[AISWorld] AMCIS 2015 CFP and Journal Fast-Tracking Opportunities - Track: Business Analytics, Big Data and Knowledge Management (SIGDSA)

[Deokar, Amit]

CALL FOR PAPERS & JOURNAL FAST-TRACKING OPPORTUNITIES

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), The El Conquistador
Resort and Convention Center, Puerto Rico, 13-15 August 2015
(http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/)

Track: Business Analytics, Big Data and Knowledge Management (SIGDSA)
Minitracks:
Business Analytics for Organizational Performance Management
Innovative Approaches to Data and Text Mining
Managing (Big) Data as an Asset
Spatial Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Knowledge Management

We invite submissions to the various mini-tracks listed above under the
"Business Analytics, Big Data and Knowledge Management" track sponsored by
the AIS Special Interest Group on Decision Support and Analytics (SIGDSA).

In recent years, the ability to manage (big) data, information and
knowledge to gain competitive advantage and the importance of business
analytics for this process has been well established. Organizations are
investigating ways to efficiently and effectively collect and manage the
data, information and knowledge they are exposed to via various internal
and external sources in the networked society. Research contributions in
this space continue to enlighten industry on how to handle the various
organizational and technical opportunities and challenges when working with
big data, knowledge management and analytics. From research on managerial
concerns (such as strategy, governance, leadership), process centric
approaches and interorganizational aspects of decision support to research
on technical considerations when incorporating new data sources and new
frameworks for big data, analytics and knowledge management, academic
endeavors in this space provides insights on a dynamic and highly relevant
field within information systems. The research track seeks research that
promote theoretical, design science, pedagogical, behavioral research and
emerging applications in innovative areas of analytics, big data, and
knowledge management. In keeping with the Blue Ocean Research theme of the
AMCIS 2015 conference, the track hopes to emphasize and encourage research
that creates and explores new and uncontested areas within analytics, big
data and knowledge management in addition to the traditional areas of
interest within this space. Given the very broad and encompassing nature of
the research area, there is room for new research and manuscripts involving
emerging issues, challenges and trends.

JOURNAL FAST-TRACKING OPPORTUNITIES
1. We are excited to announce that starting this year the best analytics
research and research in progress papers in the Business Analytics, Big
Data and Knowledge Management (SIGDSA) track will be considered for fast
tracking to Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ). The authors of the selected
papers will be notified of this decision at the same time the acceptance
decisions are sent to authors, and will be invited to attend a DSJ
development workshop that is part of the pre-conference program.
2. Selected papers will also be considered for fast tracking to Information
Systems Frontiers (ISF), Special Issue on "Big Data and Analytics for a
Better World". Call for the Papers for the ISF Special Issue can be found
at:
http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/BDA_IS_CFP.pdf

Important dates:
January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin
February 25, 2015: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors
Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the disposition of their
papers
Tuesday, April 28, 2015:  Authors submit camera-ready revision of their
papers
May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made

Track Co-Chairs:
Thilini Ariyachandra
Xavier University
ariyachandrat at xavier.edu

Amit Deokar
Pennsylvania State University
amit.deokar at psu.edu

Babita Gupta
California State University Monterey Bay
bgupta at csumb.edu

Minitrack Co-Chairs:
-----------------------------------------------
Minitrack: Business Analytics for Organizational Performance Management
Minitrack Co-chairs:
Benjamin Shao
Arizona State University
ben.shao at asu.edu

Robert D. St. Louis
Arizona State University
st.louis at asu.edu
-----------------------------------------------
Minitrack: Innovative Approaches to Data and Text Mining
Minitrack Co-chairs:
Shuyuan (Lance) Deng
Dakota State University
shuyuan.deng at dsu.edu

Abhijit (Abbi) Dutt
Pennsylvania State University
aud18 at psu.edu

Huimin (Min) Zhao
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
hzhao at uwm.edu
-----------------------------------------------
Minitrack: Managing (Big) Data as an Asset
Minitrack Co-chairs:
Rob Nickerson
San Francisco State University
rnick at sfsu.edu

Jerry Luftman
Global Institute for IT Management
luftman at hotmail.com
-----------------------------------------------
Minitrack: Spatial Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Knowledge
Management
Minitrack Co-chairs:
James B. Pick
University of Redlands
james_pick at redlands.edu

Daniel Farkas
Pace University
dfarkas at pace.edu

Brian Hilton
Claremont Graduate University
brian.hilton at cgu.edu

Avijit Sarkar
University of Redlands
avijit_sarkar at redlands.edu

Hindupur Ramakrishna
University of Redlands
hindupur_ramakrishna at redlands.edu

Namchul Shin
Pace University
nshin at pace.edu
-----------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20150210/46215e46/attachment.html>