SIGDOC Newsletter
March 2009 :: Volume 10, Number 1
Looking Ahead
Conferences: SIGDOC 2009
27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
October 4-7, 2009
Bloomington, Indiana
In conjunction with Indiana University’s School of Informatics.
Conference website: www.sigdoc.org/2009
For more information, contact the Conference co-Chairs Brad Mehlenbacher (brad_m@unity.ncsu.edu) or Aristidis Protopsaltis (Aristidis.Protopsaltis.1@city.ac.uk). Shaun Slattery and Ashley Williams are the Program co-Chairs.
Conferences: SIGDOC 2010
The SIGDOC Board is currently reviewing locations for 2010, and we'd like your input! Please send Brad and Rob your suggestions for locations, or let us know if you would like to contribute in any way. There is currently one proposal for Boston. Other attractive locations: Seattle (University of Washington)? or London?
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INTECOM IPCC 09 Conference
Conference Web site: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs
Call for papers/proposals: http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs/index.php?q=node/377
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IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC) 2010
To be held at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, on 7-8-9 July 2010.
For more information, see: http://www.michael.steehouder.nl/node/257
Invitation to a Symposium on Peer Reviewing
Only 8% members of the Scientific Research Society agreed that "peer review works well as it is". (Chubin and Hackett, 1990; p.192).
"A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and an analysis of the peer review system substantiate complaints about this fundamental aspect of scientific research." (Horrobin, 2001)
Horrobin concludes that peer review "is a non-validated charade whose processes generate results little better than does chance." (Horrobin, 2001). This has been statistically proven and reported by an increasing number of journal editors.
But, "Peer Review is one of the sacred pillars of the scientific edifice" (Goodstein, 2000), it is a necessary condition in quality assurance for Scientific/Engineering publications, and "Peer Review is central to the organization of modern science…why not apply scientific [and engineering] methods to the peer review process" (Horrobin, 2001).
This is the purpose of the International Symposium on Peer Reviewing: ISPR (http://www.ICTconfer.org/ispr) being organized in the context of The 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2009 (http://www.ICTconfer.org/kgcm), which will be held on July 10-13, 2009, in Orlando, Florida, USA.
Pre-Conference and Post-conference VIRTUAL sessions (via electronic forums) will be held for each session included in the conference program, so sessions' papers can be read before the conference, and authors presenting at the same session can interact during one week before the conferences, and after it is over. Authors can also participate in peer-to-peer reviewing in virtual sessions.
All attendees of the last KGCM 2008 conference, and its collocated ones, were asked to be surveyed online. Those who filled the survey form (602 attendees) rated the conferences with an average of 8.42 on a scale of 10. More specifically, 58.7% rated them in the range of 8-10, while just 7 attendees (1.16%) rated them below 5. More details regarding this and other questions can be found at: http://www.iiis.org/iiis/StatisticsandOpinions/WMSCI2008/
For Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the conference web site. The best paper of each invited session will also be published in JSCI at no additional cost for the author Invited session organizers will be co-editors of the proceedings volume where their session's papers are to be included, and they will be guest editors of the Journal issue where the best paper presented at their invited session has been included.
Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at each session. The best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be selected from these session's best papers, and will also be published in Volume 7 of JSCI Journal (http://www.j-sci.com/Journal/SCI/), with no additional cost for their authors. Libraries of journal author's organizations will receive complimentary subscriptions to at least one volume (6 issues).
Best regards,
ISPR/KGCM 2009 Organizing committee
http://www.ICTconfer.org/ispr
http://www.ICTconfer.org/kgcm
Chubin, D. R. and Hackett E. J., 1990, Peerless Science, Peer Review and U.S. Science Policy; New York, State University of New York Press.
Horrobin, D., 2001, "Something Rotten at the Core of Science?" Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 2, February 2001. Also at http://www.whale.to/vaccine/sci.html and http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/peerrev4.htm (both pages were accessed on February 1, 2009)
Goodstein, D., 2000, "How Science Works", U.S. Federal Judiciary Reference Manual on Evidence, pp. 66-72 (referenced in Hoorobin, 2000)
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