[AISWorld] AMCIS, 2016 - Locational Analytics and Spatial Analysis Workshop

[Daniel Farkas]

*AMCIS 2016 *

*SIGGIS Workshop*



*RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN LOCATIONAL *

*ANALYTICS AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS*



Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina



Thursday, August 11, 2016, 8:30am – noon



This workshop focuses spatial analysis as an area of research within MIS.
The area has been expanding very rapidly during this decade in the business
world.  Estimates indicated geo-services revenues approach $300 billion,
and spatial applications are spreading rapidly on mobile, cloud, big data,
and analytics platforms.  The workshop seeks to provide the background from
leading researchers and practitioners on how spatial analytics can provide
new and promising avenues for MIS research, what the current status is of
locational/spatial research is across the MIS community, and how leading
business practitioners are using research techniques to apply spatial
analytics and geographic information systems (GIS) for business
decision-making.  The keynoter from Esri Inc. will cover applying MIS
methodologies and spatial statistics for practical spatial applications in
medicine and health care. The workshop also includes discussion of the Call
for an upcoming special issue of the journal *Decision Support Systems* on
locational analytics and decision support.



8:30-9am                   *PRE-WORKSHOP COFFEE and TEA*



9-9:20am                   Introduction to Workshop: Spatial Research
Highlights and Demo



9:20-10am                 Research approaches to Locational Analytics and
GIS:

                                   Findings from a 2016 AIS Member survey.



10-10:20am               *BREAK – COFFEE and TEA*



10:20-10:50am           Breakout groups to discuss missing research gaps in
Locational and Spatial Analysis in the MIS discipline



10:50-11:30am            Keynote Presentation

 Lauren Bennett, Spatial Analysis Product Engineer, Esri



11:30-11:45am            Discussion of Call for Papers for Special Issue on
“Locational Analytics and Decision Support” of the journal *Decision
Support Systems*, with the guest co-editors.  Submission date September 20,
2016.



11:45-noon                  Workshop Summary.  Key takeaways.

                                         What spatial research in MIS have
emerged?

                                         What are next steps for
participants?





Presenters: Lauren Bennett, Esri (Keynoter)

                   Brian Hilton, Claremont Graduate University

                   James B. Pick, University of Redlands

                   Avijit Sarkar, University of Redlands

                   Hindupur Ramakrishna, University of Redlands

                   Dan Farkas, Pace University

                   Namchul Shin, Pace University



*REGISTRATION*.  *Registration is available as part of the AMCIS 2016 *

*                              Conference Registration, which is now open. *

                              Go to https://amcis2016.aisnet.org  and Click
on Register.



           If you have any questions about registering for the Workshops

           please contact Dan Farkas (djf2128 at gmail.com ) or

           James Pick (james_pick at redlands.edu ).



-- 
Dan Farkas, PhD
Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
Pace University
Pleasantville, NY,  10570 USA
http://www.pace.edu/seidenberg/

Visiting Professor of Computing, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, Wales, UK
http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/