Zadar, Croatia, 24 - 28 May 2010
University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/)
Full information at: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/ Email: lida@ffos.hr
The annual international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Each year a different and 'hot' theme is addressed, divided in two parts; the first part covering research and development and the second part addressing advances in applications and practice. LIDA brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being held in memorable locations.
Themes LIDA 2010
Part I: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP: support by digital libraries
Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following topics:
Part II: DIGITAL NATIVES: challenges & innovations in reaching out to digital born generations
Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following topics:
Types of contributions
Invited are the following types of contributions:
Instructions for submissions are at LIDA site http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
Deadlines:
For papers (an extended abstract) and workshops (a short proposal): 15 January 2010. Acceptance by 10 February 2010.
For demonstrations (a proposal) and posters (an extended abstract): 1 February 2010. Acceptance by 15 February 2010.
Final submission for all accepted papers and posters: 15 March 2010.
Conference contact information
Conference co-directors:
TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Department of Library and Information Science
University of Zadar; Zadar, Croatia; taparac@unizd.hr
TEFKO SARACEVIC, School of Communication and Information; Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA tefkos@rutgers.edu
Program chairs:
For Theme I: VITTORE CASAROSA, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerch;, Pisa, Italy, casarosa@isti.cnr.it
For Theme II: GARY MARCHIONINI, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, march@ils.unc.edu
Venue
Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast, rich in history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century AD. In addition, Zadar region encompasses many natural beauties, most prominent among them is the Kornati National Park, the most unusual and indented set of close to a 100 small islands in the Mediterranean For Zadar see http://www.zadar.hr/English/Default.aspx. For Croatia see http://www.croatia.hr/
First Call for Papers
(Accepting paper submissions from Nov. 1, 2009)
The Third IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010)
July 5-10, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA
http://thecloudcomputing.org/2010
(Download a full-page color poster (in November 2009 and December 2009 Issues of the Communications of ACM and IEEE Computer) for the largest Services Computing event in 2010!)
http://thecloudcomputing.org/2010/ServicesComputing-ACM.pdf
http://thecloudcomputing.org/2010/ServicesComputing-Computer.pdf
Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (IEEE Computer Society), the Third IEEE 2010 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010) will be co-located with the 6th IEEE 2010 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010), the 8th IEEE 2010 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2010), and the 7th IEEE 2010 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010) to grow itself to continute to be the most prestigious professional conference dedicated to cloud computing.
"Change we are leading" is the theme of CLOUD 2010. Cloud Computing has become a scalable services consumption and delivery platform in the field of Services Computing. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualizations of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure cloud (e.g. hardware, IT infrastructure management), software cloud (e.g. SaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application cloud (e.g. Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business cloud (e.g. business process as a service).
In the fast growing Services Computing community, we have launched a series of events to promote and grow Cloud Computing in the past years. In 2002, we promoted Business Grid to share business processes and applications. In early 2008, The IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) has adopted Cloud Computing to be included in the taxonomy as a body of knowledge area of Services Computing. In July 2008, the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008) has delivered a keynote panel "Business Cloud: Bridging The Power of SOA and Cloud Computing" and a keynote "Cloud Computing". In September 2008, the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2008) has delivered a keynote "Web Services: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Communication, and Beyond" and a panel "Cloud Computing and IT as a Service: Opportunities and Challenges" to further motivate the community members to define Cloud Computing in various areas.
Based on the technology foundations and industry driving forces, the 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2009) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud Computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Cloud Computing. CLOUD 2009 is the hot-topic conference co-located with the 2009 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009). The two well-established theme conferences, the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009) held in July 2009 in USA and the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2009) held in September 2009 in India, also enjoyed the success of launching CLOUD-I 2009 and CLOUD-II 2009. CLOUD 2009 was jointly sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) and Services Society. As a community, we have accomplished very well around CLOUD 2009's theme "Change We Can Lead" in 2009.
To discuss this emerging enabling technology of the modern services industry, CLOUD 2010 invites you to join the largest academic conference to explores modern services and software sciences in the field of Services Computing, which was formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry.
CLOUD 2010 tries to attract researchers, practitioners, and industry business leaders in all the following areas to help define and shape cloud computing, and its related modernization strategy and directions of the services industry. You are invited to submit research, engineering, and business innovation papers to the following areas:
•Infrastructure Cloud
•Software Cloud
•Application Cloud
•Business Cloud
•Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing
•Vituralization of Hardware Resources
•Virtualization of Software Resources
•Cloud Computing Consulting Methods
•Design Tool for Cloud Computing
•Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing
•Cloud Computing Architecture
•Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries
Paper Submission and Review Process
Please use the submission page (http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2010/submission.html) to find the right tracks and events to submit your papers.
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should NOT be submitted to other conferences or events simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from all conferences without review.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only the accepted and presented papers will be published in the CD-ROM version and online version of the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2010), which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected best papers published in CLOUD 2010 will be invited for potential publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). The CLOUD 2010 Proceedings is expected to be included in EI Compendex and other indexing systems. JWSR is indexed in SCI-E and EI Compendex.
Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found from this web site.
Paper Review Policy
IEEE CLOUD 2010's Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that access providers. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice.
Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Due Date: March 6, 2010 (Accepting paper submissions from Nov. 1, 2009)
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 30, 2010
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 14, 2009
"Pervasive Computing and Communications Design and Deployment: Technologies, Trends, and Applications"
A book edited by Dr. Apostolos Malatras
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=733
Introduction
Pervasive computing environments based on the ubiquitous communications paradigm have attracted significant
research interest and have found increased applicability in commercial settings, attributed to the fact that
they provide seamless, customized, and unobtrusive services to their users. Research on pervasive and
ubiquitous computing has been prolific over the past years, leading to a large number of corresponding
diverse software and hardware infrastructures, networking solutions, methodologies, and frameworks.
There exists, therefore, a necessity for an edited collection of articles in this area, in order to
present the most noteworthy current research contributions and provide pointers to pioneering future
directions.
Objective of the Book
This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings
in the area. The overall objective of this publication is to serve as a reference point for anyone
engaging with pervasive computing and communications from a technological, sociological, or user-oriented
perspective. Since the research stream of pervasive computing has been extremely active and prolific
in terms of results and projects over the last few years, this publication targets at collecting the
aforementioned research output and encompassing and taxonomically organizeing it in a comprehensive book.
The field is quite vast and is dispersed in many disciplines, hence the necessity for a book to collect
and uniformly present all related aspects of pervasive computing and communications
Target Audience
The prospective audience of the proposed publication is mainly professionals, researchers, and students
in informatics and computer science that engage themselves with pervasive computing and communications.
The book will serve primarily as a point of reference handbook to all related technologies, applications
and techniques, as well as an indicator of future and emerging trends to stimulate the interested readers.
Researchers will also benefit from having such a reference book on their field, indicating the main
achievements in the interdisciplinary domain of pervasive computing and the future trends and directions.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Applications and real world case-studies of pervasive computing
* Infrastructures to support the deployment of pervasive computing environments
* Context awareness as an enabler of pervasive environments
* Autonomic technologies and services for adaptive pervasive computing
* Drivers and enablers of the pervasive computing paradigm and its impact
* Advances and technologies in the pervasive wireless communications realm (e.g. UWM, IEEE 802.11n, ZigBee, etc.)
* Interoperable exchange of information in the ubiquitous space of pervasive computing
* Systems, architectures, tools, and middleware approaches to address pervasive
* cC computing implementation
* Software engineering approaches to pervasive computing
* Tools and techniques for testing and evaluating pervasive computing systems
* Usability of pervasive computing technologies
* User adoption of pervasive solutions and approaches
* Evaluation techniques and methods for pervasive applications
* Policy-based and Self- management of pervasive communications
* Privacy and security concerns of pervasive computing solutions
* Future directions and emerging trends in pervasive computing and communications
* Compliance of pervasive and bio-inspired computing paradigms
* Interdisciplinary approaches to pervasive computing
* Ethics of pervasive computing and communications
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 14, 2009, a 2-3 page chapter
proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by December 14, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter
guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 14, 2010. All submitted chapters will
be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers
for this project.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the
"Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference,"
"Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information
regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released
in 2010.
Important Dates
November 14, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline
December 14, 2009: Notification of Acceptance
March 14, 2010: Full Chapter Submission
May 30, 2010: Review Results Returned
July 30, 2010: Final Chapter Submission
August 30, 2010: Final Deadline
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically or by mail to:
Dr. Apostolos Malatras
Department of Informatics
CH-1700 UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND
Tel.: +41263008474
E-mail: apostolos.malatras@unifr.ch
http://diuf.unifr.ch/pai/people/malatras/
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: February 1, 2010
SPECIAL ISSUE ON: Gender and Social Computing
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
Editor-in-Chief: Celia Romm Livermore
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
The primary objective of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) is to lay the foundations of E-Politics as an emerging interdisciplinary area of research and practice, as well as, to offer a venue for publications that focus on theories and empirical research on the manifestations of E-Politics in various contexts and environments. E-Politcs is defined as influence attempts facilitated by or related to electronic media or to the information technology field. As such, it is seen as interdisciplinary, encompassing areas such as information systems, political science, social science (psychology, sociology, and cultural studies), security, ethics, law, management and others.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
eDating
· Impact of culture on eDating practices
· Manner in which technology shapes different eDating environments
· Ways in which IT affects the balance of power between consumers of eDating services
· Ways that technology affects the behavior of eDaters
ePolitics
· Gender differences in IT enabled grass-roots politics
· Gender issues and the politics of cyber security
· Gender issues in eVoting
· Gender issues in IT supported party politics, including in the last US elections
· Gender issues in the politics of eGovernment
IT and Gender at Work
· Behavior of men and women as on-line consumers, service providers, etc.
· Effect of gender on adoption of IT in various professions
· Impact of gender on the IT profession
· impact of IT on changing the work/home balance
· Information technology as an enabler of leadership for women in various professions
· roles that men and women play in virtual teams
Virtual communities and social networking
· Gender relation in virtual worlds
· Gender relations in a social networking environments
· Gender relations in gaming communities
· Gender relations in social networking environments that are supported by technologies other than the Internet (e.g., cell phones, Internet TV)
· Gender relations in virtual communities
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Gender and Social Computing on or before February 1, 2010. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
ABOUT International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP):
The mission of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) is to define and expand the boundaries of e-politics as an emerging area of inter-disciplinary research and practice by assisting in the development of e-politics theories and empirical models. The journal creates a venue for empirical, theoretical, and practical scholarly work on e-politics to be published, leading to sharing of ideas between practitioners and academics in this field. IJEP contributes to the creation of a community of e-politics researchers by serving as a "hub" for related activities, such as organizing seminars and conferences on e-politics and publication of books on e-politics.
This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/ijep
PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference", "Business Science Reference", and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
All submissions should be directed to the attention of:
Celia Romm Livermore (PhD)
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)
E-mail address: ak1667@wayne.edu
www.igi-global.com/IJEP