Building Up a Global Sustainable Information Society

The information technologies have shown an ever growing capacity to perform operations we could not even dream of some decades ago. During this time, we have witnessed a constant growth of the interconnectivity of agents in a thriving global network in which the algorithmic capacity of the nodes and the intensity of the interaction have continuously increased. As a consequence, this global network evolves as an ecosystem in which our lives are more and more immersed, and our destinies are increasingly entangled, as it happens with the lives of the organisms evolving in a dense ecosystem.

The question is whether the conditions of this global life are given to evolve towards a sustainable future. Namely a future in which the needs of the so called information society can be attended, a sustainable future without exclusion and oppression, a sustainable future in which it is not taken from nature more than what is given back. The design, development and implementation of the information technologies has a profound consequence on these dynamics. The technological development is not an end in itself, it has to prove its applicability in the solution of human needs, in the building up of a sustainable information society at a global scale.

Under this broad focus, we call for contributions to the next edition of the International Congress on Applied Informatics to be held in Madrid, next November (ICAI-2019, http://icai.itiud.org/). Aware of the multifarious tasks to be accomplished in the endeavour of building up a global sustainable information society, ranging from artificial intelligence to information ethics, from bioinformatics to education, from data science to co-creation of knowledge… ICAI aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in the broad-spectrum of topics referred bellow.

Submitted papers, to be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (Springer, with JCR and Scopus indexing), should be related to one or more of the ICAI’s topics:

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: June 16^th, extended to: June 30^th

• Paper Notification: July 14^th

• Camera Ready: August 11^th

• Authors Registration: August 11^th

• Congress: November 7-9^th

Submission Guidelines

Authors must submit an original full paper (12 to 15 pages using the template) that has not previously been published. All contributions must be written in English. Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for MSWord, for the preparation of their papers:

http://www.springer.com/la/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer.

Besides the proceedings in CCIS, other publication venues are previewed, as several special issues in peer-reviewed indexed journals and book-series for extended versions of selected papers.

Further Information

Visit congress website: http://icai.itiud.org/

10th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management

The international group “Emergent systems, information and society” invites you to join the following Workshop at the S-BPM ONE 2018, 10th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management from April 5-6, 2018 at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Autopoiesis Perspective on Information, Communication and Social Systems (APICSS'2016) September 11-14, 2016 that will be held in the city of Gdansk, Poland. The workshop is organized in conjunction with Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems FedCSIS'2016 (http://www.fedcsis.org).

Deadline for Paper Submission: April 18, 2016.

Please visit: https://fedcsis.org/2016/apicss for workshop and submission details.

Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar.

The main scope of the workshop is to present the latest advances of autopoietic systems in heterogeneous fields. The workshop would cover the whole range of theoretical and practical aspects, technologies and systems, and its aim is to bring together specialists to exchange ideas and promote fruitful discussions on:

·        self-organizing into desirable structure and patterns;

·        self-configuration following high level specification;

·        self-optimization to adapt to changing environment without direct human input;

·        self-healing to recover from faults;

·        self-protection against malicious attacks.

Therefore, taking into account the theories on autopoiesis, a discussion between researchers from all disciplines is expected. This includes formal, cognitive, engineering and philosophical aspects of autopoiesis. The topics and areas include, but are not limited to:

Self-adaptive and self-organizing Information Systems:

·        auto-configuration,

·        viable systems,

·        adaptability, learning and self-production of information systems,

·        QoS (Quality of Service) for self-producting systems,

·        self-organizing geographic connectivity maps,

·        self-organizing artificial intelligence.

·        self-tuning databases.

Self-adaptive and self-organizing Communication Systems:

·        evolutionary networks,

·        interacting autonomous systems,

·        self-maintained networks,

·        self-organizing data visualization,

·        policy-based self-management.

Self-adaptive and self-organizing Social Systems:

·        virtual organizations,

·        socio-economic cybernetics,

·        self-organizing social networks.