April 2008 Archives

Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 11, 12 & 13, 2008
For more information go to: http://www.duq.edu/womenpoets/

We invite panel, paper and seminar topic proposals on women’s poetry since 1900, including but not limited to the direction of scholarship about women’s poetry; producing, accessing and editing texts; pedagogical approaches to experimental writing; neglected issues in women’s poetry; the work of individual poets or clusters of poets; spirituality and religion; and the separatist anthology issue.

• Individual paper submissions should be limited to abstracts of 300 words. Please include your name and contact information.
• Panel proposals should include a rationale as well as paper abstracts of no more than 300 words each. Please include the name and contact information of each participant.
• Seminar proposals should name the panel organizer(s), state a rationale for the topic, explain the discussion format plans and specify an ideal number of participants.
Submission Deadline: May 16, 2008
Send submissions electronically to womenspoetry@yahoo.com or by mail to:

Women Poets
English Department
Duquesne University
600 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15282

Conference Organizers Elisabeth Joyce, Linda Kinnahan, Elizabeth Savage, Ellen McGrath Smith Questions may be directed to womenspoetry@yahoo.com.

CCCCs Feminist Panel; San Francisco, March 11-14th 2009

Description of Workshop:

The 2002 anthology Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic
Discourse suggests that the divide that has persisted in feminist
scholarship between activism and intellectualism results from divergent ways
of defining change-- change as something to be debated or shaped. These
discussions have often highlighted the disjuncture between various feminist
groups and forms of feminism within the academy, as well as the uneasy
relationship between academics and activism. Such disjunctures, however, are
also productive and can signal the ways in which academia and the community
might continue to dialogue. This workshop seeks to analyze these
disjunctures as productive difference and to interrogate their implications
in the creation of feminist coalitions, pedagogies, and mentorships. We
would like to address the theoretical and practical roles of feminists in
the academic community in shaping feminism's dedication to change-- as a
movement and a discourse-- that crosses and negotiates the currents of
difference.

Additionally, this workshop asks participants to frame and respond to
questions such as the following:

- What are the bases for coalitions between academic feminists and feminist
community activists, artists, or workers?
- What coalitions seem to be lacking in academic feminist communities?
- What are the effects of conflicts within feminist academic
communities--i.e. the Andrea Smith tenure case at Michigan--on feminism as a
social movement?
- How do conflicts or coalitions within online communities affect the "real
world" structures of feminism, in the academy or in other contexts?
- What political issues not historically identified with feminism--i.e.
immigration, security issues, environmentalism--have feminists been
contributing to in productive ways?
- In what ways have these movements offered alternative models for
coalition-building?
- Which issues are feminist communities overlooking or not doing enough to
address?
- Is feminist pedagogy a form of feminist activism?
- If feminist pedagogy is a form of activism, what kinds of practices do
people use in their classrooms or in their writing?
- How can feminist mentorship facilitate feminist coalitions and activism?

This workshop will be divided into three interconnected parts.

Part One: Currents
Part One will explore the work of women of color and academic-activists
working in our current political climate. This panel will feature the voices
of academics and activists, discussing feminist-activist research and
methods, activist projects, and collaborative community and coalition work.
This portion will involve interactive discussion and multimedia
presentations.

Part Two: Pedagogies
Part Two will be an interactive portion as well, where participants will
share feminist knowledges and pedagogies. This part will consist of brief
presentations by participants, who will discuss their classroom practices
and rationales specifically. Every participant will bring handouts on
syllabi, activities, and assignments. All workshop participants will
brainstorm pedagogical choices and methods. Some activities in this portion
will be roundtable discussions and some large group discussions. Multimedia
and creative presentation formats are highly encouraged.
We will collaborate on creating an online archive resource for these
materials, from which there will be a publishing opportunity in a
peer-reviewed pedagogy journal.

Part Three: Coalitions
Part Three will discuss coalitions and mentorship in academia and in the
community, particularly for underrepresented groups. This interactive
portion will involve prominent academic-activists discussing successful
examples of coalition building and mentorship. All speakers and participants
will explore advantages and obstacles to mentorship in large and small group
discussions, as well as brainstorm techniques for successful local and
national, feminist coalition building.

Publication:
As was outlined briefly in Part Two, there will be opportunities to publish
the pedagogical materials submitted, brainstormed, and collaboratively
created in this workshop to an online archive and/or a special issue of a
peer-reviewed pedagogy journal.

Requirements/Submission Guidelines:
We invite proposals for brief presentations (6-9 minutes), to be included in
Part One or Part Two. Presentations outside of the traditional paper format
(multimedia, performative reading, interactive, etc.) are especially
welcome. Please submit abstracts of no more than one double-spaced page to
4Cfeministworkshop@gmail.com by *April 30, 2008*.

Track: Internet and the Digital Economy

Minitrack: The Diffusion, Impacts, Adoption and Usage of ICTs upon Society
Details : Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) - 8 January 2009, Waikoloa , Big Island Hawaii

Since the emergence of the 21st century governments and companies around the globe have been striving to offer Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) infrastructures, namely broadband. During the first 4 to 5 years interest was focused upon whether the infrastructure was being provided and focus was on the issue of accessibility. Since then countries and research both from industry and academe have changed their focus as it is considered that now accessibility has been examined and now the emphasis is on how the households and social communities are diffusing, adopting, and using the ICTs and further, consideration of the impacts of ICTs. The aim of this mini-track will be to offer a global perspective of how ICTs are being diffused, used and adopted within society (households and social communities). By undertaking this research academics, industry and government agencies will learn of how ICTs are being utilised by various societies and what measures are being undertaken to have households and the various social communities adopt and use the ICTs with a further consideration of the impacts of the ICTs. Academic research has been focusing upon the diffusion, adoption and usage of broadband since about 2000. By undertaking this research and offering this track, now the focus could offer innovative ideas of diffusing, adopting and using ICTs that have not been considered before.


Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* The adoption and usage of ICTs, broadband, mobile phones and other ICTs within households
* The impacts of ICTs upon households
* The adoption and usage of ICTs upon various social communities (eg. Residential neighbourhoods)
* The impacts of ICTs upon various social communities
* The impact of ICTs on Education
* The Impact of ICT on delivering Healthcare
* Convergence of ICTs
* Evaluation the technological and non-technological aspects of the adoption and usage of ICTs
* Evaluating the technological and non-technological aspects of the impacts of ICTs
* The diffusion, adoption and usage of ICTs within households
* The diffusion, adoption and usage of ICTs within various social communities
* Stakeholder theory and the adoption, diffusion and usage of ICTs Project management and the diffusion of ICTs
* Project Management and the adoption and usage of ICTs
* Project Management and the impacts of ICTs
* Human Computer Interaction issues related to the adoption, usage and impact factors in the context of ICTS


Co-chairs:

Jyoti Choudrie (Primary Contact)
Reader of information Systems
Business School
University of Hertfordshire
DeHavilland Campus, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
Email: j.choudrie@herts.ac.uk; Jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com

Bendik Bygstad
Norwegian School of IT
Norges Informasjonsteknologiske Høgskole, NITH
Schweigaardsgate 14, 0185 Oslo, Norway
Email: bendik.bygstad@nith.no

Phillip Olla
Professor Management Information Systems Department
School of Business
Madonna University
Livonia, Michigan 48150, USA
Email: polla@madonna.edu


Important Dates:
Abstracts Due May 16th 2008
Paper Submission: June 15, 2008
Acceptance to authors: August 15
Final submission: September 15

Call for Papers
HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society.
Submissions must not have been previously published or be under submission elsewhere; all submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process.


Important Deadlines
From now to May 16: Prepare Abstracts. Submit abstract to the Track Chairs.

June 15: Authors submit full papers by this date, following the AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS. All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS papers undergo a double-blind review (June15 - August15).

August 15: Acceptance notices are sent to Authors. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin visa, fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper.

September 15: Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions posted on the HICSS web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference.

October 2: Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from the publication process; authors will be notified.
Instructions for Paper Submission

* Submit your full manuscript by June 15, and if accepted, submit the Final Version by Sept 15 , according to detailed instructions posted on the HICSS web site.

