Call for Papers: dg.o 2011

A call for papers has been issued for dg.o 2011: The 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, to be held 12-15 June 2011, at the University of Maryland, in College Park, Maryland, USA. Here are the deadlines:

• 10 January 2011: Workshop, tutorial, and panel proposals due
• 6 February 2011: Papers, posters and demo descriptions due
• 30 March 2011: Camera-ready manuscripts due

Papers or proposals are invited on the following topics:

• “Digital Government Application Domains: such as courts, emergency response management, education, government statistics and data, grants administration, intelligence, international initiatives and cooperation, health and human services, law enforcement and criminal justice, legislative systems, natural resources management, open government (o-government), regulation and rulemaking, security, tax administration, transportation systems, and urban planning.
• IT-enabled Government Management and Operations: such as cross-boundary information sharing and integration, decision-making processes, digital government organization and management strategies, information assurance, information technology adoption and diffusion, IT and service architectures, long-term preservation and archiving of government information, program planning, service integration, as well as technology transition and transfer.
• Information Values and Policies: such as accessibility, digital democracy and governance, digital divide, openness, privacy, public participation in democratic processes, security, transparency, trust, and universal and equity of access to information and services.
• Information Technology and Tools to Support Government: such as cloud computing for digital government domains; collaboration tools; digital libraries and knowledge management; geographic information systems; human-computer interaction; intelligent agents; information integration; interoperable data, networks and architectures; large scale data and information acquisition and management; mobile government; multiple modalities and multimedia; national and international infrastructures for information and communication; service-oriented architectures; semantic web; and social networking, mashups, and software engineering for large-scale government projects.”

For more information, please see the call for papers.

Call for Papers: ECAP 2010 / ECAP 10

A call for papers, with extended submission deadline of 7 May 2010 7 April 2010, has been issued for ECAP 2010 / ECAP 10: The 8th European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, to be held 4-6 October 2010, at Technische Universität München, in Munich, Germany.

Papers are invited on the following topics, a number of which include legal informatics or legal communication issues:

• Information and Knowledge Processing (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, etc)
• Philosophy of Computer Science
• Robotics, AI, and Ambient Intelligence
• Human-Machine Interaction and Explanation Capabilities
• Philosophy of Information Technology
• Neurocomputing and the Problem of Consciousness
• Computational Linguistics
• Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources
• The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy and Computing
• IT, Cultural Diversity and Technoscience Studies
• Information and Computing Ethics: Roboethics
• Biocomputing, Artificial Life, Systems Biology
• Electronic Art
• Complexity and Emergency
• Imaging and Knowledge
• New Models of Logic Software
• Models & Simulations Epistemology
• Synthetic emotions
• Computer & Gender Studies

For more information, please see the call for papers.

HT @WikiCFP.

Call for Papers: IIiX 2010 & HCIR 2010

A call for papers and posters, with submissions deadline of 11 April 2010, has been issued for IIiX 2010: The Information Interaction in Context Symposium, to be held 18-22 August 2010, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

Deadlines are as follows:

• “April 11, 2010, Midnight EST: Papers and posters due
• April 30, 2010: Doctoral consortium proposals due”

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• Interactive information retrieval and interface issues
• Qualitative approaches to the study of context-sensitive information seeking and information retrieval
• Context-aware retrieval models
• Relevance feedback (implicit & explicit) and query modification issues for capturing context
• Novel approaches to eliciting, identifying, capturing and representing contextual information
• Task-based interactive information retrieval and information seeking behavior
• Issues of genre, media, language, modality and structure in contextual information seeking and information retrieval
• Personalized and collaborative information access in context
• Contextual information interaction theory
• Nature of relevance in context
• Measures and methods for studying and evaluating information seeking and information retrieval in context
• Test collections for context-sensitive research

A separate call has been issued for the Doctoral Consortium.

A call for papers has also been issued for HCIR 2010: 4th Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, to be held 22 August 2010, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, in conjunction with IIiX 2010. Papers are invited on topics including the following:

• Novel interaction techniques for information retrieval.
• Modeling and evaluation of interactive information retrieval.
• Exploratory search and information discovery.
• Information visualization and visual analytics.
• Applications of HCI techniques to information retrieval needs in specific domains.
• Ethnography and user studies relevant to information retrieval and access.
• Scale and efficiency considerations for interactive information retrieval systems.
• Relevance feedback and active learning approaches for information retrieval.

For more information, please see the call for papers and posters, the other calls, or the conference Website.

Call for Papers: JCDL 2010

[NOTE: Updated on 1 February 2010 to note the extended deadlines.]

A call for papers and proposals, with submissions deadline for papers of 1 February 2010 25 January 2010, has been issued for JCDL 2010: The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, to be held 21-25 June 2010, at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The conference is co-sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, ASIS&T, and IEEE-CS TCDL.

Click here for the call for the doctoral consortium.

Deadlines are as follows:

• Papers: February 1, 2010;
• Demonstrations and Tutorials: February 8, 2010;
• Posters: February 15, 2010;
• Workshops: February 22, 2010;
• Doctoral Consortium Abstracts: March 31, 2010.

Papers and proposals are invited on the following topics:

• “Collaborative and participatory information environments
• Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments
• Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information
• Digital library and Web Science curriculum development
• Evaluation of online information environments
• Impact and evaluation of digital information in education
• Information policy and copyright law
• Personal digital information management
• Retrieval and browsing
• Social networks and networked information
• Social-technical perspectives of digital information
• Studies of human factors in networked information
• Systems, algorithms, and models for data preservation
• Theoretical models of information interaction and organization
• Visualization of large-scale information environments.”

For more information, please see the call for papers and proposals, the call for the doctoral consortium, or the conference Website.

Ph.D. Student Position, Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University

[NOTE: Updated on 12 January 2010 to reflect the extended submission deadline of 25 January 2010.]

Applications, with submission deadline of 18 25 January 2010, “are invited for a funded three-year PhD studentship within the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University.” “Studentships are expected to start on 1st March 2010.”

“The Centre for Social Informatics undertakes research across a range of areas including the information society, social computing, eGovernment and eDemocracy, and knowledge management. We are particularly interested in applicants who would like to pursue research into a key information society issue, such as: the digital divide; surveillance; or national, regional or global information and digital media policies.”

“Applicants should hold a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours degree or a Masters degree in a discipline relevant to the area of study. “

“Overseas students are eligible to apply, but will be liable to pay the difference between home/EU and overseas fees.”

For more information, please see the announcement.

HT Dr. Hazel Hall.