(apologies for cross-posting, please distribute)
Andreea Gorbatai, Mathieu O'Neil and I are editing a special issue of
the Journal of Organizational Change Management (listed on ISI, with
good IF and also Scopus listed) on "Management and the Future of Open
Collaboration".
I include the call below, initially we request 500-word abstracts or
full papers by 21 January 2013, although expressing initial interest
is also most welcome.
I would be most grateful for your consideration, as well as passing it
on to those who may be potentially interested.
best,
Dariusz Jemielniak
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Management and the Future of Open Collaboration
Special issue call for papers from Journal of Organizational Change
Management (ISI ranked)
Open collaboration is a field of rapid growth in organizational theory
and innovation research. Initial work in this area focused on the
management and governance of open source software communities (Demil &
Lecoq 2006; O’Mahony & Ferraro 2007) as well as on a wide range of
user communities formed by lead users in sports such as, for example,
canoeing and sailplaning (Shah and Franke 2003). Another research
stream has focused on open innovation from a corporate perspective,
studying the ways in which traditional organizations can harness the
power of communities to innovate (Chesbrough and Appleyard 2007;
Jeppesen and Lakhani 2010), or on the creation of 'boundary
organizations' which enable collaboration between open-source
communities and firms by enhancing convergent interests whilst
preserving the divergent interests of the parties (O'Mahony & Bechky
2008). Yet another stream has focused on open collaboration platforms,
with particular focus on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, assessing
participation processes and collaboration outcomes in this particular
setting (Konieczny 2009; Spinellis and Louridas 2008).
The wealth of practical and theoretical development has progressed
hand in hand with a lack of conceptual clarity. Phenomena as diverse
as open innovation, free and open source software, wikis such as
Wikipedia and other collaboration platforms, social networks such as
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and CouchSurfing, game environments such
as FoldIt, and online review sites such as Yelp! and Virtual Tourist,
have been variously described as crowdsourcing, social, peer and
collaborative production, or as wisdom of the crowds. The social
consequences of the rapid development of new modes of collaboration
have been described in terms both extremely positive (Benkler 2006)
and negative (Keen 2007). Even relatively minor terminological
differences, e.g., distinguishing between open collaboration
communities and the virtual communities of practice (Dubé et. al.
2005) indicate deep divisions in academic interpretations of similar
processes.
Conceptually mapping these phenomena will generate a better
understanding of the current state of research in this field. In order
to do so, it is necessary to understand where open collaboration
models come from, by examining their relationship to the means
developed by members of epistemic communities (Haas 1992) and of
communities of practice (Wenger 1998) to integrate newcomers and
generate new ideas. It is also advisable to examine they owe to
earlier forms of collaborative practice such as the management of
public goods held in common (Ostrom 1990). Together with conceptual
mapping, a core research concern is the relationship of open models to
traditional corporate models, a question which can be modulated in a
variety of guises:
What is the impact of the open collaboration model on other business
models? How does the existence of open collaboration enable or hamper
corporate innovation and production?
What kind of regulatory framework should govern open collaboration
between organizations and individuals?
Is there a model for non-intrusive corporate participation and support
in open collaboration similar to that adopted in 'open source'
software, and under what conditions can such models be successfully
deployed?
What metrics can evaluate the success of open collaboration, and what
are the development cycles in open collaboration projects?
How is organizing practiced and enacted in open collaboration? What
manner of technological and social tools are combined to manage and
govern open communities?
What do open collaboration settings teach us about how traditional
organizations are or will be changing? Are there aspects of
traditional organizations that can be illuminated by being placed in
open collaboration settings?
To further develop research on open collaboration settings it would be
helpful to couple attention to the specifics of open collaboration
models with insights regarding the changing character of global
production and commerce in light of socio-economic, technological,
political and legal changes. We are particularly interested in
empirical papers that employ quantitative and qualitative methods to
examine open collaboration processes and outcomes, and which
explicitly aim to shed light on cross-level mechanisms and outcomes,
ranging from society- and industry-level consequences to
individual-level ones. In addition, we encourage efforts to map
existing research in the area of open collaboration on a unified
conceptual map by drawing from a variety of fields, ranging from
organizational theory and innovation to information systems research
and anthropology of virtual communities. We plan to use this Special
Issue as a foundation to further develop a community of thought in
this nascent field.
Deadlines:
500-word abstract or full paper submission: January 31, 2013
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2013
Submission of revised / final paper: May 1, 2013
Contact:
Please email your submissions in Adobe Acrobat PDF format to: Andreea
Gorbatai (gorbatai(a)haas.berkeley.edu), Dariusz Jemielniak
(darekj(a)kozminski.edu.pl), and Mathieu O’Neil
(mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au). If you have any questions feel free to
contact any of the editors at the email addresses listed above,
specifying ‘Special Issue JOCM question’ in the subject line.
References
Benkler, Y. (2006) The wealth of networks: How social production
transforms markets and freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
Chesbrough, H. and M. Appleyard. (2007). Open Innovation and Strategy.
California Management Review 50 (1): 57-76.
Demil, B. & X. Lecoq (2006). Neither market nor hierarchy nor network:
The emergence of bazaar governance. Organization Studies 27(10),
1447-1466.
Dubé, L., Bourhis, A.I. and R. Jacob (2005). The impact of structuring
characteristics on the launching of virtual communities of practice.
Journal of Organizational Change Management 18(2): 145-166.
Haas, P. M. (1992). Introduction: Epistemic communities and
international policy coordination. International Organization 46(10):
1-35.
Jeppesen, L., and K. R. Lakhani. (2010). Marginality and
problem-solving effectiveness in broadcast search. Organization
Science 21:1016-1033.
Keen, A. (2007) The cult of the amateur: How today's Internet is
killing our culture. New York: Broadway Business.
Konieczny, P. 2009. Governance, organization, and democracy on the
Internet: The iron law and the evolution of Wikipedia. Sociological
Forum 24(1):162-192.
O'Mahony, S., & B. A. Bechky (2008). Boundary organizations: Enabling
collaboration among unexpected allies. Administrative Science
Quarterly, 53(3), 422-459.
O’Mahony, S. & F. Ferraro (2007). The emergence of governance in an
open source community. Academy of Management Journal 50(5): 1079-1106.
Ostrom, E. (1990) Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions
for collective action, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Shah, S. and N. Franke. (2003). How communities support innovative
activities: An exploration of assistance and sharing among end-users.
Research Policy 32(1): 157-178.
Spinellis, D. and L. Panagiotis. (2008). The collaborative
organization of knowledge. Communications of the ACM - Designing games
with a purpose 51(8): 68-73.
Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and
identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Hi all
OK, will stop too but one last reaction to the point made by Dariusz below:
>
>
> > Once the publication process is launched then yes, normally everything
> > (initial sub, reviews, responses, final paper) is published.
>
> I think one good thing about the standard review process is that
> authors are motivated to strive for excellence, since they do not know
> if their revised submission is finally going to be accepted. From this
> point of view, it is good not to give a promise of publication on the
> early stage.
>
> >From the point of view of ISI politics, it is also important to have a
> comparable statistics of rejection rates.
>
> In any case, I think that supporting JPP would be a great solution,
> especially if JPP was willing to consider some adjustments in
> publication policy (or at least open it for a discussion). It is much
> easier to partner with an existing journal than start form the scratch
> (and also, JPP seems to be very well targeted to our model solution
> here, and seems also to reach a little outside just the wiki world,
> which is a good thing, too).
>
>
Its not clear to me that the threat of not being published is more of an incentive than having your paper published with bad "signals" (ratings given by reviewers to the final paper) or indeed of publishing a not-great paper. One of the ideas guiding JoPP was precisely this - to quote the process page again
"Our approach to peer reviewing is informed by Whitworth and Friedman’s [2009a] criticism of current academic publishing as a form of competitive economics in which “scarcity reflects demand, so high journal rejection rates become quality indicators”. This self-reinforcing system where journals that reject more attract more results in a situation where “avoiding faults becomes more important than new ideas. Wrongly accepting a paper with a fault gives reputation consequences, while wrongly rejecting a useful paper leaves no evidence”.
Whitworth and Friedman [2009b] propose an alternative evaluation system:
1. higher rating discrimination: a many-point scale, not just accept-reject
2. more submissions to be rated: rate all
3. more people to rate: community involvement
4. different ways of rating: formal review vs. informal use ratings."
