The submission deadline has been extended to Friday, May 27, 2005.

Call For Papers

Technology evolution has also given rise to new challenges that frustrate both researchers and practitioners. For example, information overload has created data management problems for firms while the analysis of very large datasets is forcing researchers to look beyond the bounds of inferential statistics. Privacy, security and trust issues have grown in importance. Recent legislation (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley) is also beginning to impact IT infrastructure deployment. Other issues to ponder include: can we measure the impact of business process outsourcing? What new business models are created by the evolution of outsourcing of high-end business processes such as research and development? What are the governance and IT risk management issues for these new business models? The goal of this conference is to draw interesting research perspectives on these and other related topics as well as to engage practitioners in this dialogue. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Inter-organizational information systems (IOS) and collaboration technologies
Data management, information overload, privacy, and information security
Role of IT in supply chain management, web services, networking, and mobile communication technologies
Knowledge management, information sharing, and intellectual property
Outsourcing, utility / grid computing, and application service contracting
Business value of IT, IT infrastructure evaluation, IT innovation, and IT governance
IT and business strategy, IT capabilities, strategic flexibility, and agility
Information goods, economics of information systems, and real options for IT valuation
Peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies
Software engineering, and the economics of software development
Business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), and online mercantile processes
Role of IT in functional areas – risk assessment (finance), governance (management), and CRM (marketing)

Dates

Submission deadline: May 23, 2005

Notification of acceptance: August 08, 2005

All papers will be refereed by two members of the program committee. Accepted papers (or extended abstracts) will be published in a conference proceedings CD to be distributed at the main INFORMS conference. Awards will be given for ‘best conference paper’, ‘best student-authored paper’ and ‘best reviewer’. Authors of the best papers will also be invited to submit their papers for review to a special issue of Information Technology & Management. All CIST participants are required to register for CIST and the INFORMS Annual Conference.

For questions, please contact any of the CIST co-chairs. Email your paper to cist05sub@gmail.com or to any of the co-chairs.

Indranil Bardhan (bardhan@utdallas.edu)
Alok Gupta (agupta@csom.umn.edu)
Paul Tallon (paul.tallon@bc.edu)