SIGDOC Newsletter
March 2005
:: Volume 6, Number 1
Looking Ahead
Conferences SIGDOC 2005
The 23rd International Conference on
Design of Communication
September 21 – 23, 2005; Coventry, UK
http://www.sigdoc.org/2005
Theme: Documenting & Designing for Pervasive Information
For the first time ever, SIGDOC will be held in Europe: in Coventry,
UK. Coventry, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mercia, with a history
of over 1000 years, is situated in the Midlands of England, with easy
access to cultural and historic sites such as Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick
and Kenilworth Castles, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Symphony Hall. Coventry
is 15 minutes by train from Birmingham International Airport, with direct
flights to the USA and continental Europe.
Pervasive computing delivers information technology into new environments
for new purposes – in everyday products, in implanted and wearable
devices, in global sensor networks, and in micro-machines. Innovation
is needed, both to describe and document these systems, and to understand
and exploit their potential for information gathering and retrieval.
SIGDOC is a multi-disciplinary forum, bringing together communicators,
information designers, computer scientists and others. We now invite
these communities to propose and report the research that will produce
this innovation.
Important Dates:
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Paper Submissions Due: May 27, 2005
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Workshop Proposals Due: June 10, 2005
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Notification to Authors: July 8, 2005
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Camera-Ready Due: August 5, 2005
More information on SIGDOC 2005, from the Program Chair, Bob Newman
SIGDOC 2005 will open up some new horizons for the SIG for two reasons.
The first is that it will be held outside North America for the first
time. The location is the historic city of Coventry, in the heart of ‘Shakespeare
country’ in England. We hope that the location will open up the
conference for the European communications design community, while still
being readily accessible to our established supporters in the USA and
Canada, for whom it offers the opportunity to sample British and European
history and culture for travel costs which are in the same ball park
as internal long distance flights within North America.
The second new horizon is the theme of the conference. Recently, and
quietly, the title of the SIG was subtly changed, so that ‘DOC’ now
stands for ‘Design of Communication’, rather than ‘Documentation’.
This broadening of the remit of the SIG is reflected in the theme of
the conference which is ‘Documenting and Designing for Pervasive
Information’. While there is still a strong emphasis on documentation
systems, we are also very interested in the philosophy and practice of
design. The final part of the theme invites us to look forward to the
rapidly developing technologies that are providing pervasive information
systems, information delivered ‘anywhere’, on mobile systems,
and sourced from ‘everywhere’. Our emphasis is the design
of documentation systems in environments such as these, rather than the
retrieval or mining of information (although these are also interesting
topics in the context of document design). We believe that the theme
encompasses much of the subject coverage that we’ve seen at SIGDOC
in the past, including document design methodologies, single sourcing
in ubiquitous information environment, usability (particularly with respect
to the new presentation media and devices), cultural and organizational
aspects of document design and document authoring and structuring systems,
but it also provides an opportunity and challenge for other communities
to join the SIGDOC forum. We are hoping for contributions from the disciplines
of Computing, Technical Communication, Information and Graphics Design,
Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology and
others to explore the future of design of communication for the world
of pervasive information systems.
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The WMSCI 2005 Organizing Committee invites you to participate in the
9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
(http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005), which will take place in Orlando, Florida,
USA, on July 10-13, 2005. You can get the conference´s Call for
papers at (http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005/website/callforpapers.asp).
The best 10% of the papers will be published in Volume 3 of SCI
Journal.
12 issues of the volumes 1 and 2 of the Journal have been sent to about
200 university and research
libraries. Free subscriptions, for 2 years, are being considered for
the organizations of the Journals´ 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 WMSCI 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 Papers and in the conference web page: http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005.
If by any reasons you are not able to access the page mentioned above,
please,
try the following pages: http://www.iiis.org/sci2005.
If you need a detailed Call for Papers, don't hesitate in asking us for
it.
If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let me know about
a suitable time and I will inform you if it is feasible for us.
Best regards,
Professor Nagib Callaos
SCI 2005 General Chair
The deadline for submitting papers to WMSCI (http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005)
has been extended extended to March 29th. The extended deadlines are
as follows:
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July 12-15, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2005
Theme: Bridge the Gap between Business Services and IT Services Services now account for more than half of the U.S. economy. Services
Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT technology
to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively.
As we can see, Services Computing currently shapes the processes of business
modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and
software architecture design, development and deployment, monitoring
and management.
The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005)
aims to the topics of bridging the gap between Business Services and
IT Services with a new ground breaking technology suite that includes
Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business strategy
and design, business process integration and performance management,
and utility/grid computing. It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Services Computing and will be co-located with
the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005).
The theme of this joint IEEE conference on SERVICES is “Bridge
the Gap between Business Services and IT Services”. Since Web Services
is an IT technology, ICWS 2005 will put its focus on all aspects of IT
infrastructure services. SCC 2005 concentrates on business services,
business solutions, and the bridging technologies such as Business Strategy
and Design, Business Process Integration and Management, SOA, and Grid
and Utility Computing.
SCC 2004 was held in Shanghai, China, September 15-18, 2004. A total
of 330 papers were submitted to SCC 2004. Submissions were from over
30 countries and regions. 37 were accepted as full research papers, 9
were accepted as short papers, and 50 were accepted as special session
papers.
SCC 2005 has the following major research tracks: Foundations of Services
Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Grid/Utility Computing,
and Business Process Management and Business Integration.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Foundations of Services Computing
- Business Strategy and Design
- Services science
- Services Modeling
- Service-oriented business consulting methodology and utilities
- Services delivery
- Servicesvalue chain and innovation lifecycle
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- SOA Solution Stack
- SOA Industry Standards
- SOA Industry Solutions
Business Process Management and Business Integration
- Enterprise Modeling
- Business process modeling, transformation and integration
- Business performance management
- Software architecture design, development and deployment (software
as a
service)
- Application integration services (e.g. Enterprise Service Bus)
- Service Level Automation and Orchestration
- Industry solution patterns
- e-Business Solutions
Grid/Utility Computing
- Grid Computing
- Utility Computing
- Utility Business Services
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS:
One Best Paper award and 1-3 Best Student Paper Awards will be presented
by SCC 2005. The first author of the best student papers should be
full-time students.
General Chairs:
Carl K. Chang (Iowa State University, USA)
Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Program Committee Chairs:
Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Sandeep Purao (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
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