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

Aachen, Germany

Deadline has expired

Call for Papers

 
 
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 and national/regional innovation processes.
• 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 either a Postscript version or a PDF version of your paper via ftp to
ftp-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/incoming

or send the paper as a MIME-encoded e-mail attachment to
Kai.Jakobs@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de.

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.
 
 
Programme Committee

Meinolf Dierkes; Social Sciences Research Center Berlin, D
Tineke Egyedi; U. of Maastricht, NL
James Fleck; U. of Edinburgh, UK
Richard Hawkins; U. of Sussex, UK
Eric Monteiro; Norwegian National U. of Science and Technology, NO
Stan Moyer; Bellcore, US
Rob Procter; U. of Edinburgh, UK
Roberto Saracco; CSELT, IT
Michael Spring; U. of Pittsburgh, US
Klaus Turowski; U. of Magdeburg, D
Robin Williams; U. of Edinburgh (Chair), UK
 
 

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