FW: 7th Annual EMRBI Conference-Call for Papers, September 18th-19th, 2014, Norway

 

 

From: Demetris Vrontis [mailto:d.vrontis@unic.ac.cy]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 8:59 PM
To: Henri Kuokkanen
Subject: 7th Annual EMRBI Conference-Call for Papers, September 18th-19th, 2014, Norway

 

 

Call for Papers

The EuroMed Academy of Business announces the

7^th Annual EMAB Conference

"The Future of Entrepreneurship"

Kristiansand, Norway

September 18^th-19^th, 2014

EMRBI Presidents

Prof. Demetris Vrontis,          Prof. Yaakov Weber

Dean and Director,                                         Director, Research Unit

University of Nicosia,                                     School of Business Administration

Nicosia, Cyprus                                                College of Management, Israel

Conference Chair

Dr. Rotem Shneor

Associate Professor, School of Business and Law,

University of Agder, Norway

Organized by:

 

Venue: University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

Conference website: click here (http://www.euromed2014.com/#!academic-conference/cngi)

Conference Goals

The EuroMed Academy of Business annual conference has established itself as one of the major Business Management conferences of its kind in the EuroMed region (European and Mediterranean), in terms of size, quality of content, and standing reputation of attendees. Many of the papers presented contribute significantly to the business knowledge base. Its Book of Proceedings is highly recognized and accepted to be under citation. Many papers are published in Special Issues in leading journals, and are driving international research and teaching programs.

Our goal is to create a friendly and approachable academy and environment, a strong network, whereby its members (including senior worldwide scholars, faculty members, doctorate students, researchers and business practitioners) are guiding and mentoring each other. We differentiate as we assist participants to network and publish their valuable work (see below: a. Publication Opportunities, b. Authors' Network and Collaboration Workshop and c. Meet the Editors Session). Our participants also form specialised teams applying and getting involved in EU project funding. EMRBI network has submitted over 11 new projects last year. You can visit our Research Project Workshop (see below) that will take place during the conference.

Author Guidelines

* Submission Deadline: March 24^th, 2014

Please submit your paper or abstract to EMRBI@unic.ac.cy and to tsoukat@staff.teicrete.gr by strictly adhering to the Author Guidelines. Prepare your submissions by using the Manuscript Template

All manuscripts (including abstracts) will be double blind reviewed.

Please indicate, on the first page of the manuscript, the track number for submission. All conference tracks are included at the end of this call (brief track descriptions can be found at the conference website). Should you feel that your submission does not exactly fit in any of the tracks please indicate General Track. Alternatively, you may indicate the general area that you would like to have your manuscript reviewed under (eg Marketing, HRM, Strategic Management, Finance etc).

The maximum number of submitted papers or abstracts accepted per author (either single or co-author) is three.

Important Dates

* Notification to authors (for early submissions by March 17^th) by April 28^th, 2014    
* Notification to authors (for submissions after March 17^th)    by May 16^th, 2014      
Early-bird registration Until July 18^th, 2014  
Late registration       After July 18^th, 2014  
Deadline for inclusion in Book of Proceedings **        August 31th , 2014     
**Only papers or abstracts of participants registered until August 31^st, 2014 will be included in the Book of Proceedings that will be distributed at the conference. Papers and/or abstracts of participants who will register after the above date will be included in the final book of proceedings that will be distributed after the conference.  

Publication Opportunities

All accepted papers and abstracts will be published in the Book of Proceedings (with an ISBN number) which is approved for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index — an integrated index within Web of Science. This distinction is given only to the most significant papers, in terms of academic excellence, conferences-conventions worldwide.

A selection of the best conference papers will also be considered for publication in the following journals (presented in alphabetic order), most of which are internationally ranked or/and ISI/Scopus approved. Some of these journals will devote and publish  a special issue based on conference papers.

