Call for Paper
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ICT-DM'2014 : International Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management  
Algiers, March 24- 25, 2014

Website: http://www.ict-dm.org
Contact:  ictdm2014@gmail.com

Important Dates 
Paper Submission: September 23, 2013 
Demo Submission: December 23, 2013 
Author Notification: December 01, 2013 
Demo Notification: January 20, 2014 
Camera Ready: December 16, 2013 
Conference Dates: March 24‐25, 2014 
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Scope
ICT-DM'2014 is the inaugural edition for a new conference event on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Disaster Management. The conference aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in the emergency services, emergency planning, disaster management and allied professions, to learn about latest developments, share research, experiences and information about this area. 
Disasters are events that cause dramatic losses of life and property and disrupt the normal functioning of the economy and society on a large scale. Disaster management is multifaceted process for developing strategies to reduce the impact of disasters and provide assistance to affected populations. Disaster management involves information- and communication-intensive activities before, during and after disaster strikes. The revolutionary potential of ICTs lies in their ability to instantly and continuously facilitate rapid communication and flow of information, capital, ideas, people and products. Because of this potential, ICTs have made incredible leaps in their usefulness for many application areas and this makes everyone agrees to consider that they have the potential to revolutionize the disaster management area too. 
The conference will include paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research and practices in technologies and systems for prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. The themes include (but are not limited to) emergency communication, collaboration and coordination, decision enhancement systems, security and privacy, geo-information and space technologies, multi-sensor data collection, information dissemination and early warning and standardization efforts. 
There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in practice-focused research. 
ICT-DM’2014 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning, disaster recovery, etc., to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations. 
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research on using ICTs for detection, prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in applied‐focused research. 

Topics
The conference topics include (but are not limited): 

Communication systems for disaster management
-Infrastructures, technologies and services for distributed crisis management teams and organizations
-Mobile and wireless communication networks
-Hastily formed networks (MANETs, Mesh, VANETs, Sensor, …)
-Opportunistic communications
-Multi-platform and multi-sensor data collection
-Infrastructure protection and security
-Interoperability of heterogeneous systems

Coordination and collaboration technologies and systems for disaster management
-Collaborative information systems architectures, frameworks, technologies
-Collaborative decision-making under stress, time pressure and limited resources
-Service Oriented Architectures for collaboration
-Ontology approaches
-Contextual and situation-based collaboration
-Security and privacy concerns in information sharing
-Cloud computing for disaster management
-Pervasive and mobile computing
-Social media and networks for participation and collaboration
-Modeling and simulation of collaboration

Data/information management and analysis for disaster management
-Querying and filtering on heterogeneous, multi-source streaming disaster data
-Human-system interactive information extraction
-Uncertainty and possibly adversity in data handling and delivery
-Context-awareness information analysis and extraction
-Data mining from multiple information and huge sources
-Mining and making decisions on time-evolving and uncertain data
-Crowd sourcing
-Trust and information credibility in social networks
-Damage and loss assessment
-Post disaster needs assessment

Geo-Information technologies for disaster management
-Geospatial information technology and geo-collaboration
-Situation awareness
-Web mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
-Integration of data: building information models (BIM) and GIS
-Standardization developments (models, icons, symbols)
-Visualization and visual analytics
-Evacuation and rescue geo-planning
-Open source data and space based resources to support disaster management 

Preparation and mitigation for managing disasters
-Prediction and early warning
-Remote sensing
-Risk assessment, modeling and simulation tools for crisis situations
-Healthcare crisis information systems
-Multimedia-based communication skills for citizens and civil servants
-E-government and population education

Practices for risk reduction and rapid response in developing countries
-ICT in emergency planning and civil protection
-Case studies, particular incidents and learned lessons
-Benchmark and case studies in e-governance for disaster management
-Case studies of the use of social media and networks
-Innovative uses of technologies adapted to the readiness status of developing countries

Demos 
ICT-DM’2014 will include demonstration sessions that shall provide a forum to present and discuss: demonstrations of new products, applications and techniques, practical implementations; industrial and commercial developments, research testbeds and implementations meeting the topics of the conference. A 2-page extended abstract describing the main contributions of the demo and the merits of the proposed ideas must be submitted. 

