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Folks,

The submission deadline for the 11th Conference on Standardisation and 
Innovation in IT (SIIT 2021) - The Past, Present and FUTURE of ICT 
Standardisation - has been extended until 10 May. The CfP is enclosed below.

So, enjoy your weekend and continue writing your paper on Monday.

Cheers,
Kai.


SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

11bth International Conference on

Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)

- The Past, Present and FUTURE of ICT Standardisation -

8 - 10 September 2021

RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

NEW DEADLINE: 10 May 2021

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Standardisation in a changing world

Over the past decade, the ICT industry has undergone a dramatic 
transformation. One effect of this has been a shift of economic and 
technical power to some of the largest corporations in the world. This 
has had massive ramification for investments in this sector, as well as 
for the ecosystem of ICT application and product development. Has this 
development impacted standardisation and innovation and if so, how?

Moreover, it appears that the ICT industry has become overly obsessed 
with being first and being unique; change has become a desirable end in 
itself. In such an environment, standardisation may quickly be 
devaluated in stakeholders' mind sets. It is still necessary but 
'someone else's problem'.And this will lead to long term 
(interoperability) problems.

Against this background, SIIT 2020 aims to take a step back and do some 
stock-taking. What have we got? What do we need? How can we close the 
gap (if any)? Where will we probably go from here and where should we 
go? Can we learn something from history? How do ongoing technical, 
economic, political, social or legal developments impact 
standardisation, and how can/should the current standardisation system 
adapt to these developments (if at all)?

Since 1999, SIIT conferences are bringing together experts from 
academia, government and industry with an interest in ICT 
standardisation. It thus serves as a platform to foster the exchange of 
insights and views on all issues surrounding standards, standardisation 
and innovation. Contributing academic disciplines include, but are by no 
means limited to: Business Studies, Computer Science, Economics, 
Engineering, History, Information Systems, Law, Management Studies and 
Sociology.

Topics

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All types of papers (e.g. theoretical, empirical, analytical, case 
studies) are welcome. We specifically encourage submissions that relate 
directly to the conference theme. However, all submissions that foster 
our understanding of innovation and standardisation, the links that 
exist between them and with the broader technical, social or legal 
environment will be considered. Aspects include, but are certainly not 
limited to:

* Standardisation in a flux!?

* ICT Standardisation in the world's different regions.

* The impact of legal and societal developments on standardisation.

* Smart systems' standardisation - stakeholders, society, environment, 
sustainability.

* Patterns of participation in ICT standards setting.

* Powerful players in the ICT industry vs. standardisation?

* Will concerns about Huawei (and others) impact ICT standardisation?

* Can we learn from the past?

* Impact of standards (e.g. on innovation, competition, convergence).

* Alternative interoperability strategies .

* Adoption, implementation and diffusion of standards.

* Standardisation management and strategies.

* Standards setting processes and organisations.

* Open standards, open source, open innovation

* IPRs and the legal dimension of standards.

* Standardisation policies and regulation.

* Economics of standards.

* History of standardisation.

Paper Submissions

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SIIT 2021 invites submissions of original (unpublished) papers for one 
of these categories:

* Academic papers will typically adopt a more theoretical approach and 
will ideally inform academics as well as practitioners (up to 20 pages).

* Industry papers address relevant topics from a more practical 
perspective and should also help ╘ground' academic research (up to 20 
pages).

* Presentation papers are intended for presentation only. They will not 
be published in the conference proceedings in order to allow a 
subsequent journal publication (relevant to certain fields of science; 
up to 20 pages).

* Opinion papers should focus on well-motivated personal views (up to 10 
pages).

* Work-in-progress papers report and discuss ongoing activities (up to 
10 pages).

* Poster papers will typically report new ideas or early work in 
progress (up to 5 pages).

All papers should adhere to the formatting guidelines and will undergo a 
double blind peer-review process. Authors may submit more than one 
paper, but each author will be allowed to present only one paper during 
the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is required 
to register for the conference and present the paper, otherwise the 
paper will not be included in the proceedings.

