From: Diane Whitehouse <Diane_Whitehouse@compuserve.com> (5)
Subject: HCC5 - Call
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
IFIP/TC9 5TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN CHOICE AND COMPUTERS
COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
GENEVA AUGUST 1998
Dear Colleagues and To whom it may concern,
The IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing
http://www.ifip.or.at)
Technical Committee 9 (http://www.uta.fi/jarjestot/ifip/)
is preparing a World Conference on Implications of new Information
Technologies:
The fifth Conference on "Human Choice and Computers" (HCC5) on
COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
(Web site : http://www.hec.unil.ch/hcc5/)
This Event will take place in Switzerland (Geneva) from 26 to 28 August
1998 (Tutorials, Working Groups Meeting, get together, 25 August),
organized
by the Inforge (http://www.hec.unil.ch/inforge/) from Lausanne University
Business School (http://www.hec.unil.ch)
In a particularly choatic period with a lot of social, economic, political
and ethical problems, that Conference must be a most interesting and
challenging event to cross intercultural perceptions and examine the issues
to be settled for the next Millenium in relation with Informatics, Computer
Science, Networks and Information Systems. As wide field of disciplines are
concerned, the Programme and Organizing Committees, hope for large
scientific contributions from non-computer research fields ie Sociology,
Economy, Law, Politics, Business, Electronic Commerce, etc.
The main topics of that Conference will covered:
Methodological Paradigms and Shifts : Virtual Reality, Multimedia,
Cyberspace, Information and Communication Infrastructures
National and Regional Developments of Information Infrastructures
Role of Work in Information Societies : Experiences and Perspectives
Human Rights in Information Societies and Role of Groups with Special
Needs
Home Informatics and Telematics
Threats to Information Economies and Societies: Legal Implications
Information Societies in Historical Perspective
Role of Education in Information Societies and Impact of Information and
Communication Technologies on Education
Impact of Global InformationInfrastructures on Democracy and Culture
Economic changes induced by Globalization
Emerging organisational forms such as virtual organisations"
Towards an Ethics of Information Societies and Cyberspace
Informatics, Telematics & Automation
Virtual Worlds - Applications and Social Implications
Women, Work and Computerization
Gender and Information Technology
Accepted papers will be published with an official editor of IFIP
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
The HCC-5 Programme Committee invite the submission of research papers,
case studies, research-in-progress articles, panel session proposals to the
Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC-5).
IMPORTANT DATES
January 5 1998 : Deadline for submission
February 11, 1998 : Paper Selection
April 6, 1998 : Final Papers
LANGUAGE
English
The original, unpublished papers, limited to 10-12 pages should be
submitted electronically (Microsoft Word) : E-mail : iqlbr@cbs.dk
If not possible, send your disk ( or paper) to the address of the
Programme
Committee Chairman :
Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN
Address for submission :
Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN
Project Centre CESAR
Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen Science Park SYMBION
Fruebjergvej 3
DK-2100 COPENHAGEN 0
Denmark
Phone : +45 39 17 98 66
Fax :+45 39 17 98 63
E-mail : iqlbr@cbs.dk
See our Web site to get all other detailed informations :
http://www.hec.unil.ch/hcc5/
We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to your
interested colleagues and within your own scientific networks.
Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.
Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN and Prof. Silvio Munari
Chair of Programme Committee and Chair of Organizing Committee
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Professeur Silvio MUNARI
e-mail: Silvio.Munari@hec.unil.ch
HEC-INFORGE Tel: ++41.21/692.34.01
University of Lausanne Fax: ++41.21/692.34.05
CH - 1015 Lausanne
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