This is the 1st December 2007 Digest of SIGARCH Messages Addendum (sigarch-dec07a):
* SPEED08 Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability
http://speed2008.eecs.ucf.edu/main.php
Submitted by Jun Wang <jwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
* INTERACT-12 Call for Papers: Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures
http://www.engr.pitt.edu/interact12
Submitted by Jun Yang <junyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* ACM SenSys 2008: Call for Papers: The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
http://sensys.acm.org/2008/
Submitted by Thiemo Voigt <thiemo@xxxxxxx>
* 2008-2009 Athena Lecturer Call for Nominations
https://campus.acm.org/public/acmw/athena_announcement.cfm
Submitted by Susan Landau <susan.landau@xxxxxxx>
* Computer Architecture Letters: New papers published online
http://www.comp-arch-letters.org
Submitted by Kevin Skadron <skadron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* PPABS 08 Call for Papers: Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator-Based Systems (PPABS)
http://www.checs.eng.vt.edu/ppabs08.html
Submitted by Dimitris Nikolopoulos <dsn@xxxxxxxxx>
* HOT CHIPS 20 Call for Papers: HOT CHIPS 20: A Symposium on High-Performance Chips
https://www.softconf.com/starts/hotchips20
Submitted by Allen Baum Baum <ajbaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* IADIS 2008 Call for Papers: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008
http://www.is-conf.org/
Submitted by Carla Sa <carla.sa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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* SPEED08 Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization,
Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability
SPEED2008 CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy,
Evaluation and Dependability
Marriott City Center, Salt Lake City, Feb. 17, 2008
http://speed2008.eecs.ucf.edu/main.php
Held in conjunction with the 14th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer
Architecture (HPCA)
Workshop Organizers:
Peter Varman (Rice University)
Jun Wang (University of Central Florida)
Program Committee:
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Kshitij Doshi (Intel)
Yiming Hu (University of Cincinnati)
Arif Merchant (HP)
Ethan Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Eduardo Pinheiro (Google)
Xiaodong Zhang (Ohio State University)
Web/Publicity Chair:
Pengju Shangn (University of Central Florida)
In today's digital world our focus has shifted from computation to
storage of information. This workshop aims to provide a one-day forum
to bring together systems architecture researchers and practitioners to
explore new ideas for the design, implementation, analysis and
evaluation of modern computer storage and I/O systems. Presentation
of new ideas and work in progress is encouraged. The best papers of
the workshop will be published in an issue of the ACM Operating
Systems Review (pending).
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
? I/O and Storage Virtualization
? High Performance and Parallel I/O
? Energy Efficient Storage and I/O Systems
? Novel Technology Driven I/O and Storage Architectures
? Performance Evaluation and Modeling
? Reliability and Availability
Submission guidelines:
Please submit your paper before the due date for review by the committee. Authors of
accepted papers will present their work in a 20-minute talk each. Proceedings containing
all papers will be provided to all attendees. Please make sure that your paper:
* is in PS or PDF format on LETTER size paper.
* does not exceed 4,000 words and 8 pages.
Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: December 23rd, 2007
Notification of acceptance: January 20th, 2008
Final version deadline: February 1st, 2008
Workshop: February 17, 2008
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* INTERACT-12 Call for Papers: Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and
Computer Architectures
Call for Papers
INTERACT-12: Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures
Held in conjunction with HPCA-13
Salt Lake City, Utah, February
http://www.engr.pitt.edu/interact12
Effective compilers allow more efficient execution of application programs on a given
computer architecture. On the other hand, well-conceived architectural features can
support more effective compiler optimization techniques. Good interaction between
compilers and computer architectures is the key to successful design of highly efficient
and effective computer systems. This workshop is to promote new ideas and present
recent developments in compiler techniques and computer architectures that enhance
each other?s capabilities and performance. Papers are solicited on any aspect of
interaction between compilers and architectures in the design of microprocessors,
multiprocessors, and other parallel computer systems.
