Resources for Aspiring Researchers
New graduate students, especially those with a few years of industry experience,
are often eager to start building a publication record but are unsure how to get
started. This page compiles links, resources, and some advice to address
some of questions that I hear most often.
Publishing at conferences
This section provides links to various technical and scholarly conferences
that publish papers in areas closely associated with my research
interests. These conferences are possible outlets for high-quality
graduate student term papers and course assignments. Research into Technology
Innovation Management (TIM) is inherently cross-discipline. It cuts across
the domains of engineering, computer science, and management, and
traditional business areas such as strategy, operations management, marketing,
and finance. There are conferences specifically devoted to engineering
management, management conferences with technology management tracks,
engineering conferences with management tracks, conferences devoted to the
management of projects, and highly-focused specialty conferences on special
topics (such as open source software or open educational resources).
Engineering Management
Conferences in this category publish papers on engineering management, the
management of technology, and technology management.
ITMC (formerly IEMC):
The International Technology Management Conference is the flagship conference
of IEEE Technology
Management Council (TMC). TMC publishes the IEEE
Transactions on Engineering Management and the Engineering
Management Review -- two of the top-ranked journals in the field.
- Information on ITMC 2009 is not yet available.
Prior to January 1 2008, the TMC was called the IEEE Engineering Management Society (EMS),
and its flagship conference was called the International Engineering Management
Conference (IEMC).
IAMOT:
The International Conference on Management of Technology is organized by the International
Association for Management of Technology. IAMOT is closely associated
with Technovation -- a highly-ranked international journal that publishes
articles on innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology management.
- IAMOT 2009 will be in Orlando Florida
(April 5-9).
- The conference theme is Management of Green Technology.
- Abstracts due November 1 2008.
- IAMOT 2008 was in Dubai
(April 6-10).
- IAMOT 2007 was in Miami,
Florida (May 13-17).
PICMET:
The Portland International Conference on
Management of Engineering and Technology is another annual conference held
at different locations throughout the world.
- PICMET '09 will
be in Portland, Oregon (August 2-6).
- The conference theme is Technology Management in the Age of
Fundamental Change.
- Abstracts due in December 2008.
- PICMET '08 was in Cape Town, South Africa (July 27-31).
- PICMET '07 was in
Portland, Oregon (August 5-9)
Management / Business
If you have a high-quality paper with a strong management focus, you could
consider submitting it to a management conference with a technology track. Although the audience and
scope of these conferences is much different, both AoM and ASAC have tracks
which publish papers on engineering management topics.
AoM:
The Academy of Management holds an annual
meeting each summer. The Technology and
Innovation Management Division is one of the larger groups within AoM.
ASAC:
The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
is the national association of Canadian university management professors.
ASAC's Technology and Innovation Management division hosts a presentation
track each year at the annual conference .
- ASAC 2009 will be
in Waterloo, Ontario (June 6-9) at the Wilfred Laurier School of Business
and Economics.
- The conference theme is Creating Knowledge in the New Economy.
- Full papers due January 2009.
- ASAC 2008 was in Halifax, Nova
Scotia (May 24-27)
- ASAC 2007 was in Ottawa,
Ontario (June 2-5)
Software Engineering
If your work is specific to software projects, you could consider presenting
it in a forum focused specifically on software engineering. The two
prominent technical organizations in this area are the IEEE
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery). Both have special interest groups
or technical societies whose interests overlap with the scope of TIM
research. The number of conferences in this category is vast.
IEEE Computer Society:
The IEEE Computer Society is the largest
society within the IEEE. Its resources, including the full calendar of
upcoming conferences, are best accessed through IEEE
Xplore [Carleton University Library Patron Barcode Required]. ACM
SIGSOFT and ACM SIGPLAN:
The Association for Computing Machinery's Special
Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) hosts several popular and
high quality software engineering conferences
including the International
Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) and the ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).
- ICSE 2009 will be
in Vancouver, British Columbia (May 16-24 2009)
- Abstracts due August 29 2008.
- Full papers due September 5 2008.
- SIGSOFT 2008 / FSE
16 was in Atlanta, Georgia (November 9-15)
- ICSE 2008 was in Leipzig, Germany
(May 10-18)
The ACM Special Interest Group on
Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) hosts OOPSLA
(Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and
Applications), which (despite its name) is broadly interested in the practice of
software development. The OOPSLA program includes technical paper sessions
and workshops interested in TIM research, such as the Workshop
on the Integration of Open Source Components into Large Software Systems.
- OOPSLA 2009 will be at Walt Disney World resorts in Orlando, Florida
(October 25-29)
- Submissions due March 19 2009.
- OOPSLA 2008 was in Nashville, Tennessee
(October 19-23)
- OOPSLA 2007 was in
Montreal, Quebec (October 21-25)
ACM resources, including the full calendar of upcoming conferences, are best
accessed through the ACM
Digital Library [Carleton University Library Patron Barcode Required].
Project Management
The Ottawa Valley Outaouais Chapter of the
Project Management Institute (PMI OVOC) organizes an annual Project
Management Symposium and Seminar Series, which includes a student forum on
project management. The 2008
event was November 4-6 at the Hampton Inn in Ottawa Canada.
Open Source Software and Open Innovation
OSS:
The International Conference on Open Source Systems addresses the full breadth
of open source research including open development practices, open source
communities and platforms, and open source adoption and quality.
- OSS 2009 will be in Skövde, Sweden (June
3-6).
- Full papers due November 1 2008.
- OSS 2008 was in Milan, Italy (September 7-10).
- OSS 2007 was in Limerick,
Ireland (June 11-14).
MCETECH Conference on e-Technologies:
The Multi-discipline Conference on e-Technologies brings together researchers,
decision makers, and practitioners to explore the many facets of Internet
applications and technologies.
MCETECH 2009 is a great opportunity for Carleton students to publish your
research. The scope is quite broad and inclusive, the event is hosted here
at Carleton University (in the Azrieli Pavilion and Theatre), and there will be
an open source track. My TIM colleague, Prof.
Michael Weiss, is the Conference Chair for 2009.
- MCETECH 2009 will be hosted at Carleton
University in Ottawa, Canada (May 4-6).
- Full papers due November 1 2008.
- The conference theme is Innovation in an Open World.
- MCETECH 2008 was in Montreal, Canada
(January 23-25).
Specialty Conferences
My interdisciplinary research interests sometimes overlap with the scope of
various specialty conferences that would not normally be considered outlets for
technology management research.
ISTAS:
The International Symposium on Technology and Society is the annual conference
of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of
Technology (SSIT). It publishes papers on the social, cultural,
political, and economic impact of information and communication technologies,
from researchers and students in engineering, computer science, social sciences,
arts and humanities.
- ISTAS
2009 will be in Phoenix, Arizona (May 18-20).
- The conference theme is Social Implications of Sustainable
Development.
- Full papers due December 31 2008.
- ISTAS 2008 was in Fredericton, New Brunswick (June 26-28).
- ISTAS 2007 was in
Las Vegas, Nevada (June 1-2).
OpenEd:
The Open Education Conference is hosted each year by the Center
for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) at Utah State University.
- Information on OpenEd 2009 is not yet posted.
- OpenEd 2008 was
September 24-26.
- The conference theme was Celebrating Ten Years of Open Content.
- OpenEd 2007 was
September 26-28.
- Full papers were due August 17.
Game Theory Society:
The Game Theory Society hosts
the Stony Brook Game Theory Festival (annually) and the World Congress of the
Game Theory Society (every four years).
Steven M. Muegge
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