Call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

INNOVATIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
FOR SCIENCE, BUSINESS AND EDUCATION, IIT – 2013
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA
14-16 November, 2013

Vilniaus verslo kolegija (Vilnius Business College) invites scholars and educators from across to explore and share their knowledge and ideas about local and global perspectives for digital education and research in the 6th annual conference Innovative Information Technologies for Science, Business and Education IIT – 2013. With a strong focus on digital components across a range of disciplines and issues, this is the first conference of this kind to take place in Lithuania.

Our main objective is to promote and disseminate the innovative and state-of-the-art digital technologies and methodologies in scholarly research and pedagogy across the humanities, social, formal and applied sciences.

We hope the event will appeal to a broad scholarly community to lead further discussion and to exchange knowledge and ideas within and across disciplines, institutions and borders.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS PER SECTION:

SECTION 1. DIGITAL HUMANITIES (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND LIBRARIES)

  • Prof. Prof. Willard McCarty (Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, UK, and and Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney, Australia)
  • Dr. Martin Hewings (Freelance author and consultant, Cambridge university press, UK)
  • Dr. Øyvind Eide (Department for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Assoc. Prof. Luc van Doorslaer (Centre for Translation Studies (CETRA), University of Leuven, Belgium)
  • Assoc. Prof. Peter Flynn (Department of Applied Language Studies, KU Leuven/Campus Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Dr. Luis Perez Gonzalez (Centre of Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS), Manchester University, UK)
  • Dr. Rebecca Tipton (Centre of Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS), Manchester University, UK)
  • Richard Gartner (Centre for e-Research, King's College, London, UK)
  • Janet Zmroczek (Head of European Studies, British Library, UK)
  • Anne Welsh (Department of Information Studies, University College of London, UK)

 SECTION 2: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR NATURAL AND COMPUTING SCIENCE

  • Prof. Habil. Dr. Yuri N. Shunin (ISMA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia)
  • Prof. Dr. Viktor Gopejenko (ISMA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sergejus Ivanikovas (University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kestutis Svirskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dirk Tempelaar (Maastricht University, Netherland)

 SECTION 3. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION

  • Prof. Habil. Dr. Marga Zivetere (ISMA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia)
  • Prof. Dr. Tamara Lobanova- Shunina (ISMA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia)
  • Ildar Galikov (Vilnius Business College, Lithuania)

We welcome oral presentations (15-min) as well as poster presentations on topics that include but are not limited to the following areas:

SECTION 1. DIGITAL HUMANITIES (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND LIBRARIES)

Sub-section 1A: Digital linguistics and literature:

  • experimental use of digital tools in linguistics and literary studies;
  • corpus stylistics;
  • linguistic annotation, guidelines, standards and software;
  • text encoding, data and metadata;
  • language processing tools;
  • text mining;
  • digital resources for literature;
  • machine& human reading combined;
  • IT in teaching and learning languages, literature and linguistics.

Sub-section 1B: Translation Studies:

  • corpus-based translation studies;
  • machine translation and translation memories;
  • teaching and researching data for translation studies;
  • crowd-sourcing data for translation research;
  • conference interpreting technologies and training;
  • audio-visual translation: cultures, communities and technologies.

Sub-section 1C: Digital librarianship:

  • digital archiving and preservation;
  • digital cataloguing and metadata;
  • digital-based resources for libraries;
  • digital library architecture and software;
  • digital library technical and quality standards.

SECTION 2: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR NATURAL AND COMPUTING SCIENCE

Sub-section 2A: IT - applied solutions:

  • advanced programming;
  • conceptual modeling and databases;
  • natural language processing;
  • formal analysis and design methods;
  • algorithms and applications;
  • bioinformatics;
  • IT applications for molecular/cluster modeling.

Sub-section 2B: E-tools:

  • E-government;
  • Grid computing systems;
  • High-performance scientific computing;
  • Hardware and computer networks;
  • Security and privacy.

SECTION 3. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION

Sub-section 3A: Business process modeling:

  • innovations in management tools;
  • mathematical modeling and statistics for improving organizational ability;
  • business process modeling, analysis and design;
  • information and software systems engineering;
  • social data mining;
  • sentiment analysis.

Sub-section 3B: Virtual learning:

  • collaborative learning;
  • curriculum content design and development;
  • web-based evaluation and assessment;
  • virtual learning environments and issues;
  • e-learning tools.

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration and proposal submission:

  • Early registration by 1 August 2013
  • Late registration by 1 October 2013

Notification of acceptance two weeks after registration online.

Conference proceedings will be issued as a separate publication in the journal Innovative Infotechnologies for Science, Business and Education, N1-2 (2014). The template of full paper is available at http://www.kolegija.lt/en/tarptautines-studijos/submissions/35.

FEES

Early registration: Participants students (PhD, MsSC, MA, MPhil) - € 50; Others - € 90
Late registration: Participants students (PhD, MsSC, MA, MPhil) - € 70; Others - € 120

Registration: Visitors - € 15

The fee includes (For participants only): Books of programme and abstracts, conference bag, 2 lunches, 4 coffee/tea breaks, 1 dinner on 14 November 2013.

ADMISSION FEE OF 15 EUROS REGARDLESS OF ATTENDANCE DAY(S). PLEASE NOTE THIS FEE DOES NOT INCLUDE CONFERENCE PACKAGE.

CONTACTS

For further details please contact Ms. Deimante Vilcinskaite at email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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