Call for Papers - EGOVIS 2011

2nd International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective - EGOVIS 2011

Toulouse, France

August 29 - September 2, 2011


The international conference EGOVIS focuses on information systems aspects of e-government. Information systems are a core enabler for electronic government/governance with all its dimensions: e-administration, e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting.

EGOVIS papers should be submitted by researchers and practitioners describing innovative solutions, from an IT standpoint. The conference delivers a platform for a broad discussion, from stakeholders dealing with information systems aspects of electronic government. - Hence it will offer the opportunity to extensive discussions on problems, requirements, and implemented solutions in the field.

EGOVIS 2011 invites paper submissions on all topics of e-government from the information systems perspectives with all its dimensions and peculiarities within the areas of e-democracy, e-participation e-voting and others.

Suggested Topics:

Papers from the field of e-government focussing the information systems perspectives are invited for submission. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Accessibility
  • Algorithms
  • Business process reengineering
  • Change and RISK management
  • Cloud computing
  • Collaboration support systems
  • Cybernetics policies
  • Data analysis
  • Database aspects
  • Data mining and datawarehousing
  • Digital citizen cards
  • Digital libraries
  • Education and training
  • E-government enterprise architectures
  • Electronic signature
  • Expert systems and decision support
  • Geographical information systems (GIS)
  • Governance in cyberspace
  • Government collaboration patterns
  • ICT in e-government
  • Information modelling and integration
  • Information overload
  • Information retrieval
  • Information systems architecture
  • Interoperability
  • Knowledge management
  • Legal and regulatory aspects
  • Metadata and public information
  • Mobile services
  • Open source for e-government
  • Personalization and recommender systems
  • Privacy, trust and security
  • Semantic Web and ontologies
  • Service-oriented architectures
  • Software solutions
  • Strategic management and performance measurement
  • Ubiquitous and pervasive computing
  • User acceptance
  • User interfaces
  • Value creation and business modelling
  • Web 2.0 applications
  • Web services
  • Workflow management
  • WWW and databases

Honorary Chairpersons:

  • Wichian Chutimaskul, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thailand
  • Fernando Galindo, University Zaragoza, Spain
  • Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria

Conference Program Chairpersons:

  • Kim Normann Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Enrico Francesconi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
  • Åke Grönlund, Örebro University, Sweden
  • Tom van Engers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

IMPORTANT DATES:

  • Paper submission: March 7, 2011 ==> deadline extended to April 10 !!! (FIRM deadline)
  • Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2011
  • Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2011

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions or experience reports in English.

  • The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the proceedings.
  • Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
  • Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review.

For paper registration and electronic submission see www.dexa.org starting January 2011.
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Duplicate submissions are not allowed. Authors are expected to agree to the following terms: "I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are cited prominently in this submission."

Duplicate submissions will be rejected. Questions about this policy or how it applies to your work should be directed to the PC-chairs.

ACCEPTED PAPERS:

All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. Accepted papers will be of two sizes: regular (15-page papers) and short (up to 8 pages). The former will tend to be descriptions of complete technical work, while the latter will tend to be descriptions of interesting, innovative ideas, which nevertheless require more work to mature. Authors of accepted papers must sign a Springer copyright release form.

For further inquiries, please contact the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela@dexa.org)

Program Committee:

Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Jan Aidemark, Växjö University, Sweden
Kim Normann Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Deanmark
Majed Ayyad, NextLevel Technology Systems, Palestine
Carlo Batini , University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Victor Bekkers, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Trevor Bench-Capon, Liverpool University, UK
Alejandra Cechich, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Wichian Chutimaskul, King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thailand
Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy
Vytautas Cyras, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Annelie Ekelin, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Fernand Feltz, Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg
Enrico Francesconi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Fernando Galindo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen, Italy
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Åke Grönlund, Örebro University, Sweden
Henning Sten Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Helle Zinner Henriksen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Patrik Hitzelberger, Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg
Hannakaisa Isomaki, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Vagelio Kavakli, University of the Aegean, Greece
Takashi Koga, Kyoto University Library, Japan
Jaroslav Kral, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic
Irene Krebs, Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany
Josef Küng, University of Linz, Austria
Hun-yeong Kwon, Kwangwoon University, Korea
Fabio Luiz Leite Júnior, University Federal de Campina Grande, Brasil
Philip Leith, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Marian Mach, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Peter Mambrey, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Antonio Maña, University of Malaga, Spain
Francisco Javier García Marco, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Rony Medaglia , Copenhagen Business School , Denmark
Pedro Rafael Muro-Medrano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Sinisa Neskovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Mara Nikolaidou, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Javier Nogueras, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy
Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University & "Athena" Research Centre , Greece
Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria
Aljosa Pasic, Atos Research, Spain
Günther Pernul, University Regensburg, Germany
Andrea Polini, University of Camerino, Italy
Reinhard Posch, Technical University Graz, Austria
Gerald Quirchmayr, University Vienna, Austria
Peter Regner, FAW, Austria
Siegfried Reich, Salzburg Research, Austria
Peter Reichstädter, Federal Chancellary, Austria
Aires J Rover, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil
Luis Álvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain
Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
Daniela Tiscornia, ITTIG Institute for Theory and Techniques for Legal Information, Italy
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Roland Traunmüller, University Linz, Austria
Gonzalo Valdes, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Chile
Tom M. van Engers, University of Amsterdam, The Ntherlands
Lex S. van Velsen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Costas Vassilakis, University of Peloponnes, Greece
Daniel Ventre, CNRS – French National Center of Scientific Research, France
Gianluigi Viscusi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Doug Vogel, City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Roland Wagner, University Linz, Austria
Mary-Anne Williams, Stanford University, USA
Christopher C. Wills, Kingston University, UK
Robert Woitsch, BOC, Austria
Chien-Chih Yu, National ChengChi University, Taiwan