From GALLETTA at pitt.edu Sun Dec 16 03:31:17 2018 From: GALLETTA at pitt.edu (Galletta, Dennis) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:31:17 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] Interested in doing some milky way photography right after AMCIS 2020? Message-ID: Dear AISWorld community, Just after AMCIS 2020, which will be held in Utah, I'm hoping to offer a special post-conference excursion (likely on about August 17-18, 2020) as a meager fund-raising activity for the conference and a fun activity for us. I'm hoping to gauge the interest there might be in this activity. So if you have read this far, you might become as obsessed as I am and you might just need to go. If you are interested after reading the descriptions and seeing the four photos in the links below, please email me in the next 5 days and let me know you're interested. Remember, this is just to gauge interest, and if you reply, there is no obligation to actually show up and pay the fees. After all, it's almost two years from now. Background: We live in a part of the milky way galaxy that affords an amazing view of the core. It is difficult, if not impossible, to see the milky way in most locations, but four hours south of Salt Lake City, there are "Dark Sky" areas. This location for AMCIS affords what might be a rare opportunity to see and photograph the milky way. But there are some requirements to doing this, like a new moon. Well, it just so happens that yesterday I discovered that AMCIS 2020 will end at the peak of the new (no) moon, which is too perfect to pass up. Also, there will likely be a little leftover activity from the Perseid meteor shower's peak on August 13. I'm hoping to take a small (or even large) group of interested people to a few sites four hours south of Salt Lake City, in or around Moab, perhaps near some arches. We are looking at costs of transportation, hotel, etc., and the possibility of getting a reasonable package deal from a tour company. It's likely the trip will cost a few hundred dollars, which is well under the $2,000 2-night workshops offered by some photographers (not including hotel). Depending on the number of people, we can take one or more cars or even a van. Having an idea of how many people might be interested would help us in obtaining some quotes. For a few quick samples, take a look at the following photos I have taken in the past: - Underneath Delicate Arch in 2014: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152955690898639&l=0c26c385f3 - Here is the front of Delicate Arch lighted very briefly by a harsh LED headlamp: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152340358668639&l=53951c1a06 - A year later, we found delicate arch to be cloudy, so we went to Double Arch and got this one: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152936281963639&l=fac8576d04 - Turning our heads in the other direction to the south, there was the galaxy and some foliage: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152936282073639&l=7724641f1d It isn't difficult to get shots like those. But it won't happen with your cell phone. It would be required to have some equipment such as: - Single lens reflex camera that can be set on manual mode at about 25-30 seconds, and setting the ISO at about 5,000 to 10,000. Ideal: Full frame. One option is to rent one rather than pay $3500 for one-time use. Check your college media departments as well; When teaching in Harvard's summer IS Management program in the summer, I found that faculty can borrow a $3,000 Canon 5d Mark III and tripod at no cost. I did, however, have to furnish the lens. - Fast (f/2.8 or faster) wide angle lens. Leave your telephoto lenses behind! Ideal: $250 (manual exposure) to $400 (auto exposure) Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 is known as one of the best and I have two of these wonderful masterpieces. - Tripod. - Remote release (wired or wireless remote control; most cameras offer these as inexpensive accessories) Also, we would be out very late at night in sandy remote areas, so get enough sleep beforehand! My goal would be for us to begin about an hour before the 6:30 sunset and return to the hotel at about 1 or 2 am. It is likely that we will see other photographers with their tripods as well. I will furnish some instruction on site but the size of the group will determine how much time I can spend training each person on basic functions of your camera. Also, I'm most familiar with Canon equipment, so I might need forewarning if you have a Sony, Nikon, Pentax, or other fine equipment so I can brief myself on some of the functions you might have or not have. There are also some hiking supplies needed, such as good footwear, a headlamp, water, etc. Please email me (using REPLY) if you would likely be interested in going on one of these excursions, assuming the trip can be relatively affordable. I'm predicting a group of about 3 or 4 out of the 6,000 recipients of this message, so please prove me wrong and let's fill up an entire van! If we get a larger crowd, maybe some other photographers can help out and become co-instructors with me! Please also reply if you are interested in co-leading the group as well. DG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis F. Galletta Professor of Business Administration University of Pittsburgh Ben L. Fryrear Faculty Fellow 282a Mervis Hall and Director, Katz Doctoral Program Phone +1 412-648-1699 Katz Graduate School of Business Fax +1 412-624-3633 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 E-mail: galletta @ pitt.edu homepage: www.pitt.edu/~galletta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jscholl at uw.edu Sun Dec 16 08:26:01 2018 From: jscholl at uw.edu (Hans J. Scholl) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:26:01 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] 11, 211 Entries and Counting: Digital Government Reference Library Version 14.5 Has Been Published Message-ID: <1A8AD96B-C458-49AC-B1DF-64B3EA288C04@uw.edu> Version 14.5 of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL), which was previously named Electronic Government Reference Library (EGRL), has been published as of December 15, 2018. The library now contains 11,211 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy. This marks a 8.9% increase in references from version 14.0 (June of 2018) and a 13.2% increase from version 13.5 (December of 2017). This past publication period has yet been another good one for e-Government-related publishing adding another 4-digit number (1,310) of new peer-reviewed academic references within the past 12 months. The DGRL has become an indispensable tool for e-Gov scholars. In particular, reviewers of paper submissions are reported to rely heavily on this reference library. Packaged in a 12.14 MB zip file, bibTeX, RIS, and an Endnote XML versions are available. Mendeley or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or bibTeX files. