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Further Extended Deadline - call for papers: 26th March 2007
International Conference on Organisational Semiotics ICOS2007
Background
Organisational Semiotics (OS) is an emergent discipline whose purpose is
to study the nature, characteristics, functions and effects of
information and communication within organisational contexts. The
contribution of OS to the understanding, analysis, modelling, design and
implementation of organisational and technical information systems has
attracted much attention of researchers and practitioners from many
subject areas.
Organisational Semiotics may be seen as a discipline that helps us to
understand the inter- workings and interactions among individuals within
society, and also between human beings and technology. OS opens up
prospects for scientific theory building and provides a means of gaining
insight into organized behaviour and enacted social practices, in the
presence and absence of various technologies. The broad issues that
concern the researchers in this field are philosophical, social and
technical, studied through existing and newly developed semiotic
theories and methods.
A strong motivation behind this research stems from the recognition that
the social study of the impact of IT impact does not address the fine
detail of how information functions within and between organisations.
The analysis and design of information systems employs methods for
solving the practical problems preceding software engineering, but
without offering adequate scientific foundations for them. Such methods
have not been appropriate for addressing many of the problems caused by
the rapid growth of global communications with its effects on business,
government, the economy and politics. However, a semiotic perspective
can accommodate the individual and the social, the human and the
technical, and intra-company and inter-company interactions, at the
level of detail that is required for studying, modelling, designing and
engineering organisational and technical systems.
Conference
The conference is the tenth in a series of international events devoted
to the latest research in Organisational Semiotics. This year it is
being held at Sheffield Hallam University, which is situated in the
county of Yorkshire in the north of England. The main theme on this
occasion is:
Complexity in Organisational and Technological Systems.
Participants should plan to arrive at the conference on Monday, 23 July
2007. The technical and social programme will occupy the whole of
Tuesday-Thursday 24-26 July, including the conference excursion to and
banquet at Chatsworth House on the Wednesday afternoon and evening.
On this occasion the International Conference on Organisational
Semiotics is being held at the same time and place as the 15th
International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2007, and it is
planned that some keynote lectures will be shared by both conferences.
In addition, the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures
will include an Industry Day (on Friday, 27 July). Participants in the
International Conference on Organisational Semiotics may attend the
Industry Day if they wish, in which case they will need to pay an
additional fee and also spend an extra day and night at Sheffield.
Further details of the Industry Day may be found on the ICCS 2007
website http://www.iccs.info/industry_day.php.
Call for Papers
The conference in 2007 will continue the efforts of the international
research community in the development of the emergent discipline of
Organisational Semiotics (OS). It will focus not only on advancing the
theory of OS but also on sharing the practical benefits gained so far
through applications of methods and techniques derived from various OS
approaches.
Contributors to the conference may present theoretical investigations
and address practical problems from a range of perspectives, such as:
* Organisational Semiotic theory, concepts, methods and
techniques.
* Fundamental notions in Organizational Semiotics and
their practical applications.
* Semiotically based analysis of problems and of data.
* Semiotically motivated approaches to information and
communication systems.
* User-centred approaches to information systems and
information management.
* Semiotics of interactions and user interface design.
* Language-action paradigms.
* Organisational Semiotics and Systems Theory.
* Semiotically based methods for systems development:
requirements, design,
implementation, evaluation, maintenance, and the documentation of these
activities.
* Semiotically inspired approaches to the management of
knowledge and of documented
information.
* Semiotically based approaches to multimedia.
The main theme of ICOS 2007 is Complexity in Organisational and
Technological Systems. Papers related to this theme are particularly
welcome. However, contributions on other aspects of Organisational
Semiotics are also acceptable.
All contributions will be peer reviewed. Both papers of a theoretical
nature and papers that discuss empirical or historical research are
welcomed. Extended versions of a selection of papers will be considered
for further publication in a special issue of a journal or a book (to be
announced).
Contributions will generally take the form of spoken presentations.
However, poster presentations are acceptable as an alternative. Authors
of posters should submit for review a short paper, containing the main
points of their presentation.
Submission of Papers
Contributors are requested to submit a full paper, in pdf format and
contained in a zip file, which should reach the Conference Secretary by
Monday, 26 March 2007.
Final, camera-ready versions of accepted papers should be produced in
Word, with at least 1.5- line spacing, and submitted along with a pdf
version. These documents, contained in zip files,
should reach the Conference Secretary by Monday, 9 July 2007.
A submission procedure will be provided in the conference website at
www.orgsem.org.
Important Dates
Full paper submission: 26 March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 28 May 2007.
Camera-ready version: 9 July 2007.
Conference: 24 - 26 July 2007.
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