* An individual may be listed as author or as a co-author on a maximum of 6 submitted papers. * HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.

* Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If you are unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, please submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for guidance.

* HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. Therefore, author name(s) are not to be included on the manuscript during the June 15 submission process.

Further information is available at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/minitracks/in-dia.htm
Author instructions at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/authorinstruction.htm

Women and Language calls for submissions to a special issue dedicated to Hip Hop's Languages of Love. The issue will focus on love in hip hop as it relates to language and gender. It will be published in the Fall of 2009.Critical examination of hip hop's languages of love is important because despite its crude stereotypes, hip hop is an often-consulted source on the subject. We intend to expand the definition of love by embracing its complexities. We seek perspectives on love that are not singular and do not polarize. For instance,we welcome manuscripts that address diverse sexual identities and relationships. Moreover, our definition of hip hop extends beyond rap music to embrace an entire culture that includes other forms of music, dance, visual art, comedy, fashion, film, poetry, journalism,literature, scholarship, and politics. The culture's influences are readily found in media, professional athletics,and religious and educational institutions, just to name a few of the major sites.Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:How is language used to portray intimacy among and between men and women in hip hop?What role does the language of passion play in hip hop's heterosexual and homoerotic spaces?What relationships exist among language, love, and the pornographic in hip hop?What language patterns and definitions represent commitment (or the lack thereof) in hip hop among individuals, between individuals and the industry, and/ or between individuals and the art of performance? In what ways does self-love manifest in hip hop?What relationships exist between the love of the divine and the language of hip hop?What are the ramifications of conceptualizing hip hop as a love-filled or loveless space? We invite scholars from diverse disciplines, experiences, and backgrounds to consider such questions in a special issue devoted to hip hop and love. We seek pieces that take theoretical,critical, scientific or creative approaches to developing an understanding of the interactive dynamics of hip hop, love, language, and gender. Submissions can range from theoretical or critical analysis to personal experience, to reports of research, to book or film reviews, book notices, or poetry. Submissions should be sent as MS Word attachments to Ebony A. Utley at hiphoplove09@gmail.comno later than January 15, 2009. Author identifications should appear in the body of the email and not with the paper itself.Any material that includes references should be prepared following the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Manual. Preferred maximum length of submissions is 15 pages or 3600 words, but longer articles will be considered. If you would like to discuss your ideas in advance with the editors, please e-mail Ebony A. Utley: hiphoplove09@gmail.com.Women and Language, an international,interdisciplinary research periodical publishing thought‑provoking essays and inquiries, book reviews, bibliographies, and more, on topics of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in communication, language and gender, will be edited for this special issue by Ebony A. Utley and Brenda J. Allen. Any questions related to other issues involving W& L should be directed to Ataylor@gmu.edu.

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ebony a. utley, ph.d.
http://www.csulb.edu/~eutley

The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, invites proposals for its 2008 Women’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference.

The 2008 conference will feature scholarly and creative work that treats questions of power in relation to women: the experiences, creations, theories, and practices of power that define and are defined by women as actors, objects, and modes of performance and being in the world. The conference, among other things, aims to provoke discussion about women in positions of power, the vexatious roads they travel to get there, the barriers they meet, defeat, or submit to along the way, and the humorous, sad, and/or inspiring visions that arise from women’s engagement with powers of all kinds—including the powers they possess themselves.

This year’s conference will culminate in the publication of selected scholarly papers and creative works in a special conference issue of The South Dakota Review.

We solicit proposals for research presentations, scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, brief dramatic performances, film viewings, and creative readings on any topic that treats the diverse intertwinings of women and power.

Please upload your electronic proposal at www.usd.edu/wmst/, e-mail 250-word abstracts to aemerson@usd.edu, or send a hard copy to the following address by August 1, 2008.

Women’s Studies
The University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069

Call for chapter proposals – We need 6 authors!

Observe, Reflect, Act: A Primer on Applied Qualitative Research for Librarians, edited by Dr. Doug Cook and Dr. Lesley Farmer. Chicago: ACRL. Expected publication date: 2009

This book will be a primer for those librarians and library students who are interested in learning more about qualitative assessment. We are in need of authors for several of the chapters that are planned.

· Chapter 5. Discourse Analysis: [need author]

· Chapter 6. Interviewing: Getting Past the Surface [need author]

· Chapter 9. Visual Literacy as Part of Information Literacy - [need author]

· Chapter 10. Focus Groups – [need author]

· Chapter 13. The Reference Interview in Real Time and Virtual Time [need author]

· Chapter 14 – Collection Development – [need author]

Book Outline

Part 1 - Introduction

· Chapter 1. Qualitative Inquiry and the Librarian (Lesley Farmer)

· Chapter 2. Processes of Qualitative Research (Doug Cook)

· Chapter 3. Getting Ready to Turn Your Everyday Work into Meaningful Inquiry: Reading the Existing Literature (Cordelia Zinskie, Judi Repman)

Part 2 – Examples of Qualitative Research

· Chapter 4. Narrative Inquiry: Analyzing Instructor-Librarian Collaboration (Roberta Tipton, Patricia Bender)

· Chapter 5. Discourse Analysis: [need author]

· Chapter 6. Interviewing: Getting Past the Surface [need author]

· Chapter 7. Observation: Classroom Interaction (Carolyn Cook, Karla Schmit)

· Chapter 8. Content Analysis: De-Constructing Intellectual Packages (Penny Beile)

· Chapter 9. Visual Literacy as Part of Information Literacy - [need author]

· Chapter 10. Focus Groups – [need author]

Part 3 – Issues guiding qualitative research

· Chapter 11. Management Decision Making (Sharon Gray Weiner)

· Chapter 12. Designing and Managing Projects: Usability Studies and the In-House Product Development Review (Jeris Cassel, Bill Walker, Robin Brown)

· Chapter 13. The Reference Interview in Real Time and Virtual Time [need author]

· Chapter 14 – Collection Development – [need author]

Please email us if you are interested in writing one of these chapters, need more information, or if you have a question. The deadline for chapters is tentatively set for mid-2009.

Dr. Doug Cook – dr_library_guy@yahoo.com

Dr. Lesley Farmer - lfarmer@csulb.edu

I am currently compiling a co-edited volume for the University Press of Kentucky examining voices of political dissent in popular culture. UPK is a peer reviewed, university press, and we have received initial acceptance for submitting detailed abstracts for this publication. My co-editor is Joseph Foy (editor of the forthcoming Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture, University of Kentucky Press). Ideally, we are looking for a paper related to gender and popular culture that would fit into the broad theme of the book whose working title is The Revolution is Being Televised: Voices of Dissent in Popular Culture. The core argument that unifies the text is that there is a transformative power in elements of popular culture that enables voices of dissent to be expressed, become organized, and affect mainstream political discussion -- transforming peripheral voices to voices of currency. We are broadly targeting the content of the book, predicting that the text will appeal to both academic and mainstream audiences. Your help is appreciated!"

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Dr. Tim Dale
Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina, Upstate
Library, Room 241
800 University Way
Spartanburg, SC 29303
Phone: 864-503-5261

Please respond to him at tdale@uscupstate.edu

Editors: Jenny Davis, Joshua Raclaw, and Lal Zimman (Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Submissions are invited for a new edited volume in the field of language, gender, and sexuality that seeks to expand the present scope of these research areas. The volume will showcase work that considers how speakers (re)produce gender and sexuality outside of the traditional dichotomies that have been dominant in both scholarship and popular discourses. Topics of chapters currently under consideration focus on issues of linguistic practice among understudied communities such as female-to-male transsexuals, genderqueer individuals, tomboys and their girlfriends in Indonesia, polyamorists and other non-monogamists, and members of Native American two-spirit groups; additionally, much of this work underscores the theoretical limitations of a sociolinguistics driven by binary categorization. The editors welcome abstracts from scholars working within various disciplinary traditions, including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse and rhetorical analysis, gender and queer studies, and others.

