-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP: IJITSA July 2010 issue (updated) Datum: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:46:32 -0500 (CDT) Von: Manuel Mora T. mmora@securenym.net Antwort an: Manuel Mora T. mmora@securenym.net An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org CC: paradice@cob.fsu.edu

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 2010 issue (Vol. 3, Issue 2) of the Int. Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsa ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINES: First full paper submission due: July 31, 2009 First notification to authors due: August 31, 2009 Second paper submission due: September 30, 2009 Definitive paper acceptance due: October 31, 2009 Camera-ready versions due: November 15, 2009 Publishing date: July, 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- COVERAGE:

IJITSA will publish papers – one issue per semester – of high quality, rigor and relevance on Information Systems that use the Systems Approach as a main method of inquiry under the following categories: (i) theoretical research papers (from conceptual review and analysis, formal analysis or modeling), (ii) empirical research papers (from an engineering perspective (e.g., papers that report the design, and/or building and/or empirical (even as a pilot test) evaluation of a system)) and (iii) behavioral papers (e.g. papers that report survey-based, case study or action research approaches, where human beings’ behavior –including both subjective and objective constructs- are the main focus of the systems studied in laboratory and field settings).

Papers can have the following single or combined research purposes: scholastic, instrumental/methodological, exploratory, descriptive, predictive, explanatory, design and control, evaluative, interpretative or interventionist. The studies can use the following systemic research methodologies or approaches: conceptual, formal mathematical, systems simulation (discrete, multi-agent or hybrid), systems dynamics, soft systems, action research, critical systems, multi-methodology, and their philosophical underpinnings can be either positivist, interpretative, critical or based in critical realism. They are expected to be integrated or discussed under the perspective of the Systems Approach with the long-term aim of obtaining a unified view of Information Systems.

Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Engineering frameworks, taxonomies, models, methodologies, processes, methodologies, standards and practices based in the systems approach applied in the solving, dissolving or resolving of real or theoretical systems of problems in the disciplines of information systems, systems engineering, software engineering and complex systems.

• Management frameworks, taxonomies, models, methodologies, processes, methodologies, standards and practices based in the systems approach applied in the solving, dissolving or resolving of theoretical or real systems of problems in the disciplines of information systems, systems engineering, software engineering and complex systems.

• Conceptual analysis, design, utilization, evaluation, enhancement and/or critique of research methods based in the systems approach (conceptual, formal mathematical, systems simulation (discrete, multi-agent or hybrid), systems dynamics, soft systems, action research, critical systems, multi-methodology).

• Philosophical research frameworks and paradigms based in the systems approach for doing research in the disciplines of information systems, systems engineering, software engineering and complex systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Please visit the IJITSA website at: http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsa ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IJITSA EDITORIAL TEAM:

Editor-in-chief: David Paradice, PhD, Florida State University, USA

Operational Editor-in-Chief: Manuel Mora, EngD, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, México

Senior Associate Editor for Information Systems/Technology area: Frank Stowell, PhD, University of Portsmouth, England

Senior Associate Editor for Complex Information Systems area: David Paradice, PhD, Florida State University, USA

Senior Associate Editor for Software Engineering area: Doncho Petkov, PhD, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA

Senior Associate Editor for Systems Engineering area: Miroljub Kljajic, PhD, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Senior Associate Editor for Philosophy of Systems area John Mingers, PhD, University of Kent at Canterbury, England ----------------------------------------------------------------------------