<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH [IJBIR]<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Call for Papers:</span><br>The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, the coverage, and directions for submission to IJBIR.<br><br>Mission: The mission of the journal is to advance research in the field of business intelligence and analytics and to identify ways that BI creates value for organizations. The journal publishes original academic research/case studies, as well as selective thought provoking papers on issues, strategies, practices, techniques, and technologies from both academics and practitioners that advance the understanding and practice of Business Intelligence. The focus of this journal is to identify innovative Business Intelligence strategies and to assess the application of theoretical concepts to real-world situations. IJBIR takes a multidisciplinary approach to the examination of business intelligence.<br><br>Submitting to IJBIR: <br>Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 2 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to patrica.rafferty@sju.edu. <br><br>Publisher:<br>The International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) is published by IGI For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. <br><br>All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:<br>patricia.rafferty@sju.edu<br><br><br><br><br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Patricia D. Rafferty, Ed.D. </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Erivan K. Haub School of Business</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Saint Joseph's University</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Director</span></span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Master of Science in Business Intelligence</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Program</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Master of Science in Human Resource Management</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Program</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Managing Editor</span><br>International Journal of Business Intelligence Research</span><br>http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1168&detailstype=description<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: aisworld-request@lists.aisnet.org<br>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<br>Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:00:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: AISWorld Digest, Vol 27, Issue 22<br><br>Send AISWorld mailing list submissions to<br> aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> http://lists.aisnet.org/mailman/listinfo/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> aisworld-request@lists.aisnet.org<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> aisworld-owner@lists.aisnet.org<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of AISWorld digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. AMCIS, 2012: Spatial BI (GIS) - Is your data location based?<br> by Country, State, County? (Daniel Farkas)<br> 2. CFP: AAAI 2012 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web<br> Personalization and Recommendation (ITWP 2012)<br> (dietmar.jannach@tu-dortmund.de)<br> 3. Workshop on Action Design Research (Ola Henfridsson)<br> 4. CFP: Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS)<br> (Changchit, Chuleeporn)<br> 5. CFP IJITSA, a journal focused on the Systems Approach and IT<br> (Manuel Mora T.)<br> 6. Agile 2012: Last Call for Contribution (Xiaofeng.Wang)<br> 7. Directory of Mobile Business Courses (Viehland, Dennis)<br> 8. IM Doctoral Program at Maastricht University, The Netherlands<br> (Furneaux B (AIM))<br> 9. CfP SYSTOR 2012 - International Systems and Storage<br> Conference (Barbara Pernici)<br> 10. Reminder: ECIS 2012 Doctoral Consortium (Brian.Fitzgerald)<br> 11. DOCTORAL STUDENT IN INFORMATICS,with an information security<br> profile,at ?rebro University School of Business, Sweden<br> (Karin Hedstr?m)<br> 12. CISTI'2012 - Last Call for Papers (Alvaro Rocha)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:11:44 -0500<br>From: Daniel Farkas <dfarkas@pace.edu><br>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<br>Cc: Daniel J Farkas <dfarkas@pace.edu><br>Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS, 2012: Spatial BI (GIS) - Is your data<br> location based? by Country, State, County?<br>Message-ID:<br> <CAMHGr6Yw_=huaxEGnS3+bJGRi5ohB5seqEQeePLgcH-HGrrL6A@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>*I**s your data location based? *By country, state, county? Consider<br>incorporating spatial based BI as part of your research and submit to the<br>AMCIS 2012 mini-track on* Spatial Business Intelligence* (GIS). If you<br>need to know more or have questions, join us (AIS SIGGIS), email us, or<br>join our listserv (blank email; subject *subscribe*; to<br>siggis-request@lists.aisnet.org).<br><br><br>Call for papers:<br><br>**<br><br>*AMCIS 2012 Conference, Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012*<br>Minitrack: Spatial Business Intelligence, Decision Making, and Management<br><br>*Minitrack Co-Chairs:James B. Pick, Avijit Sarkar, and Hindupur Ramakrishna<br>(University of Redlands); Daniel Farkas (Pace University)*<br><br>Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial technologies are growing<br>rapidly in business and government. Increasingly these applications<br>involve business intelligence (BI). Although there is considerable<br>research on GIS technology and geographic information science, there has<br>been relatively little research in spatial decision making in business and<br>organizations.<br><br>This track seeks manuscripts that address conceptual theory, methodology,<br>applications, and cases on these topics. The relevance to research is to<br>build up greater knowledge of the geo-spatial aspects of decision-making<br>and to develop theory and applications, sometimes building on well-known<br>concepts in the DSS field. The mini-track will address the evolving areas<br>of GIS, GIScience, and related technologies such as RFID, imagery, and<br>sensors, and expanding spatial information. Since this area is rapidly<br>growing in business, the mini-track can shed light on a new and evolving<br>field. The mini-track findings, results, and discussions will also inform<br>the managers, strategic thinkers, and policy makers in many organizations<br>that are building, deploying, and managing applications in these areas.<br><br> Potential topics:<br><br> - Spatial business intelligence<br> - Spatial decision support systems (SDSSs)<br> - Spatial knowledge management<br> - Management decision-making using GIS<br> - Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery<br> - Web-based GIS concepts and applications<br> - Mobile-based GIS concepts and applications<br> - Methodological papers<br> - Theoretical papers<br> - Case studies<br> - Collaborative spatial decision-based systems<br> - Studies of investment in and benefits of GIS, spatial BI, or SDSS<br> - Human, organizational, and management factors in spatial systems<br> - Quality measures and evaluation of spatial systems<br> - Systems and software development of GIS<br> - Public domain and open source GIS<br> - Crowdsourcing and public domain sources of spatial information<br> - Industry trends<br> - International aspects of GIS-based decision-making<br> - Ethical aspects of spatial decision-making<br><br><br><br>DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1, 2012<br><br>Submission information at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org<br><br>Mini-track chair contact for information:<br><br>James B. Pick<br><br>E-mail: james_pick@redlands.edu<br><br>Phone: 909 748-8781<br><br>School of Business, University of Redlands<br><br>Redlands, CA 92373-0999<br><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>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120124/ce43c896/attachment-0001.