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SIGDOC Newsletter
December 2005
:: Volume 6, Number 4
Looking Ahead
Conferences: SIGDOC 2006
The 24th International Conference on
Design of Communication
September 21 – 23, 2005; Coventry, UK
http://www.sigdoc.org/2006
IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of IEEE Computer Society.
September 18-22, 2006, Hyatt Regency at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, USA
http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2006
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Services Computing (tab.computer.org/tcsc)
The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006) will
be part of the IEEE Computer Society Congress on Software Technology
and Engineering Practice (CoSTEP), celebrating the 60th Anniversary of
IEEE Computer Society! ICWS 2006 organizing committee invites you to
participate in the fourth year of ICWS in Chicago, USA on 18-22 September
2006.
ICWS has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry
practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state
of the art and practice of Web Services. ICWS also aims to identify emerging
research topics and define the future of Web Services. Over the past
four years, ICWS has grown steadily, attracting over 200 participants
on a regular basis. ICWS 2005 was held on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando,
Florida, USA; ICWS 2004 was held on July 6-9, 2004 in San Diego, California,
USA; ICWS 2003 was held on June 23-26, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
ICWS 2006 will be co-located with the 2006 IEEE International Conference
on Services Computing (SCC 2006), the 30th Annual International Computer
Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006), and the 2006 IEEE
Workshops on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP 2006).
IEEE Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit and IEEE International
Services Computing Contest will also be featured at this joint event.
The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, panels,
and poster sessions in both research and industry tracks. Workshops and
tutorials will run before and throughout the conference.
ICWS 2006 program seeks original, unpublished research papers reporting
substantive new work in various aspects of Web services. Papers must
properly cite related work and clearly indicate their contributions to
the field of Web services. Topics of interest include but not limited
to...
- Mathematical Foundations for Web Services Computing
- Web Services-based
Service Oriented Architecture
- Web Services Modeling
- Web Services Standards and Implementation
Technologies
- Web Services Specifications and Enhancements (e.g., UDDI,
SOAP, WSDL)
- Web Services Discovery
- Web Services Composition and Integration
- Web Services Invocation
- QoS for Web Services (e.g., security, privacy,
reliability, performance, fault tolerance, etc.)
- Web Services Assessment
(i.e., validation & verification)
- Web Services-based Testing Methodologies
- Web Services-based Software
Engineering
- Web Services-based Project Management
- Semantic Web Services
- IT Infrastructure Management for Web Services
- Solution Management
for Web Services
- Multimedia Web Services
- Web Services-based Business Process Management
- Web Services-based
Mobile Computing
- Web Services-based Grid Applications (e.g. OGSA)
- Domain Specific
Web Services Applications and Solutions
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program
committee members. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
in both hardcopy and on-line version published by the IEEE Computer Society.
Extended versions of selected best papers published in the ICWS 2006
will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Web Services
Research (JWSR), the International Journal of Business Process Integration
and Management (IJBPIM), and the International Journal of Grid and Utility
Computing (IJGUC). Both the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in
EI Compendex.
Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style)
pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template.
Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required.
Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission,
panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found
at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2006/. At least one author of
each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present
the paper. One Best Paper award and between one to three Best Student
Paper Awards will be granted at ICWS 2006. The first author of the best
student papers must be full-time student.
If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider
submitting it to ICWS 2006 Industry Track via its dedicated online submission
and review system. Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing
on application or solution descriptions may be recommended to the Industry
Track for further considerations. Submitted papers with novel ideas but
not accepted by the Research Track and Industry Track due to space limitation
may also be recommended to the Work-in-Progress Track.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 16, 2006
Paper Submission Due Date: January 16, 2006
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 24, 2006
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 31, 2006 General Chairs:
Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Ph.D., IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA, zhanglj AT
us.ibm.com
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany, frank.leymann AT informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
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10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics
Cybernetics and Informatics (http://www.iiisci.org/wmsci2006).
Orlando, Florida, USA, from July 16-19, 2006.
The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 4 of JSCI
Journal (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp). 12 issues of the
volumes 1 and 2 of the Journal have been sent to about 200 university
and research libraries, and 6 issues of Volume 3 (2005) will be sent
to a larger number of library. Promotional, free subscriptions, for 2
years, are being considered for the organizations of the Journal's authors.
We are emphasizing the area of Information Systems and Software Documentation
which is related to your specific area.
Also, we would like to invite you to organize an invited session related
to a topic of your research interest. If you are interested in organizing
an invited session, please, fill the respective form provided in the
conference web page, and we will send you a password, so you can include
and modify papers in your invited session.
Organizers of the invited sessions with the best performance will be
co-editors of the proceeding volume where their sessions' papers were
included and of the CD electronic proceedings. They will also be candidate
for invited editors, or co-editors of a possible JSCI Journal issue related
to their invited session papers.
