[AISWorld] MINI TRACK: Opportunities and Challenges in Distributed Group Decision-Making

[Anil Aggarwal]

Dear Colleagues:


After successful track last year, we are continuing with the minitrack: Opportunities and Challenges in Distributed Group Decision-Making.

We would like you to submit your research or emerging research to this track.

Regards,

A. K. Aggarwal, University of Baltimore,
 aaggarwal at ubalt.edu

Doug Vogel, Harbin Institute of Technology, vogel.doug at gmail.com.

Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, murayama at iwate-pu-ac.jp.

CALL for Papers for the Mini-track
Opportunities and Challenges in Distributed Group Decision-Making

http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbagga/AMCIS_2016.htm

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2016)
 Dates: August 11 - 13, 2016
 in beautiful San Diego
(Part of the Virtual Communities and Collaboration  track )

Emerging issues like big data, data analytics, visual analytics, data mining, crowd--sourcing, e-government, e-health and m-commerce are giving new meaning to distributed decision making. In addition, recent outbreak of Ebola epidemic, missing Malaysian flight 17, earthquake in Japan are only some of the examples of swift virtual teams requiring collaboration. Coordination among individuals with varying skills is becoming common. Gartner group predicts that virtual distributed teams will become norm in the future. These teams must be able to adapt quickly to the changing environment be it face-to-face, mobile or in the cloud. Agile teams adapt and deliver quickly and provide maximum customer satisfaction. Can distributed teams be agile and adaptable? This requires careful team configuration. This mini-track examines the emerging issues related to team configuration and performance in distributed environment. Some research related to outsourcing of structured tasks has been done, but research related to emerging issues like diversity, cohesiveness, agility and adaptability related to group collaboration across semi or unstructured tasks is still emerging.

Examples of topics in the discussion of globally distributed decision making mini-track will include the following (but are not limited to):

•         Smart technologies in distributed system collaboration

•         Swift team collaboration

•         Sub groups impact on team collaboration

•         Diversity impact on group collaboration

•         Big data collaboration

•         E-government(s) inter- , intra-collaboration

•         Collaboration through crowdsourcing

•         Public-private collaboration

•         Delivering health services through collaboration

•         Economics of distributed decision making in the clouds

•         Trust and distrust as motivator in distributed decision making

•         Agile/Adaptable team configuration in globally distributed teams

•         The “e (internet)” to “m (mobile)” transformation of globally distributed teams

•         Diversity issues in globally distributed teams

•         Customer satisfaction, performance and “trust” building in globally distributed  teams

•         Synchronous and asynchronous decision making in globally distributed teams

•         Comparison of issues across internal, inter-, intra and offshore distributed teams

•         Knowledge creation, transfer and integration across globally distributed teams

•         Leadership/cohesiveness issues in globally distributed teams

•         Issues related to functional and dysfunctional globally distributed teams

•         Security, privacy and risk associated with globally distributed teams

•         Case Studies (success/failures) related to decision making by globally distributed teams

Contact Information for Mini-Track Chair:
 A. K. Aggarwal, University of Baltimore, aaggarwal at ubalt.edu

Doug Vogel, Harbin Institute of Technology, vogel.doug at gmail.com

Yuko Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, murayama at iwate-pu-ac.jp

January 4, 2016: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 begin

March 2, 2016 (10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time): Deadline for paper submissions

Instructions for Authors:

Submissions may be of two types:


•         Completed research papers (< 5000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures)

•         Research-in-progress papers (< 3500 words, excluding references, tables, and figures)


All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2016. For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2016 website at http://amcis2016.aisnet.org