?? * IT business alignment from a socio-technical perspective ?? * Using Viable System Model (VSM) for analysis and design of socio-technical systems We invite submissions of short and long papers and multi-media materials in the following categories: ?? * Position papers ?? * Idea papers ?? * Experience reports ?? * Research papers ?? * Multi-media. Besides papers, we accept submissions in form of multi-media materials, for example, recorded video or animated presentation, describing industrial experience of using socio-technical perspective for IS analysis or development. In case of acceptance, an extended abstract is published in the workshop proceedings, while the multi-media material itself or a link to it is placed on the workshop site. ? * Posters Deadlines for the first call ------------------------------ Submission of papers - 4 March 2018 Proceedings ----------------- As with the previous editions of? STPIS. We are planning to produce proceedings on-line via CEUR services . CEUR proceedings are indexed byDBLP , Google Scholar , Scopus , CiteSeer /CiteSeerX , etc. For Scandinavian researchers, the publisher is in the Norska systemet rated as level 1 (which is the highest level for the conferences and workshops). Proceedings for the previous editions of STPIS can be found here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1604/, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1374/and http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1854/ Organizing committee ------------------------------ Stewart Kowalski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway,? - general chair Peter Bednar, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK - program chair Ilia Bider ? DSV, Stockholm University/Ibissoft, Stockholm, Sweden - publicity chair PC (under construction) --------------------------------- Peter Bednar ? School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK Ilia Bider ? DSV SU/Ibissoft , Stockholm, Sweden Stewart Kowalski, NTNU, Norway Gil Regev, EPFL, Switzerland .... ------------------------------------- Best regards -- Ilia =============================================== Dr. Ilia Bider Process- och systemutvecklingskonsult at IbisSoft.se Lektor & Forskare/Docent i data- och systemvetenskap at DSV.su.se ilia at ibissoft.se +46 (0)8 164998 From Indira.Guzman at trident.edu Sun Feb 25 16:03:13 2018 From: Indira.Guzman at trident.edu (Dr. Indira Guzman) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 21:03:13 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] ACM SIGMIS REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH FUNDING Message-ID: The ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems is proud to offer funding for research on topics of interest to the IS/IT academic and practitioner communities. This is the Request for Proposals. REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH FUNDING - ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-19 ACM SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON MIS - http://sigmis.org/ Requests Proposals for research on topics of interest to the IS/IT academic and practitioner communities Up to $3000 grants available per proposal - ? upon awarding of the grant and ? upon completion of the project, delivery of a working paper for presentation at a SIGMIS - conference and inclusion in the conference proceedings. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * IS Workforce - labor markets * IS Personnel - retention, training, skills * Social inclusion * Ethics * IS Leadership * IS Entrepreneurship * Digital work * Additional topics pertaining to the understand, use, and manipulation of IS by people and organizations Requirements: * Proposal for a defined research project presented in up to 10 pages (double-spaced and 12pt. font) excluding diagrams and references. * Recipient must be a member of SIGMIS at the time of receiving funds * All publications resulting from funded research must provide a recognition citation that the work was funded (at least in part) by the ACM SIGMIS Criteria for evaluating proposals will include: * No proposal shall be awarded to any project team that includes a member of the committee of 5 or elected officer of SIGMIS. ACM conflict of interest guidelines will be followed (Please see https://awards.acm.org/awards-committees/conflict-of-interest) * The proposal provides benchmarks for progress and specifies at least one clear deliverable. * The proposal argues clear contributions to theory, practice or the ACM SIGMIS-CPR community. * Priority will be given to proposals that show benefit broadly or have applicability across the whole MIS community relative to those targeted to a narrower audience. * Should no proposal rise above an acceptable threshold for funding, the committee is not obligated to recommend any projects for that funding cycle. The committee will provide feedback regarding the selection decision. Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018 Award Decisions: June 18-20, 2018 Award Announcement: July 15, 2018 E-Mail proposal to: Fred Niederman, Saint Louis University at Fred.niederman at slu.edu Please mark in the email title: SIGMIS grant proposal 2018 Please name your file: [PI last name] SIGMIS grant proposal 2018 More information can be found at http://sigmis.org/research-funding/ [Refer a Friend] This message from Trident University International may contain confidential or privileged information solely intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed. If you received this transmission in error, please call us immediately at 1-800-375-9878. Disclosure or use of any part of this message by persons other than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 626 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: From chris.bauer at univie.ac.at Sun Feb 25 02:53:41 2018 From: chris.bauer at univie.ac.at (Christine Bauer) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 08:53:41 +0100 Subject: [AISWorld] CfP - 1st International Workshop on Multi-Method Evaluation of Personalized Systems (MuMe 2018) Message-ID: <085D1BF8-BF72-49E3-ABF6-ED8EE896273E@univie.ac.at> [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Multi-Method Evaluation of Personalized Systems (MuMe 2018) https://multimethods.info held in conjunction with UMAP 2018 (User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization) http://www.um.org/umap2018/ 8 - 11 July, 2018 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro ------------------------------------------------------------------- The MuMe 2018 workshop is based on the objective to raise awareness in the user modeling community for the significance of using multiple methods in the evaluation of recommender systems and other personalized systems. Employing a multi-method evaluation integrating a number of single methods (e.g., a combination of think-aloud and survey with open-ended questions or a combination of offline prediction simulation with an open dataset and survey with closed- and open-ended questions) allows for getting a more integrated and richer picture of user experience and quality drivers of personalized systems. The primary goal of this workshop is to build a community around the multi-method evaluation topic and to develop a long-term research agenda for the topic. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics ------------------------------------------------------------------- We solicit position and research papers (4 pages excluding references, UMAP 2018 Extended Abstracts Format) that address challenges in the multi-method evaluation of recommender systems and other personalized systems. This includes - "lessons learned" from the successful application of multi-method evaluations, - "post mortem" analyses describing specific evaluation strategies that failed to uncover decisive elements, - "overview papers" analyzing patterns of challenges or obstacles to multi-method evaluation, and - "solution papers" presenting solutions towards identified challenges. Possible questions addressed may include (but are not limited to): - How can we select evaluation methods that allow to identify blind spots in user experience? What may be criteria to compare and evaluate the suitability of methods for given evaluation objectives and how can we develop those? - How can we integrate and combine the results of multiple methods to get a comprehensive picture of user experience? - What are the challenges and limitations of single- or multi-method evaluation of RecSys? How can we overcome such hurdles? - What are viable user-centric multi-method study designs (guidelines) for evaluating RecSys? What are the lessons learned from successful or unsuccessful user-centric multi-method study designs? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: April 17, 2018 Notification: May 15, 2018 Deadline for camera ready version: May 27, 2018 Workshop date: July 8, 2018 (all deadlines are AoE) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers ------------------------------------------------------------------- Christine Bauer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck, Austria Bart P. Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA For details visit the workshop?s website: https://multimethods.info -------------------------------------------------------------------