Committees
Honorary Chair  Nadjib Badache, CERIST, Algeria

General Chairs  
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat, CERIST, Algeria

Steering committee
Nadjib Badache, CERIST, Algeria
Ladjel Belatreche, ENSMA Poitiers, France
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Omar Nouali, CERIST, Algeria
Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat, CERIST, Algeria
Hassina Aliane, CERIST, Algeria
Local Organizing Committee
Chair 
Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat.

Program committee
Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah,University of Technology of Compiegne (UTC), France
Abdeslem Boukhtouta,Defence Scientist, Canada
Abdessamed Réda Ghomari,LMCS, ESI, Algeria
Ahcène Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algeria
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
Amar Bala,ESI, Algeria
Antoine Bagula, Cape Town University, South Africa
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Azeddine Bilami, University of Batna, Algeria
Beldjilali Bouziane, University of Oran, Algeria
Chafika Benzaid, USTHB University, Algeria
Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse I/IRIT, France
Christopher Brewster, Aston University, UK
Christos A. Papageorgiou, University of Patras, Greece
Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon 1, France
Djamel Bouchaffra, CDTA, Algeria
Djamel Djenouri, CERIST, Algeria
Djamel Eddine Zegour, ESI, Algeria
Djillali Benouar, USTHB, Algeria
Domenico Potena, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Driss Aboutajdine, CNRST, Morocco
Duncan Shaw, Warwick University, UK
Einar Bjørgo, UNOSAT, Switzerland
Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Fadila Bentayeb, University of Lyon 2, France
Fatma Zohra Bessai-Mechmache, CERIST, Algeria
Francesco Archetti, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Ghalem Belalem, University of Oran, Algeria
Habiba Drias, USTHB, Algeria
Hassina Aliane, CERIST, Algeria
Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
Hichem Besbes, University of Carthage, Tunisia
José Ramiro Martínez de Dios, University of Seville, Spain
Juan (Jen) Li, North Dakota State University, USA
Karim Meziane, CERIST, Algeria
Kheddouci Hamamache, University of Lyon 1, France
Mahfoud Benchaiba, USTHB, Algeria
Mahmoud Boufaida, University of Constantine 2, Algeria
Malek Boualem, Orange Labs, France
Malika Boukala-Ioualalen, USTHB University, Algeria
Malika Silhadi-Mehdi, CERIST, Algeria
Marco Zennaro, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
Martina Comes, University of Agder, Norway
Milica Stojmenovic, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Mohamed Ahmed Nacer, USTHB, Algeria
Mohamed Bettaz, MESRS, Algeria
Mohammed Erradi, Mohamed V-Souissi University, Morocco
Mohand Boughanem, IRIT, France
Mohand-Said Hacid, University of Lyon 1, France
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France
Murali Raman, Multimedia University Malaysia, Malaysia
Murray Jennex, San Diego State University, USA
Muthoni Masinde, Central University of Technology, South Africa
Nadjib Badache, CERIST, Algeria
Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat,CERIST,Algeria
Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida, USA
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece
Nomusa Dlodlo,CSIR, South Africa
Nourdine Badji, Risques & Developpement, France
N. Jaisankar, V.I.T. University, India
Omar Al-Kadi, University of Jordan, Jordan
Omar Boussaid, University of Lyon 2, France
Omar Khemici, EQECAT, USA.
Omar Nouali, CERIST, Algeria
Oriol Sallent, UPC, Spain
Raphael Couturier, University of Franche Comte, France
Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France
Samee Ullah Khan, North Dakota State University, USA
Samira Moussaoui, USTHB, Algeria
Sergio Toral Marin, University of Sevilla, Spain
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Sidi Mohamed Benslimane, University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria
Sidi Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden
Sisi Zlatanova, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Soufiene Djahel University College Dublin, Ireland
Stefan Sackmann, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Yamine Ait Ameur, IIRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France
Yao-Nan Lien, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Zaia Alimazighi, USTHB, Algeria
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Zizette Boufaida, University of Constantine 2, Algeria



