Dear colleauges,
as per request of a number of authors, the deadline for paper submission
to the dual IFIP EGOV and ePart 2015 conference –
www.egov-conference.org - has been extended till 31st march 2015.
Pls find below the call for papers for your convenience.
Looking forward to receiving your submissions via the easychair system.
With kind regards,
Maria Wimmer
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS – Policy Modelling and Policy Informatics Track:
The dual 14th IFIP Electronic Government and 7th e-Participation
Conference (IFIP EGOV and IFIP ePart, www.egov-conference.org) 2015 will
be held from Sunday, August 30 to Thursday, September 3, 2015 under the
local auspices of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, (
http://www.uom.gr/ ) at the Electra Palace Hotel, Platia Aristotelous 9,
Thessaloniki 546 24, Greece (
http://www.electrahotels.gr/electra-palace-hotel-thessaloniki/the-hotel )
TRACK CHAIRS
-Maria A. Wimmer (lead), University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
-Michela Milano, Bologna University, Italy and
-Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, SUNY, USA
SCOPE
Using computer simulations and decision support systems in developing,
examining and explaining public policies has recently received a
stronger focus in research. With public policy we refer to decisions of
governments, to governmental actions and intentions, to regulatory
measures and/or funding priorities concerning a given thematic area of
public concern that government is regulating. Public policy making has
evolved as a domain of study supporting governments and their
constituency with theories, methods, instruments and tools to
analytically evaluate the past (causes, impact) and innovatively explore
the future (potential effects) of a policy under consideration. Advances
in simulation paradigms and in innovative ICT support as well as more
active stakeholder engagement and more reliable simulation models lead
to expectations of better informed governance and public policy
development. The ultimate goal thereby is to make public policy making
more transparent, open and collaborative.
However, the complexity encompassed with modelling public policies
demands for different political, economic, social, human and technical
disciplines to work together to leverage the benefits of different
approaches of understanding and designing a policy. This demands for
multidisciplinary research and collaboration across disciplines. Yet,
traditional fragmentation between disciplines keeps researchers within
their own disciplines to develop policy models almost independently from
each other. To fully address these challenges, researchers need to bring
together their knowledge and share their expertise within a
multidisciplinary collaboration. With multidisciplinary research,
existing concepts and approaches can be combined in an innovative way to
achieve more powerful solutions, which fulfill the demands of more
transparent, participative, data-driven and collaborative policy making.
The Policy Modelling and Policy Informatics Track focuses on
multidisciplinary research and innovative solutions supporting public
policy making with innovative ICT therewith involving relevant
stakeholders. The scope ranges from policy analysis and conceptual
modelling to programming and visualization of simulation and decision
support models, to help policy makers and stakeholders deliberate and
evaluate policy decisions as well as explore new models of governance.
Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following
topics:
- Foundations of policy modelling and policy informatics
- Multidisciplinary research and collaboration across disciplines
- Methods, concepts and tools for policy analysis, including data and
opinion mining, mapping, simulation, aggregation, and visualisation
- Model building based on particular simulation paradigms and supported
with conceptual modelling and simulation systems
- Model evaluation, presentation of simulation outputs and
interpretation of models
- Quality of simulation models, understandability, transparency and
trustworthiness of models
- Impact assessment and contribution of modelling and simulation to
better policy making
- Engagement of stakeholders and open collaboration in policy making
- Modelling and simulating dynamics of social-environmental interactions
- Decision support in the public sector through information-centric and
model-based analysis of evidence
- Designing, managing, and evaluating information systems and
infrastructures for policy construction, analysis, and implementation
- Public policy issues including modelling and simulation and use of
open data and/or social media
- Methods and solutions to manage complexity of public policy contexts
- Technology platforms supporting different modelling paradigms and
integrating advanced features of mining, modelling and simulating public
policy
- Comparative analyses
- Examples and best practices of innovative, open and collaborative
public policy making
FORMATS
Across its tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV/ePart 2015 conference hosts
distinct formats of contributions:
• Completed research papers (max. 12 pages, published in the IFIP ePart
proceedings of Springer LNCS)
• Ongoing research and innovative projects (max. 8 pages, published in
alternate proceedings by a IOS Press)
Beyond the tracks, the dual IFIP EGOV/ePart 2015 conference also hosts
• Posters (max. 2 pages), to be exposed along the welcome reception on
Tuesday evening
• Workshops and panels on pertinent issues, short abstracts (2 pages), and
• PhD colloquium submissions (max. 8 pages),
all to be included in the alternate proceedings published by IOS Press
These formats encourage both scientific rigor and discussions of state
of the art as well as innovative research approaches, work in progress,
and studies of practical e-government or e-governance projects along
with papers on system implementations.
Prior to the conference (that is, on Sunday and Monday, August 30 and
31), a PhD student colloquium will be held providing doctoral students
with an international forum guided by senior scholars for presenting
their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration.
Read more about the submission guidelines and review criteria on the
conference website:
http://www.egov-conference.org/
IMPORTANT DATES:
• March 31, 2015—Submission of papers (extended deadline)
• April 15, 2015—Submission of workshop/panel/poster/PhD colloquium
contributions
• April 30, 2015—Notification of acceptance/rejection decisions for papers
• May 15, 2015 — Notification of acceptance for
workshops/panels/posters/PhD colloquium contributions
• May 31, 2015—Camera-ready papers of completed research, of ongoing
research
• June 15, 2015—Camera-ready papers of PhD colloquium papers, posters,
workshop and panel descriptions
SUBMISSION SITE:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=egov2015
2015 DUAL CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Efthimios Tambouris, University of Macedonia, Greece
Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Maria A. Wimmer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Konstantinos Tarabanis, University of Macedonia, Greece
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