(The papers referenced are well worth reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of scientific publishing:)
Whitworth B and R Friedman (2009a) “Reinventing academic publishing online. Part I: Rigor, relevance and practice”, First Monday, Volume 14, Number 8 – 3 August 2009.
Whitworth B and R Friedman (2009b) “Reinventing academic publishing online. Part II: A socio-technical vision”, First Monday, Volume 14, Number 9 – 7 September 2009.
That being said, there are voices within the JoPP editorial board who have been arguing for stricter quality controls as well, hence the introduction of editorial triage at the beginning of the process.
cheers
Mathieu
Hi all
Regarding setting up an English-language online scientific journal in my view you need:
(a) someone who assumes responsibility for delivering the journal
(b) server space
(c) someone with tech skills to set up and manage the CMS
(d) interesting CFPs that will motivate authors to submit despite the journal being new and not having garnered academic prestige yet
(e) credible editors of special issues that will motivate authors to submit despite the journal being new, etc
(f) a credible pool of reviewers / scientific committee members that will motivate authors to submit despite the journal being new, etc
(g) someone with (possibly) native-English language skills to proof-read all the text
If some of you would like to guest edit a special issue of the Journal of Peer Production (JoPP) you will not need to worry about the first three criteria. You can use our pool of reviewers and add some of your own. Regarding editors, I am naturally familiar with Ward C.'s name and I have read some of Piotr K.'s work. Would these people be interested, or anyone else (Dariusz J. is supposed to be working on another CFP for JoPP so not sure if he would be interested)?
Finally I would like to draw your attention to this: http://surveys.peerproduction.net/
This is a sub-project of JoPP - it is completely independent from the journal, they are just using server space. We are planning to create a menu for such projects on our frontpage. If WP researchers wanted to create a http://wiki-research.peerproduction.net/ site where they could experiment with new methodologies etc that could be arranged, and you could migrate it to a dedicated server later if the project grows. Not sure how that would play out with support from WMF but it is not clear to me at this point anyway whether you all want to align closely with WMF or not.
Anyway, just a thought.
cheers
Mathieu
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Samuel Klein <sj(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > I've been thinking recently that we should start this journal. There
> > isn't an obvious candidate, despite some of the amazing research that's
> > been done, and the extreme
> > > transparency that allows much deeper work to be done on wiki communities
> > in the future.
> >
> > I'll gladly help and support the idea. I think that just as Mathieu
> > pointed out, The Journal of Peer Production is a good candidate, since
> > it is already out there and running (even if low on the radar).
> >
>
> Great. Starting with a dedicated issue of JOPP seems like a good thing.
> The guest editors of that issue will get useful experience, and we can
> test the depth of interest among submitters and reviewers, for a specific
> scope of research efforts.
>
>
> > One key factor in getting ISI is a community to drive the journal
> >
>
> emijrp writes:
>
> > The idea of creating a journal just for wikis is highly seductive for
> me.The "pillars" might be:
> >
> > * peer-reviewed, but publish a list of rejected papers and the reviewers
> comments
> > * open-access (CC-BY-SA)
> > * ask always for the datasets and offer them to download, the same for
> the developed software used in the > research
> > * encourage authors to publish early, publish often (as in free software)
>
> Yes. All of this is important (and most could be tried out in working on a
> guest issue of an existing journal)
> Encouragement to publish early and often requires some new form of
> publication that supports iteration and early drafts in the pubs process --
> not via a separate preprint site.
>
> > * supported by donations
>
> This can include donations from universities and institutions whose staff
> are submitting to the journal. I suspect a young, inexpensive journal
> that isn't tied to a tradition of expensie overhead could be supported by a
> dozen universities that have relevant departments (like CCI and MIT,
> various complexity institutes, and centers for collaborative study or
> internet & society).
>
> > And... we can open a wiki where those who want can write papers in a
> collaborative and public way. You can > start a new paper with colleagues
> or ask for volunteers authors interested in joining to your idea. When
> > authors think that paper is finished and stable, they submit it to the
> journal and it is peer-reviewed again and > published or discarded and
> returned to the wiki for improvements.
>
> That sounds like a fine intermediary, while more elaborate tech is being
> discussed. It is important to have crisply defined and uniformly
> implemented peer review, not soft "after publication" peer review -- at
> least for the papers that are published with the highest stamp of peer
> approval. It would be good to also have lower stamps of approval - and
> archived permalinkable copies of their work - for those who simply publish
> all of their work and data.
