FW: [bulle-i3] QUATIC'2010 conference Call for Papers

 

QUATIC’2010 CALL FOR PAPERS (http://www.fe.up.pt/quatic2010)

The International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC) serves as a forum for disseminating advanced methods, techniques and tools for supporting quality approaches to ICT engineering and management. Practitioners and researchers are encouraged to exchange ideas and approaches on how to adopt a quality culture in ICT process and product improvement and to provide practical studies in varying contexts.

 

As in the previous edition, papers accepted at this conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (Los Alamitos, California, USA). QUATIC proceedings will be indexed by the IEEE Digital Library, ISI Web of Science, SCOPUS, ACM Portal, DBLP and DOI System. During the closing session of QUATIC’2010, awards will be given to the best papers presented during the meeting. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to be published in a special edition of the ASQ Software Quality Professional Journal.

 

We invite you to submit a paper to this conference and join us at Porto, a UNESCO World Heritage center and home of the famous Port Wine. The conference is organized on a series of tracks, each one around a specific topic. Please follow the links below to get additional information.

 

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

·          Quality in ICT Verification and Validation

·          Quality in ICT Service Management

·          ICT Process Improvement and Assessment

·          Quality Evolution in ICT

·          Standardization and Certification in ICT

·          Quality in ICT Outsourcing and Insourcing

·          Quality in Requirements Engineering

·          Quality in Model Driven Engineering

·          Quality in ICT Reengineering and Refactoring

·          Quality in Agile Methods

·          Quality in Web Engineering

·          Teaching ICT Quality

 

To foster the dissemination of best practices in industry, to allow a lively discussion of hot topics, to have hands-on contact with new tools, to gather around informal discussion groups (aka birds-of-a-feather) on subjects suggested by the conference participants themselves and also to allow conference sponsors to spread their message, we will have a dedicated Industrial Track, that will run in parallel with the Main Track.

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submissions:      11 April 2010

Authors’ notification:  5 May 2010

Camera-ready:          6 June 2010

 

Note: Although the submission of the abstract is not mandatory, authors will be able to get some preliminary feedback from the PC committee if their proposed contents fall outside the scope of the conference thematic tracks.

 

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Organizing Chair - João Pascoal Faria (FEUP)

Organizing Co-Chair - Ana Paiva (FEUP)

Program Chair - Fernando Brito e Abreu (FCT/UNL)

Program Co-Chair - Miguel Goulão (FCT/UNL)

Industrial Chair - Jorge S. Coelho (SisConsult)

Publications Chair - Ricardo J. Machado (Univ. Minho)

Sponsors Chair - Raul Moreira Vidal (FEUP)

Image & Marketing Chair - João Sabbo (CS03)

Web Chair - Rafael Pires (FEUP)

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Antonia Albani (Delft Univ.)	Luis Olsina (UNLPam)
Ambrosio Toval (Univ. of Murcia)	Manuel Clavel (IMDEA Software Institute)
Ademar Aguiar (FEUP)	Mário Silva (FCUL)
Alain April (Univ. du Québec)	Mark Paulk (SEI/CMU)
Alberto Silva (INESC)	Maurizio Morisio (Politec. di Torino)
Alessandro Garcia (PUC-Rio)	Mel Ó Cinnéide (Univ. College Dublin)
Ana Moreira (FCT/UNL)	Michel Wermelinger (The Open Univ.)
André Vasconcelos (INESC INOV)	Miguel Mira da Silva (IST/UTL)
Antonia Bertolino (CNR/ISTI)	Miguel Pessoa Monteiro (FCT/UNL)
Barbara Paech (Univ. Heidelberg)	Neil McBride (De Montfort Univ.)
Claudia Werner (U.F. Rio de Janeiro)	Nelly C. Fernández (Univ.Polit. Valência)
Coral Calero (U. Castilla-La Mancha)	P. Rupino da Cunha (Univ. Coimbra)
Cristina Cachero (Univ. Alicante)	Panagiotis Sfetsos (ATEI Thessaloniki)
François Coallier (ISO/IEC SC7)	Parastoo Mohagheghi (SINTEF ICT)
George Wilkie (Univ. Ulster)	Pedro Guerreiro (Univ. Algarve)
Houari Sahraoui (Univ. Montréal)	Pedro Sousa (Link)
João Araújo (FCT/UNL)	Richard Goodwin (IBM T. J. Watson)
João Miguel Fernandes (Univ. Minho)	Sasikumar Punnekkat (Univ. Mälardalen)
Jorge Audy (PUCRS)	Stephen B. Seidman (Texas State University)
Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University)	Sue Carroll (SAS)
Karol Früehauf (INFOGEM)	Taz Daughtrey (James Madison Univ.)
Kival Chaves Weber (SOFTEX / PBQP)	Tor Stålhane (NTNU)
Knut Blind (TU Berlin / Erasmus University)	Vasco Amaral (FCT/UNL)

 

Special Issue Call For Papers: E-government interoperability, enterprise architecture and strategies

Special Issue on E-government interoperability, enterprise architecture and strategies
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Guest editors; Marijn Janssen, Yannis Charalabidis, George Kuk and Tony Cresswell

In the digital era public organizations are changing their strategies and structures and processes to fully benefit from the promises of ICT. Departments and institutions collaborate and interoperate across organizational boundaries. Whilst e-government was initially driven by adopting e-commerce ideas. in the last decade, it has emerged as a new genre of research. Similar to e-commerce, e-government requires multi-agency collaboration and integration of their disparate business processes and information systems. The unique characteristics of e-government including accountability, transparency and equal access have played a major role and produced a different kind of e-commerce in meeting the broader expectations of society.
A key prerequisite for collaboration is interoperability, which can be defined as the ability of systems to work together seamlessly and are able to adapt in time, achieving one-stop, automated service provision for citizens and businesses. Therefore, the design and operation of interoperable systems require a range of consideration including governance, organizational, strategic, social and technical issues. Interoperability not only presents organizations with technical challenge but also requires a shift in strategies and change in organizational structures and business models. Traditional bureaucratic organizations governed by command and control mechanisms are replaced by different kind of organizational structures, aiming to build horizontal relationships and network governance.
All these efforts need to be facilitated by a next generation infrastructure (NGI) enabling interoperability and reuse by sharing services. The basic digital government infrastructure has evolved over time.The development towards the next generation of digital government infrastructure (NGI) based on new technologies is under development. Yet, the siloed and fragmented nature, the lack in insight among the dependencies among organizational and technical aspects can hamper progress. Government enterprise architectures (GEA) or information’s architectures are used as an instrument to facilitate these developments by outlining the vision, providing models for technology inclusion and integration supported by standards and principles. Whereas infrastructure refers to the actual implementation, GEA has a conceptual nature. Often there is no overarching framework helping to provide guidance for ensuring interoperability, facilitating reuse and meeting other objectives of open, inclusive and productive governance. Interoperability, architecture and strategies are important to all types of government activities, including policy making, services delivery, law enforc ement, and crisis response within the pubic sector.
This special issue is aimed at contributing to the understanding formulation and elaboration of the issues involved in e-government interoperability, enterprise architectures, and solutions and strategies for governments, based on a combination of sound theoretical basis and empirical research.

Papers preferably combine theory and empirical research. The special issue seeks scholarly manuscripts that explore the following topics in relation to e-government interoperability, architecture and strategies:
Example and (best) practices of changing strategies and business models underpinned by theories
Architecture for facilitating strategies and technologies
Public-private architectures frameworks, collaboration in networks
Government 2.0
Government-to-citizens, government-to-business, government-to-government
Innovations, process redesign and technologies
Enterprise architecture standards, prin ciples and frameworks
Free and open source software development and utilization
Service-oriented architectures, web services, semantic web services, service orchestration and composition
System, data- and process-based integration and transformation
Identity management, privacy, security, public values
Information reuse, information quality, ontologies and semantics
Process, data and semantic modeling
Next generation infrastructure, grid computing, cloud computing, ICT-(shared) services, and scalability issues
Public values, evaluation of innovations
Software as service, utility computing, platform as service, service providers
Infrastructure, interoperability and enterprise architecture planning, and alignment
Evolution, impact analyses and cost/benefit analysis
Policies, strategies and governance

