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<h3 style="margin-top:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Business
Intelligence, Analytics, & Knowledge Management Track (</span><a href="http://ais.site-ym.com/members/group_content_view.asp?group=89755&id=161287"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">SIGDSS</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">)</span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-top:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">AMCIS
2014, Savannah, GA</span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-top:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">August
7 - 10, 2014</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext"></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to the 20th
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014) Business Intelligence,
Analytics, & Knowledge Management (BIA&KM) track sponsored by AIS </span><a href="http://ais.site-ym.com/members/group_content_view.asp?group=89755&id=161287"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">SIGDSS</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">. AMCIS
will be held on August 7-10, 2014 in Savannah, GA, USA. AMCIS 2014 brings
together academics and industry professionals around the world to exchange knowledge
related to the AMCIS 2014 theme, SMART SUSTAINABILITY: the Information Systems
Opportunity.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The track details are as follows:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track
Co-Chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">:<span style> </span><span style> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Babita Gupta, California State University Monterey Bay,
<a href="mailto:bgupta@csumb.edu">bgupta@csumb.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Thilini Ariyachandra, Xavier University,
<a href="mailto:ariyachandrat@xavier.edu">ariyachandrat@xavier.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Amit Deokar, Dakota State University, <a href="mailto:amit.deokar@dsu.edu">amit.deokar@dsu.edu</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Track
Description</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Business Intelligence, Analytics, & Knowledge
Management (BIA&KM) track aims to attract novel research on technologies,
applications, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, analyzing, and
presenting data, information, and knowledge for informed managerial decisions
and enhanced organizational performance. Techniques, tools, and best practices
in Business Intelligence (BI), decision support/analytics, and Knowledge Management
(KM) can help support organizational business processes and systems for
collecting and utilizing information related to sustainability indicators, analytics,
dashboards, scorecards, and trend analyses.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As organizations embrace technologies such as social media,
and new data sources (e.g., sensors, RFID), they also face new challenges
related to analyzing and leveraging data characterized by large volume,
velocity, and variety – typically referred to as ‘Big Data’. Research focused
on managerial as well as technical challenges in this area is needed. Also,
Knowledge Management can play a key role in dealing with varied forms of knowledge,
structured and unstructured, at the intersection of technology, processes and
people. Knowledge Management strategies and solutions need to be further
investigated and brought to bear on new organizational challenges, including economic,
strategic, and behavioral issues. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This research track aims to promote forward-thinking
research in theoretical, design science, and behavioral aspects of BI/Big Data/Analytics/DSS/KM.
Also, applied research in these areas related to creating and managing sustainable
organizations is welcome. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minitrack topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Predictive analytics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Text analytics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Big data and decision support applications, integration,
and strategies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Social media and Web 2.0 analytics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Pervasive and real-time BI</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Data and information visualization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Data integration strategies and design (e.g., conceptual,
logical, physical design for data warehouses/marts)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Online analytical processing (modeling)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- BI for customer relationship management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Use of BI methods for integrating sustainability practices
with business strategy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Sustainability Analytics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Geospatial BI</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Supply chain management utilizing BI in manufacturing
processes, transportation, and logistics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Collaboration, integration, and management using BI for
performance transparency</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Business performance management (BPM) and optimization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Data security and information privacy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Behavioral Economics and BI</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- BI strategies and performance metrics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- BI governance, implementation, management and metrics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Management of knowledge and business process improvement</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Measurement of organizational knowledge</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- Social and behavioral issues in KM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">- BI pedagogy in higher education</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Given the very broad and encompassing nature of the research
area, there is room for new mini-tracks involving emerging issues especially
those to do with Internet of Things, mobile BI, and BI in clouds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minitrack chairs will be responsible for:<br>a) Promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript
submissions to AMCIS 2014;<span style> </span><br>b) Soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts
submitted to the minitrack; and<br>c) Making recommendations to track chairs about each
manuscript submitted to the minitrack.<br><br><br>To submit a minitrack proposal, you must provide:<br><span style>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minitrack chairs (names, emails,
affiliation)<br><span style>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minitrack title<br><span style>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Short description of minitrack for
the AMCIS 2014 website (up to 150 words)<br><span style>4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Call for papers for your minitrack. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">To submit the mini track proposal, visit: <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a>,
login, and select the Business Intelligence, Analytics, & Knowledge
Management Track (SIGDSS) track.</span></p>
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Important Dates:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style> </span>Monday, Nov 4, 2013: <span style></span>Submit mini track proposals via the online
submission system.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style> </span>Saturday, Jan 4, 2014: <span style> </span>Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2014
begins.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Best wishes,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Babita.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Babita Gupta, Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Professor of Information Systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">College of Business</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">California State University Monterey Bay</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">100 Campus Center</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Seaside, CA 93955</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Phone: 831.582.4186</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Email: <a href="mailto:bgupta@csumb.edu">bgupta@csumb.edu</a></span></p>
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