From artur.lugmayr at ambientmediaassociation.org Fri Jul 20 08:58:57 2018 From: artur.lugmayr at ambientmediaassociation.org (Artur Lugmayr) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:58:57 +0200 Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Book Proposals, Edited Books, Monographs, and Handbooks Message-ID: <3c2ecbabab6cdf4ee8fb6f8795a13915@ambientmediaassociation.org> ========================================================================== Call for BOOK PROPOSALS, EDITED BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, and HANDBOOKS ...to be published in the new.... Series on Emerging Media Technology and User-Experience Computation published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Press SUBMISSION DEADLINE 30th September 2018 for the first batch of proposals, however, we also accept book proposals on a continuous basis SERIES WEBSITE http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com CONTACT INFORMATION artur.lugmayr at artur-lugmayr.com We are especially searching for brave new ideas in media technology, emerging media, visualization, user-experience computation and interaction design! ========================================================================== The Chapman & Hall/CRC Emerging Media and User-Experience Computation Series presents cross-disciplinary research, case studies, and insights into media technology, media business, and media design. The series will cover many topics of interest, including, but not limited to: advancements in media technology, animation, media design, music, robotics, video, content production, information systems, content systems, interactive media, visual effects, asset management, design approaches, user-experience, quality of experience, simulation, serious games, digital games, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The series is cross-disciplinary, and seeks contributions from computer science, media design, human-computer-interaction, psychology, (mass)-communication, information systems, and business viewpoints. More information in the Book. TOPICS OF INTEREST ----------------------------------- (but are not limited to) * Virtual and Augmented Reality (AR and VR) * Quality of Experience (QoE) * Media/UX meets Big Data, deep learning, AI * Interactive data visualization * Digital computer games * Artificial Intelligence and VR/AR * Interaction Design and User-Experience * Human-Computer-Interaction * Multimedia, video, music, and text media * Animation and digital graphics * Ubiquitous/pervasive media * Interactive storytelling * Entertainment technologies * Cultural visualization * Information systems in media industry * Interactive and collaborative systems * Mobile entertainment technologies * Management of IT in entertainment industry * User-experience and audience research * Social media and web-based media technology * Professional content production industries * Yours? CURRENT ISSUES IN PRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------- * The Serious Storytelling Handbook: Storytelling Outside the Entertainment Context Artur Lugmayr, Helmut Hlavacs, and Calkin Suero Montero (Eds.) http://www.artur-lugmayr.com/activities/current-activities/crc-emu-series/serious-storytelling/ SUBMISSION DETAILS ----------------------------------- For the book series, we are seeking high quality contributions. A first initial proposal or brief of the book should include the following information, and be sent via email to artur.lugmayr at artur-lugmayr.com . It should contain a word document with the following sections: * Type of book (e.g. handbook, edited book, monograph) * Abstract (150-250 words abstract) * Tentative chapter structure and content * Target audience, and series fit * Key-dated and time planning for the project * Additional resources (e.g. website, newsletter, email list) * Author information (short bio, picture, affiliation, contact information) Further more detailed instructions can be found on: http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------------------- Please let me know if you should have further questions: artur.lugmayr at artur-lugmayr.com From Benyoucef at telfer.uottawa.ca Fri Jul 20 10:07:09 2018 From: Benyoucef at telfer.uottawa.ca (Benyoucef, Morad) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:07:09 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] Post-doctoral Position at the University of Ottawa, Canada In-Reply-To: <4053b8e7a42d4b88959110e5ada94d2f@telfer.uottawa.ca> References: <4053b8e7a42d4b88959110e5ada94d2f@telfer.uottawa.ca> Message-ID: Post-doctoral Position at the University of Ottawa, Canada We are seeking applicants for a post-doctoral position at the University of Ottawa, Canada. The selected candidate will conduct research on the topic of Social Commerce (s-commerce) -i.e., leveraging social interactions and user contributions in the context of e-commerce. More specifically, the selected candidate will work on proposing and validating an s-commerce design framework that can streamline the development of s-commerce applications. Candidates must: - have a recent PhD in Information Systems or related area - have research interests in e-commerce, e-commerce application design, social commerce, or related topics - have a strong research record - be a team player - be able to work independently - have good communication skills in English (reading, writing, and speaking) The contract is for one year, but is renewable if results are satisfactory. Please send application (CV + motivation letter) to Professor Morad Benyoucef (benyoucef at telfer.uottawa.ca) From dfarkas at pace.edu Fri Jul 20 11:14:47 2018 From: dfarkas at pace.edu (Daniel Farkas) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:14:47 -0400 Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2018: SIGGIS Workshop Keynote, Location Analytics, Public Health Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) Colleagues, Please Join SIGGIS in New Orleans for an engaging and informative workshop on Innovation and Disruption in the Geospatial Realm with a focus on public health. We are pleased to announce our Workshop Keynote Speaker, Dr. Fahui Wang. The title of his presentation is ?GIS Changes (and will change) Public Health" Dr. Wang is James J. Parsons Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University. His work focuses on applications of GIS and computtaional methods in public policy including urban planning, public health and public safety, and has been supported by several federal grant agencies such as the NSF, DHHS (NIH and AHRQ), HUD, DOE and DOJ (NIJ and OJJDP). He has published over 120 refereed articles and 5 books (including two edited books). He was a recipient of Louisiana State University (LSU) Rainmaker for outstanding research, scholarship and creative activity (2009, 2015) and LSU Distinguished Faculty Award (2018), and a Policy Winner of 2015 Outstanding Article of the Year from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Registration: You can add a workshop through the registration process on the AMCIS 2018 website (https://amcis2018.aisconferences.org/register/) Contact: Dan Farkas (dfarkas at pace.edu) Workshop Description: Digital Disruption: Implications for the Geospatial Realm This workshop will serve as a research forum on the varied aspects of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the emergence of the ?Geospatial Realm?. As the understanding that geospatial, or locational, data has value for many organizations, the focus on this special type of data has also increased. Workshop activities will be facilitated focusing on this research area to discuss the ?who, what, where, when, how, and why? of participating in this burgeoning research domain. Workshop Agenda (draft): *AMCIS 2018* *SIGGIS Workshop* *(Draft 7/20/2018)* *Digital Disruption: A Workshop on the Implications for the Geospatial Realm* Hyatt Regency, New Orleans Room: TBA Thursday, August 16, 2018, 8:30am ? 12:00 8:30-9:00 am *PRE-WORKSHOP COFFEE and TEA* 9:00 ? 9:10 Welcome to Workshop 9:10-9:35 am Introduction to the Geospatial Realm 9:35-10:15 am Innovations and Disruptions: Big Data, Social Media, IoT, Applications 10:15-10:30 am *BREAK ? COFFEE and TEA* 10:30-11:15 am Keynote Speaker Dr. Fahul Wang James J. Parsons Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology Louisiana State University Presentation: *GIS Changes (and will change) Public Health* 11:15-12:00 pm Breakout Groups: *Innovations and Disruption: Practice, Teaching and Research* 12:00-12:15pm Workshop Summary. Key takeaways. Next steps for participants? Presenters: Brian Hilton, Claremont Graduate University James B. Pick, University of Redlands Avijit Sarkar, University of Redlands Hindupur Ramakrishna, University of Redlands Dan Farkas, Pace University Namchul Shin, Pace University -- Dan Farkas, PhD Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems Pace University Pleasantville, NY, 10570 USA http://www.pace.edu/seidenberg/ Chair, AIS Special Interest Group on Geographic Information Systems (SIGGIS) From rzhou at swin.edu.au Fri Jul 20 03:14:07 2018 From: rzhou at swin.edu.au (Rui Zhou) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:14:07 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] ASWEC 2018 - Call for Papers - Extended Deadline Message-ID: ***CALL FOR PAPERS: Extended Deadline*** ASWEC 2018 - The 25th Australasian Software Engineering Conference November 26 - November 30, Adelaide, Australia Website: http://www.aswec2018.org Extended Deadline for Paper Submission (Long):10 August 2018 Acceptance Notification (Long): 21 September 2018 Conference background ---------------------------------- ASWEC was established in 1986 and is a leading forum for the software engineering profession in Australasia to describe important new research results and report valuable project experiences. The 25th ASWEC (ASWEC 2018) will be held in Adelaide, South Australia during the Australasian Software Week from November 26-30. Adelaide has all the hallmarks of a major urban centre with modern and classical architecture, a bustling retail hub and a multi-cultural population. It is home to long summers, stunning beachfronts, award-winning wine, foods, festivals and sporting events. Adelaide is considered one of Australia?s most liveable cities. Software is everywhere, and the ways it is built, integrated, deployed, and evolved present significant socio-technical challenges. These challenges need to be studied, discussed and addressed. In the past decades, software engineering as a discipline