Publication Venues for Open Research

We asked our SIGOPEN members to name publication venues that have published quality research on all things open. Here is the list that we collected:

AMCIS 2019 Call For Minitrack Proposals to Openness in Research and Practice Track

We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to the Openness in Research and Practice (SIGOPEN) track to be held at the  25th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2019), on August 15-17, 2019 in Cancun, Mexico. Openness continues to be a transformative force that demands the rigorous and considered investigation of the Information Systems community (see track description at: https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-23).
This track provides a forum to further our understanding of these dynamic and complex ideas. Papers in this track will be those that share new ideas about theoretical and empirical research on the wide range of phenomena emerging at the intersection of Information Systems and various forms of legal, technological, organizational, and societal openness.
To submit a minitrack proposal to this track, you must submit:
  1. minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation);
  2. minitrack title;
  3. short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2019 website (up to 150 words);
  4. call for papers for your minitrack.
To submit a minitrack proposal, visit: https://new.precisionconference.com/ais and follow the attached submission guidelines.  Submissions are due 19th October, 2018.
Minitrack chairs will be responsible for:
  1. promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2019;
  2. soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and
  3. making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack.
Best regards,
Lorraine Morgan & Kevin Carillo
Track Chairs

 

CFP: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2018)

Track: Sharing Economy and Crowd Markets

http://icis2018.aisnet.org/?page_id=111#toggle-id-9

December 13-16, 2018, San Francisco, California (http://icis2018.aisnet.org/)

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 2 May 2018 (11.59pm San Francisco time; UTC-08:00)
Notification of submission decision: 30 July 2018
Notification of final paper accepted: 5 September 2018

Track Chairs
Lorraine Morgan, National University of Ireland Galway
Dongwon Lee, Korea Unversity Business School
Arun Sundararajan, New York University

Track Description
Technological advances are reshaping the way we organize economic activity, shifting us from activities conducted within traditional institutions towards crowd markets and sharing economies. This track welcomes research that expands our knowledge of the latest trends and developments in the sharing economy and crowd markets in order to determine how digital technologies are influencing the sharing of and access to resources through peer-to-peer networks and communities and the effect of these systems on value creation in the public and private sectors of society. We are equally interested in work that provides insight into the sharing of and access to tangible resources, such as financial capital, property and physical goods, as in work investigating the sharing and access to intangible resources, such as knowledge and social capital. We encourage studies that assess today’s newer crowd-based systems as well as those rooted in precursors like Apache, Linux, Wikipedia and Innocentive, tracing the influence of these models on individuals, firms, industries, governments and societies.

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to
We seek theoretical and empirical papers at all levels of analysis, and we welcome research from any disciplinary, philosophical, methodological and theoretical perspective or paradigm. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Crowdfunding (philanthropic, reward-based, peer-to-peer lending, equity-based)
  • Crowdsourcing, open-source, open innovation and commons-based peer production systems.
  • The sharing economy, collaborative consumption and the collaborative economy
  • The economics and sociology of peer-to-peer marketplaces and platforms
  • Digital labor markets and their effects on the workforce
  • Reputation, review systems and trust in the sharing economy
  • Pricing mechanisms in peer-to-peer marketplaces
  • The strategic use of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing in the private/public sector
  • The influence of crowd-based and sharing models on innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Smart contracts and distributed collaborative organizations
  • Geo-spatial and geopolitical issues related to crowd-based capitalism
  • The influence of the sharing economy on localization and circular economies
  • Policy challenges: consumer and labor protection, insurance and taxation, competitive and antitrust considerations
  • Data privacy and data governance issues related to crowd-based models
  • The implications and risks of algorithmic fairness, ranking and choice in crowd-based models

AMCIS 2018 – Openness in Research and Practice

AMCIS 2018 Session: Stakeholders in Open Source Software

Saturday, August 18
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Strand 12A

Governance of Collaborative Projects Organized as Communities
Isabela Ferraz, University of Brasil
Carlos Santos Jr., University of Brasil

Requirements Analysis for an Open iPaaS: Exploring the CSP, ISP, and SME View
Max-Marcel Theilig, Technische Universitat Berlin
Thorsten Prahl, Technische Universitat Berlin
Radiger Zarnekow, Technische Universitat Berlin

