-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Int. Journal in IT and the Systems Approach (March 31, 2011) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:13:41 -0600 (CST) From: Manuel Mora T. mmora@securenym.net Reply-To: mmora@securenym.net To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
========================================================================= IJITSA CALL FOR PAPERS: March 31, 2011 www.igi-global.com/ijitsa Published: 2 issues by year (both in Print and Electronic form) ========================================================================= MISSION OF IJITSA Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach. The primary objective of IJITSA is to disseminate and discuss high quality research results on information systems and related upper and lower level systems as well as on its interactions with software engineering, systems engineering, complex systems and philosophy of systems sciences issues, through rigorous theoretical, modeling, engineering or behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain, predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop organizational systems where information systems are the main objects of study and the systems approach ? any variant ?is the main research method and philosophical stance used. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
?Systemic studies on the diverse types of IS (TPS, MIS, OAS, DMSS, KBS, KMS, IS, ERP, EIS, IOS, BPIS, among others) ?Systemic studies on the diverse types of IT organizational settings (personal computing, home-based computing, end-user computing, office computing, corporative computing, inter-organizational computing) ?IT-based system systemic design methodologies ?IT-based system systemic evaluation methodologies ?IT-based system systemic implementation methodologies ?Systemic evaluation and review of IT (technologies, tools, technological tends) ?International standards and models for IT-based systems and its relations with systems approach ?Systemic innovative IT-based systems studies addressing real problems ?Challenges and ill-structured worldwide problems linked to IT-based systems from a systems approach view (green IT, national security, human rights, global education, mobile education, global economy, interaction between developed and developing organizations, e-digital gap, service systems, cultural differences, among others) ?Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for engineering issues for IT-based systems ?Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for managerial issues for IT-based systems ?Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for organizational issues for IT-based systems ?Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and software-systems engineering ?Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and complex systems ?Systems methodologies for basic and applied research ?Systems methodologies for consulting activities ?IT curriculum systemic studies on undergraduate and graduate programs ?IT systemic studies on accreditation undergraduate and graduate programs ?IT systemic studies on Faculty issues (tenure promotions, profile of PhDs, types of institutions (research-oriented vs teaching-oriented ones) ?Multi-method systemic research methods to study IT-based systems ?Debates on research methods and systems approach for IT-based systems ?Philosophical themes related with research methods and systems science for IT-based systems -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMITTING TO IJITSA: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at (*)PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to [ijitsa@gmail.com]. (*) http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference?, ?Business Science Reference?, and ?Engineering Science Reference? imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:
Frank Stowell (EiC) and Manuel Mora (OEiC) International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach E-mail: ijitsa@gmail.com www.igi-global.com/ijitsa
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Editorial Review Board
FORMER IJITSA HONORARY EDITORIAL BOARD ? Russell L. Ackoff, (1917-2009), University of Pennsylvania, USA ? G.A. Swanson, (1939-2009), Tennessee Technological University, USA
IJITSA HONORARY EDITORIAL BOARD ? Bela A. Banathy, Saybrook Institute, USA ? Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute, USA ? Ovsei Gelman, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México ? Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), México ? Michael C. Jackson, University of Hull, UK ? George J. Klir, State University of New York, USA ? Andrew P. Sage, George Mason University, USA ? Barry G. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania, USA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS ? David Brown, (AE) University of Lancaster, UK ? Miroljub Kljajic, (AE) University of Maribor, Slovenia ? Robert Cloutier, (AE) Stevens Institute of Technology, USA ? Denis Edgar-Nevill, (AE) Canterbury Christ Church University, UK ? Rory O'Connor, (AE) Dublin City University, Ireland ? Philip Dobson (AE), Edith Cowan University, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERB on information systems ? Steven Alter, University of San Francisco, USA ? Jeimy Cano, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia ? Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA ? Evangelos Katsamakas, Fordham University Business School, USA ? Paul Lewis, University of Lancaster, UK ? Neil McBride, De Montfort University ? Wullianallur R. Raghupathi,Fordham University Business School, USA ? Rahul Roy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India ? Hans Vanderheijden, University of Surrey, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERB on software and systems engineering ? David Bustard, University of Ulster, Ireland ? Robert Cloutier, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA ? John Farr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA ? Moti Frank, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel ? Gavin Finnie, Bond University, Australia ? Carina Gonzalez, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain ? Rafael Gonzalez, Universidad Javieriana, Colombia ? Dursun Delen, Oklahoma State University, USA ? Payam Hanafizadeh,Allameh Tabatabae'i University, Iran ? Carlos Legna, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain ? Rory O?Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland ? Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA ? Denis Nevill, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK ? Jack Ring, INCOSE, USA ? Nick Seizemore, INCOSE, USA ? Kosheek Sewchurran, University of Cape Town, South Africa ? Javier Suarez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico ? Annette Steenkamp, Lawrence Technological University, USA ? Frank Tsui, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERB on research methods and philosophical issues ? James Courtney, Louisiana TechUniversity, USA ? Rodrigo Cordoba, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ? Manfred Drack, University of Vienna, Austria ? Wolfgang Hofkirchner, University of Salzburg, Austria ? Loet Leydesdorff, ASCoR, The Netherlands ? Gerald Midgley, Hull University, UK ? David Paradice, Florida State University, USA ? Eleanor Wynn, Intel, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA). Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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