<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH [IJBIR]<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Call for Papers:</SPAN><BR>The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, the coverage, and directions for submission to IJBIR.<BR><BR>Mission: The mission of the journal is to advance research in the field of business intelligence and analytics and to identify ways that BI creates value for organizations. The journal publishes original academic research/case studies, as well as selective thought provoking papers on issues, strategies, practices, techniques, and technologies from both academics and practitioners that advance the understanding and practice of Business Intelligence. The focus of this journal is to identify innovative Business Intelligence strategies and to assess the application of theoretical concepts to real-world situations. IJBIR takes a multidisciplinary approach to the examination of business intelligence.<BR><BR>Submitting to IJBIR: <BR>Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 2 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to patrica.rafferty@sju.edu. <BR><BR>Publisher:<BR>The International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) is published by IGI For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. <BR><BR>All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:<BR>patricia.rafferty@sju.edu<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Patricia D. Rafferty, Ed.D. </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Erivan K. Haub School of Business</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Saint Joseph's University</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Director</SPAN></SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Master of Science in Business Intelligence</SPAN> <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Program</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Master of Science in Human Resource Management</SPAN> <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Program</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Managing Editor</SPAN><BR>International Journal of Business Intelligence Research</SPAN><BR>http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1168&detailstype=description<BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: aisworld-request@lists.aisnet.org<BR>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 3:20:18 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<BR>Subject: AISWorld Digest, Vol 28, Issue 14<BR><BR>Send AISWorld mailing list submissions to<BR> aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR> http://lists.aisnet.org/mailman/listinfo/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org<BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR> aisworld-request@lists.aisnet.org<BR><BR>You can reach the person managing the list at<BR> aisworld-owner@lists.aisnet.org<BR><BR>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than "Re: Contents of AISWorld digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR> 1. Re: IS Research Rankings Site Updated (Manuel Mora T.)<BR> 2. Re: IS Research Rankings Site Updated (Shailendra Palvia)<BR> 3. CFC on Open Data - The ENGAGE EU Project experts scientific<BR> committee (Yannis Charalabidis)<BR> 4. CFP - AMCIS 2012 Mini-track: Business Intelligence for<BR> Organizational Performance Management (Benjamin Shao)<BR> 5. Re: IS Research Rankings Site Updated (plausible actions)<BR> (Manuel Mora T.)<BR> 6. Re: IS Research Rankings Site Updated (MurphJen@aol.com)<BR> 7. AMCIS, 2012: Spatial BI (GIS) - Is your data location based?<BR> (Daniel Farkas)<BR> 8. FINAL REMINDER: Feb 12: FOIS 2012 submission deadline<BR> (strict) (Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Jul 24-27,<BR> Graz, Austria) (Frank Loebe)<BR> 9. M.S. program with scholarship in SeoulTech, South Korea<BR> (Ji-Hoon Yun)<BR> 10. IEEC2012: 2nd International Engineering Education Conference<BR> (meukonferansi@atilim.edu.tr)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 1<BR>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:37:05 -0600 (CST)<BR>From: "Manuel Mora T." <mmora@securenym.net><BR>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Cc: Shailendra.Palvia@liu.edu<BR>Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated<BR>Message-ID: <201202081737.q18Hb5025198@einstein.securenym.net><BR>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<BR><BR>Dear colleague Shailendra Palvia and IT colleagues:<BR><BR>I consider that an email as I posted yesterday deserves additional<BR>explanations. Let me to comment briefly such concerns:<BR><BR>#1 Other computing disciplines deserve a high respect for pioneers and<BR>people who have done core contributions (rather than on the number or<BR>published papers).<BR><BR>#2 Other computing disciplines do not spent time in counting #papers<BR>of authors. How can be the reaction of Computer Sciences or<BR>Artificial Intelligence research communities whether authors rather topics<BR>are ranked or investigated? Is it useful for advancing the planning,<BR>design, building, operation, evaluation, and retirement of IT systems?<BR>In these related disciplines, the seniority level is gained by<BR>contributions (1, 2 or 3 maybe) but not for # of papers in controlled<BR>journals.<BR><BR>#3 Management Science, Communications of the ACM, or Harvard Business<BR>Review have impact factors over 2.0 - 3.0, which is normal, so an impact<BR>factor over 5.0 suggests a bias in the community to cite papers from it.<BR>Also, it is absurd or few known that an author were published on 15<BR>papers in Management Science (it is not ease by the rigor of real asked<BR>contributions but in MIS Quarterly it happens at present decade!)<BR><BR><BR>#4 I see positive to conduct a study on contributions of such journals<BR>during two epochs /the initial where IT was the focus and the type of<BR>papers were both relevant and with rigor vs the present where a myriad of<BR>microscopic topics are pursued and overdone for the sake of the authors<BR>-other metrics can be used like citations, knowledge transferred to<BR>textbooks, practical acceptation by IT industry, and maybe the<BR>acknowledgement of IT community over top researchers/ On it, I reported<BR>some names of people that are not in the list but that they have really<BR>contributed (with less papers but more value) to IT discipline. Of course,<BR>there are more, and of course, some of the suggested list are also part of<BR>this real select group that all of us respect by their core contributions<BR>(not for the # of papers).