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:27:43 +0000<br>From: <dietmar.jannach@tu-dortmund.de><br>To: <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><br>Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: AAAI 2012 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques<br> for Web Personalization and Recommendation (ITWP 2012)<br>Message-ID:<br> <286E01358F5E4B4BA119C24C39D33B451D905E87@ex2010mbx1.tu-dortmund.de><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>====================================================================== <br>CALL FOR PAPERS <br> <br>10th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommendation (ITWP 2012)<br> <br>In conjunction with AAAI 2012<br>July 22/23, 2012 - Toronto, Canada<br> <br>http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/homepage/itwp2012/<br> <br>Submission Deadline: April 15, 2012 <br>====================================================================== <br> <br>Web Personalization and recommendation systems have been steadily gaining ground as essential components of today's Web based applications, including in e-commerce and customer relationship management, in the delivery of business services, in providing support for Web search and navigation, and in reducing cognitive overload in information rich interactive social Web applications. The proliferation of Web 2.0 applications has allowed users to go beyond simple consumers of information and instead actively participate in shaping collaborative environments in which users, resources, and user-provided content are all networked together. This, in turn has increased the need for more intelligent and personalized services that help users interact with and navigate these complex information spaces. These include a new generation of recommender systems that integrate multiple online channels, are more scalable, are more adaptive, can better handle user interactivity, and are more ade!<br> pt at user preference elicitation. To achieve this, such applications must rely on intelligent techniques from AI, machine learning, Web mining, statistics, and user modelling in order to leverage all available data, including the usage and click-stream data (reflecting user behaviour), the content and meta-data associated with resources, semantic domain knowledge, user profile information, and underlying network structures. Efficient and intelligent techniques are needed to mine this data for actionable knowledge, and to effectively use the discovered knowledge to enhance the users' experience.<br><br>The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners From Web Mining, Web Personalization, Recommender Systems, and User Modeling communities in order to foster an exchange of information and ideas and to facilitate a discussion of current and emerging topics related to the development of intelligent Web personalization and Recommender Systems.<br> <br>TOPICS OF INTEREST<br> <br>We invite original contributions in a variety of areas related to Web personalization and Recommender Systems:<br><br>* User model representation and preference elicitation: Knowledge acquisition strategies, user context modeling, cross-domain models, privacy, cognitive models for Web navigation, self-adaptation, utility function elicitation from user interaction, user modeling on the Social Web;<br><br>* Architectures, systems and enabling technologies: personalized search, scalability of personalization and recommendation techniques, intelligent browsing and navigation, adaptive hypertext systems, hybrid and conversational recommendation systems, context-awareness, Data/web mining for personalization, Link Analysis and Graph Mining, automated techniques for ontology generation, learning, and acquisition; machine leaning techniques for information extraction, Social Web, and the Semantic Web; <br><br>* User and algorithm centric evaluation methodologies, metrics, and case studies<br><br>PAPER SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION <br><br>Papers must be formatted according to the AAAI 2012 style guide (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) and submitted electronically as PDF to itwp2012@ls13.cs.uni-dortmund.de. We solicit long and short papers as well as research demos. Long papers (7 pages) present original research work; short papers (4 pages) report on work in progress or describe demo systems.<br><br>The workshop proceedings will be published as citable AAAI technical report. <br><br>IMPORTANT DATES <br> <br>* 15 April: Paper submission deadline<br>* 6 May: Author notification<br>* 16 May: Camera-ready versions due<br>* 22/23 July: Workshop held<br> <br>WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS <br> <br>Dietmar Jannach, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universitat Dortmund, Germany<br>E-mail: dietmar.jannach@udo.edu<br><br>Sarabjot Singh Anand, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK<br>E-mail: S.S.Anand@warwick.ac.uk <br><br>Bamshad Mobasher, School of Computer Science, DePaul University, Chicago, USA<br>E-mail: mobasher@cs.depaul.edu <br> <br>Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine, USA <br>E-mail: kobsa@uci.edu<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:00:16 +0000<br>From: Ola Henfridsson <ola.henfridsson@chalmers.se><br>To: "aisworld@lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><br>Subject: [AISWorld] Workshop on Action Design Research<br>Message-ID: <583E20DC-9535-4388-BF63-03D9967AFDCB@chalmers.se><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Action Design Research Workshop<br><br>Venue:<br>Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland 12-13.3.2012<br><br>Instructors:<br>Maung Sein, Ola Henfridsson, Sandeep Purao, Matti Rossi, Rikard Lindgren<br><br>Overview:<br>This two-day workshop aims at providing researchers engaging in design research in organizations with hands-on guidance on using Action Design Research (ADR) in their own projects. ADR is recognized as a way of doing constructive research in close co-operation between practitioners and researchers. The method is based on the recognition that IS research always has a dual mission, namely to (a) add to existing theory, and (b) to produce knowledge to support IS practitioners in solving current and anticipated problems. We can achieve this by promoting research, which is based on existing issues in practical settings, aimed at improving the practice and solving problems through employing information systems.<br><br>All authors of the 2011 MIS Quarterly article on "Action Design Research" (Sein et al. 2011) will attend the workshop and will give short presentations on different aspects of ADR. However, the main part of the workshop will be devoted to the cultivation of research ideas and projects of the workshop participants. We will engage in dialogue with the participants and ask people to share their experiences and challenges in using this approach. Participants are required to send in a brief description of the projects they wish to develop and/or discuss at the workshop.<br><br>The workshop will consist of the following parts:<br><br>Part 1: ADR lectures (engaging practitioners, BIE cycles, theorizing etc.)