PACIS2016

1. Enterprise Systems in the New Era

2. Healthcare Systems

3. IT/IS Governance, Risk Management, Control, and Auditing

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Tawei (David) Wang	wang131@gmail.com	DePaul University
Cooper Cheng-Yuan Ku	cooper.c.y.ku@gmail.com	National Chiao Tung University

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Roger Debreceny	Professor, Senior Editor of Journal of Information Systems	University of Hawaii at Manoa
W. Alec Cram	Assistant Professor	Bentley University
Chia-Ming Sun	Associate Professor	National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Matthew J. Hashim	Assistant Professor	University of Arizona
Charlie Chen	Associate Professor	Appalachian State University
Kuanchin Chen	Professor	Western Michigan University
Jia-Lang Seng	Distinguished Professor	National Cheng-Chi University
Albert Huang	Professor	University of the Pacific
Wei-Hsi (Frank) Hung	Associate Professor	National Chung Cheng University
J. Michael Tarn	Professor	Western Michigan University
Cheryl Dunn	Associate Professor	Grand Valley State University
Juhee Kwon	Assistant Professor	City University of Hong Kong
Jee-Hae Lim	Associate Professor	University of Waterloo
Chi-Chun Chou	Associate Professor	California State University at Monterey Bay
Ju-Chun Yen	Assistant Professor	Visiting Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong
Georg Herde	Professor	Technische Hochschule Deggendorf

Short Description
IT risk always exists and ranges from financial and operational exposures, data integrity, to disaster recovery. The recent high profile information security breach incidents, such as MasterCard, TJ Maxx, and Target, caused unpredictable and inestimable losses to breached firms and their customers. These incidents also brought unprecedented attentions from the public and the regulators (e.g., the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC) to the risks brought by information technology. However, our understanding of IT risks is still limited. This interdisciplinary track invites full research papers and research in progress papers from different perspectives that can enhance our understanding regarding IT governance practices as well as challenges in IT risks and stimulate future innovative works. A list of possible topics are given below, but not limit to
(1) What are the IT risks? How can we better estimate and/or predict
the consequences of IT risks? What are the possible reputation losses?
What are the legal liabilities?
(2) What are the recent trends and changes in the types of IT risks? How do firms react to these trends and changes? What are the strategies in managing IT risks?
(3) How do firms communicate IT risk management practices to shareholders? How do firms communicate threats, concerns and incidents to external parties?
(4) How do big data and social media change bring new opportunities in understanding and estimating IT risks or in understanding the potential reactions of the public? How do cloud computing, big data and social media bring new threats to IT risks and concerns?
(5) What is the association between IT governance and information security
management? What are the boards’ and/or top management teams’
perceptions toward information security management? What is the role played by governance framework in managing information security? How do firms address information security management issues in multi-culture and multi- regulation settings?
(6) What are the legislation efforts and global cooperation initiatives in
deterring information security incidents? How do security laws,
regulations, and guidelines on information security and privacy affect
firms’ risk assessment activities? How do the legislation efforts affect
corporate policies and security management activities?
(7) What are the external monitoring functions’ roles (e.g., audit) in managing
IT risks? How does the COSO 2013 internal control framework affect IT
riskmanagement practices?

Best Paper Award
The best paper award honors the author(s) of an intriguing paper that contributes to the knowledge body of IT/IS governance. The prize is USD$500 for the paper.

Fast Track Submission to Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems
At the authors’ prerogative, selected papers will be considered for fast track submissions at the Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems These papers should constitute original research that is not currently being considered for publication or has not been previously published elsewhere.
Selected papers also need to pass the appropriate review process before considering for publication.

Fast Track Submission to Journal of Information Systems
At the authors' prerogative, selected papers will be considered for fast track submissions at the Journal of Information Systems. These papers should constitute original research that is not currently being considered for publication or has not been previously published elsewhere. Selected papers also need to pass the appropriate review process before considering for publication.

Fast Track Submission to International Journal of Accounting Information Systems
At the authors' prerogative, selected papers will be considered for fast track submissions at the Journal of Information Systems. These papers should constitute original research that is not currently being considered for publication or has not been previously published elsewhere. Selected papers also need to pass the appropriate review process before considering for publication.

4. Information Technology and Supply Chain Management

5. IS Education and Learning

6. IS Security and Privacy

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Sheng-Pao Shih	sbao@mail.tku.edu.tw	Department of Information Management, Tamkang University
Jack Shih-Chieh Hsu	jackshsu@mis.nsysu.edu.tw	Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University
Paul Benjamin LOWRY	pblowry@cityu.edu.hk	Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Anthony Vance	Associate Professor	Information Systems, Brigham Young University
John D’ Arcy	Assistant Professor	Department of Accounting & MIS, University of Delaware
Hanna Krasnova	Assistant Professor	Information Management, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Kim Seung Hyun	Associate Professor	Yonsei University
Ben Choi	Lecturer	University of New South Wales
Julia Yuzhu Li	Assistant Professor	Decision and Information Sciences, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Rob Crossler	Assistant Professor	Mississippi State University
Juhee Kwon	Assistant Professor	Management Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong
Shuyuan Mary Ho	Assistant Professor	College of Communication & Information, Florida State University
Gregory D. Moody	Assistant Professor	College of Business, University of Nevada
Marc J. Dupuis	Lecturer	Institute of Technology, University of Washington Tacoma
Jongwoo (Jonathan) Kim	Assistant Professor	Management Science and Information Systems, University of Massachusetts Boston
Nan (Andy) Zhang	Assistant Professor	Department of Computer Science and Information Systems , University of Jyväskylä
Jonna Järveläinen	Senior Research Fellow	Information Systems Science , University of Turku

Short Description
The rapid growth of telecommunications, networking, and technologies enhance the importance of information security and privacy in today's global business environments. Organizations have to deal with the internal and external security threats with the latest technologies such as big data or cloud computing that has been sophisticated than ever. At the same time, individuals are facing greater risks of private information breaches from the attacks over the Internet. Therefore, it is imperative to understand government regulations, business policies and strategies, technological solutions, and sound practices that can address security and privacy issues.

This IS Security and Privacy track provides a forum for scholars to exchange and discuss ideas on information security and privacy research. We seek to address pivotal questions on information security and privacy such as: What are the implications of information security and privacy on IT governance in organizations? How can organizations better protect security and privacy in an IT governance future society? What are the underlying government actions that can enhance the current state of information security and privacy? What can organizations or individuals do to prevent themselves from computer misuse, security incidents, and privacy breaches? What are the implications of culture concerning security and privacy on various business domains?

The track welcomes both empirical and theoretical submissions using behavioral, empirical, economic, and managerial research methods. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
● Accountability mechanisms of IS security
● Corporate governance of IS security and privacy
● Cross-cultural issues in IS security and privacy
● Design and development of security and privacy systems or applications
● Economics of information security and privacy
● Emerging trend in sound IS security and privacy practice
● Individual motivators and inhibitors of employee computer crime
● IS security and privacy concerning big data
● IS security and privacy concerning cloud computing
● IS security and privacy concerning social media and social networking
● IS security risk assessment and management
● IS security education and training
● IT audit and controls
● Legal and ethical issues in IS security and privacy
● Organizational strategy for securing information and privacy
● Secure software development
● Security policy compliance and violations
● Trust in security and privacy
● IT governance of IS security and privacy

7. IT Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Dongming Xu	d.xu@business.uq.edu.au	The University of Queensland
Yulin Fang	ylfang@cityu.edu.hk	City University of Hong Kong
Kanliang Wang	klwang@ruc.edu.cn	Renmin University of China

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Ye Hua	Assistant Professor	University of Auckland
Chen Jin	Assistant Professor	East China University of Science and Technology
Huifang Li	Research Associate	City University of Hong Kong
Peijian Song	Associate Professor	Nanjing University
Wen-Lung Shiau	Associate Professor	Ming Chuan University
Israr Qureshi	Associate Professor	IE Business School
Celeste Ng (吳思佩)	Associate Professor	Yuan Ze University
Iris Vessey	Professor	The University of Queensland
Stephen Smith	Senior Lecturer	Macquarie University
Joy W He	Assistant	Polytechnic University
William Yu Chung Wang	Associate Professor	AUT University
Wenyu Du	Assistant Professor	Renmin University of China
Liqiang Huang	Assistant Professor	Zhejiang University, China
Mengxiang Li	Assistant Professor	University of Wollongong, Australia
Rui Gu	Assistant Professor	University of International Business & Economics, China

Short Description
This track provides an opportunity for the discussion on a broad range of relevant fertile areas associated with recent trends in IT innovation and entrepreneurship. Over the last years, there is a growing research body of IT entrepreneurship in IS community. IT entrepreneurship is driven by an individual or a small group of individuals who are referred to as entrepreneurs. IT Innovation and IT entrepreneurship are tightly coupled concepts.IT entrepreneurship adds a further dimension of IT innovation as to how new ideas are converted into software and hardware products and services.