<BR><BR>#5 In IT disciplines, the core underlying purpose should be something like<BR>"to advance our knowledge on how to plan, design, build, operate, and<BR>retire efficient, efficacy, effective, ethic and worth-trusty IT systems"<BR>On it, how many top IT researchers really have developed IT systems,<BR>installed IT networking systems, evaluated IT real projects, negotiated<BR>and discussed with IT suppliers, and have a BS or MSc on IT, SwE or<BR>Computer Sciences? Of course there are excellent exceptions but it seems<BR>it is not the common attribute at present (e.g. their backgrounds are from<BR>Psychology, Business, Management, Liberal Arts, etc). It suggests a<BR>different vision on what are IT systems.<BR><BR><BR>Finally, how many topics taught in BS and MSc IT programs at present were<BR>generated by our community ( OOA&D? not, Networking Design?, IT Project<BR>Management ? not, Cloud Computing? not, IT Services Management? ? from IT<BR>and related industry, Green IT? ? not, Java, PHP, etc languages? Not.<BR>These are my arguments on a bureaucratic IT discipline at present.<BR><BR>In summary, I respect totally to the list of Top Senior Researchers<BR>listed in such reports, but my core inquiry is if it is a useful<BR>metric for advancing our IT discipline at present? and if we are<BR>free thinkers while we support the notion of that only 6-10 journals are<BR>important in IT research (it based on fact that the rankings show a clear<BR>separation between such journals and the remainder available 40-60) !<BR><BR>My total respect for the suggested list, but I value more the IT people<BR>(perhaps with 5-7 papers in top journals but with real contributions<BR>to our IT discipline). Also, the classificatio on A+ vs the remainder<BR>journals could be reduced to the usual quartiles (25 worldwide premier<BR>journals) + 25 high quality wih worldwide scope + 25 high quality for<BR>regional purposes + last 25 for fast publishing (variable quality)).<BR>Thanks,<BR>Manuel Mora<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Alan Litchfield wrote:<BR><BR><BR><BR>Shailendra Palvia wrote:<BR>> Dear Manuel and all concerned MIS colleagues:<BR>><BR>> Dear colleague Shailendra Palvia and IT colleagues:<BR>I consider that an email as I posted yesterday deserves additional<BR>explanations. Let me to comment briefly such concerns:<BR><BR>#1 Other computing disciplines deserve a high respect for pionners and<BR>people who has done core contributions (rather than they are published<BR>or highly published in top journals).<BR><BR>#2 Other computing disciplines do not spent time in counting #papers<BR>of authors. How can be the reaction of Computer Sciences or<BR>Artificial Intelligence communities if authors rather topics are ranked?<BR>Is it useful for advancing the design, building and operation of computer<BR>systems? In these related disciplines, the seniority level is gained<BR>by contributions (1, 2 or 3 maybe) but not for # of papers in controlled<BR>journals.<BR><BR>#3 Management Science, Communications of the ACM, or Harvard Business<BR>Review have impact factors over 2.0 - 3.0, which is normal, so an impact<BR>factor over 5.0 suggests a bias in the community to cite papers from it.<BR>Also, it is absurd or few known that an author were published on 15<BR>papers in Management Science (it is not ease by the rigor of asked<BR>contributions but in MIS Quarterly it happens at present decade!)<BR><BR><BR>#4 I see positive to conduct a study on contributions of such journals<BR>during two epochs /the initial where IT was the focus and the type of<BR>papers were both relevant and with rigor vs the present where a myriad of<BR>microscopic topics are pursued and overdone for the sake of the authors<BR>-other metrics can be used like citations, knowledge transfered to<BR>textbooks, practical acceptation by IT industry, and maybe the<BR>acknowledgement of IT community over top researchers/<BR>On it, I reported some names of people that are not in the list<BR>but that they have really contributed (with less papers but more value)<BR>to IT discipline. Of course, there are more, and of course, some<BR>of the suggested list are also part of this real select group that<BR>all of us respect by their core contributions (not for the # of<BR>papers).<BR><BR>#5 In IT disciplines, the core underlying purpose should be something<BR>like "to advance our knowledge on how to plan, design, build, operate, and<BR>retire efficient, efficacy, effective, ethic and worthstrusty IT systems"<BR>On it, how many top IT researchers really have developed IT systems,<BR>installed IT networking systems, evaluated IT real projects, negotiated<BR>and discussed with IT suppliers, and have a BS or MSc on IT, SwE or<BR>Computer Sciences? Of course there are excellent exceptions but it seems<BR>it is not the common attribute at present (e.g. their backgrounds are from<BR>Psychology, Business, Management, Liberal Arts, etc). It suggests a<BR>different vision on what are IT systems.<BR><BR><BR>Finally, how many topics taught in BS and MSc IT programs at present were<BR>generated by our community? These are my arguments on a burecreatic IT<BR>discipline at present.<BR><BR><BR>In summary, I respect totally to the list of Top Senior Researchers<BR>listed in such reports, but my core inquiry is if it is a useful<BR>metric for advancing our IT discipline at present? and if we are<BR>free thinkers support the notion of that only 6-10 journals are<BR>important in IT research (it when the rankings shows a clear separation<BR>between such journals and the remainder available 40-60) !<BR><BR>Manuel Mora<BR><BR>> You have articulated some very good ideas for stimulating more thinking<BR>> on part of all MIS researchers regarding contributions of the MIS<BR>> researchers to the world of academia and practitioners. For reasons cited<BR>> by you, some top notch articles in journals other than MISQ, JMIS, ISR<BR>> are not cited enough to make an impact.<BR>><BR>> Ph.D. students and all researchers must be guided by journal editors to<BR>> refer to all relevant articles on a theme. One example should illustrate<BR>> this point. One Ph.D. researcher did a thesis focusing on IT Enabled<BR>> Global Sourcing of Services. His/her citations focused mostly on the top<BR>> three journals totally ignoring some very high quality publications in<BR>> journals like JITCAR, I & M, Decision Sciences, JGITM and so on.<BR>><BR>> Sincerely<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> Dr. Shailendra Palvia<BR>> Professor of MIS, College of Management<BR>> C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, NY 11801.<BR>> http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia.aspx?rn=Facult<BR>> y&ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty.aspx Founding Editor, Journal of IT Case<BR>> and Applications Research (JITCAR), www.jitacr.org World Conference<BR>> Chairperson, Tenth Annual Int'l Smart Sourcing Conference<BR>> Solbridge University, South Korea, June 21-22, 2012.