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                      1st IEEE Conference on
    Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology
                             SIIT '99

                         Aachen, Germany
                      September 15-17, 1999


                      Final Call for Papers


http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/siit99/home.html


To be innovative is crucial in today's increasingly competitive
environment. This holds particularly for the deployment and 
utilisation of IT systems and applications, and it holds at both the 
corporate and the national/international level.Standards, on the 
other hand, have frequently been accused of hampering progress 
because of their slow development processes and an alleged lack of 
responsiveness to market needs. Yet, few large IT systems would ever 
materialise without them. With an unprecedented such system - the 
Global Information Infrastructure - on the horizon it is about time 
to study both innovation and standardisation processes, as well as - 
particularly - their interrelation.

The conference aims at bringing together researchers and 
practitioners from the normally separated disciplines of 
telecommunications, technology studies, economics, business studies, 
management sciences, politics, and computer science, as well as IT 
users.


Topics of Interest

Papers that address issues relating to standardisation and/or 
innovation in IT, with an emphasis on the 'and', are solicited. 
Sample topics of interest include:

   -  The role of standards in information infrastructures.
   -  National/regional standardisation policies.
   -  Analysis of, and new models for, standardisation processes.
   -  The role of consortia in standards making.
   -  The economic dimension of IT standards.
   -  The impact of standards on innovations, and vice versa.
   -  Corporate innovation processes.
   -  National and regional innovation policies.
   -  Case studies relating to standards setting and/or innovations
      in IT.


Submission Instructions

All submissions must be original material not previously published, 
and not be under review elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed by at 
least two experts; accepted papers will be published in the 
conference proceedings.

Submissions may be in the form of either full papers or short 
papers.

Full papers should not exceed 6,000 words. 
Short papers (discussing e.g. concepts or research-in-progress) 
should not exceed 2,000 words.

For both categories a separate title page should give the names and 
contact details of all authors (affiliation, postal address, e-mail, 
phone, fax). The key contact for correspondence must be clearly 
identified. The body of the paper should be preceded by a 200-words 
abstract. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. 

Send a Postscript version or a PDF version of your paper 

either via ftp to 
ftp-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/incoming

or as a MIME-encoded e-mail attachment to 
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Only if these options fail should hardcopies (4) of a paper be sent 
to 
Kai Jakobs; RWTH Aachen; Informatik IV; Ahornstr. 55;
D-52074 Aachen; Germany.


Important Dates

Deadline for Submissions:  March 5, 1999.
Notification of authors:   May 3, 1999.
Camera-ready versions:     June 6, 1999.


The best papers relating to the global perspectives of the (IT standards 
and standardisation) field will be recommended for possible publication 
in the Journal of Global Information Management. The journal's home 
page can be found at http://www.idea-group.com/jgim.htm 


Co-Sponsored by:

IEEE
IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Enterprise Networking
Technical University of Aachen





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