has produced many theoretical and practical results. As software is playing more important roles in ever larger and more complex systems, traditional software engineering is interacting substantially with other fields. For example, the emerging research activities around Secured Software and Continuous Software Engineering are looking at the complex interactions between security and software professionals to support software product development and operations in modern IT infrastructure. The challenges in building highly dependable large-scale systems lie in reconnecting logic-based formal methods with other statistical and machine learning approaches in new ways to better manage the uncertainties of the environment and provide assurances. In addition, industry?s use of dynamic, concurrent and functional programming languages in specific domains is making programming language research more connected to software engineering. Furthermore, cloud computing, service-oriented computing, mobile apps, big data, Internet of Things and software ecosystems are also bringing new contexts to software engineering research. The scope of software engineering research needs to be expanded, and thus, enhanced interaction with other communities will benefit software engineering research going forward. To this end, quite fittingly, the theme for the ASWEC 2018 is: "Engineering software services with contemporary technologies and paradigms" It is our pleasure and honour to have the following keynote speakers: ASWEC Speakers: ---------------- Professor Sam Malek, University of California Irvine, USA Professor Martin Robillard, McGill University, Canada Professor Abhik Roychoudhury, NUS, Singapore ASW/Industry Day Speakers: --------------------------- Dr Cristina Cifuentes, Oracle Labs, Australia Professor John Grundy, Monash University Dr Tony Lindsay, Director, STELaRLab, Lockheed Martin Australia Research Papers ----------------------------------------------------- We are particularly seeking contributions that help redefine the future scope of software engineering from both the traditional software engineering community and other fields, especially those discussing recent innovations, experiences, challenges and outcomes. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original research in all areas of software engineering. Papers describing theoretical or empirical research, new techniques and tools, and in-depth case studies are all welcome. Submissions should be original and must not have been published previously or currently be under consideration for publication elsewhere. For the relevant topics, please visit the conference website: http://aswec2018.org Two tracks of submissions are solicited: * Full papers should present innovative and mature research in topics related to software engineering. They should clearly describe a novel and significant contribution to the area and support claims of novelty with citations to the relevant literature and validations of the research results. Full papers can be research papers or experience reports. Full papers must use the IEEE CPS format (Link available on the website) and must not exceed 10 pages. * Short papers should present novel research directions, new ideas, or educational experiences in software engineering. They should clearly describe well-defined ideas that may be at an early stage of investigation and may not be fully validated. Short papers must use the ACM SIG Proceedings format (Link available on the website) and must not exceed 5 pages in length. All submissions (full and short) will undergo a rigorous peer review process by at least three reviewers and will be evaluated on the basis of their originality, significance, clarity and relevance to the field of software engineering. As in previous years, the accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (IEEE-DL and EI indexed) as ASWEC proceedings. Short paper proceedings will be published by ACM (ACM-DL and EI indexed). At least one author from each accepted full or short paper is required to register as a full-fee delegate and present the paper at the conference; otherwise their paper will not be included in the proceedings. All submissions must be written in English. Manuscripts are to be submitted electronically via the conference submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aswec2018 ? see the ASWEC 2018 submission page for further instructions. Paper Submission (Long):10 August 2018 Acceptance Notification (Long): 21 September 2018 Camera-Ready Submission (Long): 28 September 2018 Paper Submission (Short):9 September 2018 Acceptance Notification (Short):30 September 2018 Camera-Ready Submission (Short):7 October 2018 Hot off the Press Track -------------------------- This track is a forum for presenting novel ideas and ground-breaking results that open up exciting research opportunities for the software engineering community. We particularly encourage students and early career researchers to present inspiring research efforts that push the boundaries of our field. This may include: Ground-breaking results that open up new research directions in software engineering; New perspectives that call into question long held beliefs or conventions; Bold visions of new directions in software engineering; Novel