<BR>> www.outsourceglobal.org Phone #: 732-983-7034<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From: aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org<BR>> [mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Manuel Mora T.<BR>> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:24 PM<BR>> To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated<BR>><BR>><BR>> Dear colleagues in IT discipline:<BR>> In other IT related disciplines (Computer Sciences, Artificial<BR>> Intelligence, Software Engineering, and actually Management Science /<BR>> OR), the most recognized academics are those that have introduced a core<BR>> innovation (construct, theory, model, or system) which is usually used<BR>> during a long time (1 or several decades). Examples: Lofti Zadeh (fuzzy<BR>> logic mechanisms), E-R Model (Peter Chen), Core Competences (Gary Hamel<BR>> and CK Prahalad), Soft Systems (Peter Checkland), MIS concept (Gordon<BR>> Davis), IT Development Stages (Michael Gibson and Richard Nolan), EIS and<BR>> CSFs (John Rockart), GDSS (Paul Gray, George Huber), 5-force model<BR>> (Michael Porter), BSC (David Norton and Robert Kaplan), Ethernet protocol<BR>> (Robert Metcalfe), among dozens of contributions. It is very likely that<BR>> they published few papers in top journals but they contributions have<BR>> shaped such disciplines (of course, your papers are largely cited). On<BR>> it, the research rankings, do really reveal the critical contributions to<BR>> advance our IT discipline or have we fostered an academic bureaucratic<BR>> context? People in other disciplines are surprised that MIS Quarterly has<BR>> an impact factor over 5.0 points, which is not natural in other<BR>> disciplines. MIS Quarterly can be #1 but in all surveys the people<BR>> usually ranks it by default! Are we really free academics or we have to<BR>> follow the modern research IT rules (not from the 70-80s according to my<BR>> estimation of type of research papers published in similar 6 journals).<BR>> In summary, how many core contributions published in the 6 suggested<BR>> journals have shaped in the last 10 years the IT discipline with critical<BR>> research discoveries or inventions? Interesting topics like<BR>> virtualization, green IT, ITSM, etc, while are investigated in IT<BR>> discipline are not created (published the like original initial ideas) in<BR>> our journals! We are not so creative as other Computing and Managerial<BR>> disciplines are. Finally, how many patents are linked to our IT<BR>> discipline from our IT academic community? Do we need a re-invention of<BR>> our disci h other approach are required. Thanks, Manuel Mora, EngD. PS. I<BR>> believe we have lost the historical memory of IT leaders that have shaped<BR>> our IT discipline, and that deserve a special ranking of IT Academics.<BR>> The IT research rankings measures other dimensions but not the overall<BR>> impact and contribution to our IT discipline.<BR>><BR>><BR>> ----------------------------------------------<BR>> Manuel Mora, EngD.<BR>> Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level<BR>> Autonomous University of Aguascalientes<BR>> Ave. Universidad 940<BR>> Aguascalientes, Ags.<BR>> M?xico 20100<BR>> www.uaa.mx ----------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> AISWorld mailing list<BR>> AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>><BR>><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>----------------------------------------------<BR>Manuel Mora, EngD.<BR>Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level<BR>Autonomous University of Aguascalientes<BR>Ave. Universidad 940<BR>Aguascalientes, Ags.<BR>M?xico 20100<BR>www.uaa.mx<BR>----------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 2<BR>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:51:00 +0000<BR>From: Shailendra Palvia <Shailendra.Palvia@liu.edu><BR>To: "'mmora@securenym.net'" <mmora@securenym.net>,<BR> "aisworld@lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><BR>Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated<BR>Message-ID:<BR> <68DA99476EE7434898B1A7AC8B2480CD14B87A@U-EXH-MBX2.liunet.edu><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR><BR>Dear Manuel and all concerned MIS colleagues:<BR><BR>You have articulated some very good ideas for stimulating more thinking on part of all MIS researchers regarding contributions of the MIS researchers to the world of academia and practitioners.<BR>For reasons cited by you, some top notch articles in journals other than MISQ, JMIS, ISR are not cited enough to make an impact. <BR><BR>Ph.D. students and all researchers must be guided by journal editors to refer to all relevant articles on a theme. One example should illustrate this point. One Ph.D. researcher did a thesis focusing on IT Enabled Global Sourcing of Services. His/her citations focused mostly on the top three journals totally ignoring some very high quality publications in journals like JITCAR, I & M, Decision Sciences, JGITM and so on. <BR><BR>Sincerely<BR><BR><BR>Dr. Shailendra Palvia<BR>Professor of MIS, College of Management<BR>C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, NY 11801.<BR>http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia.aspx?rn=Faculty&ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty.aspx <BR>Founding Editor, Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAR), www.jitacr.org <BR>World Conference Chairperson, Tenth Annual Int'l Smart Sourcing Conference<BR>Solbridge University, South Korea, June 21-22, 2012. www.outsourceglobal.org <BR>Phone #: 732-983-7034<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Manuel Mora T.<BR>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:24 PM<BR>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated<BR><BR>Dear colleagues in IT discipline:<BR>In other IT related disciplines (Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, and actually Management Science / OR), the most recognized academics are those that have introduced a core innovation (construct, theory, model, or system) which is usually used during a long time (1 or several decades). Examples: Lofti Zadeh (fuzzy logic mechanisms), E-R Model (Peter Chen), Core Competences (Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad), Soft Systems (Peter Checkland), MIS concept (Gordon Davis), IT Development Stages (Michael Gibson and Richard Nolan), EIS and CSFs (John Rockart), GDSS (Paul Gray, George Huber), 5-force model (Michael Porter), BSC (David Norton and Robert Kaplan), Ethernet protocol (Robert Metcalfe), among dozens of contributions. It is very likely that they published few papers in top journals but they contributions have shaped such disciplines (of course, your papers are largely cited). On it, the research rankings, do really reveal the critical contributi!