[AISWorld] The Systems Approach and IT journal: Call for Papers (Feb.28.2013 next deadline)

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********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *********************

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: February 28, 2013

JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE SYSTEMS APPROACH

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/ijitsa

Editors-in-Chief:
Frank Stowell, Portsmouth University, England
Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico

Published: Semi annual  (both in Print and Electronic form)


Honorary Editorial Board

•	†Russell L. Ackoff, University of Pennsylvania, USA
•	†G. A. Swanson(1939-2009), Tennessee Technological University, USA
•	Bela A. Banathy, Saybrook Institute, USA
•	Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute, USA
•	Ovsei Gelman, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
•	Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico
•	Michael C. Jackson, University of Hull, UK
•	George J. Klir, State University of New York, USA
•	Andrew P. Sage, George Mason University, USA
•	Carlos Scheel, Monterrey Tech, Mexico
•	Barry G. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Associate Editors

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

DESCRIPTION

The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
(IJITSA) is a refereed, international journal on applied and theoretical
research, aimed at providing coverage of the foundations, challenges,
opportunities, problems, trends, and solutions encountered by both
scholars and practitioners in the field of information systems when
applying systems approach. IJITSA emphasizes the systemic worldview of
managerial, organizational and engineering interaction facets provided by
modern complex information systems and information technologies. The
articles published in IJITSA will focus on information systems (IS) and
their interactions with software engineering, systems engineering, complex
systems, and philosophy of systems science issues for a better
understanding and development of the information systems discipline.


MISSION

The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
(IJITSA) is an academic and practitioner journal created 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

INDICES

Bacon's Media Directory; Cabell's Directories; CSA Illumina; DBLP;
GetCited; Google Scholar; INSPEC JournalTOCs; Library & Information
Science Abstracts (LISA); MediaFinder; Norwegian Social Science; Data
Services NSD); SCIRUS; SCOPUS; The Index of Information Systems Journals;
The Standard Periodical Directory; Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.


TOPICS COVERED 



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

All topics are expected to be integrated or discussed under the
perspective of the systems approach with the long-term aim of obtaining a
unified view of information systems. As the systems approach is an
interdisciplinary one, the diverse research methods are considered:
conceptual, formal mathematical, systems simulation (discrete,
multi-agent, or hybrid), systems dynamics, soft systems, action research,
critical systems, and multi-methodology.

SUBMITTING TO IJITSA

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 3 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. For current call for papers, all submissions must be
forwarded electronically to [ijitsa at gmail.com] by ****** NO LATER THAN
[November 30,  2012]. ******

PUBLISHER

The International Journal of Information Technology and the 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.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the
attention of:

Frank Stowell, Portsmouth University, England &
Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico
Editosr-in-Chief
Journal of Information Technology and the Systems Approach
E-mail: [ijitsa at gmail.com]
www.igi-global.com/ijitsa

International Editorial Review Board

Systems Engineering

Delen Dursen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Adir Even, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
John Farr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Moti Frank, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Leonardo Garrido, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Rafael Gonzalez, Universidad Javierana, Colombia
Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA
Walter Huerster, ICT Consultant, Germany
Carlos Legna, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
James Martin, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Jack Ring, INCOSE, USA
Nick Sizemore, INCOSE, USA
Andrej Skraba, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Javier Suárez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Software Engineering

David Bustard, University of Ulster, Ireland
Gavin Finnie, Bond University, Australia
Carina Gonzalez, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA
Kosheek Sewchurran, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Annette Steenkamp, Lawrence Technological University, USA
Frank Tsui, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA

Information Systems

Steven Alter, University of San Francisco, USA
Jeimy Cano, University of the Andes, Colombia
Timo Kakola, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Evangelos Katsamakas, Fordham University Business School, USA
Paul Lewis, University of Lancaster, UK
Neil McBride, De Montfort University, UK
Wullianallur Raghupathi, Fordham University Business School, USA
Rahul Roy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Hans Vanderheijden, University of Surrey, UK

Philosophy and Complex Systems

Rodrigo Cordoba, University of London, UK
James Courtney, Louisiana Tech, USA
Manfred Drack, University of Vienna, Austria
Payam Hanafizadeh, Allameh Tabatabae'i University, Iran
Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Loet Leydesdorff, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, The Netherlands
David Paradice, Florida State University, USA


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