Background:

The past two decades have seen a significant rise in what has been termed a poststructuralist sociolinguistics, a shift reflected in the adoption of a wide range of third-wave feminist and queer stances within language, gender and sexuality research. Adopting the trend toward critical examination of the dominant dichotomization of gender and sexuality, researchers within the last decade have considered additional intersections such as class and ethnicity, have deconstructed the traditional primacy assigned to male/female difference, and have established the importance of examining queer subjecthood. Yet research that looks at gender and sexuality as positioned outside of dichotomous categorizations ­ such as transgenderism and transsexuality, third and fourth gender categories, bisexuality and pansexuality ­ has been less forthcoming. Indeed, with few exceptions, the field has paid little attention to how social actors might challenge such binary categories through linguistic means, or to how speakers enact gendered and sexual identities outside of the dominant categories of male and female, heterosexual and homosexual. Rather than just constituting a simple gap in the literature, such trends potentially contribute to the reinforcement of traditional gender and sexual dichotomies by reinforcing the invisibility of those groups and individuals that remain outside of them (cf. Bing and Bergvall 1996).

Submission Guidelines:

Potential contributors should email a 500-1000 word abstract, including a title and a description of the topic of the proposed chapter, theoretical frameworks and methodologies employed, and how this work is situated outside of, or provides new insight into or potential challenges to, the binaries discussed above. Complete manuscripts are also welcome for submission at this time. Please restrict these submissions to a maximum length of 10,000 words and follow the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics (located at http://www.linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs/JournalUnifiedStyleSheet2007.pdf).

Abstracts due June 30, 2008.
First round of full drafts due September 1, 2008.

Please direct all correspondence to the editors at jennifer.davis@colorado.edu, raclaw@colorado.edu, zimman@colorado.edu

October 24 & 25, 2008
Marist College, Poughkeepsie New York

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2008 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent
student papers are also considered, undergraduates may attend at no cost.

Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com and author of Full Frontal Feminism will be delivering the keynote address.

Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio. Papers, workshops, roundtables and panels are welcome, please include abstracts and bios for all participants, with one contact person. Please include all contact information--including home and e-mail addresses for summer correspondence to:
Women & Society Conference c/o JoAnne Myers
Fontaine 315 School of Liberal Arts
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Or submit on line:
www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womenstudies/conference.html

For more information e-mail: JA.MYERS@MARIST.EDU

Proposals must be postmarked no later than July 11, 2008

Friday, June 20, 2008
Sponsored by Mississippi State University Libraries

The 2008 MS Library 2.0 Summit is accepting proposals for "Steal-this-Idea" speakers and poster sessions through April 25th. The "Steal-this-Idea" sessions will be one-hour in length, including time for discussion. Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that share their own experiences applying 2.0 technologies in public, k-12, college, community college, university or special libraries. We encourage, but do not require, hands-on elements to be included in the "Steal-this-Idea" sessions. Please submit 150-200 word summaries for speaker or poster sessions to apowers@library.msstate.edu before 5pm on April 25, 2008.

Registration begins April 28, 2008, but the blogging has already begun! Find out more at the Summit website: http://library.msstate.edu/mslibrarysummit.

Technically Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (pending approval) , EUSFLAT Society, European Neural Network Society
and
in Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr

October 26-30, 2008
Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE
Hosted by the "University of Cergy Pontoise"

The International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08) brings together international soft computational intelligence researchers, evelopers, practitioners, and users. The aim of CSTST (previously called WSTST) is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. CSTST'08 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrates current research in all areas of soft computing, as well as proposals for workshops, industrial presentations, demonstrations, and tutorials.

Topics

We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to):

* Information and Data Management
* Intelligent Hybrid Systems
* Fusion of Soft and Hard Computing
* Data and Web Mining
* Decision Support Systems
* Natural Language Processing
* Intelligent Agent-based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI Systems
* Internet Modeling
* Multimedia Information Systems
* Information Retrieval
* Human-Computer Interface
* XML-based Languages
* Security and Access Control
* Information Content Security
* Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
* Applications
o E-Learning, eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment
o Image and speech signal processing, prediction, and control
o Robotics
o Biology and medicine
o Business and management
o Artificial societies
o Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and materials
o Environment engineering

Paper submission

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF files and should be uploaded using the conference website (http://cstst.insa-lyon.fr). Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 independent reviewers of the PC.

Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN.

Award

- To commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, the Founder and General Chair of the WSTST series of meetings, the Board Chairs of CSTST 2008 are honoured to establish the Professor Yasuhiko Dote Award for the distinguished best paper.

Information about the winner will be posted on the conference web site. This Award will include a commemorative plate and a waiver of the registration fees for the following CSTST edition.

- "Best student paper" will be awarded of 400 euros.

Important Dates

Full Paper Submissions: June 15, 2008
Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2008
Camera Ready Papers Due: September 17, 2008
Author Registration: September 17, 2008
Conference Dates: October 26-30, 2008

Journal Publication
Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals.
1. Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) (ISSN 1554-1010)
2. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (ISSN 0973-1873)

Committees

Honorary Chair
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, U.S.A

General Co-Chairs
Youakim Badr, INSA-Lyon, France
Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Yukio Ohsawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Co-Chairs
Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France
Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

International Co-Chairs

Sepo Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Yukinori Suzuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Workshops Co-Chairs

Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
Yinghua Ma, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China

International Advisory Board

James Keller, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Cihan H. Dagli, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Hidenori Kimura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan
Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Toru Yamaguchi, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan
Kensuke Kawai, Toshiba Co., Japan

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs

Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Jean Luc Bourdon, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Virginie Sans, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

Local Arrangement Committee

Sonia Katchadourian, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Clémence Driol, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

International Programme Committee (To be completed)

Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Abderrafiaa Koukam, Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Abo Al-Ola Atifi, CBA Kuwait University, Kuwait
Agma Traina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Agostino Marengo, University of Bari, Italy
Ahmed El Oualkadi, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Ahmed Mostefaoui, University of Franche Comte, France
Akira Asano, Hiroshima University, Japan
Alberto F. De Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - UFES, Brazil
Alessandra Lumini, Faculty of Engineering University of Bologna, Italy
Alexandre Dolgui, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Ali Riza Yildiz, University of Michigan, USA
Amparo Fuster-Sabater, Institute of Applied Physics (CSIC), Spain
Ana Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Andies Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
Andreas Konig, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
Andri Riid, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia
Andy Phippen, University of Plymouth, UK
Anna Formica, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica CNR, Italy
Antonio Gaspar-Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal
Asanee Kawtrakul, University of Kasetsart, Thailand
Aziz Elfazziki, University of Marrakech, Marocco
Baoyong Chi, Tsinghua University, China
Ben Aggarwala, University of Calgary, Canada
Bernard De Baets, Ghent University, Belgium
Bernard Grabot, LGP-ENIT, France
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
Bruno Apolloni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA
Chi Shen, University of Kentucky, USA
Ching-Cheng Lee, California State University at Hayward, USA
Charles Shoniregun, University of East London, London
Chrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Christelle Vangenot, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Christian Blum, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Christian Veenhuis, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
Christine Verdier, Joseph Fourier University, France
Christophe Cruz, Bourgogne University, France
Christophe Marquesuzaa, IUT de Bayonne, France
Christophe Nicolle, Université de Bourgogne, France
Claudia Di Napoli, "C.N.R. - Istituto di Cibernetica", Italy
Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Daniel Merkle, University of Leipzig, Germany
Danielle Boulanger, Université Jean Moulin, France
David Gross-Amblard, Bourgogne University, France
David L. la Red Martínez, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina
Deborah Dahl, Conversational Technologies, USA
Diptri Srinivasan, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Dominique Laurent, ETIS Laboratory, France
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Eiji Uchino, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Elizabeth Gouvêa Goldbarg, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Emilio Corchado, University of Burgos, Spain
Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas, San Pablo Catholic University, Peru
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, INAOE, México
Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Etienne Kerre, University of Gent, Belgium
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences BS/WF, Germany
Francois Verdier, ETIS Laboratory, France
Fuchun Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Gabriel Luque, University of Malaga, Spain
Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Ghilès Mostafaoui, University of Villetaneuse, France
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK
Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Hilary Holz, Laboratory for Adaptive Hypermedia and Assistive Technology, USA
Hiranmay Ghosh, Tata Consultancy Services, India
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Hongbo Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China
Huayang Xie, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ignacio Ponzoni, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Igor F. Tsigelny, University of California San Diego, USA
Igor Lemberski, Baltic International Academy, Latvia
Imre Rudas, Budapest Tech, Hungary
Irina Kondratova, NRC Institute for Information Technology of Fredericton, Canada
Isabel Lopes Nunes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ivan Jordanov, University of Portsmouth, UK
J.K Vijayakumar, American University of Antigua, West Indies
Jacques Fayolle, Universite Jean Monnet, France
Jae C. Oh, Syracuse University, USA
James Lu, Emory University, USA
Jaroslaw Kozlak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Javier Jesus Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, University of Kansas , USA
Jon Burgstone, University of California Berkeley, USA
John Burns, ITT Dublin, Ireland
Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Kablan Barbar, Libanese University, Liban
Katrin Franke, Gjovik University College,Germany
Kaori Yoshida, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan
Kazushi OHYA, Tsurumi University, Japan
Kubilay Ecerkale, Hava Harp Okulu, Turkey
Lei Chen , HKUST, China
Liang Zhao, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Lotfi Ben Romdhane, Faculty of Sciences Monastir, Tunisia
Luis Magdalena, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Marcin Paprzycki, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland
Marco Painho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa,Portugal
Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Universidade Federal de S. Carlos, Brazil
Maria Ganzha, Systems Research Institute, Poland
Mario Ventresca, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
Masaru Teranishi, Nara University of Education, Japan
Massimo De Gregorio, "Istituto di Cibernetica - CNR", Italy
Mathias Quoy, ETIS Laboratory, France
Maumita Bhattacharya, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Michael Berthold, University of Konstanz, Germany
Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University - Gold Coast, Australia
Miguel Ángel Sotelo Vázquez, University of Alcalá, Spain
Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Monica Chis, University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada
Nadine Cullot, Bourgogne University, France
Nicolas Lumineau, University of Lyon, France
Nicomedes L. Cavalcanti Junior, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Olgierd Unold, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester, UK
Pandian Vasant, University Technology Petronas, Malaysia
Patrick Siarry, Université Paris 12 (LiSSi) , France
Patrizia Grifoni, National Research Council, Italy
Paolo Merialdo, Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Paulo Moura Oliveira, UTAD University, Portugal
Petr PošÃ­k, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Pierre Andry, University of Cergy Pontoise, France
Pit Pichappan, Annamalai University, India
PJ Costa Branco, Instituto Superior Técnico (I.S.T.), Portugal
Puhan Niladri Bihari, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Qiang Zhu, University of Michigan, USA
Rajeev Raje, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis,USA
Raija Halonen, University of Oulu, Finland
Rajesh Prasad, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, India
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, UK
Raquel Barco, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Riccardo Torlone, University of Rome "RomaTre", Italy
Richard J. Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain
Robert Levinson, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Roman Neruda, Institute of Computer Science ASCR, Czech Republic
Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA
Ruan Jishou, University of Nankai, China
Ruqiang Yan, University of Massachusetts, USA
Sadok BEN YAHIA, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Saman Kumara Halgamuge, University of Melbourne, Australia
Saravanan Muthaiyah, George Mason University, USA
Sebastian Lozano, University of Seville, Spain
Selma Ayse Ozel, Cukurova University, Turkey
Seppo Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Shlomo Berkovsky, University of Melbourne, Australia
Shu-Ching Chen, University Park, USA
Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia
Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin, University Technology of Malaysia, Malaysia
Soumya BANERJEE, Birla Institute of Technology, India
Stefania Marrara, University of Milan, Italy
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Stephen Marsh, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Suash Deb, National Institute of Science & Technology, India
Sugata Sanyal, School of Technology & Computer Science, India
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Svein Johan, Knapskog Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Takafumi Matsumaru, Shizuoka University, Japan
Talbi El-Ghazali , INRIA Futurs, France
Teresa Bernarda Ludermir, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Thanh Ha Dang, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, France
Thierry Badard, Université Laval, Canada
Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Tom Gedeon, Australian National University, Australia
Tommo Reti, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Tulin Mangir, California State University Long Beach, USA
Tsung-Che Chiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Uwe Zimmer, Australian National University, Australia
Ventzeslav Valev, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA
Viorel Negru, West University, Romania
Virendra Bhavsar, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Wilfried Elmenreich, Klagenfurt University, Austria
William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn,USA
Witold Abramowicz, University of Economics, Poland
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Xiaojun Qi, Utah State University, USA
Xiao-Jun Zeng, University of Manchester, UK
Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Yinghua MA, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
YoungJoon Byun, California State University - Monterey Bay, USA
Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Zensho Nakao, University of the Ryukyus, Japan
Zhigang Zeng, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Zhi-Hong Deng, Peking University,China
Zhongfei Zhang, Binghamton University, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS

Latina/Chicana Mothering

The topic of Latina/Chicana Mothering is an important emerging motherhood theme. I invite submissions on this topic from a wide variety of perspectives and themes to include in an upcoming book. Submissions from scholars, graduate students, activists, mothers, and researchers in this field are welcome. Historical, comparative, and inter-disciplinary work is also encouraged.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should be original and previously unpublished. In addition, they should be 15-25 pages and sent as attachments in MS Word or WordPerfect format. All submitted papers will be blind-reviewed by the editor. Your paper should therefore include your name and contact information only on a separate cover page, which should also have a brief biography. The deadline is June 15, 2008.

Send submissions or inquiries to: Editor at latinachicanamothering@
yahoo.com

Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for the 2nd Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2008 (http://www.sciiis.org/wmsci2008/AG08.asp)

Deadlines:
Papers/Abstracts submissions and invited sessions or panels proposals: April 24th, 2008.
Acceptance notification: A maximum of 10 days after submission's date.
Camera-ready for the pre-conference proceedings: May 22nd, 2008
Camera-ready for the Post-Conference volume of the Proceedings: July 2nd.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal.

Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors may not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.

Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

Each session to be included in the conference program will have corresponding electronic pre-conference and post-conference sessions for 15 days each. In the electronic pre-conference sessions authors will have access to the papers to be presented at their session and to an associated electronic forum, so they can be better prepared for their conference face-to-face session. Similarly, electronic post-conference sessions will complement and support a follow-up of the respective conference sessions, via an electronic forum and the possibility of evaluating papers presented at the associated session. These evaluations will also support the selection process for the papers to be published in JSCI journal.

The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, 1) a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems" and 2) a second 4-DVDs/1-CD package 6-hours tutorial titled "Cybernetic Management". The market price of each of these packages is US $ 295.

For submissions of Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the menu's option "Invited Sessions > Invited Session Organizers" of the conference web site, where you can fill the respective form.

Effective Invited sessions organizers will be co-editors of printed version of the proceedings volume where their session or symposia paper were included, and the CD version of the proceedings.

Best regards,
AG 2008 Secretariat

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJITWE:

The main objective of the International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) is to publish refereed papers in the area covering Information Technology (IT) concepts, tools, methodologies, and ethnography, in the contexts of global communication systems and Web engineered applications. In accordance with this emphasis on the Web and communication systems, the journal publishes papers on IT research and practice that support seamless end-to-end information and knowledge flow among individuals, teams, and organizations. This end-to-end strategy for research and practice requires emphasis on integrated research among the various steps involved in data/knowledge (structured and unstructured) capture (manual or automated), classification and clustering, storage, analysis, synthesis, dissemination, display, consumption, and feedback. The secondary objective is to assist in the evolving and maturing of IT-dependent organizations, as well as individuals, in information and knowledge based culture and commerce, including e-commerce.