A Proposal of a Methodology for Software Ecosystems Development
Andre L. De Gusmao, Federal University of Pará
Cleidson R. B. De Souza, Federal University of Pará
Rodrigo Q. Reis, Federal University of Pará
Adailton M. Lima, Federal University of Pará

Posters:

Assessing Open Source Project Health
Georg J.P. Link, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Examining Determinants of Controls in Open Source Software Development
Yanni Hu, Baruch College
Yuanfeng Cai, Baruch College
Radhika Jain, Baruch College

Measuring Open Source Software Impact
Vinod Ahuja, University of Nebraska Omaha
Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska Omaha

Shared Design: Design Discourse in Open Source Software Communities
Kevin Lumbard, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

— original call for participation —

AMCIS Submission Guidelines

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2018 (Central Time noon)
http://amcis2018.aisnet.org/submissions/call-for-papers/

Track Co-Chairs:

  1. Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska at Omaha, germonprez@gmail.com (primary contact)
  2. Daniel Schlagwein, University of New South Wales, (Australia) schlagwein@unsw.edu.au

Description of Proposed Track:

The track seeks research papers in all things related to “openness” and the sharing of information in organizations and society. Papers in this track will be those that share new ideas about theoretical and empirical research on the wide range of phenomena emerging at the intersection of Information Systems and various forms of legal, technological, organizational, and societal openness.

Relevant topics for papers include: New modes of knowledge creation embedded in open source and open content licensing, radical inclusivity of the crowd to share knowledge, effort and value, the tearing down of traditional organizational boundaries to enable new forms of innovation, or the reinvention of commons or open spaces to share information related to education, science, and democratic participation. Openness continues to be a transformative force that demands the rigorous and considered investigation of the Information Systems community. This track provides a forum to further our understanding of these dynamic and complex ideas.

Minitrack 1: Stakeholders in Open Source Software
Katherine Chudoba, kathy.chudoba@asu.edu
Donald Wynn, dwynn1@udayton.edu
Sherae Daniel, DANIESR@ucmail.uc.edu

We invite submissions to the mini-track, ‘Open Source Software’ within the Openness in Research and Practice track for AMCIS 2018. This mini-track welcomes theoretical, empirical, and intervention research, in either completed research or emergent research forum (research-in-progress) format, which relates to OSS development and use. We seek submissions around topics related to the OSS stakeholders, including those who collaborate in the creation of OSS (i.e. volunteers, paid developers, students, consultants, educational institutions, for-profit companies, foundations, governments) and those who use OSS (i.e. individuals, educational institutions, for-profit companies, governments). Understanding how these stakeholders interface with each other historically and presently through the software, OSS platforms (i.e. GitHub), social networks, licenses, norms, culture, financial exchanges etc. is of interest for this mini-track. Further, the impact of these interactions on individual and organizational behaviors and individual psychological outcomes would fit with the theme of the mini-track.

Minitrack 2: Peer Production Project Health
Georg Link, glink@unomaha.edu
Eleni Constantinou, eleni.constantinou@umons.ac.be
Bram Adams, bram@cs.queensu.ca

Peer production projects include open source, citizen science, or crowdsourcing communities, where the community is driving product innovation. Given the increasing strategic value of peer production for companies, defining and measuring health of peer production projects has become essential for community managers and other stakeholders. Healthy peer production projects should produce quality outcomes, be long-lived, and be self-sustained. Health is enabled by community growth, financial resources, and collaboration tools. An additional challenge is assessing and monitoring health within peer production ecosystems of interrelated projects. Relevant papers should investigate not only the definition of peer production project health but also metrics to measure health and the context in which these metrics should be interpreted. Furthermore, we are interested in the impact of health on projects and the whole ecosystem they are participating in as well as the impact of using metrics, for example, the potential for gaming the metrics.

Minitrack 3: Sustainable Open Business Models and Ecosystems
Joseph Feller, jfeller@ucc.ie
Gaye Kiely, gaye.kiely@ucc.ie

Legal, technological, economic, procedural, and structural openness affords individuals, organisations and communities the opportunity to sustainably create and capture value in novel and powerful ways. However, this value is predicated on the adoption and/or development of appropriate business models, organisational forms, and ecosystems. We are interested in research exploring the tough questions raised by openness. This mini-track invites research papers, research-in-progress papers, and panels on topics relating to sustainable open business models and ecosystems. We are interested in the application of openness to diverse contexts and the sustainability of the business models and ecosystems that emerge. We welcome a broad range of empirical and conceptual work, drawing on a range of research methods including quantitative, qualitative, design science, action research, literature reviews, and other approaches.