Detail for the call : http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2169

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning 
Special Issue on: "Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation"
 
Guest Editors: 
Davy Monticolo, University of Lorraine, France
Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 
The advent of the age of digital information has raised the problem of knowledge acquisition, reuse and evaluation. This is today a dynamic research area constantly subject to adaption to new application requirements. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have as yet been agreed upon as knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge-based system.
 
Our ability to analyse, evaluate and assist users in reusing knowledge presents a great challenge for the coming years. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition, reuse and evaluation of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of information.
 
This call is aimed at collecting both theoretical and experimental results concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management process and assessing the suitability of such methods.

Subject Coverage  

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
 
Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge updating and knowledge validation
Semantic web inference methodologies
Semantic knowledge portals
Web-based approaches for knowledge management
Agent-based approaches for knowledge management
Software agents for semantic web
Semantic web-based knowledge management
Tools, languages and techniques for semantic annotation
Semantic searching
Semantic brokering
CSCW and cooperative approaches for knowledge management 2
Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques
Information and knowledge structures
Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modelling
Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation and mediation
Ontology-based approaches for knowledge management
Knowledge delivery methods
Knowledge life cycle
Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques
Knowledge extraction from images/pictures
Intelligent knowledge-based systems
Decision support and expert systems

Notes for Prospective Authors
 
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).
 
All papers are refereed through a peer review process.
 
Abstracts should be submitted by email to the Guest Editors:
Davy Monticolo: davy.monticolo@ensgsi.inpl-nancy.fr
Paolo Ceravolo: paolo.ceravolo@unimi.it
 
All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our information on preparing and submitting articles.
 
Important Dates
 
Abstract submission (by email): 20 May, 2013 
Full papers submission (online): 30 May, 2013
Notification to authors: 30 July, 2013
Final versions due: 15 September, 2013


3d. International Symposium ISKO-Maghreb'2013
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Concepts and Tools for Knowledge Management (KM)    
November 8th. and 9th. , 2013 in ** Marrakech (Morocco) **

www.isko-maghreb.org

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Important Dates :

Papers due (deadline) : September 2nd., 2013
Notification of acceptance: October 2nd., 2013
Final paper & Camera-ready due: October 9th., 2013
Registration for authors (deadline) : October 9th., 2013
Event ISKO-Maghreb’2013 in Marrakech: November 8th. & 9th., 2013
5 Best papers: November 9th., 2013

Description :

The governance of knowledge seems to be the Scientific Policy most able to creating value with regard of human and its evolution in cultures
 and civilizations. The duty of good governance is a consideration of the transfer of knowledge related to scientific and technological 
progress. Intrinsically, this process requires a system of organization and knowledge management by implementing knowledge production and 
its influence in society.

The objective of the ISKO-Maghreb Chapter is to contribute in understanding the factors that organize knowledge and phenomena that affect the
 information society. Actions to be undertaken by the scientific ISKO society must take into account socio-cultural, cognitive and economic 
in the strategic management of knowledge. Towards the knowledge society, it should be seen in its dynamic, its content and its interaction 
with science and technology associated to universities, companies and politics.

In this context, a first orientation is pedagogical attempt to answer the question "what is known about the knowledge and its organization?".
 Then the issue is moving towards the societal issues of knowledge, theory and practice, to provide clarification to a convergence of KM 
(Knowledge Management) approaches. Education, science, culture, communication and technology remain the major themes covered by ISKO-Maghreb,
 for the development of the knowledge organization, expertise management and collective intelligence.

In a friendly atmosphere, hospitality and open to exchange, the international symposium ISKO-Maghreb'2013 was thought to enhance the Scientific
Society "ISKO" with the universities, the practitioners in the Maghreb countries and the world.


