November 2007 Archives

CALL FOR ESSAYS

--Do you have something to say about being bisexual?
--Do you have a story about coming out as bi?
--Do you feel you could identify as bisexual but choose not to?
--Do you find connections (or conflicts) between your bisexuality and other parts of your identity or life?
--Do you have something to say about desire? About relationships? About religion? About community? About politics? About the position of bisexuals in the place or community you call home?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, we want to publish you!

_We seek short personal essays or poems (200-1000 words) by bisexuals from Central or South America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, or Africa. We seek Muslim voices from anywhere in the world. _

If you don't want your name in print, you can write under a pseudonym. If you think you're not a "real" writer and would like to be included in this anthology, we want you. If you're not comfortable writing, we can interview you. If you are not comfortable writing in English, write in your native language and we will translate your essay.

Essays will be published in the second edition of Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. The new anthology will be published in 2009, in dual editions (English and Spanish).

The first (2005) edition includes personal narratives by people from 32 different countries, on 6 continents, ranging in age from 15-79. Please help us make this amazing collection even broader in scope!

Send submissions to Robyn Ochs (robyn@robynochs.com) by June 30, 2008.

Thank you!

Robyn Ochs (www.robynochs.com) & Sarah E. Rowley, Editors

Getting Bi is one of the most important recent contributions to the global struggle for human rights. By enriching our understanding of bisexuality within so many cultural and geographic contexts, this anthology serves as a magnificent tool for building support and respect for the sexual rights of each one of us.
-- Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Men can’t really imagine how hard it is to tie your sneakers when you’re nine months pregnant. Or concentrate in a meeting when a hot flash strikes and all you feel like doing is standing in front of an open freezer door. You just have to be a woman. We discovered that when we started eating lunch together.

Bouncing from shop talk to husbands to aging parents, we always ended up at menopause, and that was when the laughter started. We finally decided that we were having too much fun to keep the conversation to ourselves. So if you’re a woman pushing 50 (or 60 or 70 or beyond) who has traded in her tampons for calcium pills and fiber supplements, we want to hear your stories and share them with others.

We want to hear it all: inspirational, funny, freaky, sad, or sublime, stories about
your experiences. Tell us about

Physical changes--mirror, mirror, who is that person looking back?
Relationships--parents, friends, lovers, husbands, in-laws, children, grandchildren, pets
Doctors and other strangers
Sex, exercise, and mood rings
Food--gooey or good for you
Money--you can’t take it with you
Risk-taking--what you can and still can’t afford to lose
Hobbies from arts and crafts to exotic dancing
Aging with style (and tummy tucks)
Survival Strategies (I went through menopause and lived to tell about it!)
Advice (only if you’ve already taken it)

or stories about other things that you’d like to share (like the day I had to work all afternoon without underwear!)

Please send your stories to MENOPLUS@psu.edu. Our sources will remain anonymous, but please send contact information so we can get in touch with you to let you know well be printing your story.

Ruth Pflueger and Terri Caruso
Department of English
Penn State Behrend

Partnerships for Public Innovation

Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada - May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008@easychair.org
Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme, Partnerships for Public Innovation, focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

* Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.

* Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

* Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning.

* IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.

* Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services.

* Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.

We are pleased to announce three luminaries who have made significant contributions in the field of digital government as daily keynote speakers for the dg.o 2008 conference!

* Daniel J. Chenok is the Vice President & Director at the SRA Touchstone Consulting Group. He works in the Civil Sector and helps to lead the Consulting Group in three areas: business strategy and growth, integration of consulting work with other SRA businesses and activities, and senior level client engagement.

* Edwin Lau is head of the E-Government Project at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He helped create the project in 2001 and it currently supports a network of senior E-Government officials in the OECD countries (www.oecd.org/gov/egov/).

* Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships often using Open Source as a model for collaborative development.

(More details on the keynote speakers can be found on the conference website.)

IMPORTANT DATES
* November 1, 2007 - Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008.
* December 1, 2007 - Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions
* February 1, 2008 - Submission deadline for pre-conference tutorials and workshops
* February 1, 2008 - Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions
* February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations
* March 1, 2008 - Acceptance notification for pre-conference tutorials, workshops, posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions
* March 15, 2008 - All camera ready versions are due

SUBMISSIONS TYPES AND FORMATS
* Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Panels (maximum of 5 pages)
* Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
* System Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
* Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Workshops (maximum of 2 pages)

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission. Please use no page numbers. Paper titles should be incorporated onto the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. Papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the review process.

Research papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Papers in this section will also be double blind reviewed, with special focus on relevance to practice, transferability, and lessons learned. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Student research papers (maximum 10 pages)
Digital government research papers authored solely by students should be submitted to this track. Student papers will also receive a double blind review organized and administered by the student program committee. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Panels (maximum 5 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is provided a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked
to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Each station is provided a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Sessions (maximum 2 pages)
Birds-of-a-Feather discussions provide an opportunity for participants to connect around selected topics. Proposals should identify the conveners, the intended participants, and key discussion questions. These conversations generally take place during lunch on one of the conference days.

Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 5 pages)
dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into the scientific and government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experience of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 5 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any digital government research or management topic. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special issue. Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories research papers, management and policy papers, posters, and systems demonstrations. In addition, to reflect the theme of the conference, we plan to select an outstanding cross-boundary partnership. Selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Monique Charbonneau, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lester Diamond, US Social Security Administration
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Program Co-Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico

System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Peter Bruck, Research Studios Austria
Irak Lopez Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico

Student Chair
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University

Communications Chairs
Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Muhlberger, Texas Tech University

Local Arrangement Chairs
Paul-Andre Robitaille, CEFRIO
Priscilla Rasmussen, ARCS

Sponsorship Chair
Theresa Pardo, University of Albany

Finance Chair
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

DGO Society Liaison
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Government Liaison
Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation

Program Committee
Josune Arcelus, INFOTEC, Mexico
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University
Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, University of Tampere, Finland
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Wolf-Gideon Bleek, University of Hamburg
Alan Borning, University of Washington
Laura Bright, Thetus Corporation
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Leslie Cheung, USC
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Anthony M. Cresswell, University at Albany-SUNY
Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon Dawes, University at Albany-SUNY
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Jagdish S. Gangolly, State University of New York at Albany
Ake Gronlund, Umea University, Sweden
Francisco Ramon Hernandez Tella, Universidad Autonoma del Estado, Mexico
Chris Hinnant, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Norman J. Jacknis, Westchester County, NY
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bernhard Katzy, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Krimmer, Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation
Travis Kriplean, University of Washington
Gloria Lau, Stanford University
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus Ltd
Irak Lopez-Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, UK
Bob Maslyn, GSA Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University
Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Mexico
Alexander Schellong, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology
Basit Shafiq, Rutgers University
Rajiv Shah, University of Chicago
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Yao-Hua Tan Hua, Vrije University Amsterdam
Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Giri Kumar Tayi, SUNY at Albany
Janice Warner, Georgian Court University.
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Xenakis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

Government Outreach Chairs
Canada - Susan Phillips, Carlton University
China - Yuan Fu Jiang China National School of Administration
India - Shalini R. Urs University of Mysore
Italy - Enrico Ferro Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
Mexico - Luis F. Luna Reyes Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
The Netherlands - Albert Meijer Utrecht School of Governance
Portugal - Pedro Ferraz de Abreu MIT
Slovena - Mirko Vintar University of Ljubljana
South Korea - Jae Moon - Yonsei University
Sweden - Madeleine Siosteen-Thiel VINNOVA
Turkey - Mete Yildiz Hacettepe University
United States - Kevin Novak, Library of Congress

Partnerships for Public Innovation

Hilton Bonaventure Hotel
Montreal, Canada - May 18-21, 2008
Home Page: http://www.dgo2008.org
General Inquiries: dgo2008@easychair.org
Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008

The 9th annual dg.o international conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary digital government research and practice and its applications in diverse domains. The conference is presented by the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), with major support from the US National Science Foundation.

