Conference Tracks

The ACIS2010 track chairs have secured a number of special issues for best papers in their tracks. Special issues have been confirmed with the following journals:

T1. Business Process Management back to top
The aim of the BPM track is to provide a forum for thought leaders in this area to assist in further shaping
the BPM identify as a boundary-spanning, relevant and identity-defining discipline of IS research.

Dr Jan vom Brocke - Jan.vom.Brocke@hochschule.li, Head, Institute for Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein
Dr Alexander Dreiling, Program Manager, SAP Research, Brisbane, Australia.
Dr Jan Mendling, Professor,Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt-University Berlin.
Dr Jan Recker, Senior Lecturer, Information Systems Discipline, QUT, Brisbane, Australia

Authors of selected best papers from the Business Process Management track will be invited to extend their work and submit it to a related special issue of Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA)

T2. GreenIT/IS back to top
The Green IT/IS track will explore the impact and role of IT in green and sustainability initiatives.

Professor Brian Corbitt - brian.corbitt@rmit.edu.au, RMIT University, Australia
Associate Prof. Alem Molla, RMIT University, Australia
Dr Michael Lane, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Professor Lutz M. Kolbe, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany
Mr. Graeme Philipson, Research Director, Connection Research

T3. Governance, Risk and Compliance back to top
Increasing regulatory oversight in the wake of corporate scandals and compliance and privacy breaches has led organizations to define clear constraints under which they can operate. This area of concern is called Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). This track encourages submissions using a variety of research methodologies.

Marta Indulska - m.indulska@business.uq.edu.au, The University of Queensland, UQ Business School, Brisbane, Australia
Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, Howe School of Technology Management, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Jude Fernandez, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore

Authors of selected best papers from the Governance, Risk and Compliance track will be invited to extend their work and submit it to a related special issue of Information Systems.

T4. ICT for Improved Health Care back to top
This conference track will explore how better information management and adoption of intelligent technologies can provide social, clinical and economic benefits particularly for ageing, independent living and home care.

Assoc Prof Jeffrey Soar - jeffrey.soar@usq.edu.au, School of Information Systems, USQ
Professor Ying Su,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Professor Philip Tsang, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong
George Margelis, Manager Digital Health, Intel Corporation, Australia

Authors of selected best papers from the ICT for Improved Health Care track will be invited to extend their work and submit it to a related special issue of the eJournal of Health Informatics.

T5. Information Systems for Collaboration in Response to Complex Problem Scenarios and Extreme Events back to top
IS for Collaboration in Response to Complex Problem Scenarios and Extreme Events.

Dr Deborah Bunker - deborah.bunker@sydney.edu.au, (USyd)
Prof. Richard Vidgen (UNSW)
Dr Linda Levine (SEI Carnegie Mellon)
Tony Sleigh (LPMA NSW Govt)
Nina Vayssiere (SAP)

T6. Information Systems Development (ISD) - the Core of the IS Discipline back to top
The track aims at contributions which cover the socio-technical nature of ISD based on rigorous research and with relevance for academia and for practice.

Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Kautz - Karl.Kautz@cbs.dk, Copenhagen Business School, DK
Dr Henry Linger, Monash University, Melbourne
Dr Christian Janiesch, SAP Research CEC, Brisbane

Authors of selected best papers from the Information Systems Development track will be invited to extend their work and submit it to a related special issue of Information Systems and e-Business Management.

T7. Information Systems Leadership and the Role of the CIO back to top
This track aims to bring together the work of IS researchers and practitioners to provide thought leadership and insights concerning information systems leadership in organisations today.

Andy Koronios - Andy.Koronios@unisa.edu.au, University of South Australia (Academic –Australia)
Joe Peppard, Canfield University (Academic – International)
Peter Grant, Consulting Director, IBRS (Industry)

T8. Information Technology in Creative Environments back to top
The aim of this track is to further the discussion of the role and relevance of creativity in sociotechnical systems that involve IT.

Dr Stefan Seidel - Stefan.Seidel@hochschule.li, Assistant Professor, Martin Hilti Chair of BPM, University of Liechtenstein
Didier Elzinga, founder and CEO, Culture Amp
Dr Kai Riemer, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Business Information Systems, Faculty of Economics & Business,
University of Sydney

Authors of selected best papers from the IT in Creative Environments track will be invited to extend their work and submit it to a related special issue of Information Systems and e-Business Management.

T9. Mobile Business and Services back to top
The Mobile Business and Services track explores the synergy evolving between mobile business and mobile applications and services.

J. Felix Hampe - hampe@uni-koblenz.de, Professor and Chair, Corporate Communication Systems
Cor Wit Endowed Chair for 2009-2010,
Technical University Delft, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft, The Netherlands
Dennis Viehland, Associate Professor of Information Systems, Massey University, Auckland
Julie Fisher, Associate Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Mark Barlow, Technology Strategist, Telecom New Zealand, Auckland

Authors of selected best papers from the Mobile Business and Services track will be invited to extend their work and submit it to a related special issue of the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations.

T10. Service Management and Engineering back to top
This track aims at accelerating high quality research in the fast developing domain of Service Management and Engineering and the related areas within Service Science and Services Computing from an Information System’s perspective.

Axel Korthaus - axel.korthaus@qut.edu.au, QUT, Brisbane, Australia
Tilo Böhmann, International Business School of Service Management Hamburg, Germany
Erwin Fielt, QUT, Brisbane, Australia
Julien Vayssière, Smart Services CRC, Sydney, Australia

Authors of selected best papers from the Service Management and Engineering track will be invited to extend their work and submit it to a related special issue of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

T11. General Track: Information Systems - Defining and Establishing a High-Impact Discipline back to top
This track is looking to accept high-quality papers that might not fit easily into the themes of one of the other specified tracks for the conference. However, the paper must conform generally to the overall theme of the conference, that is, Information Systems: Defining and Establishing a High-Impact Discipline.

Peter Green - p.green@business.uq.edu.au, The University of Queensland
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology
Fiona Rhode, The University of Queensland

T12. Information Systems Management and Business Value back to top
Organisations today consume a substantial amount of financial resources to acquire and manage their IT resources. This initiative is important for the organisations because IT is a key enabler of response activities to counter their business pressures. Aside, questions continue to surface regarding the value of IT in organisations. This means that organisations need to demonstrate how they will manage their information systems to ensure alignment of their IT initiatives to the strategic objectives of their organisation. One of the ways to achieve this is demonstrate ways to manage the IT resources secure IT-related business value, and how and where to evaluate the IT-related business value.

Jon Heales - j.heales@business.uq.edu.au, The University of Queensland
Acklesh Prasad, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Tonia de Bruin, Queensland Health, Australia

T13. Information Systems Education & Training back to top
The rapid evolution of business conditions and educational technologies, and pressures on the higher education sector increases the demands on universities to continuously review and update curriculum with innovative and efficient ways. IS education departments in particular face many challenges in relation to: coping with decreased student enrolments, decreases in funding, demands on universities to better align their curriculum with industry requirements, and continuously updating the curriculum with resource limitations. These challenges force universities to review their curriculum and rethink the design and delivery of their courses. The track on IS education is dedicated to discuss these challenges, and their impact. It offers strategies and examples for the future of IS education.

WasanaBandara - w.bandara@qut.edu.au, Queensland University of Technology
Glenn Stewart, Queensland University of Technology
Stefanie Klein, IM-C Information Multimedia Communication