General speaking, "Innovation is the specific tool of Entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as opportunity of a different [new] business or a different [new] service… Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovations, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation." Drucker stated in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 1998.

This track invites research that provides theoretical perspectives and novel empirical insights using a variety of research methods on the range of IT driven innovation processes and activities, creativity, strategic and/or innovation management, behaviour and impacts, and IT entrepreneurship, in order for enterprises and SME’s, to gain the fundamental capability of adaptation to the continuous changing global entrepreneurial and economic reality.
Possible topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
● Tech start-ups and small IT business development
● The impact of entrepreneurship on business growth
● Entrepreneurial attitudes and motives
● Entrepreneurship in Open Innovation Platforms
● Innovation tournaments
● Causes and/or effects of Innovation and IT Entrepreneurship
● Collaboration in IT innovation and IT entrepreneurship
● Inter-nationalization of IT innovation
● Culture and IT innovation/IT entrepreneurship

8. Context-Aware Computing & Geographic Information Systems Track

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Tung X. Bui	tung.bui@hawaii.edu	University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Shidler College of Business
Sophea Chea	Sophea.Chea@delval.edu	Delaware Valley University Business and Information Management
Margaret Meiling Luo	luo@mis.ccu.edu.tw	National Chung Cheng University Department of Information Management & Institute of Healthcare Information Management

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Shih-Lung Shaw	Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor & Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor, Department of Geography Director of Confucius Institute, Center for International Education	University of Tennessee
Shouraseni Sen Roy	Associate Professor	Department of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami
Shipeng Sun	Assistant Professor in Department of Environmental Studies Director of GIS Lab	College of Public Affairs & Administration University of Illinois Springfield
Xiaofeng Li	Senior scientist	Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park, MD, USA
Daniel Sui	Professor & Chair Distinguished Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences Department of Geography	The Ohio State University
Hartwig Hochmair	Associate Professor	Geomatics program Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center University of Florida
Chuen-Fa Ni	Associate Professor	Graduate Institute of Applied Geology National Central University
Qiliang Liu	Assistant Professor	Department of Geo-informatics Central South university, China
Qing Li	Professor	Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong
José R.R. Viqueira	Associate Professor	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Jose Pablo Suárez Rivero	Associate Professor, Chief Operating Officer at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Department of Cartography and Graphic Engineering University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Lingqian (Ivy) Hu	Associate Professor	School of Architecture and Urban Planning University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Deer Liu	Associate Professor	School of Architectural and Surveying & Mapping Engineering Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China
Changjoo Kim	Associate Professor	Department of Geography University of Cincinnati
Guofeng Cao	Assistant Professor	Department of Geosciences Texas Tech University
Ewe Hong Tat	Professor	Department of Internet Engineering and Computer Science Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
David Wilkie	Software Engineer	Google Map, USA
Anusuriya Devaraju	Postdoctoral Fellow	Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC) CSIRO, Australia
Shahab Shamshirband	Visiting Senior Lecturer	Department of Computer System and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Qi Zhou	Lecturer	China University of Geosciences
Mehmet Dikmen	Academician	Department of Computer Engineering Baskent University, Turkey
Michael Meinild Nielsen	Postdoctoral Researcher	Department of Human Geography Stockholm University
Nguyen-Thanh Son	Postdoctoral Fellow	Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research National Central University, Taiwan
Yimin Lin	Partner	Ruthenium Partners, Singapore
Gaurav Singh	International Project Manager – GIS based Integrity Solutions	Rosen Europe B.V.
Roger Moussalli	Research Staff Member - Accelerator Platforms	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Manuel A. Regueiro	Research Assistant	University of Santiago de Compostela
Yang Zhou	Research Assistant	School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Hubei, China
Luis Ramirez Camargo	Research Associate, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany	University of Natural and Life Sciences of Vienna, Austria
Flávio E. A. Horita	Research Assistant	University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
Natalie Trapp	Research Associate	University of Hamburg

Short Description
We invite paper submission from researchers and practitioners in the areas of Context-aware computing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Context-aware computing deals with situational and environmental information about people, places and things to anticipate immediate needs and proactively offer enriched, situation-aware and usable content, functions and experiences. We are interested in work related to geospatial data modelling, analysis, and visualization, mobile computing to deploy context-aware location-based applications that includes but is not limited to the following:
● Context-awareness
● Geo-spatial Data Analytics and Predictive Analytics Location-based Services
● Automated Cartographic Design and Visualization
● Geospatial Ontologies and Semantics
● Lessons learned from the Development and Management of GIS Projects
● GIS and Spatial Decision Support Systems/Expert Systems
● GIS Web-based application development in a Cloud Computing environment
● GIS-based Environmental Analysis for Regional Threat Awareness and Policy-
making
● Programming in GIS
● Remote Sensing and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)
● Spatial Data Management: Quality and Control

We encourage exploratory methods, empirical case studies and action research in various contexts such as market intelligence, environmental sciences, wildlife management, health and human services, enterprise applications and management, e-government data analytics and assessment, financial services analytics and intelligence, counterterrorism and threat assessment, new performance metrics specific to geospatial issues, social media analytics, etc. Above all, we encourage new research that spans boundaries across disciplines, data sources and methods to address important topics in business management, e-government, health and human services, and wildlife and environmental studies.

We seek submissions of research that addresses novel geospatial data analysis methods, concepts or practical applications that rely on principles and techniques in data analysis, data modelling, and data visualization rooted in mathematics, statistics, econometrics, computer science, design science, management science, and other computational or quantitative fields. We also invite submissions of qualitative research investigating the governmental, economic, organizational and managerial issues involving geospatial data and technologies.

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
"Special Issue of Journal of Electronic Commerce Research" and the SSCI impact factor for 2014 is 1.229.