Themes :

1- Digital Document
a. Effects of dematerialization: the digital for the knowledge and expertise
b. Communication and media convergence in the knowledge industry

2- Information and Communication Technologies
a. Communication networks and electronic documents
b. e-Business and Business Platforms for Digital Publishing

3- e-Learning and Virtual Libraries
a. Spaces of information for distance teaching and learning platforms
b. Virtual libraries, resource mapping, and multimedia for teaching

4- Informational and technological watch
a. Concepts, processes and actions in the watch and collaborative technology
b. e-Watch, identification of sources and development of resources

5- Collective Intelligence and Media
a. Media and measures of the collective performance in the knowledge economy
b. Management of collective intelligence and knowledge communitarization

6- Digitalization, Archives and Management of Cultural Patrimony
a. Digital storage, archives and knowledge management (KM)
b. Collaborative business and media issues in patrimony management

7- Knowledge representation and Semantic Web
a. Models of knowledge representation
b. From Knowledge to Semantic Web: Approaches, Issues and Perspectives

8- Knowledge Management (KM) in the Internet Challenges
a. Innovation Management Models
b. Competitive Case Studies of KM
c. Management, Business Transfers and perspectives, and Professionals

In the context of Morocco, the conference will feature research on the following new topics:

9- Distance Learning: Strategies, Models and experiences
a. Distance learning and Mobile learning : Strategies and policies
b. Virtual spaces, Learning Network Organization and communities
c. Ontologies and pedagoigical models
d. Semantic social networks for learning
e. Experiences of content development and community discovering in learning systems

10- Multimedia Information Retrieval & Knowledge Management
a. Multimedia Information Retrieval
b. Semi-Structured Information Retrieval
c. Multimedia Classification and Clustering
d. Multimedia Mining and text Mining
e. Multimedia Knowledge Extraction, Synthesis and Visualization

11- e-Entreprise and knowledge management
a. Enterprise Knowledge Management and Representation
b. e-Enterprise knowledge development life cycles
c. Semantic and Strategic Alignment : new challenges for e-entreprise
d. e-Enterprise Architectures, knowledge management, and knowledge driven governance
e. From Enterprise Information Architecture (EiA) to Enterprise Knowledge Architecture (EkA)


Presidents :
· Sahbi SIDHOM (President ISKO-Maghreb, LORIA & Université de Lorraine, France)
· Malek GHENIMA (Vice-president ISKO-Maghreb, ESCT & Université de la Manouba, Tunisia)
· BAÏNA Karim (ENSIAS - Université Mohammed V Souissi Rabat, Morocco)
· ABIK Mounia (IEEE Morocco section & ENSIAS - Université Mohammed V Souissi Rab, Morocco)


Language & Communication in Symposium:
– All papers must be written in English or in French.
– All video presentations (PowerPoint) must be written in English.
– Oral presentations and discussions are permitted in English and/or in French.

Paper submissions:

- Dear authors, we invite you to submit your contributions from the site EasyChair Conference System:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iskomaghreb2013

- If you do not have an account EasyChair, we invite you to start and create one.

Conference Venue:

- Marrakech (Morocco)
(in HOTEL) KENZI FARAH - MARRAKECH 5****
http://www.kenzi-hotels.com/kenzifarah/default-en.html


Best regards,
Presidents of ISKO-Maghreb.
IEEE RCIS 2013
Seventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 
May 29-31 2013, Paris, France
The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) aims at providing an international forum for 
scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of information science areas to exchange ideas and approaches in this evolving field. 
While presenting research findings and state-of-art solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new research challenges. 

High quality papers in all information science areas are solicited. Original papers exploring research challenges will receive especially careful interest 
from reviewers. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publications 
at RCIS 2013. The authors of papers that obtain the highest marks in the reviewing process will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal. 

This year, RCIS will be co-located with the 31st French Conference on Information Systems (INFORSID 2013), 
a prominent French scientific event sharing with RCIS the interest on the field of Information Science.