1.      EuroMed Journal of Business - EMRBI's official Journal

2.      Baltic Journal of Management

3.      Global Business and Economics Review

4.      International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics

5.      International Journal of Emerging Markets

6.      International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives

7.      International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business

8.      International Journal of Online Marketing

9.      International Journal of Organizational Analysis

10.  International Journal of Technology Marketing

11.  International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development

12.  International Marketing Review

13.  International Studies of Management and Organization

14.  Journal of Customer Behaviour

15.  Journal for Global Business Advancement

16.  Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development

17.  Journal of Promotion Management

18.  Journal of Transnational Management

19.  Journal of the Knowledge Economy

20.  Knowledge and Process Management

21.  Managing Service Quality

22.  Sinergie

23.  Social Business

24.  The International Journal of Human Resource Management

25.  The Marketing Review

26.  Thunderbird International Business Review

27.  Transnational Marketing Journal

28.  World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management & Sustainable Development

For more information please see publication opportunities on the conference website.

OTHER CONFERENCE AND PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

1.      Research Project Workshop

2.      Authors' Networking and Collaboration Workshop

3.      Academic Business Consulting (ABC) Nexus

·       Symposium and Professional Development Workshops (SPDW)

·       Executive Workshops on M&A and Global Strategies

4.      Meet the Editors Session

5.      Doctoral Seminars

·       Doctoral Seminar on M&A

·       Doctoral Seminar on Management

·       Doctoral Seminar on Marketing

Additional information can be found on the website.

AWARDS

·       Conference Best and Highly Commended Paper Awards

·       Conference Best and Highly Commended Student Paper Awards

·       Conference Best Track Chair and Commended Track Chair Awards

·       Conference Best Reviewer Awards                  

·       EuroMed Journal of Business Best and Highly Commended Paper Awards

Additional information can be found on the website.

Conference Venue – University of Agder, Kristiansand Campus

The 7^th EuroMed Conference will take place on the 18^th and 19^th of September 2014, at the University of Agder's Campus in Kristiansand, Southern Norway.

Kristiansand, informally considered to be the capital city of southern Norway, is easy to travel to and enjoy. The town and surrounding villages offer a wide range of pleasant holiday experiences. The region of Kristiansand has for decades been Norwegian's favourite destination for leisure and recreation.

Kristiansand Tourist Information: http://www.visitkrs.no/en/

Norway Tourist Information: http://www.visitnorway.com/

Conference Hotels

For details on accommodation options, pricing and booking instructions, please see - http://www.euromed2014.com/#!accommodation/c1n9p

Organized Excursions

For details on tour itineraries, pricing and booking instructions, please see - http://www.euromed2014.com/#!excursions/c232d

Programme Tracks and Track Chairs:

 

Please indicate, on the first page of your manuscript, the track number for submission. Should you feel that your submission does not exactly fit in any of the tracks below please indicate General Track. For a more detailed description of the conference tracks please visit the conference website.

 

1.     Competitiveness, Development and Sustainability
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
1.	Sustainable Growth and Development (environment, society and economy).	Dr Ruth Rios-Morales, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland ruthriosmorales@bluewin.ch
1a	Organizational Sustainability and Resilience	Prof. Elias G. Carayannis, George Washington University, USA caraye@gwu.edu
2.	Business Competitiveness Drivers in the Post Crisis Era: The European Mediterranean Perspective	Prof. Fotini Psimarni-Voulgari, TEI of Crete, Greece fvoulgari@staff.teicrete.gr
3.	Social and Solidarity Economy and common goods	Prof. Bernard PARANQUE, Kedge Business School bernard.paranque@kedgebs.com
4.	Agribusiness in Rural Development	Dr Abu Zafar Mahmudul Haq, City University, Dhaka, Bangladesh zafarhaq34@gmail.com lamisa67@yahoo.com
5.	Environmental Communication and sustainable development	Dr Georgios Tsandopoulos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece tsantopo@fmenr.duth.gr and Dr Stamatis Aggelopoulos, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece stamagg@farm.teithe.gr
6.	Accountability and sustainability in public and non-profit organizations	Prof. Paolo Ricci, University of Sannio, Italy ricci@unisannio.it Dr Salvatore Russo Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy salvus@unive.it Dr Paolo Esposito University of Piemonte Orientale "Avogadro", Italy paolo.esposito@eco.unipmn.it

 

