[AISWorld] JAIS Special Issue CFP: Addressing Societal Challenges through Analytics

[Raghu Santanam]

Call for Papers:

Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)

Special Issue on:
Addressing Societal Challenges through Analytics

Guest Co-Editors:

Wolfgang Ketter, Erasmus University
Balaji Padmanabhan, University of South Florida
Gautam Pant, University of Iowa
Raghu Santanam, Arizona State University


We are living in a world in which technology and data are rapidly transforming organizations, industries and societies. Information systems and data analytics are providing unprecedented opportunities to not only transform business processes and increase productivity but also tackle various social and economic problems. In this special issue we particularly encourage submissions that address challenging social and economic problems through analytics and other IT-based solutions. A few examples include:


  1.  Technology-driven solutions to design smart markets in energy
  2.  Using big data to design better urban transportation systems
  3.  Social media analytics for health and nonprofits
  4.  Technology driven agility and responsiveness for organizations
  5.  Technology platforms for smart cities and collaborative consumption
  6.  Open-data initiatives as mechanisms to address important problems in policy
  7.  Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding for social and civic engagement
  8.  Mobile apps for disaster management and logistics

The above examples are only a small subset of research problems that are related to the theme of the special issue. We seek submissions of the highest quality whose focus is on analytics and technology and the problem considered relates directly to a societal challenge. This was the theme of WITS 2016 and we invite authors of papers accepted at WITS 2016 to submit to this special issue. However, submission to the special issue is open to all, not just WITS 2016 authors.

Editorial Board:

Sudip Bhattacharjee, University of Connecticut
Martin Bichler, Technical University of Munich
Jesse Bockstedt, Emory University
Rui Chen, Iowa State University
Ming Fan, University of Washington
Yili (Kevin) Hong, Arizona State University
Paul Hu, University of Utah
Hemant Jain, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Tabitha James, Virginia Tech
Brent Kitchens, University of Virginia
Gene Moo Lee, University of British Columbia
Ting Li, Erasmus University
Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Jan Recker, Queensland University of Technology
Christoph Rosenkranz, University of Cologne
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, University of Texas at Austin
Pallab Sanyal, George Mason University
Soumya Sen, University of Minnesota
Chih-Ping Wei, National Taiwan University
Wei Thoo Yue, City University of Hong Kong
Jingjing Zhang, Indiana University
Zhongju Zhang, Arizona State University
Dmitry Zhdanov, Georgia State University


Important Dates:
• November 30, 2017        – Email to special issue editors with a one-page extended abstract.
• March 1, 2018                  – Initial submissions of full papers
• April 15, 2018                   – Initial decisions
• June 15, 2018                    – Reviews sent to authors
• July, 2018 (TBA)               – Paper Development Workshop
• November 15, 2018         – Revised papers from authors due
• February 15, 2019            – Reviews sent to authors
• April 15, 2019                    – Revised papers from authors due
• June 15, 2019                    – Final decision


Papers should be submitted following the standard JAIS submission procedure (http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/).