[AISWorld] AISWorld Digest, Vol 27, Issue 22

Patricia Rafferty patricia.rafferty at sju.edu
Fri Jan 27 09:00:54 EST 2012


INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH [IJBIR] 

Call for Papers: 
The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, the coverage, and directions for submission to IJBIR. 

Mission: The mission of the journal is to advance research in the field of business intelligence and analytics and to identify ways that BI creates value for organizations. The journal publishes original academic research/case studies, as well as selective thought provoking papers on issues, strategies, practices, techniques, and technologies from both academics and practitioners that advance the understanding and practice of Business Intelligence. The focus of this journal is to identify innovative Business Intelligence strategies and to assess the application of theoretical concepts to real-world situations. IJBIR takes a multidisciplinary approach to the examination of business intelligence. 

Submitting to IJBIR: 
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 2 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to patrica.rafferty at sju.edu. 

Publisher: 
The International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) is published by IGI For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. 

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: 
patricia.rafferty at sju.edu 











Patricia D. Rafferty, Ed.D. 
Erivan K. Haub School of Business 
Saint Joseph's University 

Director 
Master of Science in Business Intelligence Program 
Master of Science in Human Resource Management Program 
Managing Editor 
International Journal of Business Intelligence Research 
http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1168&detailstype=description 



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Today's Topics: 

1. AMCIS, 2012: Spatial BI (GIS) - Is your data location based? 
by Country, State, County? (Daniel Farkas) 
2. CFP: AAAI 2012 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web 
Personalization and Recommendation (ITWP 2012) 
(dietmar.jannach at tu-dortmund.de) 
3. Workshop on Action Design Research (Ola Henfridsson) 
4. CFP: Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) 
(Changchit, Chuleeporn) 
5. CFP IJITSA, a journal focused on the Systems Approach and IT 
(Manuel Mora T.) 
6. Agile 2012: Last Call for Contribution (Xiaofeng.Wang) 
7. Directory of Mobile Business Courses (Viehland, Dennis) 
8. IM Doctoral Program at Maastricht University, The Netherlands 
(Furneaux B (AIM)) 
9. CfP SYSTOR 2012 - International Systems and Storage 
Conference (Barbara Pernici) 
10. Reminder: ECIS 2012 Doctoral Consortium (Brian.Fitzgerald) 
11. DOCTORAL STUDENT IN INFORMATICS,with an information security 
profile,at ?rebro University School of Business, Sweden 
(Karin Hedstr?m) 
12. CISTI'2012 - Last Call for Papers (Alvaro Rocha) 


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Message: 1 
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:11:44 -0500 
From: Daniel Farkas <dfarkas at pace.edu> 
To: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org 
Cc: Daniel J Farkas <dfarkas at pace.edu> 
Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS, 2012: Spatial BI (GIS) - Is your data 
location based? by Country, State, County? 
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*I**s your data location based? *By country, state, county? Consider 
incorporating spatial based BI as part of your research and submit to the 
AMCIS 2012 mini-track on* Spatial Business Intelligence* (GIS). If you 
need to know more or have questions, join us (AIS SIGGIS), email us, or 
join our listserv (blank email; subject *subscribe*; to 
siggis-request at lists.aisnet.org). 


Call for papers: 

** 

*AMCIS 2012 Conference, Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012* 
Minitrack: Spatial Business Intelligence, Decision Making, and Management 

*Minitrack Co-Chairs:James B. Pick, Avijit Sarkar, and Hindupur Ramakrishna 
(University of Redlands); Daniel Farkas (Pace University)* 

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial technologies are growing 
rapidly in business and government. Increasingly these applications 
involve business intelligence (BI). Although there is considerable 
research on GIS technology and geographic information science, there has 
been relatively little research in spatial decision making in business and 
organizations. 

This track seeks manuscripts that address conceptual theory, methodology, 
applications, and cases on these topics. The relevance to research is to 
build up greater knowledge of the geo-spatial aspects of decision-making 
and to develop theory and applications, sometimes building on well-known 
concepts in the DSS field. The mini-track will address the evolving areas 
of GIS, GIScience, and related technologies such as RFID, imagery, and 
sensors, and expanding spatial information. Since this area is rapidly 
growing in business, the mini-track can shed light on a new and evolving 
field. The mini-track findings, results, and discussions will also inform 
the managers, strategic thinkers, and policy makers in many organizations 
that are building, deploying, and managing applications in these areas. 