<br>Part 2: Workshop and project clinic<br>Part 3: Debates and discussions on interweaving research and practice<br><br>Workshop organization:<br><br>Registration for the workshop is free and will include lunches and refreshments. However, space is limited. Interested participants should contact Matti Rossi (matti.rossi@aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi@aalto.fi>) for more information.<br><br><br>Suggested reading:<br><br>Sein, M.K., O. Henfridsson, S. Purao, M. Rossi, R. Lindgren. 2011. Action Design Research. MIS Quarterly 35(1) 37-56.<br>http://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol35/iss1/5/<br><br>All the best,<br>Ola<br><br>---<br>Ola Henfridsson, PhD<br>Professor<br>Deputy Head of Department<br>Department of Applied Information Technology<br>Chalmers University of Technology<br>&<br>Adjunct Professor<br>University of Oslo<br>Tel: +46703779729<br>http//:www.olahenfridsson.com<http://www.olahenfridsson.com/><br><br><br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120124/780b7973/attachment-0001.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:49 +0000<br>From: "Changchit, Chuleeporn" <Chuleeporn.Changchit@tamucc.edu><br>To: "aisworld@lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><br>Subject: [AISWorld] CFP: Journal of Information Privacy and Security<br> (JIPS)<br>Message-ID:<br> <2596854ECC02FE4587ECDD1CF0D0031B167B1C23@MB01.ad.tamucc.edu><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) <br>http://jips.cob.tamucc.edu/<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS:<br><br>Editor-in-Chief: Chuleeporn Changchit, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi<br><br>Mission<br>The mission of the Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS) is to serve both academics and practitioners as a reliable source on issues of information privacy and security.? The Journal is a high quality refereed journal that seeks support from academicians, industry experts and specific government agencies. The JIPS focuses on publishing articles that address the paradoxical nature of privacy versus security amidst current global conditions. It is increasingly important that various constituents of information begin to understand their role in finding solutions to achieve a delicate balance between security and privacy. <br><br>The JIPS will facilitate understanding of the information assurance technical framework as it pertains to government agencies, companies and individuals. The topics may include the information privacy and security issues pertaining to initiatives on counter-terrorism efforts around the world, the impact of U.S. federal regulation and compliance issues facing global corporations, the impact of privacy and security initiatives within small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and e-gambling.<br><br>Article submissions are encouraged from both academics and practitioners. Each issue will include high quality articles from academics and practitioners, case studies, book reviews, and industry interviews. The Journal addresses issues of privacy and security from a global perspective and will consider articles with a cross-functional focus. The Journal will include articles in the following areas: <br><br>- Information Assurance frameworks<br>- Network security and impact on corporate infrastructure<br>- Privacy laws and impact on information compliance issues<br>- The duality of privacy and security and impact on corporate operations<br>- Governmental regulations and changes on information security requirements<br>- Data transfer issues across nations, states, and corporations<br>- Privacy and security requirements in B2B and B2C information flows<br>- Cross-functional aspects of information assurance and requirements faced by various business functions within companies<br>- Web sites, portals and the issue of trust<br>- Information privacy and security as it relates to end-users<br>- Applications and case studies in privacy and security issues facing business organizations, government agencies and individuals<br>- Emerging topics such as biometrics, software utilities, and IT obligations and how they change the business environment <br><br>Review Process<br>Each article will be blind-reviewed by three members of the editorial review board. Reviewer recommendation will be considered by the Editor-in-Chief or an Associate Editor. For a revision and rewrite, a revised paper will be sent to one of the Editors for final approval. The final decision will be made by the Editor-in-Chief. <br><br>Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at http://jips.cob.tamucc.edu/submission.htm<br><br>All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:<br>Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Chuleeporn Changchit at chuleeporn.changchit@tamucc.edu<br><br><br>***************************************************************************************************<br>Chuleeporn Changchit, Ph. D.??????? Phone:? (361) 825-5832<br>Professor of MIS ?????????????????? Fax:??? (361) 825-5609<br>Room 322 OCNR Bldg.???? ?? ???????? E-mail: chuleeporn.changchit@tamucc.edu<br>College of Business, Unit 5808<br>Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi<br>6300 Ocean Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78412<br><br>Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS)<br>http://jips.cob.tamucc.edu<br>***************************************************************************************************?????<br><br>***************************************************************************************************<br>Chuleeporn Changchit, Ph. D. Phone: (361) 825-5832<br>Professor of MIS Fax: (361) 825-5609<br>Room 322 OCNR Bldg. E-mail: chuleeporn.changchit@tamucc.edu<br>College of Business, Unit 5808<br>Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi<br>6300 Ocean Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78412<br><br>Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS)<br>http://jips.cob.tamucc.edu<br>*************************************************************************************************** <br> <br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:29:36 -0600 (CST)<br>From: "Manuel Mora T." <mmora@securenym.net><br>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<br>Subject: [AISWorld] CFP IJITSA, a journal focused on the Systems<br> Approach and IT<br>Message-ID: <201201242329.q0ONTbS09312@einstein.securenym.net><br>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<br><br>********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************<br>SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 31, 2012<br>*********************************************************************<br>International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach<br>(IJITSA)(an official publication of the Information Resources Management<br>Association). IJITSA Website: www.igi-global.com/ijitsa<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>MISSION OF IJITSA<br>Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible<br>publication in the International Journal of Information Technologies and<br>Systems Approach. The primary objective of IJITSA is to disseminate and<br>discuss high quality research results on information systems and related<br>upper and lower level systems as well as on its interactions with software<br>engineering, systems engineering, complex systems and philosophy of<br>systems sciences issues, through rigorous theoretical, modeling,<br>engineering or behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain,<br>predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop<br>organizational systems where information systems are the main objects of<br>study and the systems approach ? any variant ?is the main research method<br>and philosophical stance used.