[AISWorld] IDT journal CFP: IT Service Management and Engineering and i-DMSS

[mmora at securenym.net]

***************** Call for Papers ***********************
Special issue in: "IT Service Management and Engineering: an Intelligent
Decision-making Support Systems Approach"

Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal
http://www.iospress.nl/journal/intelligent-decision-technologies/


AIMS AND SCOPE.
The main objective of this special issue is to support and advance the
development of constructs, frameworks-models,
methods-processes-techniques, tools-instruments, and instantiations of
systems and components, for supporting the management and engineering
processes in the domain of IT Services Management (ITSM) and Engineering
using an intelligent Decision-making Support Systems (intelligent DMSS)
approach. IT Services are currently engineered and managed using
well-known process standards and models like ITIL v2, ITIL v3, ISO 20000,
CMMI-SVC, ITUP or MOF 4.0. There are also multiple IT tools for such
tasks. However, few of them have incorporated intelligent techniques. In
this special issue, we invite ITSM and AI international research community
to submit high-quality papers for advancing our theoretical and practical
knowledge on such ITSM management and engineering activities. Given the
novelty of this topic, exploratory and conceptual papers on requirements
for these systems as well as empirical-based papers providing proof of
concept are all welcome.

DEADLINES.
Paper submission for review: 			February 28, 2013
Review results: 				April 30, 2013
Revised paper submission: 			June 15, 2013
Final acceptance:	 			July  15, 2013
Manuscript delivery to the publisher: 	July 31, 2013

MAIN TOPICS (BUT NOT LIMITED TO).
Theoretical/conceptual, empirical/statistic-based, 
odeling/simulation-based or design engineering-oriented studies on:
constructs, frameworks-models, methods-processes-techniques (includes
computational mechanisms), tools-instruments, and/or instantiations of
systems and components for designing and building intelligent DMSS that
support IT service management and engineering decision-making process.

REVIEW AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCIONS
Each paper will be examined and accepted or rejected based on its own
merit and subject appropriateness using a double-blind peer review
process. All papers must be original, high-quality, and of approximately
7,000 to 8000 words. Papers should not have been previously published or
under consideration for publication elsewhere. One issue of the journal
includes about 5-6 papers. The number of figures, tables and equations
should be included within the text for readability. Full papers must be
emailed to Professor Jorge Marx  (jorge.marx.gomez at uni-oldenburg.de) with
a copy to Professor Manuel Mora (dr.manuel.mora.uaa at gmail) before or on
February 28, 2013, according to submission guidelines (please consult them
in: http://www.iospress.nl/journal/intelligent-decision-technologies/ ).

GUEST EDITORS
Dr. Jorge Marx Gómez, Department of Informatics, University of Oldenburg,
Germany
Dr. Manuel Mora, Department of Information Systems, Autonomous University
of Aguascalientes, Mexico
Dr. Fen Wang, Central Washington University, USA