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Topics of
Interest
The conference program
welcome submissions in the following categories: theme-related research
papers, other IS research papers, research in progress, and panels and
tutorials. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Modern business
environment and information systems
Organisational, management
and strategic issues of information systems
Technical and
infrastructure development of information systems
Social, cultural and
political issues
Conceptual foundations of IS
Design and development of information systems
E-Business, E-Commerce and E-Government
E-Learning
E-Procurement and Web-based supply chain management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Internet or Intranet-based Systems
IS Strategy and innovative business models
Knowledge management
Market-spaces: market portals, hubs, auctions
Knowledge Management
Outsourcing
Regional and remote community issues
These areas of interest lead
to the suggestion of the following themes, although it should be noted
that papers outside of these themes are more than welcome:
Conceptual foundations of
IS
Design and development of
information systems
E-Business, E-Commerce and
E-Government
E-Learning
E-Procurement and Web-based
supply chain management
Enterprise Resource
Planning
Internet or Intranet-based
Systems
IS Strategy and innovative
business models
IS/IT Infrastructure
Market-spaces: market
portals, hubs, auctions
Outsourcing
Regional and remote
community issues
In order to expedite the review process, manuscripts are required to choose a
suitable track. The ten tracks and their chairs are listed as follows:
| Conceptual Foundation of IS |
Shirley Gregor Australia National University, Australia
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| Decision Support and Intelligent Systems |
John Gammack Griffith University, Australia
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| E-Commerce and e-Business |
Chris Keen University of Tasmania, Australia
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| E-government and Other IS Research |
Wayne Huang Ohio University, USA
Dahui Li University of Minnesota Duluth , USA
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Knowledge Management and e-learning |
Choon Ling Sia City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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| Mobile commerce and Future Trends |
James Thong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong
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Organizational and Strategic Issues
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Chin-Fu Ho National Sun Yat-sen University,
Taiwan
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| Social and Cultural Issues |
Bob Kuo National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
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| Security and Technical Research |
Yufei Yuan McMaster University, Canada
Jian Ma City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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| System Design and Development |
Ingoo Han Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Korea
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Submission
Guidelines
The official language of the conference is English. Submissions to PACIS 2004
must be written in English. They should not have been published in a journal
or conference proceedings, nor presented or under review with another conference
or journal. Those violating the rule will be returned without review. Research-in-progress
papers are welcome, but are subject to reviews too. Outstanding RIP papers will
be accepted for presentation in regular sessions or poster sessions.
Instructions for Manuscripts
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1. |
Authors must register to obtain their
ID and password before submitting a manuscript. |
2. |
Manuscripts,
excluding references, must not exceed 5,000 words (approximately
22 double-spaced pages).
The first page of the paper should include the title, the abstract
(not more than 200 words) and 3-5 keywords. Please do not indicate
author name, affiliation, or any other information in the manuscript. |
3. |
All texts (excluding
title and section headings) must be in 12 points Times New
Roman font. The paper must
be double-spaced. |
| 4. |
Please follow the MIS
Quarterly format for references, as follows: |
- Alvesson, M., and Willmott, H. "On the Idea of Emancipation
in Management and Organization Studies," Academy of Management Review (17:3),
1992, pp. 432-464.
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- Keen, P. W. "MIS Research: Reference Disciplines and a
Cumulative Tradition," Proceedings of the First International Conference
on Information Systems , E. McLean (ed.), Philadelphia, PA,
1980, pp. 9-18.
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- Price, R. L. "A Customer's View of Organizational Literature," in Publishing
in the Organizational Sciences , 2nd ed. L. L. Cummings
and P. J. Frost (eds.), Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA,
1995, pp. 98-107.
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- Alvesson, M., and Willmott, H. (eds.). Critical Management
Studies , Sage Publications, London, 1992.
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5.
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All papers must be submitted through the online
submission system in the format of MS Word or PDF. The camera-ready
copy of accepted manuscripts must be submitted in the MS Word format. |
Call for
Tutorials
Proposals for tutorials
should cover timely topics relevant to the conference theme. The format
for a tutorial proposal is as follows:
Tutorial title, a 200 word
abstract and a brief outline
Background information
of the speaker, which should include the name, affiliation,
address
(postal address, telephone, fax and email), publications and
envisioned activities during the tutorial.
Call for
Panels
The panels should address timely and interesting topics in information systems.
Each panel contains 3 or 4 panelists and run for about 1.5 hours. The format
for a panel proposal is as follows:
One page indicating the
proposed panel topic, panel chairperson and likely panel participants.
A 200-word abstract should
describe the content of the panel and be accompanied by the full name
and address (postal address, telephone, fax and email) of the panel
chairperson. |