>
> > Perhaps we may join efforts with the Wikimedia Research Newsletter? And
> start a page in meta:? ; )
>
> That would be great if WRN is interested :-) Again, joining forces to dit
> a one-time issue of an existing journal is a good way to see what it would
> be like.
>
> SJ
> --------
>
You can't get ISI to index your journal until it has a reputation that they
can verify. This can easily take years.
ISI-index for journals is a disease anyways. Many non-US academic inst.
use it as a mark for good quality journals and for promotion cases require
ISI indexed journal publication counts. When in fact, many high quality
journals are not indexed by ISI. ACM TOCHI wasn't indexed until 2007-ish,
in fact, as an example, and it is the premier journal in HCI.
I personally find no meaning in ISI indexing, and often once a journal gets
indexed by ISI, they attract a ton of submissions that are low quality,
making more work for editorial boards.
--Ed
---------------
Ed H. Chi, Staff Research Scientist, Google
CHI2012 Technical Program co-chair
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> hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Samuel Klein <sj(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > I've been thinking recently that we should start this journal. There
> isn't an obvious candidate, despite some of the amazing research that's
> been done, and the extreme
> > transparency that allows much deeper work to be done on wiki communities
> in the future.
>
> I'll gladly help and support the idea. I think that just as Mathieu
> pointed out, The Journal of Peer Production is a good candidate, since
> it is already out there and running (even if low on the radar).
> Otherwise, there can be of course a journal dedicated to wiki-related
> work, it is quite easy to set it up (e.g. on Open Journal Systems
> platform). The key is not setting up a journal, since this is an easy
> part, but building a community that would regularly read it and
> contribute. In this sense Wikipedia may be a good common ground.
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl> wrote:
> > So what does it take to get a journal indexed in ISI?
>
> The procedure is quite lengthy and not entirely transparent. In short,
> you request being reviewed and from issue X onwards they check how
> often an average article from the journal is cited in other ISI
> journals. If you go above the threshold, you're in. The problem is
> that Thomson arbitrarily decides whether they want to audit a journal,
> arbitrarily calculates what constitutes an "article" (yes, it is not
> clear - some journals have editorials counted, some don't, in some
> cases Thomson calculates the citations for non-articles, but does not
> include the number of non-articles in the equation. Scientific, right?
> ;) invited articles count... or not, research notes - same, etc.). Oh,
> and also Thomson arbitrarily may or may not punish by banning you from
> ISI for real or imaginary manipulations (such as inbreed citations -
> some editors encourage citing other articles from the same journal,
> since they count like any others from the ISI list). There's actually
> a whole body of literature on journal rankings. Still, this is the
> game we have to play.
>
> One key factor in getting ISI is a community to drive the journal - if
> Wikipedia research community was widely willing to support one new
> journal, received updates etc., it would likely get cited and go off
> the ground (the case of "The Academy of Management Learning and
> Education" - on the ISI 2 years after the first issue, if I remember
> correctly).
>
> Btw, CSCW is on ISI list, but is not open access.
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Aaron Halfaker
> <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Growing WikiSym into an open conference
>
> unfortunately, this does not help in some fields. For instance, in
> management/organization studies conference papers don't count at all,
> so actually there is a strong incentive not to go to a conference such
> as WikiSym, since it results in wasting a paper you cannot really
> publish in way that would count. European RAEs rely more and more
> heavily on ISI and on ERIH rankings, so also non-ranked journals do
> not count anymore.
>
> best,
>
> dariusz
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
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> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:12:11 +0200
> From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
> To: darekj(a)alk.edu.pl, Research into Wikimedia content and communities
> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Samuel Klein
> <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Open-Access journals for papers about
> wikis
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> The idea of creating a journal just for wikis is highly seductive for
> me.The "pillars" might be:
>
> * peer-reviewed, but publish a list of rejected papers and the reviewers
> comments
> * open-access (CC-BY-SA)
> * ask always for the datasets and offer them to download, the same for the
> developed software used in the research
> * encourage authors to publish early, publish often (as in free software)
> * supported by donations
>
> And... we can open a wiki where those who want can write papers in a
> collaborative and public way. You can start a new paper with colleagues or
> ask for volunteers authors interested in joining to your idea. When authors
> think that paper is finished and stable, they submit it to the journal and
> it is peer-reviewed again and published or discarded and returned to the
> wiki for improvements.