Potential topics, not limited to:
* Processor reliability enhancement
* Improved timing analysis and predictability
* Secure, dependable computing
* Managed and unmanaged run-time support
* Dynamic compilation and optimization
* Task synchronization and scheduling
* System virtualization
* Efficient I/O support
* Parallelism enhancement and exploitation
* Memory, cache, and register management
* Multi-core software and compilation
* Code optimization and generation
* Low power architecture and software
* Debugging, verification and validation
* Processor variation interactions with software
* Network on chips
Organizing committee:
General Chair: Bruce Childers (University of Pittsburgh)
Program Chair: Jun Yang (University of Pittsburgh)
Program committee:
Chen-Yong Cher (IBM)
Wei Hsu (University of Minnesota)
Alex Jones (University of Pittsburgh)
Rakesh Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Gyungho Lee (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Hsien-Hsin Lee (Georgia Tech)
Powell Michael (Intel)
Eric Rotenberg (North Carolina State)
Yan Solihin (North Carolina State)
Yuan Xie (Penn State)
Youtao Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
Xiaotong Zhuang (IBM)
Submission guidelines:
The program committee invites authors to submit up to 5000 words, in double column,
10-point or larger, single spacing, up to 10 pages of manuscript, describing original,
unpublished recent results related to the workshop theme. Submission must be in pdf
format and emailed to junyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx The submission should also include the contact
author?s email address on the front page.
Important deadlines:
Paper submission: December 7, 2007
Acceptance notification: January 11, 2008
Final version due by: January 25, 2008
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* ACM SenSys 2008: Call for Papers: The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked
Sensor Systems
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ACM SenSys 2008: Call for Papers
The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
November 5-7, 2008
Raleigh, NC, USA
http://sensys.acm.org/2008/
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The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a
highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results
on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Distributed
systems based on networked sensors and actuators with embedded computation
capabilities enable an instrumentation of the physical world at an
unprecedented scale and density, thus enabling a new generation of monitoring
and control applications. This conference provides an ideal venue to address
the research challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental
limits of these systems. Sensor networks require contributions from many
fields, from wireless communication and networking, embedded systems and
hardware, distributed systems, data management, and applications, so we
welcome cross-disciplinary work.
We particularly encourage papers that extend the scope of the conference
beyond wireless mote-class sensor networks and we seek contributions from a
broad range of sensing-related fields, such as actuator networks, RFID
applications, mobile ad-hoc networks, camera networks, and others. We seek
technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Sensor network architecture and protocols
* Rich sensor systems leveraging RFID, mobile devices (e.g., cell phones),
cameras, robotics, etc.
* Analysis of real-world systems and fundamental limits
* Sensor network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment
* Deployment experience and testbeds
* Experimental methods, including measurement, simulation, and emulation
infrastructure
* Programming methodology
* Operating systems
* Sensor network algorithms such as localization, routing, time
synchronization, clustering, topology control, and coverage control algorithms
* Failure resilience and fault isolation
* Energy management
* Data, information, and signal processing
* Data storage and management
* Distributed actuation and control
* Applications
* Security and privacy
* Integration with back-end systems such as web-based information systems,
process control, and enterprise software
Program Co-Chairs: Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University; Adam Wolisz, TU
Berlin
Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and SIGBED; with support
from NSF.
Important dates:
* Paper Registration and Abstract: April 7, 2008, 5pm US Eastern Time
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2008, 5pm US Eastern Time
* Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 18, 2008
* Camera Ready Paper Copy: August 25, 2008
All deadlines are firm; we will not honor extensions. Papers must be
original, unpublished work not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions
will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format, fitting length and
formatting guidelines as directed on the submission webpage. All submitted
papers will be peer-reviewed. The review process is double-blind and hence,
all submissions must be anonymized. Selected papers of particular merit will
be proposed for publication in the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. For
submission details, see the conference web site.
Demos: Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are
solicited. SenSys is very interested in demonstrations of technology,
platforms, and applications of sensor systems. Abstracts of accepted demos
will be published in the SenSys conference proceedings. Submissions from both
industry and academia are encouraged. For submission details, see the
conference web site. A call for demos with submission dates, etc., will be
posted at a later point.