2.                 Conflict, Diversity and Cohesion
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
7.	Managing Diversity and Promoting Collaboration in the Context of Conflict	Prof. Helena Desivilya Syna, Max Stern Yezreel Valley College (YVC), ISRAEL desiv@yvc.ac.il
8.	Women's Voices at Top Management in the Era of Complexity	Prof. Helena Desivilya Syna, Max Stern Yezreel Valley College (YVC), ISRAEL desiv@yvc.ac.il and Dr Dolores Sanchez Bengoa, International Business School at Vilnius University, Lithuania sanchezl@cytanet.com.cy

 

 

3.                 Corporate Governance
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
9.	Corporate Governance and International Business: Strategy and Performance	Prof. Trond Randøy University of Agder, Norway trond.randoy@uia.no and Dr Matteo Rossi, University of Sannio, Italy mrossi@unisannio.it

 

4.                 Cross – Cultural Management
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
10.	Cultural Issues in international business and management and domestic organizations: Implications for managing and interacting in international, domestic and multicultural work-environments	Mr David S. A. Guttormsen  Coventry University ab3483@coventry.ac.uk
11.	Intercultural Competence	Prof. Hans Ruediger Kaufmann, University of Nicosia and EMRBI Vice President kaufmann.r@unic.ac.cy  Dr Dolores Sanchez Bengoa, International Business School at Vilnius University, Lithuania sanchezl@cytanet.com.cy and Ms Englezou Maria, University of Gloucestershire maria.englezou@hotmail.com
12.	Cross Cultural Perspectives of Human Resource Management	Dr Crystal Zhang, Leeds Metropolitan University c.zhang@leedsmet.ac.uk
13.	Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Foreign Direct Investment	Dr Hortênsia Barandas-Karl, Universidade do Porto, Portugal barandas@fep.up.pt

 

5.                 Education and Training
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
14.	Management of Higher Education (HE) Systems and Institutions	Dr Erika Vaiginienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania erika.vaiginiene@tvm.vu.lt
15.	Creativity and Innovation in Teaching in Universities versus employability in the Euro-Mediterranean region	Dr Simona Mihai-Yiannaki, European University, Cyprus S.Mihai@euc.ac.cy
16.	e-learning web based models for business and accounting: Requirements, procedures, implementation experiences and implications on lifelong learning	Prof. George Venieris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece venieris@aueb.gr

 

6.                 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
17.	Creativity, innovation and global entrepreneurship	Dr Marios Trigkas, mtrigkas@for.auth.gr Ms Karagouni Glykeria, karagg@teilar.gr and Prof. Ioannis Papadopoulos, papad@teilar.gr TEI of Larissa, Greece
17a	The Quadruple Innovation Helix and Smart Specialization Strategies	Prof. Elias G. Carayannis, George Washington University, USA caraye@gwu.edu
18.	The importance of non-technological innovation for long-term growth	Dr Carlos Martin-Rios, Rutgers University. USA cmartinrios@cminnovation.org  and Dr Niclas Erhardt, University of Maine, USA niclas.erhardt@maine.edu
19.	International entrepreneurship: Challenges in the 21st century	Dr Luísa Carvalho, Open University, Lisbon, Portugal luisam.carvalho@uab.pt
20.	Governmental innovation policy	Dr Amiram Porath College for academic studies Or-Yehuda, ISRAEL amirampster@gmail.com, Dr Hakikur Rahman hakik@dsi.uminho.pt, and Prof. Isabel Ramos iramos@dsi.uminho.pt, University of Minho, Portugal.
21.	Entrepreneurial Intentions: "Necessity is the Mother of Inventions" (Plato? or Franck 1658)	Dr Jan Green Glyndŵr University, UK jan.green@glyndwr.ac.uk
22.	Value co-creation: Entrepreneurial challenges in the 21st century	Dr S M Riad Shams, Marketing Advisor and Freelance Consultant shamsriad@gmail.com Dr Mohammad Zahid Hasan, University of Notre Dame Australia zahid.hasan@nd.edu.au,  hasanzahidul@yahoo.com
23.	The politics of entrepreneurship: mapping common ground between the social sciences	Dr Stefan Gänzle, stefan.ganzle@uia.no Dr Thomas Henökl, thomas.henokl@uia.no and Dr Stina Torjesen, stina.torjesen@uia.no University of Agder, Norway
24.	Strategic Entrepreneurship	Prof. Álvaro Lopes Dias, ISG, Portugal alvarodias@isg.pt and Dr Renato Pereira, UAL, Portugal pereiren@hotmail.com
25.	Innovation and Start-ups	Dr Matteo Rossi, University of Sannio, mrossi@unisannio.it Dr Rosa Lombardi, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, rosa.lombardi@unicas.it
26.	Inclusive entrepreneurship and microfinance	Prof. Roy Mersland, University of Agder, Norway roy.mersland@uia.no
27.	Innovation in Family Businesses	Prof. Elisa Giacosa elisa.giacosa@unito.it Dr Stefano Bresciani stefano.bresciani@unito.it and Prof. Francesca Culasso francesca.culasso@unito.it University of Turin
28.	Leadership and entrepreneurial behaviour in turbulent times: A critical assessment across the public sector in Europe"	Dr Rómulo Pinheiro, University of Agder, Norway romulo.m.pinheiro@uia.no Dr Hugo Horta, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal hugo.horta@ ist.utl.pt
29.	Cooperatives as an alternative economic model in the 21st century	Dr Sara Edom, Ashkelon Academic College Sara.edom@gmail.com