About JTAER
The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER) has been created to allow researchers, acade micians and other professionals an agile and flexible channel of communication in which to share and debate new ideas and emerging technologies concerned with this rapidly evolving field. The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research is published quarterly. The intended audience includes academicians, researchers and professionals in computer science, information management, telecommunications, business administration, sociology, law, financial services, as well as specialists in the field of electronic commerce. More info: http://www.jtaer.com/

IMPORTANT DATES
-Full Script Submission: 30 July 2010
-Author Notification: 30 September 2010
-Revisions due by: 15 November 2010
-Final acceptance notification 15 December 2010
-Camera ready version: 15 January 2011
-Publication: 15 April 2011

SUBMISSION
We are soliciting for original works capturing aspect of business and information technology, both theoretical and appli ed. Manuscript capturing the e-government specific aspects and the edge of new technology and organizations are preferred. Author guidelines can be found at: http://www.jtaer.com/author_guidelines.doc. All submission will be refereed by at least three reviewers. Submissions should be directed by email to m.f.w.h.a.janssen@tudelft.nl.

GUEST EDITORS
Dr. Marijn Janssen
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management
Email: M.F.W.H.A.Janssen@tudelft.nl

Dr. Yannis Charalabidis
Information Systems Laboratory
University of the Aegean
Email: yannisx@aegean.gr

Dr. George Kuk
Nottingham University Business School
E-mail: g.kuk@nottingham.ac.uk

Dr. Tony Cresswell
Center for Technology in Government (CTG)
University at Albany
E-Mail: tcresswell@ctg.albany.edu

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CFP: DocEng2010 - 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

DocEng2010 - 10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Manchester, UK, September 21-24, 2010

http://www.primaresearch.org/doceng2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering provides an annual international
forum for presentations and discussions on principles, tools and processes
that improve our ability to create, manage and maintain documents. Proceedings
are available through the ACM Digital Library.

TOPICS & TECHNOLOGIES

� Document representations - standards (ODF, PDF), models, type representation,
metadata (MPEG-7, RDF), style sheets (CSS, XSL), markup languages (SGML, XML),
multimedia (MPEG-4, SMIL, MHEG, NCL), multilingual representations, temporal
aspects
� Document manipulation -
document transformation (XSLT, XQuery), adaptive
documents, document presentation (typography, formatting, layout)
� Document systems - workflow, cooperation, web services, social networking,
engineering life cycle
� Document system components - security, APIs (SAX, DOM), synchronization,
system performance
� Document collections - databases: storage, indexing, retrieval, content
management systems, e-books
� Document linking - techniques (e.g. XLink, Xpointer), blogs, wikis,
integration with other digital artefacts
� Document generation - authoring tools and systems, variable data printing,
automatically generated documents
� Document analysis - structure, layout and content analysis, categorization,
classification, character recognition

IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers & working sessions
Abstracts due April 2, 2010
Papers due April 16, 2010
Acceptance notice by May 14, 2010
Short papers, posters & demos
Abstracts due May 21, 2010
Papers due May 28, 2010
Acceptance notice by June 18, 2010
All papers
Revised versions due July 2, 2010

ORGANISERS

General Chair
Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Salford, UK

Program Chairs
Michael Gormish, Ricoh Innovations, USA
Rolf Ingold, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Local Arrangements Chair
Stefan Pletschacher, University of Salford, UK

Technical Organisation
Christos Papadopoulos, University of Salford, UK

CONTACT

doceng2010@primaresearch.org

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REQUEST FROM MIKE GORMISH (JOINT PROGRAM CHAIR)

More importantly, though, please think about individuals and send them a note. Here's a quick one feel free to copy:

Dear NAME,

I wanted to let you know that I think you're doing quality research in a great area. I serve on the Document Engineering Committee Program Committee and I think your work is perfect for this conference. Of course, I can't promise it would be accepted, but I can promise that you will receive thoughtful reviews. One of the things I like about DocEng is the variety of papers presented. I hope you'll consider submitting a paper and joining me at what I'm sure will be another great conference.