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Thank you for your interest and cooperation. For a free download please use this link. You will be asked to register or re-register. Dr. Hans Jochen Scholl, MBA Full Professor University of Washington The Information School Mary Gates Hall, Suite 370D MS 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA Skype: jochenscholl Phone: (206) 616-2543 Fax: (206) 616-3152 Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/ From george at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Dec 16 08:42:29 2018 From: george at cs.ucy.ac.cy (George Angelos Papadopoulos) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:42:29 +0200 Subject: [AISWorld] The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Second Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions In-Reply-To: <0ABDFA95-E8A2-4271-BB07-1996BF76A412@cs.ucy.ac.cy> References: <75A8ADD9-7694-43E0-A90F-525F61256619@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <738DDE7D-22BB-4B18-A90A-00F2E2BF5F94@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <759D3D35-FDA8-46DF-9D84-E11329523B88@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <24BF0A1A-9095-49C7-A46A-1087154860E9@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <463438A0-6D9A-4B87-84C9-BD1C0931F6AE@cs.ucy.ac.cy> <0ABDFA95-E8A2-4271-BB07-1996BF76A412@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Message-ID: *** SECOND CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM SUBMISSIONS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 https://www.um.org/umap2019/ Submissions due: March 1, 2019 ACM UMAP 2019, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, will, as in previous issues of the conference series, include a Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session, which provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. The Doctoral Consortium is implemented as a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers from the relevant fields. Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral research (see below described submission information for further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the conference. Promising, but less well- developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student's work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium. How to Submit to the Doctoral Consortium To apply for the ACM UMAP 2019 Doctoral Consortium, students are asked to submit a paper presenting their doctoral research that describes: ? The problem being addressed. ? Motivation outlining the relevance of the problem and referring to related work. ? The main contributions that the PhD project aims to achieve. ? The progress made to date (including a clear description of the proposed approach, methodology and preliminary results) as well as the plan for further research. ? Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2019 key areas. Each DC submission is encouraged to consider the following: identification of related (state of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation, application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work intends to achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, the submissions can consider: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design. Each submission should contain a cover page including the paper title, name of the PhD candidate, the name of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a paragraph describing the stage they are in the PhD programme, together with a brief description of their background. This will enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair Doctoral Consortium submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2019dc Submissions should be pdf documents consisting of 1 cover page and the paper (up to 4 pages long), formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings template. ACM UMAP Proceedings The accepted ACM UMAP 2019 Doctoral Consortium papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM and that will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The main author (doctoral student) must register for the conference for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Financial Support ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Further details will be announced on the website soon. Important Dates ? Paper submission: March 1st, 2019 ? Notification to authors: March 22nd, 2019 ? Camera ready submission: April 3rd, 2019 ? ACM UMAP 2019 DC Session: June 11th and 12th, 2019 Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). Doctoral Consortium Chairs ? Laurens Rook, TU Delft, The Netherlands (l.rook AT tudelft.nl) ? Markus Zanker, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (mzanker AT unibz.it) From GALLETTA at pitt.edu Sun Dec 16 11:44:26 2018 From: GALLETTA at pitt.edu (Galletta, Dennis) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 16:44:26 +0000 Subject: [AISWorld] Reminder: Senior Scholars Panel at ICIS - 11:00 today in Nob Hill C&D Message-ID: Dear AIS/ICIS Community: Because the app does not provide a title for the Senior Scholar panel, and I've received a few questions about the content, this reminder will provide the title and panelist names. The panel discussion is entitled: "If Practice Makes Perfect, Where do we Stand?" I will act as moderator of the panel, which is composed of the following, in alphabetical order: Niels Bjorn-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School Dorothy Leidner, Baylor University M. Lynne Markus, Bentley University Ephraim R. McLean, Georgia State University Detmar Straub, Georgia State University James Wetherbe, Texas Tech University The panel abstract is shown below: One of the important early stepping stones to our field's present situation is the role of practitioners in our development. In the 1970s, our interaction with practitioners was close, with SIM members receiving copies of the MIS Quarterly, practitioners funding the ICIS Doctoral Consortium, and submissions receiving at least one practitioner review. Today, however, the gap between practitioners and