[Tccc] JTPO - Special Issue in New indicators in applied telecommunications economics
Dimitris Varoutas
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Mon Jun 4 14:43:01 EDT 2012
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY JOURNAL, ELSEVIER
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on New indicators in applied telecommunications
economics: Innovative approaches, metrics, and techniques for
understanding the learning network economy
Background
The contemporary economy is an intricate information-based and
communication-intensive system. Telecommunications technology is
deeply embedded in the fabric of modern production, distribution and
consumption processes. However, in a fast changing economy the
existing stock of indicators can easily suffer from "analytic depreciation" as new areas emerge and develop. Among the area are presently not covered well are those relating to product
innovation, user mobility patterns, and social networking activities.
Aims
The pervasiveness of telecommunications means that we need better
metrics of the role of telecom goods and services in the modern
economy. It also implies a need for an expanded, robust, and better
integrated portfolio of empirical approaches and datasets that allow
analysts, managers, regulators and policy-makers to make sense of the
dynamics of the telecommunication innovation and activities. This
special issue seeks to attract contributions that address these
aspects.
Subject coverage
We welcome original contributions suggesting innovative empirical and
theoretical approaches, e.g. exemplary uses of new kinds of data as
well as novel tools, techniques, and methodologies that use already
existing data. Research results that draw on underused or unpublished
sources of evidence are particularly welcome. We are also soliciting
proposals that arrive at fresh insights, taxonomies, and predictions
based on new indicators or newly compiled datasets. Authors addressing
telecommunications phenomena from a variety of disciplines and
perspectives are invited to submit. Papers may address a broad range
of topics including such as, but not limited to, the following ones:
* Telecom market metrics and performance indices;
* Competition econometrics and price indices;
* Telecommunications macroeconomics;
* Network statistics and indicators;
* User and community behaviour analytics;
* Business cycle monitoring in ICT industries;
* New metrics and indicators for social networks;
* Rates and directions of social media business usages and
businesses;
* Mapping the flux of fixed and mobile telephony data;
* New objects of telecommunications data mining (e.g. patents,
publications, etc);
* Trademarks, designs, and other new indicators of telecom
innovation;
* New empirics of cloud computing;
* New measurements of the digital divide and dividend;
* Mapping the expanding media ecosystem in telecommunications;
* Quantitative indicators for societal impact from network
deployments;
* Empirical modelling of telecom cost and pricing models;
* New ways of data collections, such as network-based and
user-generated data;
* New approaches to telecom data visualisation and information
design.
(Indicative) Important dates
CfP issued: April 2012
Submission: September 2012
Author notification: October 2012
Revisions: January 2013
Final notification: February 2013
Issue published: Mid of 2013
Submissions guidelines
Papers should follow the standard guidelines of Telecommunica Policy and they will be selected competitively according to their
intrinsic quality and relevance to the special issue. All papers will
be subject to a standard refereeing process.
Telecommunications Policy website for on-line submission:
[1]http://ees.el Indicators" as Article Type in the drop down menu (available now).
Journal information can be found at: [2]http://www.elsevie r.com/locate/telpol Authors? guidelines are available at:
[3]http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription .cws_home/30471/authorinstructions
See Guide to Authors on the above website. Only original submissions
will be considered, not submitted in parallel elsewhere. (No further
pre-submission comments will be given by the guest editors but
editorial comments will of course be provided after the review.)
Guest Editors
Sandro Mendon?a
Dept. of Economics, Instituto Universit?rio de Lisboa (ISCTE Lisboa, Portugal, and SPRU, University of Sussex, UK
[4]sfm at iscte.pt
Dimitris Varoutas
Faculty of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens
[5]D.Varoutas at di.uoa.gr
Sofie Verbrugge
Dept. of Information Technology, Ghent University - IBBT
[6]sofie.verbrugge at int--
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Dimitris VAROUTAS, PhD, SMIEEE
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Informatics and Telecommunications
School of Sciences
University of Athens
Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia
GR 157-84
Tel: +30210-727-5318
Fax: +30210-727-5214
URL:[7]http://www.di.uoa.gr/~arkas
Linkedin: [8]http://gr.linkedin.com/in/varoutas
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References
1. 3D"http://ees.elsevier.com/jtpo/"
2. 3D"http://www.elsevier.com/locate/telpol"
3. 3D"http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/3047 4. 3D"mailto:mailto:sfm at iscte.pt"
5. 3D"mailto:D.Varoutas at di.uoa.gr"
6. 3D"mailto:sofie.verbrugge at intec.ugent.be"
7. 3D"http://www.di.uoa.gr/%7Ear 8. 3D"http://gr.linkedin.c=/
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