<div dir="ltr"><div>Call for Nominations <br>
Editor-In-Chief <br>
ACM TMIS<br>
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The term of the Current and Founding Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the
ACM Transactions on MIS (TMIS), Dr Hsinchun Chen is coming to an
end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up
a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next
EiC.<br>
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Nominations, including self nominations, are invited for a
three-year term as TMIS EiC, beginning on 08/01/2014. The EiC
appointment may be renewed at most one time. This is an
entirely voluntary position, but ACM will provide appropriate
administrative support.<br>
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The EiC is responsible for maintaining the highest editorial
quality, for setting technical direction of the papers published
in TMIS, and for maintaining a reasonable pipeline of articles
for publication. He/she has final say on acceptance of papers,
size of the Editorial Board, and appointment of Associate Editors.
The EiC is expected to adhere to the commitments expressed in the
policy on Rights and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing. For more
information about the role of the EiC, see ACM's Evaluation
Criteria for Editors-in-Chief <a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/evaluation/" target="_blank">http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/evaluation/</a>
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Nominations should include a vita along with a brief statement of
why the nominee should be considered. Self-nominations are
encouraged, and should include a<u><b> statement of the
candidate's vision for the future development of TMIS</b></u>.
The deadline for submitting nominations is 06/30/2014.
although nominations will continue to be accepted until the
position is filled.<br>
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Please send all nominations to the nominating committee chair, H.
Raghav Rao, <a href="mailto:mgmtrao@buffalo.edu" target="_blank">mgmtrao@buffalo.edu</a>
with the heading, ACM TMIS EiC Nomination and cc to "Larson,
Catherine A - (catheril)" <a href="mailto:catheril@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank"><catheril@email.arizona.edu></a>
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The search committee members are:<br>
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<div> Search committee chair -<br>
1. H. Raghav Rao - SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY
Buffalo<br>
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2.Ramesh Sharda -Regents Prof. and Watson/ConocoPhillips Chair of
Mgmt. Sc. & Info Systems, Watson Graduate School of
Management Spears School of Business/Oklahoma State University<br>
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3. TP Liang - National Chair Professor and Director of Electronic
Commerce Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan.<br>
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4. Matthias Jarke - Executive director of the Fraunhofer Institute
for Applied Information Technology (FIT), and Chairman of the
Fraunhofer ICT Group, Germany<br>
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5. Daniel Zeng - Gentile Family Professor, University of Arizona<br>
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6. Jack W. Davidson (University of Virginia), ACM
Publications Board Liaison<br>
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The search committee thanks Dr. Chen, the founding EiC, for his
years of leadership at ACM TMIS<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Victor Benjamin<br>Artificial Intelligence Lab<br>MIS Dept., Univ. of Arizona<br>1130 E. Helen St.<br>Tucson, AZ 85721<br>602-828-3801<br><a href="mailto:vabenji@email.arizona.edu">vabenji@email.arizona.edu</a><br>
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