researchers appears to have increased from those early days. Given that almost 50 years have passed since then, which crossed both a new century and new millennium, this distinguished panel will provide several divergent points of view about that gap. Have we arrived at a comfortable distance? Is our relevance too low to expect practitioners to join AIS and attend our conferences? Is the gap too wide? The panelists will discuss issues related to these questions. Ample time will be allocated to questions and answers from the audience. DG ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis F. Galletta Professor of Business Administration University of Pittsburgh Ben L. Fryrear Faculty Fellow 282a Mervis Hall and Director, Katz Doctoral Program Phone +1 412-648-1699 Katz Graduate School of Business Fax +1 412-624-3633 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 E-mail: galletta @ pitt.edu homepage: www.pitt.edu/~galletta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sugumara at oakland.edu Sun Dec 16 13:51:11 2018 From: sugumara at oakland.edu (Vijayan Sugumaran) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:51:11 -0500 Subject: [AISWorld] CFP-Fifth IEEE Int. Conf. on Big Data Service and Applications, April 8-12, 2019, San Francisco, USA In-Reply-To: <024201d440a8$fd1dd0a0$f75971e0$@oakland.edu> References: <024201d440a8$fd1dd0a0$f75971e0$@oakland.edu> Message-ID: <625e01d49570$51245b80$f36d1280$@oakland.edu> IEEE Computer Society Call for Papers - IEEE BigDataService 2019 The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Big Data Service and Applications April 8 - 12, 2019, San Francisco, USA http://big-dataservice.net/ IEEE BIGDATASERVICE 2019 invites authors to submit Work-in-Progress (WIP) papers which are based on new ideas but at the early stages of design and development. The papers should be related to the theme of the conference. The WIP papers will be reviewed by the members of the program committee. They will provide feedback in order to help authors for further improving their work. The WIP papers will be presented in a separate track at the conference. It will provide a unique opportunity for exchanging the new ideas with more experienced researchers at the conference. Once accepted, the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. WIP Papers Submission WIP papers should be limited to 4 pages, or at most 2 additional pages with the pages overlength charge, including figures, tables, and references. Papers must be written in English. All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double column proceedings format. Please see the following link for details: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Authors must submit their papers at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bds20190. Important Dates Full Paper Submission: 10 January 2019 Acceptance Notification: 22 January 2019 Registration Due: 31 January 2019 Conference Dates: 6?9 April 2019 CONTACT INFORMATION For further details please get in touch with the PC Co-Chair: Muhammad Younas (m.younas at brookes.ac.uk), Oxford Brookes University, UK Topics of Interest include (but not limited to) Big Data Foundations - Foundational theoretical or computational models for big data - Programming models, theories, and algorithms for big data - Standards, protocols, and quality assurance for big data Big Data Platforms and Technologies - Innovative, concurrent, and scalable big data platforms - Data indexing, cleaning, transformation, and curation technologies - Big data processing frameworks and technologies - Big data services and application development methods and tools - Big data quality evaluation and assurance technologies - Big data system reliability and availability - Open-source development and technology for big data - Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) platform and technologies Big Data Analytics and Services - Algorithms and systems for big data search, analytics and visualization - Artificial Intelligence for big data and based on big data - Visualization analytics for big data - Knowledge extraction, discovery, analysis, presentation, and visualization Big Data Applications and Experiences - Innovative big data applications and services in industries and domains e.g. healthcare, finance, insurance, transportation, agriculture, education, environment, multi-media, social networks, urban planning, disaster management, security - Experiences and case studies of big data applications and services - Real-world and large-scale practices of big data Emerging Topics - Sensor networks and Internet of Things - Networking and protocols - Smart City Special Tracks Special Track on Real-time Big Data Services and Applications - Models, algorithms, and technologies for real-time big data services and applications - Experiences, practices and case studies of real-time big data services and applications Special Track on Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust - Models, algorithms and technologies for big data security and integrity - Practical security and privacy technologies and applications for big data Special Track on Big Data and analytics for Healthcare - Models, algorithms, and technologies of big data for healthcare - Big data services and applications for healthcare - Experiences, practices and case studies of big data technologies for healthcare Organizing Committee General Chairs: Simon Shim, San Jose State University, USA Xiaohui Yuan, University of North Texas, USA Sudip Bhattacharjee, University of Connecticut, USA Program Chairs: Fanjing Meng, IBM Research, China Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA Workshop Chair: Ping Ping, Hohai University, China Publication Chair: Pengcheng Zhang, Hohai University, China Registration Chair: Hyeran Jeon, San Jose State University, USA Publicity Chair: Birsen Sirkeci, San Jose State University, USA Finance Chairs: Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA Chuli Xie, Jiangsu Normal University, China Submission Chair: Shengqiang Lu, Taiyuan University of Technology, China Industry Outreach Chairs: Jun Huang, Google, Inc. Sourav Mazumder, IBM USA Web Chair: James Woo, San Jose State University ============================================= Vijayan Sugumaran, Ph.D. Professor of Management Information Systems Chair, Department of Decision and Information Sciences Co-Director, Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics School of Business Administration Oakland University Rochester, MI 48309 Phone: 248-370-4649 Fax: 248-370-4275 Email: sugumara at oakland.edu ============================================= From stafford at latech.edu Sun Dec 16 17:12:52 2018 From: stafford at latech.edu (Dr. Tom Stafford) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:12:52 -0800 Subject: [AISWorld] =?utf-8?q?Philosophy=40ICIS_-_From_=E2=80=9CAnything_?