9. The on-demand and sharing economy

10. Human Computer Interaction

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Susanna Ho (Shuk Ying Ho)	Susanna.ho@anu.edu.au	The Australian National University
Choon Ling Sia	iscl@cityu.edu.hk	City University of Hong Kong
Kevin Kuan	kevin.kuan@sydney.edu.au	The University of Sydney

Track Associate Editors

Name

Position

Organization

Dr. Nathan Twyman

Assistant Professor

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Dr. Sarah Yixin Zhang

Assistant Professor

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Dr. Kevin Kuan

Senior Lecturer

University of Sydney

Dr. Xiaowen Fang

Associate Professor

DePaul University

Dr. Chee-Wee Tan

Associate Professor

Copenhagen Business School

Dr. Eric Tze Kuan Lim

Research Fellow

University of New South Wales

Dr. David Xu

Assistant Professor and Barton Fellow

Wichita State University

Dr. Xinwei Wang

Research Fellow

National University of Singapore

Dr. Miguel Aguirre-Urreta

Assistant Professor

Texas Tech University

Dr. Hanna Krasnova

Assistant Professor

University of Bern

Dr. Yi "Jenny" Zhang

Associate Professor

California State University Fullerton

Dr. Muller Cheung

Visiting Scholar

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Dr. Aleck Lin

Associate Professor

National Dong Hwa University

Dr. Forough Karimi-Alaghehband

Lecturer

Lancaster University

Dr. Christian Matt

Assistant Professor

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen

　
Short Description
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has advanced at a fast pace and is one of the enduring areas of interest for the field. It essentially deals with the design, evaluation, adoption, and use of Information Technology (IT), with a common focus on improved user performance and experience. HCI can be examined from an individual, organizational, managerial, psychological, social, or cultural perspective. However, the current trend toward a post-PC era characterized by multi-touch, direct manipulation interfaces and the claimed central role of the user experience provide novel challenges for HCI research and novel manifestations of HCI phenomena. Although much research has already been done in this area, advancements in the functionalities of IT continue to pose new questions of interest. For example, with the consumerization of IT and the emergence of gadgets such as smartphones and tablets, there are revolutionary changes in the nature of the Human-Computer Interface. As a new generation of users, who are referred to as digital natives engage with information systems, their expectations about appropriate interfaces are likely to be very different. Finally, as IT spreads through most countries, there is a need to study the impacts of cultures and economic prosperity on the nature of appropriate information systems. This track focuses on issues related to the manner in which humans interact with technologies, information and tasks in organizational, managerial, cultural, and social contexts. We invite research papers that advance our understanding of HCI at the individual, work group, organization, and society levels. We particularly welcome controversial pieces that will challenge the audience's thinking regarding taken-for-granted assumptions, models, and research practices. This track welcomes traditional, mixed-method as well as innovative methodologies, including but not limited to social network analysis, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and triangulation approach.

Topics of Interest: Possible topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
● The perceptual, behavioral, cognitive, motivational, and affective/emotional
aspects of humans and their interaction with IT/IS
● User task analysis and modeling
● Digital documents/genres and human information seeking behavior
● User-centered/participatory/informed user interface design and evaluation for different types of applications in a variety of contexts, e.g., e-commerce, social media, mobile apps
● Applications for different groups of populations, such as the elderly, children, young and special needs populations
● Information technology acceptance and diffusion issues from cognitive, behavioral, affective, motivational, cultural, and user interface design perspectives
● The impact of interfaces/information technology on attitudes, behavior, performance, perception, and productivity
● Innovative interface ideas for surface computing, voice interaction, gesture based interaction, and augmented reality

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
AIS TRANSACTION ON HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

11. Smart Tourism

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Chulmo Koo	helmetgu@khu.ac.kr	Kyung Hee University
Lis Tussyadiah	iis.tussyadiah@vancouver.wsu.edu	Washington State University Vancouver
William Cannon Hunter	primalamerica@yahoo.com	Kyung Hee University

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Namho Chung	College of Hotel and Tourism Management	Kyung Hee University
Sung-Byung Yang	College of Business Administration	Ajou University
Phil Xiang	College of Hotel and Tourism	Virginia Tech University
Ulirke Gretzel	College of Business	University of Queensland
Marianna Sigala	College of Management	University of Aegean
Sunny Ham	College of Hospitality and Management	Gachon University
Shu-Chun Ho	College of Business	National Kaohsiung Normal University
Jin-Young Kim	College of Hotel & Tourism Management	Kyung Hee University
Joyhe Hwang	College of Hotel & Tourism Management	Kyung Hee University
Yoyo Yuan	Department of Travel Management	Jinwen University of Science and Technology
Lina Zhong	The School of Tourism Management	Beijing International Studies University
Karen Kim	College of Tourism	Dong Kuk University
Chihyung Michael Ok	School of Tourism and Hospitality Management	Temple University
Keumsil Lee	Tourism	Sejong University
Alastair Morrison	International Center for Recreation and Tourism Research	Peking University

Short Description
Information and communication technology is transforming travel behaviors and tourism businesses. The smart, connected tourism industries consist of an amalgam of third parties (transportation, accommodation, restaurants, cultural attractions & heritage sites, entertainment & leisure activities, and central & local governments) working together to drive social, cultural, and economic growth. This results in convergences with multitudes of other sectors, such as healthcare (medical tourism), retail, art, and craft (shopping tourism) etc. Smart tourism track attempts provide for technology-enhanced tourism businesses that converges the social systems forward in generating new, creative values based on the digital convergence of the processes and value chains.

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
Technological Forecasting and Social Change (SSCI), Original Deadline will be March 30, 2016 but we can extend it after the PACIS 2016 conference.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-how-technology-enhanced-tourism/

12. IT Project Management and Outsourcing

13. Social Media Analytics and Related Issues

14. Knowledge Management

15. IS in Healthcare Management

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Chuan-Hoo Tan	tancho@comp.nus.edu.sg	National University of Singapore
Yu TONG	yutong@cityu.edu.hk	City University of Hong Kong
Chih-Hung PENG	chpeng@cityu.edu.hk	City University of Hong Kong

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Choon Ling SIA	Full Professor	City University of Hong Kong
Yi-Cheng Ku	Associate Professor	Providence University
Deng-Neng CHEN	Associate Professor	National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
Yu-Chen YANG	Assistant Professor	National Sun Yat-sen University
Xue YANG	Associate Professor	Nanjing University
Lele KANG	Assistant Professor	Nanjing University
Yani SHI	Assistant Professor	Southeast University
Hailiang CHEN	Assistant Professor	City University of Hong Kong
Ben LIU	Assistant Professor	City University of Hong Kong
Qiqi JIANG	Assistant Professor	Tongji University
Liqiang HUANG	Assistant Professor	Zhejiang University
Yan LI	Associate Professor	Essec Business School
Na Liu	Lecturer	The University of Sydney
Ben CHOI	Lecturer	The University of New South Wales
Yi LIU	Assistant Professor	Rennes Business School

Short Description
With population ageing and more new infectious diseases discovered across the world, demand and expectation for quality and advanced healthcare services are rising. While much hope has been given on information technology/information system (IT/IS) to improve healthcare service quality, control the healthcare cost, and alleviate the societal challenges, the fundamental use and management of healthcare IT (HIT) remains the most critical success factor. For example, with the touted benefits of HIT, the traditional healthcare institutions from both private and public sectors have expended considerable efforts in managing HIT introduction, adoption and continuous operations. With more health-related digital platforms, such as online health communities and social media, emerge and proliferate as additional sources for people to obtain health information or advice aside from hospitals, the challenges for institutions, government and non-profit organizations are no longer restricted to their internal operation and management. The difficulty of achieving the effectiveness of HIT in the Asia Pacific is further heightened with the diversified healthcare structures and culture in this region.

Possible topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
● Impact and management of HIT on healthcare access, costs, care delivery, and outcomes
● Designing healthcare organizations, systems and processes incorporating e-health solutions
● The role of IS and IS management in improving care and service quality in different national health systems
● The effective control mechanisms to manage use of HIT by healthcare professionals. The inter-relationships among institutions, government, non-profit organizations and society in the context of healthcare
● Privacy, security, trust and information quality issues with institutional HIT and alternative healthcare information sources (e.g., online health communities and social media) Track is looking for the papers (full research papers, research in progress papers and posters), which contribute to healthcare IT management.

