IMCW2015: 6th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, SCOPE November 25-27, 2015, Guangzhou, China Information Management in the Big Data Era: For a Better World (First Call for Papers) Symposium web site: http://imcw2015.bilgiyonetimi.net IMCW2015: The "6th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World" will take placein Guangzhou,China from November 25-27,2015 (http://imcw2015.bilgiyonetimi.net/).it is organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, and the School of Information Management of Sun Yat-sen Universityin Guangzhou, China. Data deluge is upon us. Some two exabytes of data get created daily. Google alone processes 24 petabyte of data every day. The amount of data is doubling every three years and 90% of all the data were produced in the last two years. The proliferation of available data in different formats such as text, sound and videochanges the way we live, work and carry out research. While Science was based on empirical, theoretical and computational models in the past, it currently relies increasingly on data exploration (escience). Called the Fourth Paradigm, the data-intensive scientific discovery makes information management all the more important in the Big Data Era in order to cary out leading research and make the world a better place to live. MAIN THEME Information Management in the Big Data Era: For a Better World being the main theme of the Symposium, IMCW2015 aims to bring together information professionals, data librarians, archivists computer and information scientists, business people and engineers to discuss the implications of Big Data on information management and to contemplate on establishing a sound data infrastructure and finding innovative ways to mine, process, organize and provide access to large amounts of data. As organizers, we thought this is an opportune time for IMCW2015 to review the challenges for information organizations, libraries, archives and museums providing data and information services in the digital age. CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions can be theoretical as well as technical and practical. Informative case studies are also welcome. The audience will be information professionals, data librarians, data curators, data managers, researchers, information scientists and computer engineers, among others. We accept extended abstracts (no less than 750 words) for full papers; short communications, Research in Progress reports, visual presentations ( pechakuchas )and posters on all aspects of innovative and collaborative information and data managementapplications. Extended abstracts for student papers and posters are also welcome. Extended abstracts of PhD students to present the interim findings of their ongoing research will also be considered. Please use the template available on the Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and send them to us using the Conference Management Software (openconf) by May 18, 2015. We also accept proposals to organize workshops. Proposals should include a title, a short abstract, the name and contact information of the convener and be addressed to imcwconf@gmail.com by May 18, 2015.
We also encourage session proposals. The coordinator of a special session will be responsible for the selection of papers (4-6 papers) and will chair the session. For session coordinators, registration fee will be waived. Accepted extended abstracts and proposals will appear in the Book of Abstracts to be published prior to the Symposium. Accepted extended abstracts may be developed as full papers. A short list of papers will be selected so that the revised and extended versions of these papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book to be published by Springer under its Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (decision pending)and the Symposium web site. Papers that appear in Springer s CCIS series are submitted by Springer for indexing to Thomson Reuter s Conference Proceedings Citation Index on a yearly basis. MAIN TOPICS Main topics of the Symposium include (but not limited with) the following: Big Data Definition Access Processing, analysis and visualization Sharing and reuse Quality Standards Preservation Long-term stability Security Ownership Intellectual property rights Research data as big data Big Data ecosystem Big Data: issues and challenges Big Data algorithms & programming models Novel techniques, processes and methods for collecting and analyzing Big Data Big Data search, mining, analytics & interactive visualization Big Data & decision making Big Data & competitive intelligence Big Data analytics & preserving privacy Big Data & security implications Big Data & risk management, fraud prevention Big Data & deep learning Big Data & cloud based analytics Big Data & Internet of Things (IoT) Big Data & cognitive computing Big Data & business intelligence Big Data & federated databases Big Data & spatial and temporal aspects Big Data & visual data discovery Big Data & rich media analytics Big Data & knowledge modeling, engineering Big Data & knowledge creation, representation, reasoning, sharing and transfer.