The conference theme, Partnerships for Public Innovation, focuses on information-intensive innovations in the public sector that involve linkages among government, universities, NGOs, and businesses. This theme emphasizes the importance of sharing practical issues, policy perspectives, research insights, and expert advice, in order to reach higher levels of performance in diverse public enterprises. Each year the conference combines:

* Presentations of effective partnerships among government professionals, university researchers, relevant businesses, and NGOs, as well as grassroots citizen groups, to advance the practice of digital government.

* Research on digital government as an interdisciplinary domain that lies at the intersections of computing research, social and behavioral science research, and the problems and missions of government.

Interested participants are invited to submit management or policy papers, research papers, or student research papers, as well as proposals for panels; industry, government, and research prototype demonstrations; posters, Birds-of-a-Feather discussions, and pre-conference tutorials and workshops. The Conference Committee particularly encourages submissions on interdisciplinary and crosscutting topics addressing broad government challenges. Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

* Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, crisis management, education, emergency response; international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice; legislative systems, natural resources management, grants administration, government statistics, regulation and rulemaking; security; tax administration; transportation systems, and urban planning.

* IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as digital government organization and management strategies, decision-making processes; information technology adoption and diffusion; program planning; IT and service architectures, cross-boundary information sharing and integration, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, information assurance, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.

* Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal access to information and services.

* Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as collaboration tools; cyberinfrastructure for digital government domains; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; grid computing; human-computer interaction; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; national and international infrastructures for information and communication, multiple modalities and multimedia; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; social networking, software engineering for large-scale government projects.

We are pleased to announce three luminaries who have made significant contributions in the field of digital government as daily keynote speakers for the dg.o 2008 conference!

* Daniel J. Chenok is the Vice President & Director at the SRA Touchstone Consulting Group. He works in the Civil Sector and helps to lead the Consulting Group in three areas: business strategy and growth, integration of consulting work with other SRA businesses and activities, and senior level client engagement.

* Edwin Lau is head of the E-Government Project at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He helped create the project in 2001 and it currently supports a network of senior E-Government officials in the OECD countries (www.oecd.org/gov/egov/).

* Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships often using Open Source as a model for collaborative development.

(More details on the keynote speakers can be found on the conference website.)

IMPORTANT DATES
* November 1, 2007 - Conference submission website becomes available. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgo2008.
* December 1, 2007 - Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions
* February 1, 2008 - Submission deadline for pre-conference tutorials and workshops
* February 1, 2008 - Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions
* February 15, 2008 - Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations
* March 1, 2008 - Acceptance notification for pre-conference tutorials, workshops, posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions
* March 15, 2008 - All camera ready versions are due

SUBMISSIONS TYPES AND FORMATS
* Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Management, Case Study, or Policy Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Student Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages)
* Panels (maximum of 5 pages)
* Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
* System Demonstrations (maximum of 2 pages)
* Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum of 2 pages)
* Pre-conference Workshops (maximum of 2 pages)

Submissions must not exceed the maximum number of pages specified for each type of submission. Please use no page numbers. Paper titles should be incorporated onto the first page of text, rather than on a separate cover page. Papers will be reviewed through a double blind review process. Therefore, author names and contact information must be omitted from all submissions. Authors must identify the topic(s) being addressed by the paper to assist the program committee in the review process.

Research papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions report innovative digital government research results in the form of a formal scholarly paper. Papers on any digital government topic and all research methodologies are welcome. Relevance to digital government problems, goals, or policies must be explicit. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Management, case study, or policy papers (maximum 10 pages)
These submissions describe and evaluate practical digital government projects or initiatives, discuss major policy themes, or present and evaluate management approaches to digital government initiatives and programs. Papers in this section will also be double blind reviewed, with special focus on relevance to practice, transferability, and lessons learned. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Student research papers (maximum 10 pages)
Digital government research papers authored solely by students should be submitted to this track. Student papers will also receive a double blind review organized and administered by the student program committee. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should not include authors' names and contact information.

Panels (maximum 5 pages)
Proposals should include the theme and goals of the panel, a summary of the digital government issues or questions that the panel will address, statements about the value of the discussion to conference attendees and how well suited the topic is to a panel discussion. In addition, the proposal should include information about the expertise of the moderator and panelists in the selected issues. Please include names, institutional affiliations, addresses, email, and phone contact numbers of the contact person, moderator, and presenter(s).

Posters (maximum of 2 pages)
The poster session, held in conjunction with the system demonstrations, allows presenters to discuss research in progress, application projects, or government policies and program initiatives in one-to-one conversations with other participants at the conference. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the research, policy, or project and describe why the work will be of interest to dg.o attendees. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Posters prepared for the conference should measure approximately 36" x 48." Each poster station is provided a table and an easel. Selected poster submissions may be asked
to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

System Demonstrations (maximum 2 pages)
System demonstrations are held concurrently with the poster session to the accompaniment of good food and professional fellowship. The 2-page summaries should outline the nature of the system and describe why the demonstration is likely to be of interest to dg.o attendees. Demonstrations of interest include systems under development or in active use in research or practice domains. Submissions should be in camera-ready format - following the format requirements of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings. Submissions should include authors' names and contact information according to that format. All accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings, and authors are expected to present their work at the poster/demo session at the conference. Each station is provided a table, an easel, and Internet access. Monitors will be available for rent. Selected demo submissions may be asked to give an oral presentation in the conference sessions.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Sessions (maximum 2 pages)
Birds-of-a-Feather discussions provide an opportunity for participants to connect around selected topics. Proposals should identify the conveners, the intended participants, and key discussion questions. These conversations generally take place during lunch on one of the conference days.

Pre-conference Tutorials (maximum 5 pages)
dg.o tutorials are half- or full-day presentations offering deeper insight into the scientific and government domains, research topics or methods, technologies or field experience of veteran digital government researchers and practitioners. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

Pre-conference Research or Management Workshops (maximum 5 pages)
We invite workshop proposals on any digital government research or management topic. Individuals proposing workshops will assume the responsibility of identifying and selecting participants for the workshop and for conducting workshop activities. Each conference registration includes one full-day or two half-day tutorials or workshops.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
All accepted management or policy papers, research papers, student papers, panels, posters, and system demonstrations will be published in the printed proceedings and included in the ACM digital library. Selected papers may be invited for a journal special issue. Outstanding achievement awards will be presented in the categories research papers, management and policy papers, posters, and systems demonstrations. In addition, to reflect the theme of the conference, we plan to select an outstanding cross-boundary partnership. Selection criteria include the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the work, its contribution to and balance between theory (rigor) and practice (relevance), the importance and reach of the topic, and the quality of the writing for communicating to a broad audience.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
Monique Charbonneau, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lester Diamond, US Social Security Administration
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Program Co-Chairs
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico

System Demonstration and Poster Session Co-Chairs
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Peter Bruck, Research Studios Austria
Irak Lopez Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico

Student Chair
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University

Communications Chairs
Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Muhlberger, Texas Tech University