>
> Perhaps we may join efforts with the Wikimedia Research Newsletter? And
> start a page in meta:? ; )
>
> 2012/9/15 Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
>
> > hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Samuel Klein <sj(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > I've been thinking recently that we should start this journal. There
> > isn't an obvious candidate, despite some of the amazing research that's
> > been done, and the extreme
> > > transparency that allows much deeper work to be done on wiki
> communities
> > in the future.
> >
> > I'll gladly help and support the idea. I think that just as Mathieu
> > pointed out, The Journal of Peer Production is a good candidate, since
> > it is already out there and running (even if low on the radar).
> > Otherwise, there can be of course a journal dedicated to wiki-related
> > work, it is quite easy to set it up (e.g. on Open Journal Systems
> > platform). The key is not setting up a journal, since this is an easy
> > part, but building a community that would regularly read it and
> > contribute. In this sense Wikipedia may be a good common ground.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl> wrote:
> > > So what does it take to get a journal indexed in ISI?
> >
> > The procedure is quite lengthy and not entirely transparent. In short,
> > you request being reviewed and from issue X onwards they check how
> > often an average article from the journal is cited in other ISI
> > journals. If you go above the threshold, you're in. The problem is
> > that Thomson arbitrarily decides whether they want to audit a journal,
> > arbitrarily calculates what constitutes an "article" (yes, it is not
> > clear - some journals have editorials counted, some don't, in some
> > cases Thomson calculates the citations for non-articles, but does not
> > include the number of non-articles in the equation. Scientific, right?
> > ;) invited articles count... or not, research notes - same, etc.). Oh,
> > and also Thomson arbitrarily may or may not punish by banning you from
> > ISI for real or imaginary manipulations (such as inbreed citations -
> > some editors encourage citing other articles from the same journal,
> > since they count like any others from the ISI list). There's actually
> > a whole body of literature on journal rankings. Still, this is the
> > game we have to play.
> >
> > One key factor in getting ISI is a community to drive the journal - if
> > Wikipedia research community was widely willing to support one new
> > journal, received updates etc., it would likely get cited and go off
> > the ground (the case of "The Academy of Management Learning and
> > Education" - on the ISI 2 years after the first issue, if I remember
> > correctly).
> >
> > Btw, CSCW is on ISI list, but is not open access.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Aaron Halfaker
> > <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Growing WikiSym into an open conference
> >
> > unfortunately, this does not help in some fields. For instance, in
> > management/organization studies conference papers don't count at all,
> > so actually there is a strong incentive not to go to a conference such
> > as WikiSym, since it results in wasting a paper you cannot really
> > publish in way that would count. European RAEs rely more and more
> > heavily on ISI and on ERIH rankings, so also non-ranked journals do
> > not count anymore.
> >
> > best,
> >
> > dariusz
> >
> >
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Hi all
@Samuel Klein: Sorry, don't understand the first part of your question, could you please elaborate.
As for hosting a new "wiki journal", not sure whether it is feasible or desirable. I can't speak for JoPP about such a big decision, it would have to be discussed by the board on our (open and archived) mailing list.
cheers
Mathieu
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:22:47 -0400
> From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
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> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> That's awesome. Are they also a candidate for more public recognition and
> attention? (and would they consider hosting a new wiki journal if there
> was enough interest in such an issue?)
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil(a)anu.edu.au>wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > The Journal of Peer Production would be happy to host a wiki / WP special
> > issue.
> > http://peerproduction.net/
> >
> > JoPP is a peer reviewed, open access journal which makes reviewer reports
> > and initial submissions available as well a completed peer reviewed
> > articles (like on WP where you can look at article history pages).
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Mathieu
>
Hi all
The Journal of Peer Production would be happy to host a wiki / WP special issue.
http://peerproduction.net/
JoPP is a peer reviewed, open access journal which makes reviewer reports and initial submissions available as well a completed peer reviewed articles (like on WP where you can look at article history pages).
cheers
Mathieu
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> 1. Re: Open-Access journals for papers about wikis (Ward Cunningham)
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> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:18:25 -0700
> From: Ward Cunningham <ward(a)c2.com>
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> On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
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> > People should be able to publish their work as quickly as they like in a professional way, especially in fields that change rapidly and need to benefit from collaborating with one another.