<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>MAIN TOPICS:<br>Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to)<br>the following:<br><br>? Systemic studies on the diverse types of IS (TPS, MIS, OAS, DMSS, KBS,<br>KMS, IS, ERP, EIS, IOS, BPIS, among others)<br>? Systemic studies on the diverse types of IT organizational settings<br>(personal computing, home-based computing, end-user computing, office<br>computing, corporative computing, inter-organizational computing)<br>? IT-based system systemic design methodologies<br>? IT-based system systemic evaluation methodologies<br>? IT-based system systemic implementation methodologies<br>? Systemic evaluation and review of IT (technologies, tools, technological<br>trends)<br>? International standards and models for IT-based systems and its<br>relations with systems approach<br>? Systemic innovative IT-based systems studies addressing real problems<br>? Challenges and ill-structured worldwide problems linked to IT-based<br>systems from a systems approach view (green IT, national security, human<br>rights, global education, mobile education, global economy, interaction<br>between developed and developing organizations, e-digital gap, service<br>systems, cultural differences, among others)<br>? Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for engineering issues for<br>IT-based systems<br>? Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for managerial issues for<br>IT-based systems<br>? Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for organizational issues for<br>IT-based systems<br>? Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and<br>software-systems engineering<br>? Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and<br>complex systems<br>? Systems methodologies for basic and applied research<br>? Systems methodologies for consulting activities<br>? IT curriculum systemic studies on undergraduate and graduate programs<br>? IT systemic studies on accreditation undergraduate and graduate programs<br>? IT systemic studies on Faculty issues (tenure promotions, profile of<br>PhDs, types of institutions (research-oriented vs teaching-oriented ones)<br>? Multi-method systemic research methods to study IT-based systems<br>? Debates on research methods and systems approach for IT-based systems<br>? Philosophical themes related with research methods and systems science<br>for IT-based systems<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:<br>Interested authors please send your article to [ijitsa@gmail.com] in two<br>files: cover page file with full author's affiliation data, and full<br>article file without author's data. All article submissions will managed<br>by the Associate Editor most adequate by the article's topic among<br>Information Technology Systems, Software Systems Engineering, Systems<br>Engineering or Philosophy of Systems Science areas. The article will be<br>reviewed by three members of the ERB through a double-blind peer review<br>process. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be<br>based on the reviews received from the reviewers.<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>IJITSA CORE EDITORIAL TEAM<br><br>Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, UK<br>Manuel Mora, Universidad Aut?noma de Aguascalientes, Mexico<br>David Brown, University of Lancaster, UK<br>Robert Cloutier, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA<br>Philip Dobson, Edith Cowan University, Australia<br>Denis Edgar-Nevill, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK<br>Miroljub Kljajic, University of Maribor, Slovenia<br>Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>PUBLISHER:<br>The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach<br> is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the<br>?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical<br>Information Science Reference?, ?Business Science Reference?, and<br>?Engineering Science Reference? imprints. For additional information<br>regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 6<br>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:17:13 -0000<br>From: "Xiaofeng.Wang" <Xiaofeng.Wang@lero.ie><br>To: <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><br>Subject: [AISWorld] Agile 2012: Last Call for Contribution<br>Message-ID:<br> <8505DC2F80317C4C9A7BF4B69F751317014B2355@staffexchange5.ul.campus><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Agile 2012 ? Research in Practice <br>http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/<br>August 13-17, 2012, Dallas, Texas<br><br>Agile annual conference is widely regarded as the premier international event on agile software development. The Research in Practice stage of the Agile Conference aims at bridging the gap between research and practice. It will provide a primary forum for contemporary research into the effectiveness of methods, process, techniques and tools as well as examine emerging issues and trends in agile and lean development. The Research in Practice stage focuses on bringing the results of rigorous scientific research on agile software development to practitioners and researchers. We invite researchers to contribute to this stage with case studies, action research studies, experiments, surveys and literature reviews with focus on practical implications. The topics include but are not limited to:<br><br>- Agile and Lean Adoption & Transformation<br>- Large-Scale & Distributed Agile Development<br>- Agile Testing & Quality Assurance<br>- Agile for Embedded Systems Development<br>- Agile Coaching & Mentoring<br>- Agile Project Management<br>- User Experience and Interaction Design<br>- Collaboration and Co-development with customer<br>- Agile Leadership<br>- Agile Software Development and Cloud Computing<br>- Agile Software Innovation<br>- Application of Lean Thinking<br>- Lean Tools and Practices <br>- Lean Principles from Manufacturing and other disciplines<br>- Kanban-based Software Development<br>- Lean startup<br>- Theoretical Foundations of Agile and Lean<br><br>Types of Contribution<br>We invite two types of submissions:<br>Complete research papers: papers that report on original, finished research, with implications for both theory and practice. Motivation for research and discussion of the related work must be included, as well as a description of the research method applied, e.g. case studies, action research, empirical experiments. Papers are limited to 10 pages.<br>Research in progress papers: papers that describe new research directions, synergies with other disciplines or results not mature enough to be full papers. These ideas will be further developed with feedback actively sought from the practitioner community. This will provide a great opportunity to develop your ideas with others. Papers are limited to 4 pages.<br><br>Submission<br>Papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, by two reviewers selected from the program committee. Both complete research papers and research in progress papers will be published in the electronic proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore. Authors should follow the IEEE Proceedings format when preparing their manuscripts (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Author information should be removed from submissions. Submissions should be in PDF format.