“RCIS 2011”
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Fifth IEEE International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES in INFORMATION SCIENCE
MAY 19-21, 2011, Gosier, G UADELOUPE , FRANCE http://rcis-conf.com/
RCIS 2011 is a conference of RCIS CONFERENCE SERIES sponsored by IEEE FRANCE SECTION
Ouarzazate (2007), Marrakech (2008), Fez (2009), Nice (2010)
Proceedings will be published by IEEE(Print Version ISBN #978-1-4244-8671-7)
SCOPE AND TOPICS
The Fifth International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS) aims at providing an international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of information science areas. While presenting research findings and state-of-art solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new research challenges in these main topics:
• Information System Engineering
• Business applications
• Database and Information System Integration
• Decision Information Systems
• Data Management
• Internet computing
• Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Discovery from Data
• Management applications
• Spatial Information Systems Each of these topics is expanded on the web site at http://rcis-conf.com/.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Technical solution papers present solutions which are novel or significantly improve on existing solutions. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution. Results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in later research.
Evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate.
Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given.
Doctoral Papers are papers submitted by doctoral students only and are related to research work in progress.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Please visit http://www.rcis-conf.com/registration.php for on line registration.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM and KEYNOTES
The detailed program may be found at http://www.rcis-conf.com/program.php The program includes two outstanding keynotes.
Jaelson Castro, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering: Trends and Challenges The last fifteen years have seen a new approach to the requirements challenge, the so called Social Perspective. J. Castro argues that in order to arrive at systems requirements, one should examine and understand the relationships among social actors. Rather than focusing of behavioral properties of the software, we should ask how the system will advance the relation that some actors have in relation to other actors. This talk will describe the i* (iStar) approach proposed by Eric Yu, which incorporates rudimentary social analysis. Actors depend on each other for goals to be achieved, tasks to be performed, and resources to be furnished. A notion of soft-goal is used to deal systematically with quality attributes, or non-functional requirements.
Dependencies among actors give rise to opportunities as well as vulnerabilities.
Networks of dependencies are analyzed using a qualitative reasoning procedure.
Social perspectives on computing have provided much insight. Research that applies, adapts, extends, or evaluate the social modeling concepts and approaches will be reviewed. J. Castro also raises research challenges for our community.
Neil Maiden, City University London, UK Creative thinking as information discovery
Creativity has been subject of considerable research over the last 60 years. More recently results of this creativity research have been used to describe and support the specification and design of information systems. This keynote will report results from a decade of research that has applied creativity models to design systems in domains ranging from air traffic management and food information traceability to reflective learning. It will make design and economic cases for designing and using information systems as creative activities, and report results from use of creativity techniques and software tools in the reported domains. It will advocate a model of creativity as information discovery applied to the design of information systems.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chair: Colette Rolland (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France) Program Committee Chair: Martine Collard (University of Antilles and Guyane) RCIS Steering Committee Chairs:
Oscar Pastor (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Peri Loucopoulos (Loughborough University, UK)
Doctoral Papers Workshop Chair: André Flory (INSA de Lyon, France) Operating Committee Chairs:
Michel Geoffroy (University of Antilles and Guyane) Alain Pietrus (University of Antilles and Guyane) Jean-Louis Cavarero (RCIS)
Publicity Chair: Selmin Nurcan (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France)
CONFERENCE CONTACT: office@rcis-conf.com
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