-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2019 Call for Minitrack Proposals/Advances in Information Systems Track Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:52:18 -0500 From: Tom Stafford stafford@latech.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
Call for AMCIS 2019 Mini-Track Proposals: Advances in Information Systems Track
AMCIS 2019, the 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems, will be held August 15 -
17, 2019, in Cancun, Mexico
Chair of the Advances in Information Systems Track:
Tom Stafford, J.E. Barnes Professor of CIS
Louisiana Tech College of Business
stafford@latech.edu
Track Description:
The Advances in Information Track serves as a nexus for *non-SIG-affiliated minitracks.* It is
also the landing point for a fast-track opportunity to The DATA BASE for Advances in
Information Systems, which celebrates 50 years of continual publication this year.
Our General Minitrack is the location where conference and track leaders can submit their own
papers, free of conflict of interest in the review process, so that colleagues who are actively
managing a Metatrack or Minitrack can have their own work independently juried for inclusion
in the tracks with which they are associated, without incurring any issues of conflict of interest.
Our General Minitrack also serves as a submission venue for papers that do not fit any of the
primary SIG-based Metatrack themes or subthemes. To wit, papers that do not have a fit with
mainstream Minitracks in any of the 20 conference SIG-based tracks can find a submission
home in our General Minitrack.
That said, the Advances in Information Systems Track seeks additional Minitrack proposals that
are from new, nascent, emerging or as-yet unaffiliated scholarly groups who *do not currently
fit* into the established SIG-based Metatrack conference structure ( and the affiliated Minitrack
structure subsidiary to it) by which the AMCIS conference is normally organized.
The Advances in Information Systems Track, in the past, has accommodated emergent
scholarship from groups as diverse as: “Computers in the Business & Production of
Agriculture”, “IT Entrepreneurship”, “Emerging Research in IoT” and “Cognitive Research in IS.”
To that end, if your group of colleagues is gaining critical mass as a colloquium of inquiry but
does not yet have a SIG affiliation, or if you are a SIG that has not yet launched your own
Metatrack at AMCIS, we welcome your proposal to develop a Minitrack for the Advances in
Information Systems Track. We are particularly interested in new and leading-edge areas of
inquiry which might prove to be provocative and interesting thematic foci for sections and
issues of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, which is affiliated with the
Advances in Information Systems Track.
Minitrack chairs will be responsible for the following tasks and activities:
a) promoting their Minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2019;
b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the Minitrack; and
c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the Minitrack.
To submit a Minitrack proposal, you must submit the following:
a) Minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation);
b) Minitrack title;
c) short description of Minitrack for the AMCIS 2019 website (up to 150 words);
d) call for papers for your Minitrack.
To submit a Minitrack proposal,
visit: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=ais
Important Dates:
September 20, 2018: PCS opens for Minitrack submissions
October 19, 2018: Minitrack submissions are due
October 30, 2018: Minitrack decisions are complete
November 5, 2018: Minitrack revisions are due
January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin
March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST
March 7, 2019: All papers have assigned reviewers
April 15, 2019: Track Chairs recommendations are due
April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due
May 1, 2019: Track session plans are due
For any questions, please touch base: Tom Stafford, Track Chair, stafford@latech.edu, 318-257-3886.
Dr. Tom Stafford, J.E. Barnes Professor
Editor-in-Chief, DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems – The longest continually published MIS journal, celebrating 50 years of service.