interdisciplinary synergies; and, more in general, ?big? ideas that push the boundaries of current practice. The track is intended to describe a well-defined idea at an early stage of investigation. While a complete evaluation is not expected, papers should include preliminary results that illustrate the feasibility of the approach. Hot off the Press papers should address the following questions: Why is the problem worth exploring? What is the potential for disruption of current practice? What makes the approach original? Is the proposed approach sound and feasible? Has the relevant literature been covered? Papers submitted to this track should not exceed 4 pages in length using the IEEE CPS format (Link to be available from the website). Paper Submission:9 September 2018 Acceptance notification:30 September 2018 Camera-Ready Submission:7 October 2018 Industry/Government Submissions ------------------------------------------- ASWEC 2018 seeks experience reports, case studies and research presentations that discuss the application of Software Engineering practices in the real context. This provides opportunities to software engineers and thought leaders to share, network and learn from each other through the presentation of industry success and failure cases. Industry presentations will provide important insights into future research directions and share practices which worked and which did not work. We invite submissions that discuss lessons learned and share experiences about the benefits and limitations of Software Engineering practices. Industry/government submissions should be based on actual practice, and should cover all sides of the story - strengths and weaknesses, successes and challenges relevant to Software Engineering practices. Prospective presenters are invited to submit an abstract (500-1000 words approximately) which outlines the proposed presentation with some key takeaways; additional material such as proposed slides or more discussion may also be submitted. All industry/government submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. Authors of accepted presentations should then provide content (such as the intended presentation slides, or a paper) that will be published in the conference industry track proceedings that are distributed to participants; a "permission to publish" form will need to be signed by the authors or their organizations. One author from each accepted submission is required to register as a delegate and present at the conference. Paper Submission:12 August 2018 Acceptance Notification:2 September 2018 Camera-Ready Submission:16 September 2018 Tutorials and Workshops ------------------------------- Tutorial and Workshop proposals that have wide appeal to the software engineering community are sought for ASWEC 2018. Tutorials and workshops (half or full day) will run on the first day of the conference. Please submit your proposals detailing the topic, background, intended audience, anticipated number of attendees and justification for this estimate, presenter/s and their affiliations, along with anticipated time requirements following the guidelines on the ASWEC 2018 tutorials and workshops pages. Proposals due:22 July 2018 Acceptance notification:29 July 2018 Confirmation of programme:30 October 2018 For calls and submissions dates of all other tracks, please visit the conference website (http://aswec2018.org) Organisers ----------------- General Chair: Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Leadership: Jason (He) Zhang, Nanjing University (Program Director) Hoa Khanh Dam, University of Wollongong (Program Co-Chair) Stuart Marshall, Victoria University of Wellington (Program Co-Chair) Short Paper and Poster Chairs Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury Hongyu Zhang, University of Newcastle Industry/Government Program Committee Chairs: Seyit camtepe, CSIRO/Data61 Hung Nguyen, TRC, University of Adelaide Organisation Committee Chairs: Mingyu Guo, University of Adelaide Patanamon Thongtanunam, University of Adelaide Chakkrit (Kla) Tantihamthavorn, University of Adelaide Premier Work Chair Mansooreh Zahedi, IT University of Copenhagen Workshop Chair Christoph Treude, University of Adelaide Tutorial Chairs: Asif Gill, University of Technology Sydney Zhenchang Xing, Australia National University Industry/Government Liaison Matthew Thyer, DST Group Hot off the Press Track Chairs: Aldeida Aleti, Monash University Man Avazpour, Deakin University Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia Posters Chairs Muneera Bano, Swinburne University Xiwei (Sherry) Xu, CSIRO/Data61 Tools Demo & Data Chairs Qiang (Nathan) He, Swinburne University Lina Yao, University of New South Wales Publicity Chairs: Sherlock Licorish, University of Otago Cheng Zhang, Anhui University Rui Zhou, Swinburne University Electronic Media Chairs: Nguyen Tran, University of Adelaide Faheem Ullah, University of Adelaide From kuancli at pu.edu.tw Fri Jul 20 04:23:10 2018 From: kuancli at pu.edu.tw (Kuan-Ching Li) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:23:10 +0800 Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Book Chapters "Essentials of Blockchain Technology", CRC Press/Taylor&Francis Message-ID: Apologies if multiple copies of this call are received ----------------------------- Call for Book Chapters ----------------------------- ** Essentials of Blockchain Technology ** (Chapman & Hall/ CRC Big Data Series) CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA Web: https://sites.google.com/site/1819blockchain https://www.crcpress.com/go/call_for_chapters_Essentials_ of_Blockchain_Technology Important Dates *** Proposal Submission: August 10, 2018*** - Proposal (Acceptance/Rejection): September 10, 2018 - Sample Chapter (Acceptance/Rejection): November 10, 2018 - Complete Chapter Submission (to editors): Jan 10, 2019 - Submission of Chapters (to publisher): Jan 20, 2019 - Publication Time: Q3/2019 (estimated) All types of transactions such as purchase orders, payments, account tracking and delivery tracking may take place every single second. The business goal is to ensure the smooth completion of end-to-end transactions and reduce vulnerabilities. More and more people are looking at a new technology - Blockchain. A blockchain ? originally blockchain ? is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. Each block contains typically a hash pointer as a link to a previous block, a timestamp and transaction data. By design, blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data. A blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, Blockchain helps achieve benefits critical to enterprises and create extraordinary opportunities for businesses to come together in new ways. Particularly in finance, it has been successfully applied to digital cryptocurrencies and Blockchain-based systems have received significant attention in both academia and industry. Book co-editors intend to invite experts and successful case participating members to contribute discussions on topics related to performance, benchmarking, durability, robustness, as well data gathering and management, algorithms, analytics techniques for transactions processing and implementation of applications. * Topics Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Theories of blockchain and its evolution - Applications with blockchain technique - Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain - Smart contract and distributed ledger - Blockchain and Bitcoin security - Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms - Blockchain schemes for decentralization - Security, privacy and trust management, and performance optimization of blockchain and decentralized schemes - Attacks on blockchain based systems - Blockchain-based lightweight data structures for IoT data - Blockchain-based IoT security solutions - Blockchain in CPS, social networking, crowdsourcing, crowdsensing, 5G, edge and cloud computing - Lightweight clients and simple payment verification in Bitcoin * Proposal submission A proposal for a book chapter is needed from prospective authors before the proposal *submission due date*, describing the objective, scope, and structure of the proposed chapter (no more than 5 pages). With the chapter proposal, please also submit a brief biography of each author. Acceptance of chapter proposals will be communicated to lead chapter authors after a formal double-blind review process, to ensure relevance, quality, and originality. The submission of chapter proposals should be sent directly via email to editors. * Book Editors Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan, kuancli at gm.pu.edu.tw Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China, xfchen at xidian.edu.cn Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA, hjiang at astate.edu Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA, bertino at purdue.edu * Additional Information Inquiries and chapter proposal submissions can be forwarded electronically by email, to: Kuan-Ching Li (email: kuancli at gm.pu.edu.tw), Xiaofeng Chen (email: xfchen at xidian.edu.cn), and Hai Jiang (email: hjiang at astate.edu) . -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition, ten workshops and symposia are held alongside the conferences. The conferences will be held in Barcelona, Spain, during 6-8 August 2018. Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city (with Roman remains and medieval quarters) and is one of the leading tourist, economic and cultural cities in the world. It has World Heritage Sites (by UNESCO) and its historical and cultural dynamism have made it an attractive place for visitors from all over the world. The technical program of the conferences feature: - Keynote talks - Research paper presentations - Industry papers from leading industries/organizations - Ten workshops and symposia focusing on specific topics - Social events To register, please follow the link: https://www.easyconferences.org/ We welcome you to Barcelona, Spain. Conference Chairs FiCloud 2018, Innovate-Data 2018, MobiWis 2018 From gwren at loyola.edu Fri Jul 20 12:20:20 2018 From: gwren at loyola.edu (Gloria Wren) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:20:20 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND - FT TR Assistant/Assoc Professor in Info Sys Message-ID: LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND - FT TR Assist/Assoc Professor position in Info Sys https://careers.loyola.edu/postings/3848 From gpdhillon9 at gmail.com Fri Jul 20 12:39:05 2018 From: gpdhillon9 at gmail.com (Gurpreet