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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #0070c0; FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Quality Information in Organizations and Society</span></i></b></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000">PreICIS Workshop Sponsored by sigIQ, AIS<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000">Time: Saturday, December 3, 2011<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000">Place: Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Organizations have used information for strategic and operational needs. Despite this long history, the role and impact of quality information continue to elude organizations. The intent of this workshop is to share
research findings and experiences of how organizations use and produce quality information to differentiate and achieve various organizational goals. The workshop is open to a variety of research methods including qualitative, quantitative, and design science
approaches. We are also seeking interdisciplinary approaches. This inaugural workshop is seeking completed research papers, research-in-progress, cases, educational games, and experience reports in the following topic areas, but not limited to:</font></p>
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">The role or impact of information on organizational processes or performance</font></div>
</li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal">
<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">The Role or impact of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>information for globalization</font> </li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal">
<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">The Role or impact of information for e-government</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">The Role or impact of information for sustainability</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">The Role or impact of information for healthcare service delivery</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Aligning information flow with work processes for reducing error or other purposes</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Information sharing in supply chains
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Standards and policies of information quality, work processes, or performance</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Innovative data management techniques and governance mechanisms for source-tagging, context-interchange, entity resolution, master data management, meta-data management, data warehouse, enterprise resource planning
(ERP), customer relations management (CRM).</font> </li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal">
<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Innovative data mining techniques for 'big' data</font>
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Information visualization </font></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal">
<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">The emerging and changing role of information-related personnel: chief data officers, chief information officers, information quality managers
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<font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Issues related to quality information: privacy, security, information ethics, information policy and strategies.
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<font color="#000000"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3" face="Calibri">1.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The workshop particularly welcomes papers addressing research issues in healthcare, finance, and e-government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<font color="#000000"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3" face="Calibri">2.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The workshop welcomes both quantitative and qualitative research such as, empirical, interpretive, modeling, design science, action research, and case studies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<font color="#000000"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3" face="Calibri">3.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">The workshop is open to all disciplinary lenses used, such as, economics, cognitive psychology, sociology, philosophy, history, computer science, political science, statistics, operational management, and MIS.
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<font color="#000000"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3" face="Calibri">4.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><font size="3" face="Calibri">Outstanding completed research papers will be fast-tracked
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">to ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality</i> (acmJDIQ)
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Key Dates<o:p></o:p></font></font></font></b></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Paper submission: Due, September 26</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Acceptance decision: October 15
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u>NOTE</u></b>: We will strive to render acceptance decisions by October 3<sup>rd</sup>,
the ICIS early registration cut-off date. </font></font></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Camera-ready version: Due, October 31</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u>Submit</u></b> your manuscripts to:
</font></font></font><a href="mailto:sigIQworkshop@gmail.com"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">sigIQworkshop@gmail.com</font></a></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Completed Research Paper: maximum 5,000 words
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Research-in-progress Paper, case, game and others: maximum 3,000 words</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Format and style of manuscript: see the website, http://</font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#000000">Inquiry:</font><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000">
</font><a href="mailto:sigIQworkshop@gmail.com"><font color="#0000ff">sigIQworkshop@gmail.com</font></a><font color="#000000">
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Registration</b>: US $50
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Workshop Schedule<o:p></o:p></font></font></font></b></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Saturday: Workshop (9am-5pm)</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Saturday, Premier Panel: Senior Scholars on Research Methods
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Keynote Speakers: To be confirmed</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Saturday: Social Dinner
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Program Chairs</font></b></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Yurong Yao, Suffolk University (Lead Program Chair)</font><a href="mailto:yyao@suffolk.edu"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">yyao@suffolk.edu</font></a><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Dennis Lee, Suffolk University
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Huizhang Shen, Shanghai JiaoTong University</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Rongming Ren, Shanghai JiaoTong University</font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Leo Pipino, U Mass Lowell
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Local Arrangement Chairs</b>: Huizhang Shen and Rongming Ren</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Yang Lee, Northeastern University (on leave to MIT)
</font><a href="mailto:ylee@mit.edu"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">ylee@mit.edu</font></a><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">;
</font><a href="mailto:y.lee@neu.edu"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">y.lee@neu.edu</font></a><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">Stuart Madnick, MIT,
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sponsors</b>: sigIQ AIS, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Suffolk University, Northeastern University,
MIT IQ Program.</font></font></font></p>
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