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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Call for Papers (CFP)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">August 9-12, 2011, Seattle,WA, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Track: Green IS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Mini-track: Smart Grid Technologies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Mini-track chairs: Jason Dedrick and Murali Venkatesh, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">DESCRIPTION:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Many countries face difficult challenges in upgrading their aging electrical generation, transmission, and distribution systems, while others are still building out their electricity infrastructure. Current grid technologies
lack the ability to sense and respond to system failures and outages, manage peak demand, enable consumers to monitor and manage energy use, or accommodate distributed alternative energy sources. The smart grid has been identified as a solution to address
these deficiencies, and to reduce the environmental impacts of electrical generation, which currently is one of the largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. The concept of smart grid is best viewed not as a specific technology but as a set
of technologies that help fulfill the requirements of the next generation grid. According to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, the smart grid should:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Enable active participation by consumers<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Accommodate all generation and storage options<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Enable new products, services, and markets<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Provide power quality for the digital economy<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Optimize asset utilization and operate efficiently<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Anticipate & respond to system disturbances (self-healing)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Operate resiliently against attack and natural disaster<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">There are a number of key stakeholders with varying goals and interests in the smart grid including utilities, consumers, regulatory agencies, IT companies, and
equipment manufacturers. Lack of agreement among these stakeholders raises barriers to smart grid adoption, such as a lack of established interoperability standards, privacy and security issues, and inconsistent regulatory environments.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Developing systems that enable two-way communication between producers and consumers of electricity, management of demand, accommodation of distributed energy sources and more flexible
pricing regimes requires advances in technology as well as addressing the motivations of the various stakeholders whose support and participation is needed.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">The issue of smart grid adoption and implementation is closely linked to a number of common themes in information systems, including design and system integration
challenges, consumer technology acceptance, economic analysis of IS investments under uncertainty, organizational dynamics, policy and regulatory environments, and the inherently sociotechnical nature of such complex systems. So far there is little research
in the IS field on smart grid technologies, yet this is potentially a very large area of future IS development activity, given the size of the electricity sector, its current low levels of IT use, and the potential to achieve major environmental improvements
through energy efficiency and greater use of cleaner energy sources.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">To address these issues we invite papers that explore the range of technical, organizational, economic, and social perspectives on smart grid adoption.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>We invite high quality articles including but not limited to such topics<span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">
</span>as: <span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Design and development of smart grid technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">New applications for the smart grid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Awareness, adoption, and diffusion of the smart grid by utilities
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">New business models for utilities
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Organizational incentives in a regulated industry environment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Consumer acceptance and education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Privacy and security for the smart grid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Government policy, including regulatory changes and incentives for adoption
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Economic impacts of smart grid adoption<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-indent:-21.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Potential environmental impacts of smart grid adoption<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Chair Contacts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Jason Dedrick, Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">School of Information Studies
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Syracuse University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><a href="mailto:jdedrick@syr.edu">jdedrick@syr.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Murali Venkatesh, Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">School of Information Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Syracuse University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><a href="mailto:mvenkate@syr.edu">mvenkate@syr.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">First week of January, 2012: Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions (<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">April 20, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Jason Dedrick, Associate Professor</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">School of Information Studies</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Syracuse University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">324 Hinds Hall</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Syracuse, NY 13244</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">315-443-5602</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:jdedrick@syr.edu"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue">jdedrick@syr.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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