Dhillon) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:39:05 -0400 Subject: [AISWorld] Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Tenured Associate/Full Professor positions at UNC Greensboro Message-ID: --------------- Tenure Track Assistant Professor in IS and Tenured Associate/Full Professor positions at the IS and Supply Chain Management Department at UNC Greensboro --------------- The Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (ISSCM) in the Bryan School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) invites applications, expressions of interest, and nominations for: - A tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank in Information Systems. The position will commence on August 1, 2019. - A tenured position at the Associate Professor or Professor rank in Information Systems. The position will commence on August 1, 2019. Qualifications Applicants should hold a doctorate from an AACSB or EQUIS accredited school with a specialization in Information Systems. Candidates should have demonstrated excellence in teaching and research and should have published in mainstream top-tier Information Systems journals, such as found in the FT50 or CABS Academic Journal Guide at the 4 and 4* levels. Expectations We expect the selected candidate to be able to teach both core and elective courses in information systems, ensuring that there is an appropriate level of technical content. Additionally, elective courses are likely to be in areas such as cyber security, database management, networking About ISSCM The ISSCM Department comprises faculty drawn from Information Systems and Supply Chain Management areas. The Department offers a The Bryan School and UNC Greensboro The Bryan School has over 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students and more than 100 full- and part-time faculty members housed in six departments and programs. Accredited in both business and accounting by AACSB, the Bryan School is the recipient of many rankings, honors UNCG was one of the three original institutions in the University of North Carolina system (Chapel Hill and NC State were the others). Classified as a high research activity university, UNCG is also committed to Application process Screening of applications shall begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled. Applicants should submit a letter of interest; curriculum vitae; the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of three references. We will be interviewing at AMCIS in New Orleans. For the Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position, please upload your materials For the Tenured Associate/Full Professor Position, please upload your materials From Shailendra.Palvia at liu.edu Fri Jul 20 14:29:45 2018 From: Shailendra.Palvia at liu.edu (Shailendra Palvia) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:29:45 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] JITCAR 20.2 Published (Journal of IT Case and Application Research) Message-ID: <762602ba4f6846d1be5226e4fabf12c3@U-EXH-2.liunet.edu> Dear Friends Around the World: Please note that JITCAR is now into its 20th year. Based on what I hear from the world renowned oldest (since 1796) publisher Taylor & Francis, the journal is very well received from individuals and institutions in terms of both subscriptions and downloads. Please congratulate Dr. Gaurav Bansal on his promotion to the role of Senior Associate Editor of JITCAR with effect from July 1, 2018. You are invited to submit your manuscripts on any IT related theme. The journal prides itself on focusing on case research methodology. Only research methodology that is NOT acceptable is a broad brush survey and analysis. If the survey is backed up by a case(s) or interview(s), the manuscript will be reviewed through double blind review process. I am delighted to present the second 2017 JITCAR issue. It is a Special Issue on the theme of Ecosystem Platforms co-edited by Drs. Sumedha Chauhan, Mahadeo Jaiswal, and Gaurav Bansal. The contents of this issue are: Editorial Preface article by Drs. Sandip Mukhpadhyay and Harry Bouwman; first Research Case article co-authored by Drs. Ruben Mancha, Steven Gordon, and Bala Iyer; second Research Case article authored by Dr. Pradeep Kumar Hota, Mr. Boby Chaitanya Villari, and Mr. Balaji Subramanian; Expert Opinion report by Dr. Sumedha Chauhan; and Book Review by Dr. Vivek Kumar. Summary information of these items is as follows. In the editorial preface article titled, ?Multi-Actor Collaboration in Platform Based Ecosystem,? the authors highlight how a leader can exploit key technical and business attributes of the platform to achieve improved organizational performance with limited coordination overhead. The authors discuss the key governance challenges for a sustainable platform leadership strategy that leads to benefits for the platform leader as well as for the ecosystem partners. They go on to highlight the important contextual differences related to the application of control mechanism in platform centric ecosystems. Unlike other inter-organizational partnerships, ecosystem leaders do not have formal authority over a large number of application developers and other partners. At the end, several complementary research questions have been