Posters: Posters showing exciting early work on sensor systems are solicited.
Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical call for
papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on
research for which at least preliminary results are available. For submission
details, see the conference web site. A call for posters with submission
dates, etc., will be posted at a later point.
Workshops: Workshop proposals are highly encouraged in emerging areas related
to sensor networks. A call for workshop proposals will be posted on the SenSys
website.
Organization:
General Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Program Co-Chairs: Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) and Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin)
Poster Co-Chairs: Philippe Bonnet (U. Copenhagen) and Tian He (U Minnesota)
Demo Co-Chairs: Kamin Whitehouse (U Virginia) and Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology)
Local Arrangements Chair: Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University)
Publicity Co-Chairs: Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science),
Liqian Luo (Microsoft Research), and Yoshito Tobe (Tokyo Denki University)
Sponsorship Chair: Matt Welsh (Harvard)
Web Chair: Ying Zhang (PARC)
Registration Chair: Peter Corke (CSIRO ICT Centre)
Finance Chair: Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)
Workshop Chair: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth)
Student Award Chair: Sam Madden (MIT)
Publication Chair: Joe Polastre (Sentilla)
Steering Committee Chair: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth)
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* 2008-2009 Athena Lecturer Call for Nominations
ACM-W announces a call for nominations for the 2008-2009 Athena
Lecturer. The first year of the Athena Lectureship was 2006-2007, and
the inaugural Athena Lecturer was Professor Deborah Estrin of UCLA, who
spoke at MobiCom 2006 in Los Angeles. The 2007-2008 Athena Lecturer was
Professor Karen Sparck Jones, who passed away on April 4, 2007. Sparck
Jones taped her lecture, which was given at the 20th Annual
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval in Amsterdam.
Athena Lectures celebrate women researchers who have made
fundamental contributions to computer science. Each year ACM will honor
a preeminent woman computer scientist as the Athena Lecturer. Speakers
are nominated by SIG officers. The Athena Lecturer will give a one-hour
invited talk at an ACM conference determined by the speaker and the SIG
which nominated her. A video of the talk will appear on the ACM website
and the talk may also appear in the Communications of the ACM. The award
includes travel expenses to the meeting and a $1500 honorarium.
This is a call for nominations for the 2008-09 Athena Lecturer.
* Athena Lecturers must be nominated by a SIG. To nominate a speaker
in the SIGs research areas, an officer of the SIG must fill out the
form. All SIGs are eligible to nominate up to two candidates. Since the
competition is strong, and SIGs may choose to nominate a different
nominee the following year if their nominee is not selected, the Athena
Lecturer Selection Committee strongly recommends that SIGs not inform
their selection that she has been nominated for the Athena Lectureship.
Note: Members of the Athena Lecturer Selection Committee cannot be
nominated to be an Athena Lecture.
* The chosen speaker will give an invited lecture at an
ACM-sponsored meeting determined by the lecturer and the SIG. (It is
expected that the talk will be at one of the conferences run by the
nominating SIG.) ACM will cover travel expenses and honorarium. Two
SIGs may collaborate and nominate a single speaker to speak at two
meetings sponsored by the SIGs; it will be the Athena Lecturer's choice
whether to give two talks. In any case, the SIGs must themselves
provide additional travel funds for the second meeting. In addition,
there is no requirement that the nominee be directly in the field; a SIG
may choose to nominate an outstanding researcher in a related field.
* Deadlines:
Applications due: February 1, 2008.
Announcement of Athena Lecturer: March 15. 2008.
Lecture will occur: Between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009.
* Selection Committee: Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems, chair,
2005-2010; Deborah Estrin, UCLA, 2008-2011; Martha Pollack, University
of Michigan, 2008-2011; Barbara Ryder, Rutgers University, 2005-2008;
Eva Tardos, Cornell University, 2008-2011.
Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom; with her wisdom and sense of
purpose, and her willingness to enter the fray, Athena epitomizes the
strength, determination, and intelligence of the "Athena Lecturers."
