[AISWorld] EMCIS 2017 CFP - Coimbra, Portugal

[Catarina Ferreira da Silva]

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

EMCIS - 14th European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS)
Coimbra, Portugal
September, 07-08, 2017
http://emcis.eu <http://emcis.eu/>

Important Dates:
Electronic Submission Deadline: 19/05/2017
Notification of Acceptance to Authors: 18/06/2017
Camera Ready Copy: 01/07/2017
European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS) is an annual research event addressing the IS discipline with regional as well as global perspective. EMCIS has successfully helped bringing together researchers from around the world in a friendly atmosphere conducted to free exchange of innovative ideas. EMCIS was founded in 2004 by Brunel University and it is an annual event. This year is organised by University of Coimbra and University of Lisbon. A number of respected collaborations were made with different local universities across the destinations chosen each year and EMCIS still proves to attract many further partnerships.
EMCIS is one of the premier conferences in Europe and Middle Eastern region for Information Systems academics and professionals, covering technical, organisational, business and social issues in the application of Information Technology. EMCIS is dedicated to the definition and establishment of Information Systems as a discipline of high impact for the methodical community and IS professionals - focusing on approaches that facilitate the identification of innovative research of significant relevance to the IS discipline following sound research methodologies that lead to results of measureable impact.

Unique characteristic of the EMCIS conference includes:
Selected papers presented at the conference each year are invited to a number of special issues in respected academic journals.
Distinctive Keynote addresses by distinguished international scholars from different disciplines, highlighting or discussing particular and generic global topics.
An international event that continues to attract attendees, academics, practitioners and junior researchers including PhD students from all over the world, enjoying the friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of innovative ideas.

EMCIS Conference selected Papers will be considered for publication in:
Journal of Enterprise Information Management (JEIM)
Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy (TGPPP)
International Journal of Electronic Government research (IJEGR)
International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR)

Tracks:
Big Data and Semantic Web <http://emcis.eu/big-data-semantic-web/>
Cloud Computing <http://emcis.eu/cloud-computing/>
Digital Services, Social Media and Digital Collaboration <http://emcis.eu/digitalservices_socialmedia/>
e-Government <http://emcis.eu/e_government/>
Enterprise Systems <http://emcis.eu/enterprise-systems/>
Science Communication in the Digital Public Sphere <http://emcis.eu/science-communication-in-the-digital-public-sphere/>
Blockchain and Fintech <http://emcis.eu/blockchain-and-fintech/>
Information Systems Security and Information Privacy Protection <http://emcis.eu/securityandprivacy/>
Healthcare Information Systems <http://emcis.eu/healthcare-information-systems/>
Management and Organisational Issues in Information Systems <http://emcis.eu/management/>
IT Governance <http://emcis.eu/it-governance/>
Innovative Research Projects <http://emcis.eu/track-on-innovative-research-projects/>

Cloud Computing track
http://emcis.eu/cloud-computing/ <http://emcis.eu/cloud-computing/>

The way in which IT resources and services are being provisioned has been revolutionized since cloud computing emerged as an IT paradigm. Cloud computing has gained popularity for its ability to enable fast and effective access to large pools of virtualized resources and services that are dynamically provisioned to adjust to variable workloads and usage optimization. Business and academia have embraced a model wherein third-party services that can be acquired with minimal service provider interaction, replace or complement those that are managed internally. As cloud computing emerged as a whole new global ecosystem, the need to understand and deal with these implications is quickly growing while new challenges arise which relate to aspects such as the operation and structure of the service market, the alignment of cost, revenue and quality-related objectives when taking on a service consumer or provider role. Furthermore, challenges like privacy or geographical constraints need to be addressed. EMCIS invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present and discuss issues and solutions associated with the cloud computing challenges. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies.
 
