[AISWorld] IJITSA 5(2) special issue System Dynamics

[Manuel Mora T.]

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Call for contributions. IJITSA special issue on: System Dynamics.
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Guest Editors:
Dr. Peter Otto, Union Graduate College, USA
Dr. Andrej Skraba, University of Maribor, Slovenia
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INTRODUCTION:
IS research aims to help decision-makers understand and anticipate
opportunities to deploy IS and adding business value for organizations in
today’s competitive environment. Decisions concerning IS are complex and
challenging for a decision-maker; time pressure, incomplete information,
unknown feedback loops, organizational contexts, and selfish motivations
strongly influence such decisions. Inadequate decisions and subsequent
actions might lead to undesired results. Enhancing the knowledge of
gaining business value from IS is possible by achieving insights into the
complex behavior of the system and the interaction among decision
variables. Using simulation models permit the testing of various
assumptions and provide decision-makers with the ability to explore the
consequences of various scenarios and alternative functional relationships
among variables in the system.

OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
It is important to gain a broader, systemic view on the management and
control problems in the fields of systems engineering, software
engineering and information systems. This would contribute to better
understanding of underlying system structure, dynamics and possibilities
for efficient control. Papers in the special issue should therefore
address practical application of System Dynamics and other
simulation-based approaches in the field of Information Systems to improve
understanding of business structures and decision making. Methodological
papers as well as case studies are welcome.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited
to) the following application domains of System Dynamics:

•Diffusion of new IS technology
•IS development
•IS-individuals interaction
•Implementation issues
•Outsourcing and country selection issues
•Social media and Web 2.0 issues
•Health informatics
•E-commerce and web-enabled delivery systems
•CRM, SCM applications
•Models and dynamics of efficient application of human resources and
knowledge
•Organization structure, dynamics and improvements
•Optimization of systems engineering, software engineering and information
systems by system dynamics models
•Sustainable financing dynamics in IT projects

DEADLINE: September 30, 2010

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
All submissions should be directed to the attention of:
Guest Editors:

Dr. Peter Otto, ottop at union.edu
Dr. Andrej Skraba, andrej.skraba at fov.uni-mb.si

IJITSA EDITORIAL  BOARD
• Frank Stowell (EiC),  University of Portsmouth, England. •	Manuel Mora
(co EiC),  Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, México. • Amitava
Dutta,  George Mason University, USA. • Denis Edgar-Nevill, Canterbury
Christ Church University, England. • Miroljub Kljajic), University of
Maribor, Slovenia. • Yasmin Merali,  University of Warwick, England. •
James Burns,  Texas Tech University, USA.  • Robert Cloutier, Stevens
Institute of Technology, USA. • Rory O’Connor, Dublin City University,
Ireland.

PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems
Approach (IJITSA) is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.),
publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group
Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference”, “Business Science
Reference”, and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional
information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
IJITSA is also an official publication of the Information Resources
Management Association.
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