-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] Journal of Database Management (JDM) Special Issue: Ontological Analysis in Conceptual Modeling -- July 31, 2016 (extended deadline) Datum: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 04:19:12 +0000 Von: Siau, Keng L. siauk@mst.edu An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Journal of Database Management (JDM) Editor-in-Chief: Keng Siau, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Special Issue on Ontological Analysis in Conceptual Modeling

Special Issue Editors:

Andrew Burton-Jones, University of Queensland Peter Green, Queensland University of Technology Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland Keng Siau, Missouri University of Science and Technology

The call for "native" theories in information systems has been strong over the discipline's history (Straub 2012). One answer to this call has been the ontological theory (drawing on the ontology of Mario Bunge) Wand and Weber introduced to the field in three seminal papers (1990, 1993, 1995). This work established three views on information systems as representations of human perceptions of a domain of interest: the representation model, the state tracking model, and the good decomposition model.

This stream of work has generated a great deal of interest, and produced many papers using Wand and Weber's models to evaluate important phenomena in information systems. Notably, researchers have used ontological analysis to suggest how grammars for conceptual modeling and database design might be modified to be ontologically sound and they have evaluated the effects of these modifications on how well models are understood.

As it has been 25 years since the early work in this area, this is an opportune time to assess the contribution ontological analysis has made to the IS field over the past quarter century and to look forward to new areas of application. We invite submissions that consider this issue from a variety of perspectives, including (but not limited to):

* Theoretical contributions of ontological analysis * Practical contributions of ontological analysis * New areas of application of ontological analysis * Comparative studies of different ontological foundations * Design science research based on ontological analysis * Open questions in the use of ontological analysis

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2016 (extended deadline) Initial screening by Guest Editors: August 31, 2016 First round of review: November 30, 2016 Second round of review: March 15, 2017 Final Decision: April 30, 2017

Submission Procedure:

Please email your paper as an attachment to jdm@mst.edu and use "Submission to JDM's Ontological Analysis Special Issue" as the Subject of the email. JDM uses a double-blind review process and the authors' should not reveal their identities in the papers.

References

Straub, D. (2012). Does MIS Have Native Theory?" MIS Quarterly, 36(2), iii-xii. Wand, Y. and R. Weber (1990). An Ontological Model of an Information System. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 16(11), 1282-1292. Wand, Y. and R. Weber (1993). On the Ontological Expressiveness of Information Systems Analysis and Design Grammars. Journal of Information Systems, 3, 217-237. Wand, Y. and R. Weber (1995). On the Deep Structure of Information Systems. Information Systems Journal, 5, 203-223.

_______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org