[AISWorld] CfP - AMCIS 2019 - Inaugural Minitrack Computational Social Science Research in Information Systems

[Au Vo]

Dear Colleagues:

Please consider submitting a manuscript to the Inaugural Computational Social Science Research in Information Systems minitrack under the AMCIS 2019 Data Science and Analytics for Decision Support Track. AMCIS 2019 will take place in Cancun, Mexico on August 15-17. The online submission system opens on January 7 and closes on March 1. Following is a short description of our minitrack and if you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to seeing you in Mexico next year.
We live in a data-rich world. Virtually all of our activities are recorded and stored, providing an abundant source of data and an unprecedented opportunity to address perennial questions in social science, especially in Information Systems. Thanks to the implosion in data analytics tools such as data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, researchers have the ability to augment understanding of existing problems and elucidate current perplexing issues. Large-scale problems are no longer a hard-to-reach problem, but an interesting one with a plethora of research directions. Recognizing this trend, articles in leading research outlets like Nature and Communications of the ACM have started to solicit calls in this nascent research field to attract more researchers to work on interesting problems. As a guideline for future researchers, even a manifesto of computation social science has been published.
As a trailblazer in data management, data manipulation, data analytics, and information extraction, Information Systems has the ability to demonstrate both rigor and relevance of answering social science questions through the innovative use of data and data analytics algorithms.

This minitrack encourages research on current and future challenges and opportunities relating to the application of computational algorithms to solve, explain, or unveil social phenomena. Submissions may focus on novel algorithm designs, data aggregation and explanation, new and interesting directions in explaining and solving social phenomena. Research in any domains are welcome, including but not pertaining only to, healthcare, technology adoption, social media, politics, social benefit distribution, food deserts, cybercrime, privacy, and smart government. Below is a list of recommended topics, however, other relevant topics are also welcome:


  *   Algorithm designs in computational social science
  *   Computational Social Science strategies and influences in Information Systems
  *   The role of Information Systems in Computational Social Science
  *   Computational Social Science interdisciplinary research
  *   Computational Social Science in Cybersecurity, Cyberforensics, and Privacy
  *   Computational Social Science with Big Data applications
  *   Computational Social Science in Politics
  *   Ethics of Computational Social Science research on human behavior

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019 at 10:00am PST<http://airmail.calendar/2019-03-01%2010:00:00%20PST>

We are looking toward to seeing the innovative research from you.

Best Wishes,

Au, Yan, and Anitha

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Au Vo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Information Systems Department, SCI 350
College of Business
San Francisco State University
auvo at sfsu.edu<mailto:auvo at sfsu.edu>
http://cob.sfsu.edu/is
415-338-1038