Potential topics: 

- Spatial business intelligence 
- Spatial decision support systems (SDSSs) 
- Spatial knowledge management 
- Management decision-making using GIS 
- Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery 
- Web-based GIS concepts and applications 
- Mobile-based GIS concepts and applications 
- Methodological papers 
- Theoretical papers 
- Case studies 
- Collaborative spatial decision-based systems 
- Studies of investment in and benefits of GIS, spatial BI, or SDSS 
- Human, organizational, and management factors in spatial systems 
- Quality measures and evaluation of spatial systems 
- Systems and software development of GIS 
- Public domain and open source GIS 
- Crowdsourcing and public domain sources of spatial information 
- Industry trends 
- International aspects of GIS-based decision-making 
- Ethical aspects of spatial decision-making 



DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1, 2012 

Submission information at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org 

Mini-track chair contact for information: 

James B. Pick 

E-mail: james_pick at redlands.edu 

Phone: 909 748-8781 

School of Business, University of Redlands 

Redlands, CA 92373-0999 

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Dan Farkas, PhD 
Chair, Information Technology Department 
Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems 
Pace University 
Pleasantville, NY, 10570 USA 
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:27:43 +0000 
From: <dietmar.jannach at tu-dortmund.de> 
To: <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: AAAI 2012 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques 
for Web Personalization and Recommendation (ITWP 2012) 
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CALL FOR PAPERS 

10th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommendation (ITWP 2012) 

In conjunction with AAAI 2012 
July 22/23, 2012 - Toronto, Canada 

http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/itwp2012/ 

Submission Deadline: April 15, 2012 
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Web Personalization and recommendation systems have been steadily gaining ground as essential components of today's Web based applications, including in e-commerce and customer relationship management, in the delivery of business services, in providing support for Web search and navigation, and in reducing cognitive overload in information rich interactive social Web applications. The proliferation of Web 2.0 applications has allowed users to go beyond simple consumers of information and instead actively participate in shaping collaborative environments in which users, resources, and user-provided content are all networked together. This, in turn has increased the need for more intelligent and personalized services that help users interact with and navigate these complex information spaces. These include a new generation of recommender systems that integrate multiple online channels, are more scalable, are more adaptive, can better handle user interactivity, and are more ade! 
pt at user preference elicitation. To achieve this, such applications must rely on intelligent techniques from AI, machine learning, Web mining, statistics, and user modelling in order to leverage all available data, including the usage and click-stream data (reflecting user behaviour), the content and meta-data associated with resources, semantic domain knowledge, user profile information, and underlying network structures. Efficient and intelligent techniques are needed to mine this data for actionable knowledge, and to effectively use the discovered knowledge to enhance the users' experience. 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners From Web Mining, Web Personalization, Recommender Systems, and User Modeling communities in order to foster an exchange of information and ideas and to facilitate a discussion of current and emerging topics related to the development of intelligent Web personalization and Recommender Systems. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST 

We invite original contributions in a variety of areas related to Web personalization and Recommender Systems: 

* User model representation and preference elicitation: Knowledge acquisition strategies, user context modeling, cross-domain models, privacy, cognitive models for Web navigation, self-adaptation, utility function elicitation from user interaction, user modeling on the Social Web; 

* Architectures, systems and enabling technologies: personalized search, scalability of personalization and recommendation techniques, intelligent browsing and navigation, adaptive hypertext systems, hybrid and conversational recommendation systems, context-awareness, Data/web mining for personalization, Link Analysis and Graph Mining, automated techniques for ontology generation, learning, and acquisition; machine leaning techniques for information extraction, Social Web, and the Semantic Web; 

* User and algorithm centric evaluation methodologies, metrics, and case studies 

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION 

Papers must be formatted according to the AAAI 2012 style guide (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) and submitted electronically as PDF to itwp2012 at ls13.cs.uni-dortmund.de. We solicit long and short papers as well as research demos. Long papers (7 pages) present original research work; short papers (4 pages) report on work in progress or describe demo systems. 

The workshop proceedings will be published as citable AAAI technical report. 

IMPORTANT DATES 

* 15 April: Paper submission deadline 
* 6 May: Author notification 
* 16 May: Camera-ready versions due 
* 22/23 July: Workshop held 

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS 

Dietmar Jannach, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universitat Dortmund, Germany 
E-mail: dietmar.jannach at udo.edu 

Sarabjot Singh Anand, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK 
E-mail: S.S.Anand at warwick.ac.uk 

Bamshad Mobasher, School of Computer Science, DePaul University, Chicago, USA 
E-mail: mobasher at cs.depaul.edu 

Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine, USA 
E-mail: kobsa at uci.edu 



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Message: 3 
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:00:16 +0000 
From: Ola Henfridsson <ola.henfridsson at chalmers.se> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] Workshop on Action Design Research 
Message-ID: <583E20DC-9535-4388-BF63-03D9967AFDCB at chalmers.se> 
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Action Design Research Workshop 

Venue: 
Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland 12-13.3.2012 

Instructors: 
Maung Sein, Ola Henfridsson, Sandeep Purao, Matti Rossi, Rikard Lindgren 

Overview: 
This two-day workshop aims at providing researchers engaging in design research in organizations with hands-on guidance on using Action Design Research (ADR) in their own projects. ADR is recognized as a way of doing constructive research in close co-operation between practitioners and researchers. The method is based on the recognition that IS research always has a dual mission, namely to (a) add to existing theory, and (b) to produce knowledge to support IS practitioners in solving current and anticipated problems. We can achieve this by promoting research, which is based on existing issues in practical settings, aimed at improving the practice and solving problems through employing information systems. 

All authors of the 2011 MIS Quarterly article on "Action Design Research" (Sein et al. 2011) will attend the workshop and will give short presentations on different aspects of ADR. However, the main part of the workshop will be devoted to the cultivation of research ideas and projects of the workshop participants. We will engage in dialogue with the participants and ask people to share their experiences and challenges in using this approach. Participants are required to send in a brief description of the projects they wish to develop and/or discuss at the workshop. 

