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WSKS-2011

5th  WORLD SUMMIT ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

20-22 June, 2012, Rome, Italy

http://www.wsks.org

Be Part of a Top Academic Community and Event

THE LEADING ACADEMIC SUMMIT ON KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT,

TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH

WSKS 2012 WILL BE HELD IN ROME, ITALY

Value Proposition:

1.        All the accepted papers will be published in Springer Proceedings and

all their extended versions:

•        in 5 ISI special Issues (60 papers)

•        in 10 non ISI special Issues (100 papers)

2.        Also all the contributors of accepted papers will be invited to

contribute to 3 edited books related to WSKS

3.        All contributors will be invited to join the Editorial Boards of 5 well

established journals and 12 new ones.

About World Summit on the Knowledge Society:

The World Summit in the Knowledge Society the last years has contributed

an excellent number of research academic outcomes to the community and the

society.

Three of the latest special issues developed by papers presented initially

in the WSKS are:

Computers in Human Behavior,  Elsevier Ltd.

Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 1285-1466 (July 2011)

Social and Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society

Edited by Miltiadis D. Lytras and John M. Carroll

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235979%232011%23999729995%233182757%23FLA%23&_cdi=5979&_pubType=J&_auth=y&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b0cab601dcd47deb5ab0ab7af8ea57e0

JUCS: Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volume 17, Issue 9, 2011

Special Issue on Software Technologies in Knowledge Society

Edited by Miltiadis D. Lytras and Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

http://www.jucs.org/jucs_17_9

Information Systems Management Journal

Taylor and Francis

Volume 27, Issue 3, 2010

Special Issue: Information Systems Research for a Sustainable Knowledge

Society

Edited by Miltiadis D. Lytras

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g924333520

World Wide Web

Springer Verlag

Special Issue: Human-Centered Web Science

Edited by Ernesto Damiani, Miltiadis Lytras and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux

http://www.springerlink.com/content/1386-145x/13/1-2/

Past Proceedings available from Springer: http://tiny.cc/5Te4O

In General 75 papers from WSKS events have been published in ISI journals

while all the rest more than 200 have been published in well-established

peer reviewed academic journals.

Extended Papers from WSKS series published on Special issues on TOP

academic Journals listed on ISI: CHB, ILE, ISM, IJTM, Human Factors in

Ergonomics, Journal of Information Science, IJ on Semantic Web. WWWJ, IEEE

T-SMC-Part A, etc.

The WSKS Official Journal is the International Journal of Knowledge

Society Research at IGI-Global, http://www.igi-global.com/ijksr

C A LL   F O R   P A P E R S (LAST CALL)

5th World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2011)

http://wsks.org

Rome, Italy

20-22 June, 2012

The 5th World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2012) is an

international attempt to promote the dialogue for the main aspects of the

Knowledge Society towards a better world for all.

This annual Summit brings together key stakeholders of the Knowledge

Society development worldwide, from Academia, Industry, Government, Policy

Makers, and active citizens to look at  the impact and prospects of the

Information Technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key

facets of living, working, learning, innovating and collaborating in

today’s hyper-complex world.

The Summit provides a distinct, unique forum for cross-disciplinary

fertilization of research, favoring the dissemination of research new

scientific ideas relevant to international research agendas as the EU

(FP7), OECD or UNESCO.

Ten general pillars provide the constitutional elements of the Summit. We

need a better world. We contribute with our sound voices to the agenda,

policies and actions.

We invite you to join your voice with ours and all together to shape a new

deal for our world. Education, Sustainable Development, Health,

Opportunities for well being, Culture, Collaboration, Peace, Democracy,

Technology for all. Open Minds for a Better World.

Eleven general scientific pillars provide the constitutional elements of

the Summit:

1.       Information Technologies – Knowledge Management Systems –

E-business & Business, Organizational and Inter-organizational Information

Systems for the Knowledge Society.

2.       Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and

E-learning for the Knowledge Society.

3.       Social & Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society –

Emerging Technologies for the Society and the Humanity.

4.       Culture & Cultural Heritage – Technology for Culture Management –

Management of Tourism and Entertainment – Tourism Networks in the

Knowledge Society.

5.       Government and Democracy in the Knowledge Society.

6.       Innovation, Sustainable Development and Strategic Management for

the Knowledge Society.

7.       Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology.

8.       Intellectual and Human Capital Development in the Knowledge Society.

9.       Advanced Applications for Environmental Protection and Green

Economy Management.

10.   Future Prospects for the Knowledge Society: from Foresight Studies

to Projects and Public Policies.