proposed. First research article is titled, ?Figayou Pursues a Platform Strategy: A Case Study of Digital Platform Entrepreneurship.? Entrepreneurs of next generation of digital technologies will have to position their innovations either as a product/service, or as a platform for value creation and value capture. If the startup decides to pursue the platform model, how should it balance the building of its core technologies, and designing incentives and rules? These questions are explored through the case of Figayou, a startup with unique mobile technologies. Second Research Case article is titled, ?Developing Platform Ecosystem for Resource Mobilization: The Case of Social Enterprises in India.? The authors argue that platform ecosystem can help social enterprises face up to the dual challenges of financial sustainability and social value creation. Through a case study of two social enterprises operating in India, the authors present the evolution of platform ecosystem and its linkages with other aspects such as resource challenges, legitimacy building and achievement of organizational mission. The Expert Opinion report documents interview by Dr. Sumedha Chauhan with Dr. Sandeep Goyal, a techno-management professional having more than twenty years of professional experience with organizations like TCS, Amdocs, EDS, and HCL Technologies. He has worked across different geographies globally on the client delivery side analyzing in-depth customer business requirements to recommend appropriate IT solutions while balancing expectations of diverse stakeholders and also meeting scope, schedule, cost, quality and customer satisfaction parameters. He is certified in ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), Six Sigma Black Belt and PMP (Project Management Professional). Besides industry expertise, he has been a visiting faculty and industry expert to the leading management and technology institutions in India in the areas involve e-commerce strategy, globalization, social entrepreneurship and business models. He has published more than 18 research papers in leading international business management journals, and 7 teaching cases in Ivey Publishing and Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS). He has reviewed manuscripts submitted to top management journals like Thunderbird International Business Review, Journal of Management Development, North American Case Research Association, EEMCS, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Long Range Planning. Questions posed to Dr. Goyal are: (a)Platform ecosystems has been a popular phrase in recent times. However, people don?t understand it completely. How would you define platform and platform ecosystems? (b) What is the fundamental idea behind platforms and how do they work? (c) Could you please highlight a few key features of platform? (d) What trends led us to the platform age? (e) How does platform create network effects? Whether the effect is positive or negative? (f) How do you recommend building platforms? (g) What major risks and challenges can be faced by a firm while transforming a product or service into a platform? (h) Which industry is mostly impacted by platform ecosystems and how? (i) What can a business do to build intimacy with customers in the platform era? (j) What can be the long-term implications of building platforms? Book review report by Dr. Vivek Kumar provides a detailed critique of the 2013 book titled, ?Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy? authored by Amrit Tiwana and published by Murgan Kaufman Publishers. This book is about millions of apps on iOS and Android Operating system that are causing a paradigm shift in organization ? big or small, private or public, for-profit or philanthropic. Platforms provide a foundation on which firms build their products and services. Functionality and features offered by these apps developed by independent developers determine the value that can be offered by the platforms. This book is an optimal mix of information technology and management strategy regarding platform ecosystems. Starting from defining platforms, the book provides a solid foundation on architecture, governance and strategy of platforms. Part-I covers core concepts, primary principles, drivers, and value proposition of ecosystems and platforms. Part-II discusses platform architecture and governance. Since components of platforms may interact in unpredictable manner, platforms have to be simple, resilient, maintainable, and evolvable. Platform governance is likened symphonies while traditional organizations are likened to armies. Part III pertains to evolution of platforms and emphasizes the importance of metrics, ?real options? approach, and discrete modular operations. Part IV emphasizes that platforms need to be adaptive, innovative, and its resources need to be valuable, rare, inimitable and non-substitutable. It also emphasizes that similar to platforms, app owners need to manage resilience, synergy and composability for continued evolution in the short-term; and durability and mutation in the long-term. Part V asserts that most traditional industries can be redesigned as platforms citing examples of General Motors, Black and Decker, Komatsu, and even Starbucks. Routledge, in line with the ongoing trends, has