Coverage of IJITWE:

Web systems architectures, including distributed, grid computer, and communication systems processing
Web systems engineering design
Web systems performance engineering studies
Web user interfaces design, development, and usability engineering studies
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) research and applications in web engineered systems
Mobile, location-aware, and ubiquitous computing
Ontology and semantic Web studies
Software agent-based applications
Integrated user profile, provisioning, and context-based processing
Security, integrity, privacy and policy issues
Quality of service and service level agreement issues among integrated systems
Information filtering and display adaptation techniques for wireless devices
Metrics-based performance measurement of IT-based and Web-based organizations
Data analytics for business and government organizations
Integrated heterogeneous and homogeneous workflows and databases within and across organizations and with suppliers and customers
Case studies validating Web-based IT solutions
Data and knowledge capture and quality issues
Data and knowledge validation and verification
Knowledge structure, classification, and search algorithms or engines
Strategies for linking business needs and IT
IT readiness and technology transfer studies
IT education and training
Human factors and cultural impact of IT-based systems
Virtual teams and virtual enterprises: communication, policies, operation, creativity, and innovation
Competitive/intelligent information systems

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijitwe.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Ghazi I. Alkhatib at alkhatib@orange.jo or alkhatib@asu.edu

Call for Papers

19th Annual Conference International Information Management Association

13-15 October 2008
San Diego, California USA

Theme: Convergence ~ People, Process and Technology

The International Information Management Association (IIMA) annual conferences promote the dynamic exchange of ideas among leading researchers, educators, developers and practitioners who share their research and disseminate innovations in education, business and government. The 19th Annual Conference of the IIMA is devoted to presenting and examining information technology issues in our global networked environment.

Conference topics include, but are not limited to:

· Distance learning and innovative teaching techniques

· Artificial Intelligence-Decision Making

· Supply Chain Management

· Electronic commerce applications and innovations - public and private

· Web issues, technology, and tools

· ERP and manufacturing issues

· Networks and wireless technologies

· International, cultural and societal implications

· Database and Intelligent systems

· Organizational issues and case studies

· Business Process Re-Engineering

· Security, privacy, legal and ethical issues

· Medical & Clinical Informatics

· International Issues

· Information Assurance

· Assurance of Learning Topics

· Outsourcing

· Global Impacts on Economics

Submission of Papers:

Submissions to IIMA 2008 must not already have been published in a journal, presented at another conference, or be currently under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by the track chairs, program committee and selected reviewers. All reviews are double blind. The editorial board will make the final determination whether the accepted papers are published in the IIMA 2008 Proceedings. The best papers will be sent on to the Editors of the Communications of the IIMA for possible consideration. The Communications of the IIMA is a refereed, serial publication of IIMA that is registered with the US Library of Congress (ISSN: 1543-5970). See www.IIMA.org for the on-line version of past issues.

Format of Submitted Papers:

Papers should follow the style recommended by the American Psychological Associations (APA) Publication Manual. The language of the conference and related publications is English. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference and be accompanied by paid registration. Each submitted paper must include an abstract and must conform to the following format: First Page: Title, authors, address, phone, fax, email address, abstract. Second and subsequent pages: Title, full manuscript (limited to 25 double-spaced pages). Accepted conference papers will be notified by June 1, 2008.

Please submit an electronic copy in MS Word format to the Program Chair, Dr. Joseph Chan Jchan@roosevelt.edu no later than May 1, 2008. Any submission that is received after the deadline, exceeds length requirements, or does not adhere to the format will be rejected without review.

Submission Panel or Workshop:

The conference will feature sessions on topics of special interest. To propose a panel, contact the program chair and provide the session topic and a list of 3-5 potential panelists. To propose a workshop, contact Dr. Frank Lin Flin@csusb.edu with a short description of the proposed workshop.

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2008

Conference Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008

Final Version Due: July 1, 2008

CIIMA Journal Notification: Rolling Acceptance

For more information, style guidelines, and fee schedule: visit the IIMA website: www.iima.org https://franklin.roosevelt.edu/exchange/jchan/Documents%20and%20Settings/xhe/Local%20Settings/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Local%20Settings/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice seeks papers on all areas of EBL/EBLIP including, but not limited to:
· EBL application
· Qualitative and quantitative research
· Management and administrative issues related to EBP
· Research tools (statistics, data collection methods, etc.)
· Research education in library schools
· Collaborations with other disciplines
· Evidence based practice from other disciplines applicable to EBL
· Harnessing evidence to support new innovations
· Developing and applying evidence based tools

Papers may be submitted to the following sections:

Research Articles (peer reviewed, original research)
Commentaries (non-peer reviewed, opinion-based)

Submission deadlines for 2008:
June 1st (for September 15th issue)
September 1st (for December 15th issue)
December 1st (for March 15th, 2009 issue)

Further information regarding author guidelines and the online submission process can be found on the Submission section of the EBLIP website :
http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/index.

http://www.sersc.org/CSA2008

Australia, October 13 - 15, 2008

The 2008 International Symposium on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-08) will be held in Australia (venue TBA) on October 13 - 15, 2008.

CSA-08 will be the most comprehensive symposium focused on the various aspects of advances in Computer Science.

The CSA-08 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of CSA. In addition, the symposium will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in CSA. Furthermore, we expect that the symposium and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2008
Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2008
Camera Ready Due: July 15, 2008
Symposium Dates: October 13 - 15, 2008

Topics (7 Tracks)

-Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
-Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing
-Security and Trust
-Multimedia
-Networking and Communications
-Database and Data Mining
-Software Engineering

Organization (TBA)

Steering Chair:
Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea

General Chairs:
Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Program Chairs:
Sang-Soo Yeo, Kyushu University, Japan
Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia

Track Chairs: TBA

Invited Speakers: TBA

Special Session Chairs:
Zhiwen Yu Kyoto University, Japan (yu@ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp )
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea (ysjeong@wku.ac.kr )

International Advisory Board
Daqing Zhang, GET/INT
Andrew Kusiak, The University of Iowa, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Kyo-il Chung ETRI, Korea
M. Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs: TBA

Program Committee: TBA

Paper Submission and Publication

Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI).
Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper), 6 pages (regular paper) or 8 pages (full paper: 2 pages extra charge) by using online systems for review.
Please use IEEE CS paper format.

Submission system: http://submission.sersc.org/CSA2008/

Special Issues:

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in CSA-08, after further revisions, will be published in special issues on prestigious international journals indexed by SCI-E (Confirmed).

- Journal of Universal Computer Science - Springer http://www.jucs.org/

Special Issue on "Intelligent Environments and Services"
Guest Editors: Prof. Tai-hoon Kim, Prof. Andrew Kusiak, Prof. David Taniar, Prof. Daqing Zhang

- Multimedia Tools And Applications - Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042

Special Issue on Advanced Intelligent Multimedia Applications for Next Generation Environments
Guest Editors: Prof. Jong Hyuk Park, Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Dr. Zhiwen Yu

Contact Information

If you have any question about the CfPs and papers submission,
please email to PC chairs or Secretary of CSA-08 (sersc@sersc.org).

Invitation to Participate in the Poster Session: Learning Virtually

Many innovative technologies are available for delivering flexible and inexpensive on- and off-site training and professional development programs. What are you using?
Present a poster on what you're doing!
3:30-5:30pm on Saturday, June 28th
in Anaheim at ALA

Posters will highlight best practices and tools for individual or staff training in your library. Share your good ideas with colleagues!

Poster session will follow the program panel Learning Virtually: Online Professional Development for Library Workers with Tight Budgets and Full Schedules on Saturday, June 28th, 1:30-3:30 pm. For more information visit: http://web.gccaz.edu/~cmacdon2/LearningVirtually/LearningVirtuallyFlyer.pdf

To submit your poster session idea for consideration please go to: http://web.gccaz.edu/~cmacdon2/LearningVirtually/

ALA information about poster sessions in general is available at: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/default.aspx

Basically, poster sessions are an opportunity to informally present graphics and text about work you have done or are doing.

Usually posters are 4' x 8' or smaller - and in this case, must be self-standing (this location will not be providing boards for display). If you supplement your poster with computer graphics or other technology, you will need to bring your own projection equipment, laptops, etc.

