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IJITSA CALL FOR PAPERS: March 31, 2011
www.igi-global.com/ijitsa
Published: 2 issues by year (both in Print and Electronic form)
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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.
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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
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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
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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