You can find information about the suggested steps to organize an invited
session in the Call for Participation and in the conference web page.
If by any reason you are not able to access the page mentioned above,
please, try the following page: http://www.iiis.org/wmsci2006.
If you need a detailed Call for Participation, don't hesitate in asking
us for it. You can also get it the conference's web site.
If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let me know about
a suitable time for you and I will inform you if it is feasible for us.
Professor Nagib Callaos
WMSCI 2006 General Chair
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Work
(A formatted version of this CFP is here.)
Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin are excited about it and see it as
a moment of new liberation and choice for consumers and workers alike.
Gilles Deleuze saw it as horrifying, even worse than the disciplinary
society Michel Foucault described. It goes by many names: Distributed
capitalism, the control society, the informatics of domination, the support
economy. Whatever its name, the characteristics are the same: control
over organizations is as distributed as ownership is in managerial capitalism;
digital technologies play a vital enabling role; consumption is individuated,
taking the form of the desire for unique identities and unique experiences;
direct relationships between customers and businesses become more important;
and customers look for stable beneficial relationships among consumers
and producers that support these individual experiences. These needs
are supplied not by large, vertically integrated companies but by temporary "federations" of
suppliers for each individual transaction. These federations are endlessly
recombinant. Work is fragmented temporally, geographically, and disciplinarily.
Lifelong employment is replaced by what Zuboff and Maxmin call "lifelong
learning" - what Donna Haraway calls continual deskilling and retraining.
We can see the early signs of distributed work in the service sector, in the
outsourcing of technical support, and in places like eBay and Craig's List.
But we can also see it in the rise of homeschooling, the weakening of unions,
the shift from stable identity politics to unstable subsegments, and the popularity
of automobile customization. We can detect it in the proliferation of time
management methods, the popularity of distance education, the increasing importance
of content management systems, and the early success of Howard Dean's campaign.
We can trace its contours in Brenton Faber's discussion of corporate universities;
Johndan Johnson-Eilola's explorations of dataclouds; and Teresa Harrison and
James Zappen's development of online community spaces and attendant research
methods. What does distributed work mean to us as technical communicators?
How is it changing our field? Should we adapt to it, critique it, or resist
it?
In this special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, we will
discuss distributed work's implications for technical communication theory,
methodology, pedagogy, ethics, and practice. In particular, we will consider
topics such as:
- How is technical communication practice changing, and how will it
change in the future, as it adapts to distributed work? How will it
accommodate, resist, or redirect?
- How do we teach technical communicators who expect to go into the
support economy? What are our political-ethical responsibilities and
our logistical challenges? What changes do we need to make to pedagogical
theory?
- What roles will technology play in an economic climate in which knowledge,
expertise, and intelligence are widely distributed? For instance, how
can software documentation survive when users routinely Google for
answers?
- What theoretical frameworks are useful for theorizing the shift
to distributed work? What case studies can be used to illustrate it
and explore its implications for technical communication?
- What research methods do we need to adapt or develop to apply to
distributed work in technical communication research? What methods
should we abandon?
- Finally, what are the contours of distributed work? What are its
promises and horrors?
Schedule:
- 1-2 page proposal for paper: March 15, 2006
- Full paper (if proposal is accepted): June 30, 2006
- Scheduled publication of issue: Summer 2007
Contact information: Send proposals in .DOC, .RTF, or .HTML to Clay
Spinuzzi.
clay.spinuzzi@mail.utexas.edu
Also, please contact the editor by email if you would like to be considered
a reviewer for this special issue.
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International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
University of the Aegean, Island of Rhodes, Greece, 18-21 July 2006
http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com
The conference will examine the nature of disciplinary and interdisciplinary
practices across the social sciences, as well as the relation of the
social to the natural sciences, applied sciences and the professions.
The focus of papers will range from the finely grained and empirical
(research practices and results exemplifying one or more disciplines),
to wide-ranging multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary practices, to
perspectives on knowledge and method. One of the featured themes of the
2006 conference will be interdisciplinary perspectives on gender.
I would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference
call for papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for consideration
before or after the conference in the fully refereed International Journal
of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, to be launched in 2006. If
you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations
are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and
possible publication in the journal, and give you access to the electronic
version of the journal.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and
short abstract) is 31 January 2006. Proposals are reviewed within four
weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online
call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website - http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com
We look forward to receiving your proposals and hope you will be able
to join us in Rhodes in July 2006.
Yours Sincerely,
Prof. Chrissi Vitsilakis
Dean, Faculty of Humanities
University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
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E-Learn 2006: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government,
Healthcare, & Higher
Education
October 13-17, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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