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Special Session on Information Value Management

In conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems - ICEIS 2013

3 - 7 July, 2013 - Angers, France
http://www.iceis.org/IVM.aspx
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Deadline for paper submissions: May 3rd, 2013


Background and Scope
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With this Special Session we aim to go beyond traditional IT productivity
and cost evaluations; we view information as a crucial asset that creates
value to organizations, and thus needs to be managed accordingly for
optimal business value. Also, we aim to provide a platform for discussing
approaches, models, results and case studies or experience reports
addressing a broad range of issues related to Information Value
Management. Research challenges include how to determine the Value of
Information and its impact on business performance, managing Data and
Information Quality, capturing and maintaining Information Assets, and
designing and improving Information Manufacture System.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following list:
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Measuring Information Value
Specifying and Measuring the Benefits from Information
Data and Information Quality
Information Value Chains
Optimising Information Value
Information Lifecycle Concepts
Modelling and Visualising Information Manufacturing Systems
Information Risk Management
Data Integration and Value Creation
Analytical IS and Value Creation
IVM Maturity Models
IVM Capabilities
IT Governance and IVM
Management Approaches for IVM
Change Management and IVM


Paper submission and publication
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics
listed above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex
formats) are available at: Paper Templates Please also check the
Guidelines and Templates. Papers should be submitted electronically via
the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the
conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM
support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).


Important Dates
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Paper Submission: May 3, 2013
Authors Notification: May 20, 2013
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 30, 2013


Workshop Program Committee
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Irit Askira Gelman, DQIQ, United States
Ismael Caballero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano , Italy
Adir Even, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Owen Foley, Galway Mayo IT, Ireland
Andrea Maurino, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Dietmar Jannach, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Yang Lee, Northeastern University, United States
Thoa Pham, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Bene Rodriguez-Castro, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Ying Su, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, China
(list not yet complete)


Workshop Chairs
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Markus Helfert
Dublin City University
Ireland
E-Mail: markus.helfert@computing.dcu.ie

Mouzhi Ge
Technical University Munich
Germany
E-Mail: mouzhi.ge@tum.de