published this journal online since 2014. The website to find all JITCAR issues is: http://www.tandfonline.com/utca. All authors and reviewers are encouraged to start using Routledge?s online manuscript submission and reviewing system http://www.editorialmanager.com/jitcar/. I urge all our current and future authors and reviewers to familiarize themselves with this system. I hope you will enjoy reading all the items in this issue. With best regards, Sincerely Dr. Shailendra Palvia Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow for 2016-17 Professor of MIS, College of Management Long Island University Post, Brookville, NY 11801. http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia?rn=Faculty+Profiles&ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/Faculty 2012 & 2016 LIU Post Nominee for Abraham Krasnoff Lifetime Scholarship Achievement Award Founding Editor and current EIC, Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAR) Phone #: 732-983-7034 From Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca Fri Jul 20 13:55:45 2018 From: Patrick.Hung at uoit.ca (Patrick Hung) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:55:45 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] =?windows-1252?q?CFP=3A_Engineering_Applications_of_A?= =?windows-1252?q?rtificial_Intelligence_=28EAAI=29_-_Special_Issues_on_?= =?windows-1252?q?=93Internet_of_Things_=28IoT=29_for_In-Vehicle_Systems?= =?windows-1252?q?=94?= Message-ID: <1532109349951.97260@uoit.ca> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Many Thanks! Call For Papers Special Issues on ?Internet of Things (IoT) for In-Vehicle Systems? =================================================================== Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation URL: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/engineering-applications-of-artificial-intelligence/ The Internet of Things (IoT) describes a network of smart devices in the physical world, endowed with embedded sensors and networking capabilities. IoT is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as ?a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies.? The features of IoT that differ from traditional computing include the use of a multitude of devices with embedded sensors and connected to networks, introducing many benefits in terms of automation and optimization. IoT technologies are being widely adopted for a variety of applications including smart city, smart grid, smart home, industrial control systems, and now getting a lot of popularity on connected and smart cars, which are highly computerized automobiles featuring ubiquitous computing, intuitive human-computer interaction and an open application platform for IoT. For example, Google's and GM?s self-driving car. In general, a smart car can be characterized by the following properties: (a) Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp): assessing information or being assessed interactively and autonomously everywhere and anywhere via various sensors over different standard, such as the Controller Area Network (CAN), which is a multi-node bus protocol for short messages transmission of trigger signals and measurement values to support distributed control systems; (b) Human computer interaction (HCI): the essential interfaces of smart cars that offer an interaction between human and in-vehicle system in a context of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and IoT-to-Vehicle (I2V); and (c) Applications platform: allowing users to download the third-party application software in their in-vehicle system or even on an IoT for customizing the smart cars, for example, an in-vehicle Infotainment for information and entertainment applications. Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: - IoT devices for in-vehicle systems - IoT architectures for autonomous driving - IoT data modeling and implementation - Interoperable and interactive IoT middleware for in-vehicle systems - Analytics and algorithms for system improvement - Communication infrastructures of IoT for in-vehicle systems - Security, privacy, and trust of IoT for in-vehicle systems - Industry standards and solution stacks - Provenance tracking frameworks and tools - Innovative applications and Case Studies Deadline for authors to submit papers: *** September 18, 2018 (11:59 PM, EST ? Eastern Standard Time) *** Submission link: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/engineering-applications-of-artificial-intelligence/ Please select "VSI:ITIVS" in the submission system. Guest Editors: Shih-Chia Huang Department of Electronic Engineering National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan Email: schuang at ntut.edu.tw Jenq-Neng Hwang Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, USA Email: hwang at uw.edu Sy-Yen Kuo Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University, Taiwan Email: sykuo at ntu.edu.tw Al?cio P. D. Binotto Blockchain and Industry Solutions Engineering IBM Research, Brazil Email: abinotto at br.ibm.com Devesh Upadhyay Ford Research Powertrain Control and Diagnostics Connected and Autonomous vehicles Dearborn, Michigan, USA Email: dupadhya at ford.com Patrick C. K. Hung Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada E-mail: patrick.hung at uoit.ca ?