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Important dates
Deadline for submissions: 1 January 2009 Special issue publication: June
2009
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IEEE Computer seeks submissions of original research for a June 2009 special
issue dedicated to software engineering ethics in a digital world.
Digital communities are becoming more common as the Internet becomes
pervasive in day-to-day life. The rise in digital communities also raises a
number of ethical issues related to privacy, monitoring, data protection,
and more. An ascendant information society providing a range of e-services
(such as eHealth, eGovernment, etc.) means that these challenges will become
increasingly critical in both the design of software systems and the digital
communities they serve.
A panel of expert guest editors (Awais Rashid, John Weckert and Richard
Lucas) is soliciting papers on all topics ranging from field studies of
software systems operating in ethically challenging contexts to
methodologies, processes, and codes of conduct. Computer encourages articles
that offer a multi-disciplinary point of view on the challenges to existing
software engineering practices that stem from current issues in social
science, psychology, and criminology.
Submissions on any topic related to software engineering ethics in a digital
world are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Ethical Challenges for Engineering Next Generation Software
Systems
* Practice and Policy Implications of Ethics
* Software Engineering in Societal Contexts
* Ethical Aspects of Digital Communities
* Involvement of and accountability to stakeholders' ethical
standpoints during software design
* Ethics regulation in software engineering
* Codes of ethics and conduct
Direct inquiries to guest editors Awais Rashid, John Weckert, and Richard
Lucas at [log in to unmask] Paper submissions are due by 1
January 2009. Complete submission instructions are available at
www.computer.org/portal/pages/computer/content/author.html.
More details on the special issue are available at:
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/isis/ieee.htm
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