<br>Papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agile2012<br><br>Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete a copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready version. At least one author of each paper is expected to register and present the results at Agile 2012.<br><br>Best paper award and journal special issue<br>A best paper award will be given to one high-quality regular research paper chosen by the conference organising committee. We also intend to invite authors of the best paper and other high-quality papers to send a revised and extended version to a leading journal. A separate call for papers will be announced with instructions on direct submission, but we encourage authors to submit to the conference to receive more feedback.<br><br>Important dates:<br>- Submission deadline: 19 February 2012<br>- Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2012<br>- Camera-ready version due: 5 April 2012<br><br>Research in Practice Stage Co-Producers<br>Kieran Conboy, University of New South Wales, Australia<br>Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy<br><br>Program Committee<br>Pekka Abrahamsson, University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy<br>Silvia Acu?a, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain<br>Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br>Torgeir Dings?yr, SINTEF, Norway<br>Tore Dyb?, SINTEF, Norway<br>Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid, Spain<br>Xiaocheng Ge, University of York, UK<br>Rashina Hoda, University of Auckland, New Zealand<br>Johanna Hunt, University of Sussex, UK<br>Juhani Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland<br>Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada<br>Kim Man Lui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong <br>Michele Marchesi, University of Cagliari, Italy<br>Angela Martin, University of Waikato, New Zealand<br>Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada<br>Nils Brede Moe, SINTEF, Norway<br>Maurizio Morisio, Politecnico di Torino, Italy<br>Sridhar Nerur, University of Texas at Arlington, USA<br>James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br>Bala Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA<br>Carolyn Seaman, University of Maryland, USA<br>Kurt Schneider, Leibniz Universit?t Hannover, Germany<br>Bj?rnar Tessem, University of Bergen, Norway<br>Richard Vidgen, University of Hull, UK<br>Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria<br>Agust?n Yag?e, Technical Universify of Madrid, Spain<br><br>------------<br>For more information, please contact the Research in Practice producers at xiaofeng.wang@unibz.it and k.conboy@unsw.edu.au.<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120125/1fdb59b1/attachment.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 7<br>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:39:03 +1300<br>From: "Viehland, Dennis" <D.Viehland@massey.ac.nz><br>To: "aisworld@lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><br>Subject: [AISWorld] Directory of Mobile Business Courses<br>Message-ID:<br> <A9FDF09FB7F1D0478CE53000647F84C664339F98E2@TUR-EXCHMBX.massey.ac.nz><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>In early November I asked members of the AISWorld mailing list to notify me if you are teaching a mobile business course (original email below). From that and other efforts I identified 18 mobile business courses in 13 institutions and I collected basic data about the courses including description, learning objectives and topics. This information has now been collected into a "Directory of Mobile Business Courses" which is available from http://www.massey.ac.nz/~dviehlan/mobile_business_course_directory.pdf<br><br>As I say in the introduction.... I am a passionate believer in the value a course in mobile business offers to students and instructors. I welcome your questions, comments and suggestions for advancing this area of study.<br><br>Dennis Viehland<br>Associate Professor, Information Systems<br>Massey University<br>Auckland, New Zealand<br>d.viehland@massey.ac.nz<br><br><br>---------original message---------<br>From: Viehland, Dennis<br>Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:58 AM<br>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<br>Subject: Survey of Mobile Business Courses<br><br>Do you teach a Mobile Business course?<br>Do you know someone who does?<br>Are you a mobile business researcher?<br><br>If so, I want to hear from you.<br><br>A 2009 I asked members of the AISWorld mailing list to notify me if you are teaching a Mobile Business course. Respondents to that request know that I am updating the information I gathered at that time.<br><br>This is a general call to the entire AIS community to identify any Mobile Business courses that have been introduced in the last few years or missed out on the 2009 survey.<br><br>For purposes of this survey, I am defining Mobile Business broadly -- including a variety of mobile devices, services, applications and technologies. I am interested in both technological and managerial perspectives to teaching Mobile Business. Only strictly technical courses that might be offered in Engineering or Computer Science departments are excluded from my definition.<br><br>(1) If you teach a course in Mobile Business, please send me (d.viehland@massey.ac.nz) basic information you have about the course (e.g., a syllabus, course description on the Web).<br><br>(2) If you do not teach a course in Mobile Business, but know a colleague who does, please forward this message to him/her.<br><br>(3) If you have a strong interest in Mobile Business, your interest and insight would be useful for a prospective research project. Please contact me if you are keen to participate in a general survey of what should be taught in a Mobile Business course.<br><br>I will, of course, summarise the responses as best I can and post them back to AISWorld.<br><br>Thanks for your contribution.<br><br>Dennis<br><br>Dennis Viehland<br>Associate Professor, Information Systems<br>Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand<br>Visiting Professor, Information Systems<br>Union Graduate College, Schenectady, New York<br>d.viehland@massey.ac.nz<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 8<br>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:23:25 +0100<br>From: "Furneaux B (AIM)" <b.furneaux@maastrichtuniversity.nl><br>To: "aisworld@lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><br>Subject: [AISWorld] IM Doctoral Program at Maastricht University, The<br> Netherlands<br>Message-ID:<br> <A4C09AA4C1F29A4C993054BED7F0DCB10209324CA4@UM-MAIL4110.unimaas.nl><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>We are currently seeking individuals interested in pursuing doctoral studies in Information Management at Maastricht University starting in the fall of 2012. Located in the south of The Netherlands, the city of Maastricht lies in close proximity to a number of important European business and government centers thus providing a unique context in which to research and learn. The Information Management group itself is part of the Department of Accounting and Information Management and it is based within the university?s School of Business and Economics. As such, the available opportunity is particularly well-suited to individuals interested in pursuing research related to organizational level information management issues as well as research that might fall at the intersection between accounting and information management.