Call for papers

2008 AAA-IS Section Mid-Year Conference

January 9-12, 2008

Redondo Beach, California

The Information Systems Section of the AAA will hold its 2008 Mid-Year Conference in Redondo Beach, California. The meeting will include a plenary speaker, panel discussions, research paper sessions, education paper sessions and workshops, and forum papers. The 6^th annual AIS New Scholar Consortium will precede the meeting.  Here is a quick outline:

      AIS New Scholar Consortium.  The 6^th annual AIS New Scholar Consortium will kick off with a reception on Wednesday evening, January 9^th.  The consortium is open to all AIS and IS doctoral students and to AIS professors who received their PhD after January 1, 2004.  Consortium attendees will meet on Thursday, January 10^th and will receive advice from seasoned AIS faculty for successfully starting an academic career.  The IS section will once again waive the registration fee for the entire meeting for doctoral students who are members of the IS section.  This is made possible by a grant from the KPMG Foundation. Attendees may register for the consortium along with their meeting registration through the AAA online registration system.

       JIS New Scholars Research Workshop. The JIS New Scholars Research Workshop is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, January 10^th as part of the AIS New Scholar Consortium.  The purpose of this Workshop is to promote research by PhD students and faculty new to AIS research.  Workshop participants will discuss drafts of their working papers with members of the JIS Editorial Advisory and Review Board and with other workshop participants.  The workshop is structured to provide detailed feedback to further develop a working paper for future journal submission.  Submissions need not be complete:  working papers without results also qualify for the workshop.  There is no obligation for the authors to submit their completed work to JIS, although JIS is one high quality journal outlet that does welcome conceptual, theoretical, and empirical AIS papers.  Submissions should be sent to Tanya Lee at leeta@rmu.edu by September 15, 2007.

      Attention AIS Educators. This year there will be an entire day of activities for AIS educators on Friday January 11^th!  In addition to the education paper sessions, there will be an AIS Education Workshop and education paper poster session.  All conference registrants are welcome to attend these activities free of charge. Watch the section web page for an announcement of the workshop topics.

      Concurrent Sessions.  The 2008 meeting will have concurrent sessions featuring both academic research papers and education research papers.

      Research Forum.  This is an opportunity for authors to discuss their papers in an informal setting. 

      Best Paper Awards.  The Research and Publications committee and the Education committee will select the Best Academic Paper and Best Education Paper Award winners in a blind review process. Award winners will be recognized during the conference. Winners of these awards will be extended an invitation to have their papers published in the Journal of Information Systems.

      Semantic Modeling of Accounting Phenomena (SMAP) CPE Session.  SMAP will kick off with a reception on Wednesday evening, January 9^th.  The SMAP workshop will be offered as a continuing professional education (CPE) session on Thursday, January 10^th from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm.  The workshop will be led by Bill McCarthy and Julie Smith David.

Objective of the workshop:  This workshop provides a forum for researchers and educators interested in semantic modeling of accounting phenomena, as illustrated by the resources, events, and agents (REA) paradigm. The SMAP workshop is a seminar in that the discussion is lively yet informal. All participants are strongly encouraged to contribute teaching and/or research materials that they have developed.  Regardless of whether materials are for the classroom or research work-in-progress, they are welcome and should be submitted to julie.smith.david@asu.edu by December 1, 2007.  All submitted workshop materials will be shared through a private web site, and each participant will make a brief presentation of their work during the SMAP meeting.  Ideally, half of the contributions will be educational and half research - but the proportion of each is dependent on participants contributing materials!  Historically, the teaching materials have been shared to increase the data-modeling resources available to all, and to develop insights into problems frequently experienced in the classroom. Thus, if you have any REA problem sets, cases, or teaching tools and techniques, they would be much appreciated by the group.  Additionally, very preliminary research submissions are encouraged with the goal of providing detailed feedback early in the process. 

Who should attend:  SMAP is designed for those interested in enhancing their REA expertise.  Participants in prior years have included faculty with limited experience in REA to faculty who are active in researching advanced REA issues.  Anyone interested in REA is encouraged to attend.

Submissions:

·      All education and research paper submissions should be made, via email, to Uday Murthy (umurthy@coba.usf.edu) no later than September 15, 2007. Notification of acceptance to the conference will be made by November 1, 2007. Please note that submitted versions of the accepted papers will be posted to the section website.

·     JIS Research Development Workshop submission should be made, via email, to Tanya Lee (LeeTa@rmu.edu) no later than September 15, 2007.  Papers concurrently submitted to or scheduled for presentation at conferences are welcome, including the IS Section Mid-Year Meeting.  However, papers accepted for presentation at the Mid-Year Meeting must be withdrawn from the workshop.

·     AI/ET submission: A separate call for papers will be posted at the AI/ET section web site. Please find instructions for these submissions at: http://aaahq.org/aiet/index.html
 

If you have any questions about the meeting or suggestions on how to make the meeting interesting for all, please don’t hesitate to email the conference chair, Marcus Odom (modom@cba.siu.edu).