 

7.                 Finance and Accounting
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
30.	Accounting, Auditing and Accountability between Present, Past and Future	Prof. Maura  CAMPRA maura.campra@eco.unipmn.it Dr Paolo ESPOSITO pesposito@unisannio.it Prof. Pier Carlo ROSSI piercarlo.rossi@eco.unipmn.it University of Piemonte Orientale "Avogadro"
31.	Management accounting and financial reporting practices: Implications for corporate governance and management	Dr Sandra Cohen, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece scohen@aueb.gr
32.	Interactions between the Volatility of Financial Markets and Investors' Behaviour	Ms Georgia Mouzoura, University of Gloucestershire, UK georgiamouzoura@connect.glos.ac.uk and Dr Evangelos Tsoukatos, TEI of Crete, Greece and EMRBI Director of Operations and Development tsoukat@staff.teicrete.gr
33.	Intellectual Capital Valuation and Reporting	Prof. Raffaele Trequattrini, trekraf@tiscali.it Dr Giuseppe Russo, giuseppe.russo@unicas.it Dr Rosa Lombardi, rosa.lombardi@unicas.it Prof. Fabio Nappo, f.nappo@unicas.it University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
34.	Public Private Partnership: Business Models, Accounting Regulation, Accountability	Prof. Maura Campra, maura.campra@eco.unipmn.it and Dr Paolo Esposito, paolo.esposito@eco.unipmn.it University of Piemonte Orientale "Avogadro, Italy Prof. Paolo  Ricci, University of Sannio, Italy ricci@unisannio.it
35.	Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in administrative contracts. Regulations and managerial implications for New Public  Management	Dr Antonios Maniatis, Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands, Greece maniatis@dikaio.gr
36.	New Fiscal and Monetary Policy trends in view of economic and currency reap	Dr Simona Mihai-Yiannaki, European University, Cyprus S.Mihai@euc.ac.cy

 

8.                 International Business and Management
	Track Title		Track Chair/Chairs
37.	International Business and Management		Dr Ziva Rozen-Bachar The Western Galilee College, Israel zivarozenb@gmail.com
38.	Managing Multinational corporations in the Euro-Mediterranean region		Dr Dorra Yahiaoui, Normandy Business School, France d.yahiaoui@em-normandie.fr Dr Hela Chebbi, EDC – Paris, France hela.chebbi@edcparis.edu and Dr Samer François Nakhle Modern University for Business and Science-Beirut, Lebanon snakhleh@mubs.edu.lb)
39.	Natural Gas – The Driver for New Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean		Dr. Amit Mor, Eco Energy, Strategic and Financial Consulting amitmor@ecoenergy.co.il
40.	Technology application management in banking: Business process reengineering, customer satisfaction, payment system, risk management, financial integration and stability		Prof. Saroj Kumar Datta VIT Business School, VIT University dattasaroj@gmail.com and Ms Sukanya Kundu Alliance Business School, Alliance University, Bangalore, India sk54015@gmail.com
41.	Chinese Direct Investments in Europe		Prof. Bernd Britzelmaier, Pforzheim University bernd@britzelmaier.de
42.	Pharmaceutical enterprise and supply chain management systems		Dr Ahmad Alibabaei Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences A.Alibabaei@sbmu.ac.ir
43.	From Multinational Enterprises to Multinational Industries: Changes in the Nature of the Firm and in the Nature of International Business	Prof. Tamir Agmon School of Business, Economics and Law, Goteborg University, Sweden tamir.agmon41@gmail.com