Local Arrangement Chairs
Paul-Andre Robitaille, CEFRIO
Priscilla Rasmussen, ARCS

Sponsorship Chair
Theresa Pardo, University of Albany

Finance Chair
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

DGO Society Liaison
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

Government Liaison
Lawrence Brandt, National Science Foundation

Program Committee
Josune Arcelus, INFOTEC, Mexico
Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
Peggy Agouris, George Mason University
Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California
Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, University of Tampere, Finland
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University
Chaitanya Baru, UC San Diego
Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen
Wolf-Gideon Bleek, University of Hamburg
Alan Borning, University of Washington
Laura Bright, Thetus Corporation
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Leslie Cheung, USC
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Terry Cooper, University of Southern California
Anthony M. Cresswell, University at Albany-SUNY
Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College
Sharon Dawes, University at Albany-SUNY
Jose Fortes, University of Florida
Jagdish S. Gangolly, State University of New York at Albany
Ake Gronlund, Umea University, Sweden
Francisco Ramon Hernandez Tella, Universidad Autonoma del Estado, Mexico
Chris Hinnant, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI
Norman J. Jacknis, Westchester County, NY
Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bernhard Katzy, Center for Technology and Innovation Management
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Krimmer, Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation
Travis Kriplean, University of Washington
Gloria Lau, Stanford University
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus Ltd
Irak Lopez-Davila, INFOTEC, Mexico
Luis Luna-Reyes, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
Ann Macintosh, The University of Leeds, UK
Bob Maslyn, GSA Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer
Javed Mostafa, University of Indiana
Juliet Musso, University of Southern California
Theresa Pardo, University at Albany
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University
Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Andrew Philpot, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, Mexico
Alexander Schellong, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington
Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and Technology
Basit Shafiq, Rutgers University
Rajiv Shah, University of Chicago
Stuart Shulman, University of Pittsburgh
Laura Steinberg, Southern Methodist University
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Yao-Hua Tan Hua, Vrije University Amsterdam
Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Giri Kumar Tayi, SUNY at Albany
Janice Warner, Georgian Court University.
Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Alexander Xenakis, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University

Government Outreach Chairs
Canada - Susan Phillips, Carlton University
China - Yuan Fu Jiang China National School of Administration
India - Shalini R. Urs University of Mysore
Italy - Enrico Ferro Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
Mexico - Luis F. Luna Reyes Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
The Netherlands - Albert Meijer Utrecht School of Governance
Portugal - Pedro Ferraz de Abreu MIT
Slovena - Mirko Vintar University of Ljubljana
South Korea - Jae Moon - Yonsei University
Sweden - Madeleine Siosteen-Thiel VINNOVA
Turkey - Mete Yildiz Hacettepe University
United States - Kevin Novak, Library of Congress

Do you have a new or innovative way of providing services to your users? The LITA 2008 National Forum is a great way of sharing your knowledge with others.

Due Date for proposals: December 15, 2007

The 2008 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 11th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Hilton Netherland Plaza hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio from October 16-19, 2008

Theme: Technology and Community: Building the Techno Community Library

The Forum Committee is interested in presentations that highlight specific technology implementations; just over-the-horizon technologies that aren't quite ready for implementation; or information technology research. We are interested in all types of libraries: public, government, school, academic, special, and corporate. Proposals on any aspect of library and information technology are welcome.

Some possible ideas for proposals might include:

Social Computing: social tools, collaborative software, etc.
User created content: Book reviews, tagging, etc.
Mobile connectivity: iPhones, iPods, handhelds
Virtual worlds
Multiplayer Gaming in Education and Libraries
Open Source Software: creative uses of OSS, technology on a budget.
Federated and Meta-Searching: design and management, integrated access to resources, search engines
Digital Libraries/ Institutional Repositories: developments in resource linking, preservation, maintenance, web services
Authentication and Authorization: Digital Rights Management (DRM), authentication, privacy, services for remote patrons
Web design: information architecture, activity-centered design, user-centered design, usability testing
Technology Management: project management, geek management, budgeting, knowledge sharing applications
Internet Law: privacy, copyright, filtering
RFID in libraries

Presentations must have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are approximately 75 minutes in length. Forum 2008 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. Presenters are required to submit handouts one month in advance for the Forum notebook, and handouts will be made available on the Web site after the event.

Your proposals are welcome and much appreciated! To submit a proposal, send the following information via email (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF format):

Title
Abstract and brief outline
Level indicator (basic, intermediate, or advanced)
Brief biographical information. Include experience as a presenter and expertise in the topic
Full contact information
Is this proposal for a concurrent session?
Is this proposal for a poster session?
If this proposal is for a concurrent session, might it be considered for a poster session?
How did you hear about the 2007 Forum call for proposals?

The 2008 Forum Planning Committee will review proposals at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January 2008. You will be contacted about the status of your proposal by the end of February 2008.

Submit proposals (in ASCII, PDF, or RTF) by December 15, 2007 to:
Mary Taylor
mtaylor@ala.org
Executive Director
Library and Information Technology Association

Join ACRL in Seattle for the 14th ACRL National Conference, March 12-15, 2009!

Join your colleagues at the premier professional development event for academic and research librarians and staff. The ACRL 14th National Conference will challenge you to push your boundaries and promises the opportunity to explore new ideas, engage in new learning, and extend the collective vision of the future of academic and research libraries.

Engage in professional learning and development in both structured and informal settings. In addition to program sessions, the conference planners are also building in time to have fun, share informal conversations and meals with colleagues, and explore Seattle. ACRL will continue to offer virtual conference presentations and will embrace social networking tools in order to "amplify" the impact of the National Conference. This year ACRL will implement more "green" practices than ever before, challenging us all to help reduce the meeting’s ecological footprint.

The Call for participation can be found at: http://acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/seattle/program/program09.cfm

The Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Research Committee is holding its second annual Research Poster Session and Discussion Forum during the second ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, Saturday, July 26, 2007. The forum seeks to provide beginning and established researchers an opportunity to present research in progress, and receive collaborative feedback on their work and recommendations for future publishing. Research/posters will be simultaneously presented and discussed in small informal groups.

Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in research-related issues and trends in the profession.

The committee will use a blind review process.

Selection criteria
Proposals will be evaluated based on the extent to which they:

1. Measure and/or investigate library and information aspects in the fields of communication, psychology, social work and education.

2. Represent an original research project.

3. Clearly identify what stage in the research project has been completed and estimate a timeline for the remainder of the project.

4. Represent the current interest to the membership of EBSS.

Note: Research that has been previously published or accepted for publication by December 1, 2007 will not be considered.

Proposal submission instructions

1. Proposals should be no more than three pages.

2. The first page should include:
• Date of submission
• Name of applicant(s)
• Institution(s)
• Applicant address(es)
• Phone number(s)
• Email address(es)
• Title of the proposal

3. The second page should include:
• Title of the proposal
• Statement of the research question
• Research goals and objectives
• Description of the methodology
• Conclusions
• Format
• Double-spaced
• 12 pt. font
• One inch margins

4. Email or mail your submissions by December 7, 2007 to

Melissa Cast-Brede
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Criss Library
6001 Dodge St.
Omaha, NE 68182
mcast@mail.unomaha.edu

http://2008.ecoop.org/

Call for Workshop Proposals

ECOOP 2008 is held in July 2008 in Paphos, Cyprus.

ECOOP 2008 will host a number of workshops addressing different areas
of object-oriented technology. Workshops serve as a forum for
exchanging late breaking ideas and theories in an evolutionary stage.
They typically focus on either in depth analysis or broad-ranging
approaches to areas related to object-oriented technology.

Workshops may last one or two days.

December 26, 2007 - Deadline for Proposals

March 2, 2008 - Notification of acceptance

For more information visit http://2008.ecoop.org/workshop.html

The 24th Annual All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in
Higher Education at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, invites
submission of papers, projects, posters, artistic works, and
works-in-progress that highlight research by women and/or about women's
or gendered issues. Submissions from all fields of study are invited.
The conference will be held on February 29, 2008. Invited speakers
include Dr. Alice Hogan, National Science Foundation, and Dr. Kimberlee
Kearfott, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan.
Registration is required of all presenters: the fee is $10 for students
and $45 for faculty, staff, administrators, and professionals, and lunch
is included with paid registration. Proposals should include a cover
page with name and contact information, an abstract not exceeding 100
words, and a summary of 1000 words, sent as an attachment via e-mail to
all.university.conference@ttu.edu; type "WS Submission" in the subject
line. Cash awards for best student papers. Deadline for submissions is
January 14, 2008. If you have questions, please contact Texas Tech's
Women's Studies Program, 806-742-4335.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding
10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS
Information Literacy and Academic and Research Libraries Sections

The Information Literacy (IL) and the Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Sections of IFLA will be holding a joint open program at the IFLA General Conference in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, August 10-14, 2008. IL educators or practitioners are invited to submit proposals for papers related to the theme:

Return on Investment: Learners' Outcomes in Information Literacy. Do they really learn?

