5-7 July 2005
Lisbon, Portugal


Conference CLOSED
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ISBN: 978-0-9753393-3-6

  • Welcome
  • Call for Papers
  • Conference Committee
  • Conference Themes
  • Accepted Papers
  • Special Topics Sessions
  • Important Dates
  • Registration
  • Conference Venue

Welcome


The IBIMA 2005 conference on information management in modern enterprise will address a range of important Themes with respect to Information Technology and its impact on organizations.

The conference will include numerous paper and workshop presentations by academics and researchers from around the globe.

Conference participants are welcome to submit presentation full papers, extended abstracts, paper drafts, or invited session proposals. Please refer to Call for Papers.


Call for Papers


Interested academics and practitioners are invited to submit:

  • Research papers: complete papers (5000 words max.) with complete references section. 
  • Short papers: this could be research in progress, abstracts, ideas you would like to explore with audiance at the conference, or draft of papers for possible co-authorship:  (max. 5 pages or 1000 words) 

IBIMA focuses on real-world business applications. Therefore, submitted papers should highlight the benefits and applications of emerging information technology for industry, government, and services.  The idea of the conference is to discuss how to solve business problems or take advantage of new opportunities using IT.  All papers will be directed to the appropriate  theme and/or track.  All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 

Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and contribution.  Complete papers will be exposed to full blind peer review.  Short papers will be reviewed by the editor.  Summary of review feedback will be sent back to the author(s) in most cases.  All review comments and suggestions should be addressed in the final submission.  Submitted Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Conference proceedings will be published as an e-book on a CD (ISBN: 0-9753393-3-8)


Conference Committees


Conference Chair


Khalid S. Soliman, Hofstra University, USA khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu

Local Chair


Alcina Prata, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal aprata@esce.ips.pt 

Spanish Track Chair


Christiane E. Metzner Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

Advisory Committee


John F. Affisco, Hofstra University, USA
Haroun Alryalat, Brunel University, UK
Imed Boughzala, GET/ Institut National des Telecommunications, France
Mel Damodaran, University of Houston-Victoria, USA

Reggie Davidrajuh, Stavanger University College, Norway
Latif Al-Hakim, University of Queensland, Australia
Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK
Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Markus Mau, University of Giessen, Germany
Nicole Mau, University of Giessen, Germany
Christiane E. Metzner, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Marcus Rothenberger, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA
Najib Saylani, Hofstra University, USA
Magdy Serour, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Nasrin Shah, University of Michigan , USA
Sushil Sharma, Ball State University, USA
Mark Srite, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee,  US

Conference Themes


Possible conference topics of interest

E-Business and Internet Computing
May include issues in
  • B2B and B2C Applications 
  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • E-Procurement and Web-based supply chain management 
  • Market-spaces: market portals, hubs, auctions
  • E-Learning, e-Training, and e-Teams 
  • Intranet and Extranet Business Applications 
  • Agents for Internet Computing 
  • Web Information Agents 
  • Application Service Providers
  • Case studies on Electronic Commerce  
  • Public sector applications of e-Commerce  
  • Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications
  • Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing 
  • RFID, digital tags, and smart labels
  • Global positioning systems and service delivery

E-government Applications
May include issues in

  • E-government strategies and implementation procedures
  • E-government portals and their role in disseminating the use of e-government
  • E-government issues in government-to-citizens relationships
  • E-government issues in government-to-businesses relationships 
  • Intergovernmental issues in local and state e-governments
  • Legal and political issues in e-government
  • E-government and M-government best practices
  • Infrastructure requirements of hardware, software, communication technologies.
  • Social, technical, and economical aspects of e-government
M-Commerce Applications
May include issues in

  • Mobile commerce business models
  • Wireless application providers 
  • Global positioning systems and service delivery
  • M-commerce adoption and diffusion 
  • Social, legal, and security issues
  • M-commerce best practice
  • Research in M-commerce
  • M-commerce delivery modes
  • M-commece and financial services
  • M-commerce and customers' experience
Software Engineering and Technologies
May include issues in

