ICIS2014+-+CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS **Workshop on Geographic Information Systems ** **Pre-ICIS 2014, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 14, 2014 ** **9am-2:30pm at University of Auckland Business School **

This Workshop is supported by SIGGIS of the Association for Information Systems. Workshop Registration will be through the ICIS 2014 website (http//icis2014.aisnet.org ) Workshop co-chairs: James Pick*, Hindupur Ramakrishna*, Dan Farkas**, and Tom Horan***. *University of Redlands **Pace University ***Claremont Graduate University **DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP ** GIS and its related phenomena are growing rapidly in this decade, energized by pervasive cloud and mobile technologies and by competitive advantages. This workshop will: • Explain fundamental spatial concepts. • Justify GIS’s importance in the IS discipline. • <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Explain role of geo-spatial analysis and intelligence for business & government. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">• <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Provide connections with IS concepts <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">• <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Explore existing research methods, body of published work, theories, research questions, journal outlets. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">• <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Provide cutting-edge GIS research through __contributed papers__ on GIS, Locational Analytics, Spatial Reasoning, and Spatial Business Intelligence. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Since this area is expanding and becoming essential in business and government, the workshop can advance research in a new and evolving sub-field within IS. <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Objectives are (1) Provide a tutorial on spatial concepts, and locational analytics, (2) Examine and discuss research opportunities and challenges in Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis, as related to the field of Information Systems (IS), and (3) Offer a forum for presentation of contributed research papers on GIS and Spatial Analysis in the context of IS/IT and organizations.

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The morning session focuses on the tutorial and exploration and discussion of research opportunities in spatial analytics and GIS.

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the afternoon session, the contributed research papers will be presented. **<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Potential topics for contributed research papers: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Spatial business intelligence
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Spatial decision support systems and analytics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Spatial knowledge management
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Spatial data mining and knowledge discovery
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Web-based GIS concepts and applications
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Big Data and GIS
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Locational social media
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">GIS and the cloud
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mobile-based spatial concepts and applications
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Methodological papers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Theoretical studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Case studies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Spatial analytics and statistics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Studies of investment in and benefits of GIS, spatial BI, or SDSS
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Human, organizational, and management factors in spatial systems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Quality measures and evaluation of spatial systems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">GIS for sustainability
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">GIS in healthcare
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">GIS in marketing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Systems and software development of GIS
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Public domain, open source, and crowdsourcing with GIS
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">GIS education, curriculum, teaching, training, and workforce
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Industry trends
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ethical aspects of GIS and spatial decision-making

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">October 1, 2014 <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Submit the paper to: james_pick@redlands.edu <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The //format for papers submitted// is downloadable from the SIGGIS website (siggis.wikispaces.com ) //<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Length //<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: papers can be up to 18 pages single-spaced including all text, figures, tables and appendices. The page count excludes the cover page, abstract, keywords and references.

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The paper will be sent to reviewers, and acceptance decisions will be made by October 20, 2014

<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Papers will be published electronically as the workshop proceedings on the SIGGIS website (siggis.wikispaces.com ). Those accepted will appear in the conference proceedings and selected papers on GIS related to development will be forwarded to the journal, Information Technology for Development, for expedited full journal review.

__<span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Workshop chair contact for information __ <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">James B. Pick <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">E-mail: james_pick@redlands.edu <span style="color: #002060; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">School of Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373-0999