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Job opening - Postdoctoral Fellow: Explainability and Auditability of AI in Content Moderation
by Dhanaraj Thakur 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Hello everyone (and apologies for cross-posting), A reminder that we have a new opening in my team at the Center for Democracy and Technology <https://cdt.org/>. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow <https://cdt.org/job/cdt-postdoctoral-fellow-explainability-of-ai-in-content…> to join us and work on developing models and tools to improve the explainability and auditability of AI-based content moderation systems. This should be someone who completed their PhD within the last 3 years in a relevant discipline, with demonstrated research expertise related to this topic. This is a one-year full-time Fellowship, with the possibility of renewal for another year based on performance and availability of funds. Limited funding is available for approved research expenses associated with the Fellow’s project. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits. The expected start date for the Fellowship is January/February 2021, so please apply as soon as possible. The position is based at CDT’s Washington, D.C. office (with remote work currently in effect due to COVID-19). Further details and application instructions are here <https://cdt.org/job/cdt-postdoctoral-fellow-explainability-of-ai-in-content…>. Please share with colleagues and recent PhD graduates. thanks, Dhanaraj -- *Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>* *E:* dthakur(a)cdt.org <mailto:dthakur@cdt.org> | *P:* +1 202 407 8849 | @thakurdhanaraj

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Communicating preprint fellowship
by Alice Fleerackers 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

*Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity: Communicating preprint research* The Scholarly Communications Lab <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/> (ScholCommLab) is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join our interdisciplinary team of researchers for a one-year paid research stay in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This position is part of *Sharing Health Research, a multi-year, SSHRC-funded project examining the online communication of health science.* Some key details are copied below, but the full fellowship description (including details for how to apply) is available at https://www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/postdoct-preprint-comm/. Please feel free to share this posting with your networks! *About the fellowship* This fellowship will offer the successful applicant an opportunity to collaborate with our team on a project of their own design focused on *the public communication of scientific uncertainty and/or the online circulation of health-related preprints. *Applicants are asked to submit one or two brief research proposals (half a page or less each) relating to this broader topic. These are meant to give us a sense of your research interests and methodological approach; *they are not formal proposals, so there is no need to explain every detail or include a reference list*. In addition to relevant research interests and experience, successful *applicants will have the following qualifications: * - A PhD (or set defence date) - Ability to work well independently and as part of a diverse team - Ability to conceive, scope, and execute a project within the 1-year timeline - Excellent interpersonal skills - Fluency in English, both written and verbal - Deep disciplinary knowledge and interdisciplinary curiosity You should apply even if you don’t feel that your background is a 100% match with the position description. We place less emphasis on credentials, publications, and metrics, and more emphasis on interesting research questions and the relevant skills and experience to work with us to answer them. The position start date is negotiable but aims for February 1, 2021. The gross salary is set at $60,000 CAD annually. Additional funding may be available to present results of the collaboration at agreed upon conferences. — Alice Fleerackers (she/her) phd student, simon fraser university lab manager, scholcommlab.ca freelance writer, alicefleerackers.com

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CALL FOR ARTICLES - The discourses of Gender, Violence and Social Inequality in the era of digital communication
by Dolors.Palau＠uv.es 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