16. User-Centered Decision Support Systems in the IoT Era

17. Societal Implications of ICT Use

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Bo Sophia Xiao	boxiao@hawaii.edu	University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Christy M.K. Cheung	ccheung@hkbu.edu.hk	Hong Kong Baptist University
Matthew K.O. Lee	ismatlee@cityu.edu.hk	City University of Hong Kong

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Sameh Al-Natour	Assistant Professor	Ryerson University (Canada)
Yang Chen	Professor	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (China)
Ben Choi	Assistant Professor	University of New South Wales (Australia)
Camille Grange	Assistant Professor	HEC Montreal (Canada)
Zach Lee	Assistant Professor	University of Nottingham, Ningbo (China)
Christian Maier	Assistant Professor	University of Bamberg (Germany)
Randall Minus	Assistant Professor	University of Hawaii at Manoa (United States of America)
Kafui Monu	Assistant Professor	Savannah State University (United States of America)
Thayanan Phuaphanthon	Lecturer	University of Hawaii at Manoa (United States of America)
Aaron X.L. Shen	Associate Professor	Wuhan University (China)
Dimple Thadani	Senior Lecturer	Hong Kong Baptist University (HKSAR, China)
Helena Wenninger	PhD Candidate	Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany)
Kem Z.K. Zhang	Associate Professor	University of Science and Technology of China (China)

Short Description
Recent years have witnessed an increasing permeation of information and communication technology (ICT) throughout our society and economy, transforming the way we work, study, socialize, and participate in public life. However, as noted by Rob Kling (1996) and other like-minded researchers (e.g., Majchrzak, Markus, & Wareham, 2012; Tarafdar, Gupta, & Turel, 2013), the implications of ICT use are not universally positive. Indeed, the positive outcomes of ICT use (e.g., better quality of life and greater productivity) are often accompanied by negative side effects (e.g., deteriorated social relationships and increased unemployment). To echo the growing interest amongst the scientific community in the potential impacts of ICT on the structures and dynamics of the society (Siegen, 2010), this tracks aims to develop theoretical insights and understanding on topics and issues pertaining to the actual or potential, intended or unintended societal consequences of ICT use.

The societal implications of ICT use, which can be positive or negative, comprise of issues in a wide range of domains including participation and policy-making, education, work, consumption, medicine and health care, community and family, and creation and innovation (Siegen, 2010). We especially welcome papers that investigate the impact of ICT use in the aforementioned domains along the following central themes (Siegen, 2010): (1) effects of ICT on efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation, (2) capability of ICT in network building as well as its effect on relationships, (3) effects of ICT on empowerment and participation, and (4) effects of ICT on lifelong learning. We also welcome papers that explore effective strategies or interventions for addressing the societal consequences. Other topics that touch on social implications of ICT use are equally welcome as well.

The track is open to all methodological approaches. We invite both full research and research in progress papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Societal impacts of current or emerging technologies or technological trends,
e.g., Internet of Things, Big Data mining, autonomous agents and robots, 3D
printing, quantum computing, affective systems, ambient intelligence,
collective intelligence, social/mobile computing, etc.
● Work stress, overload, addiction, and illegitimate surveillance
● Reputation and credibility issues in ICT-based applications
● Responsible ICT innovation
● ICT-related unemployment and deskilling
● The role of ICT in social inclusion/exclusion and educational (in)equality
● Strategies and interventions (e.g., design, use practices, management policies, and governance mechanisms) for addressing the societal consequences of ICT use
● Incorporating societal concerns in ICT planning and governance

References
Majchrzak, A., Markus, M. L., & Wareham, J. (2012). ICT and Societal Challenges. MISQ Special Issue Call for Papers.
Siegen U. (2010). Social Impact of ICT. Final Report D7.1 of the Study on the Social Impact of ICT. Siegen: Universität Siegen. Retrieved May 22, 2010 from http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=674
Tarafdar, M., Gupta, A., & Turel, O. (2013). The dark side of information technology use. Information Systems Journal, 23(3), 269-275.

18. Ethics and Information Systems

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Harminder Singh	hsingh@aut.ac.nz	Auckland University of Technology
Angsana Techatassanasoontorn	angsana@aut.ac.nz	Auckland University of Technology
Antonio Díaz Andrade	antonio.diaz@aut.ac.nz	Auckland University of Technology

Track Associate Editors

Name

Position

Organization

Chris Westrup

Senior Lecturer

University of Manchester, UK

Nimmi Rangaswamy

Senior Researche

Xerox Research Centre, India

Lynette Kvasny

Professor

Pennsylvania State University, USA

Raelene Wilding

Senior Lecturer

La Trobe University, Australia

Jacques Steyn

Research Fellow

Monash University, South Africa

Amit Das

Research Fellow

Qatar University

Adrian Yeow Yong Kwang

Senior Lecturer

UniSIM, Singapore

Damien Joseph

Associate Professor

Nanyang Technological University

Shih-Wei Chou

Professor

National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Peijian Song

Professor

Nanjing University, China

Soumya Ray

Assistant Professor

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Laddawan Kaewkitipong

Assistant Professor

Thammasat University, Thailand

Heng Xu

Assistant Professor

Pennsylvania State University/National Science Foundation, U.S.A.

Annette Mills

Assistant Professor

University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Wee Kiat Lim

Research Fellow

Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Short Description
“The economy accepts every advance in technology with a view to profit, without concern for its potentially negative impact on human beings.” (Pope Francis, Laudato Si, 2015)

Introduction
This track calls for papers that examine the role of ethics in the use, management and development of information systems (IS). As individuals and organizations interact with information technology (IT) daily, they encounter a variety of ethical issues, such as privacy, sustainability, and social equity. However, research in the IS field on ethical issues is either minimal or fragmented (Smith, 2002; Mingers & Walsham, 2010). This is surprising, given the increased pervasiveness of IS in organizations and society, but understandable, given the tendency among policy-makers and businesspeople to focus on its narrow functional features and economic benefits, while understating its broader and long-term effects. This track encourages researchers to contribute to this field by crafting connections across diverse phenomena based on shared underlying principles and theories to provide guidance to academics, practitioners and policymakers.

Topic overview
The growing ubiquity of IT in society over the last few decades has traditionally been accompanied by praises for the efficiency savings it has led to. These have taken the form of improved coordination, cheaper communication, and an increase in the ease of carrying out transactions, which have been visible across all layers of society - e.g., individuals, organizations, and communities – as well as at different levels of economic activity – e.g., businesses, supply chains, and industries.

However, there is growing interest in adopting a broader perspective on the impacts of IT on societies, as seen in the recent special issues in the Information Systems Journal (“The Dark Side of IT, May 2015) and MIS Quarterly (“ICT and Social Challenges”, Forthcoming). A few issues drive this revived attention on the broader repercussions of IT. First, there is a growing awareness that IT-enabled phenomena, such as the sharing economy (e.g., AirBnB), on-demand services (e.g., Uber, Task Rabbit), and markets for micro-tasks (e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk), are either leveraging on or aggravating societal challenges, such as income inequality, regulatory capture by corporations, and the shrinking role of the state (Kuttner, 2013; Singer, 2014). Second, the rapid growth of the market for mobile computing devices targeted at consumers, whose use spills over into workplaces, has led to concern over the disposal of electronic waste, which is often sent to less economically-advanced countries. Alongside these issues are other concerns, such as the increased monitoring of individual activities enabled by the widespread use of mobile devices and online interaction (Boyd & Crawford, 2012; Newell & Marabelli, 2015), the hollowing-out of technical careers in industrialized countries because of the extensive use of outsourcing and automation (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011), and various forms of IT-enabled crime.

While research on these developments, most of which gained prominence over the last few years, has been carried out, the focus has been on their functional features, outcomes, and contextual applications. Although useful and valuable, what has been rarer is research on how these phenomena embody ethical choices, which are often latent and not made explicit (Sojer et al. 2014). For example, some on-demand services are seen as attempts at ethical arbitrage, as their business model exploits loopholes in regulations (Lazonick & Mazzucato, 2013). Another example is that while crowdsourcing the completion of micro-tasks may be efficient for firms, the global nature of the platforms leads to a “race to the bottom” in terms of the wages paid to the workers. A third illustration is the use of staff scheduling information systems that do not guarantee a minimum number of hours for employees, but instead place them “on demand” so that they have to appear for work at very short notice. Finally, although the “sharing economy” appears to be an efficient mechanism for individuals to obtain more value from their assets, this benefit is only available for those who own assets in the first place, thereby serving to entrench socio-economic differences.

