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Social Media and Self Branding
by Julie Grinberg 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Please recommend recent critical literature that addresses social media as sites for self promotion/branding. Looking for work that explores social media participation as (socially) compulsory vs personal choice.

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MCETECH 2017 (Ottawa, Canada) Submission Deadline Extended
by Umar Ruhi 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Dear AoIR colleagues, Based on a number of requests to give more time to authors to finalize their conference paper submissions after the holidays, we have extended the deadline for submitting abstracts to Friday, January 13, and for submitting full papers to Friday, January 27. We hope this new deadline will enable you to submit your research work to MCETECH 2017 more easily. For further details and the full CFP, please visit the conference website at http://www.mcetech.org With your contributions, we hope to put together an enriching and exciting program, and we look forward to seeing many of you in Ottawa in May! Best Regards, MCETECH 2017 Program Committee Co-Chairs

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CFP for Special Issue of Computers in Human Behavior regrading Digital Interlocutors
by Andrea Guzman 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

Hello all, This CFP for a special issue of Computers in Human Behavior may be of interest: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-in-human-behavior/call-for-pape… "Digital interlocutors: theory and practice of interactions between human and machines" Robots and other machine communicators are emerging in all aspects of everyday life. They are increasingly performing social and workplace roles such as teachers, caregivers, surveillance, decision-makers and personal companionship. They have the ability to improve quality of human life through assistance, enabling, for instance, independent living or providing support in work-intensive, difficult and possibly complex situations. They also can be used as educators and motivators. This special section of Computers in Human Behavior aims to examine the role of communication in human-robot interaction or social robotics. Specifically conceptualized as examining communication between people and digital interlocutors: theory and practice of interactions with digital interlocutors in the form of artificial conversation entities, artificially intelligent software agents, embodied machine communicators (robots) and technologically augmented persons (cyborgs, wearables, enhancements, etc.) with the goal of increasing understanding of the personal, relational, and social implications of communication between humans and machines and the impact of communication on the degree of personalized interaction. The section will also consider how social robots converge and diverge from accepted communicative and behavioral practices. Preference will be given to submissions that focus on communication or education, but any communicative or social aspect of human-robot interaction will be considered. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies are encouraged. Manuscripts examining the following areas will be welcome - communicative practices between humans and digital interlocutors - the integration of artificial entities into private and professional spaces - the incorporation of AI into education and other industries - cultural discourse surrounding digital and robotic interlocutors - relationship dynamics between humans and machines - reinterpretations and representations of humans as digital entities Before paper submission opens, potential contributors should send the guest editor a title, abstract, short synopsis of the contribution as well as a short CV or Google scholar profile. Paper Submission opens September 1, 2017 Paper Submission due by October 1, 2017 Decision and Feedback after review December 2017 Final Submission February 2018 Anticipated Publication late spring 2018 The final paper should be in accordance with the Journal's Guide for Authors. Guest editor Patric Spence, School of Information Science, University of Kentucky, patric.spence(a)uky.edu _____ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu

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Reminder: IVSA 2017 Montreal deadline approaching
by MC Cambre 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

Dear all, this is a reminder for the 35th Annual Meeting *of the *International Visual Sociology Association 2017 on: *“Framing, Reframing: Visual Sociology, Goffman and the Everyday.”* *& BEYOND:* We also welcome abstracts that address other topics relating to visual methods, theories, and the visual analysis of society, culture and social relationships, and are not limited to the general themes of the conference. *Where:* Montreal, Canada. (Concordia University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture [CISSC]) *When*: June 19 - 22, 2017. *Submission Deadlines: * Jan. 22 2016 Paper/Panel/Film abstracts Feb. 22 2017 Poster & exhibit abstracts *Publication opportunities:* *Visual Studies* (IVSA affiliated), The *Journal of Video Ethnography* and *The Senses and Society* have expressed interest in publishing top papers from the conference. Further venues to be announced. Conference Website: http://www.ivsa2017.com/ *(submission guidelines will be posted here)* Follow our updates here too: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/visualsociology.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_ivsa_/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/VisualScholars *Conference Hashtag: #IVSA2017* CONTACT: IVSAconf2017(a)gmail.com -- -- *Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, Montreal Centre for Global Citizenship Education & Research Fellow Affiliate of Concordia University - Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina <http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina> Book: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>* <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>