<BR> ons to advance our IT discipline or have we fostered an academic bureaucratic context? People in other disciplines are surprised that MIS Quarterly has an impact factor over 5.0 points, which is not natural in other disciplines. MIS Quarterly can be #1 but in all surveys the people usually ranks it by default! Are we really free academics or we have to follow the modern research IT rules (not from the 70-80s according to my estimation of type of research papers published in similar 6 journals). In summary, how many core contributions published in the 6 suggested journals have shaped in the last 10 years the IT discipline with critical research discoveries or inventions? Interesting topics like virtualization, green IT, ITSM, etc, while are investigated in IT discipline are not created (published the like original initial ideas) in our journals! We are not so creative as other Computing and Managerial disciplines are. Finally, how many patents are linked to our IT discipline!<BR> from our IT academic community? Do we need a re-invention of !<BR> our discipline? I believe does it, but IT leaders trained with other approach are required. Thanks, Manuel Mora, EngD.<BR>PS. I believe we have lost the historical memory of IT leaders that have shaped our IT discipline, and that deserve a special ranking of IT Academics. The IT research rankings measures other dimensions but not the overall impact and contribution to our IT discipline.<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------<BR>Manuel Mora, EngD.<BR>Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level<BR>Autonomous University of Aguascalientes<BR>Ave. Universidad 940<BR>Aguascalientes, Ags.<BR>M?xico 20100<BR>www.uaa.mx<BR>----------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>AISWorld mailing list<BR>AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 3<BR>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:31:45 +0200<BR>From: Yannis Charalabidis <yannisx@aegean.gr><BR>To: <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><BR>Subject: [AISWorld] CFC on Open Data - The ENGAGE EU Project experts<BR> scientific committee<BR>Message-ID: <001101cce67f$28a48f10$79edad30$@gr><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7"<BR><BR>CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ON<BR>Open Data for Science and Society<BR>Forward-Looking, Visionary Approaches for Public Sector Information Sharing<BR>and Utilisation<BR><BR>AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION<BR><BR><BR>Open data provide an unprecedented opportunity for societies to move towards<BR>transparency, evidence-based decisions, enhanced cohesion, public engagement<BR>and trust. Public sector information may be offered as "open data" in many<BR>forms and through different media: from simple datasets describing traffic<BR>or unemployment, to web services linking and mashing information from<BR>different sources, to interactive visualization of complex phenomena, to<BR>citizen-based data gathering and transmission. This way, new information is<BR>made available to scientists, citizens and enterprises for developing and<BR>offering value-adding services, thus forming a supply chain around publicly<BR>available open data.<BR><BR>In this context, the ENGAGE project (http://www.engage-project.eu ), funded<BR>by the European Commission under the e-Infrastructures Programme, aims at<BR>the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating<BR>distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data<BR>curation, semantic annotation and visualisation tools, capable of supporting<BR>scientific collaboration and governance-related research from<BR>multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering the<BR>deployment of open governmental data towards citizens. <BR>?<BR>Objectives of the Call:<BR>With this call for contributions, ENGAGE aims to attract high-quality<BR>innovative contributions, in the form of short papers that depict sound<BR>positions and views for advancing the provision, usage and final utilization<BR>of open data by scientists of all scientific domains, citizens and<BR>businesses. Topics of this call include but are not fully limited to the<BR>following:<BR>. Justification of requirements for public sector information, orienting<BR>from any scientific domain<BR>. Examples and best practices of open data utilization for scientific<BR>purposes<BR>. Visionary ideas on open data utilization within society<BR>. Metadata schemas for open and linked data management<BR>. Methods and tools for open data acquisition, curation, management and<BR>publication<BR>. Methods and tools for integrating and combining open data from distributed<BR>heterogeneous sources<BR>. Methods and tools for combining linked open data with in-house or open<BR>structured information systems in the 'deep web'<BR>. Information systems and services for open data gathering and provision<BR>. New approaches for public sector information visualization<BR>. Collaborative governance approaches involving the use of open data<BR>. Open data and citizen participation in information gathering /<BR>crowdsourcing<BR>. New governance and business models for open data<BR>. Legal provisions and open issues at national and European level, regarding<BR>re-use of governmental data<BR>. International cooperation in the field of open and linked data<BR>Excellent contributors should provide multi-disciplinary approaches,<BR>possibly combining information science with social sciences, management,<BR>finance, engineering or law, to allow uptake of open data by diverse<BR>scientific domains, for modeling or solving complex societal problems.<BR><BR>Award Scheme:<BR>Up to 5 authors of the best papers submitted under this call will be invited<BR>to join the ENGAGE Experts Scientific Committee. Members of this committee<BR>have a key role in providing their expertise in specific research areas, in<BR>participating in the workshops that will be conducted during the project,<BR>and in presenting their comments and feedback to the project deliverables.<BR>Beside the prestige and the opportunity to shape the EU research agenda on<BR>Open Data, each member of the Expert Scientific Committee will receive a sum<BR>of 2,500 EUR to fund participation in the activities of the project.