11.   Technologies and Business Models for the Creative Industries.

The WSKS 2012 official proceedings will be published by Springer.

Submission procedure

All submissions must follow the Springer Lecture Notes template for

Microsoft Word (.doc files only). Papers must be 6-page length as maximum.

Go to  submissions page to submit your paper.

Special Issues

Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to different

special issues in highly renowned scientific journals. For more

information see http://wsks.org, where several special issues calls in ISI

journals are linked to this conference. Some of the supporting journals

are:

·         Computer in Human Behavior – CHB.

·         International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems –

IJSWIS.

·         International Journal of Knowledge Society Research – IJKSR.

BE PART IN THE BEST WSKS EVER!!!

One more special issue with 12 articles from PAST WSKS events published in a TOP journal.

Our community contributes to our society TOP QUALITY RESEARCH.
SPECIAL ISSUE ON HUMAN SEMANTIC WEB PERSONALIZATION, MANAGEMENT OF PERSONALKNOWLEDGE, AND SOCIAL IDENTITY FOR THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

Table of Contents Here

I am so proud!!
This year for wsks 2011 8 ISI special issues. It is AMAZING. BE PART OF OUR EXCITING COMMUNITY

Call for Papers

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) Focussed Topic Issue on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering for the Knowledge Society

GUEST EDITORS

Francisco J. Garcia-Peñalvo, PhD, University of Salamanca, SPAIN.

Patricia Ordoñez, PhD, University of Oviedo, SPAIN.

Miltiadis D. Lytras, PhD, The American College of Greece, GREECE.

Due date for prospective papers: 30 Oct 2011

Notification to Authors: February 1, 2012

Final manuscripts to publisher: May 1, 2012

Publication: August 2012 in IJSEKE Vol. 22 No. 5

The current society has knowledge as one of its most important values and indeed this is often called Knowledge Society. But Knowledge Society is still a desired aim more than a reality.

Technology must serve to the achievement of Knowledge Society through knowledge- based information systems, but this is not an easy and out-dated task, nevertheless critically important topics, from different multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives, address the complex relationships among technology, knowledge and society.

World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS) is an international event that promotes the dialogue for the main aspects of the Knowledge Society towards a better world for all. WSKS brings together key stakeholders of the Knowledge Society development worldwide, from Academia, Industry, Government, Policy Makers, and active citizens to look at the impact and prospects of the Information Technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of living, working, learning, innovating and collaborating in today’s hyper-complex world.

In the open debate about the WSKS themes, Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering have an important role just looking for the improvement of the above mention knowledge-based systems.

These goals match up with International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering aim and scope, devoting to issues raised by this vision.

Thus, the 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2011) makes a special call for researching, state-of-the-art and case study papers that address topics area of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering for the Knowledge Society, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Systems for the Knowledge Society;
• Collective intelligence, collaborative innovation networks and swarm intelligence;
• Knowledge based processes in social networking;
• Semantic web based information system, semantic web services, ontology related processes
• Knowledge-based information system interoperability middleware;

Scientific Committee (To be completed)

-          Ricardo Colomo (University of Carlos III, Spain)

-          Jose Adriano Gomes Pires (IPB of Bragança, Portugal)

-          Ricardo Quirós (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal)

-          Héctor Barbosa (Colima University, Mexico)

-          Ángel Hernández García (UPM, Spain)

-          Miroslav Minovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

-          Roberto Therón (University of Salamanca, Spain)

-          Marc Allier, (UPC, Spain)

-          Adriana Berlanga (Open University of The Netherlands, NL)

-          Peter Sloep (Open University of The Netherlands, NL)

-          Miguel Á. Sicilia (University of Alcalá, Spain)

-          Przemysław Kazienko (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)

-          Liana Razmerita (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

-          Antonella Carbonaro (Universita’ di Bologna, Italy)

-          Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Paper submission:

Papers should be submitted using EasyChair platform. EasyChair submission page is avalaible at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijsekeld11.

Guideliness are avalaible at IJSEKE page: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijseke/mkt/guidelines.shtml.

Manuscripts using correct template should be no longer than 20 pages.

Note: There is a mandatory page charge per published page. See IJSEKE Guideliness page for more information.

