PDSF2024: Paris Defence and Strategy Forum : "Europe at the Crossroads: Strategies, Policies and Organisations from Information Systems (IS) and Cognitive Science to Social Sciences Analysis" Military School Paris, France, March 13-14, 2024 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdsf2024 |
Submission deadline | January 31, 2024 |
PARIS DEFENCE AND STRATEGY FORUM :
Europe at the Crossroads: Strategies, Policies and Organisations from Information Systems (IS) and Cognitive Science to Social Sciences Analysis
Paris, March 13 to 14, 2024
Ecole Militaire, 1 Place Joffre, 75007, Paris, France
Europe at the Crossroads: Strategies, Policies, and Organisations from Information Systems (IS) and Cognitive Science to Social Sciences Analysis
Host: ACADEM (Paris Defence University) and Research Centre of the National Gendarmerie Officers' Academy (CREOGN)
The French Defence University is working within the field of war and security studies: strategy, intelligence, law, military leadership, the art of command and management, within the services and within new domains - army, navy, air force, space, cyber, cognitive influence. It is now launching the first PARIS DEFENCE AND STRATEGY FORUM 2024. This conference examines prospective approaches, challenges, opportunities, and strategic risks that arise from the current context of “Europe at the Crossroads”. Analysed and studied from different academic perspectives, Information System (IS) and social sciences are encouraged to contribute to advance knowledge to achieve a better security approach for government, organisations, society and individuals. Consequently, discussions on the relationships between states and private actors in the development of new technologies, their impact on geopolitical balance, historical perspectives, sociological and cognitive analyses, will be encouraged. Similarly, the advancement of high technology induces paradigm shifts, not only in terms of recruitment and training but also in the way populations are educated, including changes in expectations, aspirations, and concerns. This represents a field that warrants exploration. We invite scholars, practitioners, and early career researchers to present their research at the PARIS DEFENCE AND STRATEGY FORUM 2024. We invite submissions of complete research and short papers across 4 conference tracks, including our theme track: “Europe at the crossroads: strategies, politics and organisations from Information Systems (IS) and cognitive science to social sciences analysis” Theoretical and empirical papers employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or design science are welcome. |
Track 1– Uncertainty and Decision-Making
The context has seen an acceptance of social, economic, technological, security, or climatic disruptions. Uncertainty and the emergence of “black swans,” described by Nassim Taleb, have only made decision-making more complex, challenging, and life-changing for decision-makers, whether in the private or public sector.
For these men and women, understanding the challenges of a changing environment is essential, and we propose to question the multiple challenges for Europe that currently stands, more than ever, at a crossroads and must face numerous security challenges by integrating the evolving role of global actors.
Track 2 –War in Europe: Issues and Prospects
For the past two years, everyone has had to consider the consequences of the return of high-intensity war within the geographical confines of Europe. This implies renewing the conceptualisation of our environment and innovation across the entire spectrum of society and organisations. We intuitively think of the security and geopolitical approach that has profoundly modified energy management, logistics routes, and finance mechanisms, but we should not neglect other fields, including political, and social issues, many of which are impacted by technological developments increasingly shaping societies.
Track 3 – Society and Influence
COVID has drastically impacted societies that have not always managed to stabilise the “new normal” induced by the pandemic. The issue of disinformation and influence campaigns using digital technologies remains, more than ever, a major challenge for societies and democratic processes, which could be threatened by attempts to interfere.
The conflicts that we have recently witnessed, as well as the geopolitical disturbances that we can observe on different continents (Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attacks in Israel, crises in the Levant region, degraded security situation in the Sahel, multiplication of influence campaigns and the presence of PMCs in Africa which has experienced numerous regime reversals, etc.) lead to a necessary adaptation of Westerners, observed at the organisational level through the repositioning of States and supra-state structures such as the European Union (EU) or NATO.
Track 4 – Technologies and Sovereignty Issues for States
Technology, particularly information sciences, has undergone massive developments enabled by the increase in available data and computing power facilitating the development of artificial intelligence (AI), decision support, or optimization. The Internet of Things (IOT), the metaverse, autonomous systems, and Web 3.0 are digital developments that will impact societies and their evolution.