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Call for Nominations: Global mGov Awards
by emre＠mgovernment.net 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

Dear Colleagues, - apologies for cross submissions - mLife events is soliciting nominations for the Global mGov awards as part of The 2017 World Summit on mobileGovernment to be held in Brighton UK during 7-9 May. Global mGov Awards is a worldwide contest aiming to promote advances in the field, and track advances in various countries on recent developments. mGov Awards is aiming to celebrate the valuable contributions of leading mGovernment implementations by public sector organisations as well as solutions provided by the industry in order to inspire governments, businesses and citizens. Please nominate your best projects or solutions in mobileGovernment by sending and email to me or conf(a)m4life.org Also at the Summit, key speakers from the public sector will be presenting the recent mobileGovernment achievements and challenges in their country. mLife events invites all eGov/mGov leaders in the EU and across the globe to share best practices and common challenges ahead. For further info on the Agenda, mGov Awards, Speakers and registrations please visit conference site: http://www.m4life.org and show interest. I would be grateful if you could forward this information to those who may be active in mobileGovernment domain and interested in the World Summit on mobileGovernment and the Global mobileGovernment Awards 2017. -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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"Ethics in the Age of Information" - Lecture for The Alan Turing Institute
by Luciano Floridi 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Perhaps this may be of interest to some members of the list? "Ethics in the Age of Information - Lecture for The Alan Turing Institute” now freely available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvyHf7xJa0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvyHf7xJa0> Best wishes, LF ____________________________________________ Luciano Floridi Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute | University of Oxford Faculty Fellow | The Alan Turing Institute, London PA Ms Jessica Antonio | pa.floridi(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:pa.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk> 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 | @Floridi

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fake news
by יוחנן ועקנין 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Hello All ! Following this very interesting discussion, I would like to ask if "fake titles" or "fake headlines" is a part of the fake news issue. Biased news headlines is not a new issue (http://umich.edu/~newsbias/he adlines.html) as many people don't bother reading the whole article, and also because the writer of the article is not always responsible of the headlines! *Regards, * *Yohanan Ouaknine * *PhD candidate * *Bar Ilan university, Israel* On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 10:53 PM, kalev leetaru < kalev.leetaru5(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Robert, that's actually one of the fascinating aspects of all of this - how > you define " > > fake news". If you dive back into the history of propaganda > theory, you'll find some fantastic work on why defining "fake news" is so > hard - the same set of facts can be used by well-meaning and earnest > reporters to support wildly different conclusions. Paul Linebarger's > classic "Psychological Warfare" offers a fantastic primer on this. > > If we define "fake news" as solely that news which the person writing it > knew at the time to be solely and entirely false without any basis in fact > and start looking at the legal definitions of things like "libel" then > that's one avenue of approach. But, the discussion that's happening in > journalism circles right now is really centering on a much broader > definition of false and misleading news. > > Even on this very mailing list people have mentioned the alt-left and > alt-right as "fake news". Some of that certainly falls into the category of > outright libel, where the person writing it has posted elsewhere that they > do solemnly swear that they know what they are writing to be exclusively > false and devoid of any fact and recognize it to be libel. Yet, much of the > alt-left and alt-right reporting that is being labeled as "fake news" is > simply a highly partisan or skewed interpretation of a common set of facts, > where if you talk with the reporters (and I've talked with several) they > firmly stand behind what they've written and believe it to be solid > journalism based on objective empirical fact. > > The difference is that when you turn to the Post/NYTimes/etc's journalism, > there is an expectation of rigorous fact checking and a placement of > "getting the story right" above "getting the scoop" and being the first to > print. We all know that isn't always the case and that journalists take > short cuts and papers make mistakes. But, the focus here is that we need to > have more transparency on how the media functions. > > When papers like the Post and Times no longer treat their online stories as > "print" and instead treat them as living documents to be edited over time > and constantly rewritten, that raises all sorts of questions of how we > trust and understand the information we consume, especially given studies > on online sharing that show how much of what we share is shared based > purely on the headline and lede, rather than a full careful reading of the > entire article. > > Setting aside conspiracy theories, the bottom line is that we need much > greater transparency in the journalism world - we can't just say "trust the > Post" or any other outlet - we have to start thinking critically about how > the things we take for granted like the inverted pyramid actually serve to > enable and power false and misleading news ( > http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/10/the-inve > rted-pyramid-and-how-fake-news-weaponized-modern-journalistic-practice/ > ). > > Kalev -- Yohanan Ouaknine <http://www.twitter.com/yohananouaknine> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/yohananouaknine> This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail and any attachments. *P* *Think of the environmental impact before printing this page *

