<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span><span> </span></span><div class="gmail_quote">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#365f91">Papers are Encouraged for Submission to Mini-Track on: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">Spatial
Business Intelligence, Decision Making, and Management</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634">in Track on Decision Support, Data
Management Systems, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634">Knowledge Management and Business
Intelligence,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#632423">This
mini-track is supported by SIG-GIS in AIS.</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634">AMCIS
2012 Conference, </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634">Seattle,
Washington, August 9-12, 2012</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#943634"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:red">DEADLINE
FOR SUBMISSION:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span> </span>March 1, 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Submission at
<b><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012</a> </b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Description</span></b></p>
<b>
</b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070c0">Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) and spatial technologies are growing rapidly in business and
government.<span> </span>Increasingly these applications
involve business intelligence (BI).<span>
</span>Although there is considerable research on GIS technology and geographic
information science, there has been relatively little research in spatial
decision making in business and organizations. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070c0"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070c0">This track seeks
manuscripts that address conceptual theory, methodology, applications, and cases
on these topics.<span> </span>The relevance to
research is to build up greater knowledge of the geo-spatial aspects of decision-making
and to develop theory and applications, sometimes building on well-known
concepts in the DSS field.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070c0"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070c0">The mini-track will
address the evolving areas of GIS, GIScience, and related technologies such as
RFID, imagery, and sensors, and expanding spatial information. Since this area
is rapidly growing in business, the mini-track can shed light on a new and
evolving field. The mini-track findings, results, and discussions will also
inform the managers, strategic thinkers, and policy makers in many
organizations that are building, deploying, and managing applications in these
areas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0f243e">Potential topics:</span></b></p>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Spatial business intelligence</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Spatial decision support systems (SDSSs)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Spatial knowledge management</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Management decision-making using GIS</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Web-based GIS concepts and applications</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Mobile-based GIS concepts and applications</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Methodological papers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Theoretical papers</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Case studies </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Collaborative spatial decision-based systems</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Studies of investment in and benefits of GIS, spatial BI, or SDSS</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Human, organizational, and management factors in spatial systems</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Quality
measures and evaluation of spatial systems</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Systems
and software development of GIS</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Public
domain and open source GIS</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061"></span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Crowdsourcing and public domain sources of
spatial information</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Industry trends</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">International aspects of GIS-based decision-making</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Ethical aspects of spatial decision-making</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mini-track
chair contact for information</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">James
B. Pick</span></p><div style="margin-left:40px">
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">E-mail:<span> </span><a href="mailto:james_pick@redlands.edu" target="_blank">james_pick@redlands.edu</a></span></p>
<div style="margin-left:40px">
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Phone:
<a href="tel:909%20748-8781" value="+19097488781" target="_blank">909 748-8781</a></span></p><div style="margin-left:40px">
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">School
of Business, University of Redlands</span></p><div style="margin-left:40px">
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Redlands,
CA 92373-0999</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
</font></span><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dan Farkas, PhD<br>Chair, Information Technology Department<br>Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems<br>Pace University<br>Pleasantville, NY, 10570 USA<br>