[AISWorld] ECIS2017: Second Call for Tracks - 16 days for the deadline

[Isabel Ramos]

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 Call for Tracks
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 The 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2017) -
 Information Systems for a Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive World

June 5-10, 2017 in Guimarães, Portugal

 The PDF version is here: http://ecis.dsi.uminho.pt/Documents/ECIS2017_CfT.pdf

 The 2017 European Conference on Information Systems, to be held in
 Guimarães, Portugal, will be hosted by the Department of Information
 Systems of the University of Minho. The theme of the conference:
“Information Systems for a Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive World”
reflects that information systems (IS) have the potential to enhance
 the collective intelligence necessary to support a smart, sustainable
 and inclusive world. Information Systems have been enablers of the (i)
 sustainable use of scarce resources; (ii) engagement of citizens in
 the participative and self-organized processes required to improve
 regions’ resilience and well-being; (iii) innovative business models;
 (iv) effective use of large amounts of information to support private
 and public decision making; (v) extension of the human capabilities
 (physical and cognitive), among many other applications that will
 contribute to transform human societies.

 ECIS 2017 will provide a platform for European and also non-European
 researchers in the field of IS from various cultures and countries to
 reflect on the specific and innovative research in information systems
 dealing with the overarching theme of a Smart, Sustainable and
 Inclusive World.

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 Topics for Track Proposals
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 We welcome both established and emerging topics that draw significant
 attention within IS research. A conference theme track “Information
 Systems for a Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive World” has already been
 set up.
 Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):

 Business Intelligence and Decision Support
 Business Process Management
 IS Diversity and Diversity in IS
 E-Business and Competitive Strategy
 Economics and the Value of IS
 Enterprise Systems
 European and Cultural Issues in IS
 Healthcare Information Systems
 Human-Computer Interaction
 Information and Enterprise Content Management
 Inter-Organizational Systems
 IS Artifacts and IS Artifact Design
 IS Governance and Sourcing
 IS Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion
 Maritime Informatics
 Project Management and IS Development
 Research Methods and Philosophy
 Security and Privacy of Information and IS
 Service Engineering and Service Management
 Social Media
 Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems


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 Track Chair Responsibilities
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 We cordially invite fellow researchers to propose tracks on their
 particular field of interest. Your responsibilities as a track chair
 will be to:

 1) Liaise with the program chairs on all matters that concern ECIS 2017;

 2) Promote the track and take sufficient measures to ensure an
 adequate number of submissions;

 3) Organise a peer review cycle for the papers submitted to your
 track, assisted by a set of associate editors (AEs). Track chairs will
 nominate associate editors for the reviewing process, and they will
 assure that each paper will receive three high quality reviews;

 4) Propose to the program committee the papers that will eventually be
 accepted for inclusion into the conference program; nominate papers
 for the award for best paper;

 5) Create an attractive track program;

 6) At least one of the track co-chairs should attend ECIS 2017 and
 serve as session chair in your track.

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 Structure of Track proposals
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 Track proposals should include:

 1) A title for the track.

 2) Names, e-mail and mailing addresses, affiliations, phone numbers,
 urls of website of each of the three to four track co-chairs. Please
 designate one of the co-chairs as the primary contact person.

 3) A short description of the track and its focus (maximum length: 500
 words and about 10 to 15 potential suggested topics): define the
 proposed area of research; discuss the topics the track will address
 and how these align with the ECIS 2017 conference theme.

 4) A discussion on how these topics have recently been covered in
 other conferences and publications, substantiating that ECIS 2017 will
 be an appropriate and timely forum for the topics.

 5) A tentative list of associate editors for the proposed track
 (between 10 and 15). Please provide names and affiliations, and
 indicate if they may already have committed themselves to serve as AEs
 for your track.

 6) Short bios of each co-track chair including your track record (if
 any) in organising tracks, or in other academic services in the IS
 community.

 Track chairs are encouraged to make fast track or special issue
 arrangements with leading journals that fit the topic of the track.

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 Evaluation
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 Each proposal will be evaluated by the conference chairs in
 cooperation with the program chairs. Decisions will be based on (a)
 the overall merit of the proposal, (b) the significance of the subject
 covered, (c) the profile and diversity of the track team, and the (d)
 fit with the conference theme.

 The conference chairs will select tracks with the objective being to
 (a) balance the more traditional IS topics with emerging topics, and
 (b) to support diversity of chairs and AEs in gender, experience, and
 geographical background. If needed, track proposals might be merged in
 order to obtain the best possible coverage of topics and the best mix
 of track chairs.

 Evaluations will be carried out by the conference chairs in
 cooperation with both program chairs.

 Program Chairs
prchairs at ecis2017.eu

Jan Pries-Heje, Roskilde University, Denmark
Jörg Becker, University of Münster, Germany
João Álvaro Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal


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 Submissions
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 Track proposals should be e-mailed to track-proposals at ecis2017.eu as
 soon as possible but no later than March 5th, 2016, 12pm CET.
 Notifications of acceptance or rejection of proposed tracks will be
 sent out in May 15th, 2016.

 Please once again note that in order to ensure interesting and a
 sufficiently extensive range of tracks, the ECIS 2017 Conference
 Chairs might approach you with a suggestion to modify your track
 proposal.  In case there are proposals for identical or similar
 topics, the committee might ask you to consider joining forces with
 another group. Track proposals that do not meet the criteria can be
 directly rejected by the organizers.

 On behalf of the ECIS 2017 team,

 Helmut Krcmar (TU München Technical University of Munich, Germany),
 conference co-chair
 Virpi Tuunainen  (Aalto University, Finland), conference co-chair
 Isabel Ramos (University of Minho, Portugal), conference co-chair

conference-chairs at ecis2017.eu
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