The workshop will consist of the following parts: 

Part 1: ADR lectures (engaging practitioners, BIE cycles, theorizing etc.) 
Part 2: Workshop and project clinic 
Part 3: Debates and discussions on interweaving research and practice 

Workshop organization: 

Registration for the workshop is free and will include lunches and refreshments. However, space is limited. Interested participants should contact Matti Rossi (matti.rossi at aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi at aalto.fi>) for more information. 


Suggested reading: 

Sein, M.K., O. Henfridsson, S. Purao, M. Rossi, R. Lindgren. 2011. Action Design Research. MIS Quarterly 35(1) 37-56. 
http://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol35/iss1/5/ 

All the best, 
Ola 

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Ola Henfridsson, PhD 
Professor 
Deputy Head of Department 
Department of Applied Information Technology 
Chalmers University of Technology 
& 
Adjunct Professor 
University of Oslo 
Tel: +46703779729 
http//:www.olahenfridsson.com<http://www.olahenfridsson.com/> 



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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:49 +0000 
From: "Changchit, Chuleeporn" <Chuleeporn.Changchit at tamucc.edu> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Journal of Information Privacy and Security 
(JIPS) 
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Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) 
http://jips.cob.tamucc.edu/ 

CALL FOR PAPERS: 

Editor-in-Chief: Chuleeporn Changchit, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi 

Mission 
The mission of the Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) is to serve both academics and practitioners as a reliable source on issues of information privacy and security.? The Journal is a high quality refereed journal that seeks support from academicians, industry experts and specific government agencies. The JIPS focuses on publishing articles that address the paradoxical nature of privacy versus security amidst current global conditions. It is increasingly important that various constituents of information begin to understand their role in finding solutions to achieve a delicate balance between security and privacy. 

The JIPS will facilitate understanding of the information assurance technical framework as it pertains to government agencies, companies and individuals. The topics may include the information privacy and security issues pertaining to initiatives on counter-terrorism efforts around the world, the impact of U.S. federal regulation and compliance issues facing global corporations, the impact of privacy and security initiatives within small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and e-gambling. 

Article submissions are encouraged from both academics and practitioners. Each issue will include high quality articles from academics and practitioners, case studies, book reviews, and industry interviews. The Journal addresses issues of privacy and security from a global perspective and will consider articles with a cross-functional focus. The Journal will include articles in the following areas: 

- Information Assurance frameworks 
- Network security and impact on corporate infrastructure 
- Privacy laws and impact on information compliance issues 
- The duality of privacy and security and impact on corporate operations 
- Governmental regulations and changes on information security requirements 
- Data transfer issues across nations, states, and corporations 
- Privacy and security requirements in B2B and B2C information flows 
- Cross-functional aspects of information assurance and requirements faced by various business functions within companies 
- Web sites, portals and the issue of trust 
- Information privacy and security as it relates to end-users 
- Applications and case studies in privacy and security issues facing business organizations, government agencies and individuals 
- Emerging topics such as biometrics, software utilities, and IT obligations and how they change the business environment 

Review Process 
Each article will be blind-reviewed by three members of the editorial review board. Reviewer recommendation will be considered by the Editor-in-Chief or an Associate Editor. For a revision and rewrite, a revised paper will be sent to one of the Editors for final approval. The final decision will be made by the Editor-in-Chief. 

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at http://jips.cob.tamucc.edu/submission.htm 

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: 
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Chuleeporn Changchit at chuleeporn.changchit at tamucc.edu 


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Chuleeporn Changchit, Ph. D.??????? Phone:? (361) 825-5832 
Professor of MIS ?????????????????? Fax:??? (361) 825-5609 
Room 322 OCNR Bldg.???? ?? ???????? E-mail: chuleeporn.changchit at tamucc.edu 
College of Business, Unit 5808 
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi 
6300 Ocean Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78412 

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) 
http://jips.cob.tamucc.edu 
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Chuleeporn Changchit, Ph. D. Phone: (361) 825-5832 
Professor of MIS Fax: (361) 825-5609 
Room 322 OCNR Bldg. E-mail: chuleeporn.changchit at tamucc.edu 
College of Business, Unit 5808 
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi 
6300 Ocean Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78412 

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) 
http://jips.cob.tamucc.edu 
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Message: 5 
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:29:36 -0600 (CST) 
From: "Manuel Mora T." <mmora at securenym.net> 
To: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org 
Subject: [AISWorld] CFP IJITSA, a journal focused on the Systems 
Approach and IT 
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********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************** 
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 31, 2012 
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International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach 
(IJITSA)(an official publication of the Information Resources Management 
Association). IJITSA Website: www.igi-global.com/ijitsa 
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MISSION OF IJITSA 
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible 
publication in the International Journal of Information Technologies and 
Systems Approach. The primary objective of IJITSA is to disseminate and 
discuss high quality research results on information systems and related 
upper and lower level systems as well as on its interactions with software 
engineering, systems engineering, complex systems and philosophy of 
systems sciences issues, through rigorous theoretical, modeling, 
engineering or behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain, 
predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop 
organizational systems where information systems are the main objects of 
study and the systems approach ? any variant ?is the main research method 
and philosophical stance used. 
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MAIN TOPICS: 
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) 
the following: 