Members of the Joint ACRL CJCLS-CLS-DLS Program Committee will be evaluating submissions on an ongoing basis through April 30, 2008 (now extended for a limited time)

The program and poster session are co-sponsored by the College Libraries Section, Community & Junior College Libraries Section, and the Distance Learning Section of ACRL.

Hello colleagues,

I recently have taken on the Editorship of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science / La Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliothéconomie. The Journal is published by the Canadian Association for Information Science through the University of Toronto Press, and contributes to the advancement of information and library science by serving as a forum for discussion of theory and research. The journal is concerned with research findings, understanding of issues in the field, information practices of individuals and groups, and understanding of the history, economics, and technology of information or library systems and services.

Although the Journal has not been published regularly for the past two years, I am delighted to announce that volume 29, issue 4 is expected to be in print very soon. Volumes 30 and 31 will be out by year’s end, as well. We’re catching up, and moving forward.

With the Journal rapidly getting back on track, I am inviting submissions in either English or French, from academics, students, and practitioners in the field. Instructions for contributors are outlined in the Submission Guidelines ( http://www.cais-acsi.ca/journal/guidelines.htm). If you have any questions, or would like your manuscript considered for publication in the Journal, please get in touch!

English Manuscripts

Heidi Julien, Editor
School of Library & Information Studies
University of Alberta
Email: heidi.julien@ualberta.ca
Ph: +1 780 492 3934
Fax: +1 780 492 2430

French Manuscripts

Clément Arsenault, Rédacteur associé
EBSI, Université de Montréal
Email: clement.arsenault@umontreal.ca
Tél. : +1 514 343 5600
Fax : +1 514 343 5753

As part of our October conference on Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War and
Social Justice, ARM will host an EMBEDDED CONFERENCE ON THE MOTHERHOOD
MOVEMENT for Saturday, October 25, 2008 (This embedded conference will relate
to the Social Justice stream of the larger conference).

ARM WILL BE INVITING SPEAKERS FROM ALL THE MOTHERHOOD ORGANIZATIONS;
NAMC, MOTHERS AND MORE, MOTHERS ACTING UP, MOMS RISING, MOTHERHOOD
PROJECT ETC.* IN addition to the panels, roundtables by the leaders of
the motherhood movement.... WE HOPE TO HAVE A FULL LINE OF PAPERS ON THE TOPIC
OF THE MOTHERHOOD MOVEMENT.

The conference is tentatively entitled: "YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION:
THE MOTHERHOOD MOVEMENT OF THE 21st CENTURY"

***IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PRESENTING A PAPER, AT THIS POINT ALL WE
NEED FROM YOU IS***

1) TITLE OF PAPER
2) SHORT BIO
3) FULL CONTACT INFO

BUT WE NEED BY APRIL 20!!! Please email this information to arm@yorku.ca
asap so we can include your presentation in our grant application due at
the end of April 08.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORK AND GET YOUR TITLE/BIO/CONTACT INFO IN BY APRIL 20TH.

THIS WILL TRULY BE A LANDMARK EVENT AND AND IMPORTANT PART OF OUR LARGER
CONFERENCE

Dr. Andrea O'Reilly,
Associate Professor,
School of Women's Studies,
Director: Association for Research on Mothering,
Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Demeter Press,
York University,
Toronto, Ont.,
M3J 1P3
416 736 2100;60366
aoreilly@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm

Call for Special Issue Papers
Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge
Issue 9(1), March 2009

The editors of the online journal Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal) announce a call for papers for a special issue of the journal on the topic of “Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge.” Accepted papers would appear in Volume 9(1) to be published in March 2009.

Scholarly articles may report research describing (a) teachers or preservice teachers who demonstrate “TPACK” (also known as TPCK) in the K-12 classroom; (b) teachers/preservice teachers in the process of developing TPACK; or (c) teacher education programs with demonstrated success in developing TPACK in their graduates. We have a special interest in articles describing the development of instruments or methods to measure TPACK. Theoretical articles will also be considered, especially if they synthesize the research or development of TPACK thinking in a particular content area.

Additional information specific to each section of CITE Journal follows.

Science Education Section

Papers submitted to the science education section should address TPACK in the context of K-12 science teacher education. To submit your article, go to www.citejournal.org, click on the Submissions tab, and follow the directions. When you navigate to the page that enables you to select the journal for publication, be sure to select the CITE Journal “Special Issue: Science - Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge” radio button. We encourage you to think about the special advantages of publishing online by including media such as digital videos, images, audio and/or links to websites in your manuscript. Manuscripts should be submitted no later than September 15, 2008.

John C. Park
Science Section Editor
park@unity.ncsu.edu

Social Studies Education Section

This special issue of CITE Journal Social Studies will examine issues and problems associated with the application of TPCK in social studies. Manuscripts for this special issue should focus on one of the following two areas: (1) reports on data-driven research about the application of TPCK in social studies settings, both K-12 and teacher education; (2) theoretical considerations of TPCK, including but not limited to applications in K-12 social studies settings and implications for teacher education. To submit a paper from the CITE Journal submission Web page, select the CITE Journal “Special Issue: SocStu - Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge” radio button. Manuscripts must be submitted no later than September 15, 2008.

John Lee & David Hicks
Social Studies Education Section Editor
john_lee@ncsu.edu
hicks@vt.edu

Mathematics Education Section
Papers submitted to the mathematics education section should address TPACK in the context of K-12 mathematics teacher education. To submit a paper from the CITE Journal submission Web page, select the CITE Journal “Special Issue: Math - Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge” radio button. Manuscripts should be submitted no later than October 15, 2008.

Christine Browning & Mark Klespis
Mathematics Education Section Editors
christine.browning@wmich.edu
klespis@shsu.edu

English Education Section
Papers submitted to the English education section should address TPACK in the context of K-12 English/language arts teacher education. To submit a paper from the CITE Journal submission Web page, select the CITE Journal “Special Issue: English - Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge” radio button. Manuscripts should be submitted no later than October 15, 2008.

General Section

Scholarly articles addressing content areas not addressed in other sections of CITE Journal should be submitted to the General Section for review. Appropriate content may come from foreign and classical languages, exceptional learners, physical education, music and art education, or general teacher education including technology education/professional development courses that emphasize the development of pedagogical and content knowledge in conjunction with the development of technology proficiency. Authors are encouraged to take advantage of hyperlinks to provide supporting evidence such as course assignments and student-created products to validate TPACK methodologies.

To submit a paper from the CITE Journal submission Web page, select the CITE Journal “Special Issue: General - Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge” radio button. Manuscripts should be submitted no later than September 15, 2008.

Matthew Koehler & Judi Harris
General Section Guest Editors

Current Practice Section

Current Practices section of the CITE journal seeks articles for a special issue related to TPACK methodologies that demonstrate promising ideas, teaching practice, implementations, or preliminary/pilot findings from research studies or development projects targeting preservice and/or in-service teacher education. Authors are encouraged to take full advantage of the multimedia capabilities of the CITE Journal to support, illustrate, and provide relevant examples of the issues presented in the article. Papers submitted to the mathematics education section should address TPACK in the context of K-12 mathematics teacher education. To submit a paper from the CITE Journal submission Web page, select the CITE Journal “Special Issue: CP - Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge” radio button. Manuscripts must be submitted no later than September 15, 2008.

Natalie Milman & Pete Adamy
Current Practice Section Editors
nmilman@gwu.edu
adamy@uri.edu

The ALA ALCTS CCS Cataloging and Classification Research Discussion Group will meet on Saturday, June 28th in Anaheim from 10:30am-12 noon.
Speakers are invited to discuss current and/or recently completed research in the area of cataloging and classification.
Please email the chair (see address below) of the group directly of your interest.
Robert

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Robert O. Ellett, Jr., Ph.D.
Lecturer
School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University
ellett AT gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association - New in 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijossp

Editor-in-Chief: Stefan Koch, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

MISSION OF IJOSSP:

The International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) aims to publish high-quality original research articles on the large field of open source software and processes. The primary mission is to enhance our understanding of this field and neighbouring areas by providing a focused outlet for rigorous research employing a multitude of approaches.

