Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS) 2012 Conference

The Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS) is an official chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The annual SAIS conference is an intimate gathering of information systems academics with fewer than one hundred participants. Past SAIS conferences have attracted doctoral students and faculty, including many recognized scholars, from around the US and around the globe. SAIS 2012 will be held in Atlanta at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

SAIS 2012 provides an opportunity for close interaction among presenters and attendees. Both completed research and research-in-progress papers from all areas related to information systems are invited for submission. All papers will be included in the conference proceedings, and authors have the option of including their papers in the AIS e-Library. In addition, selected papers will be fast-tracked for publication in the new Journal of the Southern Association for Information Systems (JSAIS) (http://www.jsais.org/), with Craig Van Slyke as Editor-in-Chief.

The Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center uses Georgia Tech’s complimentary shuttle, the Tech Trolley. The Tech Trolley provides guests transportation arriving and departing from the Midtown MARTA transit station and the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center. The Tech Trolley will run 5:45 a.m. until 11:30 p.m., Monday through Friday at 6 minute intervals, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at 36 minute intervals, and Sunday, 3 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.. The hotel can be reached by MARTA from the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and has direct covered access to a MARTA transit station via a pedestrian sky bridge. There is also covered on-site parking available at the conference hotel.

Important Dates
Dec. 31st, 2011: Submission deadline for papers, panels, workshops, and tutorials
Feb. 10th, 2012: Acceptance notification
Feb. 24th, 2012: Early registration rate ends
Feb. 24th, 2012: Hotel reservation at discounted conference rate ends
Feb. 24th, 2012: Deadline for author registration & submission of final versions of accepted papers
Mar. 23–24th, 2012: Conference

Registration at the conference is open on the morning of March 23. The conference ends with lunch from 12:00pm to 2:00pm on March 24. For more information on the conference, please consult the SAIS Web site or contact the conference chair, George Schell, or the program chair, Adrian Gardiner.

Submission Guidelines
Submissions are accepted online for full papers, research-in-progress, workshops, tutorials. In addition, there is a separate track for papers authored solely by doctoral students. Submissions may not exceed six single-spaced pages (approximately 2,500 words), including all figures, tables, appendices, and references. Previously published work or work under review elsewhere is not eligible for submission. Please use the template posted on the conference Web page to prepare your submission. To facilitate a blind review, please do not include any author or affiliation identification on any page of the document, in headings, footers, or in properties of the submitted file. All authors must adhere to the AIS code of research conduct. Turnitin software will be utilized by the program chair as a tool to avoid issues of plagiarism and ensure academic integrity. Contact the program chair, Adrian Gardiner, if you are willing to serve as a reviewer to obtain keycode access.

All submissions and reviews will be submitted online at: http://im.fee.uva.nl/sais/openconf.php
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Please post and distribute this call for papers to interested colleagues and students