Call for Papers

 

Conference

Business Analytics: Developing Competitive Advantages from Big Data

November 2^nd, 2012

College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Submission Deadline

October 7, 2012

 

The Program

The confluence of social media, electronic commerce, customer relation management technology, mobile devices, market databases, inter-connected networks, and cloud computing have made how to process, manage, and make sense of these data so as to make the best use of them an important area of competitive advantages for organizations and businesses.  

 

This conference will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from information systems, business, and engineering to discuss the state-of-the-art development, business best practices, technological trends, issues, and research results.

 

Submission

Researchers who are interested in presenting at the Conference Workshop should submit their full-length papers (no more than 25 pages, double-spaced) or short papers (around 10 pages, double-spaced) addressing research topics related to business analytics or business intelligence. Please submit them in an email to  BusAnalyticsConf@illinois.edu. Any questions about the submission process can be addressed to Ali Tafti (atafti@Illinois.edu). We are especially interested in innovative research that has not been published elsewhere.

 

Program Speakers

 

Sean Vinck, CIO, State of Illinois (Keynote)

Thom Dunning, Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) (Keynote)

Alok Gupta (Univ. Minnesota), “Business Analytics for Uncovering Strategic Priorities for the Dutch Flower Auctioneers”

Jiawei Han (Computer Science, UIUC), “Data Mining: State-of-the-Art and Research Frontiers”

Jan Hertzberg (Managing Director, Grant Thornton), “Managing Risks Associated with Big Data,”

Al Hevner (Univ. South Florida), “Big Data and Service Operations” 

Dean Haacker (IT Executive, the Nielson Co.), “Business Analytics:  Get Closer to the Consumer to Grow your Business”

Clyde Holsapple (Univ. Kentucky), “Analyzing Analytics”

Larry Kallembach (CIO, MB Financial), “Thinking Small about BIG data” 

Steve Kimbrough (Wharton, U. Penn), "Big Data from Big Text: Applications in Competitive Intelligence, and Market and Product Discovery"

Lloyd Lancelot (Director, Business Analytics, Wal-Mart), “Business Analytics at Wal-Mart.”

Eric Larson (Business Adm., UIUC), “Using Big Data to Provide Insight into Impact of the Firm’s Environment on the Real Structure of the IT Organization”

Eric Neuman (Business Adm., UIUC), “Social Networks for Organization Research”

Herbert Quinde (Chief of IT Policy and Planning, State of Illinois), “CRM for Government-to-Constituents (G2C) Relations Management.”

Michael Shaw (Business Adm., UIUC), “Learning IT Strategy from Enterprise Data,”

Ram Subramanyam (Business Adm., UIUC), "Employing Data Mining and Decision Tree Induction for Organizational Sense-Making"

Ali Tafti (Business Adm., UIUC), "Using Real-time Effects of Twitter Activity to Learn About Industry Competitive Dynamics."

 

Sponsors

 

The Information Systems Group

Department of Business Administration

College of Business

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

SIGeBIZ

Association for Information Systems (AIS)

 

Center for IT and e-Business Management

College of Business

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Conference Registration

 

http://business.illinois.edu/ba/BusAnalyticsConf/