<BR><BR>Submission Guidelines:<BR>All submissions must be between 2,000 and 3,000 words, following the LNCS<BR>format:<BR>http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/word.zip?S<BR>GWID=0-0-45-72919-0 <BR>Submissions by more than one author are welcome; however only the<BR>coordinating author (as indicated in the submission) of the selected paper<BR>will be invited to join the ENGAGE Expert Scientific Committee.<BR>Please submit your contribution via e-mail to contact@engage-project.eu<BR>together with a short biography of 150 words for each of the authors. All<BR>selected contributions will be published in the ENGAGE website after the<BR>announcement of results.<BR>Important Dates:<BR>Deadline for submission of position papers: 15th March 2012<BR>Announcement of results and best papers: 15th April 2012<BR>More information can be found at www.engage-project.eu<BR><BR>CFC Editing and Review Committee<BR>Yannis Charalabidis, University of Aegean, Greece<BR>Matthias Fluegge, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany<BR>Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands<BR>Keith Jeffery, Science and Technology Facility Council, UK<BR>Nikos Houssos, EuroCRIS, The Netherlands<BR>Fotis Karayannis, Microsoft Innovation Centre, Greece<BR>Euripidis Loukis, University of Aegean, Greece<BR>Spyros Mouzakitis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece<BR>John Psarras, National Technical University of Athens (coordinator), Greece<BR>Antonis Ramfos, Intrasoft International, Belgium<BR>Avi Yaeli, IBM Research Haifa, Israel<BR>Anneke?Zuiderwijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Dr. Yannis Charalabidis<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Assistant Professor, Governance Information Systems<BR>Information Systems Lab, ICS Department, University of Aegean <BR>email: yannisx@aegean.gr web: www.icsd.aegean.gr/is-lab<BR><BR>Chief Research Scientist, eGovernment & eBusiness<BR>Decision Support Systems Lab, National Technical University of Athens<BR>email: yannisx@epu.ntua.gr web: www.epu.ntua.gr<BR><BR>Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/yannisc <BR>Linkedin: http://www.charalabidis.gr?<BR>Blog: http://t-government.blogspot.com <BR>Tel: +30-210-7723555, Mob: +30-6974-142112<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 4<BR>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:11:41 +0000<BR>From: Benjamin Shao <Benjamin.Shao@asu.edu><BR>To: "aisworld@lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><BR>Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - AMCIS 2012 Mini-track: Business Intelligence<BR> for Organizational Performance Management<BR>Message-ID:<BR> <8FB23A4A85BE5B4199AE9DC316324AFE014695@exmbt04.asurite.ad.asu.edu><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR><BR>Call for Papers<BR><BR>Mini-track title: Business Intelligence for Organizational Performance Management<BR><BR>Track: Decision Support, Data Management Systems, Knowledge Management, and Business Intelligence (SIGDSS)<BR><BR>Description:<BR><BR>The goal of business intelligence (BI) is to summarize massive amounts of disparate corporate and customer data into succinct information that can help management better understand their business processes, make informed decisions, and measure and improve organizational performance. BI can provide managers with the ability to integrate enterprise-wide data into metrics that link specific objectives to the performance of different business units. In today's economic downturn, accurate real-time BI metrics are even more critical for measuring and enhancing organizational performance. Many technologies contribute to BI solutions, including databases, data warehouses, data marts, analytic processing, and data mining, among others. BI needs to acquire data from multiple platforms and provide ubiquitous access. This requirement presents numerous managerial challenges. This mini-track aims to promote innovative research in the BI domains of organizational performance measurement an!<BR> d improvement.<BR>Suggested topics:<BR><BR><BR> * Real-time business metrics for performance measurement<BR> * Using BI to support the "balanced scorecard"<BR> * Developing the warehouse to create "digital dashboards"<BR> * Critical BI success factors for management control<BR> * Analytical processing<BR> * Techniques for summarizing data<BR> * Assessing organizational performance using BI metrics<BR> * Information extraction and report generation<BR> * Real-time decision making<BR> * Online analytical processing (modeling)<BR> * Business performance management (BPM) and improvement<BR> * Economic analysis of business intelligence<BR> * Business intelligence strategies<BR> * Business intelligence performance metrics<BR> * Business intelligence implementation management<BR> * BI governance, implementation, and management<BR><BR>Important Dates:<BR><BR><BR><BR> * March 1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions<BR> * April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date<BR> * April 20, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due<BR><BR>Mini-track Chair(s):<BR><BR>Dr. Benjamin Shao<BR>Arizona State University<BR>ben.shao@asu.edu<mailto:ben.shao@asu.edu><BR>(480)727-6790<BR><BR>Dr. Robert D. St. Louis<BR>Arizona State University<BR>st.louis@asu.edu<mailto:st.louis@asu.edu><BR>(480)965-1440<BR><BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120208/5ce0206f/attachment-0001.html><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 5<BR>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:06:15 -0600 (CST)<BR>From: "Manuel Mora T." <mmora@securenym.net><BR>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated (plausible<BR> actions)<BR>Message-ID: <201202082206.q18M6GA05925@einstein.securenym.net><BR>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<BR><BR>Dear colleagues in AIS:<BR><BR>I have reported some complaints about the status of our IT discipline<BR>regarding to the non-natural power bias concentrated in 6 journals and<BR>about 50 top senior researchers, that with particular exceptions is not<BR>clear their core contributions (besides to publish in such journals). I am<BR>sure they exist but they should be considered with more value than the<BR>publication in some journals. Thus, I consider positive to propose at<BR>least some feasible actions as IT community:<BR><BR>#1 AIS website should have a section on [History of IT Contributions]<BR>(example, the coining of the concept MIS (Professor Gordon Davis?, 1966,<BR>1968?)<BR><BR>#2 AIS website should have a section on [Top IT Contributors] (where be<BR>reported their core contribution(s). It can be grouped by eras: pre-MIS<BR>era, MIS era (60s-70s), IT Networking era (80-90s), Internet era (2000 at<BR>present). I am sure of most of the listed top seniors in rankings must<BR>appear but now the Seniority level and acceptance by IT community (new<BR>PhDs and older ones) should be by their real contributions for the<BR>discipline. A paper does not matter but their content (and if it is really<BR>worthy then it will be deployed).