SIGOPEN: Call for AMCIS 2018 Mini-tracks

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that SIGOPEN will be hosting a track at AMCIS 2018. We are now soliciting mini-tracks and we strongly encourage you to submit a proposal.

Title of Track: Openness in Research and Practice (SIGOPEN)

Track Co-Chairs:
1. Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
2. Daniel Schlagwein, University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

Description of Track:
The track seeks research papers in all things related to “openness” and the sharing of information in organizations and society. Papers in this track will be those that share new ideas about theoretical and empirical research on the wide range of phenomena emerging at the intersection of Information Systems and various forms of legal, technological, organizational, and societal openness. Relevant topics for papers include: New modes of knowledge creation embedded in open source and open content licensing, radical inclusivity of the crowd to share knowledge, effort and value, the tearing down of traditional organizational boundaries to enable new forms of innovation, or the reinvention of commons or open spaces to share information related to education, science, and democratic participation. Openness continues to be a transformative force that demands the rigorous and considered investigation of the Information Systems community. This track provides a forum to further our understanding of these dynamic and complex ideas.

Seed ideas for potential Mini-tracks include:
1. Breakthroughs in Openness in Science, Research and Pedagogy
2. Breakthroughs in Openness in Organizations and Society
3. Open Community Health: Measuring and Understanding Open Communities
4. Open Source Software: Past, Present, and Future
5. Beyond Software: Peer Production of Hardware, Design, and Content
6. Wisdom of Crowds: Open Innovation and Collective Intelligence
7. Wealth of Crowds: Crowdfunding and Collective Resources
8. Power of Crowds: Crowdsourcing and Collective Action
9. The Citizen Crowd: Cyberdemocracy and Global Social Action
10. Open Research: Open Data and Citizen Science
11. Open Scholarship: Open Access Publications and Open Courseware

Important Timeline: 
September 20, 2017 — System opens for mini-track proposals
October 18, 2017 — Mini-track proposals due
October 25, 2017 — Track chairs’ decisions on mini-track due
November 1, 2017 — Mini-track decisions announced
January 2018 — System opens for general paper submissions

http://amcis2018.aisnet.org/submissions/timeline/

If you have questions or ideas, please let me know. I’m happy to chat about it.

Regards,
Matt

—

Mutual of Omaha Associate Professor
Information Systems
College of Information Science & Technology
University of Nebraska Omaha

 

CFP: SIGOPEN Pre-ICIS 2017 Workshop on Open Phenomena

Dear Colleagues,

We are extremely excited to announce the SIGOPEN 2017 Developmental
Workshop for Research on Open Phenomena, collocated with ICIS 2017 (http://icis2017.aisnet.org/) in Seoul, Korea, on December 9th, 2017.

Building on the success of previous workshops at ECIS in 2013 and 2015, and
ICIS in 2013, 2015, and 2016, AIS SIGOPEN invites researchers to submit
extended abstracts to the SIGOPEN 2017 Developmental Workshop for Research
on Open Phenomena in the following broad areas:

The Peer Production of Knowledge Goods, e.g.:
* Open source software, hardware, content, and design,
* The Sharing Economy,
* Collaborative Consumption,
* Openness as a driver of innovation, creator of economic activity, and an
agent for social well-being.

Collective Intelligence, Action and Resources, e.g.:
* Open innovation and co-creation,
* The wisdom, wealth, and power of crowds,
* Social media in extreme events and social innovation,
* Volunteer computing,
* Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.

Open Science and Education, e.g.:
* Open data and data management challenges,
* Open publishing, micro-scholarship, and open peer-review,
* Open teaching, learning, and educational resources,
* Citizen Science and Responsible Research and Innovation,
* Barriers and enablers for shared and collaborative scientific research,
* Progressing shared, open science across disciplines.

The focus of the workshop is on research project design and paper
development. We invite you to present your research-in-progress. The
SIGOPEN workshop is amenable to new ideas and is open to all interested
scholars and professionals who are researching in the area of openness as
broadly conceived above. The unique and collegial character of the workshop
will help ensure constructive, helpful, and high-quality feedback. This is
a great opportunity for you to mature your ideas, meet other researchers in
related areas, and learn about emerging research in a relaxed and
supportive setting.

