 begin forwarded text priority normal date mon NUMBER sep NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER reply to law policy of computer communications cyberia l URL sender law policy of computer communications cyberia l URL comments authenticated sender is jakobs URL from kai jakobs kai jakobs URL subject cyberia final cfp int j on it standards research to cyberia l URL hello just a brief reminder that the deadline for submisisons for issue NUMBER of the international journal of it standards standardization research jitsr is october NUMBER jitsr is a new multi disciplinary publication outlet for everyone who is doing research into it standards and standardisation from whichever perspective so if you think you ve got a paper that might fit why not submit it for jitsr and please do ask if you need any further information greetings from aachen cheers kai call for papers for issue NUMBER of the international journal of it standards standardization research this new journal aims to be a platform for presenting and discussing the broad variety of aspects that make up it standards research this includes but is certainly not limited to contributions from the disciplines of computer science information systems management business social sciences especially science and technology studies economics engineering political science public policy sociology communication and human factors usability in particular the journal wants to both support and promote multi disciplinary research on it standards it should be understood in a very broad sense topics to be covered include but are not limited to technological innovation and standardisation standards for information infrastructures standardisation and economic development open source and standardisation intellectual property rights economics of standardisation emerging roles of formal standards organisations and consortia conformity assessment national regional international and corporate standards strategies standardisation and regulation standardisation as a form of the public sphere standardisation and public policy formation analyses of standards setting processes products and organisation case studies of standardisation impacts of market driven standardisation and emerging players the future of standardisation multinational and transnational perspectives and impacts commercial value of proprietary specifications descriptive prescriptive theories of standardisation standards research and education activities tools and services supporting improved standardisation user related issues risks of standardisation management of standards history of standards standards and technology transfer authors are requested to submit their manuscripts as an e mail attachment in rtf or pdf to the editor in chief at kai jakobs URL if this form of submission is not possible please send one hardcopy of the manuscript together with a disk containing the electronic version of the manuscript in rtf or pdf to kai jakobs technical university of 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