[AISWorld] CFP Pre-ICIS workshop - Bright Internet Global Summit 2018

[Dan J. Kim]

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Bright Internet Global Summit 2018 (BIGS 2018), www.brightinternet.org
<http://www.brightinternet.org>  

San Francisco, California, USA, December 13, 2018, 9:00 - 6:00 pm

Submission deadline: September 30, 2018

 

The Bright Internet Global Summit (BIGS) will be held at the Marriott
Marquis hotel in San Francisco December 12-13, 2018. Day 1 meetings for BIGS
2018 on December 12th are dedicated to practical industry experts and policy
makers and open to non-AIS members. These sessions will provide an
interactive forum by bringing together leading academics, practitioners and
policy makers to discuss the critical issues of today's Internet and
possible means and business models to realize the next generation of a
trusted and safe Internet, including Bright Internet Initiative and
approaches for preventive cybersecurity paradigm and business development.  

 

Day 2 sections for BIGS 2018 on December 13th, as a pre-ICIS workshop, are
dedicated to academic research paper presentations and discussion and open
to AIS members. 

 

The Day 2 sessions will be held in cooperation with the AIS Special Interest
Group on Information Security and Privacy (SIGSEC) as a part of the Workshop
on Information Security and Privacy (WISP 2018).  Information on BIGS 2018
for both days can be found at www.brightinternet.org
<http://www.brightinternet.org> .

 

This call for papers for the academic track for Day 2 (December 13th)
invites original research articles addressing a broad coverage of technical,
managerial, economic, and policy solutions towards developing the Bright
Internet and Trust, with emphasis on preventive cybersecurity and global
trust building. Papers may employ any applicable IS research method (case
study, survey, analytical modeling, experiments, computational models,
design science, and so forth).  The key issues to be discussed at the BIGS
2018 academic forum include, but are not limited to, the following:    

 

- What are the most serious cybersecurity issues currently encountered by
companies, individual citizens, and on national levels (national security)
and what can be done about these issues? 

- Is the current Internet security protection paradigm sustainable for the
future? 

- Do we need a new preventive paradigm for deterring anonymous sources of
threat?

- What should the security architecture and protocols look like for the
future Internet? 

- What are critical success factors for the market driven bright cloud
networks?

- What kind of protocols and technologies are necessary to implement Bright
Internet? 

- How serious are cross-border and detoured cyberattacks? 

- What is the status of global cybersecurity, security governance in the
context of the Bright Internet initiative? 

- What should the goals be of the next generation Internet, and what are the
principles that Bright Internet should adopt? 

- What kind of regulations need to be established or released to realize the
goals of Bright Internet? 

- What would be novel, useful methodological approaches to establish the
Bright Internet?

- What new research propositions, frameworks, theories, and paradigms
surrounding the Bright Internet should we focus on for the next 10 years?


 

Important Dates 

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2018

Notification of Acceptance: October 26, 2018

Revised, Camera ready Document: November 30, 2018

Workshop Date: December 13, 2018

 

Submission Guidelines

All submitted papers undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Please
submit your papers using our conference submission system located at
https://easychair.org/cfp/WISP2018. Please add "(Submit to BIGS)" at the end
of paper title. All submission should be in Microsoft Word using the
workshop template only (found on the submission website), with no author
names or other identification in the manuscript file, including removal of
document properties and tracked changes (blind the submission, please).
Please use the WISP2018 style for your paper and references (also shown on
the workshop template). Completed research and case study papers should be
limited to 15 pages. Research-in-progress papers should be limited to 8
pages. The accepted papers will be presented on Dec. 13th during the
research paper section of the WISP, and detailed presentation guideline will
be provided later. We look forward to receiving your papers. If you have any
questions, please contact Dan J. Kim at dan.kim at unt.edu
<mailto:dan.kim at unt.edu> .

 

Academic participants for Day 2 of BIGS 2018 December 13th should register
for WISP 2018 of pre-ICIS 2018. If AIS member wants to participate in the
practitioner sessions for Day 1, it will require a separate registration at
www.brightinternet.org <http://www.brightinternet.org>  with an AIS member
discount.

 

Program Chairs

Dan J. Kim,                  University of North Texas, USA 

Jae Kyu Lee                 SUSTech, China and KAIST, Korea

Michele Maasberg         Louisiana Tech University, USA

 

Program Committee

Bongsik Shin (San Diego State University)

Christopher Paolini (San Diego State University)

Daegon Cho (KAIST, Korea)

Gene Moo Lee (University of British Columbia)

Jaehyeon Ju (McGill University, Canada)

James Parrish (University of North Texas)

Jingguo Wang (University of Texas at Arlington)

Manoj Thomas (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Mehrdad Koohikamali (University of Redlands)

Mohammad Salehan (California State Polytechnic University)

Mohammadreza Mousavizadeh (Western Michigan University)

Obiageli Ogbanufe (Oklahoma State University)

Raghu Santanam (Arizona State University)

Richard Dasher (Stanford University)

Rui Chen (Iowa State University

Ugochukwu Etudo (University of Connecticut) 

Victoria Yoon (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Vijayan Sugumaran (Oakland University)

Zhangxi Lin (Texas Tech University)