[AISWorld] WITS 2011 Call For Papers

Tue Jun 14 14:01:26 EDT 2011

                                                                                                                          WITS 2011 Call for Papers

21st Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems in Shanghai, China
December 3-4, 2011

Conference Theme: Business Intelligence and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Competitiveness
Conference URL: http://nima.is/wits

The 21st Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems will be held in Shanghai, CHINA, on December 3-4, 2011, just prior to the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with research interests in the cutting edge issues of information technologies and systems. The theme of the conference is "Business Intelligence and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Competitiveness."
Business Intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term that describes a combination of technologies and business concepts that organizations use to leverage information assets and create business value. According to an IBM Global CIO Study, the collective voice of more than 2,500 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) worldwide points to business intelligence and analytics as the top visionary plan for enhancing their enterprises' competitiveness. As data storage and access capabilities continue to increase, cloud computing is emerging as an important aspect for many BI strategies. It has the potential to speed application deployment, increase innovation; lower maintenance costs, and improves business agility. However, these benefits must be balanced against concerns over security and ownership of information assets. The combination of BI and cloud computing represents an important paradigm shift in the way enterprises design, build, and deliver and utilize information assets. Since it is a workshop, WITS actively solicits papers describing novel research ideas that may be at a relatively early stage of development. Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Agent-based Systems
Agile System Development
Collaboration and Recommender Systems
Computational Ontology
Conceptual Modeling
Databases and Information Integration
Data, Text and Web Mining
Data Warehousing & OLAP
E-Business and E-Commerce
Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise Systems and Architecture
Human-Computer Interface
Information Personalization Technology
Information Quality, Privacy, and Security
Intellectual Property Protection
Intelligent Systems and Technologies
Knowledge Management Technologies
Mobile Commerce and Wireless Technologies
Multi-Media Computing
Peer-to-peer Technologies
Process management and mining
Recommender Systems
Resource and organizational modeling
Search Engines
Security techniques for information systems
Semantic Web
Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
Supply Chains and IT
Systems Analysis and Design
Systems to Support Collaboration & Negotiation
IT Infrastructure for Evolving Business Models
Web-Based Information Systems
Workflow Management Systems

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted research papers are limited to 6 single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, 8.5" by 11" pages (including tables, figures, and references and 1" margins on all sides). All submissions will be subject to double blind review.  Selection for presentation at the workshop and publication in the proceedings will be based on originality, contribution to the field, and workshop interest.

Research paper submissions must be sent in electronic form using the WITS 2010 submission system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wits2011). The electronic submission system, as well as instructions, will be available in the earlier July 2011.  Prototype demo submissions should be submitted directly to the prototype demo chair, Cecil Chua. Prototype submissions could include links to any associated software or demo.

PANEL ORGANIZATION
As this is the first time that WITS will be held in Asia, WITS 2011 would like to promote and attract technical IS researchers and industry practitioners from this region. In keeping with the conference theme and to take advantage of the workshop location, Shanghai, we will organize three panels: (1) China's IS Curriculum and Education - for IS educators in understanding and exchanging ideas on IS education, (2) Asian CIO Forum - for senior IT managers from this region to share their advice, insight and challenges in managing emerging IT applications, (3) Business Intelligence and Analytics - for academic and industry speakers from both China and other parts of the world to present challenges in implementing BI applications.
We welcome additional panel proposals. Please submit your panel proposals directly to program co-chairs.

JOURNAL PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY
Authors of selected workshop papers will be invited to submit complete versions of their research for review and possible publication in a special issue of ACM Transaction on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS, http://tmis.acm.org/). We will invite papers for the review of this special issue. In addition, all accepted workshop papers will be published on SSRN (http://www.ssrn.com<http://www.ssrn.com/>).
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submissions: August 1, 2011
Notification of paper acceptance: September 26, 2011
Prototype and panel submission: October 10, 2011
Notification of prototype and panel: October 24, 2011
Camera-ready copy due: October 24, 2011
WORKSHOP & PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Roger Chiang (roger.chiang at uc.edu<mailto:roger.chiang at uc.edu>), University of Cincinnati, USA
Andrew Gemino (gemino at sfu.ca<mailto:gemino at sfu.ca>), Simon Fraser University, Canada

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Pengzhu Zhang (pzzhang at sjtu.edu.cn<mailto:pzzhang at sjtu.edu.cn>), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

PROTOTYPE DEMO CHAIR
Cecil Chua (aeh.chua at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:aeh.chua at auckland.ac.nz>), University of Auckland, New Zealand

PROGRAM LIAISONS
Asia:
Guoqing Chen (chengq at sem.tsinghua.edu.cn<mailto:chengq at sem.tsinghua.edu.cn>), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Jae Kyu Lee (jklee at business.kaist.ac.kr<mailto:jklee at business.kaist.ac.kr>), KAIST, Korea
Ee-Peng Lim (eplim at smu.edu.sg<mailto:eplim at smu.edu.sg>), Singapore Management University, Singapore
Rahul Roy (Rahul at iimcal.ac.in<mailto:Rahul at iimcal.ac.in>), IIM Calcutta, India
Chih-Ping Wei (cpwei at im.ntu.edu.tw<mailto:cpwei at im.ntu.edu.tw>), National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Leon Zhao (jlzhao at cityu.edu.hk<mailto:jlzhao at cityu.edu.hk>), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Australia and New Zealand:
Cecil Chua (aeh.chua at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:aeh.chua at auckland.ac.nz>), University of Auckland, New Zealand
Ron Weber (ron.weber at monash.edu<mailto:ron.weber at monash.edu>), Monash University, Australia

Europe:
Wil van der Aalst (W.M.P.v.d.Aalst at tm.tue.nl<mailto:W.M.P.v.d.Aalst at tm.tue.nl>), Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Matthias Jarke (jarke at cs.rwth-aachen.de<mailto:jarke at cs.rwth-aachen.de>), RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Matti Rossi (matti.rossi at aalto.fi<mailto:matti.rossi at aalto.fi>), Aalto University School of Economics, Finland

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