 

9.                 Marketing
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
44.	Marketing: Theory and Practice	Prof. Demetris Vrontis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus and EMRBI President vrontis.d@unic.ac.cy
45.	International, Cross-cultural, Transnational Marketing and Consumer Behaviour	Prof. Ibrahim Sirkeci, Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies, Regent's University London, UK sirkecii@regents.ac.uk and Dr Maktoba Omar, Edinburgh University, UK m.omar@napier.ac.uk
46.	Consumer behaviour	Dr Ioanna Papasolomou papasolomou.i@unic.ac.cy and Dr Yioula Melanthiou melanthiou.y@unic.ac.cy University of Nicosia, Cyprus
47.	Emerging innovative practices in Services Marketing	Dr Bhavesh Vanparia, Tolani Institute of Management Studies bhavindh@gmail.com
48.	Food marketing and sustainability	Dr Riccardo Vecchio University of Naples Federico II Riccardo.vecchio@unina.it and Ms Azzurra Annunziata University of Naples Parthenope Azzurra.annunziata@uniparthenope.it
49.	Food and agriculture: shifting to a consumer-lead model	Dr Karipidis Philipos philika@farm.teithe.gr and Dr Aggelopoulos Stamatis stamagg@farm.teithe.gr Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
50.	The study of brand equity as a relationship between brand personality and consumer personality	Ms Irma Shyle, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania irmitash@yahoo.com
51.	Relationship Marketing & Customer Experience Management	Dr Apostolos Giovanis, TEI of Athens, Greece agiovanis@teiath.gr and Dr Pinelopi Athanassopoulou, University of Peloponnese, Greece apinelopi@hotmail.com
52.	Social Media Marketing	Mr Md. Zahir Uddin Arif, Jagannath University (JnU), Dhaka, Bangladesh. mjarif2004@yahoo.com mzarif04@yahoo.com
53.	Consumption culture	Dr Carmen Rodríguez Santos, University of León, Spain carmen.santos@unileon.es and Prof. Ruediger Kaufmann Hans, University of Nicosia and EMRBI Vice President kaufmann.r@unic.ac.cy
54.	Innovative technology marketing strategies for economic development	Mr. Mohammad Fateh Ali Khan Panni fkpanni@yahoo.com  and Md. Shahriar Parvez msparvez_educator@yahoo.co.uk   City University, Bangladesh
55.	Branding and Consumer Choice for Food	Dr Polymeros Chrysochou polyc@asb.dk and Prof. Krystallis Athanasios ATKR@asb.dk Aarhus University
56.	Brands and their stakeholders	Prof. Sandra Loureiro, ISCTE-IUL-business school sandra.loureiro@iscte.pt
57.	Strategic Brand Management	Mr. Md. Zahir Uddin Arif, Jagannath University (JnU), Bangladesh. mjarif2004@yahoo.com  and mzarif04@yahoo.com

 

 

