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Deadline (1st call extension): 29 November 2010
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IADIS INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2011
March 11-13, 2011 – Avila,
Spain
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* Keynote Speaker
(confirmed):
Professor Philip Yetton,
University of New South Wales, Australia
* Conference background
and goals
A new paradigm is sweeping the
society, organisations and the business environment. In fact,
society and business world alike are moving from its tangible
bases to intangible ones based on knowledge and information
systems (IS) to support its management, use and sharing. In
this emerging paradigm, terms like information, communication,
knowledge, and learning have acquired a critical relevance to
the understanding of the nature of contemporary business. This
led authors such as Drucker (1993) to state that “we are
entering the knowledge society in which the basic economic
resource… is knowledge”.
In fact, since the mid-1980s,
there has been a sudden avalanche of a new kind of vocabulary.
Corporations, which so far had been economic entities, are being
described as ‘information-based organizations’, ‘learning
organizations’, ‘knowledge-creating companies’ or knowledge
intensive organisations. Instead of product-market strategies,
the fashionable business discourse invokes core competencies,
intangible assets, knowledge-based capabilities, intellectual
capital, knowledge management etc. Consequently, in this 21st
century of ours, terms such as intellectual capital, knowledge
management, and knowledge mapping have increasingly become part
of the corporate landscape.
However, none of this apparent
revolution would be possible without the underlying
technological support provided by IS. The IADIS Information
Systems Conference (IS 2011) aims to provide a forum for the
discussion of IS taking a socio-technological perspective. It
aims to address the issues related to design, development and
use of IS in organisations from a socio-technological
perspective, as well as to discuss IS professional practice,
research and teaching.
* Format of the
Conference
The conference will comprise
invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the
conference will be published in the form of a book. The best
paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of
their papers in specific journals, and in the IADIS
International Journal on Computer Science and Information
Systems.
* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers,
Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and
Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind
refereeing process.
* A set of key issues
has been identified (see below). However, these do not aim at
being prescriptive, or set in stone, and any innovative
contributions that do not fit into these areas will also be
considered. Areas and Topics of the conference will focus on:
IS in Practice,
Technology Infrastructures and Organisational Processes
• Power, Cultural, Behavioural
and Political issues
• New Organisational Forms
• Dilution of Organisational
Boundaries
• The centrality of IS and IT
in Organisational Processes
• IS Management
• Information Management
• Knowledge Management
• IS and SMEs
• Innovation and IS
• Innovation and Knowledge
Management
• IS and Change Management
• IS and Organisation
Development
• Enterprise Application
Integration
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Business Process Change
IS Design, Development
and Management Issues and Methodologies
• Design and Development
Methodologies and Frameworks
• Iterative and Incremental
Methodologies
• Agile Methodologies
• IS Design and Development as
a Component-Based Process
• IS Design and Development as
Social Negotiation Process
• IS D Design and Development as
a Global and Distributed Process
• Outsourcing in IS
• Outsourcing Risks, Barriers
and Opportunities
• IS Project Management
• IS Quality Management and
Assurance
• IS Standards and Compliance
Issues
• Risk Management in IS
• Risk Management in IS Design
and Development
IS Professional Issues
• Ethical, social, privacy,
security and moral issues in an e-society
• The role of information in the
information society
• Myths, taboos and
misconceptions in IS
• Practitioner and Research
Relationship, Projects and Links
• Validity, Usefulness and
Applicability of IS Academic Research
• Industrial Research versus
Academic Research Issues
• Industry Innovation and
Leadership and Academic Laggards
• IS consultancy as a profession
• Organisational IS Roles
• Communities of practice and
Knowledge Sharing
IS Research
• Core Theories,
Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS Research
• Ontological Assumptions in IS
Research
• IS Research Constraints,
Limitations and Opportunities
• IS vs Computer Science
Research
• IS vs Business Studies
• Positivist, Interpretivist and
Critical Approaches to IS Research
• Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Methods
• Deductive vs Inductive
Approaches
• Multi-method Approaches and
Triangulations in IS Research
• Design Research and the
Sciences of the Artificial in IS
• Multidisciplinary Views and
Multi Methodological Approaches
• New and alternative approaches
to IS research
• Examples of experimental
research designs in IS
IS Learning and
Teaching
• Patterns of Demand for IS
Teaching Provision
• Fads, Fashions and Fetishes in
IS Curricula
• Pedagogic practice in Teaching
IS
• E-Learning in IS
• Instructional Design for IS
• National Cultures and
Approaches to Pedagogy
• Multiculturality and Diversity
Issues in IS Learning and Teaching
* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (1st call
extension): 29 November 2010
- Notification to Authors (1st
call extension): 27 December 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission
and Early Registration (1st call extension): Until 17 January
2011
- Late Registration (1st call
extension): After 17 January 2011
- Conference: Avila, Spain, 11
to 13 March 2011
* Conference Location
The conference will be held in
Avila, Spain.
* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2011
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira,
100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
* Program Committee
Conference Chair
Professor Philip Powell, Deputy
Dean, University of Bath, UK
Program Co-Chairs
Miguel Baptista Nunes,
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Pedro Isaías, Universidade
Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Committee Members:
* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located
events:
* Registered participants in the
Information Systems’ conference may attend Mobile Learning and
e-Society conferences’ sessions free of charge.
