SIGDOC Newsletter
March 2008 :: Volume 9, Number 1
Looking Ahead
Conferences: SIGDOC 2008
26th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
September 22-24, 2008
Lisbon, Portugal
Information now available on its Web site - http://www.sigdoc2008.net/
See http://www.sigdoc2008.net/cfp.htm for Call for Papers.
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The 3rd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication
Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals
http://www.sciiis.org/kcpr2008
http://www.sciiis.org/kcc2008
http://www.sciiis.org/kgcm2008
Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposal: April 9th, 2008
Authors Notification: April 28th, 2008
Camera-ready, full papers: May 15th, 2008
All Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal.
Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors may not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.
Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
Each session to be included in the conference program will have corresponding electronic pre-conference and post-conference sessions for 15 days each. In the electronic pre-conference sessions authors will have access to the papers to be presented at their session and to an associated electronic forum, so they can be better prepared for their conference face-to-face session. Similarly, electronic post-conference sessions will complement and support a follow-up of the respective conference sessions, via an electronic forum and the possibility of evaluating papers presented at the associated session. These evaluations will also support the selection process for the papers to be published in JSCI journal.
The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, 1) a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems" and 2) a second 4-DVDs/1-CD package 6-hours tutorial titled "Cybernetic Management". The market price of each of these packages is US $295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at KCC 2008, KCPR 2008 and/or KGCM 2008 web page.
Effective Invited sessions organizers will be co-editors of printed version of the proceedings volume where their session or symposia paper were included, and the CD version of the proceedings.
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Call for Papers: JBTC Special Issue on Social Software in Professional Communication
http://locus.cwrl.utexas.edu/spinuzzi/?q=node/243
Schedule
Submissions (full manuscripts): May 1, 2008
Accepted manuscripts revised for publication: September 1, 2008
Scheduled publication of issue: July 2009
Contact information
Send proposals in .DOC, .RTF, or .HTML to Clay Spinuzzi (clay.spinuzzi@mail.utexas.edu).
Also, please contact Clay if you would like to be considered a reviewer for this special issue.
Dr. Clay Spinuzzi
Associate Professor
Director, Computer Writing and Research Lab
Department of Rhetoric and Writing
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station B5500
Austin, TX 78712-1122
http://locus.cwrl.utexas.edu/spinuzzi
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Special Opportunities for Students from ACM
There has never been a better time to join ACM! All contestants in the ICPC Regionals will receive a one year electronic student membership at no cost. At no cost, all World Finalists will receive a one-year student membership including annual subscriptions to the ACM Portal, the Online Guide to Computing Literature, the Online Computing Reviews Service, Crossroads, electronic Communications of the ACM, plus many other services, discounts, and benefits.
For information on starting a student chapter, contact Lauren Ryan at chapters@acm.org. Lauren will send you an electronic ACM Student Chapter Kit and can tune you in to opportunities for your students to increase their professional contacts and personal growth. There are special kits for Student SIGCHI, Student SIGGRAPH, or ACM-W(omen) Student Chapters. For details on ACM-W visit http://www.acm.org/women.
Special Opportunities for Students from the UPE International Honor Society
UPE is celebrating its 40th anniversary as the premiere Honor Society in the Computing and Information Technology Disciplines. The very first ICPC contest was conducted by the Alpha Chapter of the UPE. Check out their web site at http://www.acm.org/upe for scholarships and information on how to form a chapter at your university. UPE membership means your one of the best.
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WinWriters Information and Events
http://www.winwriters.com
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