<br><br>PhD student positions are funded for a period of four years and are open to students with strong interests in both research and teaching. The program consists of two years of course work followed by the pursuit of high quality, independent research. Interested candidates are invited to send a motivational essay, a current CV, copies of transcripts, and GRE/GMAT scores (if available) to Brent Furneaux (b.furneaux@maastrichtuniversity.nl <mailto:b.furneaux@maastrichtuniversity.nl> ). General information concerning the university and our programs is also available at our website (http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/Faculties/SBE.htm).<br><br>Brent Furneaux<br>Assistant Professor<br>Accounting and Information Management<br>Maastricht University<br>School of Business and Economics<br>b.furneaux@maastrichtuniversity.nl <mailto:b.furneaux@maastrichtuniversity.nl><br>+31 43 38 83552<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120125/1580800d/attachment.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 9<br>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:32:21 +0100<br>From: "Barbara Pernici" <barbara.pernici@polimi.it><br>To: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<br>Subject: [AISWorld] CfP SYSTOR 2012 - International Systems and<br> Storage Conference<br>Message-ID: <web-36653028@elet.polimi.it><br>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8;format="flowed"<br><br>[please apologize for multiple postings]<br>============================================================<br><br>SYSTOR 2012 - CFP - http://systor.org/2012<br>In cooperation with ACM (pending), IEEE, and USENIX<br><br>On behalf of the 2012 Annual International Systems and <br>Storage<br>Conference (SYSTOR 2012), we invite you to submit original <br>and innovative papers. The conference will take place in <br>June 4-6, 2012 Haifa, Israel; it is held in cooperation <br>with ACM (pending), IEEE, and USENIX.<br><br>SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and <br>practical computer systems research encompassing the <br>following topics:<br><br> * operating systems, computer architecture, and their <br>interaction<br> * distributed, parallel, and cloud systems<br> * networking, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and <br>sensor systems<br> * runtime systems, compilers, and programming languages<br> * energy/power management<br> * file and storage systems<br> * security, privacy, and trust<br> * virtualization<br> * embedded and realtime systems<br> * fault tolerance, reliability, and availability<br> * deployment, usage, and experience<br> * performance evaluation and workload characterization<br><br>SYSTOR attempts to combine high-quality international <br>systems research<br>of practical nature with interactions between the relevant <br>industry<br>and academia communities. We therefore solicit paper <br>submissions in<br>four separate tracks:<br><br> * full research papers<br> * short research papers<br> * highlight papers (a small number of exciting research <br>results<br> accepted to a recent top-tier systems conference or <br>journal;<br> accepted submissions will not be published in the <br>proceedings)<br> * industry papers (describing the technologies behind <br>real systems or<br> products and the; authors of accepted paper decide <br>if they<br> would be included in the conference proceedings)<br><br>Proceedings including all (non-highlight) accepted papers <br>will be<br>published by ACM. See more details at the conference web <br>site<br>[http://systor.org/2012]. SYSTOR 2012 will host <br>distinguished keynote<br>speakers, a posters session, and several social events at <br>the<br>conference.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES:<br><br> Paper submission: Feb 13, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)<br> Paper notification: Mar 26, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)<br> Camera-ready: Apr 14, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)<br><br> Highlights submission: Mar 12, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)<br> Highlights notification: Mar 26, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)<br><br> Poster submission: Apr 30, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)<br> Poster notification: May 07, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)<br><br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS<br><br> Dan Tsafrir, Technion<br> Erez Zadok, Stony Brook U.<br><br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br><br> Irfan Ahmad, CloudPhysics<br> Jonathan Appavoo, Boston U.<br> Yariv Aridor, Intel<br> Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion U.<br> Mary Baker, HP Labs<br> Emery Berger, UMass Amherst<br> Tsahi Birk, Technion<br> Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research<br> Andre Brinkmann, JGU Mainz<br> Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins U.<br> Dilma Da Silva, IBM Watson<br> Eyal DeLara, U. of Toronto<br> Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern U.<br> Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U.<br> Matan Erez, UT Austin<br> Yoav Etsion, BSC<br> Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden<br> Roy Fridman, Technion<br> Tal Garfinkel, VMware<br> Sharon Goldberg, Boston U.<br> Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich<br> Maurice Herlihy, Brown U.<br> Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM India<br> Gokul Kandiraju, IBM Watson<br> Alexander Kipp, U. of Stuttgart<br> Avi Mendelson, Microsoft<br> Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz<br> Alan Mislove, Northeastern U.<br> Gilles Muller, Inria<br> Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo<br> Yale Patt, UT Austin<br> Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano<br> Donald Porter, Stony Brook U.<br> Raju Rangaswami, Florida Int'l U.<br> Luis Rodrigues, IST/INESC-ID<br> Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt<br> Sivan Toledo, Tel-Aviv U.<br> Eran Tromer, Tel-Aviv U.<br> Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich<br> Andy Wang, Florida State U.<br> Ric Wheeler, Redhat<br> Eran Yahav, Technion<br> Yuanyuan Zhou, UC San Diego<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 10<br>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:55:04 -0000<br>From: "Brian.Fitzgerald" <Brian.Fitzgerald@ul.ie><br>To: <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><br>Subject: [AISWorld] Reminder: ECIS 2012 Doctoral Consortium<br>Message-ID:<br> <D50BE47AF6843D458C0FEF0BC7FF8426087DF29F@staffexchange4.ul.campus><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Nominations are sought for the ECIS 2012 Doctoral Consortium which will take place in Barcelona on 8-10 June 2012 immediately prior to the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).<br><br> <br><br>The deadline for nominations is January 31st 2012.<br><br> <br><br>Eligible candidates should be currently enrolled in a University within AIS Area 2 (Europe, Africa and the Middle East). To get as much as possible out of the consortium, candidates should have successfully defended their thesis proposals before June 2012. Students who will have completed their dissertations by June 2012 or are close to completing will not be considered.