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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Mini-track
on Spatial Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Sustainable Management</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">AMCIS
2014 Conference, Savannah, Georgia, August 7-10, 2014</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)" lang="EN-US">DESCRIPTION OF MINITRACK</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)" lang="EN-US">The mini-track on Spatial
Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Sustainable Management seeks to provide a
forum for research on varied aspects of geographic information systems (GIS)
for business intelligence, analytics, knowledge management, and
management.<span> </span>This Mini-track is supported
by SIG-GIS of AIS.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)" lang="EN-US">The Mini-track is part
of the Track on Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Knowledge Management
(SIG-DSS).<span> </span>It is fully described at <a href="http://siggis.wikispaces.com" target="_blank">http://siggis.wikispaces.com/AMCIS%2C+2014+-+CFP%2C+Mini-track</a> .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)" lang="EN-US">In concert with the
AMCIS 2014 theme, GIS fosters sustainable solutions through reducing
environmental impacts by analyzing spatial proximities, configurations, and hot
spots.<span> </span>GIS is a primary approach to
achieving ecological solutions for smart cities and societies. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)" lang="EN-US">GIS and spatial
technologies are growing rapidly in business and government.<span> </span>Increasingly these applications involve
business intelligence (BI) and analytics.<span>
</span>Although there is considerable research on GIS technology and geographic
information science, there has been relatively little research in spatial
decision making in business, government, and organizations. This track seeks
manuscripts that address conceptual theory, methodology, applications, and cases
on these topics.<span> </span>The relevance to
research is to build up greater knowledge of the geo-spatial aspects of decision-making
and management, and to develop theory and applications, sometimes building on
well-known concepts in the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)" lang="EN-US">DSS and MIS fields</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)" lang="EN-US">.<span> </span>Since this area is expanding and becoming
essential in business and government, the mini-track can shed light on a new
and evolving field.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(15,36,62)" lang="EN-US">Potential topics:</span></b></p>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Spatial business intelligence </span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Spatial decision support systems and analytics</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Spatial knowledge management</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">GIS for sustainability</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">GIS to support smart cities</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Management decision-making using GIS</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Spatial data mining and knowledge discover</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Web-based GIS concepts and applications</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Big Data and GIS</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">GIS and the cloud</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Mobile-based GIS concepts and applications</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Security and privacy of spatial information</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Methodological papers</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Theoretical studies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Case studies </span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Spatial analytics</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Studies of investment in and benefits of GIS, spatial BI, or SDSS</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Human, organizational, and management factors in spatial systems</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Quality measures and
evaluation of spatial systems</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Systems and software
development of GIS</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Public
domain and open source GIS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Crowdsourcing and public domain sources of
spatial information</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">GIS education, training, and workforce</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Industry trends</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">GIS-based intelligence for planning eco-friendly regions</span></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(36,64,97)" lang="EN-US">Ethical aspects of GIS and spatial decision-making</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:red" lang="EN-US">DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"><span> </span>March 1, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">Submission information at <a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org" target="_blank">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org</a><span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Mini-track co-chair
contact for information</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">James B. Pick</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">E-mail:<span> </span><a href="mailto:james_pick@redlands.edu" target="_blank">james_pick@redlands.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">School of
Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373-0999</span></p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Dan Farkas, PhD<br>Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems<br>Pace University<br>Pleasantville, NY, 10570 USA</div>
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