Please visit http://www.cse.salford.ac.uk/prima/doceng2010/submissionTypes.php for submission instructions.
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The 2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and,Software Engineering (CiSE2010)

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Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory (DIAL)
Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), Engineering Department
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FW: APMS 2010 - 11-13 Oct 2010 - Italy - 2nd Announcement, Special Sessions and Keynotes

Second Announcement and Call for Papers

 

The recent financial global crisis has accelerated the need for a sustainable economic growth where smarter and greener economy could create prosperity and new job from innovation and from using the natural resources better than before. In this global context, besides the role of the policy makers, companies cannot postpone anymore the implementation of strategies to deal with an increasing competition in a sustainable, green and environmental-conscious and social-oriented market: strict regulations, consumers demand for greener products, reduction of the carbon footprint, optimization of the usage of natural resources, more societal attention and many other trends are increasing the challenges to compete in a real global market. Companies are therefore called to become more efficient, increase their productivity, use less resources and non-renewable energy in an environment with high energy prices, carbon constraints and greater resource competition.

These challenges require a deep rethinking of the role of Manufacturing with the need for new approaches to Product, Service and Production Management: from a cost-cutting to a multi-disciplinary knowledge-based eco-factory model. With this goal in mind, APMS2010 calls for new, innovative and original scientific contributions which address practical and industrial-oriented solutions where the above context is addressed.

 

 

APMS 2010 at a glance

Since several decades, APMS is one of the major events and the official conference of the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems.

APMS 2010 will take place in Cernobbio (Como Lake, Italy), 11-13 October 2010.

Some numbers about APMS2010:

·         1 Doctoral Workshop (9-10 October 2010),

·         11 Special Sessions have been proposed

·         2 important keynote speakers have already confirmed their presentation:

ü  Mr. Salvatore Paparelli, AV Sales & Operations Director, Sony Italy - The Sony’s Way to Sustainability: Product, Process, Planet: The Impact on Manufacturing, Operations, Products and Waste

ü  Massimo Mattucci, COO Comau - Enviromental, Economical and Social Sustainability: Comau’s Business Evolution in Production Systems and Services

 

Conference topics

APMS 2010 will be dedicated to Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing, Products and Services. Papers will be blind peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the series called "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology" (IFIP AICT). Selected papers will be considered for development into journal papers for a special issue in Production Planning & Control.

 

According to this main theme, APMS 2010 calls for contributions in the following topics:

·         Sustainable Manufacturing and Operations

o   Industrial Engineering

o   Concurrent and Collaborative Engineering

o   Digital Production and Manufacturing

o   Technology and Innovation Management

o   Production Technology, Systems and Management

o   Sustainable Factory Planning and Scheduling

o   Advanced Manufacturing

o   Lean Production

o   Maintenance and Reliability

o   Global and International Production Networks

o   Green Supply Chain Management

o   Green Manufacturing

o   Production Quality and Standards

o   Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing

o   Resource Efficiency and Sustainability

o   Zero Waste production

o   End-of-Life Management

o   Reuse, Remanufacture, Disassembly and Recycling Approaches and Techniques

o   Reverse Logistics and Product Recovery

o   ICT for Manufacturing and Logistics

·         Sustainable Product

o   Multidisciplinary Product Development

o   Hybrid Products

o   Innovation Clusters

o   Virtual Engineering

o   Social LCA, Methods and Tools

o   Quantitative Sustainability Assessment

o   Sustainable Business Models

o   Eco-design and Eco-innovation

o   End-of-Life strategies

o   Design for Local and Global Consumers

o   Smart Design for Sustainability

o   Closed-loop Design and Closed-loop Economy

o   Design Management

·         Sustainable Services

o   Service Engineering

o   Service Management

o   Integrated Product Service Policy

o   Business Models for Services

o   Service Strategy

o   Service and Product Service Systems Engineering

o   Service Innovation

o   Design for Service

o   Service Operations Management

o   Service Chain

o   Product Service Systems in the Business-to-Business Industry or in the Business-to-Consumer Industry

o   Impact of ICT on Service Design, Service Processes and Management

o   Product Service System Simulation

o   Knowledge Management for Service

o   Service Lifecycle Management

o   After-Sales Services

o   Public Sector

o   Professional Services

o   Healthcare Service

·         Strategy for Sustainability

·         KPI for Sustainability

 

Special Sessions

The following Special Sessions have been proposed and accepted.

