<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> There is still time to submit!</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span><br></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>If your
research investigates location based data (e.g., country, state,
province, address etc.), consider submitting a paper to the</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> SIGGIS,</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> <span><span><span><span>ICIS</span></span></span></span> 2014 pre-<span><span><span><span>ICIS</span></span></span></span> Workshop on GIS. </span></span></font><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> Geographic
Information Systems analyze spatial data to provide unique perspectives
and decision support to a broad spectrum of applications including
transportation, planning, real estate, and marketing. </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span></span></font><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span><br></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">
<font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>Not sure how GIS fits in with your research? Send us a note. We can help.<br></span></span></font></p><ul><li><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>The deadline for submission is October 1, 2014; Acceptance notification is October 20, 2014. <br>
</span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span><u><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">S</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span><u><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">elected papers on GIS related to
development will be forwarded to the journal, Information Technology for
Development, for expedited full journal review</span></span></span></span></b></u></span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>More information can be found at: </span></span></font><a href="http://siggis.wikispaces.com" target="_blank">http://siggis.wikispaces.com</a></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(192,0,0)">CALL FOR PAPERS </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,112,192)">Workshop
on Geographic Information Systems</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,112,192)">Pre-<span><span><span>ICIS</span></span></span>
2014, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 14, 2014</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,112,192)">9am-2:30pm<span> </span>at University of Auckland Business School</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">This
Workshop is supported by SIGGIS of the Association for Information Systems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Workshop
Registration will be through the <span><span><span>ICIS</span></span></span> 2014 website (http//<a href="http://icis2014.aisnet.org" target="_blank">icis2014.aisnet.org</a></span>)
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Workshop
co-chairs:<span> </span>James Pick*, Hindupur
Ramakrishna*, Dan Farkas**, and Tom Horan***.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">*University
of Redlands<span> </span>**Pace University<span> </span>***Claremont Graduate University</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(0,112,192)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP</span></b></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)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">GIS
and its related phenomena are growing rapidly in this decade, energized by
pervasive cloud and mobile technologies and by competitive advantages.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">This
workshop will:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"><span>•<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Explain
fundamental spatial concepts. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"><span>•<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Justify
GIS’s importance in the IS discipline.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"><span>•<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Explain
role of geo-spatial analysis and intelligence for business & government.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"><span>•<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Provide
connections with IS concepts</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"><span>•<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Explore
existing research methods, body of published work, theories, research
questions, journal outlets.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"><span>•<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Provide
cutting-edge GIS research through <u>contributed papers</u> on GIS, Locational
Analytics, Spatial Reasoning, and Spatial Business Intelligence.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></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)"><span> </span>Since this area is expanding and becoming
essential in business and government, the workshop<span> </span>can advance research in a new and evolving sub-field
within IS.</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)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">The Objectives are (1) </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Provide a tutorial on
spatial concepts, and locational analytics, (2) Examine and discuss research
opportunities and challenges in Geographic Information Systems and Spatial
Analysis, as related to the field of Information Systems (IS)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">, and (3) <span>Offer
a forum for presentation of contributed research papers on GIS and Spatial
Analysis in the context of IS/IT and organizations.<span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">The
morning session focuses on the tutorial and exploration and discussion of
research opportunities in spatial analytics and GIS.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">In
the afternoon session, the contributed research papers will be presented.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"></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(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Potential topics for contributed research papers:</span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spatial
business intelligence </span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spatial
decision support systems and analytics</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spatial
knowledge management</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spatial
data mining and knowledge discovery</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Web-based
GIS concepts and applications</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Big
Data and GIS</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Locational
social media</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">GIS
and the cloud</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mobile-based
spatial concepts and applications</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Methodological
papers</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Theoretical
studies</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Case
studies </span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Spatial
analytics and statistics</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Studies
of investment in and benefits of GIS, spatial BI, or SDSS</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Human,
organizational, and management factors in spatial systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,64,97);line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Quality measures and
evaluation of spatial systems</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">GIS
for sustainability</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,64,97);line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">GIS in healthcare</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,64,97);line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">GIS in marketing</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,64,97);line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Systems and software
development of GIS</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,64,97);text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Public
domain, open source, and crowdsourcing with GIS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,64,97);text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">GIS education, curriculum, teaching, training, and
workforce</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(36,64,97);text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Industry trends</span></li><li style="color:rgb(36,64,97);margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ethical
aspects of GIS and spatial decision-making</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:red"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">October 1, 2014</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Submit the paper to:<span> </span><a href="mailto:james_pick@redlands.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">james_pick@redlands.edu</span></a>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">The <i>format for papers
submitted</i> is downloadable from the SIGGIS website<span> </span>(<a href="http://siggis.wikispaces.com" target="_blank">siggis.wikispaces.com</a></span>)
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Length</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">:<span> </span>papers can be up to 18 pages single-spaced
including </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">all text, figures,
tables and appendices.<span> </span>The page count
excludes the cover page, abstract, keywords and references. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">The paper will be sent to reviewers, and acceptance decisions
will be made by October 20, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Papers
will be published electronically as the workshop proceedings on the SIGGIS website
(<a href="http://siggis.wikispaces.com" target="_blank">siggis.wikispaces.com</a></span>). <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,112,192)">Those accepted
will appear in the conference proceedings and selected papers on GIS related to
development will be forwarded to the journal, Information Technology for
Development, for expedited full journal review.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(0,32,96)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Workshop chair contact for information</span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">James B. Pick</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">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-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">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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