Papers will be presented, and then workshopped in small group discussions
in a round-table format. Participants will be expected to read papers
beforehand and comment on other papers in their group. The goal is to help
move the work forward to research execution and/or publication in other
venues.

**Workshop Submissions:**
Those interested in sharing and discussing their research-in-progress
should submit an extended abstract of seven (7) single-spaced pages using
the submission template. All text, figures, tables, and appendices must be
included within the page limit. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and
references are excluded from this page count. Submissions should be emailed
to Matt Levy (mlevy@hpu.edu).

Workshop papers will be hosted on the workshop page at http://sigopen.org/.
Copyright remains with authors.

**Workshop Dates:**
Submission Date: October 4th
Notification of Acceptance to the Workshop: October 20th
Workshop: December 9th

**Workshop Organizing Committee:**
Joseph Feller – University College Cork
Matt Germonprez – University of Nebraska at Omaha
Georg Link – University of Nebraska at Omaha
Matt Levy – Hawaii Pacific University
Lorraine Morgan – LERO, NUI Galway
Daniel Schlagwein – UNSW Business School

**Local Organizing Chair:**
Matt Levy – Hawaii Pacific University

CLOSING SOON: AIS community leader report on participation

Dear SIGOPEN members and non-members,

We want to know how we can improve your ability to participate in the AIS Special Interest Group on Open Research and Practice (SIGOPEN). To help us understand barriers to participation, we encourage you to complete the 15-minute survey linked below.

This survey is administered by SIG-Social Inclusion and supported by the AIS Leadership Council. The goal is to learn about members’ perceptions of inclusion and exclusion in the SIG-OPEN and broader AIS. We urge all members—irrespective of whether you perceive barriers to your participation or not—to help the AIS community improve member experiences and social inclusion practices.

You are not required to share your personally-identifiable information and all questions are voluntary. The survey deadline has been extended to this Friday, September 15, 2017.

http://tinyurl.com/sigSIsurvey

Thank you on behalf of SIGOPEN and SIG-Social Inclusion.

If you have questions about the survey, please contact Jaime Windeler: Jaime.Windeler@uc.edu

Job Opening – Post-Doctoral Researcher (Transparency and Openness) in Cork, Ireland

Dear Colleagues,

The Cork University Business School, University College Cork, and the Technology-Enabled Organizational Transparency and Openness project (TOTO) are pleased to invite applications for a full time post-doctoral research position.

The TOTO project was established in October 2012. The project’s output to date includes dissemination of 20 research publications, co-organizing 18 international research events, and co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Information Technology. In December 2014, the TOTO project also played a key role in the formation of AIS SIGOPEN (Association of Information Systems Special Interest Group on Open Research and Practice), which was awarded Outstanding SIG designation by the AIS in both 2015 and 2016. TOTO is hosted by Business Information Systems in the Cork University Business School, University College Cork.

TOTO engages in two major streams of activity: (1) conducting empirical research on open phenomena, and (2) supporting the international openness research community through events, journal special issues, and the activities of SIGOPEN.

For the next three years (Q4 2017 to Q4 2020), TOTO’s empirical work will focus on investigating the business models, organizational forms, and ecosystems, that enable individuals, organizations, and communities to sustainably create and capture value through legal, technological, socio-cultural, and organizational openness.

The successful candidate will work within a team including the principal investigators, associate investigators, and post-graduate students, and will play a major role in designing and executing this research agenda within a range of related domains (e.g. open software/hardware/content/design; open innovation and co-creation; open science and education; sharing/collaborative/peer economy; etc.).

Project work will also involve collaboration and knowledge exchange with several allied research groups in the USA, Europe, and Australia, and coordination roles in international research events. The project has a strong ethos of mentorship and professional development and an ambitious publication agenda, and will provide the successful candidate with a collegial and supportive environment to establish themselves and their careers within the wider Information Systems community.

Full position details:
https://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancies/research/full-details-797754-en.html

Please do pass on information about this exciting opportunity to all recent/eminent PhD researchers in your team, institution, or network.

Thanks,
Joe

Joseph Feller
Bank of Ireland Professor of Business Information Systems
Head of Business Information Systems

CORK UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL
University College Cork, Ireland
T +353 (0)21 490 3337

jfeller@ucc.ie
www.cubsucc.com

[CFP] UMUAI special issue on personalized cultural heritage content

Digital cultural heritage is now a mature field, in which information technologies are used in the service of preserving cultural heritage. The digital form of resources allows for the exploitation of advances in data analytics, semantics, information retrieval, user interaction, profiling and personalization in order to develop new, exciting and stimulating cultural heritage experiences in tourism and education.