From high school to university current trends indicate a small but growing number of studies about learning outcomes for IL. Effective assessment of student learning outcomes is a critical component to improving information literacy programs.

In this call for papers, we are interested in a wide range of techniques that provide objective measures for assessing students' information competencies. We are looking for speakers who can relate experiences from a practitioner's perspective, as well as presentations of research on assessment of IL programs. The focus can be on diagnoses concerning incoming students, evaluating students' progress towards achieving IL skills or exit assessments. Here are some questions to consider:

How are they used to evaluate the IL courses quality and their cost-effectiveness?
What indicators should be identified to measure competency or fluency?
What comparison can be made between different contexts, levels or disciplines?
Do assessment tools vary according to program needs?
What is the impact on pedagogical methods?

PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
The proposal should include a title, an abstract of 200-400 words and a one-page biographical sketch for each author, with current employment information and title, containing a selected list of previous presentations and publications. Submissions will be rated on how well they fit with the program theme. Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted as a MS Word file by e-mail, in English, no later than 30 January 2008 to:
Agnes Colnot
Service commun de documentation - CS 64302
Université Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne
F-35043 RENNES Cedex
Email : agnes.colnot@wanadoo.fr

Submissions will be acknowledged by return email. Successful applicants will be informed of the outcome of the review panel by 1 March 2008. Papers (3-21 pages) are required to meet IFLA guidelines posted at: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/callinfo-en.htm . Presentations at the conference will be limited to approximately 20-30 minutes and will be a summary of the original paper and may use PowerPoint. An electronic version of this call will be posted at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/call-papers-en.htm

The full paper is due no later than 1 May 2008 and must be an original submission not published elsewhere. Papers may be written and presented in any of the IFLA working languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish) however, simultaneous translation is not guaranteed.

Please note that all fees, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc., are the responsibility of the authors of accepted papers. For additional information, please contact Agnes Colnot.

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council
"Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding"
10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada

Call for Papers from IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section for its Session

"The Role of Humanities in Medical Education and Patient Care"

IFLA's Health and Biosciences Section (http://www.ifla.org/VII/s28/index.htm) invites you

to submit an abstract for a presentation on this theme for its Open Session

at the World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council

to be held 10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada (http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/index.htm)

Aim and Scope of the Session

The purpose of the Session is to explore the role humanities in medical education and patient care and their implications for health sciences libraries.

The audience of this Session is likely to include health care professionals, educators, researchers and librarians.

The presentations that address the following issues are particularly welcome:

-.. does the use of literature, art, music, and philosophy in the context of patient care improve communications skills,

human understanding, and patient satisfaction care?
-.. examples of integration of humanities into medical curricula
-.. collection development and use of a humanities collection in a medical library
-.. practical considerations in building a humanities in medicine collection in a medical library
-.. library support of humanities in medicine education
-.. existing programs to address these issues
-.. other relevant topics will also be considered.

The delivery of each presentation is anticipated to be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions and answers.

The written version of the presentation should be made available prior to the session and these may be published on IFLANET.

Submission Guidelines

The proposals must be submitted in an electronic format and must contain

-.. Title of paper
-.. Authors of the paper
-.. Abstract or summary of the paper (200-400 maximum words)
-.. Speaker's name, address, professional affiliation, email address, biographical note (40 words)

Important Dates

January 30th 2008: Deadline for submission of abstracts
March 1st 2008: Notification of acceptance by the Review Committee of the Section
May 1st 2008 Deadline for submission of full text of the paper (4000 words maximum).

Please send an abstract of 200-400 words in your proposed paper, full contact details and a short CV

to Päivi Pekkarinen paivi.pekkarinen@helsinki.fi and copies to Kate Oliver koliver@jhmi.edu and

to Heather Todd h.todd@library.uq.edu.au by January 30th 2008

Regrettably IFLA's Sections do not have funds available to pay for speakers' expenses,

although there may be limited funding available through other IFLA channels,

especially for people from developing countries http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/satellite2call-en.htm .

Thanks to all who sent me suggestions of YouTube videos for inclusion in WAVE: WOMEN'S AUDIOVISUALS IN ENGLISH database maintained by my office (mounted at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WAVE). Some suggestions came in after I sent a combined list last week, and I've appended those below. But my main reason for this posting is that we would like to publish a round-up of reports about how instructors are using YouTube (and other short videos) in women's studies classes in our periodical FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES. We would be interested in write-ups about exercises analyzing/critiquing videos, etc. Librarians are also encouraged to submit proposals if they use women-focused YouTube videos or clips when doing bibliographic instruction, for women's studies or other classes.

Submissions should be up to 500
words, with a due date of March 1, 2008. If you are interested, please email me (pweisbard@library.wisc.edu) outlining your proposed submission. For an idea of what we're looking for, see another round-up we've published on use of new technologies in women's studies classes, "Blogging Women's Studies," at http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/fc/BlogRoundup.pdf. Our next issue (v. 28, no. 4, Summer-Fall 2007) will include a round-up on social networking.

Here are the additional YouTube suggestions received (and it's fine to send me more at ANY time...):

Guerrilla Girls On Tour has two short videos on You Tube. One is entitled "Feminists Are Funny" and is also the opening of our performance by the same name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjbW5NSDr-Q

The other is a video of the first Women's Arts International Festival that we were a part of in Kendall, UK last May:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDJOoGq0dS0

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

FIVE COLLEGE WOMEN’S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER
A collaborative project of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and
Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Center invites applications for its RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIPS for 2008-2009 from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational system, as well as from artists, community organizers and political activists, both local and international. Associates are provided with offices in our spacious facility, library privileges, and the collegiality of a diverse community of feminists. Research Associate applications are accepted for either a semester or the academic year. The Center supports projects in all disciplines so long as they focus centrally on women or gender. Regular Research Associateships are non-stipendiary. We accept about 15-18 Research Associates per year.

Applicants should submit a project proposal (up to 4 pages), curriculum vitae, two letters of reference, and application cover sheet. Submit all applications to: Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075-6406. Deadline is February 11, 2008. For further information, contact the Center at TEL 413.538.2275, FAX 413.538.3121, email fcwsrc@fivecolleges.edu, website: http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/fcwsrc

The upcoming ALISE conference in Philadelphia will again feature a "Birds of a Feather" session. This informal session gives attendees who teach the same subject a specific opportunity to meet and share ideas. Since many of last year’s discussion facilitators are not able to participate, I’m looking for volunteers.

“Birds” is scheduled on the first day of the conference so it can serve as a springboard for additional discussion and networking throughout the rest of the conference and beyond. This year’s “Birds” session will take place on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 from 12 noon – 1:45 pm and include the option for a brown bag lunch. We again hope to draw a mix of folks looking for advice and those willing to share their knowledge and experiences.

The following subject areas are currently part of the session:

§ Administration and Management

§ Children's/YA Services

§ Information Access Services

§ Research Methods

§ Community Informatics/Service Learning

§ Foundations of LIS

§ Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata

§ Social Media Use

So, if you are interested in discussing how to teach a particular LIS subject area not listed above, please email me (to bajjaly@wayne.edu) so I can make the necessary arrangements. I’d also welcome your input and suggestions to make the session most appealing to you and your colleagues.

Thank you.

Stephen T. Bajjaly, Director

Library & Information Science Program

106 Kresge Library

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI 48202

313.577.0350

www.lisp.wayne.edu

The 2008 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and session proposals. The conference will be held at the same time and place where several other major events are taking place. The website contains more details.