<BR><BR>#3 To establish a new ranking of journals (best 25 journals) where it be<BR>conducted an updated and non biased survey, and where can be showed that<BR>the statistical and practical difference between them really does not<BR>exist (or using qualitative evaluations as finally papers are accepted in<BR>any journal!). None outside of our discipline can believe that some<BR>journals have impact factors over 4 and 5 points ! and other excellent<BR>journals be ranked by it and other biased metrics as very distant.<BR><BR><BR>Well, I hope these 3 emails can be useful for avoiding the real divorce<BR>between the IT top research and PhD programs and IT reality, and that we<BR>respect to our older IT researchers by their contributions (even it were<BR>published in a not ranked journal!).<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR>Manuel Mora, EngD<BR>PS. >From 1984 at present I have taught very IT technical and<BR>administrative IT courses for BSc and MSc programs. I believe I know this<BR>discipline.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 6<BR>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:54:18 -0500 (EST)<BR>From: MurphJen@aol.com<BR>To: Shailendra.Palvia@liu.edu, mmora@securenym.net,<BR> aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated<BR>Message-ID: <514e.541baa02.3c645719@aol.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR><BR>Shailendra,<BR> <BR>You make a good point and this leads us back to the issue of journal <BR>editors requesting/requiring citations from their journals in papers being <BR>published. For that discussion I'll point you'all back to the CAIS discussion <BR>in 2010 on this topic!....murray<BR> <BR> <BR>In a message dated 2/8/2012 9:54:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, <BR>Shailendra.Palvia@liu.edu writes:<BR><BR>Dear Manuel and all concerned MIS colleagues:<BR><BR>You have articulated some very good ideas for stimulating more thinking on <BR>part of all MIS researchers regarding contributions of the MIS researchers <BR>to the world of academia and practitioners.<BR>For reasons cited by you, some top notch articles in journals other than <BR>MISQ, JMIS, ISR are not cited enough to make an impact. <BR><BR>Ph.D. students and all researchers must be guided by journal editors to <BR>refer to all relevant articles on a theme. One example should illustrate <BR>this point. One Ph.D. researcher did a thesis focusing on IT Enabled Global <BR>Sourcing of Services. His/her citations focused mostly on the top three <BR>journals totally ignoring some very high quality publications in journals like <BR>JITCAR, I & M, Decision Sciences, JGITM and so on. <BR><BR>Sincerely<BR><BR><BR>Dr. Shailendra Palvia<BR>Professor of MIS, College of Management<BR>C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, NY 11801.<BR>http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia.aspx?rn=Faculty&<BR>ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty.aspx <BR>Founding Editor, Journal of IT Case and Applications Research (JITCAR), <BR>www.jitacr.org <BR>World Conference Chairperson, Tenth Annual Int'l Smart Sourcing Conference<BR>Solbridge University, South Korea, June 21-22, 2012. <BR>www.outsourceglobal.org <BR>Phone #: 732-983-7034<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org <BR>[mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Manuel Mora T.<BR>Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:24 PM<BR>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Subject: Re: [AISWorld] IS Research Rankings Site Updated<BR><BR>Dear colleagues in IT discipline:<BR>In other IT related disciplines (Computer Sciences, Artificial <BR>Intelligence, Software Engineering, and actually Management Science / OR), the most <BR>recognized academics are those that have introduced a core innovation <BR>(construct, theory, model, or system) which is usually used during a long time (1 <BR>or several decades). Examples: Lofti Zadeh (fuzzy logic mechanisms), E-R <BR>Model (Peter Chen), Core Competences (Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad), Soft <BR>Systems (Peter Checkland), MIS concept (Gordon Davis), IT Development Stages <BR>(Michael Gibson and Richard Nolan), EIS and CSFs (John Rockart), GDSS (Paul <BR>Gray, George Huber), 5-force model (Michael Porter), BSC (David Norton and <BR>Robert Kaplan), Ethernet protocol (Robert Metcalfe), among dozens of <BR>contributions. It is very likely that they published few papers in top journals <BR>but they contributions have shaped such disciplines (of course, your papers <BR>are largely cited). On it, the research rankings, do really reveal the <BR>critical contributions to advance our IT discipline or have we fostered an <BR>academic bureaucratic context? People in other disciplines are surprised that <BR>MIS Quarterly has an impact factor over 5.0 points, which is not natural in <BR>other disciplines. MIS Quarterly can be #1 but in all surveys the people <BR>usually ranks it by default! Are we really free academics or we have to <BR>follow the modern research IT rules (not from the 70-80s according to my <BR>estimation of type of research papers published in similar 6 journals). In <BR>summary, how many core contributions published in the 6 suggested journals have <BR>shaped in the last 10 years the IT discipline with critical research <BR>discoveries or inventions? Interesting topics like virtualization, green IT, ITSM, <BR>etc, while are investigated in IT discipline are not created (published the <BR>like original initial ideas) in our journals! We are not so creative as <BR>other Computing and Managerial disciplines are. Finally, how many patents are <BR>linked to our IT discipline from our IT academic community? Do we need a <BR>re-invention of our discipline? I believe does it, but IT leaders trained <BR>with other approach are required. Thanks, Manuel Mora, EngD.<BR>PS. I believe we have lost the historical memory of IT leaders that have <BR>shaped our IT discipline, and that deserve a special ranking of IT <BR>Academics. The IT research rankings measures other dimensions but not the overall <BR>impact and contribution to our IT discipline.<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------<BR>Manuel Mora, EngD.<BR>Full Professor and Researcher "C" Level<BR>Autonomous University of Aguascalientes<BR>Ave. Universidad 940<BR>Aguascalientes, Ags.