[AISWorld] The 2nd CfP for the Xth SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium'2017

Mon May 8 10:26:39 EDT 2017

    THE Xth SIGSAND/PLAIS EUROSYMPOSIUM'2017
    INFORMATION SYSTEMS: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATIONS, EDUCATION

    THE GOLDEN JUBILEE - 50 YEARS (1967-2017) OF BUSINESS INFORMATICS at University of Gdansk
    September 22nd, 2017; Gdansk - Sopot, Poland

    http://eurosymposium.eu

OVERVIEW
The Xth SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium has the objective of promoting and developing high quality research on all issues related to systems analysis and design (SAND). It provides a forum to researchers and practitioners in SAND in Europe and beyond – to interact, collaborate and develop the systems analysis and design area. The EuroSymposium is currently headed by the Advisory Board, consisting of prominent researchers to guide this initiative.

KEYNOTE SPEECH:
Frank LAND and Chrisanthi AVGEROU,
London School of Economics
THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Frank LAND: The Laureate of AIS LEO Award and Fellowship of AIS (2003); Member of AIS History Group; Currently involved in the study of the evolution of the Information Systems discipline.

Chrisanthi AVGEROU: Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS); Chair the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on Social Implications of Information Technology (2005 till 2010); Author of, among others: The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, published by Oxford University Press.

RELEVANT TOPICS
    Agile Methods,
    Big Data,
    Business Process Modeling,
    Cloud Computing,
    Conceptual Modeling,
    Cognitive Issues in SAND,
    Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Models,
    Design of Mobile Applications,
    Design Theory,
    Case Studies in IS,
    Enterprise Architecture,
    Enterprise Social Networks,
    Ethical and Human Aspects of IS Development,
    Human-Computer Interaction,
    Information Systems Development: Methods and Techniques,
    Internet of Things,
    Model-Driven Architecture,
    Ontological Foundations of SAND,
    Open Source Software (OSS) Solutions,
    Project Management,
    Requirements Engineering,
    Research Methodologies in IS,
    SAND in ERP and CRM Systems,
    SCRUM Approach,
    Smart Information Systems,
    Social Media Analytics,
    Social Media Use in Business,
    Social Networking Services,
    Software Intensive Systems and Services,
    Teaching SAND,
    Teams and Teamwork in IS,
    Towards Data Driven Information Systems,
    User Experience (UX) Design,
    UML, SysML, BPMN,
    Workflow Management.

ORGANIZERS
There are three organizers of The Xth SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium'2017:
- SIGSAND (http://ais.site-ym.com/members/group.aspx?id=89782) is the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design. SIGSAND provides services such as annual symposia, news, research and teaching tracks at major IS conferences, listserv and special issues in journals. The EuroSymposia were initiated by the past AIS Vice President Prof. Keng Siau as the SIGSAND-Europe Initiative.
- THE POLISH CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS - PLAIS (http://plais.org) was established in 2006 as the joint initiative of Prof. Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany, former President of AIS and Prof. Stanisław Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland. PLAIS co-organizes international and domestic conferences on Systems Analysis and Design and on Business Informatics.
- THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS INFORMATICS of the University of Gdansk (http://wzr.pl/kie/ , http://aib.ug.edu.pl) is conducting intensive teaching and research activities. Some of its academic manuals are bestsellers in Poland. The Department is also active internationally, organizing conferences including the 10th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2002), The 7th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2008), The 8th International Conference on European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN 2009) and SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposia (2007, 2011 - 2016). The Department is the partner of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) and SAP University Alliances (SUA) consortia.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