Submission Guidelines
- Completed Research, Short Paper, and work-in-progress submission deadline: January 31st, 2023, 23:59 CET (Central European Time)
- Notification of Completed Research, Short Paper, and work-in-progress (conditional) acceptance: February 10th, 2024, 23:59 CET (Central European Time)
- Revised and completed Research, Short paper, and work-in-progress submission deadline: February 25th, 2024, 23:59 CET (Central European Time)
For Completed and Short Research paper submissions, please consider the following:
- All papers must be submitted to only one of the conference tracks.
- Submissions must be original. Plagiarism checks will be done before sending out submissions for review.
General Submission Information
All submissions must be submitted through the Easy Chair platform. The submission system opens on December 1st, 2023.
Submissions must use the appropriate paper template provided on the conference website
All submissions should be submitted as a PDF file
Submission may be done in French and/or in English
Submissions that violate any of the above-listed guidelines will be removed from the review process
Submission Types:
- Completed Research Papers (RP) - Max 25,000 words.
- Short Papers (SP) – 7,000 to 10,000 words.
- Work in progress paper (WP) Max 25,000 words.
The best papers will see their article published in a special issue dedicated to the forum in one of ACADEM's partner journals and on Cairn.
Originality
Submissions to the DEFENCE AND STRATEGY FORUM 2024 must be original. The submission, or a similar version, cannot have been published or accepted in a journal or other conference proceedings. We encourage the author to comply with the AIS Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and avoid plagiarising their or others’ work.
The program chairs will run plagiarism checks before sending out submissions for review.
Suppose a highly similar version of the submission exists, such as an unpublished Ph.D. thesis or early results of a study. In that case, this must be indicated in the submission as a footnote (kept anonymous to ensure a blind review process).
While authors may use Generative AI for certain aspects of their work, such as ChatGPT assisting in editing their writing, the submissions must represent the authors’ intellectual contributions. Authors must disclose the use of Generative AI for any aspect of the work.
List of Topics
Topics of Submission
Areas of interest include, amongst others, the following:
General Conference Theme
- Strategies for addressing the security challenge
- Cognitive warfare, influence, and behaviour change
- Ethical AI and development goals
- Explainable AI in defence, strategy, and security
- IS design and innovation
- Societal impact of crisis
- Intelligence, OSInt
- War, terrorism, and anticipation
Information Systems
- IS for social innovation and entrepreneurship
- IS for digital transformation (including operations and supply chain management)
- Datafication and digitalisation for digital development
- WEB 3.0
- Industry 4.0 technologies
- Analytics and ICT4D (Social media analytics/business analytics/big data analytics)
- Cyber security
- Human-computer interaction (HCI)
- IS and ICT adoption studies
Fintech
- Digital platforms for economic development
- Cryptocurrencies
- Blockchain
Economics, Sociology, and Psychology
- Socio-economic inclusion in the digitised society
- Economic and social effects of IS
- Socio-economic transformation in a digitised society
- Healthcare and global pandemics
Computer Science
- Emerging technologies
- Mobile applications
- Cyber security
Teaching and Learning
- Knowledge management
- Learning analytics
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Committees
Conference Committee
- Prof. Samuel Fosso Wamba, TBS Education, France
- Prof. Christine Dugoin-Clément, CREOGN & IAE Paris, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
- Prof Régis Meissonier, Montpellier University, France
Programme Committee
- Prof. Remy Février, CNAM Paris, France
- Prof. Didier Danet, CREC Saint Cyr Coëtquidan, France
- Prof. Denis Dennehy, Swansea University, Wales, UK
- Prof. Yevhen Fedchenko, Director, Mohyla School of Journalism, Ukraine
Scientific Committee
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Prof. Abdullah Albizri, Montclair State University, USA
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Prof. Alexis Tsoukas, Université Paris Dauphine, France
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Prof. Anastasiya Shapochkina, Science Po Paris, France
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Prof. Antoine Harfouche, University Paris Nanterre,France
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Prof. Aude Deville, Professeur en Sciences de Gestion, Université de Nice, France
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Prof. Benoit Haberbuch, CREOGN, France
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Prof. Cécile Godé, Aix Marseille Université, France
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Prof. Cécile Dutriaux, IAE de Paris, France
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Prof. Charbel Chedrawi, USJ, Lebanon
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Prof. Christine Dugoin-Clément, CREOGN & IAE Paris, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
