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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@cut.ac.cy
Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus,
herodotos.herodotou@cut.ac.cy
Sandra Haraldson, RISE, Sweden,
sandra.haraldson@ri.se
Sukhjit Singh, The University of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and
Tobago,
Sukhjit.Singh@utt.edu.tt
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