---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: IRMA2002 Deadline Extended Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:26:53 +0200 From: Sherif Kamel skamel@aucegypt.edu To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Dear Colleagues:

During the past few days, the IRMA Office have received more than 100 requests from colleagues mostly in the U.S. asking for extension to the submission deadline of Oct. 1st for IRMA2002. In light of the recent tragedy and in order to give our colleagues additional time to prepare their submissions, the deadline for submission has been extended by two weeks. The new submission deadline is Monday, Oct. 15th, 2001.

This extended deadline also applies to submissions to the IRMA2002 Doctoral Symposium. Below please find a copy of "Call for Participation" for IRMA2002.

Sherif Kamel IRMA VP of Communications

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Submission Deadline Extended: October 15, 2001)

2002 INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE May 19-22, 2002, Renaissance Madison Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA www.irma-international.org

CONFERENCE THEME: ISSUES AND TRENDS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY ORGANIZATIONS

IMPORTANT DATES: Manuscript Submission Deadline: October 1, 2001 (extended to 10/15/01) Notification of acceptance/Rejection: November 30, 2001 Final Submission Due: January 11, 2002 Early Registration Ends: April 1, 2002 Conference Period: May 19-22, 2002

LOCATION: Join the IRMA2002 International Conference attendees in Seattle Washington. Nicknames the Emerald City because of its steep hills and lush greenery. You will be surrounded by the breathtaking beauty of Sparkling waters of Puget Sound and the snow-capped grandeur of Mount Rainier in the distance. Home of corporate giants Boeing, Microsoft, Nordstrom and Starbucks. Experience the feeling of small town charm with big city amenities. Learn more about this exciting location by visiting the Seattle Convention Bureau Website at: http://www.seeseattle.org/visguide/visguide.htm

TRACKS & TRACKS CHAIRS: Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals (abstracts/summaries), and panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium proposals are invited in the following 43 tracks of IRMA'2002 International:

*Software Engineering, Ajantha Dahanayake Delft University - The Netherlands, a.n.w.dahanayake@tudelft.edu.nl *Knowledge Management, Elayne Coakes Westminster University - UK, coakese@westminster.ac.uk *IRM in Government, Gerry Gingrich National Defense University - USA, gingrich@ndu.edu *Information Technology Management in Healthcare, Adi Armoni Tel-Aviv University - ISREAL, armonia@post.tau.ac.il *Data Warehousing and Mining, Aryya Gangopadhyay University of Maryland Baltimore County - USA, gangopad@umbc.edu *Text Databases and Document Management, Amita Goyal Chin VA Commonwealth University - USA, amita@saturn.vcu.edu *Accounting Information Systems, Donald Martin Central Missouri state University - USA, dmartin@cmsu1.cmsu.edu *Decision Support Technologies, George Ditsa University of Wollongong - Australia, georged@uow.edu.au *Multimedia Information Management, Mahbubur Rahman Syed Minnesota State University - USA, syedm@mankato.msus.edu *Unified Modeling Language and Unified Process, Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln - USA, ksiau@unl.edu *Object-Oriented Technology, Rick Gibson American University - USA, rgibson@american.edu *Information Ethics Issues, Karen Loch Georgia State University - USA, mdkdl@panter.gsu.edu *Web-Based Learning/Teaching, Anil Aggarwal University of Baltimore - USA, aaggarwal@ubmail.ubalt.edu *Project Management & Information Technology, Charles K. Davis University of St. Thomas - USA, ckdavis@stthom.edu *Database Management Technologies, Shirley Ann Becker Florida Institute of Technology - USA, abecker@cs.fit.edu *E-Collaboration in Organizations, Ned Kock Temple University - USA, kock@joda.cis.temple.edu *Human Computer Interaction, Henry Emurian University of Maryland Baltimore County - USA, emurian@umbc.edu *The Human Side of IT, Edward Szewczak & Coral Snodgrass Canisius College - USA, szewczak@canisius.edu *Computer-Aided Software Engineering, Tonya Barrier Southwest Missouri State University - USA, tonyabarrier@smsu.edu *Information Technology Education, Eli Cohen Information Science Institute - USA, Eli_Cohen@acm.org *Electronic Commerce Technologies Mgmt, Mike S. Raisinghani University of Dallas - USA, mraising@gsm.udallas.edu *Pervasive Computing and Networking Technologies, Luvai Motiwalla University of Massachusetts, Lowell - USA, luvai_motiwalla@uml.edu *Information Tech Management in Asia Pacific Countries, Felix Tan University of Auckland, New Zealand, f.tan@auckland.ac.nz *End User Computing, Karen Nantz Eastern Illinois University - USA, cfksn@eiu.edu *IT Management in Developing Countries, Sherif Kamel American University of Cairo - Egypt, skamel@aucegypt.edu *IT Evaluation Methods and Management, Wim van Grembergen Univ. of Antwerp - Belgium, wim.vangrembergen@ufsia.ac.be *Information Security Management, Lech Janczewski University of Auckland - New Zealand, lech@auckland.ac.nz *Strategic IT Management, Mo Adam Mahmood University of Texas at El Paso - USA, mmahmood@utep.edu *Global IT Management, G. Harindranath Royal Holloway, Univ. of London - UK, g.harindranath@rhbnc.ac.uk *Information Technology Business Value, Namchul Shin Pace University - USA, nshin@pace.edu *Distance Learning Technologies, Karl Kurbel Europe Univ. Viadrina Frankfurt - Germany, kurbel@euv-frankfurt-o.de *Social Responsibility in the Information Age, Robert Skovira Robert Morris College - USA, skovira@robert-morris.edu *Virtual Universities, Sal Valenti University of Ancona - Italy, valenti@inform.unian.it *Intelligent Information Systems, Vijayan Sugumaran Oakland University - USA, sugumara@oakland.edu *Information Technology and Small Business, Stephen Burgess Victoria University of Tech - Australia, stephen.burgess@vu.edu.au *Virtual Organizations and Society, Diane Graf Northern Illinois University - USA, dmgraf@niu.edu *Enterprise Resource Planning, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah University of Nebraska - Lincoln -USA, fnah2@unlnotes.unl.edu *IT/Community Partnerships, Jonathan Lazar Towson University - USA, jlazar@saber.towson.edu *Mobile Computing & Commerce, Julia Mariga Purdue University - USA, jmariga@tech.purdue.edu *Business Process Mgmt Tools and Technologies, Majed Al-Mashari King Saud Univ. - Saudi Arabia, malmashari@ccis.ksu.edu.sa *IT in Europe, Kalle Kanges Turku University, Finland, kale.kanges@tukkk.fi *Software Process Improvement, Eugene McGuire American University, USA, mcguire@american.edu *IT Teaching Cases, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour IRMA, USA, mehdi@irma-international.org *Industry-Academic Track, Tom Bennett US Department of defense, USA bennettt@ncr.disa.mi