? Systemic studies on the diverse types of IS (TPS, MIS, OAS, DMSS, KBS, 
KMS, IS, ERP, EIS, IOS, BPIS, among others) 
? Systemic studies on the diverse types of IT organizational settings 
(personal computing, home-based computing, end-user computing, office 
computing, corporative computing, inter-organizational computing) 
? IT-based system systemic design methodologies 
? IT-based system systemic evaluation methodologies 
? IT-based system systemic implementation methodologies 
? Systemic evaluation and review of IT (technologies, tools, technological 
trends) 
? International standards and models for IT-based systems and its 
relations with systems approach 
? Systemic innovative IT-based systems studies addressing real problems 
? Challenges and ill-structured worldwide problems linked to IT-based 
systems from a systems approach view (green IT, national security, human 
rights, global education, mobile education, global economy, interaction 
between developed and developing organizations, e-digital gap, service 
systems, cultural differences, among others) 
? Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for engineering issues for 
IT-based systems 
? Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for managerial issues for 
IT-based systems 
? Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for organizational issues for 
IT-based systems 
? Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and 
software-systems engineering 
? Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and 
complex systems 
? Systems methodologies for basic and applied research 
? Systems methodologies for consulting activities 
? IT curriculum systemic studies on undergraduate and graduate programs 
? IT systemic studies on accreditation undergraduate and graduate programs 
? IT systemic studies on Faculty issues (tenure promotions, profile of 
PhDs, types of institutions (research-oriented vs teaching-oriented ones) 
? Multi-method systemic research methods to study IT-based systems 
? Debates on research methods and systems approach for IT-based systems 
? Philosophical themes related with research methods and systems science 
for IT-based systems 
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SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: 
Interested authors please send your article to [ijitsa at gmail.com] in two 
files: cover page file with full author's affiliation data, and full 
article file without author's data. All article submissions will managed 
by the Associate Editor most adequate by the article's topic among 
Information Technology Systems, Software Systems Engineering, Systems 
Engineering or Philosophy of Systems Science areas. The article will be 
reviewed by three members of the ERB through a double-blind peer review 
process. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be 
based on the reviews received from the reviewers. 
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IJITSA CORE EDITORIAL TEAM 

Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, UK 
Manuel Mora, Universidad Aut?noma de Aguascalientes, Mexico 
David Brown, University of Lancaster, UK 
Robert Cloutier, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA 
Philip Dobson, Edith Cowan University, Australia 
Denis Edgar-Nevill, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK 
Miroljub Kljajic, University of Maribor, Slovenia 
Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland 

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PUBLISHER: 
The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach 
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. 
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Message: 6 
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:17:13 -0000 
From: "Xiaofeng.Wang" <Xiaofeng.Wang at lero.ie> 
To: <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] Agile 2012: Last Call for Contribution 
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<8505DC2F80317C4C9A7BF4B69F751317014B2355 at staffexchange5.ul.campus> 
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Agile 2012 ? Research in Practice 
http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/ 
August 13-17, 2012, Dallas, Texas 

Agile annual conference is widely regarded as the premier international event on agile software development. The Research in Practice stage of the Agile Conference aims at bridging the gap between research and practice. It will provide a primary forum for contemporary research into the effectiveness of methods, process, techniques and tools as well as examine emerging issues and trends in agile and lean development. The Research in Practice stage focuses on bringing the results of rigorous scientific research on agile software development to practitioners and researchers. We invite researchers to contribute to this stage with case studies, action research studies, experiments, surveys and literature reviews with focus on practical implications. The topics include but are not limited to: 

- Agile and Lean Adoption & Transformation 
- Large-Scale & Distributed Agile Development 
- Agile Testing & Quality Assurance 
- Agile for Embedded Systems Development 
- Agile Coaching & Mentoring 
- Agile Project Management 
- User Experience and Interaction Design 
- Collaboration and Co-development with customer 
- Agile Leadership 
- Agile Software Development and Cloud Computing 
- Agile Software Innovation 
- Application of Lean Thinking 
- Lean Tools and Practices 
- Lean Principles from Manufacturing and other disciplines 
- Kanban-based Software Development 
- Lean startup 
- Theoretical Foundations of Agile and Lean 

Types of Contribution 
We invite two types of submissions: 
Complete research papers: papers that report on original, finished research, with implications for both theory and practice. Motivation for research and discussion of the related work must be included, as well as a description of the research method applied, e.g. case studies, action research, empirical experiments. Papers are limited to 10 pages. 
Research in progress papers: papers that describe new research directions, synergies with other disciplines or results not mature enough to be full papers. These ideas will be further developed with feedback actively sought from the practitioner community. This will provide a great opportunity to develop your ideas with others. Papers are limited to 4 pages. 

Submission 
Papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, by two reviewers selected from the program committee. Both complete research papers and research in progress papers will be published in the electronic proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore. Authors should follow the IEEE Proceedings format when preparing their manuscripts (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Author information should be removed from submissions. Submissions should be in PDF format. 
Papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agile2012 

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete a copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready version. At least one author of each paper is expected to register and present the results at Agile 2012. 

