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Datum: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:58:09 -0000
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Call for Papers: Big Data Analytics

 

Special issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (Scopus impact: 1.02; SciELO-indexed)

 

Guest Editors: Jouni Markkula, Marikka Heikkilä, Christopher Westland, Zhangxi Lin, Jukka Heikkilä

The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research is planning a special issue on Big Data Analytics.


Big Data Analytics is a recent and rapidly evolving field in technology driven business world, and private and public organizations are eagerly waiting to collect the promised results. Empowered by advancement of information and communication technology, the volume and complexity of data are growing exponentially. Big Data is formed of large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and distributed data sets generated from various instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and other sources. It is commonly characterized in three or more Vs: volume, velocity, variety, and additionally value, veracity etc. Big Data Analytics is characterized by the requirement of advanced data storage, management, analysis, and visualization technologies, which traditional business analytics is not able to offer. These technologies include, among others: interfusion of various data sources, real-time analysis, online analytical processing, business performance management, data mining, machine learning, cloud computing, distributed processing, parallel algorithms, and parallel DBMS.

Big Data Analytics generates new opportunities for the benefit of our society, but it also introduces challenges. Applications of Big Data Analytics are expected to change the world, how people and organizations are doing things in the future, as it provides increasing awareness and deeper insight on various real world and virtual phenomena. It is to change business models, management and decision making processes in companies and public organizations, and to affect usage of resources in creating products and services.

Electronic commerce is one of the most promising and high impact application areas of Big Data Analytics2. It has already transformed markets when adopted by many leading electronic commerce vendors. Wide adoption of social media and crowdsourcing applications in various forms still offer new possibilities for collecting and analysing Big Data for supporting business, as well as unexplored opportunities for developing Big Data Analytics based information services for customers. Even if Big Data Analytics research is at its currents stage significantly technology driven, focusing on such topics as data mining and cloud computing technologies2, there is and evident need for also understanding it better from the electronic commerce point of view.



Subject Coverage

The objective of this Special Issue is to present the current state of research and practical experiences on Big Data Analytics from the viewpoint of electronic commerce research. The disciplines can cover any area of electronic commerce, including computer science, information technology, information systems, information management, telecommunications, business administration, law, social sciences, financial services, and other related fields. Particularly we like to see interdisciplinary papers presenting innovative applications and uses of Big Data Analytics in electronic commerce that are able to connect theory with practice. We are looking for experiences of successful Big Data Analytics applications as well as critical views and challenges. We encourage submitting papers that present genuine, rigorous research on electronic commerce in transit, which shows how Big Data Analytics is related with business practices, social, cultural and legal environments, personal privacy and security concerns, information systems, and emerging smart environments and device technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1.    New opportunities in business environment
2.    Big Data Analytics and strategy
3.    Management of electronic commerce  
4.    Legal issues in applying Big Data Analytics
5.    Research on Big Data Analytics in electronic commerce
 
Notes for Intending Authors
 
We are seeking original, innovative, and scientifically rigorous papers presenting practical experiences, methodological challenges, or impacts of Big Data Analytics from the viewpoint of electronic commerce. Especially empirical research, case studies or theory based qualitative and quantitative studies, are welcome.
 
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
 
Author guidelines can be found at http://www.jtaer.com/author_guidelines.doc. All submissions will be refereed by at least three reviewers. Submissions should be directed by email to jtaer.big.data@utalca.cl
 
For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www.jtaer.com
 

Important dates
 


Guest Editors
 
Dr. Jouni Markkula
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Processing Science
University of Oulu
Finland

Dr. Marikka Heikkilä
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Collaborative Research
Turku School of Economics, University of Turku
Finland

Prof. J. Christopher Westland
Department of Information & Decision Sciences
University of Illinois
USA

Prof. Zhangxi Lin
The Rawls College of Business Administration
Texas Tech University
USA

Prof. Jukka Heikkilä
Dept. of Management and Entrepreneurship
Turku School of Economics, University of Turku
Finland


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