COVERAGE OF IJOSSP:

IJOSSP adopts an inclusive approach in its coverage. Therefore papers from software engineering, management, sociology and other areas, as well as different research approaches are welcome. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Characteristics of open source software projects, products and processes
Case studies of open source projects, their participants and/or their development process Communication and coordination in open source projects
Open source adoption and quality
Open source software development processes User-centered innovation processes
Economics of a distributed innovation process
Motivation of participants in open source projects and other distributed development efforts
Business models for open source and other community-created artifacts
Evolution of both open source software artefacts and open source communities
Legal issues of open source software
Implications of open source software for functional areas like public administration or teaching
Usage and adoption of open source software in different application areas and/or countries
Economic analyses of open source
Open science and open knowledge
Customer co-creation and user participation in (software) design
Open source software and processes research methods, tools, and data repositories

Please note that despite the title, IJOSSP acknowledges, embraces and covers other respective forms and definitions of similar nature, like free software or libre software. Therefore, each occurrence of open source should be read as free/libre/open source.

SUBMITTING TO IJOSSP:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/ijossp. To ensure the high quality of published material, IJOSSP utilizes a double-blind peer review process. Upon receipt of the manuscript, an associate editor and two reviewers are selected from the Editorial Review Board of the Journal. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Paul David, Stanford University, USA & The University of Oxford, UK
Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland
Joachim Henkel, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Georg von Krogh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School, USA
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Jean-Michel Dalle, Universite Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX), France
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Joe Feller, University College Cork, Ireland
Scott Hissam, Carnegie Mellon, USA
Greg Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA
Dirk Riehle, SAP Labs LLC, USA
Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Walt Scacchi, University of California - Irvine, USA Sebastian Spaeth, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD

Ioannis Antoniadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Evangelia Berdou, University of Sussex, UK
Cornelia Boldyreff, University of Lincoln, UK
Andrea Capiluppi, University of Lincoln, UK
Carlo Daffara, Conecta Research, Italy
Marina Fiedler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany
Daniel German, University of Victoria, Canada
Stefan Haefliger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Israel Herraiz, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Nicolas Jullien, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Sandeep Krishnamurthy, University of Washington, USA
George Kuk, Nottingham University Business School, UK
Jan Ljungberg, Gothenburg University, Sweden Bjoern Lundell, University of Skoevde, Sweden
Martin Michlmayr, Hewlett-Packard, Austria
Sandro Morasca, Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria
Bulent Ozel, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Suleyman Sowe, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Megan Squire, Elon University, USA
Brian Still, Texas Tech University, USA
Stefan Strecker, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Frank van der Linden, Philips Medical Systems, The Netherlands
Andreas Wiebe, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria
Donald Wynn Jr., University of Dayton, USA

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes is published by IGI Global,(formerly Idea Group Inc.) publisher of the "IGI Publishing," "Information Science Publishing," "IRM Press," "CyberTech Publishing," "Medical Information Science Reference" and "Information Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Stefan Koch
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes
E-mail: stefan.koch@wu-wien.ac.at
www.igi-global.com/ijossp

MP Journal is accepting submissions for its 2008 summer issue. We are
accepting papers on any feminist theme for a general issue. Submissions
can be of two types: (1) academic articles on feminist issues. (2)
creative pieces (prose or poetry) on feminist themes/issues. Submissions
will not be accepted any later than May 5, 2008.

In order to be considered, all submissions should:

be scholarly/academic in nature;
be sent as an attachment (*.doc, *.txt, *.rtf -- no *.pdf, please!);
include a CV or writing resume and a 50 word bio;
abide by the copyright and image use information listed below.

Send submission to: lynda_hinkle@yahoo.com

Copyright Information

In order to assure the widest possible audience for the work published in
MP, that work is added, by contractual agreement, to one or more EBSCO
Publishing databases. The users of those databases have access and limited
copying privileges with respect to work appearing in MP. Your submission
indicates that this arrangement is acceptable to you and that upon
acceptance you agree to license your work to MP Journal and to its
sub-licensor, EBSCO Publishing. You further confirm that the work has not
been published prior to its appearance in MP. In addition, you confirm it
is original work that abides by all copyright rules and regulations. You
understand that, upon publication, all rights to this work will revert to
you, the author. However, you also understand that MP reserves the right
to publish this work (in part or in its entirety) in electronic form on
its website and/or on electronic information databases published by
others.

Image Use

All images used in MP comply with US copyright law and are either in the
public domain or are used with written permission of the copyright holder.

Call for Writings from ABE Practitioners (especially teachers)

Empowering Women through Literacy: Views from Experience
Edited by Mev Miller, Ed.D. and Kathleen King, Ed.D.
We invite practitioners working in adult basic/literacy education --
classroom teachers, educators, tutors, adimistrators, and researchers
-- to make a proposal for what you’d like to contribute to a book of
writings and artwork by adult basic education teachers/educators
addressing women’s literacy issues.
Topics Explored: Barriers and Challenges to Discussing Women's Issues
in Literacy Classes or Addressing Them in Programs;
Experiences Empowering Women in Literacy; Contextual Approaches for
Empowering Women in Literacy
Deadline for Proposals: May 30, 2008
For more details, please visit: http://www.litwomen.org/educators/ newbook.html

*** Participate in creating the April 2008 newsletter.... ***
News? Women-Centered lesson plans? Reflections on participating in
Women's Perspectives #3? Please send us items for the newsletter...
The writing doesn't need to be long - but we'd like your input,
pictures, artwork....
DEADLINE for newsletter submissions - April 15, 2008

*** Women's Perspectives #3 is now available. ***
This issue focuses on Women & Money. For more details, please visit:
http://www.litwomen.org/perspectives.html

WE LEARN members.... The April Newsletter will be mailed by the end
of the month along with the 2007 Annual Report. The newsletter will
include information from the conference, listing of new resources,
and many other fun stories. If you would like to receive a copy by
mail, please be sure your membership is current. If you have received
a renewal notice, please renew right away in order to receive the
newsletter. Not yet a member? Please join us. You may use the
Internet to join https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php? aid=21802 or download the form: http://www.litwomen.org/ membership.html#form

Happy Spring

Mev Miller, Ed.D., Director
welearn@litwomen.org

WE LEARN
Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network
www.litwomen.org/welearn.html

182 Riverside Ave.
Cranston, RI 02910
401-383-4374

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/JDSST

Editor-in-Chief: Guisseppi A. Forgionne, PhD
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

ISSUES: Each issue publishes double-blind refereed papers on topics that
fit the journal’s mission. Paper reviews will be done in a timely manner
with appropriate feedback provided to submitting authors. Accepted papers
will be scheduled for publication as soon as possible.

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: Throughout the year.

MISSION OF IJDSST:

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible
publication in the International Journal of Decision System Technology
(JDSST). The primary objective of the journal is to provide comprehensive
coverage for DMSS technology issues. The issues can involve, among other
things, new hardware and software for DMSS, new models to deliver decision
making support, dialog management between the user and system, data and
model base management within the system, output display and presentation,
DMSS operations, and DMSS technology management. Since the technology’s
purpose is to improve decision making, the articles are expected to link
DMSS technology to improvements in the process and outcomes of the
decision making process. This link can be established theoretically,
mathematically, or empirically in a systematic and scientific manner.