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
Software industry and Cloud computing industry analysis
Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages
Decision support for providers, service selection, and procurement
Revenue and energy-aware resource management
Capacity planning, resource allocation and scheduling
Automated trading and bidding support tools
Incentive design and strategic behavior
Development of sustainable infrastructures
Desktop grids, volunteer computing and crowdsourcing
Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data
Business models and strategies using Cloud computing
Pricing schemes and revenue models
On-demand computing models
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Platform-as-service
Software-as-a-service
Storage-as-a-service and Data-as-a-Service
Cloud Services Integration and Integration-as-a-Service
Service value chains and value networks
Metering, accounting, and billing
Negotiation, enforcement and monitoring of Service Level Agreements
Trust, reputation, security, and risk management
Cloud service and infrastructure performance monitoring and prediction
Reports and analysis on operational markets and testbeds
Techno-economic analysis of cloud services and providers
Standardization and legal aspects
Cloud economics and pricing structures
Core cloud services
Cloud computing programming and application development
Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures
Trust and clouds (including blockchain-related cloud applications)
Software Defined Networking and the Cloud
FinTech and the Cloud
Electric Smart-grids and the Cloud
Cloud Application studies, with emphasis on small and medium-sized enterprises
Application streaming and mixed-mode
Cloud-related privacy
Cloud-related Case Studies
Cloud computing in the e-learning area
Mobile learning through cloud computing

Cloud Computing Track Chairs:
Paulo Melo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Catarina Ferreira Da Silva, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France


Paper submission guidelines and Online Submission System: http://emcis.eu/paper-submission/ <http://emcis.eu/paper-submission/>
The selected papers will then go through a ‘double-blind review’ process evaluating their significance, originality, contribution and clarity.


The following committee members are responsible for ensuring the ongoing success of the EMCIS conference.

Conference Foundation Chair: Prof. Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK

Conference Co-Chairs: 
Prof. Miguel Mira da Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Prof. Paulo Rupino Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Conference Executive Committee: 
Prof. Vincenzo Morabito, Bocconi University, Italy, (Program Chair)
Prof. Marinos Themistocleous, University of Piraeus, Greece (Program Chair)
Dr. Gianluigi Viscusi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de, Switzerland (Publications Chair)
Dr. Muhammad Kamal, Brunel University, UK (Public Relations Chair) 
Mr. Leonidas Katelaris, University of Piraeus, Greece (Website Coordinator)

International Committee 
Prof. Janice Sipior, Villanova University, USA
Prof. Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Prof. Stanisław Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Prof. Celina M. Olszak, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Prof. Peter Love, Curtin University, Australia
Prof. Gail Corbitt, California State University, USA
Prof. Vishanth Weerakkody, Brunel University, UK
Prof. Lasse Berntzen, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Norway
Prof. Kamel Ghorab, Alhosn University, UAE
Prof. Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Holland
Prof. Inas Ezz, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences - SAMS, Egypt
Prof. Ibrahim Osman, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Prof. Przemysław Lech, University of Gdansk, Poland
Prof. Małgorzata Pańkowska, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Prof. Euripidis N. Loukis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Prof. Mariusz Grabowski, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Dr. Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece
Dr. hab. Paweł Wołoszyn, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Dr. Sofiane Tebboune, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr. Fletcher Glancy, Miami University, USA
Dr. Aurelio Ravarini, Universitario Carlo Cattaneo, Italy
Dr. Wafi Al-Karaghouli, Brunel University, UK
Dr. Ricardo Jimenes Peris, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Dr. Federico Pigni, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
Dr. Paulo Henrique de Souza Bermejo, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil
Dr. May Seitanidi, University of Kent, UK
Dr. Sevgi Özkan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Dr. Demosthenis Kyriazis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Dr. Karim Al-Yafi, Qatar University, Qatar
Dr. Manar Abu Talib, Zayed University, UAE
Dr. Alan Serrano, Brunel University, UK
Dr. Steve Jones, Conwy County Borough, UK
Dr. Tillal Eldabi, Ahlia University, Bahrain
Dr. Carsten Brockmann, Capgemini, Germany
Dr. Ella Kolkowska, Örebro University, Sweden
Dr. Grażyna Paliwoda-Pękosz, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Dr. Janusz Stal, Cracow University of Economics, Poland