Originally from: "Prof. Kecheng Liu" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 3rd workshop on org. semiotics
Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2000, 2:24 pm
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Call for papers -
The 3rd International Workshop on Organisational Semiotics
4 July 2000, Stafford, UK
Attached to the Second International Conference on Enterprise Information
Systems (ICEIS2000) 5 - 7 July 2000
(http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/)
Background
The first workshop was held in Twente in 1995 and the second one took place
in Almelo in September 1999
(http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/research/groups/semiotics99/index.html). These
workshops were driven by an increasing need felt by
colleagues for a better understanding of information and its functions in
the society and organisations. This has resulted in a
collective effort towards establishing the theory of organisational
semiotics for studying organisations, human communication
and information systems. The community, formed and strengthened by these
events, consists of educators, researchers and
consultants in the fields of information theory, organisation studies,
information systems, computation, language and
communication..
In the last two workshops, participants not only had opportunities to
present their work, but also enjoyed lively and
constructive discussions, which proved to be beneficial to many research
groups. A book containing selected papers from this
workshop will be published in May 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers. It is
hoped the publication of this book and a
number of more resulting from the following workshops will meet the demand
for research and teaching materials in the fields of
organisational semiotics and its applications such as business process
modelling, knowledge engineering, organisational studies,
information management and systems development.
The IFIP Working Group 8.1 has expressed its interest in endorsing this
workshop. The WG8.1 has already planned to run its
working conference entitled "Organisational Semiotics" in Montreal in 2001,
which will be contributed by most of the workshop
participants (with Ronald Stamper as the conference chair and Kecheng Liu
as the PC chair).
Objectives
The workshop first of all will provide a continuing opportunity for the
colleagues who have been involved in the community in
the past years, and will be also open to any one interested in the subject
area. This will enable us to exchange new ideas, and
inform the development of their work. This is part of the effort from this
research community in establishing a discipline of study
of information and communication in the context of organisations, with or
without the use of information technology. The
workshop will also serve as an important platform for any one - educators,
researchers, practitioners and students - who is
interested in or has worked in semiotics and semiotic approaches to
information and its use in organisational contexts.
Workshop Format
The workshop will last one day (in contrast with the format of multiple
days as run in the first two workshops). This is
constrained by the format set by the ICEIS2000 committee, as this workshop
is organised as part of that conference. It is
intended that all papers will be sent to workshop participants for them to
study before they come to the workshop; therefore
the discussion after each presentation can be in more depth. Each accepted
paper will be assigned to a discussant, who will
lead the discussion after the paper presentation at the workshop, as well
as critique the paper for further improvement for
possible inclusion into a book for publication.
Paper submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit their extended abstracts (ca.2000
words) in the first place. Preliminary acceptance
with comments will be given to the abstract authors to facilitate the
production of the full papers. Papers presented at the
workshop will be further selected for publication in the second book in the
series of Organisational Semiotics.
Important dates:
Extended abstract submission - 10 April 2000
Author notification - 1 May 2000
Final (full paper) submission - 10 June 2000.
All submissions are in email to the Workshop Secretary, Samuel Chong. at
<[log in to unmask]>.
Workshop Programme Committee
Kecheng Liu (chair) - Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Albert Alderson - Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Peter Andersen - University of Aarhus, Denmark
Rodney Clarke - University of Wollongong, Australia
Jan Dietz - University of Delft, The Netherlands
Owen Eriksson - Dalarna University, Sweden
Joaquim Filipe - Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setubal, Portugal
Anthony Finkelstein - University College London, United Kingdom
Henk Gazendam - Groningen University and Twente University, The Netherlands
Joseph Goguen, University of California at San Diego, USA
Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University, Sweden
Marc Hafkamp - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Michael Heng - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mikael Lind - University of Borås, Sweden
Kalle Lyytinen - University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Mareike Schoop - Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Ronald Stamper - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Claude Vogel - Semio Corporation, USA
Workshop Secretary: Samuel Chong <[log in to unmask]>
If you have any queries, please contact the Workshop PC Chair: Professor
Kecheng Liu at [log in to unmask] (www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/~cmtkl).
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Professor Kecheng Liu, http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/~cmtkl/
BSc MSc PhD CEng FBCS
Chair of Computing Science
School of Computing
Staffordshire University
Beaconside
Stafford ST18 0AD, UK
Phone:+44.1785.353464 fax: +44.1785.353497
Email: [log in to unmask]
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