The Pennsylvania State University

Women’s Studies Graduate Organization (WSGO)

7th Annual Graduate Conference

Saturday, March 1, 2008

“Violence and Terror: Domestic and Global Spaces” is an
interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together faculty and
students from across campus and the community to engage in
research, art, discussion, and activism concerning issues of
violence, gender, terror, and politics encompassing the public,
private, domestic, and global.

Keynote Speaker: Mary Hawkesworth
Mary Hawkesworth, Chair and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
and a member of the graduate faculty in political science at
Rutgers Univeristy. Dr. Hawkseworth is also currently the editor
of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2005-2010 and is
the editor of War & Terror: Feminist Perspectives which will be
published in spring 2008. Her teaching and research interests
include feminist theory, women and politics, contemporary political
philosophy, philosophy of science, and social policy.

Performance Artist: Ben Atherton-Zeman
Mr. Atherton-Zeman has 15 years’ experience as a prevention
educator for domestic and sexual violence centers and is currently
a spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against
Sexism. His one-man show, titled: “Voices of Men”, is an
educational comedy that addresses men’s roles in ending male
violence and abuse against women. The “Voices of Men” performance
is highly acclaimed by universities as well as domestic and sexual
violence centers across the country.

Proposals are invited from scholars, artists, and activists in any
field related to gender, sex, and feminism. Proposals can be for a
paper, a panel, a poster, an art exhibit/installation, interactive
discussion, or a performance. Interdisciplinary, multinational,
and experimental panels are welcome. Panel and performance
proposals should include a 250 word abstract; individual papers
should include a 500 word abstract. Proposals for performance/ artwork need to specify space and time requirements. Paper
presentations will be limited to 15 minutes. Please also include
name(s) of presenter(s), affiliations, any equipment needed, and
any accommodations you require. The deadline for submissions is
January 31, 2008.

Please submit your proposal via email to: haj120@psu.edu

*_Ca l l f o r W o r k s h o p P r o p o s a l s_*

in conjunction with the

19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications

DEXA 2008

http://www.dexa.org

September 1 - 5, 2008

Turin, Italy

The DEXA'08 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held on September 1 - 5, 2008 in parallel to the main technical program of the DEXA conferences. The main goal of the DEXA'08 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate an active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas about specific (both theoretical and applicative) topics in the general area of Information Science.

Workshops should be organized to facilitate informal discussion and active engagement among attendees. Members from all areas of the Information Science community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on new emerging topics or specific relevant aspects of broader topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers and attendees must register for their workshop and are permitted to join the main DEXA conference.

Requirements for Submissions

To propose a workshop in DEXA'08, you will submit a complete workshop proposal containing the following information:

* The title of the workshop;
* A 1 page (max.) description of the technical issues that the
workshop will address;
* The statements:
o How is the workshop relevant to, and complementary with, the
main conference?
o Why is the workshop of particular significance at this time?
* The names, affiliations, postal address, phone and fax numbers,
and e-mail addresses of the workshop organizers (It is expected
that organizers will be recognized experts in the related fields,
and the organizing committee should include individuals from
multiple institutions);
* A list of potential program committee members, including their
affiliations;
* The expected number of attendees (estimating minimum and maximum
values);
* Description of paper review process and acceptance standards;
* A draft workshop call for papers;
* The expected date and duration of the workshop;

All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the DEXA Conference Organisation Office (office@dexa.org ), in plain ASCII text, no later than January 15, 2008

Proposers will be notified of the committee's decision no later than January 31, 2008

The selection of the workshops to be included in the final DEXA program will be based upon multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the proposal, balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the conference workshop program.

Responsibilities of DEXA and of Workshop Organizers

For all accepted proposals, DEXA will be responsible for:

* Providing conference software for paper upload and review process
(obligatory)
* Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop;
* Providing electronic registration system
* Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time;
* Publication of the papers in the proceedings of DEXA'08 Worlshops
with IEEE.

Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:

* Setting up a web site for the workshop;
* Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for participation/papers;
* Collecting and evaluating submissions using the DEXA conference
software (mandatory), notifying authors of acceptance or rejection
in due time, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection
process. All workshop organizers are recommended to adopt the
following deadlines for submissions and notifications of acceptance.
o Submission of Full Papers: March 15, 2008
o Noification of Acceptance: April 20, 2008
o Camera-ready Copies: May 15, 2008

* Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants get
registered to the workshop by registering to DEXA'08.

* Accepted workshops are entitled to receive a small budget which is
depending on the number of accepted and registered papers

DEXA reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop.

Workshop Chair:

Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria (rrwagner@faw.at )

A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Important Dates

* Proposal submission deadline: January 15, 2008
* Workshop selection notification: January 31, 2008
* Submission of Full Papers: March 15, 2008
* Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2008
* Camera-ready Copies and Registration of Participation: May 15, 2008

*For further inquiries, please contact:*

DEXA Conference Organisation Office (gabriela@dexa.org)

Book edited by Professor Joseph Tan and Professor Phillip Olla

Call for Chapters

Mobile Health (M-Health) is an integral part of the growing biomedical informatics field. M-Health contains three core components integrated into the healthcare environment mobile computing technology, medical sensor, and communications infrastructure. M-Health relates to applications and systems such as telemedicine, telehealth, e-health and biomedical sensing system. The rapid advances in Information Communication Technology (ICT), nanotechnology, bio monitoring, mobile networks, pervasive computing, wearable systems, and drug delivery approaches are transforming the healthcare sector and fueling the M-health phenomenon.

Mobile and wireless concepts in healthcare are typically related to bio-monitoring and home monitoring, however more recently the trend to incorporate mobile technology has become more prevalent across almost the whole of the healthcare performing a variety of data acquisition tasks. Bio monitoring using mobile networks includes physiological monitoring of parameters such as heart rate, electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram, (EEG) monitoring, blood pressure, blood oximetry, and other physiological signals. Alternative uses include physical activity monitoring of parameters such as movement, gastrointestinal telemetry fall detection, and location tracking. Using mobile technology, patient records can be accessed by health-care professionals from any given location by connection to the institution's internal network. Physicians now have ubiquitous access to patient history, laboratory results, pharmaceutical data, insurance information, and medical resources. These mobile healthcare applications improve the quality of patient care. Handheld devices can also be used in home health care, for example, to fight diabetes through effective monitoring. A comprehensive overview of some of these mobile health applications and research will be presented in this book. This book will also highlight some of the benefits of the mobile technology to illustrate different examples and applications implemented in the global healthcare sector.

The mission of this book is to provide a detailed analysis of the technology, applications and uses of mobile technologies in the healthcare sector by using case studies to highlight the successes and concerns of mobile health projects. M-Health is a broad area transcending multiple disciplines and utilizing a broad range of technologies. There are a variety of applications, devices, and communication technologies emerging in the M-Health arena, which can be combined to create the M-Health system, this book will highlight the key areas of concern and describe the various types of applications.

There are considerable challenges that must be addressed by organization selecting and implementing mobile health solutions for healthcare organizations. These include limitations of the of wireless and mobile networks, security and reliability of wireless / mobile infrastructure, limitations of hand-held devices, limitation of medical sensors, device interference with other medical equipment, privacy concerns, and managerial system implementation issues.