CALL FOR ARTICLES Quaderns de Filologia – Linguistics Series vol. 26 (2021) (https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/index) Title of volume: The discourses of Gender, Violence and Social Inequality in the era of digital communication Editors: Sergio Maruenda Bataller (Universitat de València) Dolors Palau Sampio (Universitat de València) Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University) Summary: This volume aims to study and analyse the public discourses on gender, violence and social inequality in the so-called digital media (Couldry 2012) and, more precisely, their evolution and political, cultural, social and ideological impact on these in the digital era and ‘new’ forms of social, institutional and political communication (Fuchs 2007; Bennet & Segerberg 2013; Winseck 2017). This volume aims to gain insights into the discourses generated and communicated through the so-called Internet society (Castells 2001), as we reach the 25th anniversary of the net. Thus, the present volume adopts a critical and communicative theoretical approach to the analysis of the current discourses that linguistically and discursively construct and constitute gender, violence and social inequality (Critical Discourse Studies, Flowerdew & Richardson 2018), as forms of cognitive and social representation that may become hegemonic or peripheral (Butler 1990; Bell 1991; Wodak 2001; Lazar 2005; Fairclough 2006; van Dijk 2008; Cotter 2010; Erlich, Meyerhoff & Holmes 2014). Although not restricted to a specific methodology, this volume advocates for mixed-method approaches that combine qualitative research and corpus-based analyses for the identification of recurrent and «normalised» discourse patterns (Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies [CADS] - Mautner 2009; Baker et al. 2008; Partington et al. 2013; Gabrielatos & Duguid 2014; Baker & Levon 2015). Themes: 1. Discursive (multimodal) studies on specific topics and aspects on gender, violence and social inequality in the digital media, including press, social media, and other forms of institutional, social and political communication. Examples: a. The discursive representation of gender violence b. Women in the new forms of communication c. The ideological construction of diverse identities and LGTBQphobia. d. The discourses on migration e. The discourses on extremism and hate f. The discourses on disabilities g. The discourses on aporophobia h. etc. 2. Historical (diachronic) and contrastive studies among cultures, languages and semiotic modes (Potts et al. 2005). 3. Methodological proposals and models of qualitative and/or quantitative analysis of the themes of the volume. 4. Corpus compilation and description on gender, violence and social inequality. Abstract submission* Proposals must be sent to: sergio.maruenda(a)uv.es Subject: abstract QF ELING 2021 Until December 15, 2020 Communication of acceptance From January 1, 2021 to January 7, 2021 Deadline for submission of originals (full article) Proposals must be sent to: sergio.maruenda(a)uv.es Subject: article QF ELING 2021 May 1, 2021 Peer-reviewing process from May 1, 2021 Publication of volume December 2021 * Abstracts must be 250-300 words, excluding references. Please provide title, author, affiliation + email, text, keywords (5), references.

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Patrick ffrench: 'Informe / Information: The Noise of Georges Bataille' | Aesthetics of Noise
by Daniel Nemenyi 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Dear all, Please join the upcoming Aesthetics of Noise online seminar hosted by the College International de Philosophie, Paris and King’s College London: Department of Digital Humanities, Department of French and the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts. ** Patrick ffrench: 'Informe / Information: The Noise of Georges Bataille' (Respondent: Giovanni Menegalle) ** ** Thursday 26 Nov 2020, 17:00 GMT ** # Registration https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aesthetics-of-noise-patrick-ffrench-tickets-… # Abstract Georges Bataille’s notion of the informe, usually translated as ‘formlessness’, proposes a principle of absolute improbability which radically ungrounds and destabilises normative conceptions of development and evolution, particularly as concerns the form of the human body. In his brief entry under the title ‘informe’ in the ‘Critical Dictionary’ of the heterodox periodical Documents, Bataille writes that ‘for academics to be happy, the universe has to take shape’ and that ‘all of philosophy has no other purpose; it is a matter of giving a frock-coat to what is, a mathematical frock-coat’. If one might conceive of the post-war elaboration of ‘information theory’, and its pervasive influence on French structuralism, as just such a frock-coat, then Bataille’s hypothesis that ‘the universe is only formless and resembles nothing’ appears as a performative noise, which nevertheless generates its own aesthetics. # Background Reading - Georges Bataille’s ‘definition’ of informe. https://aphelis.net/georges-bataille-linforme-formless-1929/ - Roland Barthes, ‘Les Sorties du texte’ in Le Bruissement de la langue: Essais critiques 4 (Paris: Seuil, 1984) / ‘The Outcomes of the Text’ in The Rustle of Language, trans. Richard Howard (Berkely and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989) - Patrick ffrench, ‘Documents in the 1970s: Bataille, Barthes and “Le gros orteil”‘, in Papers or Surrealism 7 (2007) https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/projects/the-ahrb-centre-fo… # Biogs Patrick ffrench is Professor of French and Vice Dean (Research) at King’s College. Giovanni Menegalle is British Academy Research Fellow, King’s College London. # About Aesthetics of Noise A collaboration of the College International de Philosophie, Paris and King’s College London: Department of Digital Humanities, Department of French and the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts. Organisers: Cécile Malaspina, directeur de programme, Collège International de College International de Philosophie, Paris; Mark Coté, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, Director MA Big Data, Culture and Society; Patrick ffrench, Professor of French and Vice Dean (Research) at King's College; Sacha Golob, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Director of the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts. # Further information Contact cecile.malaspina(a)kcl.ac.uk https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/events/aesthetics-of-noise/

