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IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008
http://www.is-conf.org/
April 9-11, 2008 - ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
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* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Jean-Charles Chebat, HEC Montréal, Canada
Professor Robert D Galliers, Provost & Vice President
for Academic Affairs, Bentley College, USA
* Conference background and goals
A new paradigm is sweeping society, organisations and
the business environment. In fact, society and business
world alike are moving from its tangible bases to
intangible ones based on knowledge and information
systems (IS) to support its management, use and sharing.
In this emerging paradigm, terms like information,
communication, knowledge, and learning have acquired a
critical relevance to the understanding of the nature of
contemporary business. This led authors such as Drucker
(1993) to state that "we are entering the knowledge
society in which the basic economic resource... is
knowledge".
In fact, since the mid-1980s, there has been a sudden
avalanche of a new kind of vocabulary. Corporations,
which so far had been economic entities, are being
described as `information-based organizations´,
`learning organizations´, `knowledge-creating companies´
or knowledge intensive organisations. Instead of
product-market strategies, the fashionable business
discourse invokes core competencies, intangible assets,
knowledge-based capabilities, intellectual capital,
knowledge management etc. Consequently, in this 21st
century of ours, terms such as intellectual capital,
knowledge management, and knowledge mapping have
increasingly become part of the corporate landscape.
However, none of this apparent revolution would be
possible without the underlying technological support
provided by IS. The IADIS Information Systems Conference
(IS 2008) aims to provide a forum for the discussion of
IS taking a socio-technological perspective. It aims to
address the issues related to design, development and
use of IS in organisations from a socio-technological
perspective, as well as to discuss IS professional
practice, research and teaching.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be
published in the form of a book. The best paper authors
will be invited to publish extended versions of their
papers in specific journals, and in the IADIS
International Journal on Computer Science and
Information Systems.
* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers,
Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral
Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind
refereeing process.
* A set of key issues has been identified (see below).
However, these do not aim at being prescriptive, or set
in stone, and any innovative contributions that do not
fit into these areas will also be considered. Areas and
Topics of the conference will focus on:
IS in Practice, Technology Infrastructures and
Organisational Processes
* Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues
* New Organisational Forms
* Dilution of Organisational Boundaries
* The centrality of IS and IT in Organisational
Processes
* IS Management
* Information Management
* Knowledge Management
* IS and SMEs
* Innovation and IS
* Innovation and Knowledge Management
* IS and Change Management
* IS and Organisation Development
* Enterprise Application Integration
* Enterprise Resource Planning
* Business Process Change
IS Design, Development and Management Issues and
Methodologies
* Design and Development Methodologies and
Frameworks
* Iterative and Incremental Methodologies
* Agile Methodologies
* IS Design and Development as a Component-Based
Process
* IS Design and Development as Social Negotiation
Process
* IS D Design and Development as a Global and
Distributed Process
* Outsourcing in IS
* Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities
* IS Project Management
* IS Quality Management and Assurance
* IS Standards and Compliance Issues
* Risk Management in IS
* Risk Management in IS Design and Development
IS Professional Issues
* Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral
issues in an e- society
* The role of information in the information society
* Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS
* Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects
and Links
* Validity, Usefulness and Applicability of IS
Academic Research
* Industrial Research versus Academic Research
Issues
* Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic
Laggards
* IS consultancy as a profession
* Organisational IS Roles
* Communities of practice and Knowledge Sharing
IS Research
* Core Theories, Conceptualisations and Paradigms in
IS Research
* Ontological Assumptions in IS Research
* IS Research Constraints, Limitations and
Opportunities
* IS vs Computer Science Research
* IS vs Business Studies
* Positivist, Interpretivist and Critical Approaches
to IS Research
* Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods
* Deductive vs Inductive Approaches
* Multi-method Approaches and Triangulations in IS
Research
* Design Research and the Sciences of the Artificial
in IS
* Multidisciplinary Views and Multi Methodological
Approaches
* New and alternative approaches to IS research
* Examples of experimental research designs in IS
IS Learning and Teaching
* Patterns of Demand for IS Teaching Provision
* Fads, Fashions and Fetishes in IS Curricula
* Pedagogic practice in Teaching IS
* E-Learning in IS
* Instructional Design for IS
* National Cultures and Approaches to Pedagogy
* Multiculturality ad Diversity Issues in IS
Learning and Teaching
* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline extended: 7 January 2008
- Notification to Authors: 1 February 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration:
Until 22 February 2008
- Late Registration: After 22 February 2008
- Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 9 to 11 April 2008
* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2008
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon,
Portugal
E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web site: http://www.is-
conf.org/
* Program Committee
Conference Chair
Professor Philip Powell, Deputy Dean, University of
Bath, UK
Program Co-Chairs
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United
Kingdom
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open
University), Portugal
Committee Members:
for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.is- conf.org/committees.asp
* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
Mobile Learning 2008 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) -
11-13 April 2008
Applied Computing 2008 (http://www.computing-conf.org/)
- 10-13 April 2008
e-Society 2008 (http://www.esociety-conf.org/) - 9-12
April 2008
* Registered participants in the Information Systems´
conference may attend Mobile Learning, Applied
Computing, and e-Society conferences´ sessions free of
charge.
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José Miguel Baptista Nunes, BSC, MSc, PhD, MBCS, FHEA, FIMIS
Senior Lecturer in Information Management
Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
Sheffield S1 4DP
Tel: +44 (0)114 22 22645
Fax: +44 (0 114 2780300
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Url: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/~is/people/nunes.html