The phenomena listed above may seem to be a disparate collection. However, they are related in that studying them requires an understanding of ethical principles and an appreciation of the value of examining impacts across multiple time horizons and levels of analysis when making decisions (Culnan & Williams, 2009). Studying these phenomena is important because it provides a more comprehensive picture of the impact of IT on our societies, and surfaces the trade-offs that are being made, sometimes subtly and at other times, more obviously. Who gains and loses, and when, because of decisions made about the design, use, and management of information systems? Are these outcomes apparent to those responsible for their staff and systems (Chatteree, Sarker & Valacich, 2015)? Do such decisions differ across public and private sector organizations? Have such issues become more prevalent now, or are they just more visible, given the proliferation in the number of channels individuals can use to broadcast their cases?

Relevance for PACIS:
This track is especially relevant for PACIS 2016, as it fits its theme “IT Governance for Future Society” well. IT governance refers to the use of frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure that organizations obtain the greatest benefit from their IT investments, while minimizing their risks. Discussions in this sphere have traditionally focused on economic imperatives and on managing the interests of the various stakeholders: IS users, managers, funders, and developers. The growing awareness in society of the important role of businesses in addressing broader societal issues indicates that, in the future, IT governance should expand its scope to consider ethical issues more closely, especially by incorporating the concerns of a wider group of parties, beyond the supply chain of each organization. In short, governance should shift towards a stewardship view, away from a transactional and agentic view (Davis, Schoorman & Donaldson, 1997).

Topics
Researchers are encouraged to submit papers on the ethical aspects of IS use, management and development across all levels of analysis: individual, organizational, industrial and national.
Possible topics of interest in this track include, but are not limited to:
● Frameworks or models for IS architecture that incorporate ethical concerns;
● The governance of algorithms used in key public and/or private processes, such as security, utilities, and finance;
● Measuring the externalities of the sharing economy;
● Accounting for e-waste during the IS planning process;
● The impact of various innovations on socio-economic differences and well-being of employees and citizens;
● Ethical and societal impact of government and organizational policies and practices that promote economic benefits of IT;
● Ethical and societal implications of new media and IT;
● Frameworks to evaluate ethical impacts of IT; We expect both completed papers and research-in-progress papers for this track, using a variety of methodologies. We also encourage workshops on topics such as:
● Teaching ethics as part of information systems courses;
● Ethical frameworks and their application;
● Planning, development and use of socially inclusive technology

References
● Boyd, D., & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical questions for big data: Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon. Information, communication & society, 15(5), 662-679.
● Brynjolfsson E, and MacAfee, A. (2011) Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment. Lexington, MA: Digital Frontier Press.
● Culnan, M. J., & Williams, C. C. (2009). How ethics can enhance organizational privacy: lessons from the Choicepoint and TJX data breaches.
MIS Quarterly, 673-687.
● Davis, J. H., Schoorman, F. D., & Donaldson, L. (1997). Toward a stewardship theory of management. Academy of Management Review, 22(1), 20-47.
● Kuttner, R. (2013). The Task Rabbit Economy. The American Prospect, October 10. http://prospect.org/article/task-rabbit-economy
(Accessed June 29 2015)
● Lazonick, W., & Mazzucato, M. (2013). The risk-reward nexus in the innovation-inequality relationship: who takes the risks? Who gets the rewards?. Industrial and Corporate Change, 22(4), 1093-1128.
● Mingers, J., & Walsham, G. (2010). Toward ethical information systems: the contribution of discourse ethics. MIS Quarterly, 34(4), 833-854.
● Newell, S., & Marabelli, M. (2015). Strategic opportunities (and challenges) of algorithmic decision-making: A call for action on the long-term societal effects of ‘datification’. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 24(1), 3-14.
● Singer, N. (2014). In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty. New York Times, August 16. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/technology/in-the-sharing-economy-workers-find-both-freedom-and-uncertainty.html (Accessed June 29 2015)
● Smith, H. J. (2002). Ethics and information systems: Resolving the quandaries. ACM SIGMIS Database, 33(3), 8-22.
● Sojer, M., Alexy, O., Kleinknecht, S., & Henkel, J. (2014). Understanding the Drivers of Unethical Programming Behavior: The Inappropriate Reuse of Internet-Accessible Code. Journal of Management Information Systems, 31(3), 287-325.
● Chatterjee, S. Sarker, S. & Valacich, J. S. (2015) The Behavioral Roots of Information Systems Security: Exploring Key Factors Related to Unethical IT Use, Journal of Management Information Systems, 31(4), 49-87.

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
We will approach journal editors once the track has been approved for their feedback. We expect the idea to be well-received, as it reflects a growing concern in the field.

19. E-Business and E-Government

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Satish Krishnan	satishk@iimk.ac.in	Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM Kozhikode)
Rohit Nishant	Rohit.nishant@esc-rennes.fr	ESC Rennes, France
Jenson Chong-Leng Goh	jensongohcl@unisim.edu.sg	SIM University, Singapore

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Bouchaib Bahli	Professor	ESC Rennes, France
Chintan Amrit	Senior Lecturer	Middlesex University, UK
SUN Yuan	Associate Professor	Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
Siyuan Li	Assistant Professor	Clemson University, US
S. Sankara-Subramanian	Assistant Professor	Idaho State University, US
Seongmin Jeon	Assistant Professor	Gachon University, South Korea
Zhijie LIN	Assistant Professor	Nanjing University, China
Tingru Cui	Lecturer	University of Wollongong, Australia
Chunmian Ge	Assistant Professor	South China University of Technology, China
Rajhans Mishra	Assistant Professor	Indian Institute of Management Indore, India
Yuanyue Feng	Assistant Professor	Shenzhen University, China
Abdullah Albizri	Assistant Professor	Northern State University, USA
Koti Ivaturi	Lecturer	University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mayank Sharma	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Supunmali Ahangama	Lecturer	University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Pedro Isaias	Editor-in-Chief	Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations

Short Description
A short description of the track and its focus (maximum 1000 words): define the proposed area of research, explain why it is important to include it as a PACIS conference track, and discuss the topics the track will address. Give state-of-art and bibliography about the proposed topic. Also give a discussion on what types of contributions are sought for: full research papers, research in progress papers and workshops.

E-business and e-government, over a past few decades, have become an important and integral part of the world economy. Although their raisons d’etre are very unalike, they cater effective and innovative ways to offer, access, and use many kinds of services electronically for a number of users ranging from citizens, businesses and government agencies. With the continuous growth and development of information technologies and its applications such as Web 2.0, mobile Web, big-data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IOT), etc., e-business and e-government are not only affecting the daily operations of organizations in private- and public-sectors but also their decision- and policy-making strategies. In the organizations in private-sector, the changes are reflected in various aspects from the provision of personalized services to vying with rivals in the competitive landscape. At the same time, we are encountering changes in the public-sector at all the levels of government with varied impacts on its stakeholders ranging from better governance and administration to enhanced social relationship, ideological commitment, and stewardship. While research in e-business and e-government have flourished in the last few years with solid theoretical and practical insights, there are still ample opportunities to address the aforementioned changes and the related issues to inform theory and practice.

We invite original research articles that are theoretically rigorous and empirically grounded in real-world applications, and offer insights into all aspects of e-business and e-government. Articles of conceptual, analytical, or empirical nature, which develop or extend theory and practice, are welcome. We encourage all methods of research including, simulations, field experiment, case studies, surveys, etc.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Theoretical foundations of e-business and e-government
● E-business and e-government standards development and management
● IT governance for e-business and e-government
● IT strategy and risks in managing e-business and e-government
● Disruptive business models in e-business and e-government
● Designing sustainable e-business and e-government applications
● Digital marketplace
● User behaviour in e-business and e-government adoption and diffusion
● Technopreneurship in e-business and e-government
● Ubiquitous and collaborative commerce
● Socio-technical, political and legal aspects of e-business and e-government
● Global and cultural issues in e-business and e-government
● Privacy and security issues in business and e-government
● Trust in e-business and e-government
● Cross-country comparisons of e-business and e-government
● Analysis of e-business and e-government project outcomes
● Social media, social commerce and mobile business
● Cloud computing in e-business and e-government
● IOT and e-business
● IOT and intelligent government
● Big data and e-business
● Open data and open government
● Smart cities

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
As one of the track co-chairs (Dr. Satish Krishnan) is currently serving on the editorial boards of Computers in Human Behavior and Journal of Global Information Technology Management, he can talk with the respective Editors-in-Chief and arrange for a special issue dedicated for the proposed track. If necessary, by taking the suggestions from the PACIS 2016 Conference Co-Chairs and Program Co-Chairs, the scope (and theme) of the special issue can be extended so that the papers of high quality from other related tracks shall be considered.

