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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS !!!

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems

Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012 (http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/)

Track: Enterprise systems (SIGEntSys)

Minitrack: Very Large Business Applications

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DESCRIPTION

Enterprise Systems are an essential part of modern and successful companies. While looking at the supply chain, multiple aspects of the usage and impact of Enterprise Systems have been discussed in both scientific and practice. To pay respect for the current development of 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 the question arises how Enterprise Systems will look like in the future. Transferring this recent development into the context of Enterprise Systems we see a new class of Enterprise Systems which address the need for more agility in the whole supply chain with a more loosely coupled system of separate elements combines together to a highly integrated, complex Information Systems. While this is an emerging topic in Enterprise Systems, we denote these kinds of Information Systems as Very Large Business Applications (VLBA).

VLBA are acting as an enabler for intra- and interorganisational, distributed business processes and play a significant role in the development of new markets and business models therefore. This Mini-Track aims at studying, grounding, and finally exploiting the potentials of VLBA to solve integration and coordination problems in inter- and intraorganisational business processes as a key enabler of flexible boundary-less information systems.

Key research questions are:

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

- how to describe VLBA,

- how to coordinate software-based business processes by employing and adopting approaches for service discovery and service composition,

- how to negotiate and agree upon the delivery of software-based services with approaches for SLA representation, SLA management, and SLA negotiation, and

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

 

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 the 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

- March 1, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions

- April 6, 2012: Notification of acceptance

- April 25, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Final copy due

- August 9-12, 2012: AMCIS Conference

 

SUBMISSION SITE

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012

 

MINITRACK CHAIRS

 

Holger Schrödl

Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Business Informatics

Universitaetsplatz 2

39106 Magdeburg, Germany

holger.schroedl@ovgu.de

 

Klaus Turowski

Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

Business Informatics

Universitaetsplatz 2

39106 Magdeburg, Germany

klaus.turowski@ovgu.de

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