[ UPDATE Apr. 30, 2014 ]:
= New submission deadline for POSITION PAPERS
= New final decision notification date

[ UPDATE Apr. 11, 2014 ]:
= The FedCSIS multi-conference has a new final deadline, so we also set ours accordingly.
= Submission deadline is now April 23rd (strict)

[ UPDATE Feb. 3, 2014 ]:
= Updated PC
= Added info on the SS4SI special issue of the International Journal on Networked Business - Electronic Markets (www.electronicmarkets.org).
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SERVICE SYSTEMS FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION (SS4SI 2014)

C A L L - F O R - P A P E R S

September 7-10, 2014 - Warsaw, Poland

WWW: www.fedcsis.org/ss4si
E-Mail: secretariat@fedcsis.org

SS4SI 2014 will be held as a part of FedCSIS 2014 (www.fedcsis.org), the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems.

IMPORTANT DATES

Regular paper submissions: --- April 24, 2014 (strict)
Position paper submissions: --- May 23, 2014

Acceptance decision: --- May 31, 2014
Final version of paper submission: --- June 17, 2014
Conference dates: --- September 7-10, 2014

RESEARCH AREAS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

The areas and topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

SOCIAL INNOVATION:
* Life situations (Health, Shopping, Communication, Media, Housing, Mobility, Administration, Government)
* Applications and services for consumers
* Value chains and innovation lifecycle
* Organizational innovation and social entrepreneurship
* Ambient-assisted living / independent living
* Social impact and performance measurement
* Social networks in social innovation

SERVICES FOR SOCIETY:
* Services governance and organizational transformation
* Quality and cost of services for society
* Methods and models for developing consumer services
* Ontology and semantic technologies
* Collaborative business processes
* Services for sustainability and everyday living
* Market of services for society
* Business models for services for society
* Entrepreneurship and service models for consumer solutions
* Market data regarding the use of services

SERVICE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS:
* Quality models and metrics for service systems and software
* User-centered software engineering
* Requirements analysis of service systems
* Service systems design and implementation
* Services orchestration and maintenance
* Service systems security, privacy and trust
* Consumer technologies
* Internet of Things (IoT) technologies
* Service applications in mobile environment
* Service systems for society case studies

PAPER SUBMISSION, PUBLICATION, AND INDEXATION

The SS4SI symposium will accept regular papers and position papers. Authors should submit their papers at the FedCSIS submission system and according to the FedCSIS rules specified at www.fedcsis.org/2014/for_authors. The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (8 pages for a position paper).

Papers presented at the symposium will be published in IEEE Xplore® and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Elsevier SciVerse Scopus, IET INSPEC, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, and Google Scholar.

Revised and extended versions of suitable papers presented during the symposium will be invited for fast-track submissions, at the discretion of the editors, to reputable specialist journals (or special issues of them). One such journal is going to be "The International Journal on Networked Business - Electronic Markets" (www.electronicmarkets.org).

STEERING COMMITTEE

Bogdan Franczyk - University of Leipzig, Germany
and Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Jan Marco Leimeister - University of Kassel, Germany
and University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Leszek A. Maciaszek - Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Hubert Oesterle - University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

EVENT CHAIRS

Leszek A. Maciaszek - Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Philipp Menschner - University of Kassel, Germany
Andrzej Niesler - Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Philipp Osl - University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far; to be extended)

Abenoza Gonzalez, Sira, Ramon Llull University, ESADE, Spain
Abramowicz, Witold, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Aksit, Mehmet, University of Twente, Netherlands
Alt, Rainer, University of Leipzig, Germany
Andres, Frederic, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Benatallah, Boualem, University of New South Wales, Australia
Blohm, Ivo, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Bravo, Jose, Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain
Chen, Yi-Fan, Old Dominion University, United States
Collier, Rem, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dustdar, Schahram, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Fazlagic, Jan, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Fred, Ana, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Fuschi, David, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Gonzalez-Perez, Cesar, Incipit, CSIC, Spain
Grigori, Daniela, Paris Dauphine University, France
Gryncewicz, Wieslawa, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Jordan, Ernest, Macquarie University ~Sydney, Australia
Karagiannis, Dimitris, University of Vienna, Austria
Keating, Byron, University of Canberra, Australia
Kerschberg, Larry, George Mason University, United States
Kwasnicki, Witold, University of Wroclaw, Institute of Economic Sciences, Poland
Lukosch, Stephan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Marron, Pedro Jose, University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany
Mazur, Pawel, Samsung Electronics Warsaw, Poland
Meersman, Davor, iMinds - Free University Brussels, Belgium
Mehta, Khanjan, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Menasalvas Ruiz, Ernestina, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Missikoff, Michele, IASI-CNR Roma, Italy
Moor de, Aldo, CommunitySense, Tilburg, Netherlands
Picard, Willy, Poznan University of Economics
Podbielska, Halina, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Romanowski, Andrzej, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Sitarska, Monika, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Sunyaev, Ali, University of Cologne, Germany
Suomi, Reima, University of Turku, Finland
Surma, Jerzy, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland and University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States
Targowski, Andrew, Western Michigan University, United States
Wrycza, Stanislaw, University of Gdansk, Poland
Zhang, Kang, The University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Zimmermann, Alfred, Reutlingen University, Germany
Zwiefka, Antoni, Marszal Office of Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland