Border Security and Immigration (BSI)

Topics include the understanding of secure borders by providing improved models and algorithms, identification of best-of-breed products, tools and practices for end-users, enhanced protocols, immigration studies, training and educational materials.  This session will include presentations and papers on:

• border security and immigration research, education and training
• the development and transition of tools and products for BSI
• education/training programs including courses, seminars, conferences & workshops
• infrastructure to facilitate communication and disseminate findings
• evaluation of off-the-shelf technologies
• situational awareness and screening
• cargo, vehicular and human traffic monitoring
• primary data acquisition through sensors
• sensor networks and C3
• data fusion tools
• risk assessment and mitigation
• population dynamics and migration flows
• immigration policy and enforcement
• policy and technology alignment
• civic integration
• international governance and trade

This session offers a stimulating forum among academic researchers, local, state and federal law enforcement, intelligence experts, consultants, and practitioners.  We will deal with issues such as detection of deception and intent; biometric devices for identification; methods for analyzing terrorism, fraud, and criminal activities; and theories and techniques for alerting, addressing and preventing security problems.  Submissions descriptions of and/or position papers regarding systems, methodology, evaluation, test-beds, and intelligence polices.

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IT Governance

IT Governance is emerging as an integral area of focus for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and information systems (IS) professionals more generally.  With its focus on systems performance, risk management, and rights and accountability, IT governance has become increasingly important in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley, and other compliance-oriented initiatives.  As IT governance grows in importance, a number of questions arise with respect to its impact on IT, IT’s relationship with the organization, and the evolving role of the CIO. 
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Recent developments in IT governance and compliance

• IT service management
• IT frameworks such as ITIL and COBIT
• Risk management
• Implementing IT governance programs
• IS implementation issues  
• IT portfolio management
• The evolving roles for IT professionals in organizations

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IT in Defense Industry

There is a significant trend in the defense industries of information technology toward increased application of service-oriented architectures, information management, and analysis & synthesis for decision support. In this track we want to explore what concepts are being considered or implemented that are leading to IT being an essential component in the products of the defense industry. Below are some suggested areas of interest for papers. If you have other ideas, please submit them. Preliminary abstracts should be no more than 300 words.

• Service or agent based systems
• Analytical techniques for disparate data
• Autonomic computing
• Multi-viewer presentation techniques
• Semantic technology
• Data interoperability
• Information assurance / security
• Modeling & Simulation
• High Performance Computing
• Multi-scale computing
• Cognitive Systems
• Complex adaptive systems
• Mobile computing

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IT Investment Strategies

This track seeks researchers and practitioners to discuss challenges, issues and opportunities associated with selecting and evaluating IT investment strategies.  Ever since the IT technology has exploded on the business scene there has been tension between those who argue that it is simply another new technology, and all existing business theories and practices apply, and those who argue that the technology repeals the old order requiring a whole new set of rules.  Recently, companies have retreated to business basics and increased the pressure on managers to make IT decisions based on ROI or other criteria (i.e., payback period, NPV, internal rate of return, balanced scorecard, or real option value).  Since IT is a huge proportion of capital spending for the modern corporation, the importance of evaluating IT strategies cannot be overstated.  A good portion of the decision making for any manager will likely be related to IT.  In order to make those decisions rationally, the manager must be able to link IT investments to numbers that can be processed using one of the usual investment criteria.

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New Perspectives on ERP

Advances in Information Systems (IS) have rapidly changed the way of running a business, and global market competition has never been so intensive.  To remain competitive, business looks to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to streamline and integrate operation processes and information flow. ERP now serves as the focus of a corporation's undertaking of worldwide market distribution, product design, customer satisfaction, production, procurement, logistics, suppliers and inventory, and provides the foundation for the integration and management of its corporate resources.

The aim of this track is to attract the attention of individuals from academic, business and public sectors are invited to submit informative papers about best practices and emerging trends in ERP.
Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• ERP implementation methods
• ERP education and training
• ERP technologies
• ERP management
• ERP case studies
• ERP empirical studies

Online Marketing

Online marketing is becoming a core component of today's enterprise operations. The Internet and Web technologies have been bringing about many unique opportunities and benefits to marketing. Recent advances in Web 2.0 technologies and applications (e.g., service mesh-ups, interactive social networking) are providing new exciting platforms for innovative marketing. This session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss challenges and opportunities associated with online marketing and share with one another knowledge about emerging practice and relevant academic research. Sample topics include technological infrastructure development for online marketing, interfacing between online marketing and other business functions, decision-making for search engine marketing, online marketing as a service, and coordination of marketing through multiple online channels.

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Cyber Security for Businessess and Governments

This track focuses on the challenges and opportunities facing development in Intelligence and Security Informatics and the application of IT to homeland security and related issues.  The science of ISI focuses on the development and use of advanced information technologies, including methodologies, models and algorithms, infrastructure, systems, and tools, for national/international and homeland security related applications through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy based approach. ISI also encompasses the areas of terrorism research and intelligence analysis as well as security-related public policy.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:  information sharing and data and text mining, infrastructure protection including cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity, bioterrorism monitoring and response, and terrorism informatics.  This track will pair academic research and approaches with real-world industry problems, opportunities, and developments.

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Service Computing and Management

This track focuses on research and development issues in service computing and management. Many major corporations are in the midst of implementing significant initiatives to re-architect their IT through service computing to help meet fast changing business requirements. As a result, many new and interesting research questions arise in this area, spanning from technical to organizational to economic issues. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• emerging principles of service computing,
• impact of the service orientation on corporate computing,
• model-driven application development,
• scientific foundations of Service Science, Management, and Engineering,
• service outsourcing and offshoring,
• service-dominant versus product-dominant business logic.
• systems analysis and design based on SOA, and
• unification of service computing and management.

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