Apologies for crossposting A call recently received through other pathways. Best regards Sandra Mols ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Kai Jakobs <kai.jakobs@COMSYS.RWTH-AACHEN.DE> To: MERSENNE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Fri, 4 February, 2011 11:18:58 Subject: CfP: Standardisation & Innovaton in IT Dear All, This CfP will perhaps be of interest to some of you. And if you receive this Call more than once, you probably belong to our target group ....... (my apologies nonetheless). Cheers, Kai. Call for Papers 7th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology SIIT 2011 www.siit2011.org 28 - 30 September 2011 Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin Technical University Berlin, Germany Technical co-sponsor: IEEE SA Sponsors: DIN, DKE, Microsoft, tba Standardisation research is a multi-disciplinary field. Contributing disciplines include, but are by no means limited to, Business Studies, Computer Science, Economics, Information Systems, Management Studies, History and Social Sciences. While standards and standardisation research is an emerging research area it is of considerable interest and relevance to a large non-academic constituency that includes practitioners from industry, policy makers, users and consumer communities and, last but not least, to those active in or working for, standards setting organisations. Accordingly, the SIIT conferences aim at bringing together representatives of these communities to foster the exchange of insights and views on all issues surrounding ICT standards and standardisation. Topics Theoretical and empirical papers as well as case studies are welcome that shed some light on IT standards, standardisation, and innovation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * standardisation and innovation * impact of standards * implementation and diffusion of standards * standardisation policies and regulation * competing regional and international regimes * standards and developing countries * e-Government standards * intellectual property rights and antitrust law * standards setting processes and organisations * standards cultures * standards education * history of standardisation * corporate standards strategies * alternative compatibility strategies and interoperability Important Dates Submissions due: 15 April 2011 Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2011 Final paper due: 19 August 2011 All information about the conference will be announced at www.SIIT2011.org Paper Submissions Original (unpublished) papers not exceeding 6,000 words are solicited. They will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Authors may submit more than one paper, but each participant will only be allowed to present one paper during the conference. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, and are planned to be available through IEEE Xplore. Accordingly, the authors must comply with the IEEE policy on copyright and plagiarism including self-plagiarism. Authors of accepted papers will also be asked to sign an IEEE Copyright Form. Outstanding papers will be considered for inclusion in the International Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). Submissions should be sent in .pdf or .rtf format to r.n.a.bekkers@tue.nl Travel Grants We expect to be able to offer travel grants for students and for attendees from developing countries. Those who are interested should send an e-mail message to siit2011@fokus.fraunhofer.de Previous SIIT Conferences 1999 RWTH Aachen University, DE 2001 University of Colorado, Boulder, US 2003 Technical University of Delft, NL 2005 ITU-T, Geneva, CH 2007 University of Calgary, CA 2009 Kogakuin University, Tokyo, JP General Chair Knut Blind, Fraunhofer FOKUS & TU Berlin, DE Programme Committee Chairs Rudi Bekkers, Eindhoven U. of Technology, NL Ken Krechmer, ICSR, US Programme Committee Members Paolo Bellavista, Bologna U., IT Knut Blind, FOKUS, TU Berlin, DE Francoise Bousquet, ZFIB, FR Nils Brunsson, Stockholm School of Economics, SE Donggeu Choi, KSA, KR Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, NL Vlad Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT Linda Garcia, Georgetown U., US Stephan Gauch, TU Berlin, DE John Hudson, Bath U., UK Eric Iversen, NIFU STEP, NO Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE Dirk Kuhlmann, HP, UK Heejin Lee, Yonsei U., KR Aija Leiponen, Imperial College, UK Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U., US Yann Maniere, Ecole de Mines, FR Eric Monteiro, Norwegian TU, NO Don Purcell, Catholic U., US Roy Rada, Maryland U., US Tim Schoechle, U. of Colorado, US Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, US Tim Simcoe, Boston U., US Jan Smits, TU. of Eindhoven, NL Michael Spring, Pittsburgh U., US Kees Stuurman, Tilburg U., NL Klaus Turowski, Augsburg U., DE Taavi Valdlo, Estonian Informatics Centre, EE Geerten van de Kaa, TU Delft, NL Henk de Vries, Erasmus U., NL Marc van Wegberg, Maastricht U., NL Willem Wakker, ACE, NL Juergen Wehnert, urbane resourcen, DE Joel West, San José State U., US Robin Williams, Edinburgh U., UK Advisory Board Heinrich Arnold, DTAG, DE Torsten Bahke, DIN, DE Carl Cargill, Adobe, US Ute Decker, Microsoft, UK Jochen Friedrich, IBM, DE Mattias Ganslandt, Lund U., NO Alexander Gelman, IEEE SA, US Malcolm Johnson ITU TSB, CH John Ketchell, CEN, BE Martin Libicki, RAND Corp., US Markus Reigl, Siemens, DE Ulrich Sandl, BMWi, DE Jack Sheldon, IEC, CH Jonas Sundborg, Ericsson, SE Bernhard Thies, DKE Stéphane Trochone, Qualcomm, US Trond Arne Undheim, Oracle, UK Andrew Updegrove, Gesmer & Updegrove, US Walter Weigel, ETSI, FR John Wilson, Worldbank, US International Organising Committee Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, NL Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE Ken Krechmer, ICSR, US Tim Schoechle, ICSR, US Mostafa H. Sherif, AT&T, US Local organizers Brigitte Essoun, TU Berlin, DE Stephan Gauch, TU Berlin, DE ________________________________________________________________ Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22220 Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de <http://www.nets.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/kai/kai_home.html> EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. <http://www.euras.org> The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. <http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr> The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series. <http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142>