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Call for Papers – Conference and Edited Volume: Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction
by Steven Mark Champion 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

*C A L L F O R P A P E R S* *Conference and edited volume* *Artificial **intelligence and the human – **Cross-**cultural perspectives on science and fiction* A Japanese-German conference in Berlin, Germany (17 and 18 June 2021) & e dited volume (2022) Current debates on artificial intelligence often conflate the realities of AI technologies with the fictional renditions of what they might one day become. They are said to be able to learn, make autonomous decisions or process information much faster than humans, which raises hopes and fears alike. What if these useful technologies will one day develop their own intentions that run contrary to those of humans? The line between science and fiction is becoming increasingly blurry: what is already a fact, what is still only imagination; and is it even possible to make this clear-cut distinction? Innovation and development goals in the field of AI are inspired by popular culture, such as its portrayal in literature, comics, film or television. At the same time, images of these technologies drive discussions and set particular priorities in politics, business, journalism, religion, civil society, ethics or research. Fictions, potentials and scenarios inform a society about the hopes, risks, solutions and expectations associated with new technologies. But what is more, the discourses on AI, robots and intelligent, even sentient machines are nothing short of a mirror of the human condition: they renew fundamental questions on concepts such as consciousness, free will and autonomy or the ways we humans think, act and feel. Imaginations about the human and technologies are far from universal, they are culturally specific. This is why a cross-cultural comparison is crucial for better understanding the relationship between AI and the human and how they are mutually constructed by uncovering those aspects that are regarded as natural, normal or given. Focusing on concepts, representations and narratives from different cultures, the conference aims to address two axes of comparison that help us make sense of the diverse realities of artificial intelligence and the ideas of what is human: *Science and fiction, East Asia and the West.* *Papers are invited on the following topics (among others):* - Which meanings and functions are ascribed to AI technologies and robots? - How is science informed by popular discursive images of AI? - Which cultural differences are there concerning the relationship between the natural and the artificial? What are the particular traditions of how to represent the human and its technological surrogates? - What can the different cultural and conceptual histories tell us about our present and future with artificial intelligence? Besides papers on these more general topics, we also invite *case studies on innovative technologies and their fictional precursors* as well as *on the social, ethical or political contexts in which they are applied*. All contributions are expected to address the *comparative perspective on East Asian and Euro-American discourses.* Relevant issues and perspectives for these comparisons include but are not limited to cyberpunk and science-fiction in literature and film, public debates and imaginations of AI, the relation between simulation and reality, materiality, historical and legal accounts, sociotechnical imaginaries and politics. We welcome contributions from scholars of diverse disciplines, such as cognitive science, computer science, cultural studies, literature and film studies, media and communication studies, psychology, political science, science and technology studies or sociology. Interdisciplinary approaches (e.g., those combining social, cultural and technical perspectives) as well as perspectives from practitioners and developers are particularly encouraged. *Submission process* - *Extended abstracts* of approximately 4,000 to 6,000 characters in length (excl. references) should be submitted no later than *10 February* *2021* to ai21(a)hiig.de - Speakers will be notified by *15 March* *2021*. *Conference and publication of selected papers in an edited volume * - The conference will take place on *Thursday* *17 and Friday 18 June 2021* in Berlin. - Invitations for the submission of selected full manuscripts sent out in July 2021. - *Full manuscripts* of between 30.000 to 50.000 characters (excluding references) to be submitted by *September 2021*. - Comprehensive review returned to authors in December 2021; *final papers due in February 2022.* - The *edited volume* will be *published in early 2022*. If you have any questions, you can contact the conference organisers via ai21(a)hiig.de. For more information, visit our website at hiig.de/events/ai21. *Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin* Thomas Christian Bächle Christian Katzenbach *Japanese-German Center Berlin* Phoebe Stella Holdgrün *Waseda University, Tokyo* Katsumi Watanabe -- <http://www.hiig.de/>Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Französische Straße 9 · 10117 Berlin T +49 30 200 760 82 · F +49 30 206 089 60 · www.hiig.de <http://www.hiig.de/> <http://www.facebook.com/HIIG.Berlin> <https://twitter.com/hiig_berlin> <https://www.instagram.com/hiigberlin/> Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B | USt-ID DE 291 151 171 Forschungsdirektorium: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann (Geschäftsführung) · Prof. Dr. Björn Scheuermann · Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer · Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz | Geschäftsführung: Dr. Karina Preiß