Best paper award and journal special issue 
A best paper award will be given to one high-quality regular research paper chosen by the conference organising committee. We also intend to invite authors of the best paper and other high-quality papers to send a revised and extended version to a leading journal. A separate call for papers will be announced with instructions on direct submission, but we encourage authors to submit to the conference to receive more feedback. 

Important dates: 
- Submission deadline: 19 February 2012 
- Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2012 
- Camera-ready version due: 5 April 2012 

Research in Practice Stage Co-Producers 
Kieran Conboy, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 

Program Committee 
Pekka Abrahamsson, University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Silvia Acu?a, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain 
Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark 
Torgeir Dings?yr, SINTEF, Norway 
Tore Dyb?, SINTEF, Norway 
Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid, Spain 
Xiaocheng Ge, University of York, UK 
Rashina Hoda, University of Auckland, New Zealand 
Johanna Hunt, University of Sussex, UK 
Juhani Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland 
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada 
Kim Man Lui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 
Michele Marchesi, University of Cagliari, Italy 
Angela Martin, University of Waikato, New Zealand 
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada 
Nils Brede Moe, SINTEF, Norway 
Maurizio Morisio, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 
Sridhar Nerur, University of Texas at Arlington, USA 
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 
Bala Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA 
Carolyn Seaman, University of Maryland, USA 
Kurt Schneider, Leibniz Universit?t Hannover, Germany 
Bj?rnar Tessem, University of Bergen, Norway 
Richard Vidgen, University of Hull, UK 
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria 
Agust?n Yag?e, Technical Universify of Madrid, Spain 

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For more information, please contact the Research in Practice producers at xiaofeng.wang at unibz.it and k.conboy at unsw.edu.au. 
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:39:03 +1300 
From: "Viehland, Dennis" <D.Viehland at massey.ac.nz> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] Directory of Mobile Business Courses 
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Dear colleagues, 

In early November I asked members of the AISWorld mailing list to notify me if you are teaching a mobile business course (original email below). From that and other efforts I identified 18 mobile business courses in 13 institutions and I collected basic data about the courses including description, learning objectives and topics. This information has now been collected into a "Directory of Mobile Business Courses" which is available from http://www.massey.ac.nz/~dviehlan/mobile_business_course_directory.pdf 

As I say in the introduction.... I am a passionate believer in the value a course in mobile business offers to students and instructors. I welcome your questions, comments and suggestions for advancing this area of study. 

Dennis Viehland 
Associate Professor, Information Systems 
Massey University 
Auckland, New Zealand 
d.viehland at massey.ac.nz 


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From: Viehland, Dennis 
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:58 AM 
To: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org 
Subject: Survey of Mobile Business Courses 

Do you teach a Mobile Business course? 
Do you know someone who does? 
Are you a mobile business researcher? 

If so, I want to hear from you. 

A 2009 I asked members of the AISWorld mailing list to notify me if you are teaching a Mobile Business course. Respondents to that request know that I am updating the information I gathered at that time. 

This is a general call to the entire AIS community to identify any Mobile Business courses that have been introduced in the last few years or missed out on the 2009 survey. 

For purposes of this survey, I am defining Mobile Business broadly -- including a variety of mobile devices, services, applications and technologies. I am interested in both technological and managerial perspectives to teaching Mobile Business. Only strictly technical courses that might be offered in Engineering or Computer Science departments are excluded from my definition. 

(1) If you teach a course in Mobile Business, please send me (d.viehland at massey.ac.nz) basic information you have about the course (e.g., a syllabus, course description on the Web). 

(2) If you do not teach a course in Mobile Business, but know a colleague who does, please forward this message to him/her. 

(3) If you have a strong interest in Mobile Business, your interest and insight would be useful for a prospective research project. Please contact me if you are keen to participate in a general survey of what should be taught in a Mobile Business course. 

I will, of course, summarise the responses as best I can and post them back to AISWorld. 

Thanks for your contribution. 

Dennis 

Dennis Viehland 
Associate Professor, Information Systems 
Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand 
Visiting Professor, Information Systems 
Union Graduate College, Schenectady, New York 
d.viehland at massey.ac.nz 




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Message: 8 
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:23:25 +0100 
From: "Furneaux B (AIM)" <b.furneaux at maastrichtuniversity.nl> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] IM Doctoral Program at Maastricht University, The 
Netherlands 
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We are currently seeking individuals interested in pursuing doctoral studies in Information Management at Maastricht University starting in the fall of 2012. Located in the south of The Netherlands, the city of Maastricht lies in close proximity to a number of important European business and government centers thus providing a unique context in which to research and learn. The Information Management group itself is part of the Department of Accounting and Information Management and it is based within the university?s School of Business and Economics. As such, the available opportunity is particularly well-suited to individuals interested in pursuing research related to organizational level information management issues as well as research that might fall at the intersection between accounting and information management. 

