CALL FOR PAPERS
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11th Conference on Information Systems Management (ISM'16)

Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016

WWW: https://fedcsis.org/ism
E-mail: ism2016@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to ISM - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016).

FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

ISM constitutes a forum for the exchange of ideas for practitioners and theorists working in the broad area of information systems management in organizations. The conference invites papers coming from two complimentary directions: management of information systems in an organization, and uses of information systems to empower managers. The conference is interested in all aspects of planning, organizing, resourcing, coordinating, controlling and leading the management function to ensure a smooth operation of information systems in an organization. Moreover, the papers that discuss the uses of information systems and information technology to automate or otherwise facilitate the management function are specifically welcome.

TOPICS
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The areas and topics of interest include, but are not limited to two groups:

Management of Information Systems in an Organization:
- Modern IT project management methods
- User-oriented project management methods
- Business Process Management in project management
- Managing global systems
- Influence of Enterprise Architecture on management
- Effectiveness of information systems
- Efficiency of information systems
- Security of information systems
- Privacy consideration of information systems
- Mobile digital platforms for information systems management
- Cloud computing for information systems management

Uses of Information Systems to Empower Managers:
- Achieving alignment of business and information technology
- Assessing business value of information systems
- Risk factors in information systems projects
- IT governance
- Sourcing, selecting and delivering information systems
- Planning and organizing information systems
- Staffing information systems
- Coordinating information systems
- Controlling and monitoring information systems
- Formation of business policies for information systems
- Portfolio management
- CIO and information systems management roles

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by May 9, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: May 9, 2016 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 30, 2016
- Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016
- Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016
- Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Arogyaswami, Bernard, Le Moyne University, USA
- Chmielarz, Witold, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Karagiannis, Dimitris, University of Vienna, Austria
- Kisielnicki, Jerzy, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Ziemba, Ewa, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Abu-Shanab, Emad, Yarmouk University, Jordan
- Alghamdi, Saleh, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
- Bialas, Andrzej, Institute of Innovative Technologies EMAG, Poland
- Bicevska, Zane, DIVI Grupa Ltd, Latvia
- Chung, Tsungting, Douliou Yunlin Uniwersytet, Taiwan
- Czarnacka-Chrobot, Beata, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
- DeLorenzo, Gary, California University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Dima, Ioan Constantin, Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania
- Duan, Yanqing, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
- Dudycz, Helena, Wrocław University of Economics, Poland
- El Emary, Ibrahim, King Abdulaziz Univetrsity, Saudi Arabia
- Espinosa, Susana de Juana, University of Alicante, Spain
- Geri, Nitza, The Open University of Israel, Israel
- Grublješič, Tanja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Halawi, Leila, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States
- Jankowski, Jarosław, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
- Jelonek, Dorota, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
- Kobyliński, Andrzej, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
- Mullins, Roisin, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, United Kingdom
- Niedźwiedziński, Marian, University of Lodz, Poland
- Owoc, Mieczyslaw, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
- Pastuszak, Zbigniew, Maria Curie-SKlodowska University, Poland
- Ranjan, Jayanthi, Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad, India
- Rizun, NIna, Alfred Nobel University, Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine
- Schroeder, Marcin, Akita International University, Japan
- Sikorski, Marcin, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
- Silber-Varod, Vered, The Open University of Israel, Israel
- Skovira, Robert, Robert Morris University, United States
- Sobczak, Andrzej, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
- Surma, Jerzy, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
- Świerczyńska-Kaczor, Urszula, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland
- Symeonidis, Symeon, PhD Candidate, Greece
- Szczerbicki, Edward, University of Newcastle, Australia
- Tarhini, Ali, Brunel University London, United Kingdom
- Travica, Bob, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Wachnik, Bartosz, University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland
- Wątróbski, Jarosław, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
- Wielki, Janusz, Opole University of Technology, Poland
- Wolski, Waldemar, University of Szczecin, Poland
- Ziemba, Paweł, The Jacob of Paradyż University of Applied Science, Poland


CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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