<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Explore how location based data (e.g., country, state, province, address etc.), can inform your research. Consider attending the SIGGIS pre-ICIS Workshop on Geographic Information Systems. GIS systems </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">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 style="background-color:initial"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="color:black;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14pt">Workshop on Geographic Information Systems</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14pt">Pre-<font color="#222222" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">ICIS</font> <font color="#222222" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</font>, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 14, <font color="#222222" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</font></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14pt">9am-2:30pm at University of Auckland Business School</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">This Workshop is supported by SIGGIS of the Association for Information Systems.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Workshop Registration will be through the <font color="#222222" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">ICIS</font> <font color="#222222" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</font> website (http//<a href="http://icis2014.aisnet.org/" target="_blank">icis2014.aisnet.org</a></span>)</p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Workshop co-chairs: James Pick*, Hindupur Ramakrishna*, Dan Farkas**, and Tom Horan***.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">*University of Redlands **Pace University ***Claremont Graduate University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">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="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">This workshop will:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 27pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">•<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Explain fundamental spatial concepts.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 27pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">•<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Justify GIS’s importance in the IS discipline.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 27pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">•<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Explain role of geo-spatial analysis and intelligence for business & government.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 27pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">•<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Provide connections with IS concepts</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 27pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">•<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Explore existing research methods, body of published work, theories, research questions, journal outlets.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 27pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">•<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-stretch:normal"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">Provide cutting-edge GIS research through <u>contributed papers</u> on GIS, Locational Analytics, Spatial Reasoning, and Spatial Business Intelligence.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> Since this area is expanding and becoming essential in business and government, the workshop can advance research in a new and evolving sub-field within IS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">The Objectives are (1) </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">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="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">, and (3) Offer a forum for presentation of contributed research papers on GIS and Spatial Analysis in the context of IS/IT and organizations. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">The morning session focuses on the tutorial, exploration and discussion of research opportunities in spatial analytics and GIS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt">In the afternoon session, the contributed research papers will be presented.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><u><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-size:12pt">Workshop chair contact for information</span></u><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">James B. Pick</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">E-mail: <a href="mailto:james_pick@redlands.edu" target="_blank">james_pick@redlands.edu</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">School of Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373-0999</span></p></span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dan Farkas, PhD<br>Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems<br>Pace University<br>Pleasantville, NY, 10570 USA</div></div>
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