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

[Daniel Farkas]

Join us in San Diego for a SIGGIS Workshop on:

Research and Practice in Location 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/