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From: “Amit Deokar” <amit.deokar at dsu.edu>

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Midwest United States Association for Information Systems 4th Annual Conference
MWAIS 2009
May 22-23, 2009
Madison, South Dakota
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The 4th annual conference of the Midwest AIS will be held on May 22-23, 2009 in Madison, South Dakota. The goal of the conference is to provide a venue for academics and practitioners in the Midwest United States who wish to be involved with the Association for Information Systems on a smaller scale than the large international conferences. MWAIS 2009 will provide an intimate environment to facilitate the sharing of ideas on pedagogy and research within a small and social setting.

The theme of the conference will be “Information Technology in Services Industry”. The conference theme would be reinforced through panel discussions, and conference keynote.

For more information about the MWAIS 2009 conference, visit http://www.mwais.org

We would like to invite you present your research at this venue. The Call for Papers is included below.

== Call for Papers: Full-Length Papers, Research-in-Progress Proposals, Panels, Workshops, or Tutorial Proposals ==

– Important Dates –
Submissions Begin: February 1st, 2009
Submission Deadline for Full-Length Papers: March 9th, 2009
Submission Deadline for Research-in-Progress, Panels, Workshops, and Tutorial Proposals: March 9th, 2009
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 31st, 2009
Camera-Ready Copy and Author Registration Deadline: April 15th, 2009

– Inquiries and Submissions –
Paper submission, the review process, and acceptance notifications will be managed by the Conference Management Site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MWAIS2009/, following the above noted deadlines. Any questions or concerns regarding the same may be directed via e-mail: mwais2009@dsu.edu.

– Submission Guidelines –
We invite submissions of completed manuscripts, research-in-progress proposals (extended abstracts), panel proposals, and workshop proposals addressing behavioral, organizational, and technical aspects of information systems. Two to three parallel sessions are planned. A computer lab will be available if needed. Submitted papers and proposals will undergo a double blind review by at least two reviewers. To facilitate the double blind review, include the title of the paper, names, affiliations, mailing addr
esses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of all authors on a cover page submitted as a separate document from the body of the manuscript. Include only the title of the paper at the beginning of the manuscript. In the case of multiple-authorship, designate the corresponding author with a footnote on the cover page. Please do not include any author or affiliation identification on any page of the paper (except the separate cover page), in headings, footers, or in the proper!
ties of the submitted file. Previously published work or work under review elsewhere is not eligible for submission. All submissions should be submitted electronically in MS Word.

A style sheet for heading formats & citations can be found on the conference website, linked through http://www.mwais.org

The proceedings will be available through the Association for Information Systems Electronic Library (AISeL). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference no later than April 15th, 2009, in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings.

– Full Length Submissions –
You may submit a full length (not to exceed six single-spaced pages with approximately 2,500 words, including all figures, tables, appendices, and references), original, and previously unpublished manuscript. The research may be conceptual, empirical or applied. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety, as recommended by the reviewers. Select papers included in the MWAIS 2009 conference will be recommended on behalf of MWAIS for a standard review process and possibl
e inclusion in the following journal:

American Journal of Business: http://www.ajbonline.org

– Research-in-Progress –
You may submit research-in-progress proposals (extended abstracts), preferably including a summary of tentative results of the study to date, in 1000-1500 words with a maximum of 2 figures/tables for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

– Panels, Workshops, and Tutorials –
Individuals interested in conducting a panel, workshop, or tutorial dealing with technological, managerial, professional, teaching, societal, national or international issues of information technology management are invited to submit a 500-1000 word proposal covering the objectives, issues to be covered, and the names/addresses of any other panel, workshop, or tutorial members. Method of presentation is at the submitter’s discretion. However, the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own p
articipants (such as panel members). All accepted proposals will appear in the conference proceedings. (Note: All panel, workshop, and tutorial members must register and pay for the conference.)

