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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2013) will be held on Oct. 5-6, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in conjunction with the INFORMS Annual Meeting. The theme of the conference is “Business Analytics and the Information Economy.” <span style='color:#221E1F'>The explosion of data and unprecedented ability to leverage information in the current economy are creating intriguing and unique research opportunities for the Information Systems community. Firms across diverse industries capture terabytes and petabytes of information about their customers, suppliers, and operations. Businesses and individuals are interacting in new and complex ways over social media, with the various social networking and e-commerce sites contributing to this exponential growth in data and generating compelling research questions. The ability to analyze and understand all of this data, develop and study models of new phenomena, and effectively leverage the data and insights poses an important challenge for modern organizations and society. </span>The conference will feature panels, keynote speakers and research papers that explore strategic, research and policy issues concerning the possibilities and implications related to business analytics and information systems in the knowledge economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We invite original research in all areas of Information Systems and related fields that seek to address a broad range of issues related to the conference theme with novel ideas, methodologies and findings. The deadline for submissions is June 7, 2013. CIST co-chairs are Gediminas Adomavicius, Terrence August, Mohammad Rahman, and Gautam Ray. For more information, please send an email to: <a href="mailto:cist.2013@gmail.com">orgcom@cistconf.org</a>. For submission details, please go to <a href="http://www.cistconf.org/">http://www.cistconf.org/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The areas of interest include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Business intelligence and data analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cloud computing, high availability systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Consumer behavior in mobile and digital environments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Data mining and knowledge discovery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Digital intermediaries and sponsored search advertising<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Electronic commerce and electronic markets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Information security and privacy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Intellectual property, copyrights, and DRM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>IS in healthcare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>IT adoption, use, and assimilation in various contexts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>IT and business strategy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>IT and co-creation of values; value ecosystems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>IT in emerging economies and non-governmental organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Knowledge management, collaboration and boundary spanning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Network effects in products and industries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Online communities and computer-mediated collaboration <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Outsourcing and application service contracting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Personalization technologies and recommendation systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Productivity and performance effects of IT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Social media and Enterprise 2.0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Social networks and Web 2.0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Software engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Software procurement, open source software, and open standards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The economics of digital products and information goods<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The effects of IT on industrial organization and firm boundaries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The role of IT in shaping societies, cultures, and nations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Please note that CIST does not take ownership of paper copyrights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Submissions open: Wednesday, May 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Submission deadline: Friday, June 7, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Notification of acceptance: Friday, August 9, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Submission Instructions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal 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style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Conference Co-chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Gediminas Adomavicius<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Terrence August<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mohammad Rahman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Gautam Ray<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>