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IUI workshop on Explainable AI for Fairness & Social Justice
by Lee, Min Kyung 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

Dear AOIR community members, If you are interested in the intersection of explainable AI and fairness/social justice, please consider joining our workshop! IUI Workshop on Explainable AI for Fairness and Social Justice: https://explainablesystems.comp.nus.edu.sg/2021/ A short position paper is *due December, 23 2020*; the workshop will be held virtually on March 13, 2021. Best, Min —————————————————— Min Kyung Lee Assistant Professor School of Information, University of Texas at Austin http://minlee.net ————————————————————————————————————— CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TExSS) Explainable AI for Fairness and Social Justice Held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021, April 13-17, Virtual. Smart systems that apply complex reasoning to make decisions and plan behavior, such as decision support systems and personalized recommendations, are difficult for users to understand. Algorithms allow the exploitation of rich and varied data sources, in order to support human decision-making and/or taking direct actions; however, there are increasing concerns surrounding their transparency and accountability, as these processes are typically opaque to the user - e.g., because they are too technically complex to be explained or are protected trade secrets. The topics of transparency and accountability have attracted increasing interest to provide more effective system training, better reliability and improved usability. This workshop will provide a venue for exploring issues that arise in designing, developing and evaluating intelligent user interfaces that provide system transparency or explanations of their behavior. We will focus specifically on explaining systems and models toward ensuring fairness and social justice, such as approaches to detecting or mitigating algorithmic biases or discrimination (e.g., awareness, data provenance, and validation). Suggested themes include, but are not limited to: - What are explanations? What should they look like? What should be included in explanations and how (and to whom) should they be presented? - Is transparency (or explainability) always a good idea? Can transparent algorithms or explanations “hurt” the user experience, and in what circumstances? - How can we build (good) algorithmic systems, particularly those that demonstrate that they are fair, accountable, and unbiased? - When are the optimal points at which explanations are needed for transparency? - What are more transparent models that still have good performance in terms of speed and accuracy? - What is important in user modeling for system transparency and explanations? - What are possible metrics that can be used when evaluating transparent systems and explanations? - How can we evaluate explanations and their ability to accurately explain underlying algorithms and overall systems’ behavior, especially for the goals of fairness and accountability? - How can explanations allow human evaluators to select model(s) that are unbiased, such as by revealing traits or outcomes of the underlying learned system? - What are important social aspects in interaction design for system transparency and explanations? - How can we detect biases and discrimination in transparent systems? - Through explanations, transparency, or other means, how can we raise stakeholders’ awareness of the potential risk for biases and social harms that could result from developing and using intelligent systems? Researchers and practitioners in academia or industry who have an interest in these areas are invited to submit papers up to 6 pages (not including references) in ACM SIGCHI Paper Format (see http://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html) These submissions must be original and relevant contributions and can be of two types: (1) position papers summarizing authors’ existing research in this area and how it relates to the workshop theme and (2) papers offering an industrial perspective on the workshop theme or a real-world approach to the workshop theme. Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=texss2021) by the end of December 23rd, 2020 and will be reviewed by committee members. Position papers do not need to be anonymized. At least one author of each accepted position paper must register for and attend the workshop. It is anticipated that accepted contributions will be published in dedicated workshop proceedings. For further questions please contact the workshop organizers at <texss2021(a)easychair.org<mailto:texss2021@easychair.org>>. The workshop will feature a keynote by Timnit Gebru (https://ai.stanford.edu/~tgebru/) who co-leads the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google. Paper authors will then present their work as part of thematic panels. The remainder of the workshop will consist of smaller group activities related to the workshop theme. For more information visit our website at http://explainablesystems.comp.nus.edu.sg/2021 Important Dates ============== Submission date Dec 23, 2020 Notifications send Jan 31, 2021 Camera-ready Feb 28, 2021 Workshop Date March 13, 2021 Organizing Committee =================== Alison Smith-Renner, Machine Learning Visualization Lab, DAC/WBB, United States Styliani Kleanthous Loizou, Cyprus Centre for Algorithmic Transparency, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Jonathan Dodge, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States Casey Dugan, IBM Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Min Kyung Lee, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States Brian Y Lim, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Tsvi Kuflik, Information Systems, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Advait Sarkar, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom Avital Shulner-Tal, Information Systems, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Simone Stumpf, Centre for HCI Design, City, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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NCapture (or other software for capturing Facebook group posts/comments)
by MCNULTY Stephen 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, I hope that you are all well and keeping safe in these challenging times! I was wondering if anyone had any experience of using NVivo NCapture to download Facebook group content? There are at least 2 Facebook groups that I am basing my research on and previously I had simply been observing posts and comments and downloading those that seemed to be of relevance, however now I would like to download all posts in a certain time range in order to lend more rigour to my methodology and deepen my analysis. I had been hoping to use NCapture for NVivo, and got permission from the group admin (who also installed the app into the group to allow me to use it). However, when I click on the extension in Google Chrome, it gives me no option to download the posts/comments as a dataset. I was wondering if anyone has any recent experience using NCapture (particularly since the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook's changes in policy), and could give me some insight? (QSR's help pages are not very useful I find...) Alternatively, if anyone could suggest another tool for collecting Facebook group data, I would very much appreciate it! Many thanks in advance for your help. Kind regards, Stephen. -- Stephen Joseph McNulty (pronouns: he/him) PhD Student Linguistics and English Language University of Edinburgh https://stephenjosephmcnulty.com https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/stephen-mcnulty https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-joseph-mcnulty-064324101 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Invitation to Online Symposium // (In)Visibility of Art // November 21, 2020
by Sarah Rüller 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