Big Data analytics & industry knowledge Big Data in enterprise models and practices Big Data analytics for new product developments & its knowledge implications Use cases & applications in knowledge based Big Data analytics Big Data Infrastructure Infrastructures and networks for Big Data management European Infrastructure for e-science Digital Repositories (e-scidr) Systems and tools for BigData management BigData storage, back up and recovery Big Data management in the cloud Cloud computing and Big Data Big Data repositories Registry of research data repositories (re3data) DOIs for research datasets (DataCite) Data integration Validating the veracity of data Sorting out noise and malicious information from valid, actual information Designing and managing a platform of services Information Management and the Big Data Big Data implications for information management Big Data and information management in smart solutions Big Data & knowledge generation Data lifecycle management Data management policies Data management planning tools Digital curation and preservation of Big Data Digital forensics BigData management in science, technology and medicine Big Data management in social sciences, arts and humanities Digital libraries and Big Data Innovative and collaborative Big Data management applications Privacy issues Funding Big Data research and management Support services for researchers, students and general public Big data analytics Integration and utilization of fine micro data from different sources Rich representation for fine micro data from different sources Information mapping for big data analytics Interdisciplinary research working with big data Methodologies for observational data analytics Online and offline human behavior modeling in multi-disciplines Large-scale network analysis for big data Big data analytics for science and technology, e-commerce and market intelligence, e- government and politics, security and Public safety, smart health and well being Transformation and impact Engagement of IS groups in interdisciplinary collaborations with big data New leadership of IS groups in big data era Changes of IT function in big data era Access to Big Data Open access to publicly funded research data
Institutional repositories for research data Scholarly publishing and research data Research data journals Open source digital curation tools (BitCurator) Open source research data management systems (CKAN) Policies and strategies for open access to research data Research data metrics Knowledge Discovery in Big Data Knowledge discovery techniques Mining large research data sets Research data metadata standards (CERIF) Semantic enrichment of research data Knowledge representation Search, indexing and retrieval of research data Data triage Metadata harvesting Metadata extraction Metadata export Metadata management Metadata interoperability and standards for research data Education for Information Management for Big Data ORGANIZERS Education of Big Data scientists Education of Big Data librarians BigData curation education Education for biomedical and environmental informatics Bioinformatics education Digital humanities, arts and e-social sciences Challenges and opportunities of Big Data on LIS education Hacettepe University Department of Information Management, Ankara, Turkey Sun Yat-sen UniversitySchool of Information Management,Guangzhou, China. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-chairs Yaşar Tonta (Hacettepe University, Turkey) SerapKurbanoğlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Changzhu Huang (Chinese Academy of Social Science, China) Feicheng Ma (Wuhan University, China) Organizing Committee Chair Shujin Cao(Sun Yat-Sen University, China) Publicity Co-chairs TolgaÇakmak (Hacettepe University, Turkey) (Turkey) René Schneider (Haute Ecole de Gestion, Switzerland) (Europe) SirjeVirkus (Tallinn University, Estonia) (Europe) MihaelaBanekZorica (University of Zagreb, Croatia) (Europe) Suzanne Allard (University of Tennessee, USA) (North America)
Jordan M. Scepanski (Jordan Wells Associates, USA) (North America) Egbert Sanchez Vanderkast (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) (Middle/South America) M. Shaheen Majid (College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Singapore) (Asia) Takashi Nagatsuka (Tsurumi University, Japan) (Asia) Natalia Gendina (Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts, Russia)(Russia& CIS countries) Piotr Lapo (Belarusian State University, Belarus) (Russia& CIS countries) GannaOnkovich (Ukraine) (Russia& CIS countries) S.M. Shafi (University of Kashmir, India) (India) JoumanaBoustany (University of Paris Descartes)(North Africa) GülçinCribb (Singapore Management University, Singapore) (Australia) Li Wang (University of Auckland, New Zealand)(New Zealand) Organizing Committee Members John N. Gathegi (University of Southern Florida, USA) SulimanHawamdeh (University of North Texas, USA) Qing Fang(Wuhan University,China) Guangjian Li(Peking University,China) Jianjun Sun(Nanjing University,China) Nazan Uçak (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Jingzhu Wei (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) Lixin Xia(Central China Normal University,China) Bülent Yılmaz (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Bin Zhang(Renmin University,China) Ping Ke(Nankai University) Jun Zhang(Sun Yat-Sen University, China) Shiwei Wang(Shanghai Academy of Social Science,China) Jianxun Zeng(Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China,China) (list incomplete) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Programme Committee Chair Jingzhu Wei (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) Workshops Chair Marc Kosciejew (University of Malta, Malta) Posters Chair Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (University of Dublin, Trinity College, Republic of Ireland) Short Presentations Chair Yongli Zou(Sun Yat-sen University,China) Doctoral Forum Chair John N. Gathegi (University of Southern Florida, USA) Programme Committee Members
Ismail Abdullahi (North Carolina Central University, USA) Umut Al (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Ágnes Hajdu Barát (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary) Tomaz Bartol (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Carla Basili (Sapienza University, Italy) Peter G. Becker (The Hague University, The Netherlands) Albert K. Boekhorst (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Joumana Boustany (University of Paris Descartes, France) Fazlı Can (Bilkent University, Turkey) Gülçin Cribb (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Susana Finquelievich (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research,Argentina) Nieves González Fernández-Villavicencio (University of Seville, Spain) Christine Hagar (San Jose State University, USA) Jos van Helvoort (The Hague University, The Netherlands) Aleksandra Horvat (Croatian Library Association, Croatia) Ruhua Huang (Wuhan University,China) Xiaobin Huang (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Christina Kanaki (Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Greece) Rajkumar Kannan (BHC Autonomous, India) László Z. Karvalics (University of Szeged, Hungary) Tibor Koltay (Szent István University, Hungary) Serap Kurbanoğlu (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Özgür Külcü (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Aira Lepik (Tallinn University, Estonia) Gang Li (Wuhan University,China) Yuelin Li (Nankai University,China ) Wei Lu (Wuhan University,China) Xiaobin Lu (Renmin University,China) Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh (University of Dublin, Trinity College, Republic of Ireland) Orçun Madran (Hacettepe University, Turkey) İnci Önal (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Gloria Ponjuan (University of Havana, Cuba) Maria Katarzyna Próchnicka (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Angela Repanovici (Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania) Fernanda Ribeiro (University of Porto, Portugal) Jordan M. Scepanski (Jordan Wells Associates, USA) René Schneider (Haute Ecole de Gestion, Switzerland) İrem Soydal (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Paul Sturges (Loughborough University, UK) Xinning Su (Nanjing University,China) Tania Yordanova Todorova (State University, Bulgaria) Yaşar Tonta (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Nazan Özenç Uçak (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Yurdagül Ünal (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Tapio Varis (UNESCO) Bülent Yılmaz (Hacettepe University, Turkey) Ying Jiang(Chinese Academy of Social Science,China) Jimin Wang (Peking University,China) Weijun Wang (Central China Normal University,China) Xiaoying Zhou (Renmin University,China) Qinghua Zhu (Nanjing University,China) Haiqun Ma(Hei Longjiang University,China) Shuiqing Huang(Nanjing Agricultural University,China) Dingquan Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China) (list incomplete) LOCAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Youzhi Chen(Sun Yat-sen University,China) Yang Zhang(Sun Yat-sen University,China) Jing Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University,China) Linlin Song (Sun Yat-sen University,China) Chunmei Gan (Sun Yat-sen University,China) (list incomplete) IMPORTANT DATES First Call: March 2015 Second Call: April 2015 Last date to send all types of extended abstracts and proposals: 18 May 2015 Authors notification: 22 June 2015 Submission of extended abstracts in final form: 8 July 2015 Registration starts: 9 July 2014 Submission of full papers (if desired):1 August 2015 Notification of acceptance of full papers: 1 September 2015 Submission of full papers in final form: 1 October 2015 Symposium: 25-27 November 2015 All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about possible invited speakers at imcwconf@gmail.com. Symposium Facebook page: Twitter hashtag: #imcw2015 Looking forward to your contributions to and participation in the Symposium. Yaşar Tonta, Serap Kurbanoğlu, Changzhu Huang and Feichang Ma General Co-chairs Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 297 82 00 Fax: +90 312 299 20 14 E-mail: {yasartonta, kurbanogluserap}@gmail.com Suijin Cao and Jingzhu Wei, Local Chairs Sun Yat-sen University School of Information Management 132 East OuterRing Road Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center Guangzhou, China E-mail: weijzhu@mail.sysu.edu.cn