10.            Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
58.	Organizational Behaviour: Theory, Cases and Practice	Prof. Peter Stokes* p.stokes@chester.ac.uk  Dr Neil Moore, n.moore@chester.ac.uk Prof. Caroline Rowland c.rowland@chester.ac.uk,  University of Chester, UK. and Mr. Peter Scott, Liverpool John Moores University, UK p.scott123@btinternet.com * corresponding track chair
59.	Human Resource Management	Dr Andrew Michael, Intercollege Larnaca, Cyprus, UGSM-Monarch Business School, Switzerland and Northcentral University, Arizona, USA mandy@cytanet.com.cy
60.	Different organizations; different business process management methodologies for business values	Dr Ahmad Alibabaei Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences A.Alibabaei@sbmu.ac.ir
61.	Early Labour Market Careers and Competencies: Apprenticeships and Work-based Learning	Ms Teresa Torres-Coronas teresa.torres@urv.cat Dr Maria-Arántzazu Vidal-Blasco mariaarantzazu.vidal@urv.cat Prof. Mario Arias-Oliva mario.arias@urv.cat Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
62.	Ethics in business and in Organizations	Dr Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz Yezreel Valley College, ISRAEL dality@yvc.ac.il
63.	Global challenges on sustainable employability and innovative HRD practices	Dr Niki Kyriakidou, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK n.kyriakidou@leedsmet.ac.uk
64.	Information Systems human capital development and career planning; tools for human capital retention	Dr Ahmad Alibabaei Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences A.Alibabaei@sbmu.ac.ir

 

11.            Strategic Management
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
65.	Strategic Management: Theory and Practice	Dr Shlomo Tarba, tarba2003@gmail.com The University of Sheffield, UK
66.	Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions	Dr Emanuel Gomes, E.Gomes@sheffield.ac.uk  and Dr Shlomo Tarba, tarba2003@gmail.com The University of Sheffield, UK
67.	Strategic Integrated Communication: What leaders and entrepreneurs need to know	Dr Dalmé Mulder, University of the Free State, South-Africa mulderd@ufs.ac.za
68.	Business of agricultural products and agribusiness: Management, Financing and Decision Support Systems in Agriculture	Dr Stamatis  Aggelopoulos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece stamagg@farm.teithe.gr
69.	Wine Business	Dr Matteo Rossi, matteo.rossi@unisannio.it Prof. Giuseppe Festa gfesta@unisa.it University of Sannio, Italy and Prof. Eugenio Pomarici pomarici@unina.it University of Siena, Italy

 

12.            Tourism
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
70.	Tourism	Prof. Vitor Ambrósio, Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal vitor.ambrosio@eshte.pt
71.	Web marketing in tourism destinations	Prof. Amedeo Maizza, University of Salento, Italy amedeo.maizza@unisalento.it
72.	The future of tourist destination competitiveness in a sustainable view	Dr Milena Viassone, University of Turin, Italy milena.viassone@unito.it
73.	Rural Tourism: typology of tourists, motivation, marketing, communication, booking process, etc.	Dr Enric López, EUHT CETT, Barcelona, Spain enric.lopez@cett.es

 

13.            Virtual Tracks
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
74.	Social Innovation facing Bio economics	Prof. Carmen Costea, cecostea@yahoo.com and Prof. Manuela Epure, prorector_cercetare@spiruharet.ro USH Bucharest, Romania

 

14.            General Tracks
	Track Title	Track Chair/Chairs
75.	Business Analytics	Prof. Saroj Kumar Datta VIT University, India dattasaroj@gmail.com and Ms Sukanya Kundu Alliance University, Bangalore, India sk54015@gmail.com
76.	General Track	Dr Evangelos Tsoukatos, TEI of Crete, Greece and EMRBI Director of Operations and Development tsoukat@staff.teicrete.gr

 

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Professor Demetris Vrontis, FCIM, SF EMAB

PhD, MBA, PGCE (HE), BSc (Hons)

Certified Chartered Marketer and Chartered Business Consultant

 

Executive Dean, Distance Learning

University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

 

President, EuroMed Research Business Institute (EMBRI)-

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Editor-in-Chief, EuroMed Journal of Business (EMJB)-

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Torism and Development - Conference 2014 - Call For Papers - Faculty of Sport and Tourism

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Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to the First International Scientific Conference “Tourism and Development” organized by Faculty of Sport and Tourism from Novi Sad, Serbia and Faculty of Tourism from Brežice, Slovenia, to be held 6-7th November 2014 in Novi Sad, Serbia.

