-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] MCIS 2012 - Information Risk, Security and Privacy Track Call for Papers Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:21:13 -0500 From: Gurpreet Dhillon gpdhillon5@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

MCIS 2012 - The 7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems

September 8-10, 2012 Guimar„es, Portugal http://www.mcis2012.org

Information Risk, Security and Privacy Track

Call for Papers

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: March 9, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2012 Camera-ready submissions: June 1, 2012

Aims and Scope

The contemporary society has been labeled the knowledge society. As knowledge workers, people use information and IT in creative, innovative and productive ways in order to create value through the exploitation of understanding. Extending the level of analysis from the individual to the group or society we find new forms of creating, sharing and using knowledge, such as crowdsourcing and cloud wisdom.

To perform their activities, knowledge workers depend on information, IT and information systems. This reliance is extensive to organizations and society. The computerization of work brings new challenges and opportunities, as well as new threats. The knowledge society might also be labeled the risk society. Adverse events such as human errors, uncontrolled complexity, ineffective governance, analysis and design faults in information systems, violations of safeguards by trusted personnel, system intruders, malware, environmental damage and offensive information warfare may endanger individual, organizational and social well-being. A security breach or a privacy violation may expose the vulnerability of the fabric of our society, woven of a myriad of personal, organizational and inter-organizational information systems and public and private information services.

This track provides a forum for the discussion and exchange of relevant findings and promising ideas on information risk, security and privacy. The track welcomes theoretical and empirical submissions and is particularly looking for contributions which discuss the results of interdisciplinary research on information risk, security and privacy grounded on the intersection of theory, methods and empirical findings.

The submissions may consider technical, formal, informal or regulatory issues, focusing on technological, organizational or social aspects of information risk, security and privacy.

The track aims to attract rigorous research that may prove useful for the effective and efficient management of information risk, security and privacy. In addition, it also aims to motivate the exploitation of new or alternative research paths in the realm of information risk, security and privacy contemporary issues.

List of Relevant Topics

Relevant topics include, but are not limited, to: - Information Risks of Emergent Technologies - Information Risk Management - Economics of Information Risk, Security and Privacy - Governance of Information Risk, Security and Privacy - Information Risk, Security and Privacy Evaluation and Metrics - Security Planning and Architecture - Security and Privacy Strategies, Policies and Procedures - Security and Privacy Roles and Responsibilities - Security and Privacy Analysis and Design - Security and Privacy Implementation - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Information Security and Usability - Human Behavior on Information Security and Privacy - Risk, Security and Privacy Culture - Security and Privacy Standards - Security and Privacy Legislation - Security and Privacy Compliance - Security and Privacy Ethical Challenges - Cybercrime and Information Warfare - Information Risk, Security and Privacy Assurance and Certification - Epistemology and Methodology of Risk, Security and Privacy Research

Types of Accepted Contributions

Full research papers (7ñ12 pages) Research-in-progress papers (3ñ7 pages) Research and teaching case studies (7ñ12 pages) Posters (A2)

Submissions

All submissions in English, via the EasyChair Submission System http://www.mcis2012.org/index.php/submissions MCIS paper template available Accepted full papers will be published in the Springer LNBIP series "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing" (ISI and Scopus proceedings indexed). Accepted short papers will be published in AIS eLibrary.

Best Papers

This MCIS 2012 track on Information Risk, Security and Privacy is associated with JISSec - Journal of Information System Security (http://www.jissec.org). As in previous years, best papers from the track will be fast tracked to a JISSec special issue.

Track Chairs

Gurpreet Dhillon (gdhillon@vcu.edu) Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Instituto Superior de Economia e Gest„o, Portugal

Filipe de S·-Soares (fss@dsi.uminho.pt) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

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