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Book launch 9 February IALS London for "Network Neutrality: From policy to law to regulation"
by chris marsden 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Dear all Registration required but all welcome, Manchester UP supplying wine:CharlesClore House 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR 6pm – 8pm, 9February 2017This event is FREE but advanced booking is required on the IALS Events Calendar: Speaker: ProfessorChristopher T. Marsden: Professor of InternetLaw, (University of Sussex Law School)Discussants: DrAngela Daly, Vice-Chancellor’sResearch Fellow, (Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law); ResearchAssociate, Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology and Society; Professor Ian Walden,Professor of Information and Communications Law, (Queen May, University ofLondon.)Net neutrality is the most contested Internet access policy ofour time. This book offers an in-depth explanation of the concept, addressingits history since 1999, its engineering, the policy challenges it representsand its legislation and regulation.Various case studies are presented, including SpecializedServices and Content Delivery Networks for video over the Internet, and thebook goes on to examine the future of net neutrality battles in Europe, theUnited States and developing countries, as well as offering co-regulatorysolutions based on FRAND and non-exclusivity.It will be a must-read for researchers and advocates in the netneutrality debate, as well as those interested in the context of communicationsregulation, law and economic regulation, human rights discourse and policy, andthe impact of science and engineering on policy and governance.This seminar will be followed by the book launch of “Network Neutrality:From Policy to Law to Regulation” by Christopher Marsden, (ManchesterUniversity Press, 2017).

