[AISWorld] AMCIS 2011 - CFP: Advanced Analytics Minitrack

[Michael Goul]

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Americas Conference on Information Systems – AMCIS 2011
Detroit, MI
August 4-8, 2011

Call for Papers for the Minitrack -

    Next Generation Data Warehousing:
    Transitioning to the Era of Advanced Analytics


Submission deadline: Thursday, February 17, 2011
Submissions system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011
AMCIS website: http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/
Minitrack website:  http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=207&Itemid=34


Motivation

Organizations are transitioning to the era of BIG DATA - an evolution necessitating new data warehousing approaches to harness the information value of that data.  Many refer to next steps as “Advanced Analytics” that are often categorized as being descriptive, predictive and/or they enable optimization.   This minitrack invites papers that target advanced analytics, examine new data warehousing standards and business issues related to supporting and enabling advanced analytics, and investigate design science improvements to analytics processes, algorithms and methods in light of BIG DATA realities.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

·      Novel applications of advanced analytics
·      Impediments to moving beyond querying, reporting and OLAP cubes
·      Evolutions to scoring and data mining algorithms for BIG DATA using advanced analytics
·      How advanced analytics extend business intelligence
·      In-database/in-memory data warehousing capabilities for advanced analytics
·      MPP Data Warehouses
·      MapReduce/Apache Hadoop
·      Columnar data warehouses
·      New algorithms and methods for advanced analytics in social networking, sentiment analysis, etc.
·      Advanced analytics in the cloud
·      Investment in and ROI for advanced analytics
·      Experimentation and advanced analytics
·      Impact of advanced analytics on global business
·      Supporting business process management with advanced analytics
·      Diffusion and adoption of advanced analytics
·      Advanced analytics for gleaning insights from data streams, text and other unstructured data
·      Visualization for supporting advanced analytics
·      People and culture issues in managing advanced analytics
·      Building advanced analytics capabilities
·      Critical success factors for advanced analytics
·      Theory-based foundations for advanced analytics


Minitrack Chairs

    Sule Balkan (Sule.Balkan at asu.edu)
    Michael Goul (Michael.Goul at asu.edu)
    Department of Information Systems
    W. P. Carey School of Business
    Arizona State University



Michael Goul

Professor and Chair
Department of Information Systems
W. P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
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