Dear all, we are pleased to announce and invite you to our online symposium “(In)Visibility of Art - Potentials and Risks of Digitalization on a global, public and political Scale”, taking place fully virtually on November 21, 2020, 3-8pm CET. Have a look at our website (https://in-visibility-of.art/) to find more information regarding our panellists, the keynote held by Kentaro Toyama and the registration process. You might be wondering, why I share this with this community. The motivation behind this event is rooted in the question of the veracity of “improvements through digitalization” in the 'Global South', questioning the impact digitalization and the internet has and had on art and culture. We have panellists from Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan, Senegal, India, Egypt and Germany. Please share the event widely among your networks and reach out to us if you have further questions. Best, Sarah Rüller, on behalf of the entire organization team ### The influence of digitalization on the visibility of art and artists cannot be analyzed simply and conclusively. Various factors, such as history, politics, technical approaches, but also aesthetic questions, play a role in clarifying where which art is shown and perceived by whom. We have invited artists, academics, and cultural practitioners to discuss the (in-)visibility of art in the context of globalization and digitalization – the potentials, the risks and the implications for us as a society. The Symposium “(In)Visibility of Art” will take place fully online on Saturday, November 21, 2020 from 3-8pm (CET). https://twitter.com/ArtInvisibility ### Sarah Rüller M.Sc. Research Associate and PhD student Join us in our Online Symposium // November 21, 2-8 pm CET! YALLAH! Project Coordination // www.yallah.exchange CRC 1187 - Media of Cooperation Digital Publics and Social Transformation in the Maghreb University of Siegen // Information Systems and New Media Kohlbettstraße 15 // 57072 Siegen // Room: US-E 103 Phone: +49 271 740 3474 Mobile: +49 162 354 2046

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CFP: ICDHAN-2021
by Waliya, Yohanna Joseph 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

