[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2012 - Minitrack on Business Process Optimization & Analytics

[Maximilian Roeglinger]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 

Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012 (http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/)

Track: Decision Support, Data Management Systems, Knowledge Management, and
Business Intelligence (SIGDSS)

Minitrack: Business Process Optimization & Analytics

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DESCRIPTION

Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Process Management (BPM) are
influential streams within the IS research discipline. While BI refers to
applications, technologies, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing,
and analyzing data to help business users make better decisions, BPM is
comprised of concepts, methods, and tools dedicated to the identification,
capture, improvement, implementation, and execution of organizational
processes. Both topics have received high attention in practice as well. In
IBM’s 2009 Global CIO Study, more than 2,500 chief information officers
worldwide pointed to BI and analytics as the top visionary plan for
enhancing their companies’ competitiveness. According to Gartner, BPM and
process improvement have been a top priority of CIOs during the last eight
years.

So far, the intersection between BI and BPM has been barely addressed.
However, there is great potential for boundary-spanning research. To name a
few reasons: (1) Managerial issues and process-related decision support play
an increasingly important role in the BPM community, (2) Flexible business
processes will benefit from OLAP capabilities when deciding how to adapt to
contextual changes, (3) There are large amounts of process data from
workflow management systems or process warehouses amenable to analytical
techniques, (4) Various researchers recently expressed the need to
complement the variety of existing qualitative approaches to process
improvement by quantitative approaches.

Note: This minitrack is sponsored by the AIS Special Interest Group on
“Process Automation and Management” (SIGPAM). We are currently trying to
arrange a fast track setting for outstanding papers. We will keep you
informed.

SUGGESTED TOPICS

This minitrack intends to serve as a platform for research results of and
the exchange between the BI and BPM communities. Beyond classical BPM
topics, the following topics are of interest:

•	Quantitative approaches to process improvement
•	Predictive analytics for business processes
•	Process mining
•	Process warehousing
•	Process simulation
•	Process performance measurement
•	Business intelligence & workflow management
•	Business intelligence & process automatization
•	Business intelligence & process flexibility
•	Business intelligence & context-aware processes
•	Value-orientation in BPM
•	OLAP applications for BPM
•	BPM and managerial decision making 
•	BPM and on-line decision making

We invite contributions from disciplines including information systems,
information management, computer and management science to properly cover
the facets of business process optimization and analytics. We encourage
papers applying quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical
research methodologies such as case studies, action research, surveys,
experiments, and design science.


IMPORTANT DATES

- January, 2012: Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions
- March 1, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions
- April 2, 2012: Notification of acceptance
- April 20, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Final copy due
- June 12, 2012: Last day for AMCIS 2012 Early Registration
- July 13, 2012: Deadline for making hotel room reservations
- July 24, 2012: Last day for AMCIS 2012 Regular Registration
- August 9-12, 2012: AMCIS Conference


SUBMISSION SITE

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012


MINITRACK CHAIRS

Amit Deokar
College of Business and Information Systems Dakota State University Madison,
SD, USA amit.deokar at dsu.edu

Marta Indulska
UQ Business School
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Brisbane, Australia
m.indulska at business.uq.edu.au

Michael zur Muehlen
Stevens Institute of Technology
Howe School of Technology Management
Center for Business Process Innovation
Hoboken, NJ, USA
mzurmuehlen at stevens.edu

Maximilian Roeglinger (primary contact)
FIM Research Center
University of Augsburg
Universitaetsstraße 12,
86159 Augsburg, Germany
maximilian.roeglinger at wiwi.uni-augsburg.de