<div class="gmail_quote"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
If you conduct research in decision support systems,
business intelligence, or analytics, please consider contributing to the research track in the upcoming pre-ICIS BI Congress 3 (<a href="http://www2.commerce.virginia.edu/bic3/index.asp" target="_blank">http://www2.commerce.virginia.edu/bic3/index.asp</a>).</p>
<span><p>Keeping with the "Innovation" theme of the ICIS conference, the BI Congress
3 seeks
forward-thinking <b>research </b>and <b>research-in-progress</b> in the area of <a style="text-decoration:none;display:inline;color:rgb(5,68,22);border-bottom:3px double rgb(5,68,22)" href="http://www2.commerce.virginia.edu/bic3/rtrack.asp#" target="_blank">Big Data</a> Analytics.</p>
<p>Business Intelligence (BI)/ Decision Support (DSS)/ Analytics are core to many
businesses. In recent years, traditional approaches to these concepts have
been questioned as companies embrace voluminous, high-velocity data in a variety
of formats (i.e., multi-structured). How can organizations innovate through
this Big Data? And, how can academic research further innovative thinking in
this area? This <a style="text-decoration:none;display:inline;color:rgb(5,68,22);border-bottom:3px double rgb(5,68,22)" href="http://www2.commerce.virginia.edu/bic3/rtrack.asp#" target="_blank">research track</a> aims to promote theoretical, design science, behavioral
research and emerging applications in innovative areas of BI/DSS/Analytics. <b>We
seek comprehensive research and research-in-process</b> in topics including but not limited
to:</p>
<h4>BI/DSS/Analytics from a management perspective</h4>
<ul><li>Economics of information logistics</li><li>Inter-organizational BI</li><li>Critical success factors for information logistics
implementation</li><li>Metrics for DW and BI</li><li>Governance of DW and BI</li><li>Information logistics as a service</li><li>Information logistics strategy</li><li>Program management for DW and BI</li><li>Real-time decision support</li>
<li>Context-award decision support</li><li>Affect and emotion in decision support systems</li><li>Socio-technical gaps in decision support systems</li><li>Rich language for decision support systems</li></ul>
<h4>DW/BI/Analytics from an application perspective</h4>
<ul><li>Pervasive BI (why and how)</li><li>SaaS and BI (Cloud Computing)</li><li>Real-time BI and performance metrics</li><li>Social Networking, Web 2.0 and BI</li><li>Text Mining/ Data mining - techniques and applications</li>
<li>Data Visualization and BI</li><li>Customer profiling</li><li>Data Integration</li><li>Integration of web services with the data warehouse</li><li>Business Process Management and BI</li><li>Master <a style="text-decoration:none;display:inline;color:rgb(5,68,22);border-bottom:3px double rgb(5,68,22)" href="http://www2.commerce.virginia.edu/bic3/rtrack.asp#" target="_blank">Data Management</a></li>
<li>Behavioral Economics and BI Interfaces</li><li>Parallel Processing for Very Large Data Warehouses</li><li>Multi Temperature Data Warehouses</li></ul>
<p>Paper Guidelines: Please use the
<a href="http://icis2012.aisnet.org/index.php/submissions" target="_blank">ICIS formatting guidelines</a> for your
paper submission.</p>
<ul><li>Topic is relevant to track's theme.</li><li>Objectives are clear and well-described.</li><li>Paper is clearly written.</li><li>Paper will draw an audience.</li><li>Paper is well organized and flows logically.</li>
<li>Literature review is appropriate.</li><li>Methodology (or proposed methodology) is appropriate.</li><li>Analyses are appropriate (if relevant, many RIP paper may
not have data for analyses).</li><li>Evidence supports authors' arguments.</li><li>Paper makes contributions to the field, or has potential for
contributions.</li></ul>
<p>Page Limit Requirements: Full <a style="text-decoration:none;display:inline;color:rgb(5,68,22);border-bottom:3px double rgb(5,68,22)" href="http://www2.commerce.virginia.edu/bic3/rtrack.asp#" target="_blank">research papers</a> must not exceed 14 pages --
and research-in-progress papers must not exceed 7
pages. All submissions must conform to the ICIS 2012
submission template and follow the
instructions document. The page limit must include all text, figures, and
tables. The cover page, abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from
this page count.</p>
<p>During the conference, select research-in-progress papers will be
discussed in a round table format to help shape the research for future publication success and
strong impact.</p>
<p><i>All accepted papers will be published in the BI Congress 3 conference
proceedings. Authors will retain copyright ownership. Quality papers will be
fast-tracked for publication in related journal in the field (.e.g.,
International Journal of BI Research and others); however, they will be
subject to further review as determined by the journal.</i></p>
<h3>Important Dates:</h3>
<ul><li>Due Date: September 1, 2012</li><li>Acceptance notification: October 1, 2012</li><li>Final Papers due: November 1, 2012</li><li>BI Congress 3: December 15 (practice presentations and evening social event) & December
16 (papers, panels and keynotes), 2012</li></ul>
<h3>Submission Process:</h3>
<p>Prepare Manuscript using
<a href="http://icis2012.aisnet.org/index.php/submissions" target="_blank">ICIS paper formatting guidelines</a>.</p>
<p>Submit papers to: <a href="mailto:lsiyer@uncg.edu" target="_blank">Lakshmi Iyer</a> (<a href="mailto:Lsiyer@uncg.edu" target="_blank">Lsiyer@uncg.edu</a>)
and
<a href="mailto:ariyachandrat@xavier.edu" target="_blank">Thilini Ariyachandra</a> (<a href="mailto:Ariyachandrat@xavier.edu" target="_blank">Ariyachandrat@xavier.edu</a>)</p>
<p>If accepted, make any improvements and submit revised paper to the Research
Track chairs by November 1, 2012.</p></span>Regards,<br>Lakshmi Iyer and Thilini Aryanchandra<br>BIC3 Research Track Co-Chairs<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span><br clear="all"></div>-- <br>Lakshmi S. Iyer, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor and Information Systems Graduate Programs Director<br>The University of North Carolina at Greensboro<br>Email: <a href="mailto:Lsiyer@uncg.edu" target="_blank">Lsiyer@uncg.edu</a>; Phone: 336/334-4984; Fax: 336/334-5580<br>
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