[AISWorld] Decision Support Systems (DSS) special issue on information systems security CFP

[Xin Luo]

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Call for Papers
Decision Support Systems
Special issue:  "A Comprehensive Perspective on Information Systems Security: Technical Advances and Behavioral Issues" 

Guest Editors:
Xin (Robert) Luo, Anderson School of Management, The University of New Mexico, USA (email: xinluo at unm.edu)
Dmitry Zhdanov, School of Business, The University of Connecticut, USA (email: Dmitry.Zhdanov at business.uconn.edu)

Senior Advisory Board
. Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, USA
. Tamara Dinev, Florida Atlantic University, USA
. Carol Hsu, National Taiwan University, Republic of China
. Qing Hu, Iowa State University, USA
. Paul Benjamin Lowry, City University of Hong Kong, China
. H. Raghav Rao, SUNY Buffalo, USA
. Mikko Siponen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
. Detmar Straub, Georgia State University, USA
. Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University, USA

Associate Editors:
. Yoris Au, University of Texas at San Antonio
. Rainer Böhme, University of Muenster (Germany)
. Rui Chen, Ball State University
. Robert Crossler, Mississippi State University
. John D'Arcy, University of Delaware
. Yulin Fang, City University of Hong Kong (China)
. Matthew Hashim, University of Arizona
. Teju Herath, Brock University (Canada)
. Atanu Lahiri, University of Texas at Dallas
. Kumar Mehta, George Mason University
. Nirup Menon, George Mason University
. Han Li, Minnesota State University Moorhead
. Huigang Liang, East Carolina University
. Allen Johnston, University of Alabama Birmingham
. Clay Posey, University of Alabama
. Sam Ransbotham, Boston College
. Sasha Romanosky, RAND Corporation
. Jordan Shropshire, University of South Alabama
. Anthony Vance, Brigham Young University
. Jingguo Wang, University of Texas at Arlington
. Andy Wu, University of North Texas
. Heng Xu, Penn State University
. Ling Xue, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
. Lisa Yeo, Loyola University Maryland
. Jie Zhang, Midwestern State University
. Xia Zhao, University of North Carolina - Greensboro

Introduction
Information systems security (infosec) research has piqued increasing attention amid IS researchers in recent years.  
Interdisciplinary theories have been developed and validated on issues including: fear appeal, neutralization, general deterrence, 
and protection motivation.  At the same time, increasing effort has focused on leveraging technical advances to enhance business security.
Despite the availability of very powerful and extensive security tools, the number and severity of information security incidents is on the rise
and shows no signs of abating. Underlying reasons for the rising incidents may include both technical and behavioral issues.  
Our interest includes security threats from both internal and external sources.  This special issue solicits research submissions about
information systems security using novel theories and/or methods as well as research contexts that make a significant contribution to knowledge
in information systems security. Submissions that focus on the interplay of technical, behavioral, economic and/or organizational perspectives on
information security are especially welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

-Advanced theoretical development and validation towards the study of InfoSec-related behavior, with an emphasis on moving beyond the oft-studied deterrence and protection motivation theory perspectives
-Multilevel theoretical perspectives and analysis on InfoSec phenomena
-Studies of how technical security solutions are either improved or hindered by the cognitive, economic or organizational considerations
-New methodological approaches to the study of InfoSec phenomena, such as multilevel modeling and NeuroIS techniques
-Creative investigations of user security behavior, both positive and negative
-Detection and mitigation of insider threats
-Analysis of known and unknown modes and vectors of internal and external attack
-Theory development, theory building, and theory testing in infosec
-Analytical models of the attack and defense dynamics, including the game-theoretic models of strategic attacker behavior
-Studies of multi-stage and multi-target attacks
-Design and development of socio-technical security controls

Submission Instructions: 
Inquiries should be directed to either or both guest editors at xinluo at unm.edu and Dmitry.Zhdanov at business.uconn.edu.
All papers must be submitted through official DSS submission system at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/decision-support-systems/. 
An author is limited to one submission only. Please submit articles without any author information for double-blind review purpose. 
The submission must not exceed 34 pages, including abstract, keywords, tables, figures, all references and appendices, 
and should be double-spaced throughout with one-inch margins and using 11.5 point font. Please read the author guidelines
at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/decision-support-systems/0167-9236/guide-for-authors. 
All papers will undergo the journal's standard initial screening processes.

Important dates:
Initial paper submission deadline: August 30, 2015
First round authors notification: November 30, 2015
Invited revisions deadline: March 31, 2016
Second round authors notification: May 31, 2016
Final revision deadline: July 31, 2016
Final authors notification: September 1, 2016
Projected publication: Fall 2016 - winter 2017

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Xin (Robert) Luo, Ph.D.
Endowed Regent's Professor
Associate Professor of MIS & IA
Associate Director for Center of IA Research & Teaching
Anderson School of Management
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Email: xinluo at unm.edu
Voice: 505-277-8875
Web: http://www.unm.edu/~xinluo

Ad Hoc Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly
Associate Editor, Decision Sciences
Associate Editor, European Journal of Information Systems
Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research
Associate Editor, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research
Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems