Call for Papers

ACIS 2010
21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems
- Defining and Establishing a High Impact Discipline -

The Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) is the premier conference in Australasia for Information Systems academics and professionals, covering technical, organisational, business and social issues in the application of Information Technology. Its status has been recognized as an ERA-ranked A-conference. In 2010, the ACIS Conference will be jointly organized by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and The University of Queensland. The event will take place at the QUT Gardens Point Campus. The campus is located in the Central Business District of Brisbane, the fastest growing city in Australia. With 1.7 million people, Brisbane offers all the facilities and infrastructure of a global hub for technology and tourism.

Conference Theme
ACIS 2010 will be dedicated to the definition and establishment of Information Systems as a discipline of high impact for the scientific community and IS professionals. The focus will be on approaches that facilitate the identification of research questions of significant relevance that are studied by following sound research methodologies and that lead to results of measureable impact. Thus, the theme for ACIS 2010 will be: Information Systems: Defining and Establishing a High Impact Discipline

Topics and Submission Types
ACIS 2010 will be organised in conference tracks and this Call invites Information Systems academics and professionals to submit proposals to any of the following conference tracks.

• Business Process Management
• Information Technology in Creative Environments
• Green Information IT/IS
• Governance, Risk and Compliance
• ICT for Improved Health Care
• Information Systems Collaboration for Complex Problems
• IS Development – The Core of the IS Discipline
• IS Leadership and the Role of the CIO
• Mobile Business and Services
• Service Management and Engineering
• General Track: Information Systems - Defining and Establishing a High Impact Discipline

Each track is chaired by national and international thought leaders and includes one actively involved industry organisation representative, highlighting the commitment to the conference theme. For most of these tracks the opportunity to fast-track selected best papers to high quality IS journals is available.

Within these tracks, we invite 3 types of submissions:

• RESEARCH PAPERS
• TEACHING CASES; and
• INDUSTRY SUBMISSIONS

For information on the requirements and review processes of the three categories of submissions please click here.

Submissions
ACIS 2010 calls for original, unpublished research papers (i.e. completed research and research-in-progress) in the areas defined in the conference track descriptions. All submissions must be in English and be made via the ACIS 2010 submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acis2010 by 19 July 2010. For more details about submission formats, expectations and the review process, please click here.

Program Co-Chairs
Prof. Michael Rosemann, QUT
Prof. Peter Green, UQ
Assoc. Prof. Fiona Rohde,UQ

Workshop and Tutorials Co-Chairs
Dr Jan Recker, QUT
Dr Jon Heales, UQ

Publicity Chair
Prof. David Wilson, UTS

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Prof. Guy Gable, QUT
Prof. Iris Vessey, QUT/UQ

Organisation Co-Chairs
Dr Wasana Bandara, QUT
Dr Marta Indulska, UQ

Contact
info@acis2010.org