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Prof. David Bievre, CREOGN, France
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Prof. David Cocq, Institut Catholique de Lyon, France
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Prof. Didier Danet, CREC Saint Cyr Coëtquidan, France
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Prof. Dina Sidani, University Saint Joseph, Lebanon
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Prof. Evaldas Bruze, Lithuanian Cybercrime Centre of Excellence for Training (L3CE), Vilnius, Lituanie
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Prof. Eric Lamarque, IAE de Paris, France
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Prof. Elie PASSO SONBANG, Centre Recherche & Doc de l’EIFORCES, Cameroun
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Prof. Frederic Tatout, CREOGN, France
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Prof. Guillaume Biot-Paquerot, Burgundy School of Business – BSB, France
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Prof. Hélène Djoukellfit , Agence Française de Développement, France
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Prof. Hugo Michou, IAE de Paris, France
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Henri-Benoit Lefrançois, IAE de Paris, France
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Prof. Idrys Fransmel Okombi, Université Marien Ngouabi de Brazzaville, Congo
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Prof. Ilias Pappas, University of Agder, Norway
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Prof. Isabelle Facon, FRS, France
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Prof. Igor Reshetnyak, Polytechnique, France
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Prof. Jean-Fabrice Lebraty, IAE de Lyon, France
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Prof. Jean-Loup Richet, IAE de Paris, France
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Prof. Jean-Paul Mamboundou, Institut National des Sciences de Gestion (INSG), Congo
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Prof. Jihane Aayale, Groupe ISCAE, Morocco
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Prof. Jorge Gomes, Portugal
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Prof. Julien Jourdan, DGGN, France
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Prof. Kave Salamatian, European Chair of Maritime Cybersecurity
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Prof. Marc Bidan, Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) Nantes University, France
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General Marc Boget, expert of the National French Gendarmerie, France
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Prof. Markus Kerber, expert, Federation of German Industries (BDI), Germany
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Prof. Mario Saba, University of Montpellier - Washington State University, USA
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Prof. Mohammad I. Merhi, Indiana University South Bend, USA
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Prof. Nikolas Rossbach, Defense Eesearch Agency & National Defense University, Sweden
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Prof. Päivi Mattila Director of Security Research Programme at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
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Prof. Peter Saba, EMLV, France
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Prof. Remy Février, CNAM Paris, France
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Prof. Samuel Fosso Wamba, TBS, France
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Prof. Soufyane Frimousse, IAE de Corte, France
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Prof. Stefan Pickl, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
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Prof. Stéphane Mortier, CREOGN, France
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Prof. Thibaut Heckmann, CY, France
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Prof. Thivaut Moulin, Institut Catholique de Lyon & HUJI Federmann Cyber Security Center, Israel
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Prof. Thorniké Gordadzé, Sciences Po Paris, France
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Prof. Volodimir Yermolenko, Mohyla University, Ukraine
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Prof. Yevhen Fedchenko, Director, Mohyla School of Journalism, Ukraine
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Prof. Ysense de France, DGGN, France
Invited Speakers
Keynote Speakers
- Prof. Jason B Thatcher, University of Colorado Boulder
- Prof Veronique Chanut, Assas Paris II
- Prof Marten Risius, Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Publication
The best papers will see their article published in a special issue dedicated to the forum in one of ACADEM's partner journals and on Cairn.
Venue
The conference will be held in Paris from March 13th to 14th, 2024, at The Military School, 1 Place Joffre, 75007, Paris, France.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Prof. Christine Dugoin-Clément: cdugoin@gmail.com