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CALL FOR PAPERS

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems

Savannah, Georgia, August 07-10, 2014

Track: Enterprise systems (SIGEntSys)

Minitrack: Cloud Operations and Very Large Business Applications (VLBA)

Instructions for authors at: AMCIS website(http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/)

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DESCRIPTION

Emerging technologies like mash-ups, web 2.0 and cloud computing on the one side and the increasing agility of business models on the other side raises the question how Enterprise Systems will look like in the future. Therefore, we see a new class of Enterprise Systems which address the need for more agility in the entire value chain with a loosely coupled system of distinct elements, orchestrated to a highly integrated, complex Information System (Very Large Business Applications, VLBA).

VLBA act as enabler for intra- and interorganisational business processes and play a significant role in the development of new business models. This Mini-Track aims at studying, grounding, and finally exploiting the potential of VLBA to solve integration and coordination problems in distributed business processes as a key enabler of flexible boundaryless information systems.

Key research questions are:

-    how to represent VLBA in service-based information systems by employing and adapting constructs, models, and methods of different information systems technology stacks,

-    how to coordinate software services by employing and adapting approaches for service discovery and composition,

-    how to operate large-scale, highly distributed enterprise systems aligned with the needs of an agile business environment,

-    how to negotiate and agree upon the delivery of software-based services (SLA),

-    how to control the delivery of software-based services in VLBA by measuring efficiency and effectiveness?

This minitrack is continuing the successful start of the scientific discuss on the topic of VLBA in an international perspective from AMCIS 2012 and AMCIS 2013.

SUGGESTED TOPICS

Topics relevant for this mini-track include, but are not limited to, the following:

-    Cloud Computing and VLBA

-    VLBA Operations Management

-    Strategic, tactic and operative Systems Landscape Engineering

-    VLBA Business Simulations

-    VLBA Business Models

-    Analytical Business Process Engineering for VLBA

-    VLBA and Knowledge Management

-    VLBA security issues

-    Innovative VLBA Applications

We invite contributions from different disciplines including information systems, information management, computer and management science to properly cover all facets of Very Large Business Applications. We encourage papers applying quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical research methodologies such as case studies, action research, surveys, experiments, and design science.

 

IMPORTANT DATES AND SUBMISSION SITE

Instructions for authors and more information about the conference is on the conference website at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/

 

MINITRACK CHAIRS

Holger Schroedl (communication contact)

Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Business Informatics

Universitätsplatz 2

39106 Magdeburg, Germany

holger.schroedl@ovgu.de

 

Klaus Turowski

Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

MRCC / Business Informatics

Universitätsplatz 2

39106 Magdeburg, Germany

klaus.turowski@ovgu.de

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Dr. Holger Schroedl
Research Associate
Chair of Business Informatics
Faculty of Informatics

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, 39016 Magdeburg

Tel.: +49 (391) 67-58389
Fax: +49 (391) 67-11216
holger.schroedl@ovgu.de
http://mrcc.ovgu.de