MCIS 2012 - The 7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems

September 8-10, 2012
Guimar„es, Portugal
http://www.mcis2012.org


Information Risk, Security and Privacy Track

Call for Papers


Important Dates

   Deadline for submissions:	March 9, 2012
   Notification of acceptance:	May 11, 2012
   Camera-ready submissions:	June 1, 2012

Aims and Scope

   The contemporary society has been labeled the knowledge society. As
   knowledge workers, people use information and IT in creative,
   innovative and productive ways in order to create value through the
   exploitation of understanding. Extending the level of analysis from
   the individual to the group or society we find new forms of
   creating, sharing and using knowledge, such as crowdsourcing and
   cloud wisdom.

   To perform their activities, knowledge workers depend on
   information, IT and information systems. This reliance is extensive
   to organizations and society.  The computerization of work brings
   new challenges and opportunities, as well as new threats. The
   knowledge society might also be labeled the risk society.  Adverse
   events such as human errors, uncontrolled complexity, ineffective
   governance, analysis and design faults in information systems,
   violations of safeguards by trusted personnel, system intruders,
   malware, environmental damage and offensive information warfare may
   endanger individual, organizational and social well-being. A
   security breach or a privacy violation may expose the vulnerability
   of the fabric of our society, woven of a myriad of personal,
   organizational and inter-organizational information systems and
   public and private information services.

   This track provides a forum for the discussion and exchange of
   relevant findings and promising ideas on information risk, security
   and privacy.  The track welcomes theoretical and empirical
   submissions and is particularly looking for contributions which
   discuss the results of interdisciplinary research on information
   risk, security and privacy grounded on the intersection of theory,
   methods and empirical findings.

   The submissions may consider technical, formal, informal or
   regulatory issues, focusing on technological, organizational or
   social aspects of information risk, security and privacy.

   The track aims to attract rigorous research that may prove useful
   for the effective and efficient management of information risk,
   security and privacy. In addition, it also aims to motivate the
   exploitation of new or alternative research paths in the realm of
   information risk, security and privacy contemporary issues.



List of Relevant Topics

   Relevant topics include, but are not limited, to:
   - Information Risks of Emergent Technologies
   - Information Risk Management
   - Economics of Information Risk, Security and Privacy
   - Governance of Information Risk, Security and Privacy
   - Information Risk, Security and Privacy Evaluation and Metrics
   - Security Planning and Architecture
   - Security and Privacy Strategies, Policies and Procedures
   - Security and Privacy Roles and Responsibilities
   - Security and Privacy Analysis and Design
   - Security and Privacy Implementation
   - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
   - Information Security and Usability
   - Human Behavior on Information Security and Privacy
   - Risk, Security and Privacy Culture
   - Security and Privacy Standards
   - Security and Privacy Legislation
   - Security and Privacy Compliance
   - Security and Privacy Ethical Challenges
   - Cybercrime and Information Warfare
   - Information Risk, Security and Privacy Assurance and Certification
   - Epistemology and Methodology of Risk, Security and Privacy Research



Types of Accepted Contributions

   Full research papers (7ñ12 pages)
   Research-in-progress papers (3ñ7 pages)
   Research and teaching case studies (7ñ12 pages)
   Posters (A2)



Submissions

   All submissions in English, via the EasyChair Submission System
   http://www.mcis2012.org/index.php/submissions
   MCIS paper template available
   Accepted full papers will be published in the Springer LNBIP series
   "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing" (ISI and Scopus
   proceedings indexed). 
   Accepted short papers will be published in AIS eLibrary.



Best Papers

   This MCIS 2012 track on Information Risk, Security and
   Privacy is associated with JISSec - Journal of Information
   System Security (http://www.jissec.org). 
   As in previous years, best papers from the track will be fast
   tracked to a JISSec special issue. 



Track Chairs

   Gurpreet Dhillon (gdhillon@vcu.edu)
   Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
   Instituto Superior de Economia e Gest„o, Portugal

   Filipe de S·-Soares (fss@dsi.uminho.pt)
   Universidade do Minho, Portugal


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