What's irritating is that a whole bunch of us here locally got spammed with this very same message on October 28. Does anybody know these PISTA people well enough to be able to tell them that their communications practices have "pist" people off? elijah
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:56:06 -0600 From: Homero Gil de Zuniga <hgildezuniga@wisc.edu> Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] FW: Inviting you to participate in PISTA 2004
Sorry for crossposting... Some of you might be interested. HGZ ------------------------------------
Dear Dr. Homero Zuniga:
The Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA '04), is pleased to invite you to participate in this international event that will be held in July 21-25, 2004, in Orlando, Florida, USA.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are transforming our societies, therefore papers about research results, solutions and problems of the applications of ICT in Politics and Society are highly encouraged.
You are also invited to organize a panel or an invited session. Panel sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and political consultants or politicians are highly encouraged.
You can find more information about Pista '04, in our web site: http://www.confinf.org/Pista04
The best 10% of the papers will be published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp), the hard copy version of which will be ready in about one month, and it will be sent to the largest university libraries.
Could you please deliver the Call for Papers I am including herein, to your colleagues?
If you consider that the deadlines are tight and you need more time, please, let me know about a suitable timing for you and I will inform you if it is feasible for us.
This deadline is exclusively for the people who are being invited through these letters hence, this deadline won't be published in our web site.
Best Regards,
Professor Jose Vicente Carrasquero General Chair Pista 2004
Call for Papers
2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA ´04) July 21 - 25, 2004 - Orlando, Florida, USA
http://www.confinf.org/pista04
PISTA '04 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit their original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on analogical thinking, problems that require solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are invited to present their research results. Practitioners and consultants are invited to present case study papers and innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to present political information systems and software based solutions. Public servers are invited to present case studies, information systems developed for specific purpose, and innovative ideas and designs. Political and social scientists are invited to present research or position papers on the impact and the future possibilities of ICT in Societal systems and political processes. Politician and political consultants are invited to present problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions that might be improved by different approaches and design in ICT.
All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and political consultants or politicians are highly encouraged.
Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings.
You can find complete information about the conference in our web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04
PISTA '04 Organization General Chair: Prof. Jose Vicente Carrasquero Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Angel Oropeza
Organized by the IIIS: The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics
Conference Areas · Informatics And Society · Informatics, Voting and Political Parties · Informatics And Government · Ethical and Legal Issues related to Informatics
Abstracts and Paper Drafts Submission Form
Papers might be submitted via web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/submission.asp, as extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or as full papers drafts (2000-5000 words).
Reviews will be done for both kinds of submissions.
Invited Sessions proposals can be done filling the form given in the web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04/invitedsession/organizer.asp
More information about Invited Sessions Organization could be found at the web http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/ISOrganization.asp
Important Dates December 22nd, 2003: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500) words or paper Drafts (2000-5000) words.
December 22nd, 2003: Invited session proposals.
February 13th, 2004: Notifications of Acceptance.
April 13th, 2004: Submission of final versions: hard copies and electronic versions.
Some invited sessions might have a different timetable according to its organizer and chair
Papers Reviewing And Publication Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must sign a copyright release form.
The Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics will publish, at least, the best 10% of the papers presented at the conference.
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