= =?utf-8?q?Goes_to_The_Philosopher=E2=80=99s_Corner=2E_Call_for_Contributi?= =?utf-8?q?ons?= Message-ID: <24327F1D-8469-4980-9032-99134D9E06F5@latech.edu> Dear Philosophical Colleagues: The colloquy was rich and stimulating yesterday at the ?Anything Goes? Philosophy Panel at ICIS. My sense was that there were many in the audience who had views which they wished to present but for which there was not time. For those colleagues, I invite your views, responses, commentaries and positions stimulated by this excellent philosophical panel discussion to The Philosopher?s Corner at The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems (http://SIGMIS.org/the-data-base/submission-guidelines/). In fact, the panel, itself, arises from a rich interchange on the topic of Paul Feyerabend and the ?Anything Goes? metaphor, which originally appeared in our pages as part of The Philosopher?s Corner at The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. Let me know of your questions regarding this publication opportunity for philosophical thinkers. We welcome your submissions. Best philosophical regards, Tom Stafford, Editor ******************************** Thomas F. Stafford, Ph.D. J.E. Barnes Professor Editor-in-Chief, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems: The longest continually published MIS Journal Celebrating 50 years! From tsd2019 at tsdconference.org Sun Dec 16 11:22:12 2018 From: tsd2019 at tsdconference.org (TSD 2019) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 17:22:12 +0100 Subject: [AISWorld] TSD 2019 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: ************************************************************************** TSD 2019 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************** The twenty-second International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2019) Ljubljana, Slovenia September 10-13, 2019 http://www.tsdconference.org TSD HIGHLIGHTS * Invited speakers: Denis Jouvet (Loria, Nancy, France), and more to come. * TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers a high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers' discussion. * TSD is going to take place in the beautiful centre of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. * The conference is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee. PRELIMINARY DATES March 31, 2019 ............... Deadline for submission of contributions May 10, 2019 ................. Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2019 ................. Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers September 10-13, 2019 ........ TSD2019 conference date The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for extra fee. TSD SERIES The TSD series has evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the 22nd conference will include (but are not limited to): Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modeling). Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries). Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing). Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution). Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection). Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies). Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues). Multimodal Techniques and Modeling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modeling, emotion and personality modeling). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2019/index.php?page=committees OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. LOCATION Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital - a city, whose name means `The beloved', is a great place to visit, although you will not find world renowned attractions here. Nevertheless, it has history, tradition, style, arts & culture, an atmosphere that is both Central European and Mediterranean; many also add the adjectives multilingual and hospitable. Being close to many of the major sights and attractions of Slovenia, Ljubljana can also be your starting point to discover the country's diversity. Ljubljana is situated about halfway between Vienna and Venice. Its character and appearance have been shaped by diverse cultural influences and historical events. While in winter it is remarkable for its dreamy Central European character, it is the relaxed Mediterranean feel that stands out during summer. Ljubljana is a picturesque city full of romantic views, with a medieval castle towering over its historical city centre and a calm river spanned by a series of beautiful bridges running right through it. It's a city with a medieval heart, a city of the Baroque and Art Nouveau, with an old castle resting above it like a sleeping beauty. In Ljubljana eastern and western cultures met; and the Italian concept of art combined with the sculptural aesthetics of Central European cathedrals. The city owes its present appearance partly to Italian baroque and partly to Art Nouveau, which is the style of the numerous buildings erected immediately after the earthquake of 1895. The central point of interest in Ljubljana is the Ljubljana Castle, watching over the city from the centrally located castle hill. The beginnings of the medieval castle go back to the 9th century, although the castle building is first mentioned only in 1144. It gained its present image after the earthquake of 1511 and following further renovations at the beginning of the 17th century. At present, a funicular connects the Old Town to the castle hill, adding an even more convenient access alternative to the tourist train. Ljubljana lies at the centre of Slovenia. In the morning you can visit the stunningly beautiful Lake Bled, Lake Bohinj or Soca Valley in the high mountainous region of the Alps, and in the evening enjoy the sunset in one of the charming little towns on the Adriatic coast. It only takes minutes to reach the peaceful and unspoiled countryside of the city's green surrounding areas, which offer endless opportunities for hiking, cycling, fishing and horse riding. We are very excited of the fact that the TSD conference leaves the Czech Republic for the first time within its 22-year history and that the TSD2019 is going to take place in such a wonderful location as