For more information, please contact the guest editor:

Dr. Francisco J. García-Peñalvo

Dept. of Computer Science

University of Salamanca

fgarcia@usal.es

Guest Editors:

Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

Carlos III University of Madrid, SPAIN

ricardo.colomo@uc3m.es

Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras

The American College of Greece, GREECE

miltiadis.lytras@gmail.com

Dr. Francisco J. García-Peñalvo

University of Salamanca, SPAIN

fgarcia@usal.es

Dr. Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos

University of Oviedo, SPAIN

patriop@uniovi.es

Rationale

The World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS) is an international event that promotes the dialogue for the main aspects of the Knowledge Society towards a better world for all. WSKS brings together key stakeholders of the Knowledge Society development worldwide, from Academia, Industry, Government, Policy Makers, and active citizens to look at the impact and prospects of the Information Technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of living, working, learning, innovating and collaborating in today’s hyper-complex world. In the open debate about the WSKS themes, there are many applications of computational intelligence to the knowledge society.

Computational intelligence techniques are known for their ability to adapt and to exhibit fault tolerance, high computational speed and resilience against noisy information. Computational Intelligence includes several topics like web intelligence, machine learning, agents and multiagent systems or knowledge mining to cite just a few. This panoply of techniques is beginning to be prominent in commercial information systems. These applications are a key part of the knowledge society, gathering and processing big amounts of data in order to convert it to knowledge, the key asset for the corporations of the 21^st century.

Thus, the aim of this Special Issue is to bring an overview of applications as well as methods to enable computational intelligence methods to build information systems supporting the development of the knowledge society.

The topics of this special issue include but are not limited to:

• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Knowledge Acquisition using computational intelligence techniques
• Neural networks and genetic algorithms applications in the development of information systems
• Semantic Web
• Semantic Social Network Analysis
• Machine learning applications
• Natural Language Processing
• Intelligent Multi-agent Systems
• Applications and Case-studies

Submission

Papers will be selected by editors from those papers published in WSKS2011 proceedings. All papers must be extended in, at a very minimum, 50% new material. The authors should write a brief note to accompany their submission that explains the manner in which the extended version of the paper does, indeed, constitute an extension of the original version, pointing out, for example, areas where new text or additional results have been included, where text has been re-written and where extra depth is provided.

All papers will be reviewed in accordance with the journal policy. Papers must conform to the formatting guidelines as provided by Atlantis Press (http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/ijcis/index.html ) and sent to guest editors’ emails in MsWord format. For queries about this special issue, feel free to contact the special issue guest editors. Please note the following important dates:

Dates

• Submission Deadline:                                     October. 31, 2011
• First-Round Reviews:                                     December 31, 2011
• Final version of revised Papers:                 February 28, 2012
• Publication (tentative):                                                 Third quarter of 2012

Call for Papers – Download CFP [here]

Computer Applications in Engineering Education

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-0542

aLearning Teaching Innovations in Engineering Higher Education

The Guest Editors for this Special Issue invite papers addressing the theme of eLearning innovative practices and experiences in Engineering Higher Education for Wiley Computer Applications in Engineering Education Journal.

Rationale

eLearning practices are usually introduced in Engineering Higher Education studies with different configurations, i.e., completely online programmes, blended solutions or simply technological tools that are used in traditional presential programmes.

Technology applied to Engineering Higher Education introduces many methodological possibilities, especially in active learning practices or tutorial guiding; provides a high flexibility degree regarding time and geographical barriers; allows that student can introduce themselves in informal and competence based learning processes; and also opens the devices and media spectrum with mobile and social media, evolving the eLearning concept to aLearning (where a means mobile, game, television, social, collaborative, ubiquitous, etc. learning).

Moreover, independently of the technological advances, all these tools or gadget means nothing if they are not really used efficiently in Higher Education teaching/learning processes, with a clear learning goal.

Thus, technology in Engineering Higher Education is not an aim; it is a very important and significant medium by the way the main educational stakeholders may improve the teaching/learning processes in which they are involved through a very high innovation degree.

This special issue is devoted to share innovative aLearning practices in Engineering Higher Education. This includes, in the scope of Engineering Higher Education, a wide spectrum of topics that include, but are not limited to:

-          Virtual communities in practice;

-          Educative Web 2.0 practices;

-          Language learning/practicing;

-          Informal learning discovering in higher education;

-          eTutoring practices;

-          Multicultural enhancement through ICT;

-          Active learning methods supported by ICT.

