[AISWorld] Call for Papers: ICMB 2013 - 12th International Conference On Mobile Business

[Jan Ondrus]

CALL FOR PAPERS

12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE BUSINESS (ICMB 2013)

Berlin, 10-13 June 2013
www.mbusiness2013.org

DATES

Paper Submission :      February 11, 2013
(PhD colloquium submissions: March 11, 2013 - separate call follows)
Notification:           April 15, 2013
Camera-Ready:   May 10, 2013
Conference:             June 10-13, 2013


CONFERENCE

Mobile business changed a lot in the last twelve years, rising from a
niche topic - all the way along the Gartner hype cycle - to one of the
mostrelevant issues for many of today's businesses and researchers.
Mobility changes users' daily lives in its private as well as in its
professionalpart. Mobile business created own ecosystems, constantly
changes them andeven begins to change existing ecosystems in the real
world, redistributingmarket power in consumer-oriented industries and
revolutionizing businessprocesses in all industries that include
mobility aspects or mobile workers.In the future, we will see mobility
as the invisible norm.Founded in 2002 in Athens, ICMB developed to the
major internationalresearch conference on mobility and mobile
business. It included scenes suchas New York, Sydney and Dalian. The
2013 edition will take place in Berlin,Germany, from 10-13 June 2013
and will be hosted by the wi-mobile ResearchGroup of the University of
Augsburg, together with the SIG Mobility andMobile IS of the German
Informatics Society (GI). The conference is aimed ataddressing a key
theme on „Mobility — the invisible norm“.The core of ICMB 2013 is a
two-day academic conference program. Acceptanceof submitted papers
will be based on quality, relevance and originality.Further ICMB 2013
events will include a workshop program, a doctoralconsortium with
renowned scholars and industry visits in Berlin. ICMB 2013will be
co-located with MMS 2013, the national conference on Mobility
andMobile IS of the German Informatics Society.Since this year, ICMB
2013 is an AIS-affiliated conference. Proceedings ofICMB 2013 will be
made available on AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). Therewill be a
journal special issue for outstanding papers, negotiations
areunderway.

TOPICS

ICMB addresses all aspects of mobility and mobile information systems,
fromtheory building, business models and user acceptance to the
variousapplication areas, systems design and rather technical aspects.
Topicsinclude, but are not limited to:

B2C SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
- mobile financial services (mobile payment, mobile banking)
- m-ticketing, m-parking, m-commerce
- mobile marketing, advertising, loyalty and couponing
- mobile social networks and media
- all other B2C application areas of m-services and apps

PUBLIC SERVICES AND MOBILE BUSINESS
- m-government, m-health, m-learning

MOBILE MARKETS AND ECOSYSTEMS
- value networks, enablers and impediments
- changes in real-world markets and ecosystems
- future revenue streams and new business models

MOBILES FOR DEVELOPMENT (M4D)
- social implications of mobile communications
- m-health and m-learning in developing countries
- mobile communication for political participation
- economic development of poor countries
- economic impact of mobile technologies
- increasing transparency and fighting corruption

LEGAL, SOCIETAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS
- regulatory issues, legislation, consumer protection
- social implications of mobile communications
- privacy and trust
- m-democracy

THEORY DEVELOPMENT FOR MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- User behavior, inference or prediction of activities, design and
application of mobile information
systems, aspects of pervasiveness and all other relevant areas

ANALYSIS OF MOBILE PHONE DATASETS AND NETWORKS
- adoption of technologies by different user groups
- behavior analysis in mobile social networks
- wireless contacts and community structures
- mobility, data mining and privacy
- analysis of individual mobility and usage patterns
- location-based use of mobile data services
- communication and information flows in social communities

B2B SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
- mobile enterprise applications, mobile ERP
- mobile-integrated business processes

MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES
- potential and future impact of mobile and ubiquitous technologies
- integration and usability of contactless technologies (e.g., RFID, NFC)
- next Generation Network standards

PLATFORMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
- management of mobile networks
- ad hoc and sensor networks
- IP Multimedia subsystems (IMS)
- networks convergence and integration
- mobile security


COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIR
Key Pousttchi, University of Augsburg, Germany

PROGRAM CHAIR
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Jan Ondrus, ESSEC Business School, France

RESEARCH TRACK CHAIRS
Stuart Barnes, Norwich Business School, UK
Elizabeth Fife, University of Southern California, USA
George Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Marlene Holmner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Junichi Iijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Neels Kruger, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ibrahim Kushuchu, M-Government Consortium, UK
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Saonee Sarker, Washington State University, USA
Detlef Schoder, University of Cologne, Germany
Eusebio Scornavacca, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ravi Sharma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chuan-Hoo Tan, City University Hongkong, China
Frédéric Thiesse, University of Würzburg, Germany
David Tilson, University of Rochester, USA
Samuel Fosso Wamba, University of Wollongong, Australia

PHD CONSORTIUM CHAIR
Markus Bick, ESCP Europe Berlin, Germany

ORGANIZING CHAIR
Laura Becker, University of Augsburg, Germany


SUBMISSIONS

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Further
information can be obtained through the website
http://www.mbusiness2013.org. ICMB 2013 is an AIS-affiliated
conference. Proceedings of ICMB 2013 will be made available on AIS
Electronic Library (AISeL). There will be a high-quality journal
special issue for outstanding papers, negotiations are underway.