ICISO2010 Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS Pervasive Informatics in the Digital Economy 12th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations July 19-21, 2010, Reading, UK http://www.orgsem.org/2010 The 12th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, (ICISO 2010), previously named International Conference on Organisational Semiotics (ICOS), is the twelfth in a series of international events devoted to the latest research in informatics in organisations and organisational semiotics. In the present era, information and knowledge are key to the development of the current society and economy. The digital economy is driven by the effective use of information and communication technology to help enhance the quality and transform the lives of individuals, society and business. Information is the critical resource on which humans are constantly dependent in conducting purposeful activities and achieving their objectives. Pervasive Informatics, as an emergent discipline, studies how information affects humans in built environments. The built environments provide spatial contexts for business organisations, government institutions, commercial enterprises, and other business settings, as well as buildings and spaces for working and living. The majority of human activities (e.g. related to social, economic and scientific purposes) take place in a built environment. Increasingly, information is provided pervasively to the users within the built environment. With the support of appropriate technology, the users can access to the information as they need; although often they may also have to face with the information even if not wanted. A user may therefore be immersed in the field of information whether or not it is desired by the user. Such a phenomenon of pervasiveness has been bringing revolutionary impact to the human society. Pervasive Informatics helps us to understand the nature and charact! eristics of information from its creation, representation, processing and utilisation, embedded within the complex interactions between humans and built environments. It is concerned with approaches and methods on how information can be managed and used to enhance the effectiveness of work and quality of life. Following tradition, ICISO 2010 aims to provide a focal forum for active researchers, practitioners, business and industrial professionals and academics from diversified domains of information management and information systems, and from business and engineering. They will be able to share their latest research achievements and practical experiences, to exchange in-depth findings and innovative ideas, and in particular to harness the greatest challenges in the changing era and thinking seriously into the future. The ICISO 2010 will also continue the effort of the international research community in the development of the emergent discipline of informatics and its applications. It will focus not only on theory building, but also on the practical benefits gained so far through applications of methods and techniques derived from various approaches. Research papers describing original work in relevant areas are invited. Industrial and work-in-progress papers are also welcome. Topics Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Organisational Semiotic theory, concepts, methods and techniques, and their practical applications • Semiotically motivated approaches to information systems • Pragmatic web and context-aware approaches and applications • Semantic web and applications • Service-oriented architecture, design and implementation • Business and IT strategies • Alignment and integration of business and technical systems • Adaptive architecture for information systems • Enterprise information systems and value chain management • Enterprise applications for logistics, customer relationship management and supply chain management • Information engineering and complex systems • Agent-based information systems and business intelligence in organisations • Collaborative systems for organisations • E-government, e-commerce, mobile and pervasive commerce • Business process and workflow modelling, analysis, integration and management • Digital economy: theory, methods and techniques for design and applications • Pervasive informatics in organisations • Intelligent spaces and built environments for working and living • Construction informatics for sustainable environment • Information utilisation and technology management for sustainable economy • Digital content management Important dates Full paper submission: 1 February, 2010 Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2010 Camera-ready version: 15 May 2010 Conference: 19 – 21 July 2010 Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that must not be published elsewhere and not currently under review for any other publication. The manuscripts in English must be submitted in the provided format (both as Word and Adobe PDF files) and may not exceed 8 pages. Publication The papers will be selected based on a peer review by three independent members of the program committee. This review process will be anonymous in order to ensure quality and to avoid prejudice. At least one author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference. Conference proceedings will be published by Aussino Academic Publishing House. Same as previous conferences, all accepted papers will be submitted to ISTP and EI for indexing. Invitation for Proposals of Workshops and PhD Consortium The ICISO 2010 invites proposals for workshops and PhD consortium. Please contact the Conference Secretary if anyone intends to submit a proposal. It is intended to have parallel teleconference sessions in Beijing for attendance and paper presentations. More details will be soon available at the conference website. Conference Co-chairs Rene Jorna, University of Groningen, Netherlands Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, England Secretariat Hubert Grzybek, University of Reading, England Host institution Informatics Research Center, University of Reading, England Conference Contact Details Conference website: www.orgsem.org/2010 Conference email address: ICISO@reading.ac.uk