Scientific Committee (TBC)

-          Scott Wilson (University of Bolton, UK)

-          Stephen Downes (National Research Council, Canada)

-          Terry Anderson (Athabasca University, Canada)

-          Patrick McAndrew (Open University, UK)

-          Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)

-          David Griffiths (University of Bolton, UK)

-          Steven Verjans (Open University of The Netherlands, NL)

-          Slavi Stoyanov (Open University of The Netherlands, NL)

-          Francis Brouns (Open University of The Netherlands, NL)

-          Adriana Berlanga (Open University of The Netherlands, NL)

-          Peter Sloep (Open University of The Netherlands, NL)

-          María José Rodríguez Conde (University of Salamanca, Spain)

-          Gorka Palazio (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

-          Carlos Castaño (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

-          German Ruipérez (Spanish National Open University, UNED, Spain)

-          Patricia Ordoñez (University of Oviedo, Spain)

-          Jordi Adell (Jaume I University, Spain)

-          Miguel A. Conde (University of Salamanca, Spain)

-          Ricardo Colomo (University of Carlos III, Spain)

-          Jose Adriano Gomes Pires (IPB of Bragança, Portugal)

-          Ricardo Quirós (Polytechnic Institute of Porto)

-          Héctor Barbosa (Colima University, Mexico)

-          Ángel Hernández García (UPM, Spain)

-          Grainne Conole (The Open University, UK)

-          Miroslav Minovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

-          Jose Antonio Jerónimo (UNAM, Mexico)

Submission Guidelines

Instructions for authors can be accessed via the journal homepage http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-0542.

Timeline & Planning

Deadline for paper submission:                                 01.December.2011

Feedback from reviewers:                           01.March.2012

Revised manuscripts:                                     01.May.2012

Acceptance notification:                               01.June.2012

Camera-ready submissions:                        01.July.2012

Manuscripts should be emailed also as a PDF file to the corresponding Guest Editors.

Guest Editors

Prof. Francisco J. García-Peñalvo, PhD

Computer Science Department

University of Salamanca

Salamanca, Spain

fgarcia@usal.es

Biographical notes:

He holds a PhD in Computer Science (2000, University of Salamanca, Spain). He works as a Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Salamanca. He is Director of the Research Group in Interaction and eLearning (GRIAL – http://grial.usal.es). His main research interests are eLearning technologies and policies, ICT and education, Software and Knowledge Engineering and Visual Analytics. He was Technology and Innovation pro-Chancellor of the University of Salamanca up to December 2009. He has authored more than 100 papers published in international journals and conferences, and several books regarding eLearning policies, technologies and quality in online training contexts. He has led and participated as researcher in more than 50 projects over the last 10 years, including regional, national, European and international actions, related to his main research fields. Now, he is co-chair of Techeducation and World Summit on Knowledge Society  – WSKS.

Prof. Miltiadis D. Lytras, PhD

The American College of Greece, GREECE

miltiadis.lytras@gmail.com

Biographical notes:

Miltiadis D. Lytras is a Research Professor in the American College of Greece – Deree College. His research focuses on semantic web, knowledge management and e-learning, with more than 100 publications in these areas. He has co-edited / co-edits, 25 special issues in International Journals (e.g. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Transactions on Education, Computers in Human Behaviour, Interactive Learning Environments, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, etc.) and has authored/[co-]edited 25 books [e.g. Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge Management, Intelligent Learning Infrastructures for Knowledge Intensive Organizations, Semantic Web Based Information Systems, China Information technology Handbook, Real World Applications of Semantic Web and Ontologies, Web 2.0: The Business Model, etc.] . He is the founder and officer of the Semantic Web and Information Systems Special Interest Group in the Association for Information Systems (http://www.sigsemis.org). He serves/ed as the (Co) (founding) Editor in Chief of 12 international journals [e.g. International Journal on Semantic Web Information Systems, International Journal of Knowledge Society Research, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, International Journal on Social and Humanistic Computing, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, International Journal on Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism, International Journal of Electronic Democracy, International Journal of Electronic Banking, International Journal of Electronic Trade etc.] while he is associate editor or editorial board member in seven more. He is the Editor of Four Book Series in IGI-Global. He also is the Editor in Chief, IJ of Knowledge Society Research, http://www.igi-global.com/ijksr.

Prof. Patricia Ordoñez, PhD

Department of Business Administration

University of Oviedo

Oviedo, Spain

patriop@uniovi.es

Biographical notes:

She is a Professor in the Department of Business Administration and Accountability in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her teaching and research interests focus on the areas of strategic management, knowledge management, intellectual capital measuring and reporting, organisational learning and human resources management, information technologies and semantic web. In recent years she started a new stream of research: Asian business and culture. She serves as Executive Editor of the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual and Associate Editor of Behaviour and Information Technology.

WSKS 2011, will be held in MYKONOS island Greece. Submit your article now. Be part of the exciting community of WSKS with academics from more than 50 countries.