[CFP] Information Management Track - Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2007

Call for Papers – Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2007

ACIS2007 is the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems and will be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba campus from December 5-7, 2007.

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Information Management Track
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Track Chairs:
Professor Amanda Spink ah.spink@qut.edu.au
Professor Paula Swatman paula.swatman@unisa.edu.au

This track brings together a range of related issues which were formerly scattered across a wide range of disciplines, including: information science, information retrieval, library studies, records management, archiving and security. The management of information is an importance area of research in the 21st century. Information management includes consideration of the technical user and organizational aspects on collecting, organising and accessing information.

Topics relevant to this track include:
• Management of information
• Information behavior
• Information/Web retrieval
• Managing / preserving digital resources - within and across organisations
• Knowledge management; knowledge communities
• Digital libraries
• Electronic access to information
• Personal information management
• Digital rights management
• Ethics in information access and use
• Security and privacy of information

First Call for Papers – Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2007
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You are invited to submit original papers for consideration for ACIS2007. Papers should not be previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. Papers submitted will be refereed by members of the international program committee and, if selected, published in the conference proceedings. The Program Committee has identified a number of tracks to focus submissions. Some tracks already have potential journal outlets for extended versions of exceptional quality papers.

The current list of tracks includes:
• Business Process Management
• Environmental Sustainability in ICT
• Health Information Systems
• ICT Governance, Strategic Alignment and Service Management
• Information Management
• Information Quality
• Information Systems, Culture and Society
• Information Systems Education
• Information Systems Security and Privacy
• Information Systems and Small Business
• Information Systems Supporting Mobile Work & Leisure
• Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Information Systems
• Women and Information Systems

Submissions are invited on any topics relevant to information systems and are not limited to these tracks. Full details of tracks including chairs, contents, topics and potential journals are available. A template describing the expected format of paper submissions is available.

The closing date for submissions is June 4, 2007.

All papers will be double-blind refereed. The maximum paper length is 10 A4 pages (Times Roman 10pt) in total. Oral presentations will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions.

ACIS2007 is the 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems and will be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba campus from December 5-7. ACIS is the premier Australasian conference for Information Systems academics, covering technical, organisational, industry and social issues in the application of IT to real world problems.

The theme for the 2007 conference is ‘the 3Rs: Research, Relevance and Rigour: Coming of Age’. A two-day Doctoral Consortium will be held before the conference and will begin on December 3. A small number of panels and/or workshops will also be organised. Prizes for high quality papers will be awarded in several categories.

Conference Chairs
Mr Dave Roberts, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Dr Aileen Cater-Steel, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Program Chair
Prof Mark Toleman, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Doctoral Consortium Chair
Prof Guy Gable, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Important Dates
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Paper submission: June 4, 2007
Notification of acceptance: September 3, 2007
Camera Ready copy of papers: October 1, 2007


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Amanda Spink
Research Capacity Building Professor of Information Technology
School of Information Systems
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus
2 George St, GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au
Tel: 61-7-3864-9583 Fax: 61-7-3864-2703
Email: ah.spink@qut.edu.au
Homepage: http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/