COVERAGE OF IJDSST:

Among topics to be included (but not limited) are the following:

· DMSS computer hardware
· DMSS computer systems and application software
· DMSS system design, development, testing, and implementation
· DMSS data capture, storage, and retrieval
· DMSS model capture, storage, and retrieval
· DMSS system and user dialog methods
· DMSS output presentation and capture
· DMSS feedback control mechanisms
· DMSS function integration strategies and mechanisms
· DMSS technology evaluation
· DMSS network strategies and mechanisms
· Web-based and mobile DMSS technologies
· Public and private DMSS applications
· DMSS technology organization and management
· Context awareness, modeling and management for DMSS
· All other related technology issues that impact the overall utilization
and management of DMSS in modern life and organizations

SUBMITTING TO IJDSST:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously
unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD
CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines.html. All manuscript submissions
will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of
the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding
acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from
the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to
forgionn@umbc.edu

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (JDSST)
published by IGI Global publisher of the “IGI Publishing,” “Information
Science Publishing,” “IRM Press,” “CyberTech Publishing”, “Idea Group
Reference”, and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the
attention of:

Guisseppi A. Forgionne, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (JDSST)
E-mail: forgionn@umbc.edu
www.igi-global.com/ijdsst

Call for Participation

Deadline Extended to April 22, 2008

August 4-5, 2008

Denver, CO

Conference website: http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance

Sponsored by BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) and

RUSA (Reference and User Services Association), an ALA Division

Rumors of the “death of reference” have been greatly exaggerated! Reference and information service now encompasses not just traditional forms such as in-person point-of-service, telephone, and e-mail, but also Instant Messaging, Text Messaging (SMS), blogs, wikis, library pages on MySpace and Facebook, and virtual reference desks in Second Life.

A Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends conference will explore all aspects of reference service in a broad range of contexts, including libraries and information centers, in academic, public, school, corporate, and other special library environments. This two-day conference will incorporate the multitude of established, emerging, and merging types of reference service including both traditional and virtual reference. It presents an opportunity for all reference practitioners and scholars to explore the rapid growth and changing nature of reference, as an escalating array of information technologies blend with traditional reference service to create vibrant hybrids.

Our theme of a “Reference Renaissance” was taken from an editorial by Diane Zabel, in a recent issue of Reference and User Services Quarterly (winter 2007). Zabel wrote of a “resurgence of interest in reference” and that “reference is experiencing a regeneration, a reference renaissance.”

Submissions of papers, panels, and workshop proposals are welcomed that analyze issues, identify best practices, advance organizational and technological systems, propose standards, and/or suggest innovative approaches that will reveal as well as invent the future of reference in this exciting and unfolding landscape. The conference will be organized around the following interest tracks. Please note that the sub-bullets are intended to be suggested topics, not to be a comprehensive listing.

Virtual Reference (including e-mail, chat, IM, SMS, Second Life, etc.)
Interpersonal aspects of reference service across different types of service
Comparison of VR modes
Innovative Service Models (including face-to-face, outreach, and Web 2.0)
Comparison of different modes (locations, configurations, etc.) of service delivery
Social networking applications (such as blogs, wikis, Facebook, MySpace, etc.)
Case studies in virtual outreach
Satellite (or outpost) reference, roving reference
Managing Reference Services
Assessment/Evaluation (including guidelines and best practices, benchmarking performance, service quality, accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency)
Hiring, training and motivating staff in an era of rapid change (including performance issues)
Marketing initiatives
Approaches, Values, & Philosophy of Reference Services
Reference as teaching
How much help to give (e.g., homework, course assignments)
Wild Card (including, but not limited to, controversial issues, comparisons, other innovative topics – be creative!)
Sustainability and budgeting issues
Reference consortia issues
Software and hardware development
Vendor (including demonstrations and workshops)
Vendor software and hardware development

TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:

1. Papers (500 word abstracts): include reports and research studies on any aspect of reference, user studies, evaluation projects, innovative practical applications, theme papers, or theoretical developments. In addition, works in progress and student papers are invited. Submissions should include: 1) a cover sheet with the paper title, author(s), contact information and affiliations(s) for each author, conference track(s) and 2) a second page consisting of a 500 word abstract that summarizes the paper but does NOT show your name or any contact information. Papers will be refereed by the program committee.

2. Panels: include proposals for 1.5 hour long sessions on topics such as reference innovations, implementation of new technology, evaluation projects, reports by practitioners on current initiatives, theme panels, and contrasting viewpoints on controversial or hot issues. Innovative formats are sought, especially those that encourage audience participation, such as: roundtable discussions, debates, forums, or case studies. Submissions should include: panel title, names, affiliations, and contact information for all participants (moderators, panelists, respondents, etc.), conference track(s), and a brief overview (250 words) of the issues, projects or viewpoints to be discussed. Panels will be refereed by the program committee.

3. Workshops, Demonstrations, and Reports from the Field: include proposals for 30 minute sessions on working projects, new services, new approaches to reference instruction, or to developments-in-progress. These can be educational in nature. Submissions should include workshop of demonstration title, names and affiliations of all participants, contact information, conference track(s), and brief overview (250 words) of the session.

DEADLINES:

April 22, 2008 Deadline for All Submissions (Deadline extended!)

May 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance to Speakers

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Submissions should be sent in electronic format (as an e-mail attachment as a Word document or pdf) to Program Chair Marie L. Radford (mradford@scils.rutgers.edu).

Information on conference registration and hotel reservations will be forthcoming on the conference website at: www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: May *10, 2008*

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association

www.igi-global.com/ijesma

Editor-in-Chief*: Ada Scupola*

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

MISSION OF IJESMA:

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA).* *The objective of IJESMA is to be a truly interdisciplinary journal providing comprehensive coverage and understanding of all aspects of e-services, self-services and mobile communication from different fields including marketing, management and MIS. IJESMA seeks to promote and publish state-of-the art research regarding different issues in the production, delivery and consumption of e-services, self services and mobile communication including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, government-to-business, government-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer e-services relevant to the interest of professionals, academic educators, researchers, industry consultants in the field. The journal invites contributions that are both empirical and conceptual, and is open to all types of research methodologies both from academia and industry.

COVERAGE OF IJESMA:

Among topics to be included (but not limited) are the following:

· conceptual foundations and theoretical frameworks of e-services
· differences between services and e-services

· transition from industrial to service and e-service economy

· e-services and entrepreneurship

· e-services and knowledge management

· e-services and innovation

· adoption and diffusion of e-services

· e-services and business models
· e-services and competences
· e-services and human resource management
· e-services and strategies

· e-government

· e-libraries

· web-based portals offering different kind of services;

· e-banking

· e-health

· e-retailing

· e-learning

· e-services in virtual worlds

· e-services in the building industry

· IT enabled self-services

· e-services in the financial industry
· telemedicine

· mobile services

· mobile applications

· business models for mobile services
· e-services and SMEs

· internet-based companies providing e-services

· any other issue related to e-services, self service and mobile applications

SUBMITTING TO IJESMA*:*

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines.html http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines.html. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to [ada@ruc.dk)*]* by ****** NO LATER THAN April 10, 2008*.* ******

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA) is published by IGI Global publisher of the “IGI Publishing,” “Information Science Publishing,” “IRM Press,” “CyberTech Publishing”, “Idea Group Reference”, and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

*Ada** Scupola*

Editor-in-Chief**

The International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications

E-mail: ada@ruc.dk

www.igi-global.com/ijesma

Registration and Call for Posters - now available!

Thinking Qualitatively 2008 ­ June 23-27, 2008

The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology is pleased to
announce that online registration & submission of poster abstracts for
the 8th Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Series (June 23-27, 2008 at
the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) is now available.

Thinking Qualitatively 2008 includes a conference keynote address by
Dr. Lynne McKechnie (University of Western Ontario), opportunities for
networking with colleagues from around the world, and an interactive
poster session for participants to receive feedback on
works-in-progress. The complete schedule of workshops, including a
call for poster presentations, is available on our website at
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/thinking.cfm

This interdisciplinary educational series allows participants to
engage with experts in qualitative inquiry and learn about specific
methods, techniques and approaches to qualitative research. The
academic program consists of five days of hands-on workshops on such
topics as qualitative coding and categorization, participatory action
research, discourse analysis, literature reviews, arts-based methods,
poststructuralism in qualitative research, and much more! On Saturday
June 28, TQ2008 participants may also register for a separate NVivo
Software training session.

This week-long event is aimed at participants from all academic
disciplines and for individuals at all stages of their research
career. Individuals conducting research in universities and colleges
and/or professional settings (e.g., libraries; hospitals; government
agencies) are welcome to attend. Some workshops are introductory
sessions, while others will appeal to more experienced researchers. I
hope to see you there!