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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Special Issue of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology on Business Intelligence </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Submission deadline</b>: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">September 1, 2014</span></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Aims and Scope</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">With the rapid advancement of both business techniques and technologies in recent years, knowledge has become an important strategic asset that can determine the success or failure of an organisation. Indeed, research and practice have shown that rapid and effective conversion of data and information into working knowledge is a major contributor to competitive advantage. One very effective response to the needs for creation, aggregation and sharing of knowledge can be found in the sphere of Business Intelligence (BI). Making sound business decisions based on accurate and current information and knowledge requires more than simple intuition, and BI is becoming indispensable to an organisation’s success in the global economy. BI is currently one of the fastest growing areas of information and communication technology with current trends including developments in green computing, social networking, data visualisation, mobile BI, predictive analytics, composite applications, cloud computing, multi-touch and big data, among others. The aim of this special issue is to assess the relevance of these trends in the current business context through evidence-based documentation of current and emerging applications as well as their wider business implications.</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We solicit contributions related, but not limited to the following topics:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Design and implementation issues in BI involving data warehousing, ETL and OLAP</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Security and privacy issues in BI</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Trust and risk management in BI</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Visualisation and data analytics for BI</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Data mining techniques for BI applications</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Intelligent agents for BI</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BI and knowledge management</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Impact of BI on business strategy</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BI best practices</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Impact of cloud computing on BI</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BI and big data</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BI and green IT</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BI and the social Web</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Impact of organisational culture on BI</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BI and Information Systems</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mobile BI</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Social BI</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BI architecture </span></li>
</ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We encourage submissions from both academics and practitioners. Two types of papers are welcomed: 1) regular papers reporting new research or applications, and 2) brief research notes discussing new developments in industry.</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Submission Procedure</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Full papers should be submitted to: </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsit" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsit</a> (all manuscripts should follow the submission guidelines available at <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jsit" target="_blank">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jsit</a>).</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You must first create an author account in the system if you do not have one. Once registered, you will see the Author Centre button when you sign in to your account. Click on the ‘click here to submit a new manuscript’ link, which will take you through to the Manuscript Submission page. Follow the instructions to complete all fields and browse to upload your manuscript. At the ‘please select the issue you are submitting to’ (under Details & Comments) please choose “Special Issue on Business Intelligence” in the dropdown list.</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Important dates</b>:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><ul><li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please submit papers on or before September 1, 2014. All submissions will be peer-reviewed following the review process of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology. (Prospective authors are encouraged to indicate their interests any time before the submission deadline)</span></li>
<li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><b>Note</b>: Prospective authors who would like more time beyond the submission due date to prepare their manuscripts are encouraged to get in touch with the guest editors</span></li>
<li style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The special issue will be published in April 2015.</span><br></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Special Issue Guest Editors</b>: </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Xuemei Tian, Faculty of Business & Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Raymond Chiong, Faculty of Science & Information Technology, The University of Newcastle, Australia</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Rosemary Stockdale, Faculty of Business & Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Bill Martin, Faculty of Business & Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</span><br>
</li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(Please contact Dr. Xuemei Tian at <a href="mailto:stian@swin.edu.au" target="_blank">stian@swin.edu.au</a> if you have any queries...)</font></div>
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