CACS 2010 aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions in computer applications and computational science.

All papers published in the CACS 2011 proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplore and indexed in both Ei Compendex and ISTP. CACS 2011 has appeared in the IEEE Conferences (Conference Record # 18959, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1175N-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-61284-995-9).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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Paper Submission Deadline: 15 May 2011

Review Decision Notifications: 15 August 2011

Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: 9 September 2011

ERSA 2011 - Nominations for EIB-ERSA prize is OPEN

The committee for the EIB-ERSA prize is asking for nominations of candidates for the EIB-ERSA prize for the ERSA 2011 Congress.

Persons eligible for this prize are those "living European regional scientists, who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of regional science".
Nominations can be made by every individual.

They should be made in an email to the president of the prize committee, Gunther Maier (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), and should include a link to the C.V. of the nominated person.

The deadline for nominations is March 31st, 2011.

EIB - ERSA PRIZE RULES in http://www.ersa.org/home/eib-ersa-prize/article/eib-ersa-prize-rules

Call for Papers XXIV ESRS Congress -  Working Group on connections between tourism activities, socioeconomic fabrics and local development in European rural areas

We are very pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for the Working Group 21 - «Fertile Links?  Understanding the connections between tourism activities, socioeconomic fabrics and local development in European rural areas» (http://esrs2011.maich.gr/abstracts/wp21.pdf).

This Working Group is organized within the XXIV Congress of the ESRS – European Society for Rural Sociology, which will take place in Chania, Greece, between 22 – 25 August 2011 with the general theme «Inequality and Diversity in European Rural Areas» (http://esrs2011.maich.gr).

If you are interested in presenting a paper in our Working Group, please see the details for submission and key dates on the file attached or follow the link: http://esrs2011.maich.gr/papers.html.

Abstracts should be submitted till April, 30^th both to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Authors will be notified on the acceptance of their abstracts by 20^th May. Full papers must be then submitted until 30^th June (please check the attached file for further details).

51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International

37th Spanish Regional Science Association Conference

30th August - 3rd September 2011
Barcelona, Spain

CALL FOR PAPERS: ONLY ONE WEEK REMAINING

ERSA 2011 Congress in Barcelona, Spain

"New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalised World"

An outstanding 2011 edition in Barcelona, with a unique platform of keynote speakers and high-level roundtable participants including:

Johannes Hahn

Policy Plenary Lecture of the Conference Commissioner of Regional Policy of the European Union

David Audretsch ; Maryanne Feldman; Richard Florida and Diego Puga

Special RoundTable participants
Antoine Bailly, Roberta Capello, Graham Clarke, Phil McCann, Rosina Moreno, Peter Nijkamp, Henry Overman, Raffaele Paci, Mark Partridge, Dan Rickman, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, André Torré, and more to come

Your contribution is also essential to meet the new challenges set by the Congress theme.

Don't miss the chance to share and enrich your knowledge with colleagues from across the world.

Submit your abstract/paper by the 4th of March 2011

BE PART OF IT!

New submission process:

The abstracts and papers to be reviewed (for R-sessions, Young Scientist Sessions and Special Sessions) must be submitted all together before the deadline of the 4th of March 2011.

The Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and the papers all together.

The 22nd Pacific Conference of RSAI

The 22nd PRSCO conference will be held in Seoul Korea, 3-6 July, 2011, with hosting Korea session of Regional Science and Regional Science Association International at KOEX. The overall theme of conference is:

New trend and challenges - Green Growth of Regional Economy and High Tech Development and Job Creation.

More info: http://www.prsco2011.com

Deadline – abstracts must be submitted this week.

Regional Science Association Tripartite Workshop

British and Irish – Israeli – Netherlands Sections

May 2-4^th 2011 London

Call for Papers

Smart Growth; Sustainable Growth; Inclusive Growth

Over the last two years Europe has faced the worst economic crisis since the 1930s while longer-term challenges - globalisation, pressure on resources, climate change, ageing – have intensified. Achieving sustainable and inclusive growth in the future will require new thinking and new policy approaches. The Europe 2020 strategy put forward by the EU Commission makes some suggestions. (see http://ec.europa.eu/eu2020/index_en.htm).

In this workshop we aim to focus on the three key themes of the Europe 2020 strategy – Growth, Environment and Inequality – and invite papers in any of these areas. Theoretical, empirical and policy focused contributions are welcome. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before 28^th February 2011. Acceptance will be confirmed by 11^th March 2011. Full papers can be presented or distributed at the workshop.

The workshop will be held at The Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London
N7 6PA (www.theresourcecentre.org.uk). The programme will commence at 6 pm on Monday May 2^nd with a drinks reception. Parallel sessions will run through Tuesday 3^rd and Wednesday 4^th until 5.00pm. The workshop dinner will be held on the evening of Tuesday May 3^rd.

We have confirmed a technical excursion to the London Olympics 2012 site as part of the workshop.

There is no charge for attending the workshop. Coffee, lunches, the welcome reception and the conference dinner are free to registered delegates. Dutch delegates will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs. For Israeli delegates presenting a paper at the workshop we are able to offer two nights bed and breakfast accommodation at the Bloomsbury Park Hotel.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

this is to remind you that that the call for abstracts for talks and posters for the ECCS'11 Vienna (Sep 12-16, 2011) is open, until April 1st, 2011. Early registration (reduced fees) is possible until April 30th, 2011. Please follow the instructions at http://www.eccs2011.eu

Further, we are happy to announce the list of satellite meetings, which will take place on Sep 14 and 15, 2011, see: http://www.eccs2011.eu/satellites/


All the best,
For the organizers
Stefan Thurner (Conference Chair)
Karl Sigmund (Program Chair)

CALL FOR PAPERS

European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'11), Vienna, September 12-16, 2011

Satellite meeting "Urban social dynamics: segregation and criminality"

This one-day workshop aims at bringing together researchers from different disciplines and backgrounds on topics of major interest for the analysis and understanding of urban economics and social dynamics. The focus will be mainly on social segregation and on criminality. Both topics have some aspects touching upon the issue of the emergence of social norms. Empirical as well as theoretical approaches (mathematical models and agent-based approaches) will be presented. Methodological aspects will also be discussed. Social scientists will present open issues in their field for which a complex system approach might be relevant.
This workshop is one of the events of ECCS'11 to be held in Vienna between the 12 and the 16 of September, 2011, and is open to any registered participant of the main conference,ECCS'11.

For this satellite meeting, there will be invited talks and contributed talks, the later being selected by an interdisciplinary scientific committee (see the home page of the satellite meeting, http://www.lps.ens.fr/~risc/eccs2011/). Researchers interested in contributing to the workshop should submit by mail an abstract of one page, including: name, first name, affiliation, homepage, email address; names and affiliations of co-authors; title of the talk; abstract; references with links to relevant papers of the authors on the web, whenever available.

Some specific topics of interest (non-exclusive list):
- Spatial segregation: income, ethnic, religious segregations; the interplay between spatial, economic and social factors; Schelling type models and other agent-based approaches;
- Criminality: Social capital and crime or other civic problems like riots; Explaining the international crime drop (since mid 1990's) and Why it did not happen in some countries; Policy making: reducing crime making use of mathematical modeling and agent-based approaches.
- Both domains: Collective dynamics, Emergence of social norms. Interplay between criminal behavior and socio-economic factors.

Methods of interest: any method or approach, e. g.: empirical approaches, collecting and analyzing data; modeling with partial differential equations (PDE), epidemic models, statistical physics models, agent-based models, game theoretic approaches...

Submissions should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject: « Segregation and crime at ECCS11 » before noon, Friday April 1st, 2011.

Remind that all the participants including speakers have to be registered to the main conference, for which the deadline for early registration is April 30 (see the website of the main conference, http://eccs2011.eu/). We will give the list of accepted papers (together with a waiting list) no later than the last week of April. Selected authors will have to confirm their participation before June 1st.

Authors of accepted contributions will be offered the possibility to send a full paper for publication after the conference. Original contributions will be encouraged but reviews of published works will also be allowed. In all cases the papers will be peer reviewed. Practical modalities will be detailed later on the workshop web page.

The organizers,
Mirta B. Gordon, LIG, CNRS, Grenoble
Jean-Pierre Nadal, LPS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, and CAMS, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Andromachi Tseloni, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent  University, Nottingham
Annick Vignes, ERMES, Univ. Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Paris

ECCS’11 satellite meeting “Urban social dynamics: segregation and criminality”
Web page: http://www.lps.ens.fr/~risc/eccs2011/

Contact and submissions: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject: « Segregation and crime at ECCS11 »


Support: This event is part of the project “Urban Collective Dynamics: Individual and Spatial Heterogeneities” (DyXi) supported by the Program SYSCOMM of the French National Research Agency, the ANR (grant ANR-08-SYSC-008).Logistic: CAMS (Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales, associated with the EHESS and the CNRS, Paris).Webpage hosted by the LPS (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS, Paris). Both the CAMS
and the LPS are members of the DyXi project.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of the Journal of International Business Studies

THE MULTINATIONAL IN GEOGRAPHIC SPACE

Special Issue Editors

• Ulf Andersson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

• Ram Mudambi, Temple University, USASrilata Zaheer, University of Minnesota, USA

Deadline for submission: November 18, 2011

Tentative publication date: Spring 2013

Introduction

Although the impact of the changing strategy of MNEs on global economic geography is beginning to receive attention in the literature, IB scholars’ understanding of space remains relatively underdeveloped (McCann and Mudambi, 2005).  The O (Ownership) and I (Internalization) dimensions of Dunning’s eclectic paradigm are relatively well understood compared to the L (Location) dimension.

Because of the historical role of national borders, location in IB is often conceptualized and operationalized as a country-specific characteristic. Spatial heterogeneity exists in IB to the extent that countries differ in terms of their cultural and institutional framework, level of economic development and availability of natural resources. The IB literature tends to view space in terms of distance between countries, relying on measures such as cultural distance, institutional distance, psychic distance, distance between country centers, and so on. Whereas for some of these types of distance, the country is appropriate unit of analysis, this is not necessarily true for all. For example, the international cultural distance between two Scandinavian countries like Denmark and Sweden may well be smaller than that between two Indians, one from the Hindi-speaking North and the other from the Tamil-speaking South. Alternatively, to understand the role of geographic distance in the Canadian automotive supply chain by measuring the distance to the traditional industry cluster in Detroit would miss the emerging new automotive clusters in the American South where most non-US MNEs like Nissan, Toyota and BMW have located their assembly plants.

To improve our understanding of the spatial dimension of IB activity and the interaction of location with governance and organization aspects of MNE activity, we need to build on insights from economic and human geography and regional science. By integrating IB more closely with literatures that explicitly recognize the subtleties of geographic space, we push the frontiers of the field.  In the process, we make connections with the emerging literature in international strategy that emphasizes the importance of firm-level decision-making on geographical outcomes, insights that can advance the research frontiers of economic geography (Nachum and Zaheer, 2005; Shaver and Flyer, 2000; Alcacer and Chung, 2002). At the most fundamental level, this involves incorporating the impact of sub-national locations on decision-making and performance of multinational enterprises (MNEs). We contend that uniting the IB literature’s rich insights on the organization and governance of the MNE with the nuanced analysis of space in the economic geography literature offers great opportunities for advancing our understanding of both internationalizing firms and locations.

Topics for the Special Issue

We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions, and papers adopting either a single or multi level analysis. Illustrative topics are mentioned below:

• The 'death of distance' and ‘spiky’ global innovation; some scholars have declared the globalized world to be flat, but at the same time the strategic and economic importance of geographically concentrated networks of firms has increased (e.g. Lahiri, 2010). Global connectedness is increasingly recognized as crucial determining the position of individual clusters in the global hierarchy (Cantwell and Janne, 1999; Meyer et al., 2011) and the success of firms within them. For MNEs, managing a portfolio of locations and serving as a key part of the “connective tissue” amongst clusters puts them in a powerful position. Equally, MNEs that fail to leverage their unique position may find themselves weaker in consequence. How does the increased importance of connectedness affect the traditional view in IB linking control to ownership given that connectedness does not necessarily coincide with ownership?

• While there is a rich literature in IB on the MNE’s local embeddedness (e.g., Andersson et al., 2002), its spatial aspects are often simply assumed; they have rarely been distinguished or explored in an explicit manner.  Influential IB scholars have recently highlighted this lacuna (Dunning, 2009).  How is IB theory and practice affected when geographical co-location and embeddedness are disentangled?

• From Ownership, Location and Internalization to Place, Space and Organization (PSO); within the OLI framework the role of transaction costs is crucial. In the core-periphery model the role of space, dominates. How does an interpretation of transaction costs along spatial dimensions (PSO) affect the predictions of the OLI framework?

• Distance and the liability of foreignness; distance is conceptualized as a multidimensional construct mostly relating to inter-country characteristics. Is it meaningful to conceptualize distance as a multidimensional construct? Can we do a better job of disentangling these dimensions, in order to distinguish more clearly what is attributable to geographic distance, and what is attributable to cultural distance? E.g. the institutions of a place may depend partly on cultural characteristics, and partly on geographic issues such as resource availability, climate, proximity and relationship to other places etc. So papers that better compared and related the dimensions of distance in an IB setting might well prove foundational for other work to be done in this domain.

• Economic geographers are concerned with firm location in general: why they start in certain places, why they tend to stick to those locations, why they sometimes move, why they expand by making investments in other locations and how they organize and co-ordinate their multi-locational activities.  Is the multinational firm simply a special case of a multi-locational firm?  How do the notions of place, space and organization bear on this question?

• The role of the MNE in cluster formation; clusters are known to have life cycles. Whereas MNEs can play a catalyzing role in the start of a cluster and its further development, it is not clear how clusters and the (subsidiaries of) MNEs belonging to these clusters are affected when clusters are imploding or dissolving. Economic geography provides insights on cluster life cycles, and the questions arise relating to MNEs’ roles in these life cycles.  More specifically, MNEs improve the external connectivity of a cluster and we need to know more the implications of this connectivity for the development of the cluster.

• Entry mode theory and spatial heterogeneity; entry mode theory is dominated by the role of transaction costs in determining the optimal governance structure. This theory and the associated empirical studies are in general space neutral. Economic geography has shown that transaction costs are not space neutral. How are the predictions made by entry mode theory affected when we incorporate the notion of spatial transaction costs?  Whereas country level institutional characteristics have been incorporated in entry mode studies, sub-national level spatial heterogeneity has so far been absent.

• Spatial antecedents and consequences of geographical value chain disaggregation; as value chains are increasingly disaggregated into activities, projects and tasks, the internal networks of MNEs are becoming more open and increasingly decentralized. What does this likely imply for the international locational dispersion of activity across the full networks orchestrated by MNEs (which may include both 'internal' and 'external' elements if we define these purely in traditional ownership terms)? Conversely, what are the implications for locations of being relatively more (or less) conducive to more open kinds of firm networks locally, e.g. with respect to their IP regimes or other local institutional conditions?

In addition, we provide illustrative examples of some more general topic areas:

• Local partners and geographic space; spatially proximate vs. spatially distant local partners;

• The disaggregation of the value chain and the location of value creation;

• Extra-organizational knowledge spillovers in industrial districts/clusters.

Submission process

All manuscripts will be reviewed as a cohort for this special issue. Manuscripts must be submitted in the window between November 1, 2011, and November 18, 2011, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jibs. All submissions will go through the JIBS regular double-blind review process and follow the standard norms and processes.

For more information about this Call for Papers, please contact the Special Issue Editors or the JIBS Managing Editor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Note: Please see full version at www.jibs.net for list of references cited in this call.

58th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, 2011.

Second Conference of the Regional Science Association of the Americas, 2011.

Conference Registration Now Open

Join us in Miami, Florida, USA for the 58th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the 2nd conference of the Regional Science Association of the Americas (RSAmericas) sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC).  The joint conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Miami (400 South East Second Avenue) from Wednesday November 9th to Saturday November 12th, 2011.

You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register at the NARSC Website at: http://www.narsc.org/. Visit the Conference section of the Website and click the User Area link to register or sign in. Individual papers and sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the Website between now and August 1, 2011. The conference registration section will allow secure electronic financial transactions.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics inclusive within the diverse realm of regional science.  We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use.  We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, sociology and demography.  The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world. This year, for the first time, this event will be held in conjunction with the Second Conference of the Regional Science Association of the Americas. NARSC is delighted to present to you this double-feature opportunity.

You can participate in the conference in several ways. You can submit a proposal to present a paper; alternatively, you can prepare a poster that will be displayed during the conference, if your work is conducive to visual communication. You can organize a panel session aimed at discussing a cutting-edge topic of Regional Science. Finally, you can organize a paper session contributed to by four scholars.

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Miami for the nights of November 8-12, 2011 at the discounted rate of $189/night for a single or a double (plus applicable taxes of 13%).  Deep discounted rates are also available to students with proof of status. The cut-off date for making room reservations at the discounted rate is October 16, 2011.

Graduate students are encouraged to submit their work to compete in one of the two student paper contests. More information is available on-line at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=32.

Conference organizers have setup a conference fellowship program for participants with a home and work address in Latin America. A limited number of grants in the amount of $200 to $500 will be made on a competitive basis. Funding priority will be based on the following criteria: financial needs, seniority, intellectual contribution to the conference. More information can be found at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=67.

If you have questions about the program or submitting a paper or session proposal, or experience any difficulties, contact the 2011 Program Chair, Neil Reid, phone: 419-530-3593; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. All other questions about the conference can be directed to the 2011 Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Shelby Gerking, phone: 407-823-4729; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Shaoming Cheng, phone: 305-348-0432; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For sponsorship, exhibitor spaces, and overall arrangements, contact Jean-Claude Thill at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..