– Topics –
Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals, and panel, workshop, or tutorial proposals are invited in topics related to the conference theme (Information Technology in Services Industry) as well as the following areas (but not limited to):

* Accounting Information Systems
* Business Process Management
* Computer Aided Software Engineering
* Computing History
* Data Warehousing and Mining
* Database Management Technologies
* Decision Support Technologies
* Distance Learning Technologies
* e-Collaboration in Organizations
* Electronic Commerce Technologies Mgmt
* End User Computing
* Enterprise Resource Planning
* Global IT Management
* Human Computer Interaction
* The Human Side of IT
* Information Ethics Issues
* Information Security Management
* IT and Small Businesses
* IT Business Value
* Information Technology Education
* Information Technology Standards
* Intelligent Information Systems
* IT Evaluation Methods and Management
* IT Management in Financial Sector
* IT Management in Healthcare
* IT Teaching Cases
* Knowledge Management
* Medical Information Technology
* Mobile Computing & Commerce
* Multimedia Information Management
* Object Oriented Technology
* Open Source Technologies and Systems
* Project Management & Information Technologies
* Software Engineering
* Software Process Improvement
* Strategic IT Management
* Telecommunication and Networking Technologies
* Unified Modeling Language and Unified Process
* Vertical Standards Consortia
* Virtual Organizations and Society

== Conference Committee ==
– Conference Co-Chairs –
Omar El-Gayar
Dakota State University
omar.el-gayar[at]dsu.edu

David Olson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
dolson3[at]unl.edu

– Program Co-Chairs –
Amit Deokar
Dakota State University
amit.deokar[at]dsu.edu

Troy Strader
Drake University
troy.strader[at]drake.edu

– Local Arrangements Chair –
Surendra Sarnikar
Dakota State University
surendra.sarnikar[at]dsu.edu
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From: “Ying LIU” <mfyliu at polyu.edu.hk>

PhD Scholarship is available at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

We are looking for an excellent student to pursue PhD with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Basically, the student will work under a Hong Kong CERG funded research project titled “On Relating Online Reviews to Quality Function Deployment in Engineering Design”. The project focuses on intelligently analyzing the online product reviews and linking them for optimal decision making in product design through quality function deployment. We are particu
larly interested in students with strong background in text processing, machine learning, data\text mining and optimization. Knowledge on quality function deployment and engineering design is preferred, but not compulsory.

It is expected to start the project from July 2009. The student must have a master degree or is expected to secure the master degree before the official registration at HK PolyU. He\she will be awarded full scholarship for 3 years and enjoy relevant conference fees and training opportunities.

Further information can be obtained from:

Dr. Ying Liu
Email: mfyliu@polyu.edu.hk
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Please send me your full CV, three representative publications and a statement of research, if you are interested. Thank you.
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From: “Ying LIU” <mfyliu at polyu.edu.hk>

Call for Papers - ASME IDETC/CIE’09 Special Session (CIE-18) on “Design Informatics: Advances of Intelligent Information Processing and Knowledge Management in Engineering Design”

San Diego, California, August 30-September 2, 2009
http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC09/CallforPapers.cfm

Description
Design Informatics (DI) studies the representation, perception, processing, computation, communication, storage, retrieval and reuse of information and knowledge in the general context of design. Largely to the fast growing services offered by WWW, Semantic Web and Web 2.0, and the intrinsic complexity of information processing in design, an undoubted information and knowledge intensive activity, DI has emerged as a multidisciplinary research arena that links up various areas like information and communication technology, cognitive science and social science, computer science and artificial intelligence, design study and so on. It has been witnessed a pressing demand from the design professionals who are eager to enhance their capability in design information processing and management by harnessing some latest techniques, notably data\text\multimedia mining, semantic technology and ontology engineering, computational intelligence, service oriented architecture, etc. How to e!
ffectively manage the design knowledge in a global context (e.g. outsourcing) at both personal and enterprise wide levels challenges everyone in the community concerned. Hence, this Special Session calls for innovative, state-of-the-art research, technology development and applications of DI.

For the special session, interesting topics include, but are not limited to:
• Data\Tex\Web\Multimedia mining in design
• Information retrieval and search engine dedicated to design information, say CAD elements
• Enterprise knowledge management portal
• Semantic web, Web 2.0 and their application in design
• Information and knowledge digging on patents
• Social networking in design, design experts identification
• Knowledge based\agent based\hybrid intelligent systems
• Intelligent data acquisition and preprocessing in design
• Ontology engineering and ontology based system integration in design
• AI based decision support in design
• Knowledge management in ODM
• ……

Please choose CIE-18, the specified session code, when you submit your manuscript(s).

About the main conference
The 29th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE’09) is an integral part of the 2009 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences (2009 IDETC/CIE) and will take place the San Diego Convention Center, in San Diego, California, from August 30-September 2, 2009. This Conference is sponsored by the Computers & Information in Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This conference provides a forum for enhancing the practice of engineering by understanding the application of emerging technologies that impact critical engineering issues of representation, product design and product development, exchange, management and integration of information throughout the entire engineering product and process life-cycle. A key theme for this year’s conference will be “bridging the gap between CIE research and practice”.

