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<div><font face="Consolas">Call for Papers: </font><span style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">23nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2015)</span></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;"><b>Track: Cloud Computing Services</b></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">May 26-29, 2015, Münster, Germany – <a href="http://ecis2015.eu/">http://ecis2015.eu</a></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">Deadline for paper submissions: November 28, 2014 (strict deadline!)</div>
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<div>TRACK CHAIRS</div>
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<div>* Ali Sunyaev, University of Cologne, Germany, sunyaev@wiso.uni-koeln.de (corresponding track chair)</div>
<div>* Inge van de Weerd, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, i.vande.weerd@vu.nl</div>
<div>* Alexander Benlian, TU Darmstadt, Germany, benlian@ise.tu-darmstadt.de</div>
<div>* Jan Marco Leimeister, St. Gallen University, Switzerland, janmarco.leimeister@unisg.ch</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">TRACK DESCRIPTION</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">Cloud computing offers on-demand access to a shared pool of managed and scalable information technology (IT) resources on a pay-per-use basis. With cloud computing, IT resources are
used in a similar way as traditional utilities such as water, gas, and electricity. Cloud computing services are designed to interact in a service-oriented environment to create and combine new types of connected, innovative, and service-based enterprise architectures
as well as end-user solutions. Thus, cloud computing services are a key driver towards a networked society.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">With cloud computing outgrowing its infancy and organizations continue to rely on and invest in cloud technologies, the demand for secure, compliant, and reliable cloud computing services
rises and the need to efficiently adopt, integrate, and roll out cloud computing services gains importance. As a specific focus of this track, we focus on practices to ensure security, compliance, and reliability of cloud solutions as well as on sourcing and
decision processes in the context of cloud computing services.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">TOPICS OF INTEREST</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">This track invites researchers who explore the strategic, organizational, technological implications of cloud sourcing to submit original empirical or theoretical contributions. We
encourage researchers to submit behavioral and, in particular, case-based, action, and design-oriented research that enable provision of secure, compliant, and reliable cloud services as well as efficient cloud sourcing processes. Suggested topics include,
but are not limited to, the following:</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Cloud computing adoption, innovation, and diffusion</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Cloud sourcing, decision-making and make or buy decision processes</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Cloud sourcing processes and practices</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Business impact of adopting cloud computing services</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Cloud computing services in highly regulated industries (e.g., health care, financial services)</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Medical and health IT services in cloud computing environments</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Integration of cloud services in the overall IT landscape</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Cloud computing services and organizational change</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Trust in cloud computing</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Security, privacy, and compliance management in cloud computing</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Monitoring and accountability in cloud environments</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Privacy policies for cloud-based services</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Metrics, measures, and audit processes for certification of cloud services</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Digital preservation of cloud services</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Big data in the cloud</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Cloud computing for start-ups and entrepreneurs</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Self-service cloud portals, service descriptions, cloud marketplaces and ecosystems</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Value-added services for cloud ecosystems</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">IMPORTANT DATES</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Submissions open: October 6, 2014</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Submission deadline: November 28, 2014</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Notification of acceptance: End of February, 2015</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Submission deadline of final version: March 31, 2015</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">ASSOCIATE EDITORS</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Daniel Beimborn, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Paul Drews, University of Hamburg</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Johann Kranz, Georg-August-University of Göttingen</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Karl Lang, Baruch College</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Tiago Oliveira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Andreja Pucihar, University of Ljubljana</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* German F. Retana, INCAE Business School</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Matti Rossi, Aalto University</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Holger Schrödl, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Nils Urbach, University of Bayreuth</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Will Venters, London School of Economics</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Thomas Widjaja, TU Darmstadt</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Martin Wiener, Stockholm School of Economics</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Till Winkler, Copenhagen Business School</div>
<div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas;">* Stefano Za, LUISS Guido Carli</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences | University of Cologne, Germany | </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a href="http://www.isq.uni-koeln.de/" style="color: purple; ">http://www.isq.uni-koeln.de/</a></span></span></p>
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