CFP: Enterprise Content Management

Dear expert in the field of Enterprise Content/Document Management,


Knowing about your previous work/interest related to this area, I'd like to
take this opportunity to invite You to submit your latest research to this
rather unique forum of researchers on the content management field. (See the
detailed CFP below).

Please, (especially in case that you would not be submitting a paper this
time) let me know also in case of an interest in reviewing 2-3 papers during
the next summer, thus contributing to the scientific quality of the "fresh"
field of ECM in general, and this minitrack in particular.

"med vennlig hilsen",

Tero Päivärinta (co-chair of the ECM minitrack; contact information below)

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Call for Papers
                            Mini-track on

                Enterprise Content Management and XML

          Hawai'i International Conference on System Science
              5-8 January 2004, Hilton Waikoloa Village,
                      Big Island of Hawaii, USA

Content management in contemporary enterprises concerns a variety of
information resources: documents in different forms, databases, and metadata
such as ontologies, annotations, and indexes. XML and the web are important
technologies used to support both resource integration and distribution. The
main objective of the minitrack is to provide a forum for discussing the
problems and novel solutions in the management of content in organizations,
and for covering the technical and social aspects alike.  

Enterprise content management combines the technical and contentual
perspectives with the social aspects of organizations, including human
issues, roles, and business as well as work processes. In a piece of ECM
research, multiple of the perspectives may be covered, or one of the
perspectives is chosen as the major view to the area:

"       the technological perspective including the development of new kinds
of hardware and software solutions and related standards, such as XML, for
the management of content in and between organizations, or

"       the user perspective including requirements analysis, evaluation of
existing or proposed solutions from the point of view of the users, and
methods for personalization, or

"       the process perspective including the analysis and development of
solutions to support business processes or work processes (choosing e.g. the
approach of CSCW, eBusiness, or ERP), and analysis of the interaction of
processes with the content elements, or

"       the content perspective, including issues on granularity of content,
        combination of content elements, relationship between content and
        metadata, modelling issues related to the content, and content on a
        special application area.

Topics

Topics relevant to the ECM and XML minitrack include (but are not limited
to) the following areas from the above-mentioned viewpoints:

"       novel applications of XML for content management
"       content management in work processes and organizational contexts
"       content management on diverging / converging media (web, mobile, 
Digi-TV)
"       text transformations
"       advances in functionality of ECM applications (content capturing,
storage, personalization, internationalization, localization, publishing,
document formatting, content configuration management, digital rights
management, etc.)
"       managing multilingual and multicultural content
"       metadata and ontologies for ECM
"       role of communicative / document genre in ECM
"       information security on content management
"       approaches, methodologies and techniques for the development and
modelling of ECM
"       justification and evaluation of ECM initiatives, investments, and
implementations
"       content management in specific areas like e-business, e-government,
arts, or education.


Minitrack chairs

Assoc. Prof. Tero Päivärinta, Tero.Paivarinta-ZP/kqmCRe+Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,  
+47 3814 1662
Agder University College
Department of Information Systems
Serviceboks 422, N-4604 Kristiansand, Norway

Prof. Airi Salminen, airi.salminen-jreit3kGtHM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,  
+358-14-2603031
Prof. Pasi Tyrväinen, pasi.tyrvainen-jreit3kGtHM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 
+358-14-2603093
University of Jyväskylä
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland
        

Instructions to authors

1. Manuscripts should be 22-26 double-spaced pages, including
diagrams, in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat format. The final paper
will be 10 pages, double-column, single-spaced.
2. Each paper must have a title page that includes the title of the
paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including
affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es).
3. The first page of the manuscript should include the title and a
300-word abstract of the paper.
4. Papers should contain original material and not be previously
published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
5. Do not submit the same manuscript to more than one Minitrack.

Authors are encouraged (but not required) to submit 1 page abstracts
of proposed submissions to the Minitrack chairs for guidance by 31
March. Full papers should be submitted electronically by Sunday 1
June.

Important dates

Abstracts due:  Monday 31 March
Papers due:     Sunday 1 June
Acceptance:     Sunday 31 August
Final papers due:       Wednesday 1 October
Early registration:     1 October (authors are required to register
by this date)
Registration:   2 October-10 December
Conference:     5-8 January 2004

About HICSS

Since 1968 the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS) has become a respected a forum for the substantive
interchange of ideas in all areas of information systems and
technology. The objective of HICSS is to provide a unique environment
in which researchers and practitioners in the information, computer
and system sciences can frankly exchange and discuss their research
ideas, techniques and applications. Comments and feedback from each
HICSS conference indicate that the conference format continues to be
professionally rewarding and stimulating to everyone who attends.
More information about the HICSS conference can be found at
http://www.hicss.org/.

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Tero Päivärinta
Associate Professor

Agder University College
Dept. of Information Systems
Serviceboks 422
4604 Kristiansand, Norway

e-mail: Tero.Paivarinta-ZP/kqmCRe+Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
tel: +47 3814 1662
fax: +47 3814 1029
gsm: +47 9062 5905
room: H1 034




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