[Tccc] JTPO - Special Issue in New indicators in applied telecommunications economics

Dimitris Varoutas varoutas
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 Research results that draw on underused or unpublished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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