[AISWorld] ECIS 2018: 2nd Call for Tracks
Carl Adams
carl.adams at port.ac.uk
Fri Mar 24 05:25:50 EDT 2017
Reminder Call for Track Proposal ECIS for those already submitted
On 23 February 2017 at 17:46, Carl Adams <carl.adams at port.ac.uk> wrote:
> [ apologies for cross posting]
> ** 2nd CALL FOR TRACKS **
>
>
> *26th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS*
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> *23rd – 28th JUNE / PORTSMOUTH UK*
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> *www.ecis2018.eu <http://www.ecis2018.eu/>*
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> ECIS 2018 - *Call for tracks* “Beyond Digitization - Facets of
> Socio-Technical Change”
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> Submission Deadline: March 31st 2017
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>
> The 2018 European Conference on Information Systems, to be held in
> Portsmouth, UK, will be hosted by the University of Portsmouth on June 23rd
> – 28th, 2018. The theme of the conference: *“Beyond Digitization -
> Facets of Socio-Technical Change” *reflects that information systems (IS)
> consist of both human and technical aspects. The development of the IS
> discipline since the 1960’s has been characterised by efforts to achieve a
> forward trajectory from a software-centred focus towards a human-centred
> focus. This is reflected in the agendas of many of the original
> socio-technical movements, and underpins the recent resurgence in interest
> in socio-technical ideas. The socio-technical theme provides a base to make
> sense of IS within the digitized world.
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>
>
> In addition to the conference theme, ECIS hope to attract a range of
> traditional track themes that have been at the heart of the IS community in
> Europe over the last quarter century, as well as tracks covering new
> emergent themes. The aim of the ECIS 2018 will be to form a meeting place
> for people in the IS field to discuss fundamental and innovative issues
> related to Information Systems.
>
> *T**opics for Track Proposals*
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>
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> We welcome both established and emerging topics that draw significant
> attention within IS research. A conference theme track “*Beyond
> Digitization - Facets of Socio-Technical Change*” has already been set
> up.
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> *Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):*
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> • Business Process Modelling and Management
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> • Culture and IS
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> • Data Science, Business Analytics and Decision Support
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> • Digital society
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> • Digital workplace
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> • E-Business and Competitive Strategy
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> • Economics and IS
>
> • Enterprise Systems and Enterprise Modelling
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> • European and Cultural Issues in IS
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> • Green and Sustainable IS
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> • Healthcare Information Systems
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> • Human Aspects of IS and Cyber-Security
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> • Human-Computer Interaction and IS Interface Design
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> • Information and Enterprise Content Management
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> • Inter-Organizational Systems
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> • IS Artefacts and IS Artefact Design
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> • IS Development and Evaluation
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> • IS Diversity and Diversity in IS
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> • IS Management and IS Governance
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> • IS Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion
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> • Practice Theories and IS
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> • Project Management in IS
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> • Research Methods and Philosophy
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> • Security and Privacy of Information and IS
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> • Service Engineering and Service Management
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> • Social Media
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> • Socio-Technical Approaches and IS
>
> • Sustainable Organizational Systems and IS
>
> • Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems
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>
> *Track Chair Responsibilities*
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>
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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:
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>
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> 1. Liaise with the program chairs on all matters that concern ECIS
> 2018;
>
> 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 2018 and
> serve as session chair in your track.
>
>
>
> *Structure of Track proposals*
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> *Track proposals should include:*
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> 1. A title for the track.
>
> 2. Names, e-mail and mailing addresses, affiliations, phone
> numbers, urls of website of each of the three 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 2018 conference theme.
>
> 4. A discussion on how these topics have recently been covered in
> other conferences and publications, substantiating that ECIS 2018 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.
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>
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> Track chairs are encouraged to make fast track or special issue
> arrangements with leading journals that fit the topic of the track.
>
>
>
> *Evaluation*
>
> 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.
>
>
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> 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.
>
>
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> Evaluations will be carried out by the conference chairs in cooperation
> with program chairs.
>
>
>
> *Program Chairs*
>
> Carl Adams, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
>
> Sven Carlsson, Informatics, Lund University, Sweden
>
> Dorothy Leidner, Baylor University, USA & University of Lund, Sweden
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>
>
> *Submissions*
>
> Track proposals should be e-mailed to track-proposals at ecis2018.eu as soon
> as possible but *no later than March 31st, 2017, 12pm CET*. Notifications
> of acceptance or rejection of proposed tracks will be sent out by June 1st,
> 2017.
>
>
>
> Please once again note that in order to ensure interesting and a
> sufficiently extensive range of tracks, the ECIS 2018 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 2018 team,*
>
> Peter Bednar, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
>
> Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
>
> Karlheinz Kautz, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
> University, Australia
>
>
--
Dr Carl Adams
School of Computing
Buckingham Building
Portland Street
Portsmouth
PO1 3HE
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel +44(0)2392 846447
web. http://www.port.ac.uk/school-of-computing/staff/dr-carl-adams.html
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