The Conference theme is tourism as a global phenomenon whose very fast development ranks this industry among the most powerful generators of social progress. Its strong contribution to the economic growth is evident therefore it is not surprising that the number of tourists and employees in tourism industry, as well as the revenues are being significantly increased each year. However, the economic growth has multi-faceted cultural, social and political consequences, thus the importance of thinking through,planning and managing tourism is growing.

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2014 September 23 - VIENNA (AT) - GeoVisual Analytics: Interactivity, Dynamics, and Scale

From: Gennady Andrienko <gennady.andrienko@IAIS.FRAUNHOFER.DE>

Subject: CFP: GeoVisual Analytics: Interactivity, Dynamics, and Scale

Date: 17 Feb 2014 19:19:15 GMT+1

To: ACM-SIGSPATIAL@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Reply-To: Gennady Andrienko <gennady.andrienko@IAIS.FRAUNHOFER.DE>

 GeoVisual Analytics: Interactivity, Dynamics, and Scale

 Workshop @ GIScience (23 September 2014, Vienna, AT) &
 Special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (2015)

               Call for papers

The workshop is a follow-up of the successful workshops on
- Visualization, Analytics and Spatial Decision Support at GIScience'2006
- Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change at AGILE'2008
- GeoSpatial Visual Analytics at GIScience'2008
- GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time at AGILE'2010
- GeoSpatial Visual Analytics: Focus on Time at GIScience'2012

Selected papers from the previous workshops, including research agenda papers,
were published as special issues of
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2007, v.21(8)
- Information Visualization, 2008, v.7 (3/4)
- Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2009, v.36 (3)
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2010, v.24(10)
- forthcoming special issues of Information Visualization (2014) and IJGIS (2014)

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from relevant fields to
address research issues of geospatial visual analytics in the multidisciplinary
context of GI Science.

Geospatial visual analytics has a tendency to emphasize the spatial components
of geographic information. At this workshop we encourage approaches that utilize
and emphasize the temporal characteristics of geographic information, consider
geographic and temporal information at multiple scales, use interactive and
dynamic displays in visual analytics.

The theme for the workshop is the use of GeoVisual Analytics approaches for
exploring and analysing large data sets with spatial and/or temporal components.
Original papers are solicited in this area with innovative papers detailing tight
integration of visualization, data mining, database processing, optimization and
other computational processing particularly encouraged.
A special issue of CaGIS is planned as a consequence.

The workshop will give participants the chance to present ongoing and developing
work without committing to a full journal paper. The journal special issue will
provide selected participants with the opportunity of reporting their work in
a refereed journal. Papers will be selected for consideration for the special
issue according to the quality, maturity and likely impact of the work in addition
to its fit with the workshop theme and established research agenda
published in "Space, Time, and Visual Analytics"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2010.508043

Example topics include, but are not limited to, the visualization and interactive
analysis of large data sets representing:

- individual and group movement behaviours, either in physical or virtual spaces
 dynamics of geo-localised sensor data
- spatio-temporal events
- remotely sensed data, multi-scale and multi-temporal
- large high-dimensional data sets in space and time
- streams of spatio-temporal data
- volunteered geographic information

as well as

- models and semantics of time in geospatial visual analytics
- knowledge construction and reasoning about spatial and temporal phenomena and processes
- application of innovative visual analytics methods to real-life problems

Organizers and Guest Editors:

Gennady and Natalia Andrienko (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS and City University London),
Jason Dykes (City University London), Menno-Jan Kraak (University of Twente),
Anthony Robinson (Penn State University), Heidrun Schumann (University of Rostock)
ICA Commission on GeoVisualization: http://geoanalytics.net/ica

Supported by:

SPP VA - Scalable Visual Analytics: Interactive Visual Analysis Systems of
Complex Information Spaces (DFG Priority Research Program)

Please send all inquiries to G.Andrienko

Web site: http://geoanalytics.net/GeoVA2014

Submission and selection procedure & deadlines

February 14, 2014    CFP announced

May 1, 2014          Authors should submit extended abstracts (PDF, up to 4 pages in
                    IEEE TVCG format, see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html
                    for formatting details) via the conference management system at
                    https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/GEOVA2014/
                    AND send a message to Gennady Andrienko.