20. Social Computing and Innovative eServices

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Babak Abedin	Babak.Abedin@uts.edu.au	University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Farhad Daneshgar	f.daneshgar@unsw.edu.au	University of New South Wales

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Igor hawryszkiewycz	Head of School of Systems, Management, and Leadership	University of Technology Sydney
Eng Chew	Professor of Innovation	University of Technology Sydney
Samuel Fosso Wamba	Associate Professor of Information Systems	NEOMA Business School, France
Vincent Ribiere	Managing Director, South-East Asia Institute for Knowledge and Innovation	Bangkok University
Laor Boongasame	Associate Professor of Computer Systems	Bangkok University
Amir Talaei-Kheoi	Lecturer	University of Technology Sydney
Yvette Blount	Lecturer	Macquarie University
Hamed Qahri-Saremi	Assistant Professor	University of Illinoi at Springfield
Amir Khanlari	Assistant Professor	University of Tehran
Sojen Pradhan	Lecturer	University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Hamed Jafarzadeh	Consultant	University of Queensland
Jeff Pittaway	Research associate	Imperial College Business School, London
Manasi Shukla	Assistant Professor	Bangkok University
Sunghun Chung	Lecturer	University of Queensland

Short Description
Social computing is a broad research area concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It includes both harnessing human intelligence for computational tasks and the design of computational systems that support social behavior and interactions (Manoj & Whinston, 2007). Therefore various applications of social media and online communities such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social network services, wikis, and social bookmarking illustrate ideas from social computing, but also other kinds of software applications where people interact socially.

Social computing has applications in variety of information systems serviced provided in a society. Recent studies have particularly stressed on the role of social computing and social media on co-creation of innovation through active social processes (Piller et al., 2012), business impact, and business transformation (Aral, et al., 2013). Businesses have been encouraged to change their mindset about social computing section from “a dumping ground for their spare cash, obsolete equipment, and tired executives” to a platform that facilitates corporate social innovation which is more R&D than it is charity (Kanter, 2015).
Yet, despite the potential for broad applications, little is known about the methodologies for designing effective and efficient social computing systems and their limitations. This track is looking for full research papers as well as research in progress papers about innovative social services and social systems that can benefit the people, society, and businesses.

The papers included in this track could include, but not limited, to the following areas:
● Innovative social systems and software
● Impacts of social media on society
● Applications of IS value and innovation theories on social computing
● Social computing theories and principles
● Business values of social computing platforms
● Online Communities
● eParticipation and Engagement
● Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)
● Design and evaluation methodologies for social computing and social media
● Applications of social computing and social media in Education
● Applications of social computing and social media in eGovernment
● Ethical and legal issues in social computing and social media
● Virtual social gaming and communities
● Healthcare and wellbeing communities
● Culture in social computing
● Mobile social computing
● Online special interest communities

Key References
Aral, S., Dellarocas, C., & Godes, D. (2013). Introduction to the special issue-social media and business transformation: A framework for research. Information Systems Research, 24(1), 3-13.
Parameswaran, Manoj, and Andrew B. Whinston. "Research issues in social computing." Journal of the Association for Information Systems 8.6 (2007): 22.
Piller, F. T., Vossen, A., & Ihl, C. (2012). From social media to social product development: the impact of social media on co-creation of innovation. Die Unternehmung, 65(1).
Kanter, R. M. (2015). From spare change to real change: The social sector as beta site for business innovation. Havard Business Review.

Opportunities for Publication in Leading Journals
Selected papers in this track at PACIS 2016 will be considered for an upcoming special issue on 'social computing and service innovation' at the journal of Organisational Computing and Electronic Commerce (Impact Factor 0.89; Rank-A in Australian journal ranking)"

21. Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Jiexun Li	jiexun.li@oregonstate.edu	Oregon State University
Xin Li	Xin.Li@cityu.edu.hk	City University of Hong Kong
Harry Jiannan Wang	hjwang@udel.edu	University of Delaware

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Ahmed Abbasi	Associate Professor	University of Virginia, USA
Alan Abrehams	Assistant Professor	Virginia Tech, USA
Michael Chau	Associate Professor	University of Hong Kong
Shaokun Fan	Assistant Professor	West Texas A&M University, USA
Daning Hu	Assistant Professor	University of Zurich, Switzerland
Beibei Li	Assistant Professor	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Zhe Shan	Assistant Professor	University of Cincinnati , USA
G. Alan Wang	Associate Professor	Virginia Tech, USA
Qiang Wei	Associate Professor	Tsinghua University, China
Harris Wu	Associate Professor	Old Dominion University, USA
Kaiquan Xu	Associate Professor	Nanjing University, China
Xiangbin Yan	Professor	Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Kunpeng Zhang	Assistant Professor	University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Rong Zheng	Assistant Professor	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Bin Zhu	Associate Professor	Oregon State University, USA

Short Description
Business Intelligence (BI) technologies have gained increasing attention in recent years, which provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations based on the collection, extraction, and analysis of business data to improve decision making. In the past decade, Web 2.0 has created an abundance of user-generated contents on online platforms such as forums, web blogs, social networking sites, social multimedia sites, and even virtual worlds. More recently “Big Data” and “Big Data Analytics” have further stirred the interest of researchers and practitioners on using large scale (from terabytes to exabytes) and heterogeneous (sensor, e-commerce, finance, traffic, social media, mobile phone, meteorology, and environment) data to facilitate and direct business operations. The worlds is ushered in a new and exciting era of Business Intelligence research, which further raises the bar for data extraction, management, analysis, and visualization technologies. For example, advanced text mining techniques, such as information extraction, topic identification, and opinion mining methods is being applied to alleviate traditional business problems in accounting, finance, and marketing, such as enterprise risk assessment and management, credit rating and analysis, corporate event analysis, stock and portfolio performance prediction, viral marketing analysis, etc. We look forward to more and more IT innovations combining with organizational and managerial contexts creating opportunities for BI and big data solutions. In this track, we are interested in innovative technologies, methodologies, and theories in business intelligence and big data analytics, which can facilitate and/or provide insights on the practices, challenges, and solutions of data-based business problem-solving. We welcome studies taking various quantitative methods, such as algorithm, econometrics, analytical modeling, simulation, etc.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:
E-Commerce and Market Intelligence
● Recommender systems
● Social media analytics
● Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
● Crowd-sourcing systems
● Social and virtual games
● Web mining and analytics for Web 2.0
● Big data analytics in business applications

Smart Enterprise Systems
● Innovative data warehousing, ETL, and OLAP in BI
● Visual interface and HCI for BI
● Data and text mining for emerging BI applications
● Leveraging EDW and big data in new data architecture

Smart Health and Wellbeing
● Human and plant genomics
● Healthcare decision support
● Patient community analysis

Financial Services Analytics and Intelligence
● Intelligent financial process risk monitoring and management
● Agent-based modeling and analysis for financial applications
● Business intelligence applications for finance
● Financial network modeling and analysis
● Data-mining for financial applications
● Knowledge management for financial organizations

Business Process Intelligence
● Automated business process discovery
● Big data-based process analytics
● Large scale process mining
● Process mining algorithms and methodologies

E-Government and Politics 2.0
● Ubiquitous government services
● Equal access and public services
● Citizen engagement and participation
● Political campaign and e-polling

Security and Public Safety
● Crime analysis
● Computational criminology
● Terrorism informatics
● Open-source intelligence
● Cyber security

Below is a list of references related to this track on Business Intelligence & Big Data Analytics:
● Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, Big Data: The Management Revolution, Harvard Business Review, October 2012
( https://hbr.org/2012/10/big-data-the-management-revolution/ar).

