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Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2021: Mini-Track Title: Maritime Informatics
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 11:56:43 -0500
From: Richard Watson <rickwatson(a)mac.com>
To: AISWorld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS),
Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Montréal, Canada, August 5-7, 2021
Mini-Track Title: Maritime Informatics
Track: Green IS and Sustainability (SIG Green)
Mini-Track description
Maritime Informatics studies the application of information systems to
increasing the efficiency, safety, and ecological sustainability of the
world’s shipping industry. According to the International Maritime
Organization (IMO), international shipping moves about 90 per cent of
global trade and is the most efficient and cost-effective method for the
international transportation of most goods. Hence, shipping is critical
to future sustainable global economic growth.
The industry can be characterized as many independent actors who engage
in episodic tight coupling. It has, however, been a late starter to
digitization, possibly because of the long history of autonomy and the
lack of inexpensive high bandwidth communication when on the ocean. A
lack of information sharing impedes collaboration and reduces efficiency
and safety. As a result, there are many opportunities to apply
information systems theory and knowledge to a critical global industry.
Call for papers
Maritime Informatics studies the application of information systems to
increasing the efficiency, safety, and ecological sustainability of the
world’s shipping industry. According to the International Maritime
Organization (IMO), international shipping moves about 90 per cent of
global trade and is the most efficient and cost-effective method for the
international transportation of most goods. Because of its efficiency,
shipping is critical to future sustainable global economic growth. Thus,
the advancement of sustainable shipping and maritime development is a
major priority for IMO, which is the UN agency responsible for global
shipping standards, safety, security, and environmental impact.
Shipping is an old industry, starting with river trading on the
Euphrates at the beginning of agricultural development. A ship’s captain
has considerable autonomy, and the industry can be characterized as many
independent actors (e.g., ship captain, port authority, terminal
operator, tug master, pilot, and shipping agent) who engage in episodic
tight coupling (e.g., a pilot meeting a boat and guiding it into harbor)
for mutual benefit. The shipping industry has been a late starter to
digitization, possibly because of the long history of high autonomy and
the lack of inexpensive high bandwidth communication when on the ocean.
The lack of information sharing impedes collaboration and reduces
efficiency, safety, and ecological sustainability.
The mini-track seeks submissions that address some of the following
topics or others related to the general notion of Maritime Informatics
as defined in this call:
• Design of an information sharing system for the shipping industry that
enhances coordination and planning
• Design of an information sharing system for an ecosystem constrained
by a culture of limited cooperation
• Design of an information sharing system for the shipping industry that
enhances efficiency, safety, and ecological sustainability
• Appropriate standards for data sharing within the shipping ecosystems
• The role of real-time digital data streams in enhancing shipping
efficiency
• The role of information systems in increasing the efficiency of
episodic tight coupling
• The digitization by the shipping industry of its natural, human, and
economic capital to improve efficiency, safety, and ecological
sustainability
• The contribution of information systems to effective sea traffic
management
• Theoretical basis for informing Maritime Informatics
• Prior research for accelerating the development of Maritime Informatics
• Application of information systems in other domains for inspiring the
adoption of digitization in the maritime sector
• Intelligent processing of marine Automatic Identification System (AIS)
data
• Intelligent processing of environmental monitoring data from sensors
(on buoys or UAVs)
• Intelligent processing of data related to the automatic tracking of
cargo, machinery, and people in a smart port environment
• Extracting value and combining marine related data streams to create
additional value
• Ensuring the integrity of the marine related data
• Data cleaning, validation, and reconstruction of faulty/missing marine
related data
• Fusion of all the information coming from the various marine related
sources
• Dealing with uncertainty and conflicting information from marine
related sources
• Extracting useful information out of the marine related data based on
user requirements
• Services that support organizational decision-making marine related
activities (e.g., scheduling allocation of ships to port services,
stowage planning)
Papers are due March 1st, 2021
Michalis Michaelides, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus,
michalis.michaelides(a)cut.ac.cy
Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus,
herodotos.herodotou(a)cut.ac.cy
Sandra Haraldson, RISE, Sweden, sandra.haraldson(a)ri.se
Sukhjit Singh, The University of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and
Tobago, Sukhjit.Singh(a)utt.edu.tt
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