<BR>M?xico 20100<BR>www.uaa.mx<BR>----------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>AISWorld mailing list<BR>AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>AISWorld mailing list<BR>AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120208/06ba011c/attachment-0001.html><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 7<BR>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:25:45 -0500<BR>From: Daniel Farkas <dfarkas@pace.edu><BR>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Cc: Daniel J Farkas <dfarkas@pace.edu><BR>Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS, 2012: Spatial BI (GIS) - Is your data<BR> location based?<BR>Message-ID:<BR> <CAMHGr6a43ZnSxxg0RB-3HOYCK45AnRH1fz4DYv3uWNF7FM18Xg@mail.gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR><BR>*I**s your data location based? *Give your research a new perspective and<BR>submit to the AMCIS 2012 mini-track on* Spatial Business Intelligence*(GIS).<BR>If you need to know more or have questions, join us (AIS SIGGIS), email us,<BR>or join our listserv (blank email; subject *subscribe*; to<BR>siggis-request@lists.aisnet.org).<BR><BR>Call for papers:<BR><BR>**<BR><BR>*AMCIS 2012 Conference, Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012*<BR>Minitrack: Spatial Business Intelligence, Decision Making, and Management<BR><BR>*Minitrack Co-Chairs:James B. Pick, Avijit Sarkar, and Hindupur Ramakrishna<BR>(University of Redlands); Daniel Farkas (Pace University)*<BR><BR>Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial technologies are growing<BR>rapidly in business and government. Increasingly these applications<BR>involve business intelligence (BI). Although there is considerable<BR>research on GIS technology and geographic information science, there has<BR>been relatively little research in spatial decision making in business and<BR>organizations.<BR><BR>This track seeks manuscripts that address conceptual theory, methodology,<BR>applications, and cases on these topics. The relevance to research is to<BR>build up greater knowledge of the geo-spatial aspects of decision-making<BR>and to develop theory and applications, sometimes building on well-known<BR>concepts in the DSS field. The mini-track will address the evolving areas<BR>of GIS, GIScience, and related technologies such as RFID, imagery, and<BR>sensors, and expanding spatial information. Since this area is rapidly<BR>growing in business, the mini-track can shed light on a new and evolving<BR>field. The mini-track findings, results, and discussions will also inform<BR>the managers, strategic thinkers, and policy makers in many organizations<BR>that are building, deploying, and managing applications in these areas.<BR><BR> Potential topics:<BR><BR> - Spatial business intelligence<BR> - Spatial decision support systems (SDSSs)<BR> - Spatial knowledge management<BR> - Management decision-making using GIS<BR> - Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery<BR> - Web-based GIS concepts and applications<BR> - Mobile-based GIS concepts and applications<BR> - Methodological papers<BR> - Theoretical papers<BR> - Case studies<BR> - Collaborative spatial decision-based systems<BR> - Studies of investment in and benefits of GIS, spatial BI, or SDSS<BR> - Human, organizational, and management factors in spatial systems<BR> - Quality measures and evaluation of spatial systems<BR> - Systems and software development of GIS<BR> - Public domain and open source GIS<BR> - Crowdsourcing and public domain sources of spatial information<BR> - Industry trends<BR> - International aspects of GIS-based decision-making<BR> - Ethical aspects of spatial decision-making<BR><BR><BR><BR>DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1, 2012<BR><BR>Submission information at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org<BR><BR>Mini-track chair contact for information:<BR><BR>James B. Pick<BR><BR>E-mail: james_pick@redlands.edu<BR><BR>Phone: 909 748-8781<BR><BR>School of Business, University of Redlands<BR><BR>Redlands, CA 92373-0999<BR><BR>-- <BR>Dan Farkas, PhD<BR>Chair, Information Technology Department<BR>Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems<BR>Pace University<BR>Pleasantville, NY, 10570 USA<BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120208/b3372250/attachment-0001.html><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 8<BR>Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:50:27 +0100<BR>From: "Frank Loebe" <frank.loebe@informatik.uni-leipzig.de><BR>To: <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><BR>Subject: [AISWorld] FINAL REMINDER: Feb 12: FOIS 2012 submission<BR> deadline (strict) (Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Jul 24-27,<BR> Graz, Austria)<BR>Message-ID:<BR> <006c01cce6bc$6f43dba0$4dcb92e0$@informatik.uni-leipzig.de><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR><BR> (apologies for cross-posting) ... (deadline approaching)<BR>-----------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR> FINAL REMINDER of -------------<BR> Call for Papers | FOIS 2012 | Jul 24-27, Graz, Austria<BR> -------------<BR><BR>>>> EXTENDED, STRICT DEADLINE APPROACHING <<<<BR> Conference paper submission: Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 <--<BR><BR> [1] http://purl.org/icbofois2012<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR>TITLE AND CO-LOCATION<BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seventh International Conference on<BR> Formal Ontologies in Information Systems (FOIS 2012)<BR> July, 24-27, 2012 in Graz, Austria<BR><BR> held together with the<BR><BR>Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012)<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR>IMPORTANT DATES<BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>We are calling for papers to be considered for inclusion<BR>in FOIS 2012.<BR><BR>Conference paper submission: Feb 12, 2012 <-- APPROACHING<BR>Conference paper notification: Mar 16, 2012 <- updated!<BR>Camera-ready conference papers: Mar 31, 2012 <- updated!<BR><BR>For the submission categories poster and workshop paper<BR>see the conference website [1]. (Their corresponding initial<BR>deadlines are between Mar 15 and May 01, 2012.)<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR>AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS<BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages, including the<BR>bibliography and an abstract of no more than 300 words.<BR>Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files prepared<BR>in accordance with the IOS formatting guidelines [2].<BR><BR>Submissions should be made via Easychair at the following address:<BR><BR>[3] https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fois2012<BR><BR>Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and will be available<BR>at the time of the conference. Please note that at least one<BR>author must register for the conference in order for an accepted<BR>paper to be published in the proceedings.