This special issue aims to form a reference point for the field of personalized delivery of cultural heritage content. We invite works that present and/or review the current state of the art in theory and practice, as well as promising recent advances in the area of aligning the delivery process for cultural heritage content to the needs, goals, characteristics and preferences of individual users and groups of users. The issue is broad in scope, with the caveat that emphasis should be on the link between cultural heritage and personalization techniques; works dealing exclusively with one of the two topics will be deemed out of scope.

Topics of interest

  • Semantic modelling for cultural heritage content and their application to personalized content delivery.
  • Advances in knowledge representation.
  • Metadata standards and datasets.
  • Automated reasoning and computational argumentation for personalized explanations and feedback.
  • Personalization/recommendation technologies applied to cultural heritage content.
  • Profiling techniques for individuals, groups and crowds.
  • Context awareness in cultural heritage venues and cities.
  • Applications in cultural, educational or touristic experiences.
  • Personalized storytelling.
  • Adaptive navigation and browsing.
  • Crowdsourcing and crowd computing methodologies, tools and case studies and their application to personalization in Cultural Heritage.
  • Creativity and collaboration.
  • Social interaction and argumentation.
  • Mixed Crowd and AI- based processing approaches to personalization
  • Personalized interaction with cultural heritage content.
  • PCs and mobile personal devices.
  • Multi-touch interfaces.
  • Information booths.
  • Public and shared displays

Paper submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to four pages) to the special issue editors via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umuaich2017).

Promising and in-scope works will be invited for extension into full submissions, from which point on a standard reviewing process will be followed. Submission and detailed formatting instructions for full papers are available at the journal’s site (http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html).

Important dates

Abstract due: November 30th, 2017
Full submission invitation: December 15th, 2017
Manuscript due: February 28th, 2018
First notification to authors: April 30th, 2018
Revised submission deadline: June 15th, 2018
Final notification to authors: July 31st, 2018
Publication date: End of 2018 / start of 2019, as per UMUAI’s publication schedule

Guest editors

Manolis Wallace
??? LAB – Knowledge and Uncertainty Research Laboratory
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
University of Peloponnese

Martín López-Nores
Department of Telematics Engineering
University of Vigo

Yannick Naudet
Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology (LIST)
5, avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux
L-4362 Esch/Alzette

Tsvi Kuflik
Information Systems Department
The University of Haifa

[CFP] 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017)

*** Call for Participation ***

9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence

ICCCI 2017

Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

27 – 29 September, 2017

http://cyprusconferences.org/iccci2017/

(collocated with the 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, http://cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/)

Description

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.

The 114 high quality papers will be presented by researchers from 31 countries all over the world on the following topics:

– Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web
– Social Networks and Recommender Systems
– Data Mining Methods and Applications-
– Multi-agent Systems
– Sensor Networks and Internet of Things
– Decision Support & Control Systems
– Cooperative Strategies for Decision Making and Optimization
– Computational Swarm Intelligence
– Machine Learning in Medicine and Biometrics
– Cyber Physical Systems in Automotive Area
– Internet of Things – Its Relations and Consequences
– Text Processing and Information Retrieval
– Low Resource Language Processing
– Computer Vision Techniques
– Intelligent Processing of Multimedia in Web Systems

Keynote Lectures

1. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Nürnberger
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Title: Collaborative Exploration: Methods to Support Collaborative Searching and Sensemaking

2. Prof. Yannis Manolopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Title: Predicting the future evolution of scientific output

3. Prof. Slawomir Zadrozny
Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Title: Consensual decision making: history and new trends

4. Prof. Constantinos S. Pattichis
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Title: Cardiovascular Health Informatics: Predicting the Risk of Stroke Based on Ultrasound Image Analysis of the Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaque

Proceedings

The proceedings are published in Springer’s LNCS/LNAI series. According to the recent Springer Reports of May 2017 Proceedings of ICCCI 2016 and ICCCI 2015 belong to the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in the relevant SpringerLink eBook Collection in 2016.

Registration

http://cyprusconferences.org/iccci2017/registration.html

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 LM Opening