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<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">20th Americas Conference on Information Systems</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Savannah, Georgia, August 07-10, 2014</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Track: Enterprise systems (SIGEntSys)</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Minitrack: Cloud Operations and Very Large Business
Applications (VLBA)</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Instructions for authors at: AMCIS website(</span><a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/" style="font-family:'Courier New'" target="_blank">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/</a><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">)</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">DESCRIPTION</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Emerging technologies like mash-ups, web 2.0 and cloud
computing on the one side and the increasing agility of business models on the
other side raises the question how Enterprise Systems will look like in the
future. Therefore, we see a new class of Enterprise Systems which address the
need for more agility in the entire value chain with a loosely coupled system
of distinct elements, orchestrated to a highly integrated, complex Information
System (Very Large Business Applications, VLBA).</span><br></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">VLBA act as enabler for intra- and interorganisational
business processes and play a significant role in the development of new
business models. This Mini-Track aims at studying, grounding, and finally
exploiting the potential of VLBA to solve integration and coordination problems
in distributed business processes as a key enabler of flexible boundaryless
information systems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Key research questions are:</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">how to represent VLBA in service-based information
systems by employing and adapting constructs, models, and methods of different
information systems technology stacks,</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">how to coordinate software services by employing and
adapting approaches for service discovery and composition,</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">how to operate large-scale, highly distributed
enterprise systems aligned with the needs of an agile business environment,</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">how to negotiate and agree upon the delivery of
software-based services (SLA),</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">how to control the delivery of software-based services
in VLBA by measuring efficiency and effectiveness?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">This minitrack is continuing the successful start of
the scientific discuss on the topic of VLBA in an international perspective
from AMCIS 2012 and AMCIS 2013.</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">SUGGESTED TOPICS</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Topics relevant for this mini-track include, but are
not limited to, the following:</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">Cloud Computing and VLBA</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">VLBA Operations Management</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">Strategic, tactic and operative Systems Landscape
Engineering</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">VLBA Business Simulations</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">VLBA Business Models</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">Analytical Business Process Engineering for VLBA</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">VLBA and Knowledge Management</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">VLBA security issues</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">Innovative VLBA Applications</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">We invite contributions from different disciplines
including information systems, information management, computer and management
science to properly cover all facets of Very Large Business Applications. We
encourage papers applying quantitative and qualitative, empirical and
theoretical research methodologies such as case studies, action research,
surveys, experiments, and design science.</span><br></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION SITE</span></p>
<font face="courier new, monospace"><span style="font-size:13px">All submissions are to be made via the AMCIS 2014 submission system at </span><span style="font-size:13px">ScholarOne's </span><span style="font-size:13px">ManuscriptCentral <</span><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" style="font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a><span style="font-size:13px">>. </span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="courier new, monospace"><span style="font-size:13px">The submission deadline is March 1, 2014. No submissions will be accepted </span><span style="font-size:13px">after midnight, Savannah (EST) time, March 1, 2014. Authors will be </span><span style="font-size:13px">notified as to whether their submission was accepted, conditionally </span><span style="font-size:13px">accepted, or rejected by April 4, 2014. </span></font><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Instructions for authors and further information about
the conference is on the conference website at </span><a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/" style="font-family:'Courier New'" target="_blank">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/</a></div><div dir="ltr">
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">MINITRACK CHAIRS</span><br></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Holger Schroedl (communication contact)</span><br></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">Business Informatics</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Universitätsplatz
2</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">39106 Magdeburg,
Germany</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><a href="mailto:holger.schroedl@ovgu.de" target="_blank">holger.schroedl@ovgu.de</a></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">Klaus Turowski</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Courier New'">MRCC / Business Informatics</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Universitätsplatz
2</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">39106 Magdeburg,
Germany</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"><a href="mailto:klaus.turowski@ovgu.de" target="_blank">klaus.turowski@ovgu.de</a></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br>Dr. Holger Schroedl<br>Research Associate<br>Chair of Business Informatics<br>
Faculty of Informatics<br><br>Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg<br>Universitätsplatz 2, 39016 Magdeburg<br><br>Tel.: <a href="tel:%2B49%20%28391%29%2067-58389" value="+493916758389" target="_blank">+49 (391) 67-58389</a><br>
Fax: <a href="tel:%2B49%20%28391%29%2067-11216" value="+493916711216" target="_blank">+49 (391) 67-11216</a><br><a href="mailto:holger.schroedl@ovgu.de" target="_blank">holger.schroedl@ovgu.de</a><br>
<a href="http://mrcc.ovgu.de" target="_blank">http://mrcc.ovgu.de</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>