PhD student positions are funded for a period of four years and are open to students with strong interests in both research and teaching. The program consists of two years of course work followed by the pursuit of high quality, independent research. Interested candidates are invited to send a motivational essay, a current CV, copies of transcripts, and GRE/GMAT scores (if available) to Brent Furneaux (b.furneaux at maastrichtuniversity.nl <mailto:b.furneaux at maastrichtuniversity.nl> ). General information concerning the university and our programs is also available at our website (http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/Faculties/SBE.htm). 

Brent Furneaux 
Assistant Professor 
Accounting and Information Management 
Maastricht University 
School of Business and Economics 
b.furneaux at maastrichtuniversity.nl <mailto:b.furneaux at maastrichtuniversity.nl> 
+31 43 38 83552 
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Message: 9 
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:32:21 +0100 
From: "Barbara Pernici" <barbara.pernici at polimi.it> 
To: AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org 
Subject: [AISWorld] CfP SYSTOR 2012 - International Systems and 
Storage Conference 
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SYSTOR 2012 - CFP - http://systor.org/2012 
In cooperation with ACM (pending), IEEE, and USENIX 

On behalf of the 2012 Annual International Systems and 
Storage 
Conference (SYSTOR 2012), we invite you to submit original 
and innovative papers. The conference will take place in 
June 4-6, 2012 Haifa, Israel; it is held in cooperation 
with ACM (pending), IEEE, and USENIX. 

SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and 
practical computer systems research encompassing the 
following topics: 

* operating systems, computer architecture, and their 
interaction 
* distributed, parallel, and cloud systems 
* networking, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and 
sensor systems 
* runtime systems, compilers, and programming languages 
* energy/power management 
* file and storage systems 
* security, privacy, and trust 
* virtualization 
* embedded and realtime systems 
* fault tolerance, reliability, and availability 
* deployment, usage, and experience 
* performance evaluation and workload characterization 

SYSTOR attempts to combine high-quality international 
systems research 
of practical nature with interactions between the relevant 
industry 
and academia communities. We therefore solicit paper 
submissions in 
four separate tracks: 

* full research papers 
* short research papers 
* highlight papers (a small number of exciting research 
results 
accepted to a recent top-tier systems conference or 
journal; 
accepted submissions will not be published in the 
proceedings) 
* industry papers (describing the technologies behind 
real systems or 
products and the; authors of accepted paper decide 
if they 
would be included in the conference proceedings) 

Proceedings including all (non-highlight) accepted papers 
will be 
published by ACM. See more details at the conference web 
site 
[http://systor.org/2012]. SYSTOR 2012 will host 
distinguished keynote 
speakers, a posters session, and several social events at 
the 
conference. 


IMPORTANT DATES: 

Paper submission: Feb 13, 2012 (11:59pm GMT) 
Paper notification: Mar 26, 2012 (11:59pm GMT) 
Camera-ready: Apr 14, 2012 (11:59pm GMT) 

Highlights submission: Mar 12, 2012 (11:59pm GMT) 
Highlights notification: Mar 26, 2012 (11:59pm GMT) 

Poster submission: Apr 30, 2012 (11:59pm GMT) 
Poster notification: May 07, 2012 (11:59pm GMT) 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS 

Dan Tsafrir, Technion 
Erez Zadok, Stony Brook U. 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Irfan Ahmad, CloudPhysics 
Jonathan Appavoo, Boston U. 
Yariv Aridor, Intel 
Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion U. 
Mary Baker, HP Labs 
Emery Berger, UMass Amherst 
Tsahi Birk, Technion 
Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research 
Andre Brinkmann, JGU Mainz 
Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins U. 
Dilma Da Silva, IBM Watson 
Eyal DeLara, U. of Toronto 
Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern U. 
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U. 
Matan Erez, UT Austin 
Yoav Etsion, BSC 
Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden 
Roy Fridman, Technion 
Tal Garfinkel, VMware 
Sharon Goldberg, Boston U. 
Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich 
Maurice Herlihy, Brown U. 
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM India 
Gokul Kandiraju, IBM Watson 
Alexander Kipp, U. of Stuttgart 
Avi Mendelson, Microsoft 
Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz 
Alan Mislove, Northeastern U. 
Gilles Muller, Inria 
Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo 
Yale Patt, UT Austin 
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano 
Donald Porter, Stony Brook U. 
Raju Rangaswami, Florida Int'l U. 
Luis Rodrigues, IST/INESC-ID 
Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt 
Sivan Toledo, Tel-Aviv U. 
Eran Tromer, Tel-Aviv U. 
Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich 
Andy Wang, Florida State U. 
Ric Wheeler, Redhat 
Eran Yahav, Technion 
Yuanyuan Zhou, UC San Diego 



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Message: 10 
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:55:04 -0000 
From: "Brian.Fitzgerald" <Brian.Fitzgerald at ul.ie> 
To: <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] Reminder: ECIS 2012 Doctoral Consortium 
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Nominations are sought for the ECIS 2012 Doctoral Consortium which will take place in Barcelona on 8-10 June 2012 immediately prior to the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). 



The deadline for nominations is January 31st 2012. 



Eligible candidates should be currently enrolled in a University within AIS Area 2 (Europe, Africa and the Middle East). To get as much as possible out of the consortium, candidates should have successfully defended their thesis proposals before June 2012. Students who will have completed their dissertations by June 2012 or are close to completing will not be considered. 