Important Dates

Submission of Abstract and Draft Paper for Review: February 6, 2009
Note: The deadline for submission of abstract is Friday, February 6, 2009. This is a FIRM deadline and will be enforced. The authors have until Friday Feb. 13, 2009 to submit the full-length paper (If the abstracts are not submitted by Feb. 6th, the authors do not get an extra week to submit their full-length papers).

Paper Reviews Completed: April 3, 2009
Submission of Revised Paper for Review: May 1, 2009
Author Notification of Acceptance of Revised Paper: May 7, 2009
Submission of Final Paper in Conference Format: May 15, 2009

More details can be found at: http://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC09/CallforPapers.cfm.

Co-organizers:
Dr. Ying Liu
Dept of Industrial and Systems Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Email: mfyliu@polyu.edu.hk

Prof. Chris McMahon
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Bath, UK
Email: enscam@bath.ac.uk

Prof. Karthik Ramani
School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
Email: ramani@purdue.edu

Prof. Dirk Schaefer
Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: dirk.schaefer@me.gatech.edu
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From: “h a” <hma2643 at exchange.uta.edu>

Happy New Year 2009!

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP for the
Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium, IWCMC 2009.
Its submission deadline has been extended to 20 January 2009!

== Call for Papers ==

Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium, IWCMC 2009
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~yyang/IWCMC/WSN09.html

International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference 2009
Leipzig, Germany
June 21-24, 2009

As one of the technical symposia of the 2009 International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC09), Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium is dedicated to addressing the existing and emerging technical challenges in the design, analysis, development and implementation of wireless ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Applications, operating system, and middleware support
* Cross-layer design and optimization methods
* Energy-efficient transport, network, and MAC protocols
* Event detection, classification and tracking
* Fault-tolerance, self-healing, and reliability
* Group and cooperative communications
* Location discovery and time synchronization techniques
* Measurements and practical experiences from prototypes and testbeds
* Mobility support and management
* Multicasting, geocasting, and broadcasting
* Network coverage and connectivity
* Network scaling and limits
* Quality of Service issues
* Query processing and data aggregation
* Performance modelling and analysis
* Resource management algorithms
* Topology discovery, management and self-organization
* Trust, security, privacy and appropriate cryptographic protocols

== Important Dates ==

* Paper submission deadlines: 20 January 2009 (Extended)
* Paper submission website: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6827
* Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2009
* Camera-ready version due: 15 April 2009
* Registration deadline for authors: 15 April 2009
* IWCMC 2008 Conference: 21-24 June 2009

== Symposium Co-Chairs ==

* Yang Yang, University College London, UK.
* Song Ci, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
* Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada.

== Publicity Chair ==

* Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA.

== Submission Guidelines ==

For this symposium, we are soliciting original papers describing state-of-the-art research and development in the areas of wireless ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks. The symposium will only accept for review the original contributions that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal.
All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double-column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format.
All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC09. Further instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the conference webpage (http://www.iwcmc.com).
Paper submission Website: http://www.edas.info

== Technical Program Committee == (In progress)

Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA
Dominique Barthel, France Telecom R&D, France
Ionut Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Yuanzhu Chen, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA
Baek-Young Choi, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
Yun Won Chung, Soongsil University, Korea
Andrzej Duda, Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France
Eryk Dutkiewicz, University of Wollongong, Australia
Mona Ghassemian, King’s College London/ University of Greenwich, UK
Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College London, UK
Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
Yangcheng Huang, LM Ericsson, Ireland
Hai Jiang, University of Alberta, Canada
Tao Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Guoqiang Mao, The University of Sydney, Australia
Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK
Ozgur Oyman, Intel Corporation, USA
Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Kun Tan, Microosft Research Asia, China
Christian Tchepnda, France Telecom R&D, France
Fabrice Theoleyre, CNRS - Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, France
Sameer Tilak, University of California at San Diego, USA
Fabrice Valois, INSA Lyon, France
Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas, USA
Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Thomas Watteyne, CITI Lab, INRIA, INSA Lyon, France
Ke Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK
Jong-Hoon Youn, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA
Ming Yu, Florida State University, USA
Li Zhang, University of Leeds, UK
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