RCIS 2013 will have a panel of events with papers, posters, demos and doctoral consortium. All calls can be downloaded here.
Proceedings will be published by IEEE (Print Version ISBN #978-1-4577-1938-7) and will be entered on DBLP.

EGC-M 2012: The 3rd International Conference on the Extraction and Management 

of Knowledge - Maghreb

November 12, 2012 – November 15, 2012  Hammamet, Tunisia
http://egcm.uae.ma/index.php/en/ 


Objectives:   EGC-M is an annual leading International Conference on Extraction and Management of Knowledge. The purpose of the 

conference is to bring together researchers and actors from academia, industry, and government to advance the science, engineering, and technology in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). EGC-M was started in 2010. The previous conferences will held in Alger, Algeria (2010) and Tangier, Morocco (2011).
The 3rd EGC-M Conference on the Extraction and Management of Knowledge Discovery (EGC-M 2012) will be held in Tunis, Tunisia. This conference will be organized by the High Institute of Computer Science of Tunis (http://www.isi.rnu.tn/isi/).  The conference will include two workshops, four invited talks, regular papers and PhD sessions. 
Paper submission details:
We invite submission of high-quality papers reporting original research on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining. We especially encourage submissions that promote the advancement of KDD as a scientific and engineering discipline and submissions that bridge between different disciplines. All submitted papers will be judged based on their technical soundness, potential impact, rigor, significance, originality, repeatability, relevance, and clarity. Papers submitted to EGC-M 2012 should be original work, not previously published in a peer-reviewed conference or journal. Substantially similar versions of the paper submitted to EGC-M 2012 should not be under review in another peer-reviewed conference or journal during the EGC-M 2012 reviewing period.
Duplicate submissions are not allowed. Authors are expected to agree to the following terms: "I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are cited prominently in this submission." Duplicate submissions will be rejected immediately without review. 

Author information’s:
Authors are welcome to submit original contributions on the topics of the conference. As a rule, all the contributions will be peer-reviewed by three members of the Program Committee and thereafter by the members of the Steering Committee, who will finally decide on acceptance of the papers. All the accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings book of the conference.
Authors are invited to electronically submit original research contributions or experience reports in English or French. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings.
EGC-M Award:
The EGC-M Prize is awarded each year to recognize high-quality papers that are presented at the EGC-M annual conference. The Best Paper Award is given for the paper judged to make the most significant contribution to the conference. The judges may make their assessment based on the papers contained in the proceedings, and on their oral presentations. However, for a paper to gain this award one of the authors must have attended the conference and presented the paper. In making their decision the judges will take the following criteria into account: 
- Originality of the work.
- Quality of the research and results presented.
- Relevance of the work.
- Quality of the oral presentation.
Authors are encouraged to communicate with the conference chairs about any aspect of this call for papers.
Formatting instructions:
Contributions, written in English or French, must be formatted according to the guidelines of the ACM style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The length of the contribution must be no more than 6 pages double column in the ACM format, including figures, title pages, references and appendices. Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review. Only papers using the LaTeX typesetting system will be accepted.
All submitted papers will be judged through triple-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to make a good-faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Common sense and careful writing will go a long way towards preserving anonymity. Please take the following steps when preparing your submission:
- Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
- Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources.
- Use care in naming your files. Source file names (e.g., "Alice-n-Bob.dvi") are often embedded in the final output as readily accessible comments.
- Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author.
Electronic submission:
The papers, in PDF format, must be submitted only electronically before the submission deadline (See Important dates). The submission site will be open from June 2012. All abstracts, submissions and reviews are handled by the EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/). 