● Ee-Peng Lim, Hsinchun Chen, Guoqing Chen, Business Intelligence and Analytics: Research Directions, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Volume 3 Issue 4, January 2013
( http://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2965&context=sis_research)

● Stefan Biesdorf, David Court, and Paul Willmott, Big data: What’s your plan? McKinsey Quarterly, March 2013, (http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/big_data_whats_your_plan).

● J. Leon Zhao, Shaokun Fan, Daning Hu, Business Challenges and Research Directions of Management Analytics in the Big Data Era, Journal of Management Analytics, 2014 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23270012.2014.968643#.VIReotKUd8E).

In this track, we encourage both completed research papers and research-in-progress submissions. High-quality completed research papers will be accepted as full-length papers and presented at PACIS 2016. Accepted research-in-progress papers will be accepted as short-papers and presented at PACIS 2016 as well. Both types of papers will be published in the ICIS 2015 proceedings.
Co-chairs will promote submissions to this track from the following communities:
● BI and data analytics related workshops and conferences, and various IS related
mailing lists.
● AIS SIGDSS (Decision Support and Knowledge Management) and SIGBPS (Business Process and Services), and INFORMS Information Systems Society.
● Co-chairs’ network with BI researchers.
● BI communities in Asian, US and Europe.

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
All presented papers in this track at PACIS 2016 will have opportunities for consideration for publication at a potential Special Issue on Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics at the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR).

22. Digital Business: Strategy and Governance

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Shang Gao	shang.gao@oru.se	Örebro University, Sweden
Shengnan Han	shengnan@dsv.su.se	Stockholm University

Track Associate Editors

Name

Position

Organization

John Krogstie

Professor

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Zhihao Chen

Professor

Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China

Yanqing Duan

Professor

University of Bedfordshire, UK

Zheng Yan

Professor

Xidian University, China /Aalto University, Finland

Lazar Rusu

Professor

Stockholm University, Sweden

Ana Hol

Director, Academic Program

University of Western Sydney, Australia

Craig Claybaugh

Professor

Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Xiaohui Zhao

Assistant Professor

Canberra University, Australia

Malgorazata Pankowska

Professor

University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

Jongkun Jun

Professor

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

Weizi Li

Lecturer

University of Reading, UK

Sujeong Choi

Professor

Chonnam National University, South Korea

Gustaf Juell-Skielse

Associate Professor

Stockholm University, Sweden

Yong Liu

Assistant Professor

Aalto University, Finland

Hongxiu Li

Post-doctoral researcher

University of Turku, Finland

Yung-Ming Li

Professor

National Chiao Tung University

Short Description
Digital technology is revolutionizing products, services, and way of working and organizing. In this third wave of IT-driven competition, Porter and Heppelmann (2014) point out organizations need to transform their business and to embrace the key capabilities of smart and connected products in achieving competitiveness.. Gartner (2015) also emphasize that digital business requires the creation of new business designs and business models by blurring the digital and physical worlds. In the world going digital, organizations need new visions and strategies for digital business (Bharadwaj et al., 2013). In the digitalization process, all stakeholders in the society are influenced, including, consumers, business, public organizations and the like. The continuous development of digital technologies, bring significant challenges to both private and public organizations.

Digital technologies offer new ways to connect, collaborate, conduct business and build bridges among stakeholders in business ecosystems. Digital business is touching almost every aspect of organizational processes, from day-to-day operations, to strategic decision-making. Digital technologies are rapidly reshaping how organizations are providing services to its customers, One of the key driving forces behind digital business is the capacity of innovation in organization. Moreover, technical, behavioral, organizational, cultural, legal issues are also crucial as the aspects of success and sustainability of digital business. Organization requires functional and effective digital business strategy and governance in ensuring the successes.

Recently, researchers and practitioners have started to explore the area of digital business, e.g., MIS Quarterly issue in June 2013, and Harvard Business Review November 2014. The issues, challenges, and opportunities of digital business are discussed and provoked. This track is targeted towards continuing this research and practice endeavour.

The aim of this track is to bring together academics, researchers, research scholars, industry players, stakeholders and general public to share their research results and best practices related to digital business. The track serves as an outlet for studies related to strategy, governance, technology, business models, protocols, industry experiences, legal aspects, security issues, and innovations in digital business. We welcome all aspects of research related to digital business and are open to all types of research methods (e.g., simulation, survey, experimentation, literature review, case studies, action research, etc.). Practice-based research is also appreciated. Both full research papers and research-in-progress papers are welcome.

Possible topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
● Digital business strategy
● Governance for digital business creation, implementation, and operation
● New business models in digital business
● User driven digital innovation
● Digital business governance
● Digital business ecosystem
● Theoretical foundations of digital business
● Social, political, and legal implications of digital business
● Consumer behavior in digital business
● Case studies in digital business
● Value co-creation in digital business
● Digital technologies and applications
● Conceptual frameworks for understanding digital business
● Digital business in developing countries
● Innovations in digital business
● Other topics related to digital business

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
Electronic Market: the International Journal on Networked Business
International Journal of E-Business Research

23. Service Design and User Experience

24. IT and Work

25. Business Process Management and Services Computing

26. IT and IS in Media and Entertainment Industry

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Artur Lugmayr	lartur@acm.org	Curtin University
Bjoern Stockleben	Bjoern.Stockleben@rbb-online.de	Univ. of Magdeburg-Stendal and Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB)

Track Associate Editors

Name

Position

Organization

Andrej Duh

CEO

Company

Suwastika Naidu

Teaching Assistant

University of South Pacific

Tomayess Issa

Senior Lecturer

Curtin University

John Taylor

DR

The University of Sydney

Anand Chand

Associate Professor

University of South Pacific

Cinzia Dal Zotto

Professor

University of Neuchatel

Robert Wellington

Professor

AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

Stefan Stumpp

Associate Doctoral Researcher:

University Anhalt

Hendrik Send

Associate Doctoral Researcher:

Univ. Anhalt

Short Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED TRACK
Media industry is faced with many new emerging technologies such as social media, digitalization of the media value chain, as well as the search for novel business model. This track devotes to this fact, and devotes to attract contributions researching latest IT technology in media and entertainment industry. According Gartner media and entertainment industry is the third largest IT spender after banking and manufacturing. Therefore this track focuses on the investigation of IT in media and entertainment industry across various media segments: social media, broadcasting, TV, new media, digital media, Internet, cinema, journalism, publishing, radio, print, mobile media, ubiquitous/pervasive media, and digital games.

And this particular industry segment is faced with tremendous challenges in terms of organizational, transformational, leadership, customer behavioural, and technological changes. Within the context of this track, we aim at the following major thematic area in the wider area of media industry:
● the role of information technology and information systems
● media management and newly emerging technologies
● human centered and human interaction aspects of IT
● emerging media technology and services across media and entertainment
industries
● technology acceptance factors for the adoption of new technologies
● impact of information technology on the economics of the media business
● innovations and emerging technologies in media industry
● transformation of traditional media towards digital media houses

One particular challenge is the transformation of the analogue media world into its digital counterpart. The aim of this track is to attract scholars in the fields of media management, media technology, media business, and media content production to discuss information systems from a human, technology, management, organisation, and information viewpoint. It shall gather a community to discuss the larger context of applying latest IT technology in media and entertainment industries.

