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<br>Folks,
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<br>A Very Happy New Year to all of you.
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<br>EURAS are once again organising (a) special session(s) as part of the
<br>18th Annual STS Conference Graz 2019
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<br>This year's focus is on 'Standardisation and the Digital Society'.
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<br>The CfP is enclosed below; the deadline for the submission of abstracts
<br>is 20 January 2020. Happy writing.
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<br>For more information about Graz please visit
<br>https://www.graztourismus.at/de.
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<br>Cheers,
<br>Kai.
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<br>CALL FOR PAPERS
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<br>Standardisation and the Digital Society
<br>
<br>A Session of the
<br>18th Annual STS Conference, Graz 2020
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<br>Graz, Austria
<br>4 - 6 May 2020
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<br>Smart systems are a fairly recent phenomenon that is becoming
<br>increasingly popular, not just as a research topic but also in real
<br>life. Prominent examples include the Smart Grid, Smart Manufacturing,
<br>Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Cities. The 'smartness' of these
<br>systems is the result of the integration of ICT into 'traditional'
<br>technologies, thus providing them with advanced control and
<br>communication functions previously available only in the virtual world.
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<br>With smart systems, billions of sensors (the 'Internet of Things', IoT)
<br>will collect data and transmit it for analysis. This process may lead to
<br>conclusions, recommendations and, eventually, action, possibly without
<br>any human intervention. In any case, the outcomes will have major
<br>socio-economic, ecological and potentially ethical ramifications and
<br>will directly impact citizens, businesses and society as a whole. They
<br>may also have considerable legal ramifications.
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<br>This session solicits contributions that may help explain and explore
<br>the role of standards and standardisation for the ongoing digitisation
<br>of society and how STS could help improve standards setting and to make
<br>standards more beneficial for society.
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<br>Topics include (but are not limited to):
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<br>* The role of standards for the digital society.
<br>* Responsible standardisation.
<br>* The role and representation of societal stakeholders in smart systems
<br> standardisation.
<br>* Legitimacy and influence of different players in standards development.
<br>* Potential ethical issues in smart systems standardisation
<br>* Possible contributions of society to standards development.
<br>* Social norms and their impact on standardisation.
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<br>Abstracts should not exceed 500 words, have up to 5 keywords and provide
<br>authors' contact details. They should be submitted through the
<br>conference's submission system via
<br>https://sts-conference.isds.tugraz.at/event/11/abstracts/
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<br>Abstracts and full papers (to be submitted after the conference;
<br>optional) will be published as online-proceedings (ISSN). Particularly
<br>good and relevant papers will be fast-tracked to the Int. Journal of
<br>Standardization Research
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<br>Further information about the conference may be found at:
<br>https://sts-conference.isds.tugraz.at/event/11/
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<br>Important Dates
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<br>Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2020
<br>Notification: February 2020
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<br>Organisers
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<br>Henk de Vries, Erasmus University. Rotterdam, NL ,
<br>Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen University, DE
<br>(corresponding proposer),
<br>Ivana Mijatovic, U University. of Belgrade, RS ,
<br>Anne Mione, Montpellier University, FR < anne.mione@univ-montp1.fr>,
<br>Cesare Riillo, STATEC, LU ,
<br>Paul-Moritz Wiegmann, TU Eindhoven, NL .
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<br>Kai Jakobs
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<br>RWTH Aachen University
<br>Computer Science Department
<br>Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
<br>Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
<br>Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
<br>Fax: +49-241-80-22222
<br>Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de
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