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Data mining algorithms (supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised)
* Data mining foundations and theory
* Dimensionality reduction and feature selection
* Mining dynamic and evolving data
* Graph mining
* Mining semi-structured data
* Mining spatial and temporal data
* Mining stream data
* Mixed-initiative data mining and active learning
* Outlier analysis and anomaly detection
* Parallel and distributed data mining
* Pattern mining and association analysis
* Robust and highly scalable data mining algorithms
* Similarity search in data mining
* Biological and medical data mining
* Software mining
* Data mining in social sciences and social networks
* Mining sensor data
* Web and text mining
* Multimedia and image mining
* Data mining for other novel applications
* Data integration and indexing for data mining
* Data visualization for data mining
* KDD methodology and process
* Platforms and systems for KDD
* Security and privacy issues in data mining

Important dates:
* Abstract registration due     : July 10, 2012
* Submission due                : July 15, 2012
* Author notification		: September 20, 2012
* Camera-ready papers due	: October 5, 2012
* Conference date		: November 12-15, 2012


Conference chairs:
Yahya SLIMANI, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El-Manar (Tunisie)
Ezzeddine ZAGROUBA, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)

Steering Committee:
Yahya Slimani (Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisie), Chair
Mouloud Koudil (Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Oued-Smar, Algérie)
Karima Benatchba (Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Oued-Smar, Algérie)
Abdessamed Reda Ghomari (Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Oued-Smar, Algérie)
Hatem Haddad (Ecole Supérieure de  Sciences et Technologie, Hammam Sousse, Tunisie)
Khedija Arour (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Tunis, Tunisie)
Chiraz Laatiri (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Manouba, Tunisie)
Abderrahmane Sbihi (Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Tanger, Maroc)
Ahmed Moussa (Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Tanger, Maroc)
Hassan Badir (Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Tanger, Maroc)
Ould Abdellahi Ahmedou,  (Faculté des Sciences de Nouakchott, Mauritanie)
Ould Haouba Ahmedou, (Faculté des Sciences de Nouakchott, Mauritanie)
El-Mouadib Faraj (Faculty of Information Technology, University of Garyounis-Benghazi, Lybia)

Local Organization Committee:

Ezzeddine Zagrouba, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie), Chair
Adel Khalfallah, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Naoufel Kraïem, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Olfa Mourali, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Najiba Mrabet-Bellaaj, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Jamil Dimassi, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Rym Kaabi, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Sohbi Bahroun, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Walid Barhoumi, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis (Tunisie)
Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, (Tunisie)
Chiraz Laatiri, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Manouba, (Tunisie)
Khedija Arour, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Tunis, (Tunisie)
Taoufik Yeferni, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, (Tunisie)
Moez Ben Haj Hmida, ISSAT Sousse (Tunisie)

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IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2012

March 10-12, 2012 – Berlin, Germany

(http://www.is-conf.org/)

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* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Prof. Dr. Egon Berghout, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

* Conference background and goals

A new paradigm is sweeping the society, organisations and the business environment.  In fact, society and business world alike are moving from its tangible bases to intangible ones based on knowledge and information systems (IS) to support its management, use and sharing.  In this emerging paradigm, terms like information, communication, knowledge, and learning have acquired a critical relevance to the understanding of the nature of contemporary business.  This led authors such as Drucker (1993) to state that “we are entering the knowledge society in which the basic economic resource… is knowledge”.

In fact, since the mid-1980s, there has been a sudden avalanche of a new kind of vocabulary. Corporations, which so far had been economic entities, are being described as ‘information-based organizations’, ‘learning organizations’, ‘knowledge-creating companies’ or knowledge intensive organisations.  Instead of product-market strategies, the fashionable business discourse invokes core competencies, intangible assets, knowledge-based capabilities, intellectual capital, knowledge management etc.  Consequently, in this 21st century of ours, terms such as intellectual capital, knowledge management, and knowledge mapping have increasingly become part of the corporate landscape. 
However, none of this apparent revolution would be possible without the underlying technological support provided by IS. The IADIS Information Systems Conference (IS 2012) aims to provide a forum for the discussion of IS taking a socio-technological perspective.  It aims to address the issues related to design, development and use of IS in organisations from a socio-technological perspective, as well as to discuss IS professional practice, research and teaching. 

* Format of the Conference

The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in specific journals, and in the IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems. 
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services. 