Recommended Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Section One : Introduction to Mobile Health applications and services

1. Classification of applications and services

2. Clinical M-Health applications

3. Non Clinical M-Health Applications

4. Benefits of mobile / wireless technologies to healthcare

5. Mobile devices in health services delivery

6. Wireless security problems & solutions, and mobile privacy in the healthcare domain

Section 2: The Future of Mobile health

1. Wireless Medical sensors , Implants, sensors, RFID chips Biomedical sensors,

2. New wireless multimedia technologies and platforms for healthcare

3. Wearable computing devices in healthcare

4. Incorporating hand held technology into healthcare

5. Training of healthcare professional for mobile healthcare

Section 3: Wireless M-health Applications and technologies

1. Middleware, mobile components, and agent technologies supporting mobile healthcare applications

2. Integrating mobile technology to legacy healthcare systems

3. Human computer interface design for health care applications.

4. Location and context-aware health care services

5. Pervasive computing technologies in healthcare

6. Security and privacy in pervasive healthcare

7. Using mobile devices for healthcare information storage, update, and transmission

8. Sensing of vital signs and transmission using wireless networks

Section 4: Alleviating global health concerns using wireless ICT

1. Community tele-health applications

2. Collaboration healthcare technologies

3. Tele-medicine, Tele Nursing, tele radiology

4. Patient monitoring in diverse environments

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 19, 2007, a 1- 3 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 8, 2007 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 15, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), http://www.igi-global.com , publisher of the IGI Publishing (Idea Group Publishing), Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing. Information Science Reference (Idea Group Reference), and Medical Information Science Reference imprints.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr. Phillip Olla, polla@madonna.edu

Chicago, USA, 3-6 June 2008
http://www.LearningConference.com

The International Conference on Learning is for any person with an interest in, and concern for, education at any of its levels and in any of its forms, from early childhood, to schools, to higher education and lifelong learning — and in any of its sites, from home to school to university to workplace.

As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Learning. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 22 November 2007. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.LearningConference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Chicago in June 2008.

Yours Sincerely,

Helen Smith
Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager
Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia

Mary Kalantzis,
Dean, College of Education
University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Learning

As Virginia Woolf observed in her time that it was only a matter of time before women would take an equal role with men in society, we continue to see growth and change to that end. Women’s Studies departments are appearing and growing on more college campuses each year, and their work is building more bridges with other areas of study, from literature and education to psychology and anthropology and just about everything in between. Their studies continue to raise important questions, such as the possibility of a link between the low standing of Education departments on campus and the fact that teaching has been a traditionally “female” vocation, or the creation of “Women’s Literature” courses is necessary to offer students the opportunity to be exposed to writings by women in the classroom because those authors are still largely neglected in typical Literature courses. What is the current “place” for women in academia, particularly in Literature and Education, and what are!
the goals for the future? What milestones have been accomplished by women in the past that remain hidden in the shadows of history?

Editors of River Walk Journal online bi-monthly are seeking abstracts on the previous topics, 500 words or less. Finished papers should be 8000 words or less. Initial submissions of abstracts only will be accepted until January 31st, 2008, tentative publication date is set for the May/June Anniversary issue of the journal. Submissions with full contact information, CV, and cover letter should be sent to publisher_at_riverwalkjournal.org, with “Women in Lit CFP” in the subject line ­ rtf and doc format file attachments only.

Call for papers for a special issue of Library Trends devoted to Web 2.0, teenagers and libraries.

This issue will explore the current use of Web 2.0 technologies in libraries which serve teenagers, and consider how services might be developed future to better meet the needs of a teenage audience.

The issue will cover initiatives in all types of libraries serving teenagers: school, public, college, university and other information services. Contributions are welcome from researchers, library/information practitioners and other interested parties. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Involving teenagers in the design of web 2.0 services
MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites
The use of blogs
Security and safety issues
Getting staff – and managers - onboard
Gaming - does it have a place in libraries?
Online reading groups
Podcasting - library tours and other uses
Web 2.0 approaches to information skills
Wikis and online communities.

Articles should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. Author guidelines are available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/lr/notes.jsp
If you are interested in submitting an article, please email sarahmcnicol@hotmail.com

I am very happy to discuss ideas for contributions. The deadline for submission of full articles is 18th April 2008.

Call for Chapters for the
Handbook of Research on Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services: Evolutionary Techniques for Improving Accessibility
Editor: Dr. Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Italy

Introduction: People usually communicate using all the five senses in parallel. They communicate and interact based on a set of key-concepts that can be expressed with different modalities and/or by means of more than one modality simultaneously. The effectiveness and naturalness of communication is particularly relevant for services. The great diffusion of mobile devices, along with the development of multimodal interaction, presents a new challenge for telecommunication companies and all organizations that can be involved in providing new services using mobile devices. One requirement for these services is that they and their information have to be accessible to every mobile situation.

In the last twenty years, a significant amount of work in human-computer interaction has focused on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and only in recent years has multimodality on mobile devices allowed an implicit and natural interaction between end-users and devices. In fact, the growing development and interest in mobile devices, which now give users the ability to effectively interact anywhere and anytime, has changed this scenario. In particular, mobile multimodal applications must now be able to adapt themselves to the users’ needs and to the context (where the context contains knowledge of the environment and the device) and one or more modalities can be involved in the user-system interaction according to “where” and “when” s/he is.

Multimodal interaction systems combine information provided visually (involving images, text, sketches and so on) by voice, by gestures, and so on according to flexible and powerful dialogue approaches, enabling users to choose one or more interaction modalities. The use of multimodality combined with mobile devices allows a simple, intuitive communication approach and generates new and pervasive services for users. In developing multimodal services it is essential to consider perceptual speech, audio, and video quality for optimum communication system design and effective transmission planning and management in order to satisfy customer requirements. Due to the naturalness of multimodal interaction, interpretation algorithms and technologies must manage uncertainty and ambiguities connected to sequential and simultaneous inputs.

This handbook will collect significant contribution on the theories, techniques and methods on multimodality and mobile devices for pervasive services.

Coverage: The Handbook of Research on Multimodal Human Computer Interaction and Pervasive Services: Evolutionary Techniques for Improving Accessibility will provide complete and original theoretical and practical scenarios about concepts, methodologies, definitions, algorithms and applications used to design and develop multimodal systems. These systems make information and services accessible according to the natural manner provided by multimodal interaction and the use of mobile devices. The handbook will discuss many challenges of multimodal systems with a particular focus on mobile devices. It will give an overview of the existing works in this sector, discussing the different strategies adopted in the fusion process, optimization processes on mobile devices, ambiguity and error handling related to one or more modalities, user modeling and context modeling for enhancing adaptation and context-awareness of multimodal mobile services, which will make them more and more accessible and usable. Moreover, the handbook will contain some significant examples of pervasive multimodal mobile services.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Multimodal interaction and pervasive services
Multimodal interaction on mobile devices
Multimodal interfaces and Multimodal interaction languages.
Methods of multimodal integration and algorithms.
Inputs fusion algorithms and approaches.
Fission algorithms and approaches.
Interpretation of multimodal interaction.
Ambiguities and error handling in multimodal interaction.
Computational aspects and optimization for multimodal interaction on mobile devices.
Evaluation of multimodal interfaces.
Adaptivity for multimodal mobile systems: user and context modeling.
Usability evaluation methodologies for pervasive application.
Accessibility evaluation methods for a multimodal and mobile pervasive application.
Applications and services connected to the personal communication, assistive and home market, location based services, e-commerce, online banking, mobile learning etc..

Submission: Individuals interested in submitting chapters (8,000-10,000 words) on the above-suggested topics or other related topics in their area of interest should submit via e-mail a 2-3 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter by December 18, 2007. We strongly encourage other topics that have not been listed in our suggested list, particularly if the topic is related to the research area in which you have expertise. Upon acceptance of your proposal, you will have until April 30, 2008, to prepare your chapter of 8,000-10,000 words and 7-10 related terms and their appropriate definitions. Guidelines for preparing your paper and terms and definitions will be sent to you upon acceptance of your proposal.

Please forward your e-mail of interest including your name, affiliation and a list of topics (5-7) on which you are interested in writing a chapter to Patrizia Grifoni, editor, at patrizia.grifoni@irpps.cnr.it, no later than December 18, 2007. You will be notified about the status of your proposed topics by January 10, 2008. This book is tentatively scheduled for publishing by Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), www.info-sci-ref. com, an imprint of IGI Global (formerly Idea Group, Inc.) in 2009

http://www.scar.toronto.edu/~socsci/sever/journal/contents3.2.html

Papers are invited for a Special Issue on "Drug use and the health consequences for urban women", edited by Dr. Diana L. Gustafson, Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Donna Bulman, Faculty of Nursing, Memorial University.