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> Hmm. What is the quickest way that we would ever want to publish our work? If we push on this hard enough we might change the nature of work. (Yes, I know, much in academia conspires against quick. Same for business and probably dating. But as a thought experiment, how quick could quick be?)
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The Second International Conference on e-Technologies and Networks for
Development (ICeND 2013)
March 4-6, 2013 - Malaysia | ice(a)sdiwc.net
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia2/
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ICeND 2013 will be held in Malaysia during March 4-6, 2013. The main
objective of this conference is to provide a medium for professionals,
engineers, academicians, scientists, and researchers from over the world
to present the result of their research activities in the field of
Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology. ICeND 2013
provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas,
innovations and problem solving techniques. Submitted papers will be
reviewed by the technical program committee of the conference.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
:: Access Controls
:: Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
:: Anti-cyberterrorism
:: Biometrics Technologies
:: Computer Forensics
:: Computer Security
:: Cryptography and Data Protection
:: Cloud Computing
:: Data Mining
:: Data Compression
:: Distributed and Parallel Applications
:: e-Commerce
:: e-Government
:: e-Learning
:: Electronic Auctions
:: e-Logistics
:: e-Procurement
:: e-Services
:: Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications
:: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems
:: Grid Computing
:: Green Computing
:: Internet and Web Applications
:: Internet Modeling
:: Image Processing
:: Information Propagation on Social Networks
:: Information and Data Management
:: Mobile-Commerce
:: Mobile & Broadband Wireless Internet
:: Mobile Networks & Wireless LAN
:: Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
:: Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
:: Multimedia Computing
:: Multimedia Networking
:: Network Security
:: Semantic Web, Ontologies
:: Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
:: Social Networks
:: Wireless Communications
PAPER SUBMISSION
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Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. Submitted
paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations. Papers are to
be numbered starting from page one. Papers should be submitted
electronically as MS word or pdf format without author(s) name.
URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia2/openconf/openconf.php
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Date ------------- Dec. 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance -- Jan. 1, 2013
Camera Ready submission ----- Jan. 20, 2013
Registration ---------------- Jan. 20, 2013
Conference dates ------------ March 4-6, 2013
For further details write an email to ice(a)sdiwc.net
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The First International Conference on Green Computing, Technology and
Innovation (ICGCTI 2013)
March 4-6, 2013 - Malaysia | icg(a)sdiwc.net
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia4/
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ICGCTI 2013 will be held in Malaysia during March 4-6, 2013. The main
objective of this conference is to provide a medium for professionals,
engineers, academicians, scientists, and researchers from over the world
to present the result of their research activities in the field of
Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology. ICGCTI 2013
provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas,
innovations and problem solving techniques. Submitted papers will be
reviewed by the technical program committee of the conference.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
:: Carbon management policies and ecology:: related issues with ICT
:: Characterization, metrics, and modeling
:: Carbon metering and user feedback
:: Climate and ecosystem monitoring
:: Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling
:: Energy-aware computing
:: Energy-aware scheduling
:: Energy-aware software
:: Energy-efficient network services and operations
:: Energy-aware high performance computing and applications
:: Energy-aware large scale distributed systems, such as Grids, Clouds and
service computing
:: Energy-aware network equipments and applications
:: Energy-efficient mass data storage and processing
:: Green computing models, methodologies and paradigms
:: Green software engineering
:: Green design, manufacture, use, disposal, and recycling of computers
and communication systems
:: Life-cycle analysis of IT equipment
:: Low-power electronics and systems
:: Matching energy supply and demand
:: Power-aware algorithms and protocols
:: Power-efficient delivery and cooling
:: Power-aware software and hardware
:: Reliability, thermal behavior and control
:: Renewable energy models and prediction
:: Smart grid and microgrids
:: Smart transportation and manufacturing
:: Smart buildings and urban development
:: Sustainable computing
:: Using IT to reduce carbon emissions
PAPER SUBMISSION
-----------------
Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. Submitted
paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations. Papers are to
be numbered starting from page one. Papers should be submitted
electronically as MS word or pdf format without author(s) name.
URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia4/openconf/openconf.php
IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Submission Date ------------- Dec. 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance -- Jan. 1, 2013
Camera Ready submission ----- Jan. 20, 2013
Registration ---------------- Jan. 20, 2013
Conference dates ------------ March 4-6, 2013
For further details write an email to icg(a)sdiwc.net
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CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd International Workshop on
Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering
part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation
(SCS SpringSim 2013)
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April 7-10, 2013, San Diego, CA (USA)
http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/Mod4Sim13
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# Papers Due: *** November 1, 2012 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# and archived in the ACM Digital Library.
#################################################################
The workshop aims to bring together experts in model-based,
model-driven and software engineering with experts in simulation
methods and simulation practitioners, with the objective to advance
the state of the art in model-driven simulation engineering.
Model-driven engineering approaches provide considerable advantages to
software systems engineering activities through the provision of
consistent and coherent models at different abstraction levels. As
these models are in a machine readable form, model-driven engineering
approaches can also support the exploitation of computing capabilities
for model reuse, programming code generation, and model checking, for
example.
The definition of a simulation model, its software implementation and
its execution platform form what is known as simulation engineering.
As simulation systems are mainly based on software, these systems can
similarly benefit from model-driven approaches to support automatic
software generation, enhance software quality, and reduce costs,
development effort and time-to-market.
Similarly to systems and software engineering, simulation engineering
can exploit the capabilities of model-driven approaches by increasing
the abstraction level in simulation model specifications and by
automating the derivation of simulator code. Further advantages can be
gained by using modeling languages, such as UML and SysML – but not
exclusively those. For example, modeling languages can be used for
descriptive modeling (to describe the system to be simulated), for
analytical modeling (to specify analytically the simulation of the
same system), and for implementation modeling (to define the
respective simulator).
A partial list of topics of interest includes:
* model-driven simulation engineering processes
* requirements modeling for simulation
* domain specific languages for modeling and simulation
* model transformations for simulation model building
* model transformations for simulation model implementation
* model-driven engineering of distributed simulation systems
* relationship between metamodeling standards (e.g., MOF, Ecore) and
distributed simulation standards (e.g., HLA, DIS)
* metamodels for simulation reuse and interoperability
* model-driven technologies for different simulation paradigms
(discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation, sketch-based *
simulation, etc.)
* model-driven methods and tools for performance engineering of
simulation systems
* simulation tools for model-driven software performance engineering
* model-driven technologies for simulation verification and validation
* model-driven technologies for data collection and analysis
* model-driven technologies for simulation visualization
* Executable UML
* Executable Architectures
* SysML / Modelica integration
* Simulation Model Portability and reuse
* model-based systems verification and validation
* simulation for model-based systems engineering
To stimulate creativity, however, the workshop maintains a wider scope
and welcomes contributions offering original perspectives on
model-driven engineering of simulation systems.
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On-Line Submissions and Publication
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
We invite paper submissions in three forms:
1. Full paper (max 8 pages), describing innovative research results.
These papers are eligible for the best paper award and may be invited
for an extended version in a special issue of the SCS SIMULATION
journal.
2. Work-in-progress paper (max 6 pages), describing novel research
ideas and promising work that have not yet been fully evaluated.
3. Short paper (max 6 pages), describing industrial and hands-on
experience on any relevant area (i.e. military, government, space,
etc.).
All the papers must be submitted through the SCS conference management
systems (http://www.softconf.com/scs/DEVS13/) and select the Mod4Sim
track. The submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the SCS
conference template (Word template is available at
http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/templates/ConferenceSubmissionWORDTempl…
, guidelines are available at
http://www.scs.org/PDFs/formattingkit.pdf). All the submitted papers
must be original and not submitted else where. Submitted papers will
be peer reviewed with respect to their quality, originality and
relevance. The authors of the accepted papers must register in advance
for inclusion of their paper in the conference proceedings. Authors of
accepted papers will be invited to update their papers basing on the
reviews, before providing the camera ready.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and
archived in both the ACM Digital Library. However, **only** accepted
**full papers** will be printed in hard copy.
Authors may contact the organizers for expression of interest and
content appropriateness at any time.