<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Steven R. Ray (Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, California, USA)<BR>Laure Vieu (CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse, France)<BR>Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University, California, USA)<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR>CONFERENCE ORGANISATION<BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Conference chair:<BR> Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)<BR><BR>Program chairs:<BR> Maureen Donnelly (University at Buffalo, USA)<BR> Giancarlo Guizzardi (Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo, Brazil)<BR><BR>Local organization:<BR> Stefan Schulz (Graz University, Austria)<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR>FURTHER INFORMATION<BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>For further information on FOIS, the flagship conference of the<BR>International Association for Ontology and its Applications<BR>(IAOA) [4], please consult the website of FOIS 2012 [1] or<BR>the conference series website [5] for past conferences.<BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------<BR>LINKS<BR>------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>[1] http://purl.org/icbofois2012<BR> == http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012<BR> FOIS and ICBO 2012 website<BR><BR>[2] http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html<BR> IOS Press formatting guidelines<BR><BR>[3] https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fois2012<BR> Submission at EasyChair<BR><BR>[4] http://www.iaoa.org<BR> International Association for Ontology and its Applications<BR><BR>[5] http://www.formalontology.org/<BR> FOIS conference series<BR><BR>-----------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 9<BR>Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:36:40 +0900<BR>From: Ji-Hoon Yun <ideakid@gmail.com><BR>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Subject: [AISWorld] M.S. program with scholarship in SeoulTech, South<BR> Korea<BR>Message-ID:<BR> <CALfNHVjtuWBt3eD9zSWej6sMec8-4_GErEBbv97d-tikH_xLXA@mail.gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<BR><BR>M.S. Scholarship Opportunity<BR>-------------------------------------------<BR>Smart Computing & Intelligent Networks Lab. is looking for four highly<BR>self-motivated full-time M.S. students to conduct cutting-edge research in<BR>the area of wireless and computer networks in the Department of Computer<BR>Science and Electrical Engineering at Seoul National University of Science<BR>and Technology (SeoulTech) in South Korea.<BR><BR><BR>Position Description<BR>-----------------------------<BR>- The chosen M.S. candidates will be enrolled in a 2-year or 1+2-year<BR>(including 1-year Korean language course) M.S. program starting from Sept.<BR>2012.<BR>- The position is fully funded including a tuition waiver and a competitive<BR>monthly salary.<BR>- The main research direction is the general area of wireless and computer<BR>networks including femtocells and hetnet for next-generation cellular<BR>networks, M2M communication for smart grid, content centric networking,<BR>stochastic geometry, and stochastic control for communication.<BR><BR><BR>Required Qualifications<BR>---------------------------------<BR>- Bachelor of Science in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Computer<BR>Science and Engineering, or Mathematics.<BR>- Good programming skills in C/C++/Matlab.<BR>- Strong mathematical background.<BR>- Excellent writing and communication skills in English.<BR><BR><BR>Application Procedure<BR>-------------------------------<BR>Interested applicants should send the following to Prof. Ji-Hoon Yun (<BR>ideakid@gmail.com) or Prof. Kaewon Choi (kaewon.choi@seoultech.ac.kr) by<BR>March 1, 2010.<BR>1. Detailed CV in English<BR>2. Official transcript of previously attended undergraduate institution<BR>3. Certificate of TOEFL/IELTS score if available<BR><BR><BR>Further Information<BR>---------------------------<BR>- Seoultech webpage: http://english.seoultech.ac.kr<BR>- Intelligent Networks Lab. webpage: http://inlab.seoultech.ac.kr<BR>- Prof. Ji-Hoon Yun?s webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/ideakid/<BR>- Contact Prof. Ji-Hoon Yun (email: ideakid@gmail.com) or Prof. Kaewon Choi<BR>(email: kaewon.choi@seoultech.ac.kr) for further information.<BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120209/3b4764bc/attachment-0001.html><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 10<BR>Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:23:36 +0200<BR>From: meukonferansi@atilim.edu.tr<BR>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>Subject: [AISWorld] IEEC2012: 2nd International Engineering Education<BR> Conference<BR>Message-ID:<BR> <8221a9745345f7d43d8fb68ca01dc602.squirrel@webmail.atilim.edu.tr><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<BR><BR><BR>2nd International Engineering Education Conference (IEEC2012)<BR> "New Trends and Expectations"<BR><BR>October 31 - November 3 2012,<BR>Club Hotel Sera, 07160 Lara, ANTALYA, TURKEY<BR><BR>Dear colleague,<BR>It will be a great pleasure for us if you contribute to the<BR>International Engineering Education Conference (IEEC2012) which is<BR>organized by<BR>Atilim University, Ankara University and Southern Illinois University<BR>Edwardsville.<BR>The conference will be held in Antalya, Turkey in October 31 - November<BR>3 2012.<BR><BR>Hope to see you in Antalya. Please find detailed info about the conference<BR>from http://meuk2012.atilim.edu.tr/en<BR><BR><BR>Prof. Dr. ?smail Bircan<BR>Vice President<BR>At?l?m University<BR>Ankara, Turkey<BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES<BR><BR>Abstract Submission: June, 11 2012<BR>Notification of Abstract Acceptance: June, 22 2012<BR>Full Paper Submission:July, 20 2012<BR>Notification of Full Paper Acceptance: August, 27 2012<BR>Camera Ready Copy Submission: September, 10 2012<BR><BR>Note: Please find detailed information in the attached pdf file.<BR><BR>Please forward to a colleague *<BR>Apologies if you receive this message more than once!<BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<BR>Name: MEUK2012_Call_for_papers.pdf<BR>Type: application/pdf<BR>Size: 195561 bytes<BR>Desc: not available<BR>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120209/795d0137/attachment.pdf><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>AISWorld mailing list<BR>AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<BR><BR>End of AISWorld Digest, Vol 28, Issue 14<BR>****************************************<BR></div></body></html>