<br><br> <br><br>Participating faculty include:<br><br> <br><br>P?r ?gerfalk (Co-Chair), Uppsala University, Sweden<br><br>Brian Fitzgerald (Co-Chair), University of Limerick, Ireland<br><br>Joan Rodon M?dol (Local Organizer), ESADE Business School, Spain<br><br> <br><br>Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland, US<br><br>Michel Avital, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br><br>Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, US<br><br>Alan Hevner, University of South Florida, US<br><br>Michael Myers, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand<br><br>Briony Oates, Teesside University, UK<br><br>Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden<br><br> <br><br>Details of the consortium and nomination process are available at <br><br>http://www.ecis2012.eu/doctoral-consortium/<br><br> <br><br> <br><br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <br><br>Prof Brian Fitzgerald, PhD, FICS, FBCS, CEng<br><br>Frederick Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business and Technology<br><br>Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre<br><br>University of Limerick<br><br>http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/BF/<br><br> <br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.aisnet.org/pipermail/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/attachments/20120125/20ad5792/attachment.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 11<br>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:40:35 +0100<br>From: Karin Hedstr?m <karin.hedstrom@oru.se><br>To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<br>Subject: [AISWorld] DOCTORAL STUDENT IN INFORMATICS,with an<br> information security profile,at ?rebro University School of Business,<br> Sweden<br>Message-ID: <4F201463.5090407@oru.se><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed<br><br>DOCTORAL STUDENT IN INFORMATICS<br>with an information security profile<br>at ?rebro University School of Business, Sweden<br>ref. no. CFP 204-232/2011<br><br>We are seeking a doctoral student to join our research study programme <br>in informatics, starting in the spring of 2012.<br><br>The Informatics department at ?rebro University offers two undergraduate <br>programmes, the Programme of Systems Analysis and the Programme of <br>Systems Development, as well as the international master?s programme <br>Electronic Government. In addition, we offer a number of single courses <br>and various contract courses. The research carried out within the <br>department is mainly geared towards information security, electronic <br>government, system development methodology, as well as IT and learning. <br>In addition to extensive international collaboration, the department is <br>represented within two research schools at ?rebro University: <br>Technology-Mediated Knowledge Processes and ?rebro Research School on <br>Public Affairs. We are now seeking a doctoral student within the field <br>of information security with the purpose of elaborating the existing <br>cooperation between informatics and the computer engineering department <br>(Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems), also at ?rebro University.<br><br>As a doctoral student you will study the use of sensor technology and <br>intelligent systems for the monitoring of the elderly in their home <br>environments from an information security perspective. The aim is to <br>contribute to the development of secure sensor technology and secure <br>intelligent systems that also respect privacy. In this context, secure <br>refers to such use of sensor technology and intelligent systems that <br>safeguards the information collected as confidential, not subject to <br>modification, and accessible. With privacy being a much debated concept, <br>there lays a great challenge in balancing privacy together with other <br>important values, such as accessible information. The research project <br>will in part include data collection in Swedish.<br><br>Information on the Internet<br>Information on admission regulations, the application form, the general <br>syllabus for the subject, a student handbook, and other information can <br>be found at ?rebro University?s homepage: <br>www.oru.se/Utbildning/Utbildning-pa-forskarniva/Regler-och-blanketter.<br><br>The programme<br>The opening is for research studies concluding with a doctoral degree. <br>The programme comprises 240 credits, which corresponds to four years of <br>full-time study.<br><br>Information on the programme can be found in the general syllabus for <br>informatics as well as in the handbook for research studies at ?rebro <br>University, Regelhandboken.<br><br>Entry requirements and selection<br>For admission to research studies, applicants are required to meet the <br>general and specific entry requirements. In addition, they must be <br>considered in other respects to have the ability required to benefit <br>from the programme. For information on the full entry requirements, <br>please refer to the Admission Regulations and appendix 2 to the general <br>syllabus for informatics.<br><br>General entry requirements<br>Alt A. The general entry requirements are met if the applicant, before 1 <br>July 2007, has completed an undergraduate programme of at least 120 <br>credits under the previous Swedish credit system (corresponding to three <br>years of full-time study).<br><br>Alt B. The general entry requirements are also met by applicants who<br>1. have been awarded a second-cycle qualification (master?s level),<br>2. have satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 <br>credits (four years), of which at least 60 credits (one year) was <br>awarded on the second cycle, or<br>3. have acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in <br>Sweden or abroad.<br>An applicant with a completed programme or obtained qualification from <br>Swedish undergraduate higher education under the previous system <br>corresponding to the entry requirements in items B1 and B2 also meet the <br>general entry requirements. The university may permit exemptions from <br>the criteria B1-B3 for an individual applicant, if there are special <br>grounds.<br><br>Specific entry requirements<br>An applicant meets the specific entry requirements for research studies <br>in the subject if he or she as part of her university qualifications has <br>passed courses of at least 90 credits, including an independent project <br>at the advanced course level/60 credit level in informatics. An <br>applicant who has acquired substantially corresponding knowledge, in <br>Sweden or abroad, also meet the specific entry requirements.<br><br>An applicant with a completed programme or obtained qualification from <br>Swedish undergraduate higher education under the previous system <br>corresponding to the entry requirements in the previous paragraph also <br>meets the entry requirements. This primarily refers to passed courses of <br>at least 60 credits (including an independent project on the advanced <br>course level/60 credit level) in informatics.<br><br>The assessment whether the applicant in other respects has such ability <br>to benefit from the programme shall be made based on his/her education <br>and other previous activities, as well as on the essays and other <br>independent projects of a scholarly nature that have been submitted by <br>the applicant.<br><br>In selecting between eligible applicants, their ability to benefit from <br>the programme shall be taken into account and the selection is made <br>based on the university?s selection criteria, see appendix 2 to the <br>general syllabus for informatics. If applicants are found to have equal <br>qualifications, preference will be given to applicants of the <br>underrepresented sex. The underrepresented sex here refers to when the <br>share of either female or male students enrolled on the research study <br>programme in question is less than 40 per cent.