Ljubljana. ABOUT CONFERENCE The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. VENUE Faculty of Electrical Engineering - University of Ljubljana Trzaska cesta 25 SI-1000 Ljubljana CONTACT The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is writing an e-mail to: Ms Lucie Tauchenova, TSD2019 Conference Secretary E-mail: tsd2019 at tsdconference.org Phone: +420 702 994 699 All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: TSD2019 - NTIS P2 Fakulta aplikovanych ved Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni Univerzitni 8 CZ-306 14 Plzen Czech Republic Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with large capitals 'TSD' on top. TSD2019 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/ From b.b.shishkov at iicrest.org Sun Dec 16 17:01:55 2018 From: b.b.shishkov at iicrest.org (Boris Shishkov) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:01:55 -0800 Subject: [AISWorld] BMSD 2018 || Springer Proceedings || Lisbon, Portugal In-Reply-To: References: <47510568$318c70e3$6c243e26$@com> <1dd978f4a218425d80d88511e47959e6@iicrest.org> <641d5331aed243119e5e3b4515e50f80@iicrest.org> <3e976e7f610e4f77a6d28dfb2d67a6d7@iicrest.org> <4f1458aeb532474cb5b766f521f8706c@iicrest.org> <88a0521a02e743548de147391ee6270b@iicrest.org> <58eba6faf33a401f9a71a33e4b8b7c17@iicrest.org> <6924bf6de1014782b64bce6c3bdd1f61@iicrest.org> <48780e380cab44d4890885e37e9d0faa@iicrest.org> <37c25b5097eb4de4bb1c2ca29f38eccc@iicrest.org> <512b2510aff549c78945e872c1bf6ffd@iicrest.org> <727827dddcd64129a32a6e201ff9ddb0@iicrest.org> <026139fc430546819758f5652c6098c3@iicrest.org> <3d1dd8c56e554adf9f869c0fd84b8c6a@iicrest.org> <91808aa53a3a43de9a3b74e1ac4082b1@iicrest.org> <3ee3d526ce6940109dd7a648e9a1bca5@iicrest.org> <83d9da811d3444c2a24f16894a70f0af@iicrest.org> <73ddcaf2ece04287995b01d74ae3cb0c@iicrest.org> <62ecd11afff14a178d8123cfbb674ff4@iicrest.org> <17f4ab71738949b28bd2618f0dcb6a09@iicrest.org> <30827b56a9b64157bd8f365abbf982ff@iicrest.org> <8d017f53456f48eabc1ef19b2a9d2c18@iicrest.org> <09538895ca8c4651997820f3abe6170a@iicrest.org> Message-ID: <5dd3c7cfa9b94248a649e8e5a97e5002@iicrest.org> Call for Papers BMSD 2019 - Ninth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design 1-3 July 2019 Lisbon, Portugal http://www.is-bmsd.org Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boris Shishkov, IICREST / ULSIT, Bulgaria Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jose Tribolet, IST - University of Lisbon, Portugal (Title: FRAMING ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING WITHIN GENERAL SYSTEM'S THEORY - PERSPECTIVES OF A HUMAN CENTERED FUTURE) BMSD - the International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, is a leading international discussion and knowledge dissemination forum that brings together Researchers and Practitioners interested in: (i) Modeling in general and in particular - Conceptual Modeling, Goal Modeling, Value Modeling, Business/Enterprise Modeling, Process Modeling, Model-Driven Engineering; (ii) Enterprise Engineering and its relation to Software Generation; (iii) Information Systems Architectures and Design. Adequate business models are of huge importance not only for understanding and (re-)engineering an organization but also for automating (part of) its processes by means of software systems. Not grasping correctly and exhaustively an enterprise system would inevitably lead to consequent software failures. It is therefore claimed that software generation should essentially have its roots in corresponding enterprise engineering models. In 2019, BMSD will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, following previous events in Austria (Vienna, 2018), Spain (Barcelona, 2017), Greece (Rhodes, 2016), Italy (Milan, 2015), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2014), The Netherlands (Noordwijkerhout, 2013), Switzerland (Geneva, 2012), and Bulgaria (Sofia, 2011). We welcome paper submissions from but not limited to the following areas and topics: 1. BUSINESS PROCESSES AND ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING enterprise systems enterprise system environments and context construction and function actor roles signs and affordances transactions business processes business process coordination business process optimization business process management and strategy execution production acts and coordination acts regulations and business rules enterprise (re-) engineering enterprise interoperability inter-enterprise coordination enterprise engineering and architectural governance enterprise engineering and software generation enterprise innovation 2. BUSINESS MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS essential business models re-usable business models business value models business process models business goal models integrating data analytics in business modeling semantics and business data modeling pragmatics and business behavior modeling business modeling viewpoints and overall consistency business modeling landscapes requirements elicitation domain-imposed and user-defined requirements requirements specification and modeling requirements analysis and verification requirements evolution requirements traceability usability and requirements elicitation 3. BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES enterprise engineering and service science service-oriented enterprises from business modeling to service-oriented solutions business modeling for software-based services service engineering business-goals-driven service discovery and modeling technology-independent and platform-specific service modeling re-usable service models business-rules-driven service composition web services autonomic service behavior context-aware service behavior service interoperability change impact analysis and service management service monitoring and quality of service services for IoT applications service innovation 4. BUSINESS MODELS AND SOFTWARE enterprise engineering and software development model-driven engineering co-design of business and IT systems business-IT alignment and traceability alignment between IT architecture and business strategy business strategy and technical debt business-modeling-driven software generation normalized systems and combinatorial effects software generation and dependency analysis component-based business-software alignment objects, components, and modeling patterns generic business modeling patterns and software re-use business rules and software specification business goals and software integration business innovation and software evolution software technology maturity models domain-specific models croscutting concerns - security, privacy, distribution, recoverability, logging, performance monitoring 5. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES AND PARADIGMS enterprise architectures service-oriented computing software architectures cloud computing autonomic computing (and intelligent software behavior) context-aware computing (and adaptable software systems) affective computing (and user-aware software systems) aspect-oriented computing (and non-functional requirements) architectural styles architectural viewpoints 6. DATA ASPECTS IN BUSINESS MODELING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT data modeling in business processes data flows and business modeling databases, OLTP, and business processes data warehouses, OLAP, and business analytics data analysis, data semantics, redundancy, and quality-of-data data mining, knowledge discovery, and knowledge management information security and business process modeling categorization, classification, regression, and clustering cluster analysis and predictive analysis ontologies and decision trees decision tree induction and information gain business processes and entropy machine learning and deep learning - an enterprise perspective uncertainty and context states statistical data analysis and probabilistic business models 7. BLOCKCHAIN-BASED BUSINESS MODELS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS smart contracts blockchains for business process management blockchain schemes for decentralization the blockchain architecture - implications for systems and business processes blockchains and the future of enterprise information systems blockchains and security / privacy / trust issues 8. IoT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS the IoT paradigm IoT data collection and aggregation business models and IoT IoT-based software solutions IoT and context-awareness IoT and public values IoT applications: smart cities, e-Health, smart manufacturing. Key dates Paper submission deadline: 11 March 2019 Notification of acceptance: 22 April 2019 Final paper submission: 7 May 2019 Types of contributions Regular Papers - presenting research that is completed or almost finished Position Papers - presenting an arguable opinion about an issue Invited Papers - submitted by best papers' authors and former / future BMSD Keynote Speakers Paper formats Full Papers - 18-page limit in the Springer symposium proceedings (oral presentation) Short Papers - 10-page limit in the Springer symposium proceedings (oral presentation) Posters - 4 page limit, published separately (poster presentation) How to submit a paper (7 steps) 1. View the technical scope 2. Prepare a contribution of no less than 4 and no more than 12 pages (Springer LNCS format) 3. Decide whether you are submitting your contribution as a Regular Paper or as a Position Paper 4. Do paper formatting, using the provided templates (http://www.is-bmsd.org) 5. Remove your names and the names of your co-authors (and also your affiliations) from the title and references sections 6. Save the file as PDF 7. e-Mail the file to: secretariat [at] iicrest.org by the 11th of March, putting in the Subject: "BMSD 2019, Regular / Position Paper" Publication The BMSD'19 Proceedings will be published by Springer and indexed by: - SCOPUS - DBLP. Program Committee Hamideh Afsarmanesh , University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands Paulo Anita, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Dimitar Birov, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Barrett Bryant, University of North Texas, USA Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK Samuel Chong, Capgemini, UK Dimitar Christozov, American University in Bulgaria - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal Claudio Di Ciccio, WU Vienna, Austria Jan L. G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Teduh Dirgahayu, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia John Edwards, Aston University, UK Hans-Georg Fill, University of Vienna, Austria / University of Bamberg, Germany Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy J. Paul Gibson, T&MSP - Telecom & Management SudParis, France Rafael Gonzalez, Javeriana University, Colombia Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany Clever Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ilian Ilkov, IBM, The Netherlands Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, USA Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Gabriel Juhas, Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic Dmitry Kan, AlphaSense Inc., Finland Stefan Koch, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Michal Krcal, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria John Bruntse Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia / University of Economics, Poland Jelena Marincic, ASML, The Netherlands Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Heinrich Mayr, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria Michele Missikoff, Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science, Italy Dimitris Mitrakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ricardo Neisse, European Commission Joint Research Center, Italy Bart Nieuwenhuis, University of Twente, The Netherlands Olga Ormandjieva, Concordia University, Canada Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Prantosh K. Paul, Raiganj University, India Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA Gregor Polancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia Henderik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Ricardo Queiros, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Wenge Rong, Beihang University, China Ella Roubtsova, Open University, The Netherlands Irina Rychkova, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia Stefan Schoenig, University of Bayreuth, Germany Andreas Sinnhofer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Valery Sokolov, Yaroslavl State University, Russia Richard Starmans, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Hans-Peter Steinbacher, FH Kufstein Tirol University of Applied Sciences, Austria Coen Suurmond, RBK Group, The Netherlands Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Ramayah Thurasamy, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Roumiana Tsankova, Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria Damjan Vavpotic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Han van der