Important Note: All submissions should be sent electronically to IRMACONF@IRMA-INTERNATIONA.ORG

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES: Submissions for the 2002 IRMA International Conference may be submitted in the following categories (All submissions will undergo a peer blind review).

FULL LENGTH SUBMISSIONS Those individuals interested may submit a full length (not to exceed 3000-3500 words and may not include more than 3 figures/tables), original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research or applied manuscript for review and decision. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings in their entirety or as a 1500-2000 words mini-paper, as recommended by the reviewers. High quality papers will be considered for further review and possible inclusion in the Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of End User Computing, Journal of Database Management, Annals of Cases on Information Technology or Journal of Global Information Management. In addition, the best paper in terms of quality and suitability to the theme of the conference will be awarded the "Best Paper" Award.

RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS SUBMISSIONS Those individuals interested may submit research-in-progress proposals (abstracts) or a summary of tentative results of the study to date in 500-1000 words by October 1, 2001. Authors of accepted proposals are asked to forward a 1500-2000 words paper by January 11, 2002 for inclusion in the proceedings.

PANEL, WORKSHOP, TUTORIAL, AND SYMPOSIUM SUBMISSIONS Individuals interested in conducting a panel, workshop, symposium or tutorial dealing with technological, managerial, professional, teaching, societal, national or international issues of information technology management areinvited to submit a 500-1000 word proposal covering the objectives, issues to be covered, and the names/addresses of any other panel, workshop, tutorial/symposium members. Method of presentation is at the submitter's discretion, however the submitter has the responsibility for providing his/her own participants (such as panel members). All accepted proposals will appear in the proceedings. (Note: All panel, workshop, and tutorial/symposium members must register and pay for the conference. Panel presenters should know that during the conference, a projector and screen will be provided by the association for each presentation. Any additional equipment needed for the panel/workshop/tutorial or symposium is at the discretion of the presenter and it will be his/her responsibility to provide the extra equipment.

Submissions in all categories must follow the following guidelines: (All submissions must be received by October 1, 2001).

1. Manuscript must not exceed 3000 words for full length submissions; 500-1000 words for research -in-progress summary/proposal; and 500-1000 words for panel, workshop, tutorial and symposium proposals.

2. Must be accompanied by a separate cover letter with every author(s) name,address, phone & fax numbers, e-mail, full affiliation and the TRACK to which it is submitted. All correspondence will be sent to the first author.

3. Submitted papers must not currently be under review by any other publication or conference.

4. Submitters must provide their e-mail address where the acknowledgment will be forwarded.

5. The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship)is limited strictly to a maximum of two submissions.

6. All submissions should be submitted electronically in either MS Word or rich text format (RTF) or PDF.

Important Note: Submitters, who do not receive an e-mail acknowledgment for their submissions to IRMA2002 two weeks after their electronic submissions, should contact the Program Chair IMMEDIATELY.

Send all inquiries and submissions to: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Program Chair 2002 IRMA International Conference E-mail: irmaconf@irma-international.org

Authors of accepted manuscripts and proposals will be asked to provide the final copy of the submission in MS Word or RTF formats on diskette. Authors of accepted papers (at least one person) must REGISTER and ATTEND the IRMA2002 International Conference.

SITE, HOTEL & ACCOMODATIONS INFORMATION The 2002 IRMA International Conference will be held at the Renaissance Madison Hotel. For more information, please visit the IRMA Web site.

IRMA MEMBERSHIP To learn more about IRMA membership benefits and services or to join IRMA, please visit: IRMA's website at: www.irma-international.org

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