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There's plenty of surveillance studies potential at this event... David. ***** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***** (Submission Deadline: October 4, 2006) 2007 INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE May 19-23, 2007 Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel Vancouver, Canada www.irma-international.org CONFERENCE THEME: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology Submission Deadline: October 4, 2006 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: November 24, 2006 Final Submission Due: January 10, 2007 Early Registration Ends: January 10, 2007 Conference Period: May 19-23, 2007 LOCATION: A dynamic, multicultural city set in a spectacular natural environment, Vancouver was voted the "Best City in the Americas" for 2004 and 2005 by Condé Nast Traveler magazine, based on the categories of ambience, friendliness, culture and sites, restaurants, lodging, and shopping. Vancouver offers a wide range of architectural styles, from historic sites, to ultra modern, from the truly unusual to very Vancouver unique. With its temperate climate and soft, plentiful rains, gardens, parks and green spaces can be found all around Vancouver, enhancing its already natural beauty of mountains and ocean. Shopping in Vancouver offers visitors a diverse range with high fashion boutiques, designer label, accessory and jewelry stores, to extensive shop-til-you-drop malls offering something for everyone. For more information on this fascinating cosmopolitan city, please visit http://www.tourismvancouver.com <http://www.tourismvancouver.com> . **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** TRACKS AND TRACK (CO-)CHAIRS: Full-length papers, research-in-progress proposals, and panel, workshop, tutorial or symposium proposals are invited in the following 49 tracks of IRMA2007 International: ***Accounting Information Systems*** Paul Lajbcygier, Monash University, Australia [log in to unmask] ***Business Process Management*** Joseph Barjis, Georgia Southern University, USA [log in to unmask] Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1, Sorbonne, France [log in to unmask] ***Customer Relationship Management Systems*** Takao Ito, Ube National College of Technology, Japan [log in to unmask] Kevin Voges, University of Canterbury, New Zealand [log in to unmask] ***Data Warehousing and Mining*** Andrew Kusiak, The University of Iowa, USA [log in to unmask] Qiang Zhu, The University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA [log in to unmask] ***Database Management Technologies*** Jakov Crnkovic, University at Albany (SUNY), USA [log in to unmask] Sagarmay Deb, University of Ballarat, Australia [log in to unmask] ***Decision Support Technologies*** Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia [log in to unmask] Mikael Wiberg, Umea University, Sweden [log in to unmask] ***Distance Learning Technologies*** Yair Levy, Nova Southeastern University, USA [log in to unmask] Michelle Ramim, Nova Southeastern University, USA [log in to unmask] ***E-Business Research*** Nir Kshetri, The Univ. of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA [log in to unmask] In Lee, Western Illinois University, USA [log in to unmask] ***E-Collaboration*** Ned Kock, Texas A&M International University, USA [log in to unmask] Antonio Padilla-Meléndez, University of Malaga, Spain [log in to unmask] ***Electronic Commerce Technologies Management*** S. Ann Becker, Florida Institute of Technology, USA [log in to unmask] Fang Zhao, RMIT University, Australia [log in to unmask] ***Electronic Government Research*** Pamela Abbott, University College Dublin, Ireland [log in to unmask] Matthew Guah, University of Warwick, United Kingdom [log in to unmask] ***Enterprise Information Systems*** Chandra Amaravadi, Western Illinois University, USA [log in to unmask] Sushil Sharma, Ball State University, USA [log in to unmask] ***Geographic Information Systems*** Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Information Resources Management Association, USA [log in to unmask] ***Global IT Management*** Nabeel Al-Qirim, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates [log in to unmask] Felix B. Tan, AUT University, New Zealand [log in to unmask] ***Human Computer Interaction*** Maria Suzana Marc Amoretti, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil, Brazil [log in to unmask] Thomas Stafford, University of Memphis, USA [log in to unmask] ***Human Side of IT*** Anabela Sarmento, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal [log in to unmask] Bernd Carsten Stahl, De Montfort University, United Kingdom [log in to unmask] ***Information Communication Technologies*** Antonio Cartelli, Università degli Studi di Cassino, Italy [log in to unmask] ***Information Ethics and Intellectual Property Issues*** Marian Quigley, Monash University, Australia [log in to unmask] ***Information Quality Management*** Latif Al-Hakim, University of Southern Queensland, Australia [log in to unmask] ***Information Security Management*** Parviz Partow-Navid, California State University, Los Angeles, USA [log in to unmask] Ludwig Slusky, California State University, Los Angeles, USA [log in to unmask] ***Information Systems Research*** Ovsei Gelman, CCADET-UNAM, Mexico [log in to unmask] Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico [log in to unmask] ***Information Technology Education*** Moh'd Radaideh, Human Resources General Directorate, ADP, United Arab Emirates [log in to unmask] Lawrence Tomei, Robert Morris University, USA [log in to unmask] ***Intelligent Information Technologies*** Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA [log in to unmask] Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, United Kingdom [log in to unmask] ***IRM in Government*** Calvin Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore [log in to unmask] ***IT and Supply Chain Management*** Rasool Azari, University of Redlands, USA [log in to unmask] ***IT Business Value*** Jerzy Kisielnicki, Warsaw University, Poland [log in to unmask] ***IT Evaluation Methods and Management*** Katy Campbell, University of Alberta, Canada [log in to unmask] Heather Kanuka, Athabasca University, Canada [log in to unmask] ***IT Global Sourcing*** Mehdi Ghods, The Boeing Company, USA [log in to unmask] ***IT in Small Business*** Sathasivam Mathiyalakan, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA [log in to unmask] ***IT Management in Developing Countries*** Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt [log in to unmask] ***IT Management in Healthcare*** Teemu Paavola, LifeIT Plc, Finland [log in to unmask] Kari Mäkelä, Tampere University of Technology, Finland [log in to unmask] ***Knowledge Management*** Murray Jennex, San Diego State University, USA [log in to unmask] ***Managing Electronic Communication*** Thomas Jackson, Loughborough University, United Kingdom [log in to unmask] ***Mobile Computing and Commerce*** Margherita Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy [log in to unmask] ***Multimedia Information Management*** Waleed Farag, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA [log in to unmask] Sanwar Ali, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA [log in to unmask] ***Portal Technologies and Applications*** Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Australia [log in to unmask] ***Project Management and IT*** Daniel Brandon, Christian Brothers University, USA [log in to unmask] George Ditsa, UAE University, United Arab Emirates [log in to unmask] Abdul Sami Kazi, VTT-Technical Research Center of Finland, Finland [log in to unmask] David Bryde, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom [log in to unmask] ***Radio Frequency Identification*** Angappa Gunasekaran, University of Massachusetts, USA [log in to unmask] ***Semantic Web*** Wen-Chen Hu, University of North Dakota, USA [log in to unmask] Jinyoul Lee, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA [log in to unmask] ***Social Responsibility in the Information Age*** Donald Amoroso, Appalachian State University, USA [log in to unmask] Michael Knight, Appalachian State University, USA [log in to unmask] ***Software Engineering Technologies*** Vivekanand Kochikar, Infosys Technologies Ltd., India [log in to unmask] ***Software Process Improvement*** Jack Cook, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA [log in to unmask] Subhasish Dasgupta, George Washington University, USA [log in to unmask] ***Strategic IT Management*** Perry Sadorsky, York University, Canada [log in to unmask] Petros Theodorou, Athens University, Greece [log in to unmask] ***Telecommunications and Networking Technologies*** Hao Lou, Ohio University, USA [log in to unmask] Norman Pendegraft, University of Idaho, USA [log in to unmask] ***Text Database, Document Management and Web Content Management*** Len Asprey, Practical Information Management Solutions Pty Ltd, Australia [log in to unmask] ***Unified Modeling Language and Unified Process*** Peter Rittgen, University College of Borås, Sweden [log in to unmask] ***Universities and Online Education*** Mila Gasco, International Institute on Governance, Spain [log in to unmask] Teresa Torres, Universidad Rovira I Virgili, Spain [log in to unmask] ***Virtual Organizations and Society*** Muhammad Hasmi Abu Hassan Asaari, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia [log in to unmask] Noorliza Karia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia [log in to unmask] ***Web Technologies and Applications*** Liliane Esnault, EM LYON, France [log in to unmask] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** SUBMISSION CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES: Submissions for the 2007 IRMA International Conference may be submitted in the following categories (all submissions will undergo a double-blind, peer review by at least three external expert reviewers): ***Full Length Submissions: *** Those individuals interested may submit a full length (no more than 4000 words, including references and title page, with a maximum of 5 figures/tables), original, and previously unpublished, conceptual or empirical research manuscript for review and decision by October 4, 2006. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in their entirety (no more than 4000 words) OR as a 3000 word mini-paper, as recommended by the reviewers. High quality papers will be considered for further review and possible inclusion in an IRMA official journal. 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 or a summary of tentative results of the study to date in 500-1000 words by October 4, 2006. Authors of accepted research-in-progress proposals will then be asked to forward a paper (no more than 2,000 words with a maximum of 3 figures/tables) by January 10, 2007 for inclusion in the conference 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 are invited 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 conference proceedings. (Note: All panel, workshop, tutorial/symposium members must register and pay for the conference.) Panel presenters should know that during the conference, an LCD projector, screen and laptop computer 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 or her responsibility to provide the extra equipment. SUBMISSIONS IN ALL CATEGORIES MUST FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES: (All submissions must be received by October 4, 2006.) 1. Manuscripts must not exceed 4000 words for full length submissions; 500-1000 words for research-in-progress summary/proposals; and 1000 words for panel, workshop, tutorial and symposium proposals. 2. Must be submitted through the IRMA2007 web-based review system. (A link for this system will be provided at a later date.) 3. Submitted papers must not currently be under review by any other publication or conference. 4. The number of submissions by an author (including joint authorship) is strictly limited to a maximum of two submissions. ********** NEW SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS THIS YEAR!!!! ************ IRMA will be using a web-based submission and review process for all manuscripts submitted to IRMA2007. A link will be available at a later date for all manuscripts submitted to the conference. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS: Authors of accepted papers (at least one person per submission), panel, workshop, tutorial session chairs and panel members MUST register and attend the conference. SEND ALL INQUIRIES TO: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, program chair, IRMA2007 International Conference [log in to unmask] IRMA MEMBERSHIP To learn more about IRMA membership benefits and services, or to join IRMA, please visit IRMA's Web site at www.irma-international.org. ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************