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Re: [Air-L] Social Media and Self Branding
by Karin Hansson 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Thanks Adam, I just want to add that also among culture workers self-branding in social media is not necessarily the normal. In my study of young Swedish artists communication practices, self-branding was seen as something ”real" artist shouldn’t engage in. Social media was used foremost as a way to keep track of relations established IRL. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5626 <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5626> . I am looking forward to see the result of your Instagram study. Best, Karin ____________________________________ Karin Hansson PhD Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University Postbox 7003, 164 07 Kista, SWEDEN Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista E-mail: khansson(a)dsv.su.se <mailto:khansson@dsv.su.se> people.dsv.su.se/khansson <http://people.dsv.su.se/khansson> ____________________________________ > On 6 jan 2017, at 11:05, Adam Arvidsson <adam.arvidsson(a)unimi.it> wrote: > > Dear All, > > together with my colleagues I am analyzing a sample of some 500.000 Instagram users (we gathered it by looking at people who post on mainstream brands online), we haven't published on it yet (something will come out this year) but one clear result is that about 98 per cent of the users DO NOT engage in anything that can be remotely called self-branding. This finding is backed up by our interviews (about 50 so far). So maybe self branding is not the normal or default way of using social media, maybe its just the way social media are used by a small and highly visible (and easy to study) 'elite', that media researchers have paid a disproportionate amount of attention to. Just a thought. > > Adam Arvidsson > Associate Professor > Department of Social and Political Sciences > University of Milano > via Conservatorio 7 > 20122 Milano, Italy > > > Il 05/01/17 17:01, Ilana Gershon <imgershon(a)gmail.com> ha scritto: >> >> I have an article on self-branding for the job market using new media that >> may be a bit out of way for some on the list because it is in the Political >> and Legal Anthropology Review: >> >> "Selling Your Self in the United States" PoLAR 37( 2): 281-295. >> >> https://www.academia.edu/28983371/Selling_Your_Self_in_the_United_States >> >> And I have a book on hiring and new media coming out in April, and the first >> chapter is all about branding. I am happy to send along a pre-print if >> anyone >> is interested in the chapter. >> >> Best, >> Ilana >> >> On 1/5/2017 12:37 AM, Crystal Abidin wrote: >>> Moshimoshi Julie, >>> >>> I've written extensively about Influencers and their self-branding >>> strategies (i.e. communicative intimacies, visibility labour, coupling, >>> selfies, etc) here: https://wishcrys.com/academic-publications/ >>> >>> Other great works I've enjoyed are: >>> >>> Banet-Weiser S (2012) Authentic TM: The Politics and Ambivalence in a Brand >>> Culture . New York: New York University Press. >>> >>> Duffy BE (2016) The romance of work: gender and aspirational labour in the >>> digital culture industries. International Journal of Cultural Studies >>> 19(4): 441–457. >>> >>> Hopkins J and Thomas N (2011) Fielding networked marketing: technology and >>> authenticity in the monetiza-tion of Malaysian blogs. In: Araya D, Breindi >>> Y and Tessa J (eds) Nexus: New Intersections in Internet Research . New >>> York: Peter Lang, pp. 139–156 >>> >>> Marwick AE (2015) Instafame: luxury selfies in the attention economy. >>> Public Culture 27: 137–160. >>> >>> Neff G, Wissinger E and Zukin S (2005) Entrepreneurial labor among cultural >>> producers: ‘Cool’ jobs in ‘hot’ industries. Social Semiotics 15(3): 307–334. >>> >>> Senft TM (2008) Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social >>> Networks . New York: Peter Lang. >>> >>> Wissinger E (2015) #NoFilter: models, glamour labor, and the age of the >>> blink (In: Davis J and Jurgenson N (eds) Theorizing the Web 2014 ). >>> Interface 1(1): 1–20. >>> >>> Hope this helps. >>> /C >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Joshua Braun <jabraun(a)journ.umass.edu> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Brooke Erin Duffy's forthcoming book seems like it will have a lot to say >>>> on this issue: >>>> >>>> http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300218176/not-getting-paid-do-what-you-love >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Josh >>>> >>>> On 2017-01-04 17:14, Julie Grinberg wrote: >>>> >>>>> Please recommend recent critical literature that addresses social >>>>> media as sites for self promotion/branding. Looking for work that >>>>> explores social media participation as (socially) compulsory vs >>>>> personal choice. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>>>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>>>> >>>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>>>> http://www.aoir.org/ >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Josh Braun, Ph.D. >>>> Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies >>>> Journalism Department >>>> University of Massachusetts Amherst >>>> >>>> @josh_braun >>>> Skype: wideaperture >>>> http://wideaperture.net/ >>>> new book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197501/program-brought-you >>>> >>>> "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. >>>> An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." >>>> William Least Heat-Moon >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >>>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >>>> >>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >>>> http://www.aoir.org/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > -- > Adam Arvidsson > Associate Professor > Department of Social and Political Sciences > University of Milano > via Conservatorio 7 > 20122 Milano, Italy > tel. +39-02.503.21209 > fax.+39-02.503.21240 > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

*** Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Instructions to Authors Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process. The conference language is English. The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings. Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through EasyChair at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI 2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must register for the conference and pay the author registration fee. A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high quality scientific journals. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: February 15, 2017 · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: February 22, 2017 · Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017 · Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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