Manuscripts may address the full range of health issues of the journal as they relate to drug use (see below). Particularly welcome are papers that address the social determinants of health for women who inject drugs or for the women who care for those who do. Also welcome are manuscripts that address issues relating to public education, healthy public policy, and health care programs and services that meet the specific needs of diverse groups of women living and working in urban areas.

Deadline for submission is Feb 1, 2008.

The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in November 2008.

For more information or to submit a manuscript, send an e-copy followed by four copies of your manuscript to:

Dr. Diana L. Gustafson
Associate Professor of Social Science and Health
Division of Community Health and Humanities
HSC 2834, Faculty of Medicine
Memorial University
St. John's, NL A1B 3V6
e-mail: diana.gustafson@med.mun.ca


Women's Health &Urban Life http://www.scar.toronto.edu/~socsci/sever/journal/contents3.2.html is located at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. The journal addresses a plethora of topics relating to women's and girls' health from an international and interdisciplinary perspective and link health to globalization and urbanization issues. General topics include but are not limited to: Women's health in general; Health related to reproduction; Health related to sexuality; Health related to paid or unpaid labour; Health related to parenthood; Health and the environment; Health and social policy; and Health related to urbanization and globalization issues. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. Both qualitative and quantitative manuscripts, and theoretical or empirical works are welcome. Papers should not exceed 30 pages including all references, tables and appendices. All submissions will be peer reviewed by anonymous reviewers.

For more details about the goals, substantive basis and submission guidelines of this journal, please contact:

Professor Aysan Sev'er, General Editor
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Scarborough
Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4
Fax: 416-287-7296; e-mail: sever@utsc.utoronto.ca
or visit: http://utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/sever http://mail.arts.ryerson.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://utsc.utoronto.ca/%7Esocsci/sever

(an edited volume)

Librarians increasingly have access to vast amounts of data, but more important than the data itself is how it is handled, interpreted, and used.

This is your opportunity to contribute to the critical discussion concerning the theory, uses, and best practices concerning numerical evidence in libraries today.

As its working title suggests, this collection proceeds from the basic observation that library data serves two primary functions: informing decision-making and providing support for communication beyond library walls. Some data analysis projects may support both activities, but most (appropriately) primarily address just one or the other. Therefore, the finished work will include papers that focus on data-driven practice or data-strengthened persuasion, as well as studies that may speak to both.

Some topics to address might include:

*how existing data sets may be used to make a case for funding, resource, or other changes
*how "non-library" data (community demographics, economics, etc.) may relate to library trends
*interesting or non-traditional sources of data and how they may be used in library decision-making
*assessing the integrity of electronic data (web site "hits," vendor-supplied versus internal data, etc.)
*librarians for planning, assessment, data analysis, etc.: a new specialization within the profession?
*critiques of commercially available tools for data analysis
*comparing apples and oranges: data on different scales
*a crash course in statistics for non-statistician librarians
*how you have made a potentially "ho-hum" data presentation data engaging and persuasive

You may find inspiration in:

*Summary and presentation documents from the recent ACRL Education & Behavioral Sciences Section's 2007 conference panel, "Empowering Data,"
available at: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/EBSS/ebssconferenceinfo/empoweringdata.htm

*Publicly available (and understudied) reports and data from the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) web site:
http://www.nclis.gov/survey.htm

*Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics,available at: http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/arl/

Please send inquiries or brief proposals (of approx. 150 words) to:
darby_orcutt@ncsu.edu (Darby Orcutt, North Carolina State University Libraries)

Deadline for proposals: November 19, 2007
Deadline for completed chapters: March 31, 2008

The International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education publishes articles, papers, and manuscripts promoting the advancement of teaching with technology at all levels of education encompassing all domains of learning. The primary mission of IJICTE is to serve as a medium for introducing, collaborating, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating new and innovative contributions to the theory, practice, and research of technology education applicable to K-12 education, higher education, and corporate and proprietary education. Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts of the highest quality not currently under review by another publication.

Coverage of IJICTE:

Acceptable use policies and fair use laws
Educational/training software evaluation
Effective planning, marketing, management and leadership of technology education
Impact of technology in society and related equity issues
Pedagogy and andragogy of teaching with technology Technology as a teaching strategy and learning
Style impact of technology on student achievement
Technology training tools and instructional materials
Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at http://www.igi-global.com/ijicte>www.igi-global.com/ijicte.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Lawrence Tomei at tomei@rmu.edu

Lawrence A. Tomei, EdD
Assc Vice President for Academic Affairs
Robert Morris University
6001 University Boulevard
Moon Twp, PA 15108
Phone 412-397-3696
Fax: 412-397-3851
E-mail: tomei@rmu.edu

Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 5-8 August 2008
http://www.ManagementConference.com

The primary interest of the Management Conference is knowledge-based
social and economic change. Driven by globalisation and advances in
information and communications technologies, this change has been
characterised in terms of emerging information/knowledge societies and a
global knowledge-based economy.

As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the
Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium
presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would
particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference
Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for
publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Knowledge,
Culture and Change in Organisations. If you are unable to attend the
Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which
allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in
this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the
electronic version of the Journal.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and
short abstract) is 8 November 2007. Proposals are reviewed within four
weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online
proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website -
http://www.ManagementConference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to
join us in Cambridge in August 2008.

Yours Sincerely,

Martyn Laycock
The University of Greenwich, London and Managing Transitions
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Knowledge, Culture
and Change in Organisations

The Government Information and Official Publications Section invites submissions for its programme for the 74th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress 10-14 August 2008 to be held in Québec, Canada ( http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/index.htm). In keeping with the IFLA conference theme, "Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding", the GIOPS sub-theme is "Globalization of government information: creating digital archives for increased access".

Government, non-governmental and intergovernmental knowledge resources play an important role in our global society. Increasingly these resources are either born digital or are being digitized for enhanced access by people everywhere. Governments at many levels, institutions, non-governmental and international organizations, and individuals are collaborating locally, nationally, regionally and internationally to make these resources available digitally and to ensure that they are properly preserved and archived for sustained use by future generations.

Submissions are invited which discuss collaborative digitization projects that make available historical or current official and/or government resources. Topics covered might include the project’s development, content and content management, use of and adherence to digitization standards and benefits to a globalizing world. Submissions of a more theoretical approach will also be considered.

Four papers will be selected for presentation. Proposals for papers must be submitted by 15 January 2008 to Alice Ramohlola ( Alice.Ramohlola@wits.ac.za) with copies to Irja Peltonen (Irja.Peltonen@vm.fi), Jackie Druery, (drueryj@queensu.ca) and Marcy Allen, (mallen@psu.edu). The proposal should include a title, 200-400 word abstract and relevant biographical information of author(s)/presenter(s). Successful proposals will be identified by 15 February 2008 and presenters notified. The full paper is due by 15 April 2008. Please note that all fees, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc. are the responsibility of the author(s) of accepted papers. For additional information, please contact any of the above.

Jackie Druery
Head, Learning & Research Services
Joseph S. Stauffer Library
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
K7L 5C4
(613) 533-3309
drueryj@post.queensu.ca

Dear members of the USA and International Library Community,

We want you to show the national and international library community your best ideas!

Applications for presenting poster sessions at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference are now being accepted. An application form is available on the poster session website at http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/ for both US
and international submissions.

The 2008 ALA Annual Poster Sessions will be held at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA, June 28, 29, and 30, 2008.

Please contact Candace Benefiel, Chair of the ALA Poster Session Review Panel, with any questions concerning the review process. Her email address is cbenefie@lib-gw.tamu.edu; if you need to call, her number is (979) 862-1044.

The deadline for submitting an application is January 31, 2008. Applicants will be notified by March 31, 2008 whether their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference.