+++++++++++++++
Important Dates
+++++++++++++++
* Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012
* Decision to paper authors: January 10, 2013
* Camera ready due: February 5, 2013
* Conference dates: April 7-10, 2013
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Organizing Committee
++++++++++++++++++++
* Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy
* Daniele Gianni - European Space Agency, The Netherlands
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Program Committee
+++++++++++++++++
* Steffen Becker - University of Paderborn, Germany
* Paolo Bocciarelli - University of Rome TorVergata, Italy
* David Chen - Univeristy of Bordeaux I, France
* Cristian Englert - Serco, The Netherlands
* Huascar Espinoza - European Software Institute and Tecnalia, Spain
* Paul A. Fishwick - University of Florida, USA
* Carlos Juiz - University of Balearic Islands, Spain
* Cristiano Leorato - Rhea, The Netherlands
* Steve McKeever - University of Oxford, UK
* Halit Oguztüzün - Middle East Technical University, Turkey
* Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA
* Hans Vangheluwe - University of Antwerp, Belgium and McGill
University, Canada
* Anthony Walsh - European Space Agency, Germany
* Heming Zhang - Tsinghua University, China
*** Contact Information ***
Andrea D'Ambrogio and Daniele Gianni (workshop co-chairs)
Emails: dambro(a)uniroma2.it and danielegmail-mod4sim(a)yahoo.it
This looks like an interesting venue for wiki-related research with a geo
slant.
-Jodi
(via AOIR)
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From: Joe Eckert <jeckert1(a)uw.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:52 PM
Subject: [Air-L] AAG 2012 CFP: Tools and Tales of Social and Spatial
Network Analysis
To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org
*Apologies for cross posting....*
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Call for Papers: Tools and Tales of Social and Spatial Network Analysis
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
9-13 April 2013
Los Angeles, CA
Organizers:
Joe Eckert, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Monica Stephens, Department of Geography, Humboldt State University
Networks are a long-standing staple of spatial analysts. Social network
analysis (SNA), on the other hand, is underexplored in geography while
gaining notoriety in other disciplines of social science (e.g., sociology,
information studies, epidemiology, organizational studies). One way in
which these networks form is through digital interactions between users of
social media platforms. Drawing from work from internet geographers (Zook,
Graham, etc...), we know that these interactions are in turn informed and
created within contexts of physical space. We seek scholars that are using
spatially grounded qualitative and quantitative network analysis to ask,
"how do we bring social network analysis methods and theory into
conversation with geographic theory and spatial analysis?"
Work undertaken by analysts using geographic information systems (GIS) and
social network analysis (SNA) are parallel in many ways, including shared
analytical techniques and vocabulary. However, while both seek
explanations for the relationships among entities; geographers seek spatial
context, whereas social network analysts seek a social context. We feel
that these two modes of analysis richly complement one another, and
geographers might be well served by examining the ways in which networks of
place interact with digitally enabled social networks.
We seek papers that meet this broad theme, but offer the following
questions to consider:
- In what ways are digitally enabled networks created via the spaces in
which platform users physically inhabit?
- How are digital enabled networks both implicitly and explicitly spatial?
Do the digital traces of our lives left as user-generated content speak to
the ways in which we experience and create space?
-Which SNA tools are useful for spatial analysis, which spatial tools are
useful for SNA?
- How can theoretical work on network theory be brought to bear on
empirical practices of social network analysis?
- How might social network analysis further nuance different
conceptualizations of network theory?
- How can geographers methodologically examine bipartite (2-mode) spaces?
How can we understand this in GIS?
- How can GIS or geographic analysis begin to examine triadic structures in
social data?
- Is GIS or other geospatial analysis complicit in the construction of
social network space? Could it be? Should it be?
We welcome studies that explore any of these issues, or any that more
broadly address themes of social network analysis, network theory, and the
urban networks that comprise the digital.
Please send your 250 word abstract to the organizers, Monica (
Monica.Stephens(a)humboldt.edu) and Joe (jeckert1(a)uw.edu) by September 28,
2012. We will inform authors with successful submissions on October 5,
2012. This session will be part of #GEO/CODE 2013: Geoweb, Big Data and
Society organized by the New Mappings Collaboratory (
http://newmaps.as.uky.edu/geocode-2013-geoweb-big-data-and-society-call-cal…
).*
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