Participating faculty include: 



P?r ?gerfalk (Co-Chair), Uppsala University, Sweden 

Brian Fitzgerald (Co-Chair), University of Limerick, Ireland 

Joan Rodon M?dol (Local Organizer), ESADE Business School, Spain 



Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland, US 

Michel Avital, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, US 

Alan Hevner, University of South Florida, US 

Michael Myers, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand 

Briony Oates, Teesside University, UK 

Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden 



Details of the consortium and nomination process are available at 

http://www.ecis2012.eu/doctoral-consortium/ 





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Prof Brian Fitzgerald, PhD, FICS, FBCS, CEng 

Frederick Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business and Technology 

Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre 

University of Limerick 

http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/BF/ 



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Message: 11 
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:40:35 +0100 
From: Karin Hedstr?m <karin.hedstrom at oru.se> 
To: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org 
Subject: [AISWorld] DOCTORAL STUDENT IN INFORMATICS,with an 
information security profile,at ?rebro University School of Business, 
Sweden 
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DOCTORAL STUDENT IN INFORMATICS 
with an information security profile 
at ?rebro University School of Business, Sweden 
ref. no. CFP 204-232/2011 

We are seeking a doctoral student to join our research study programme 
in informatics, starting in the spring of 2012. 

The Informatics department at ?rebro University offers two undergraduate 
programmes, the Programme of Systems Analysis and the Programme of 
Systems Development, as well as the international master?s programme 
Electronic Government. In addition, we offer a number of single courses 
and various contract courses. The research carried out within the 
department is mainly geared towards information security, electronic 
government, system development methodology, as well as IT and learning. 
In addition to extensive international collaboration, the department is 
represented within two research schools at ?rebro University: 
Technology-Mediated Knowledge Processes and ?rebro Research School on 
Public Affairs. We are now seeking a doctoral student within the field 
of information security with the purpose of elaborating the existing 
cooperation between informatics and the computer engineering department 
(Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems), also at ?rebro University. 

As a doctoral student you will study the use of sensor technology and 
intelligent systems for the monitoring of the elderly in their home 
environments from an information security perspective. The aim is to 
contribute to the development of secure sensor technology and secure 
intelligent systems that also respect privacy. In this context, secure 
refers to such use of sensor technology and intelligent systems that 
safeguards the information collected as confidential, not subject to 
modification, and accessible. With privacy being a much debated concept, 
there lays a great challenge in balancing privacy together with other 
important values, such as accessible information. The research project 
will in part include data collection in Swedish. 

Information on the Internet 
Information on admission regulations, the application form, the general 
syllabus for the subject, a student handbook, and other information can 
be found at ?rebro University?s homepage: 
www.oru.se/Utbildning/Utbildning-pa-forskarniva/Regler-och-blanketter. 

The programme 
The opening is for research studies concluding with a doctoral degree. 
The programme comprises 240 credits, which corresponds to four years of 
full-time study. 

Information on the programme can be found in the general syllabus for 
informatics as well as in the handbook for research studies at ?rebro 
University, Regelhandboken. 

Entry requirements and selection 
For admission to research studies, applicants are required to meet the 
general and specific entry requirements. In addition, they must be 
considered in other respects to have the ability required to benefit 
from the programme. For information on the full entry requirements, 
please refer to the Admission Regulations and appendix 2 to the general 
syllabus for informatics. 

General entry requirements 
Alt A. The general entry requirements are met if the applicant, before 1 
July 2007, has completed an undergraduate programme of at least 120 
credits under the previous Swedish credit system (corresponding to three 
years of full-time study). 

Alt B. The general entry requirements are also met by applicants who 
1. have been awarded a second-cycle qualification (master?s level), 
2. have satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 
credits (four years), of which at least 60 credits (one year) was 
awarded on the second cycle, or 
3. have acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in 
Sweden or abroad. 
An applicant with a completed programme or obtained qualification from 
Swedish undergraduate higher education under the previous system 
corresponding to the entry requirements in items B1 and B2 also meet the 
general entry requirements. The university may permit exemptions from 
the criteria B1-B3 for an individual applicant, if there are special 
grounds. 

Specific entry requirements 
An applicant meets the specific entry requirements for research studies 
in the subject if he or she as part of her university qualifications has 
passed courses of at least 90 credits, including an independent project 
at the advanced course level/60 credit level in informatics. An 
applicant who has acquired substantially corresponding knowledge, in 
Sweden or abroad, also meet the specific entry requirements. 

An applicant with a completed programme or obtained qualification from 
Swedish undergraduate higher education under the previous system 
corresponding to the entry requirements in the previous paragraph also 
meets the entry requirements. This primarily refers to passed courses of 
at least 60 credits (including an independent project on the advanced 
course level/60 credit level) in informatics. 

The assessment whether the applicant in other respects has such ability 
to benefit from the programme shall be made based on his/her education 
and other previous activities, as well as on the essays and other 
independent projects of a scholarly nature that have been submitted by 
the applicant. 