See: https://campus.acm.org/public/acmw/athena_announcement.cfm
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Susan Landau phone: 413-259-2018
Distinguished Engineer fax: 413-253-2156
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
MS UBUR02-311
1 Network Drive
Burlington MA 01803-0902
http://research.sun.com/people/slandau
susan.landau@xxxxxxx
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* Computer Architecture Letters: New papers published online
New papers published online by Computer Architecture Letters
Computer Architecture Letters announces our most recent paper,
available now via IEEE Xplore. We continue to seek new
submissions and remain committed to fast and accurate review. Our mean
time to decision remains less than one month, with an acceptance rate of
approximately 24%. For more information on submission, please see
http://www.comp-arch-letters.org
- J. Filch and J. Duato. "Logic-Based Distributed Routing for NoCs." Computer Architecture
Letters, vol. 6, Nov. 2007.
Abstract:
The design of scalable and reliable interconnection
networks for multicore chips (NoCs) introduces new design
constraints like power consumption, area, and ultra low latencies.
Although 2D meshes are usually proposed for NoCs, heterogeneous
cores, manufacturing defects, hard failures, and chip
virtualization may lead to irregular topologies. In this context,
efficient routing becomes a challenge. Although switches can
be easily configured to support most routing algorithms and
topologies by using routing tables, this solution does not scale
in terms of latency and area.
We propose a new circuit that removes the need for using
routing tables. The new mechanism, referred to as Logic-Based
Distributed Routing (LBDR), enables the implementation in
NoCs of many routing algorithms for most of the practical
topologies we might find in the near future in a multicore chip.
>From an initial topology and routing algorithm, a set of three bits
per switch output port is computed. By using a small logic block,
LBDR mimics (demonstrated by evaluation) the behavior of
routing algorithms implemented with routing tables. This result
is achieved both in regular and irregular topologies. Therefore,
LBDR removes the need for using routing tables for distributed
routing, thus enabling flexible, fast and power-efficient routing
in NoCs.
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* PPABS 08 Call for Papers: Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator-Based
Systems (PPABS)
Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator-Based Systems (PPABS)
held in conjunction with PPoPP'08
February 23, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT
Scope
Accelerator-based parallel architectures, including architectures based on
heterogeneous multi-core processors, FPGAs and GPUs, are rapidly becoming
mainstream components in high-end computing systems. While the potential of
accelerators in addressing problems such as memory latency and bandwidth has
long been recognized, accelerators present several challenges to programmers.
Conventional parallel programming models and libraries, parallel algorithms,
and system software need to be restructured and redesigned to exploit the
architectural strengths of accelerators. This full-day workshop aims at
bringing together researchers from academia and industry to discuss the latest
developments in parallel programming models, languages, tools, system software
and application development for accelerator-based architectures. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
Programming models for accelerator-based architectures, including systems using
FPGAs, GPUs, and heterogeneous multi-core architectures such as the Cell BE.
Compiler and runtime support for accelerator-based architectures, including
support for scheduling and memory management.
Operating systems and virtualization for accelerator-based architectures.
Performance evaluation of accelerator-based architectures, in particular with
relation to conventional shared-memory multiprocessors and clusters.
Performance analysis, profiling and debugging tools.
Application studies on accelerator-based systems.
Power and energy-efficiency of accelerator-based systems.
Productivity studies of programming on accelerator-based systems.
