An opportunity to submit papers on foresight and forecasting methods and their applications

All those interested in foresight and forecasting are invited to submit a paper to the special section on "Technological foresight and socio-economic evolution modelling" (Special Area Chair: Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski). within the conference:

eKNOW 2016, The Eighth International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management, April 24 - 28, 2016 - Venice, Italy.

Detailed tracks/topics:

• Technological foresight and socio-economic evolution modelling;
• Anticipatory networks and decisions;
• Expert information management;
• Foresight support systems;
• Generating technological recommendations and rankings;
• Information society evolution;
• Online and real-time Delphi;
• Ontological knowledge bases of technologies and products;
• Roadmapping support systems;
• Strategic support systems;
• Technological information fusion;
• Technological policy decision support systems.

Submission deadline: January 22, 2016

Submission webpage: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SubmiteKNOW16.html

Acceptance notification February 15, 2016 r.

eKNOW General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/eKNOW16.html

eKNOW 2016 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/ComeKNOW16.html

Contributions:

• regular papers: six + up to four extra pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
• short papers (work in progress): four pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
• ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

Other paper categories can be found on the eKNOW web page.

The authors of the submitted papers in this section may also inform the Special Area Chair about their willingness to submit an expanded version of the article to a special section of the journal “International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science” (IF: 1,227 in 2014), regardless of the opportunity to publish the paper in eKNOW conference proceedings. The announcement of this release will be posted on the website https://www.amcs.uz.zgora.pl/?action=online. The notification should be sent using the contact form on the portal www.foresight.pl (available after login).

Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the above, but not limited to, topic areas.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

Other thematic sections of the eKNOW 2016 Conference include:

• Decision support systems;
• Multi-criteria decision theory;
• Applications using decision support systems;
• Knowledge fundamentals;
• Knowledge identification and discovery;
• Knowledge management systems;
• Knowledge semantics processing and ontology
• Knowledge management (KM) and event processing (EP);
• Applications from various domains (e.g. financial, manufacturing, trading, telecommunication, service), which benefit from an integrated KM and EP;
• Dynamic knowledge ontology;
• Process analysis and modeling;
• Information management.

Articles presented at the Conference will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org