● Cross-media offering, distribution
   channels and convergence
● Media business information
   management for multimedia
● Media information system design 　in multimedia
● Business intelligence in media
   industries
● Knowledge management systems
   applications
● Workflow management,
operational efficiency and new
capturing technologies
● Home platforms, mobility, multi-
play and network convergence
● Systems for management
reporting, analysis, and decision
support
● Standards to enable technical
   convergence
● Data warehousing, the cloud, and
bigdata
● Integration of analogue and digital
   media productions
● E2E systems and solutions in
   converging media environments
●  Asset management and metadata
   management
● E2E systems, infrastructures and
   solutions
●  Integration of analogue and digital
   media production and distribution

● Enterprise systems in media 　industries
● Marketing information systems
● Content analysis, matching,
and retrieval in information
anagement
● Technologies in media art,
education, ntertainment,environment, 　and culture
● Consumer experience and quality
assessment
● Theoretical foundations of entertainment computation
● Production process management
and IS
● Multimedia databases, digital libraries, and eLearning
● Technology and management of E2E media delivery
● Business information management in media
● Standards, policies, and regulation for MIS in media industry
● Mobility, Social media, ambient media, eLearning
● Practical media art, education, entertainment, and cultural applications

● Information systems and decision support systems

● Speech, audio, image, video, and text processing in information management

In particular we are seeking for the following contributions around the thematic area of IT and IS in media and entertainment industry:
● digital games, broadcasting, social media, digital/new media, journalism,

publishing, Internet

●  human and HCI aspects of IT
●  media management and information technologymedia production,
     distribution, consumption, and content management
●  content sales and marketing
●  content production, pre- and post-production

● financial services, human resource management, customer relationship

management

●  digital media supply chain and product life cycle management
●  workflow, asset, and content management
●  licensing & royalties and new emerging business models

● The track is seeking for the following contributions:

1. primary we are seeking for full research papers and research in
progress papers

2. for contributions that are not accepted within the context of the track,
we will organize a workshop to be able to invite the authors to
the conference

● A state of the art bibliography is attached to this application in form of a
publication

Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals
● Journal special issue as part of a highly rated journal (according Australia’s
FOR codes), as e.g. Electronic Markets (needs to be confirmed)
● If the number of submissions allows, a new edited book entitled “IT & IS in
Media and Entertainment Industries in Asia” to be published by Springer-
Verlag shall be initiated

27. Economics of IS

28. The Innovative IT Applications in The Emerging Markets

Track Co-Chairs

Name	Email	Organization
Xinlin Tang	xtang2@business.fsu.edu	Florida State University
Zhen Zhu	Zhuzhen2008@gmail.com	China University of Geosciences

Track Associate Editors

Name	Position	Organization
Manlu Liu	Associate Professor	Rochester Institute of Technology
Yide Shen	Associate Professor	Rowan University
Chaitanya Sambhara	Associate Professor	Miami University
Noyan Ilk	Associate Professor	Florida State University
Shu Han	Associate Professor	Yeshiva University
Yu-Kai Liu	Associate Professor	Florida State University
Xi Zhang	Professor	Tianjin University
Xixi Li	Associate Professor	Tsinghua University
Xiaoling Li	Associate Professor	Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Yi Jiang	Associate Professor	China University of Geosciences
Maomao Chi	Associate Professor	Central China Normal University

Short Description
While most published research in IS is set in the US, Canada, and Western European countries, the emerging markets, such as China, India, Brazil, and Russia, have become important players of global economy and even drive the economic growth from both a supply and demand perspective with the advancement of modern IT. Moreover, the public service sectors in these economies also increasingly depend on IT to close digital divide and promote welfare in education, healthcare, and other public areas. Does the IT adoption and assimilation follow the same pattern in the emerging markets as in the developed economies? How do firms in the emerging markets creatively use IT to obtain competitive advantage? What issues and challenges do international firms face when using IT to collaborate with their partners in emerging markets? How do the unique cultural and/or political factors of emerging markets shape the value creation mechanisms of IT? Etc. Addressing these questions would allow us to compare and contrast with the existing IT/IS studies and add richness to the literature. The results generated from these studies would provide valuable insights to IT management in the emerging markets.

We seek papers from scholars addressing any issues related to IT applications and usage in the emerging markets. We welcome papers from all domains – IT adoption and assimilation, supply chain management, marketing, business analytics, healthcare, among others. We also invite scholars and practitioners to write papers that identify research questions about the innovative IT applications in emerging markets. We expect the track to provide an important reference source for future research on IT/IS research in the emerging markets.

Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to:
● IT governance and strategy in emerging markets
● Innovative IT applications in e-commerce
● Innovative IT applications in supply chain management

● Innovative marketing strategy powered by IT in emerging markets
● Big data and business analytics in emerging markets
● IT value-creation mechanisms in emerging markets
● The impact of unique cultural and political factors in emerging markets on
the IT value-creation mechanisms
● Institutional forces and IT-enabled business models in emerging markets
● IT governance and strategy in emerging markets

29. General Topics

30. Doctoral Consortium

Name	Email	Organization
William Wang	William.wang@aut.ac.nz	Auckland University of Technology
David Pauleen	d.pauleen@massey.ac.nz	Massey University, Auckland
Min-Jen Tsai	mjtsai@cc.nctu.edu.tw	National Chiao Tung University, TW

Name	Position	Organization
Alvin Chung Man LEUNG	Assistant Professor	City University of Hong Kong
Paul Wu Horng Jyh	Head of Infocomm Technology Programme	SIM University , School of Science and Technology
Melody Kiang	Professor and EIC, J. of Electronic Commerce Research	California State University Long Beach
Xiaolin Li	Associate Professor	Nanjing University, Nanjing Business School
Daning Hu	Assistant Professor	University of Zurich, Department of Informatics
Wendy Hui	Senior Lecturer	Curtin University, School of Information Systems
Nelson Leung	Lecturer	Swinburne University of Technology
Cunlu Zhang	Professor	Xiamen University. China
Nazim Taskin	Senior Lecturer	Massey University, New Zealand
Tingting Zhang	Lecturer	Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University
Kyong Jin SHIM	Assistant Professor	Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems
Ling Zhao	Associate Professor	Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Management
Angela Lin	Lecturer	University of Sheffield, UK
Josephine Chong	Lecturer	AUT University, NZ
Wen-Lung Shiau	Associate Professor	Ming Chuan Chun University, TW
Wardah Zainal Abidin*	Associate Professor	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Name	Email	Organization
Doug Vogel	isdoug@hit.edu.cn	Harbin Institute of Technology
Nilmini Wickramasinghe	nilmini.work@gmail.com	Epworth HealthCare
Raj Gururajan	Raj.Gururajan@usq.edu.au	University of Southern Queensland

Name	Position	Organization
Jonathan Schaffer	Orthopedic surgeon and Managing director	Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
Raouf Naguib	Director	Biocore
John Zelcer	Director	Epworth Healthcare
Peter Brooks	Professor	The University of Melbourne
Xitong Guo	eHealth Research Institute Associate Director	Harbin Institute of Technology
Juergen Seitz	Head Business Information Systems	DHBW, Heidenheim
Freimut Bodendorf	Professor & Director Institute of Information Systems	University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Elliot Sloane	Executive Director	Center for Healthcare Information Research and Policy
Manoranjan Paul	Centre Director	Charles Sturt University
Abdul Hafeez Baig	Senior lecturer	University Southern Queensland
Jeffrey Soar	Professor	University Southern Queensland
Indrit Troshani	Senior lecturer	University of Adelaide
Phil Zhou	Professor	Tongji University
Jacky Zhang	Professor	Tianjin University
Wilfred Huang	Professor	Alfred University, US

Name	Email	Organization
Yuanjie He	he@cpp.edu	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Drew Hwang	dhwang@cpp.edu	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Name	Email	Organization
Shirish C. Srivastava	srivastava@hec.fr	HEC Paris
Alanah Mitchell	alanah.mitchell@drake.edu	Drake University
Cecil Chua	Aeh.chua@auckland.ac.nz	University of Auckland

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