Aa, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Shin-Jer Yang, Soochow University, Taiwan Benjamin Yen, University of Hong Kong, China Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College, USA (list not yet complete) Contact Boris Shishkov (b.b.shishkov at iicrest.org) From b.b.shishkov at iicrest.org Sun Dec 16 17:05:49 2018 From: b.b.shishkov at iicrest.org (Boris Shishkov) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:05:49 -0800 Subject: [AISWorld] BMSD 2019 || Springer Proceedings || Lisbon, Portugal In-Reply-To: <5dd3c7cfa9b94248a649e8e5a97e5002@iicrest.org> References: <47510568$318c70e3$6c243e26$@com> <1dd978f4a218425d80d88511e47959e6@iicrest.org> <641d5331aed243119e5e3b4515e50f80@iicrest.org> <3e976e7f610e4f77a6d28dfb2d67a6d7@iicrest.org> <4f1458aeb532474cb5b766f521f8706c@iicrest.org> <88a0521a02e743548de147391ee6270b@iicrest.org> <58eba6faf33a401f9a71a33e4b8b7c17@iicrest.org> <6924bf6de1014782b64bce6c3bdd1f61@iicrest.org> <48780e380cab44d4890885e37e9d0faa@iicrest.org> <37c25b5097eb4de4bb1c2ca29f38eccc@iicrest.org> <512b2510aff549c78945e872c1bf6ffd@iicrest.org> <727827dddcd64129a32a6e201ff9ddb0@iicrest.org> <026139fc430546819758f5652c6098c3@iicrest.org> <3d1dd8c56e554adf9f869c0fd84b8c6a@iicrest.org> <91808aa53a3a43de9a3b74e1ac4082b1@iicrest.org> <3ee3d526ce6940109dd7a648e9a1bca5@iicrest.org> <83d9da811d3444c2a24f16894a70f0af@iicrest.org> <73ddcaf2ece04287995b01d74ae3cb0c@iicrest.org> <62ecd11afff14a178d8123cfbb674ff4@iicrest.org> <17f4ab71738949b28bd2618f0dcb6a09@iicrest.org> <30827b56a9b64157bd8f365abbf982ff@iicrest.org> <8d017f53456f48eabc1ef19b2a9d2c18@iicrest.org> <09538895ca8c4651997820f3abe6170a@iicrest.org> <5dd3c7cfa9b94248a649e8e5a97e5002@iicrest.org> Message-ID: <0e3ab439411a41febce2e3d9ec16d096@iicrest.org> Call for Papers BMSD 2019 - Ninth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design 1-3 July 2019 Lisbon, Portugal http://www.is-bmsd.org Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boris Shishkov, IICREST / ULSIT, Bulgaria Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jose Tribolet, IST - University of Lisbon, Portugal (Title: FRAMING ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING WITHIN GENERAL SYSTEM'S THEORY - PERSPECTIVES OF A HUMAN CENTERED FUTURE) BMSD - the International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, is a leading international discussion and knowledge dissemination forum that brings together Researchers and Practitioners interested in: (i) Modeling in general and in particular - Conceptual Modeling, Goal Modeling, Value Modeling, Business/Enterprise Modeling, Process Modeling, Model-Driven Engineering; (ii) Enterprise Engineering and its relation to Software Generation; (iii) Information Systems Architectures and Design. Adequate business models are of huge importance not only for understanding and (re-)engineering an organization but also for automating (part of) its processes by means of software systems. Not grasping correctly and exhaustively an enterprise system would inevitably lead to consequent software failures. It is therefore claimed that software generation should essentially have its roots in corresponding enterprise engineering models. In 2019, BMSD will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, following previous events in Austria (Vienna, 2018), Spain (Barcelona, 2017), Greece (Rhodes, 2016), Italy (Milan, 2015), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2014), The Netherlands (Noordwijkerhout, 2013), Switzerland (Geneva, 2012), and Bulgaria (Sofia, 2011). We welcome paper submissions from but not limited to the following areas and topics: 1. BUSINESS PROCESSES AND ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING enterprise systems enterprise system environments and context construction and function actor roles signs and affordances transactions business processes business process coordination business process optimization business process management and strategy execution production acts and coordination acts regulations and business rules enterprise (re-) engineering enterprise interoperability inter-enterprise coordination enterprise engineering and architectural governance enterprise engineering and software generation enterprise innovation 2. BUSINESS MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS essential business models re-usable business models business value models business process models business goal models integrating data analytics in business modeling semantics and business data modeling pragmatics and business behavior modeling business modeling viewpoints and overall consistency business modeling landscapes requirements elicitation domain-imposed and user-defined requirements requirements specification and modeling requirements analysis and verification requirements evolution requirements traceability usability and requirements elicitation 3. BUSINESS MODELS AND SERVICES enterprise engineering and service science service-oriented enterprises from business modeling to service-oriented solutions business modeling for software-based services service engineering business-goals-driven service discovery and modeling technology-independent and platform-specific service modeling re-usable service models business-rules-driven service composition web services autonomic service behavior context-aware service behavior service interoperability change impact analysis and service management service monitoring and quality of service services for IoT applications service innovation 4. BUSINESS MODELS AND SOFTWARE enterprise engineering and software development model-driven engineering co-design of business and IT systems business-IT alignment and traceability alignment between IT architecture and business strategy business strategy and technical debt business-modeling-driven software generation normalized systems and combinatorial effects software generation and dependency analysis component-based business-software alignment objects, components, and modeling patterns generic business modeling patterns and software re-use business rules and software specification business goals and software integration business innovation and software evolution software technology maturity models domain-specific models croscutting concerns - security, privacy, distribution, recoverability, logging, performance monitoring 5. INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES AND PARADIGMS enterprise architectures service-oriented computing software architectures cloud computing autonomic computing (and intelligent