Schedule and Submissions
Papers due: December 10, 2007
Author notification: January 4, 2008
Final papers due: TBA
PPABS workshop: February 23, 2008
Submitted manuscripts should be formatted according to PPoPP'08 proceedings
guidelines. The maximal length is 8 pages. Submissions must be in pdf format
and should be emailed to ppabs@xxxxxxxxxx
Organizers
Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos - Virginia Tech
Jose E. Moreira - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Calvin Ribbens - Virginia Tech
Program Committee
David Bader Georgia Tech
Angelos Bilas University of Crete
Wu-chun Feng Virginia Tech
William D. Gropp University of Illinois
Jakub Kurzak University of Tennessee
Samuel Midkiff Purdue University
Frank Mueller North Carolina State University
Vivek Sarkar Rice University
James Sexton IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Bronis de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jeffrey Vetter Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Clint Whaley University of Texas at San Antonio
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* HOT CHIPS 20 Call for Papers: HOT CHIPS 20: A Symposium on High-Performance Chips
CALL FOR PAPERS
HOT CHIPS 20: A Symposium on High-Performance Chips
Stanford University,
Palo Alto, California
August 3-5, 2008
AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE
Deadline for submissions: March 24, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2008
Deadline for final version: July 2, 2008
AREAS OF INTEREST:
* Microprocessors
* Multi-core Chips and Processors
* Systems-on-chip
* Embedded processors
* Mobile Phone Processors
* Digital signal processors
* Reconfigurable chips/processors
* Application-specific processors
* Communication/networking chips
* Wireless LAN/Wireless WAN chips
* Network/security processors
* Graphics/Multimedia/Game processors/ Display technology
* Chipset chips
* Compiler technology
* Novel chips: quantum computing, nano-structures, micro-arrays
* Chips built from FPGAs
* Low-power chips/Dynamic power management
* Advanced semiconductor process technology
* Operating system/chip interaction
* Advanced packaging technology
* Reliability and design for test
* Performance evaluation
AUTHOR INFORMATION AND FORMAT
Presentations at HOT CHIPS are in the form of 30-minute talks in
the form of PowerPoint or .PDF. Presentation slides will be published
in the HOT CHIPS Proceedings. Participants are not required to
submit written papers, but a select group will be invited to submit a
paper for inclusion in a special issue of IEEE Micro.
Submissions must consist of a title, extended abstract (two pages
maximum.), and the presenter's contact information (name,
affiliation, job title, address, phone(s), fax, and email). Please
indicate whether you have submitted, intend to submit, or have
already presented or published a similar or overlapping submission
to another conference or journal. Also indicate if you would like the
submission to be held confidential; we do our best to maintain
confidentiality if requested.
Submissions should be in plain ASCII text, pasted into the message;
do not submit .doc files, .txt files, MIME'd email, any attachments
or other formats. Submissions containing figures may be submitted
in .PDF, but plain ASCII text is strongly preferred.
Submissions are evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis
of performance of the device(s), degree of innovation, use of advanced
technology, potential market significance, and anticipated interest to
the audience. Research and software contributions will be evaluated
with similar criteria.
Deadline for submissions: March 24, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2008
Deadline for final version: July 2, 2008
Please submit your extended abstract in plain ASCII text by March 24, 2008 via:
https://www.softconf.com/starts/hotchips20
Authors will be notified as to acceptance by April 28, 2008.
Send questions relating to the program to the program chairs at:
program2008@xxxxxxxxxxxx
and questions relating to conference operation or organization to the
general chair, Don Draper at:
info2008@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sponsored by the Technical Committee on
Microprocessors and Microcomputers of the IEEE Computer Society
and the Solid State Circuits Society.
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Jan-Willem van de Waerdt NXP
Christos Kozyrakis Stanford
Check the HOT CHIPS 20 web page for updates:
http://www.hotchips.org
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* IADIS 2008 Call for Papers: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008
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IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008
April 9-11, 2008 ? ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
(http://www.is-conf.org/)
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* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Jean-Charles Chebat, HEC Montréal, Canada
Professor Robert D Galliers, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, Bentley College,
USA
* 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 2008)
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.
* 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 ad Diversity Issues in IS Learning and Teaching
* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline extended: 7 January 2008
- Notification to Authors: 1 February 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 22 February 2008
- Late Registration: After 22 February 2008
- Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 9 to 11 April 2008
* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxx 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:
Mobile Learning 2008 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) - 11-13 April 2008
Applied Computing 2008 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) - 10-13 April 2008
e-Society 2008 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 9-12 April 2008
* Registered participants in the Information Systems? conference may attend Mobile Learning,
Applied Computing, and e-Society conferences? sessions free of charge.
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