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Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:177.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">December
3-4, 2011 in Shanghai, China</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:110.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference Theme: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Business Intelligence and Cloud Computing
for Enterprise Competitiveness</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference
URL: <a href="http://nima.is/wits">http://nima.is/wits</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">We invite you to register and
participate in the 21<sup>st</sup> Annual Workshop on Information Technologies
and Systems to be held in Shanghai, CHINA, on December 3-4, 2011, just prior to
the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The full 2-day workshop features over 30 research papers and panel discussions which provide a forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with research
interests in the cutting edge issues of information technologies and systems. The
theme of the conference is “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Business
Intelligence and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Competitiveness<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">.</b>”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:9.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Business
Intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term that describes technologies and business
concepts organizations use to create business value. According to an IBM Global
CIO Study, the collective voice of more than 2,500 Chief Information Officers
(CIOs) worldwide points to <i>business intelligence and analytics </i>as the
top visionary plan for enhancing their enterprises’ competitiveness.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Com 45 Lt""> As
data storage and access capabilities continue to increase, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">cloud computing </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">is emerging as an important aspect for many BI
strategies. It has the potential to <span style="color:black">speed application
deployment, increase innovation; lower maintenance costs, and improve business
agility. However, these benefits must be balanced against concerns over
security and ownership of information assets. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:9.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">IMPORTANT
DATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Prototype and
panel submission: October 10, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Notification of
prototype and panel: October 24, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">Camera-ready copy due: October 24, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">WORKSHOP
& PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Roger Chiang (<a href="mailto:roger.chiang@uc.edu">roger.chiang@uc.edu</a>), University of
Cincinnati, USA<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> <span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Andrew
Gemino (<a href="mailto:gemino@sfu.ca">gemino@sfu.ca</a>), Simon Fraser
University, Canada</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">LOCAL
ARRANGEMENT CHAIR</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Pengzhu
Zhang</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> (<a href="mailto:pzzhang@sjtu.edu.cn">pzzhang@sjtu.edu.cn</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">PROTOTYPE DEMO CHAIR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cecil
Chua (<a href="mailto:aeh.chua@auckland.ac.nz">aeh.chua@auckland.ac.nz</a>),
University of Auckland, New Zealand<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:293.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">PROGRAM LIAISONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Asia<b>: </b></span></u><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Guoqing
Chen (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun"><a href="mailto:chengq@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn" title="chengq@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn">chengq@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn</a>),
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tsinghua University, Beijing, China<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:DE">Jae Kyu Lee (<a href="mailto:jklee@business.kaist.ac.kr">jklee@business.kaist.ac.kr</a>), KAIST,
Korea<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ee-Peng
Lim (<a href="mailto:eplim@smu.edu.sg">eplim@smu.edu.sg</a>), Singapore
Management University, Singapore<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Rahul Roy (<a href="mailto:Rahul@iimcal.ac.in">Rahul@iimcal.ac.in</a>), IIM Calcutta, India</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chih-Ping
Wei (<a href="mailto:cpwei@im.ntu.edu.tw">cpwei@im.ntu.edu.tw</a>), National Taiwan
University, Taiwan<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Leon
Zhao (<a href="mailto:jlzhao@cityu.edu.hk">jlzhao@cityu.edu.hk</a>), City
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Australia and New Zealand: </span></u><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cecil
Chua (<a href="mailto:aeh.chua@auckland.ac.nz">aeh.chua@auckland.ac.nz</a>),
University of Auckland, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ron
Weber (<a href="mailto:ron.weber@monash.edu">ron.weber@monash.edu</a>), Monash
University, Australia<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Europe:</span></u><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></u><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Wil van der Aalst (<a href="mailto:W.M.P.v.d.Aalst@tm.tue.nl">W.M.P.v.d.Aalst@tm.tue.nl</a>), Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Matthias Jarke (<a href="mailto:jarke@cs.rwth-aachen.de">jarke@cs.rwth-aachen.de</a>), RWTH Aachen
University, Germany</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Matti Rossi (<a href="mailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi">matti.rossi@aalto.fi</a>),
Aalto University School of Economics, Finland</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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