                    Abstracts should be up to four pages in length. Illustrations and
                    supplementary online materials are welcome, they should be included to the PDF.
                    Authors should indicate whether they are interested in developing
                    the abstract into a full paper for the special issue

June 1, 2014         Guest editors will select abstracts for the presentation at the
                    workshop and notify authors. Short abstracts of accepted presentations
                    will be published online at the workshop web site.

September 1, 2014    Full papers for the special issue(s) are submitted

September 23, 2014   Authors of accepted abstracts present their work at the workshop
Vienna, AT           for feedback and discussion

November 1, 2014     Authors will be notified about acceptance for the special issue

December 1, 2014     Deadline for submitting final papers and responding to reviewer's comments.

January 1, 2015      Final notifications

2015                 CaGIS special issue published

Last updated: February 14, 2014


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Fraunhofer Institute IAIS: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de
... VA research: http://visual-analytics.info
ICA GeoVisualization Commission: http://geoanalytics.net/ica
Andrienko's homepage: http://geoanalytics.net/and
publications: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=R370BREAAAAJ
*** new book: Visual Analytics of Movement (Springer, 2013):
... http://www.springer.com/book/978-3-642-37582-8
... book's web site: http://geoanalytics.net/vam
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2014 June 11-17 - Münster (D) - Summer school on Gamifying Spatial Collaboration

Call for participation: Summer school on Gamifying Spatial Collaboration 2014 To mark the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the Institute for Geoinformatics (IfGI) at the University of Münster is organizing a summer school to be held from the 11th to the 17th of June 2014, subsequent to the anniversary event itself (June 10th to 11th). The scientific symposium of the anniversary, which will be held on the 11th at the Münster Palace, is also the first day of the summer school. The goals of the summer school will be to explore both the theory and practice of gamification and spatial collaboration in geoinformatics, and how we can move towards applying gamification to enhance collaborative data acquisition in geoinformatics. Course content The summer school will take a close look at the opportunities and challenges that arise through combining geoinformatic technology with gamification for spatial collaboration. Two particular questions addressed during the school will be: How can gamification improve geoinformation technology? and, What are the opportunities offered by gamification to enhance collaborative data acquisition and the gathering of feedback? The summer school will consist of a 6-day program at the intersection of spatial collaboration, gamification and geoinformation technology. It will be held in the stimulating and creative environment of the Institute for Geoinformatics. The school is aimed primarily at graduate students, and we anticipate around 30 attendees. Course program The six days of the course will comprise two full-day tutorials, one on gamification and one on spatial collaboration; a social event; a hackathon and field work day; a tutorial day on combining gamification and spatial collaboration tools; and an interactive session on future developments. All tutorials will be given in English. Days will finish with social events including a tour of the city, a 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. summer school dinner, a party, and a bar game. The sequence of the six days will be: (June 12th): Spatial collaboration (June 13th): Gamification (June 14th): Social event (June 15th): Field work and hackathon (June 16th): Gamifying spatial collaboration (June 17th): Future perspectives

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Barbara Grüter, Gangs of Bremen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences, Bremen

Dr. Peter Kiefer, Geoinformation Engineering, ETH Zurich

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Venue, Accommodation and Registration

The summer school will take place in the lecture rooms of the new GEO 1 building, Heisenbergstraße 2, D-48149 Münster (http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geoinformatics/en/). Fees including catering, lunch, a gala dinner and participation amount to 200 € per student. Accommodation needs to be paid separately. We strongly recommend renting a bike from the Radstation Münster (http://www.radstation-ms.de/), located directly in front of the main station, in order to facilitate mobility between various summer school events. In case you need any help, please contact us.

Application process
Interested people should submit a statement of motivation of about 500 words, briefly describing how the summer school might contribute to or enrich their own work. Application deadline: 15th of March
Notification of acceptance: 31st of March

After the notification of acceptance, participants will be contacted with registration details. Attendees will be asked to present their own work or an idea related to the summer school in the form of a poster at the end of the symposium on the 11th of June.

Please register online and submit application at:

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geoinformatics/en/anniversary/summerschool/

Contact

ifgi.summerschool@uni-muenster.de