software behavior) context-aware computing (and adaptable software systems) affective computing (and user-aware software systems) aspect-oriented computing (and non-functional requirements) architectural styles architectural viewpoints 6. DATA ASPECTS IN BUSINESS MODELING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT data modeling in business processes data flows and business modeling databases, OLTP, and business processes data warehouses, OLAP, and business analytics data analysis, data semantics, redundancy, and quality-of-data data mining, knowledge discovery, and knowledge management information security and business process modeling categorization, classification, regression, and clustering cluster analysis and predictive analysis ontologies and decision trees decision tree induction and information gain business processes and entropy machine learning and deep learning - an enterprise perspective uncertainty and context states statistical data analysis and probabilistic business models 7. BLOCKCHAIN-BASED BUSINESS MODELS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS smart contracts blockchains for business process management blockchain schemes for decentralization the blockchain architecture - implications for systems and business processes blockchains and the future of enterprise information systems blockchains and security / privacy / trust issues 8. IoT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS the IoT paradigm IoT data collection and aggregation business models and IoT IoT-based software solutions IoT and context-awareness IoT and public values IoT applications: smart cities, e-Health, smart manufacturing. Key dates Paper submission deadline: 11 March 2019 Notification of acceptance: 22 April 2019 Final paper submission: 7 May 2019 Types of contributions Regular Papers - presenting research that is completed or almost finished Position Papers - presenting an arguable opinion about an issue Invited Papers - submitted by best papers' authors and former / future BMSD Keynote Speakers Paper formats Full Papers - 18-page limit in the Springer symposium proceedings (oral presentation) Short Papers - 10-page limit in the Springer symposium proceedings (oral presentation) Posters - 4 page limit, published separately (poster presentation) How to submit a paper (7 steps) 1. View the technical scope 2. Prepare a contribution of no less than 4 and no more than 12 pages (Springer LNCS format) 3. Decide whether you are submitting your contribution as a Regular Paper or as a Position Paper 4. Do paper formatting, using the provided templates (http://www.is-bmsd.org) 5. Remove your names and the names of your co-authors (and also your affiliations) from the title and references sections 6. Save the file as PDF 7. e-Mail the file to: secretariat [at] iicrest.org by the 11th of March, putting in the Subject: "BMSD 2019, Regular / Position Paper" Publication The BMSD'19 Proceedings will be published by Springer and indexed by: - SCOPUS - DBLP. Program Committee Hamideh Afsarmanesh , University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands Paulo Anita, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Dimitar Birov, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Barrett Bryant, University of North Texas, USA Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, UK Samuel Chong, Capgemini, UK Dimitar Christozov, American University in Bulgaria - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Jose Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal Claudio Di Ciccio, WU Vienna, Austria Jan L. G. Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Teduh Dirgahayu, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia John Edwards, Aston University, UK Hans-Georg Fill, University of Vienna, Austria / University of Bamberg, Germany Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy J. Paul Gibson, T&MSP - Telecom & Management SudParis, France Rafael Gonzalez, Javeriana University, Colombia Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany Clever Ricardo Guareis de Farias, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ilian Ilkov, IBM, The Netherlands Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, USA Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Gabriel Juhas, Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic Dmitry Kan, AlphaSense Inc., Finland Stefan Koch, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Michal Krcal, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria John Bruntse Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia / University of Economics, Poland Jelena Marincic, ASML, The Netherlands Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Heinrich Mayr, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK Jan Mendling, WU Vienna, Austria Michele Missikoff, Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science, Italy Dimitris Mitrakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ricardo Neisse, European Commission Joint Research Center, Italy Bart Nieuwenhuis, University of Twente, The Netherlands Olga Ormandjieva, Concordia University, Canada Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Prantosh K. Paul, Raiganj University, India Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA Gregor Polancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia Henderik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Ricardo Queiros, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Wenge Rong, Beihang University, China Ella Roubtsova, Open University, The Netherlands Irina Rychkova, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia Stefan Schoenig, University of Bayreuth, Germany Andreas Sinnhofer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Valery Sokolov, Yaroslavl State University, Russia Richard Starmans, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Hans-Peter Steinbacher, FH Kufstein Tirol University of Applied Sciences, Austria Coen Suurmond, RBK Group, The Netherlands Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Ramayah Thurasamy, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Roumiana Tsankova, Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria Damjan Vavpotic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Han van der Aa, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Shin-Jer Yang, Soochow University, Taiwan Benjamin Yen, University of Hong Kong, China Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College, USA (list not yet complete) Contact Boris Shishkov (b.b.shishkov at iicrest.org)