GENERAL CHAIR
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland

ADVISORY BOARD
    Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
    David Avison, ESSEC Business School, France
    Joerg Becker, European Research Centre for Information Systems, Germany
    Jane Fedorowicz, Bentley University, USA
    Alan Hevner, University of South Florida, USA
    Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
    Helmut Krcmar, Technical University of Munich, SAP University Competence Center, Germany
    Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany
    Keng Siau, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
    Roman Slowinski, Chairman of the Committee on Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
    Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland - Chairman of IPC
    Özlem Albayrak, Bilkent University, Turkey
    Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
    Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA
    Palash Bera, Saint Louis University, USA
    Lasse Berntzen, University College of Southeast Norway, Norway
    Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Sweden
    Witold Chmielarz, University of Warsaw, Poland
    Petr Doucek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
    Zygmunt Drazek, University of Szczecin, Poland
    Dariusz Dziuba, University of Warsaw, Poland
    Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
    Bogdan Franczyk, University of Leipzig, Germany
    Krzysztof Goczyla, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
    Jerzy Goluchowski, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
    Rolf Granow, Luebeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
    Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia
    Arkadiusz Januszewski, University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz, Poland
    Dorota Jelonek, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
    Bjoern Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
    Kalinka Kaloyanova, Sofia University, Bulgaria
    Karlheinz Kautz, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia
    Vijay Khatri, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
    Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
    Jolanta Kowal, University of Wroclaw, Poland
    Stanislaw Kozielski, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
    Henryk Krawczyk, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
    Kyootai Lee, Sogang University, Korea
    Roman Lukyanenko, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
    Tim A. Majchrzak, University of Agder, Norway
    Marco de Marco, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
    Marek Milosz, Lublin University of Technology, Poland
    Marian Niedzwiedzinski, University of Lodz, Poland
    Jyrki Nummenmaa, University of Tampere, Finland
    Nikolaus Obwegeser, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Celina Olszak, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
    Cezary Orlowski, WSB University in Gdansk, Poland
    Mieczyslaw L. Owoc, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
    Joanna Paliszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
    Nava Pliskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    Isabel Ramos, The University of Minho, Portugal
    Vaclav Repa, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
    Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
    Binny Samuel, University of Cincinnati, USA
    Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
    Thomas Schuster, Pforzheim University, Germany
    Marcin Sikorski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
    Janice C. Sipior, Villanova University, USA
    Andrzej Sobczak, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
    Piotr Soja, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
    Ewelina Sokolowska, University of Gdansk, Poland
    Angelos Stefanidis, University of Glamorgan, UK
    Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland
    Jakub Swacha, University of Szczecin, Poland
    Pere Tumbas, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
    Catalin Vrabie, National University, Romania
    Yinglin Wang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
    H. Roland Weistroffer, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
    Carson Woo, Sauder School of Business, Canada
    Karolina Zmitrowicz, WSB University in Gdansk, Poland
    Iryna Zolotaryova, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine
    Joze Zupancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia

PUBLICATION
All submissions will be reviewed by the EuroSymposium International Programme Committee for contribution to the relevant topic. The accepted papers will be published as EuroSymposium'2017 Proceedings in the Springer series of Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP).
http://www.springer.com/series/7911

The series is indexed/abstracted by http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/webofscience/cpci ISI Proceedings, http://webofknowledge.com Web of Knowledge, http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/DBLP, http://www.ei.org EI and http://www.scopus.com Scopus and the other important indexing services. 

SUBMISSION SERVICE
IS faculty members, independent scholars, doctorants and SAND practitioners are invited to submit research papers in the area of systems analysis and design. Given the broad range of topics in this Call, submissions can be based on any range of SAND research. The length limit of completed research paper is 5,000 words.

Papers should be submitted in PDF and doc format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format which can be found under instructions for LNBIP Authors at:
http://www.springer.com/series/7911 

Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. 

On-line submission will be offered for EuroSymposium’2017 at Springer Online Conference Service (OCS).
https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/EuroSymposium2017 

SIGSAND/PLAIS EUROSYMPOSIA PROCEEDINGS
The accepted papers of Gdansk EuroSymposia were published as:
    2nd EuroSymposium 2007: A. Bajaj, S. Wrycza (eds), Systems Analysis and Design for Advanced Modeling Methods: Best Practises, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey, New York, 2009
    4th EuroSymposium 2011: S. Wrycza (ed) 2011, Research in Systems Analysis and Design: Models and Methods, series: LNBIP 93, Springer, Berlin 2011
    6th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2013: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Development, Learning, Security, Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 161, Springer, Berlin 2013
    7th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2014: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Education, Applications, Research, Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 193, Springer, Berlin 2014
    8th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2015: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Development, Applications, Education, Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 232, Springer, Berlin 2015
    9th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2016: S. Wrycza (ed.), Information Systems: Development, Research, Applications, Education, Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 264, Springer, Berlin 2016

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Manuscripts: 
May 29th, 2017

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 
June 26th, 2017

Final Paper Submission:
July 10th, 2017

EuroSymposium'2017:
September 22nd, 2017

CONTACT
EuroSymposium'2017
Department of Business Informatics
University of Gdansk
81-864 Sopot, Piaskowa 9
Poland
phone: +48 58 523 14 00
skype: swrycza
e-mail:  info at eurosymposium.eu
website:  http://eurosymposium.eu