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*****My apologies if you receive this message more than once.***** ****But if you do, this might really be of interest to you ....**** Dear All, The 5th Int. Conf. on Standardisation and Innovation in IT (SIIT 2007) will take place 18 - 19 October 2007, and will be hosted by the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Hope to see you there. Cheers, Kai. Second Call for Papers 5th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology SIIT 2007 Hosted by: University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada 18 - 19 October 2007 Topics Theoretical and empirical papers as well as case studies are welcome that shed some light on IT standards, standardisation, and innovation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * standardisation & innovation * the impact of standards * standards policies * standards and regulation * intellectual property rights and antitrust law * impact of standards on trade * economics of standards * standards education * research and standardisation * standards cultures * competing regional and international regimes * standards setting organisations & their processes * alternative compatibility strategies * corporate standards strategies * problems of implementation and diffusion * conformance assessment, testing and certification * case studies of standardisation * standards for developing countries * history of standardisation Suggestions for additional topics are most welcome. Important Dates Submissions due: 14 May 2007 Notification of authors: 2 July 2007 Final Paper due: 1 September 2007 All information about the conference will be announced at www.SIIT2007.org. Original (unpublished) papers not exceeding 6,000 words are solicited. They will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, planned to be published by the IEEE. Submissions should be sent in .pdf or .rtf format to: [log in to unmask] Outstanding papers will be considered for inclusion in the International Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). General Chair: Richard Hawkins (University of Calgary), Alberta, CA [log in to unmask] International Organising Committee This committee is responsible for all administration prior to the conference. Its members include: * Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen, DE * Ken Krechmer, ICSR, US * Tim Schoechle, ICSR, US * Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, US All inquiries should be addressed to: [log in to unmask] Local Arrangements Patrick Feng (University of Calgary), CA, Richard Hawkins (University of Calgary), CA, Advisory Board Koichi Asatani, Dean, Kogakuin University, JP Jan van den Beld, Secretary General of Ecma Int., CH Scott Bradner, Internet Society's VP for Standards, US (tbc) Carl Cargill, Director of Standards, Sun, US (tbc) Jim Carlo, Past-President, IEEE-SA, US Keith Dickerson, Head of Standards, BT, UK Junde Song, Dean, Beijing Univ of Post and Telecom, CN William Kelly, Prof., Catholic University of America, US John Ketchell, Director CEN/ISSS, BE Martin Libicki, RAND Corp., US Roberto Saracco Telecom Italia, IT (tbc) Helmut Schink, VP System Engineering, Siemens, DE Oliver Smoot, President, ISO, CH (tbc) Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer & Updegrove, US Houlin Zhao, Deputy Secretary General, ITU, CH (tbc) Programme Committee Ken Krechmer, ICSR, US (Chair) Dave Allen, Collab CPR, US Paolo Bellavista, Bologna U., IT Knut Blind, Berlin U., DE Randy Bloomfield, NTIA/ITS, US Francoise Bousquet, Akela, FR Nils Brunsson, Stockholm School of Econ., SE Peter Buxmann, Darmstadt U., DE Yves Chauvel, ETSI, FR Antonio Corradi, Bologna U., IT Mahmoud F. Daneshmand, ALABS, US Hosein Fallah, SIT, US Vlad Fomin, Delft U., DK Linda Garcia, Georgetown U., US Mark Gaynor, Boston U., US Ole Hanseth, U. of Oslo, NO John Hill, SUN, US John Hudson, Bath U., UK Eric Iversen, NIFU STEP, NO Hai Jin Huazhong U., CN Kai Jakobs, RWTH, DE Junghoon Kim, Keio U., JP Dirk Kuhlmann, HP, UK Mingzhi Li, Tsinghua U., CN Martin Libicki, RAND, US Zhang Ling, South China U. CN Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U., US Roger Marks, Chair IEEE 802.16, US Eric Monteiro, Norwegian U., NO Don Purcell, Catholic U., US Roy Rada, Maryland U., US Kai Reimers, Aachen U., DE Tim Schoechle, U. of Colorado, US Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T, US Jan Smits, Technical U. of Eindhoven, NL Michael Spring, Pittsburgh U., US Kees Stuurman, Tilburg U., NL Klaus Turowski, Augsburg U., DE Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, US Taavi Valdlo, Estonian Informatics Centre, EE Henk de Vries, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL Marc van Wegberg, Maastricht U., NL Willem Wakker, ACE, NL Juergen Wehnert, EURAS, DE Joel West, San Jose State U., U Some Information on SIIT SIIT conferences are held every two years. They aim at bringing together standards and standardisation experts from different fields - academics, policy makers, standards developers, organisations' standards leaders, and users (administrations, companies, end users) - those who are interested in a multi-disiplinary exchange of insights and views on standards and standardisation. Previous SIIT conferences: 1999 RWTH; Aachen; Germany 2001 Univ. of Colorado; Boulder, Colorado; United States 2003 Technical University of Delft; Delft, The Netherlands 2005 ITU-T; Geneva, Switzerland Sponsors SUN Microsystems intel Microsoft BT RWTH Aachen AT&T The Int. Center for Strandardization Research ________________________________________________________________ Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22220 [log in to unmask] <http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/kai/kai_home.html> EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. <http://www.euras.org> The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. <http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=497> 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series <http://www.idea-group.com/bookseries/details.asp?id=7>