Hi scholars, Sorry for resending this email across to you again. There was some oversights. I have corrected them! You are free to send your paper from now. Conference website: https://dhnigeria.org/conferences Abstract registration deadline: November 16, 2020 Submission deadline: January 4th, 2021 Conference Date: March 11-13, 2021. Conference theme: TECHNOLOGY, CULTURES, POLITICS AND SOCIAL RE-ENGINEERING: RECONFIGURING THE HUMAN SCIENCES IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REVOLUTION The 1st International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria (ICDHAN-2021), which is a post-Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities 2021 event, is poised at bridging the gap in digital humanities scholarship in Africa by providing scholars in the world and Africa with scholarly opportunities to discuss and interrogate different areas of DH scholarship as it touches the theme of the conference which is “Technology, Cultures, Politics and Social Re-Engineering: Reconfiguring the Human Sciences in the Age of Digital Revolution” Submission Guidelines Abstracts, which should be between 150 – 500 words long, are invited from the themes and sub-themes. Presentations and discussions are supposed to address such issues as related to digital humanities discourse. Themes & Sub-themes * Human Sciences and Technology * Digital literacies and culture * African Cultures in the Age of Technology * Discourse, Communication and Smart Cities * Digitisation of Cultural Artifacts/Digital Archival * Digital Scholarship & Library Sciences * Knowledge-based Society and Human Sciences * Indigenous Languages & Digital Technology * Technology & Entrepreneurial Promotion * Digital Technology & Social Capital * Identity Creation on Online Platforms * Social Media & Nation Building * Social Media, Hate Speech and Fake News * Mediated Communication and Digital Cultures * Digital Democracy & Good Governance * Digital Literature and Media * Natural Language Processing * Digital Storytelling and African literature * Philosophical discourse, culture and digital technology * Computer-Assisted Literary Analysis (CALA) and cultural studies * Digital musicology and cultural re-engineering * Social media and COVID-19 discourse * Social advocacy and new media technologies * Other related areas of possible DH conversations. Committees Program Committee * Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies * Dr. Richard Oko Ajah * Dr. Ayodele James Akinola * Dr. Solomon Azumurana Organizing committee * Dr. Richard Oko Ajah * Dr. Ayodele James Akinola * Dr Kofo Adedeji * Augustine Farinola * Modupe Roseline Agunbiade * Yohanna Joseph Waliya * Ayodeji Adedara Venue Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to info(a)dhnigeria.org or nigeriadh(a)gmail.com. Waliya, Yohanna Joseph Enseignant et chercheur à l'université de Calabar. Auteur de La récolte de vie, Quand l'Afrique se lèvera etc. Mail: waliyayohannajoseph(a)unical.edu.ng Mobile:+2348038940016. web: https://unical-ng.academia.edu/WALIYAYOHANNAJOSEPH https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yohanna_Waliya http://vispo.com/guests/waliya/

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15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021): Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

*** Second Call for Papers *** 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 12-14, 2021, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Abstract submission deadline (recommended): January 15, 2021 (AoE) Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) SCOPE AND TOPICS RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2021 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned with the special theme "Information Science and global crisis". Global crisis, as the pandemic we are experiencing in these days, natural disasters, wars and international political crisis, are challenging Information Science to help building effective management solutions, to learn from previous experience how to prevent them, and to support Humans keep on performing core activities, as education, and communication. The diversity of crises' causes, the quality of the collected data as well as the complexity of the underlying mechanisms are among the relevant research challenges. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering · Requirements Engineering · Software Testing · Information Security and Risk · Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches · Social Computing and Social Network Analysis · User-Centred Design · Collaborative Computing · Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management · Databases and Information · Information Search and Discovery · Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management · Business Process Engineering and Reengineering · Process Mining · Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering · E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ... · Web-Based Applications and Services · Industry 4.0 · Web-Based Applications and Services · Smart Cities · Educational Technologies · Digital Humanities Data Science · Big Data & Business Analytics · Decision Information Systems · Knowledge Management · Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures · Cyber-Physical Systems · Web Information Systems · Grid Computing and Cloud Computing · Internet of Things · Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice · Research Methodologies in Information Science · Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual · Lifecycle Models · Design Science and Rationale Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos and Research Projects @RCIS tracks will complement the main conference. SUBMISSION PROCESS Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2021. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in follow-up research. Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer) thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice, elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and explain the lessons learned. Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a preliminary evaluation of a technique. Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc. The submission site is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 29, 2021. We adopt a single-blind review format, meaning that the author names are included in the paper itself under the paper title. IMPORTANT DATES · Abstract submission deadline for regular papers: January 15, 2021 (AoE) · Regular paper submission deadline: January 22, 2021 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Conference: May 12-14, 2021 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee · Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France · Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom · Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain · Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse · Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Samira Cherfi, CNAM, France · Anna Perini, FBK, Italy Social Media Chairs · Itzel Morales Ramirez, Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM, Mexico · Vítor E. Silva Souza, UFES, Brasil Proceedings Chair · Raihana Ferdous, FBK, Italy

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