  • Software engineering of e-business systems
  • Software frameworks for e-business systems
  • Software standards for e-business systems
  • Agent-mediated e-commerce
  • Knowledge extraction and search
  • Knowledge-based solutions
  • Prospects of the Semantic Web for e-commerce research and applications
  • Mass Personalization Technologies
  • User Modeling and Customer Profiling
  • Privacy and Anonymizing Applications
  • Data Mining techniques
Decision Support Systems
and Artificial Intelligence

May include issues in

  • Strategic Decision Support Systems 
  • Group Decision Support Systems 
  • Applications of Expert Systems 
  • Transaction processing systems and online transactions
  • Data Warehouses and Datamining
  • Multimedia Database Applications
  • Web and Mobile Databases
  • Distributed Database Applications
  • Object-Oriented Database Systems
  • Database Security
  • Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence 
  • Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network applications
  • Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems 
  • Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications 
  • Case-Based Reasoning Systems
  • Knowledge-based Systems Engineering
  • Knowledge Management
Information Systems
May include issues in
 

  • Customer relationship management 
  • Business process re-design (BPR)
  • Total quality management (TQM)
  • Cycle time reduction (CTR)
  • Supply Chain Management (SCM)
  • Virtual organization management
  • Outsourcing
  • End user Computing
  • Application Service Providers (ASP)
  • Telecommuting
  • IS Security
  • Just-in-time Inventory management
  • Data Centers
  • Modern information systems issues, trends, and challenges
Organizational Transformation
May include issues in
 

  • E-business integration
  • adoption and diffusion of emerging technologies
  • Managing emerging technologies
  • Telecommuting and employees productivity
  • Change management and organizational performance measures
  • Just-in-time training on emerging technologies
  • Polices and management issues on the adoption of emerging technologies
  • IS department role in transforming organizations
  • E-mail usage, monitoring, and privacy issues.
  • Organizational Issues on Systems Integration  
  • Organizational change
  • User information satisfaction
Enterprise Systems Integration and ERP
May include issues in

  • Enterprise Systems and competitive advantage
  • Enterprise Systems performance and evaluation
  • Enterprise Systems and Enterprise Application Integration 
  • Business Porcess Re-design
  • ERP package selection and implementation approaches
  • ERP Management
  • ERP and Industry Solutions
  • ERP market, ERP vendors strategies, and ERP software solutions
  • Middleware Integration 
  • Legacy Systems and migration issues
  • Client-Server Architecture
  • Extended ERP and web-based ERP

List of Accepted Papers

    Special Topics Sessions


    You can also submit a proposal to organize a special topics sessionworkshop, and/or tutorial.  The of organizing a special topic session is that it brings together researchers and audience together to discuss a specific research question of interest and/or share your research efforts with others who have worked in the same area.  These sessions could result in joint research efforts and/or co-authorship of journal articles.  Special topics session are highly beneficial if they are well organized.  

    Proposals to organize a special topic session should include the following information: name and address, e-mail of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, and a short description on how the session will be advertised.  Usually, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer.    

    Each special topic session will have at least 3 paper. The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, etc.  The review process for invited sessions will strictly follow the review process for regular submission.  Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and contribution.  Each paper will be exposed to a full blind peer review by two reviewers in the topical area.  Final camera-ready papers will be reviewed by one reviewer.    Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

    The efforts of the Special Topics Sessions' Organizers will be recognized during the conference and their names will appear on the conference proceedings as Associate Editors

    Important Dates


    • Paper submission: Closed 
    • Notification of Acceptance: Within 3 week from submission date (in most cases)
    • Second Phase Paper submission deadline: May 25, 2005
    • Second Phase Camera ready submission: June 20, 2005
    • Second Phase Registration fee deadline: June 20, 2005

     
     
     

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