[AISWorld] AMCIS '14 CFP: Cloud Operations and Very Large Business Applications (VLBA)

[Holger Schrödl]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems
Savannah, Georgia, August 07-10, 2014
Track: Enterprise systems (SIGEntSys)
Minitrack: Cloud Operations and Very Large Business Applications (VLBA)

Instructions for authors at: AMCIS website(http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/)
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DESCRIPTION

Emerging technologies like mash-ups, web 2.0 and cloud computing on
the one side and the increasing agility of business models on the
other side raises the question how Enterprise Systems will look like
in the future. Therefore, we see a new class of Enterprise Systems
which address the need for more agility in the entire value chain with
a loosely coupled system of distinct elements, orchestrated to a
highly integrated, complex Information System (Very Large Business
Applications, VLBA).

VLBA act as enabler for intra- and interorganisational business
processes and play a significant role in the development of new
business models. This Mini-Track aims at studying, grounding, and
finally exploiting the potential of VLBA to solve integration and
coordination problems in distributed business processes as a key
enabler of flexible boundaryless information systems.


Key research questions are:

-    how to represent VLBA in service-based information systems by
employing and adapting constructs, models, and methods of different
information systems technology stacks,

-    how to coordinate software services by employing and adapting
approaches for service discovery and composition,

-    how to operate large-scale, highly distributed enterprise systems
and cloud-based systems aligned with the needs of an agile business
environment,

-    how to negotiate and agree upon the delivery of software-based
services (SLA),

-    how to control the delivery of software-based services in VLBA by
measuring efficiency and effectiveness?


This minitrack is continuing the successful start of the scientific
discuss on the topic of VLBA in an international perspective from
AMCIS 2012 and AMCIS 2013.


SUGGESTED TOPICS

Topics relevant for this mini-track include, but are not limited to,
the following:

-    Cloud Computing and VLBA
-    Cloud Computing Operations
-    VLBA Operations Management
-    Strategic, tactic and operative Systems Landscape Engineering
-    VLBA Business Simulations
-    VLBA Business Models
-    Analytical Business Process Engineering for VLBA
-    VLBA and Knowledge Management
-    VLBA security issues
-    Innovative VLBA Applications

We invite contributions from different disciplines including
information systems, information management, computer and management
science to properly cover all facets of Very Large Business
Applications. We encourage papers applying quantitative and
qualitative, empirical and theoretical research methodologies such as
case studies, action research, surveys, experiments, and design
science.


IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION SITE

Instructions for authors and more information about the conference is
forthcoming on the conference website at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/


MINITRACK CHAIRS

Holger Schroedl
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Business Informatics
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg, Germany
holger.schroedl at ovgu.de

Klaus Turowski
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
MRCC / Business Informatics
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg, Germany
klaus.turowski at ovgu.de



-- 
Dr. Holger Schroedl
Research Associate
Chair of Business Informatics
Faculty of Informatics

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, 39016 Magdeburg

Tel.: +49 (391) 67-58389
Fax: +49 (391) 67-11216
holger.schroedl at ovgu.de
http://mrcc.ovgu.de