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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>Hyperconnected World: Anything Anywhere Anytime <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>Chicago, Illinois, USA <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>15–17 August 2013<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Second Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><u>Mini-track:</u> Strategic and Competitive Applications of Cloud Computing<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Cloud Computing is considered to be one of the major advances in computing and emerging to be a hot topic for both practitioners and academia. Cloud Computing offers several opportunities inclusive of high and rapid scalability, low-cost computing, fault-tolerant services, ability to deal with big data [2]. Given the promises of cloud computing, Gartner Research expects cloud computing market to be a $150 billion business by 2014[1]. Despite its growing prominence, there are still several issues such as security, which are hampering the rapid adaption of Cloud Computing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>This mini-track solicits empirical, theoretical, conceptual, and case-based research studies that seek to explore the strategic and competitive applications of cloud computing. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Factors facilitating the adoption of Cloud Computing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Economics of Cloud Computing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Marketing strategies for Cloud Computing services.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Security and privacy for Cloud Computing services.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Cloud Computing services; risk assessment methodologies for organizations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Cloud Computing IT governance strategies.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Design of effective information system policies for Cloud Computing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• New business models for Cloud Computing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• International and national legal framework for Cloud Computing services.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Cloud Computing as a form of “green computing”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Using Cloud Computing as a part of an organization’s competitive strategy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Cloud Computing and Digital Divide<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>• Clouding Computing and education.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>Mini-track Chairs:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Niharika Dayyala, <a href="ndayyala@utep.edu">ndayyala@utep.edu</a>, The University of Texas at El Paso<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Faruk Arslan, <a href="farslan@utep.edu">farslan@utep.edu</a>, The University of Texas at El Paso<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>Important dates:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>January 4, 2013 Paper submissions open on Bepress (new submission system for AMCIS) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>February 22, 2013 Deadline for paper submissions at 11:59 p.m. CST<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>April 17-19, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>May 9, 2013 For accepted papers, camera-ready copy due<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Instructions for authors and more information are located on the conference website at <a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>[1] Marston S., Li Z., Bandyopadhyay S., Zhang J., Ghalsasi A., Cloud computing — The business perspective, Decision Support Systems, 51, (2011), p. 176-189.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>[2] Minqi Zhou, Rong Zhang, Wei Xie, Weining Qian, and Aoying Zhou. 2010. Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing: A Survey. In Proceedings of the 2010 Sixth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids (SKG '10). IEEE Computer Society, Washington,DC,USA,105-112.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>