In selecting between eligible applicants, their ability to benefit from 
the programme shall be taken into account and the selection is made 
based on the university?s selection criteria, see appendix 2 to the 
general syllabus for informatics. If applicants are found to have equal 
qualifications, preference will be given to applicants of the 
underrepresented sex. The underrepresented sex here refers to when the 
share of either female or male students enrolled on the research study 
programme in question is less than 40 per cent. 

Doctoral grant 
Student finance is linked to the place on the programme in the form of a 
government-funded doctoral grant. A combination of the doctoral grant 
and a part-time assistant appointment, within which the doctoral student 
to a limited extent would work in teaching, research or administration, 
may come into question. The hours spent on such duties will in that case 
be added to the length of the four-year study programme. A student in 
receipt of a doctoral grant shall, on application, be appointed to a 
doctoral studentship no later than on the date on which, according to 
the individual study plan, the equivalent of two years of full-time 
study remains until the award of the PhD. 

Contact 
For more information and further details of the programme, please 
contact Fredrik Karlsson (Informatics) +46 (0)19-30 39 94 alt. +46 
(0)70-533 94 27 or Amy Loutfi (Computer Engineering) +46 (0)19-30 11 16. 

Trade union representatives are: Owe L Johansson (SACO), Robert Persson 
(OFR) and Odd Johansson (SEKO). They can all be reached via the 
switchboard, +46 (0)19-30 30 00. 

Application 
To apply for the programme, please use the application form. The 
application form also contains instructions on any enclosures required. 

Application for a doctoral grant 
The doctoral grant must be applied for using a separate form, see 
doctoral grant application form. 

Your application, marked with ref. no. CFP 204-232/2011, shall be 
submitted no later than 10 February 2012. Please enclose all documents 
supporting your application as instructed on the application form. Send 
the application (in three sets of copies) to ?rebro University, Records 
Office, SE-701 82 ?rebro, Sweden. 




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Message: 12 
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:13:14 +0000 
From: "Alvaro Rocha" <amrocha at ufp.edu.pt> 
To: AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org 
Subject: [AISWorld] CISTI'2012 - Last Call for Papers 
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*************************** CISTI'2012 **************************** 
7th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies 
June 20-23, 2012, Madrid, Spain 
http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2012/index.php?lang=en 
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CALL FOR PAPERS 

We are pleased to invite the academic and business community to submit their papers to CISTI'2012 (7th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies), to be held in Madrid, Spain, between the 20th and 23rd of June 2012. Authors are encouraged to submit original scientific contributions such as state-of-art reviews and new research perspectives, groundbreaking ideas and/or architectures, solutions and/or applications for real problems, empirical and/or evaluation works, case studies, etc., in conformity with the themes of this Conference. 

Four types of papers can be submitted: 

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned to a 6-page limit. 

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, opened to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit. 

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, opened to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 2-page limit. 

Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R&D, tools, etc., focused in some topics of the conference. These articles are abstracts with a maximum of 1 page. 

Papers submitted for the Scientific Committee�s evaluation must not include any information leading to the authors� identification. Therefore, the authors� names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the early version. This information should only be included in the final version. 

Submitted papers must not have been published and must not be under review for any other conference and national or international publication. 

Papers must comply with the format standard (http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2012/papersformat.dot) and be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. 

All papers will be subjected to a �blind review� by at least two members of the Scientific Committee. 

Full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the proceedings publication. 

The authors of accepted poster papers must build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5-minute limit per poster. 

The authors of accepted full papers will dispose of a 15-minute presentation in the Conference Work Session, and approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will dispose of an 11-minute presentation in the Conference Work Session, and approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. 



THEMES 

Submitted papers must follow the main themes proposed for the Conference (the topics proposed in each theme constitute a mere framework reference; they are not intended as restrictive): 

A) OMIS - Organizational Models and Information Systems 

B) KMDSS - Knowledge Management and Decision Support Systems 

C) SSAAT - Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools 

D) CNMPS - Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems 

E) HCC - Human Centered Computing 

F) HIS - Health Informatics 

G) ITE - Information Technologies in Education 


PUBLICATION AND INDEXING 

To ensure that the contribution (full paper, short paper, poster paper, company paper) is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered until the 13th of April, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and the page-limit. Additionally, all recommended modifications must be addressed by the authors before they submit the final version. 

No more than two contributions per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for each additional paper submitted for publication, with a maximum of two additional papers. 

Published full papers will be sent to ISI, IEEE�s XPlore, EI and EBSCO. In previous editions resulted in indexation by ISI, SCOPUS, EBSCO and INSPEC. Published short papers will be sent to IEEE�s XPlore, EI and to EBSCO. In previous editions resulted in indexation by SCOPUS, EBSCO and INSPEC. Poster papers will be sent to EBSCO only, where they will subsequently be indexed. Company papers will not be sent for indexing. 

The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to expand them for publication in a special issue of REICIS (Spanish Journal of Innovation, Quality and Software Engineering), in IEEE�s book TICAI (ICTs Applied to Engineering Learning), in RISTI Journal (Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies) and other interested Iberian publications. 


CISTI'2012 Website: http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2012/index.php?lang=en 


Regards, 

�lvaro Rocha 
University Fernando Pessoa, Porto 
http://www.ufp.pt 





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