1.    Collaborative Innovation

2.    Transformations to Servitized Organizational Forms

3.    Sustainable Initiatives in Developing Countries

4.    Product Service System Engineering - Theoretical and Empirical Evidences

5.    Manufacturing and Plant Convergence Technology for Sustainable Manufacturing

6.    Managing Operations in Servitised Organizations

7.    Risk Management as a Powerful Means for Sustainability

8.    Innovation Strategies for Service Industries - Implementing a Service Dominant Logic

9.    New Product Introduction and Innovation in the 21st century - Methods, Tools and Techniques for new value proposition

10.  Intelligent Non-Hierarchical Manufacturing Networks

11.  Supply Risk Management - Theory, Models, and Experiences

 

For further information about Special Sessions, please visit this page: http://www.apms-conference.org/specialsessions.php. It is still possible to propose Special Sessions and project meetings.

 

 

Important dates

·         15 April 2010 Submission of Extended Abstract (min. 2.000 words)

·         15 May 2010 Notification of acceptance

·         1 July 2010 Final paper and registration fee due

·         9-10 October 2010 Doctoral Workshop

·         11-12-13 October 2010 APMS 2010 Conference

 

 

International Committees

APMS 2010 is co-organized by Politecnico di Milano, University of Bergamo and University of Florence.

 

Local Organising Committee

·         Marco Garetti, Politecnico di Milano

·         Marco Taisch, Politecnico di Milano

·         Alberto Portioli, Politecnico di Milano

·         Marco Macchi, Politecnico di Milano

·         Sergio Cavalieri, University of Bergamo

·         Mario Tucci, University of Florence

·         Sergio Terzi, University of Bergamo

·         Giuditta Pezzotta, University of Bergamo

·         Roberto Pinto, University of Bergamo

·         Bartolomeo Cammarino, Politecnico di Milano

·         Alessandro Cannata, Politecnico di Milano

·         Endris Temam Kerga, Politecnico di Milano

·         Francesca Pozzi, Politecnico di Milano

·         Paolo Rosa, Politecnico di Milano

·         Gali Prasad, Politecnico di Milano

 

International Programme Committee

·         Dimitris Kiritsis, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

·         Asbjorn Rolstadas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

·         Riitta Smeds, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)

·         Volker Stich, FIR - Aachen (Germany)

·         Shigeki Umeda, Musashi University (Japan)

 

International Scientific Committee

·         Bjørn Andersen, Sintef (Norway)

·         Abdelaziz Bouras, Université de Lyon (France)

·         Stephen J Childe, University of Exeter (UK)

·         Byoung K. Choi, KAIST (Korea)

·         Peter Falster, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)

·         Jan Frick Stavanger, University (Norway)

·         Robert W. Grubbstrom, Linköping Institute of Technology (Sweden)

·         Hibino Hironori, Technology Research Institute of JSPMI (Japan)

·         Hans-Henrik Hvolby, Aalborg University (Denmark)

·         Tomasz Koch Wroclaw, University of Technology (Poland)

·         Vidosav D. Majstorovich, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

·         Kai Mertins, Fraunhofer IPK (Germany)

·         Jan Olhager, Linköpings Universitet (Sweden)

·         Ioannis A. Pappas, National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

·         Deng Shengchun, Harbin Institute of Technology (China)

·         Riitta Smeds, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)

·         Kathryn E. Stecke, University of Texas (USA)

·         Jan Ola Strandhagen, Sintef (Norway)

·         Mile Terziovski, University of Melbourne (Australia)

·         Klaus-D. Thoben, University of Bremen (Germany)

·         Jacques H. Trienekens, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)

·         David O' Sullivan, National University of Ireland (Ireland)

 

 

Contacts

More details about the program, the registration, the venue and the accommodation are available at the conference web site www.apms-conference.org.

For any information, please contact info@apms-conference.org

 

For any comments, requests and proposals, please contact Prof. Marco Taisch, Conference Co-chair, marco.taisch@polimi.it, Tel: +39 02 2399 4815, Fax: +39 02 2399.3978

 

 

 

Prof. Marco Taisch

Politecnico di Milano

Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering

P.za L. da Vinci, 32 - 20133, Milano, Italy

ph: +39 02 2399.4815

secr.: +39 02 2399.2731

fax: +39 02 2399.3978

mob: +39 320 8393662

email: marco.taisch/at/polimi.it

skype: taisch.marco

 

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