* Types of submissions

Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* A set of key issues has been identified (see below). However, these do not aim at being prescriptive, or set in stone, and any innovative contributions that do not fit into these areas will also be considered. Areas and Topics of the conference will focus on:

IS in Practice, Technology Infrastructures and Organisational Processes

• Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues

• New  Organisational Forms

• Dilution of Organisational Boundaries

• The centrality of IS and  IT in Organisational Processes

• IS Management

• Information Management

• Knowledge Management

• IS and SMEs

• Innovation and IS

• Innovation and Knowledge Management

• IS and Change Management

• IS and Organisation Development

• Enterprise Application Integration

• Enterprise Resource Planning

• Business Process Change

IS Design, Development and Management Issues and Methodologies

• Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks

• Iterative and Incremental Methodologies

• Agile Methodologies

• IS Design and Development  as a Component-Based Process

• IS Design and Development as Social Negotiation Process

• IS D Design and Development as a Global and Distributed Process

• Outsourcing in IS

• Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities

• IS Project Management

• IS Quality Management and Assurance

• IS Standards and Compliance Issues

• Risk Management in IS

• Risk Management in IS Design and Development

IS Professional Issues

• Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-society

• The role of information in the information society

• Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS

• Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects and Links

• Validity, Usefulness and  Applicability of IS Academic Research

• Industrial Research versus Academic Research Issues

• Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic Laggards

• IS consultancy as a profession

• Organisational IS  Roles

• Communities of practice and Knowledge Sharing

IS Research

• Core Theories, Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS Research

• Ontological Assumptions in IS Research

• IS Research Constraints, Limitations and Opportunities

• IS vs Computer Science Research

• IS vs Business Studies

• Positivist, Interpretivist and Critical Approaches to IS Research

• Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods

• Deductive vs Inductive Approaches

• Multi-method Approaches and Triangulations in IS Research

• Design Research and the Sciences of the Artificial in IS

• Multidisciplinary Views and Multi Methodological Approaches

• New and alternative approaches to IS research

• Examples of experimental research designs in IS

IS Learning and Teaching

• Patterns of Demand for IS Teaching Provision

• Fads, Fashions and Fetishes in IS Curricula

• Pedagogic practice in Teaching IS

• E-Learning in IS

• Instructional Design for IS

• National Cultures and Approaches to Pedagogy

• Multiculturality and Diversity Issues in IS Learning and Teaching 

* Important Dates:

- Submission deadline (2^nd call): 30 December 2011

- Notification to Authors (2^nd call): 30 January 2012

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2^nd call): Until 15 February 2012

- Late Registration (2^nd call): After 15 February 2012

- Conference: Berlin, Germany, 10 to 12 March 2012

* Conference Location

The conference will be held in Berlin, Germany.

* Secretariat

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2012

Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: secretariat@is-conf.org Web site: http://www.is-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference Chair

Professor Philip Powell, Deputy Dean, University of Bath, UK

Program Co-Chairs

Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access

 http://www.is-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events

Please also check the co-located events:

e-Society 2012 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 10-13 March 2012

Mobile Learning 2012 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) - 11-13 March 2012

• Articles centrés-solutions : ces articles présentent des solutions nouvelles ou des améliorations significatives de solutions existantes. Un article de ce type devrait inclure une validation préliminaire de la solution proposée.
• Articles d’évaluation: ces articles évaluent des situations problématiques ou bien les solutions qui ont été proposées au moyen de techniques scientifiques telles que les études empiriques, les expériences, les études de cas, les simulations etc.
•  Articles d’expériences industrielles qui présentent des problèmes ou des challenges rencontrés en pratique, relatent des cas de succès ou d’échec ou sont des rapports d’expérience de pratique industrielle.

Recherche et recommandation collaboratives d’information

Recherche et identification de communautés

Recherche et recommandation d’information dans les plate-formes sociales

Mécanismes de participation

Annotations sociales

Ontologies participatives et évolutives

Hétérogénéité des sources et matching

Métamodèlisation et interopérabilité des modèles

Systèmes d’information orientés communauté

Détection et recherche d’opinion, de tendances