A paper template with formatting guidelines may be found at

https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/downloads/SIIT_Template_Submissions.zip

Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siit2021.

All accepted papers (except presentation papers) will be published in 
the conference proceedings, as part of the ╘EURAS Contributions to 
Standardisation Research' book series (no copyright transfer required). 
They will also be fast-tracked for inclusion in the International 
Journal on Standardization Research (IJSR) (subject to approval by the 
authors).

Important Dates

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Submissions due:10 May 2021

Notification of acceptance/rejection: 21 June 2021

Final paper due:19 July 2021

All information about the conference will be announced at 
http://siit2021.org.

Venue

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The conference will be held at RWTH Aachen University's Computer Science 
Centre, Lecture Hall AH VI, Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen.

The venue and how to get there: 
https://www.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Informatik/Fachgruppe/Kontakt/~mwfu/Anfahrt/lidx/1/

Patronage Opportunities

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Different patronage packages are available to companies and 
organisations that would like to be visible at this event. Please 
contact .

Previous SIIT Conferences

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1999 RWTH Aachen University, DE

2001 University of Colorado, Boulder, US

2003 TU Delft, NL

2005 ITU, Geneva, CH

2007 University of Calgary, CA

2009 Kogakuin University, Tokyo, JP

2011 TU Berlin, Berlin, DE

2013ETSI, Sophia-Antipolis, FR

2015 Synopsys, Sunnyvale, US

2017 UIBE, Beijing, China

2020 Virtual Roundtables

Further Information

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For any enquiries please contact Kai Jakobs at 
kai.jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de

For information about RWTH Aachen University please visit: 
https://www.rwth-aachen.de/

For information about Aachen please go to: 
https://www.aachen-tourismus.de/en/

Technical Program Committee

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Chair: Rudi Bekkers, TU Eindhoven, NL

Martin Adolph, ITU, CH

Nitin Aggarwal, SJSU, US

Paolo Bellavista, U. Bologna, IT

Knut Blind, TU Berlin, DE

Nils Brunsson, Uppsala U., SE

Carl Cargill, Consultant, US

Simao Campos, ITU, CH

Jorge Contreras, U. of Utah, US

Donggeun Choi, KSA, KR (tbc)

Tineke Egyedi, DIRoS, NL

Erwin Folmer, TNO, NL

Vladislav Fomin, Vilnius U., LT

Linda Garcia, Georgetown U.,

Matt Heckman, Zuyd U. of Applied Sciences, NL

Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen U., DE

Geerten van de Kaa, TU Delft, NL

Thomas Kalling, U. of Lund, SE

Olia Kanevskaia, KU Leuven, BE

Ken Krechmer, isology, US

Heejin Lee, Yonsei U., KR

Bjorn Lundell, U. of SkÜvde, SE

Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U., US

Brian McAuliffe, HP, IE

Anne Mione, U. of Montpellier, FR

Marta Orviska, UMB, SK

Cesare Riillo, STATEC, LU

Andrew Russell, SUNY, US

Tim Schoechle, NISLAPP, US

Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Consultant, US

Jan Smits, TU Eindhoven, NL

Michael Spring, U. of Pittsburgh, US

Kees Stuurman, U. of Tilburg, NL

Valerio Torti, Luiss-Guido Carli U., IT

Klaus Turowski, Magdeburg U., DE

Karthikeyan Umapathy, U. of North Florida, US

Henk de Vries, Erasmus U., NL

Ray Walshe, DCI, IE

Marc van Wegberg, Consultant, NL

Martin Weiss, U. of Pittsburgh, US

Robert van Wessel, ApexIS, NL (tbc)

Robin Williams, U. of Edinburgh, UK


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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:  +49-241-80-22222
Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de


EURAS - The European Academy for Standardisation.


The International Journal of Standardization Research.


The 'Advances in Standardization Research' book series.


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