Jody Condit Fagan, Chair, ALA Poster Session Committee and Candace Benefiel, Review Panel Chair

faganjc@jmu.edu, (540) 568-4265
cbenefie@lib-gw.tamu.edu, (979) 862-1044

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections: Feminist Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice

A conference
sponsored by the
Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

April 11 - 13 2008

Keynote Speaker:
Dr Marsha Hanen
former President of the University of Winnipeg, and pioneer in the development of interdisciplinary studies in Canada.

The host of this conference, the Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies, was endowed by well-known Toronto-based feminist and philanthropist Nancy Ruth, to raise awareness of women's issues by bringing to campus distinguished scholars in women's studies and activists who have contributed to the advancement of women.

Mount Saint Vincent University, the home of the Nancy's Chair, has a proud history as a leader in innovative and creative learning approaches with an emphasis on women, academic excellence, distinctive programs, and a personal approach to education.

Women's studies and feminist theory are boldly, creatively interdisciplinary in establishing strong connections between scholarly inquiry and women's lives. They are reconfiguring disciplinary boundaries and academic structures while honouring scholarly integrity and activist commitments in universities and other post-secondary institutions, and in the world outside the academy. Feminist scholars and activists have developed innovative ways of navigating within traditional academic disciplines and institutional structures, and drawing on the resources of multiple, often diverse, disciplines, practices, and ways of knowing.

Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections will explore the promise and the challenges of interdisciplinarity in feminist and women's studies, and in the activism it informs and is informed by at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in Canada and internationally. We welcome contributions that present interdisciplinarity at work in diverse formats and modes of address, critical reflections on interdisciplinarity as such, performance, video and narrative presentations, workshops, roundtables and panels, and contributions that attest to the prospects and productive collaborations interdisciplinary commitments can animate.

Proposals might:

* celebrate some of the successes - the triumphs - of interdisciplinary work, showing by example how it can be greater than the sum of its parts

* show by example how the very idea of interdisciplinarity reconfigures fixed conceptions of "expertise"

* illustrate how new forms of interdisciplinarity have succeeded in bringing together the "two cultures": the sciences and the humanities

* present possibilities for combining insights and issues derived from several disciplines

* contrast interdisciplinarity that derives from group connections and interdisciplinary work engaged individually

* consider how interdisciplinary inquiry helps to cross an (imaginary) divide between the university or college and the community

* present research that has developed out of inquiry that crosses two or more disciplines

In short, we welcome contributions that demonstrate the creative potential of interdisciplinary work, that show how interdisciplinarity counteracts the narrowness that can result from over-specialization in the academy and in professional schools, and/or that explore interdisciplinarity in public responses to research and practice. And we welcome proposals that expand on, challenge, or depart from the possibilities outlined here. Given the nature of this theme, we particularly welcome panel presentations or poster sessions that pose questions for discussion, mini-workshops, and mixed-media presentations.
Single papers will be allocated a maximum of 25 minutes' reading time.
Panels may be allocated a longer presentation time.

Conference presentations may be considered for publication in
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal.

Submission deadline: Friday, January 04, 2008

Submission format: Please submit either a complete paper (not to exceed 3000 words), a long abstract (1000 words), or a 1000-word detailed description of a panel or workshop, listing participants and indicating any special presentation requirements.

Submit paper copies only to:

Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies
ISW 4, Mount Saint Vincent University
166 Bedford Highway
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6

Please direct all inquiries to Dr. Lorraine Code at lorraine.code@msvu.ca

This conference will be preceded by a one-day conference, Epistemic
Bridges: Interdisciplinarity in the Academy, at Dalhousie University, on April 10, 2008, organized by the Interdisciplinary PhD Students'
Society. Inquiries about this one-day conference should be directed to Nancy Salmon at nsalmon@dal.ca

The Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security

ARES 2008 - The International Security and Dependability Conference

http://www.ares-conference.eu/

4-7 MARCH 2008

POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA, BARCELONA, SPAIN

***Scope***

The Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
("ARES - The International Security and Dependability Conference")
will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of IT-Security and Dependability.

ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on secure
internet solutions, trusted computing, digital forensics, privacy and organizational
security issues. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of
security as anintegrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality,
integrity,maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.

***Important Dates***

* Workshop Proposal: July, 15th 2007

* Notification of Acceptance of the Workshop Proposal: July, 25th 2007

* Submission Deadline: October, 25th 2007

* Author Notification: November, 25th 2007

* Author Registration: December, 15th 2007

* Proceedings Version: January, 2nd 2008

* Conference: March, 4th - March, 7th 2008

***Workshop Proposal***

In conjunction with the ARES conference, a number of workshops will be organized.
Workshop proposals should include the call for papers, the number of papers to be accepted,
the contact person, etc. They are to be sent to the Workshop Organizing Committee
Dr. Nguyen Manh Tho ( tho@ifs.tuwien.ac.at ) by July, 15th 2007.
Proceedings of the ARES workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

***Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Process based Security Models andMethods

* Authorization and Authentication

* Availability and Reliability

* Common Criteria Protocol

* Cost/Benefit Analysis

* Cryptographic protocols

* Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics)

* Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government)

* Dependability administration

* Dependability in Open Source Software

* Designing Business Models with security requirements

* Digital Forensics

* E-Commerce Dependability

* Failure Prevention

* IPR of Security Technology

* Incident Response and Prevention

* Information Flow Control

* Internet Dependability

* Interoperability aspects

* Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection

* Legal issues

* Mobile Security

* Network Security

* Privacy-enhancing technologies

* RFID Security and Privacy

* Risk planning, analysis & awareness

* Safety Critical Systems

* Secure Enterprise Architectures

* Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems

* Security and Privacy in E-Health

* Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications

* Security and privacy issues for sensor networks, wireless/mobile devices and applications

* Security as Quality of Service

* Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases

* Security in Electronic Payments

* Security in Electronic Voting

* Software Engineering of Dependable Systems

* Software Security

* Standards, Guidelines and Certification

* Survivability of Computing Systems

* Temporal Aspects of Dependability

* Trusted Computing

* Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation

* Trust Models and Trust Management

* VOIP/Wireless Security

***Submission Guidelines***

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers following the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings
Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts,
and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at
one of the following web pages:

* http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html

* or http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006/IEEE/Format/instruct.htm

Submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes
(1) full paper (8 pages), (2) short paper (5 pages), and (3) poster (2 pages) representing
previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Contact author must provide the following information at the AReS web site:
paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax,
and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors
will register and present the paper in the conference.

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

***Conference Officers***

Honorary Co-Chairs
Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
General Co-Chairs
Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Program Co-Chairs
Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Southern Australia, Australia
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Workshops Co-Chairs
Abdelkader Hameurlain, University of Toulouse, France
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan
Organizing Chair
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
International Liaison Co-Chairs
Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Charles Shoniregun, University of East London, United Kingdom
Publicity Chair
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Publication Chair
Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks for Code4lib 2008.
Code4lib 2008 is a loosely structured conference for library technologists
to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be inspired, and forge
collaborations. It is also an outgrowth of the Access HackFest, wrapped into
a conference-like format. It is *the* event for technologists building
digital libraries and digital information systems, tools, and software.

The conference will be held February 25-28, 2008 in Portland Oregon. More
information can be found at http://code4lib.org/conference/2008.

Prepared talks are 20 minutes, and must focus on one or more of the
following areas:
- "tools" (some cool new software, software library or integration
platform)
- "specs" (how to get the most out of some protocols, or proposals for new
ones)
- "challenges" (one or more big problems we should collectively address).

The community will vote on proposals using the criteria of:
- usefulness
- newness
- geekiness
- diversity of topics.

We cannot accept every prepared talk proposal, but multiple lightning talk
sessions will provide everyone who wishes to present with an opportunity to
do so.

Please send your name, email address, and proposal of no more than 75 words
to code4libcon at googlegroups.com. The proposal deadline is November 30,
2007, and proposers will be notified by December 14, 2007.