[AISWorld] Deadline Approaching - 26th Conference of the European Academy for Standardisation

Tue Feb 1 01:04:00 EST 2022

***With apologies for cross-posting***

Folks,

The 2022 edition of the annual EURAS conference will take place on 8 - 
10 June 2022 in Glasgow (Covid-19 or any successor permitting, that is). 
It will be hosted by the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School.

The conference theme is 'Standardisation and Open Source'. As usual, we 
will also consider good quality papers that do not relate to this theme. 
The CfP is enclosed below.

Submission deadline is 13 February 2022, so you might want to start 
writing ......

Greetings from Aachen.

Cheers,
Kai.

Call for Papers

26th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference
- Standardisation and Open Source -

8 - 10 June 2022
Glasgow, Scotland

Organised by
The European Academy for Standardisation (EURAS)
Adam Smith Business School, The University of Glasgow, UK

Hosted by
Adam Smith Business School, The University of Glasgow, UK

Just like standardisation and innovation have long been considered as 
almost mutually exclusive, so have been Open Source Software (OSS) and 
Standardisation. This former view has long since changed, the latter is 
about to change as well. This is not such a big surprise; after all, a 
common OS-implementation of a standard would be a great step forward 
towards interoperability. Moreover, just like standardisation 
OSS-development may be considered a platform for technology and 
knowledge transfer. Indeed, a certain paradigm shift may be observed, 
from ╘specification-first╒ to ╘parallel╒ and it looks like the two 
communities are in a very early stage of merging, at least selectively; 
stakeholders clearly overlap at both the corporate and the individual 
level. However, a clear interface between the two communities and 
processes is still missing and mechanisms for formal co-operation have 
rarely been implemented. Moreover, IPR issues remain a potential source 
of conflicts, as do the different forms of governance. And policy makers 
still need to fully endorse ╨ and perhaps even enforce ╨ OSS, especially 
in public procurement.

Against this background, EURAS 2022 solicits papers on the above theme. 
However, papers on other standardisation topics will also be considered. 
Sample topics include, but are not limited to:

Special Themes: OSS and Standardisation
* The interface between the two communities.
* Aligning the processes?
* How should a joint process be governed?
* Specification-first vs. implementation-first vs. parallel 
standardisation/
   implementation.
* How to address IPR issues?
* What does ╘open╒ mean for both communities?
* Document-centric, code-centric or practices-centric
* Relationship with open innovation
* Cultural differences between the communities
* Relationships with digital protectionism or techno-nationalism
* Membership criteria for SDOs and OSS communities
* Relationships with business model innovation
* Strategic aspects of OSS and standardisation
* Relationships with digital platform economy

General Themes
* Relation between standardisation and legislation
* Legal aspects of standardisation
* Political aspects of standards and standardisation
* Standards and trade
* Standards and/for sustainability
* Standardisation roadmaps
* Standardisation and Europe╒s R&I agenda
* The impact of standards and standardisation
* Standardisation strategy and strategic alliances
* Standards and the transformation of organisations
* Standardisation and entrepreneurship
* Adoption/implementation of standards.
* History of standardisation
* Standardisation processes
* Standardisation for knowledge management
* Competition and compatibility among standards
* Quality of standards

Submissions
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We welcome two types of submissions:
* Full research papers (up to 20 single-spaced pages);
* Practitioners╒ papers (up to 4 single-spaced pages).

Submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines, available at
https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/downloads/EURAS_2022_Template.zip 

Please submit your paper as .pdf files via EasyChair at: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euras2022 (to be able to do so 
an EasyChair account will be required).

All papers will be double-blind reviewed by members of the Technical 
Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the 
conference proceedings, as part of the ╘EURAS Contributions to 
Standardisation Research╒ book series. Particularly good and relevant 
papers will be fast-tracked to a Special Issue of the Journal on 
Standardisation on ╘Standardisation and Open Source╒ (subject to the 
authors' approval).

Deadlines
---------
Paper submission:    13 February 2022
Notification:     20 March 2022
Final paper due:     3 April 2022

Local Organisation and Enquiries
--------------------------------
Please send any enquiries regarding the local organisation to
Dong-hyu Kim <Dong-Hyu.Kim at glasgow.ac.uk>.

Please direct all other enquiries to Kai Jakobs at 
Kai.Jakobs at cs.rwth-aachen.de

For more information about EURAS please visit http://www.euras.org.

Conference Venue
----------------
Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow ╨ University Avenue, 
Glasgow, UK
Main Building Lecture Theatre 206, Level 2
(https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business)

Technical Programme Committee
-----------------------------
Martin Adolph, ITU, CH
Nitin Aggarwal, SJSU, US (tbc)
Marie Barani, Vectis, UK
Rudi Bekkers, TU Eindhoven, NL (tbc)
Paolo Bellavista, U. Bologna, IT
Knut Blind, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer ISI, DE
Nils Brunsson, Uppsala U., SE
Carl Cargill, Consultant, US
Pavel Castka, U. Canterbury, NZ
Donggeun Choi, KSA, KR (tbc)
Jorge Contreras, U. Utah, US
Axel Czaya, Helmut-Schmidt U., DE
Panagiotis Delimatsis, Tilburg U., NL
Erwin Folmer, TNO, NL
Vladislav Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT
Andrea Fried, LinkÜping U., SE
Linda Garcia, Georgetown U., US
John-Stewart Gordon, VMU, LT
Matt Heckman, Zuyd U. of Applied Sciences, NL
Eric Iversen, NIFU, NO
Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE
Geerten van de Kaa, TU Delft, NL
Thomas Kalling, Lund U., SE (tbc)
Olia Kanevskaia, Utrecht U., NL
Ken Krechmer, U. Colorado, US
Heejin Lee, Yonsei U., KR
BjÜrn Lundell, SkÜvde U., SE
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U., US (tbc)
Brian McAuliffe, HP, IE
Ivana Mijatovic, Belgrade U., SRB
Anne Mione, U. Montpellier, FR
Eitan Naveh, Technion, IL
Marta Orviska, UMB, SK
Anke Piepenbrink, Rennes Business School, FR (tbc)
Megan Quinlan, Imperial College London, UK
Karen Richmond, U. Copenhagen, DK
Andrew Russell, SUNY, US
Cesare Riillo, STATEC, LU
Tim Schoechle, NISLAPP, US
Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Consultant, US
Jan Smits, TU Eindhoven, NL
Michael Spring, U. Pittsburgh, US
Kees Stuurman, Tilburg U., NL
Valerio Torti, LUISS, IT
Klaus Turowski, U. Magdeburg, DE
Karthikeyan Umapathy, U. of North Florida, US (tbc)
Francesco Virili, U. Sassari, IT (tbc)
Henk de Vries, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL (tbc)
Ray Walshe, DCU, IE
Marc van Wegberg, Consultant, NL
Martin Weiss, U. Pittsburgh, US
Robert van Wessel, ApexIS, NL
Gill Whitney, Middlesex U., UK
Paul Wiegmann, TU Eindhoven, NL

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Kai Jakobs

RWTH Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
Fax:  +49-241-80-22222
Kai.Jakobs at comsys.rwth-aachen.de
<http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/>

EURAS - The European Academy for Standardisation.
<http://www.euras.org>