<br><br>Doctoral grant<br>Student finance is linked to the place on the programme in the form of a <br>government-funded doctoral grant. A combination of the doctoral grant <br>and a part-time assistant appointment, within which the doctoral student <br>to a limited extent would work in teaching, research or administration, <br>may come into question. The hours spent on such duties will in that case <br>be added to the length of the four-year study programme. A student in <br>receipt of a doctoral grant shall, on application, be appointed to a <br>doctoral studentship no later than on the date on which, according to <br>the individual study plan, the equivalent of two years of full-time <br>study remains until the award of the PhD.<br><br>Contact<br>For more information and further details of the programme, please <br>contact Fredrik Karlsson (Informatics) +46 (0)19-30 39 94 alt. +46 <br>(0)70-533 94 27 or Amy Loutfi (Computer Engineering) +46 (0)19-30 11 16.<br><br>Trade union representatives are: Owe L Johansson (SACO), Robert Persson <br>(OFR) and Odd Johansson (SEKO). They can all be reached via the <br>switchboard, +46 (0)19-30 30 00.<br><br>Application<br>To apply for the programme, please use the application form. The <br>application form also contains instructions on any enclosures required.<br><br>Application for a doctoral grant<br>The doctoral grant must be applied for using a separate form, see <br>doctoral grant application form.<br><br>Your application, marked with ref. no. CFP 204-232/2011, shall be <br>submitted no later than 10 February 2012. Please enclose all documents <br>supporting your application as instructed on the application form. Send <br>the application (in three sets of copies) to ?rebro University, Records <br>Office, SE-701 82 ?rebro, Sweden.<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 12<br>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:13:14 +0000<br>From: "Alvaro Rocha" <amrocha@ufp.edu.pt><br>To: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<br>Subject: [AISWorld] CISTI'2012 - Last Call for Papers<br>Message-ID:<br> <mailman.4.1327510810.28094.aisworld_lists.aisnet.org@lists.aisnet.org><br> <br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>*************************** CISTI'2012 ****************************<br>7th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies<br> June 20-23, 2012, Madrid, Spain <br> http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2012/index.php?lang=en <br>*******************************************************************<br><br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>We are pleased to invite the academic and business community to submit their papers to CISTI'2012 (7th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies), to be held in Madrid, Spain, between the 20th and 23rd of June 2012. Authors are encouraged to submit original scientific contributions such as state-of-art reviews and new research perspectives, groundbreaking ideas and/or architectures, solutions and/or applications for real problems, empirical and/or evaluation works, case studies, etc., in conformity with the themes of this Conference.<br><br>Four types of papers can be submitted:<br><br> Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned to a 6-page limit.<br><br> Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, opened to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.<br><br> Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, opened to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 2-page limit.<br><br> Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R&D, tools, etc., focused in some topics of the conference. These articles are abstracts with a maximum of 1 page. <br><br>Papers submitted for the Scientific Committee�s evaluation must not include any information leading to the authors� identification. Therefore, the authors� names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the early version. This information should only be included in the final version.<br><br>Submitted papers must not have been published and must not be under review for any other conference and national or international publication.<br><br>Papers must comply with the format standard (http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2012/papersformat.dot) and be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English.<br><br>All papers will be subjected to a �blind review� by at least two members of the Scientific Committee.<br><br>Full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the proceedings publication.<br><br>The authors of accepted poster papers must build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5-minute limit per poster.<br><br>The authors of accepted full papers will dispose of a 15-minute presentation in the Conference Work Session, and approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will dispose of an 11-minute presentation in the Conference Work Session, and approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.<br><br> <br><br>THEMES<br><br>Submitted papers must follow the main themes proposed for the Conference (the topics proposed in each theme constitute a mere framework reference; they are not intended as restrictive):<br><br>A) OMIS - Organizational Models and Information Systems<br><br>B) KMDSS - Knowledge Management and Decision Support Systems<br><br>C) SSAAT - Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools<br><br>D) CNMPS - Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems<br><br>E) HCC - Human Centered Computing<br><br>F) HIS - Health Informatics<br><br>G) ITE - Information Technologies in Education<br><br><br>PUBLICATION AND INDEXING<br><br>To ensure that the contribution (full paper, short paper, poster paper, company paper) is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered until the 13th of April, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and the page-limit. Additionally, all recommended modifications must be addressed by the authors before they submit the final version.<br><br>No more than two contributions per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for each additional paper submitted for publication, with a maximum of two additional papers.<br><br>Published full papers will be sent to ISI, IEEE�s XPlore, EI and EBSCO. In previous editions resulted in indexation by ISI, SCOPUS, EBSCO and INSPEC. Published short papers will be sent to IEEE�s XPlore, EI and to EBSCO. In previous editions resulted in indexation by SCOPUS, EBSCO and INSPEC. Poster papers will be sent to EBSCO only, where they will subsequently be indexed. Company papers will not be sent for indexing.<br><br>The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to expand them for publication in a special issue of REICIS (Spanish Journal of Innovation, Quality and Software Engineering), in IEEE�s book TICAI (ICTs Applied to Engineering Learning), in RISTI Journal (Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies) and other interested Iberian publications.<br><br><br>CISTI'2012 Website: http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2012/index.php?lang=en<br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>�lvaro Rocha<br>University Fernando Pessoa, Porto<br>http://www.ufp.pt<br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AISWorld mailing list<br>AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<br><br>End of AISWorld Digest, Vol 27, Issue 22<br>****************************************<br></div></body></html>