🗓️🗓️🗓️ Save the date for “PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government” workshop

🗓️ 🗓️🗓️ Save the date – September 6th – for PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government workshop as part of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) EGOV-CEDEM-EPART2023 organized in cooperation with Digital Government Society, where we – Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Tartu (Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Computer Science, Chair of Software Engineering) & European Open Science Cloud Task Force “FAIR Metrics and Data Quality”), Nitesh Bharosa (Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management & GovTech), Dirk Draheim (TalTech University), Kuldar Taveter (University of Tartu (Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Computer Science, Chair of Computer-Human Interactions)) – will initiate a discussion about personalised and proactive public services, discussing them and learning from the EGOV community about the practice of applying proactive and personalised services in different countries 🎯🎯🎯

As part of this workshop:
💡 we will talk about the concepts of public services, reactive and proactive models of public services, and models of their personalization;
💡considering the regulatory frameworks of two countries with forward-looking digital governments – 🇪🇪 Estonia and 🇳🇱 the Netherlands – we will compare design choices across key variables for proactive public services and reflect on the outcomes for citizens. Good and bad public service delivery practices from 🇪🇪 and 🇳🇱 will be presented with a focus on lessons learned from both kinds of experiences;
💡we will ask participants to share their views on public services and the levels of proactivity and personalisation of these services aiming to develop concepts for holistic proactive and personalised public service delivery
💡will try to jointly identify novel innovative and best practices for designing and setting up proactive and personalised public services.
It is expected that this will lead to a clearer vision of the “as-is” model and the necessary transition to the “to-be” model, their underlying factors, as well as pitfalls of which governments should be aware when designing, developing, and setting up proactive and personalised public services.

The purpose of this workshop is to explore and discuss the challenges and conditions for proactive and personalized public service delivery. The long-term objective is to come up with the framework of proactive and personalized public services expected to be applicable (1) to evaluate proactive public services already in use, thus identifying their gaps (if any), and identifying an agenda for the improvements, (2) to develop public services, ensuring they are qualitative and best practices-compliant by design.

Sounds interesting? Register for EGOV and join us – 6th September, 2023, Budapest, Hungary.


👉 Read a bit more -> here & here.
👉 Register for EGOV2023 here -> https://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/

CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData): where the Edge meets the Cloud

On behalf of the organizers, I sincerely invite you to consider submitting the results of your recent research to The Third International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData), which will be held in conjunction with the 23rd  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID2023).

The MegaData objective is to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of big data systems. The focus of the workshop is on a novel and practical, systems-oriented work, where MegaData, whose moto this year is “MegaData: where the Edge meets the Cloud”, offers an opportunity to showcase the latest advances in this area and discuss and identify future directions and challenges in management and engineering of big data systems.

MegaData covers the area of Big Data operations (management, engineering, and analytics) within Cloud and Edge computing models. It aims to report on the advances and trends in Big Data deployment architectures from both the infrastructure and application levels. Papers presenting recent results, research issues, practical applications, case studies, and industrial implementations are welcome.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following:

  • Resource management and scheduling mechanisms for data systems
  • Auto Scaling and elastic scaling approaches and mechanisms
  • Data governance and privacy of “data in motion” and “data at rest” over edge/cloud
  • Emerging Data deployment models in IoT, IoT-to-Cloud, Edge/fog
  • Federated Learning and edge intelligence for big data systems
  • Advances data storage models, including object stores and key-value stores
  • Techniques for data integrity, availability, reliability, and fault tolerance
  • Big Data workflows (data management, data wrangling, automated workflows)
  • Data pipeline (data lake to analytics, new data stream architectures, edge/fog, cloud enabled solutions)
  • High-performance Data Analytics applications
  • Adaptive offloading techniques among Fog, Edge, and Cloud Computing

Important dates

  • Submission open: December 1st, 2022
  • Paper submission Deadline: January 15th, 2023
  • Acceptance notification: February 10th, 2023
  • Camera-ready submission: March 17th, 2023
  • Conference Dates: May 1st, 2023

We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers should be no longer than 8 pages (including references and appendices) in two-column IEEE template format. Papers need to be submitted through the EasyChair submission portal.

Best papers presented at the workshop will be selected, and the corresponding authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publications in: Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Big Data and Edge Intelligence on Springer Cluster Computing (IF 2.3)

Submit the paper and meet our team in Bangalore, India in May, 2023!

With best wishes,

MegaData organizers – Yaser Jararweh, Feras M. Awaysheh, Moath Jarrah, Anastasija Nikiforova, Sadi Alawadi