CFP

CIST 2021 will take place in Newport Beach California and we call for meaningful ideas related to the theme "Accelerating Digital Transformation in Business & Society". We invite original research in all areas of Information Systems and related fields that seek to address issues related to the conference theme. We strive to develop a conference program that honors the diverse set of ideas and researchers in our field.

All papers will be accepted electronically, and we plan to open the online submission system on June 4th. We will send out another announcement in the near future with the submission link and details. Please see submission instructions, submission restrictions, and important dates below.

COVID-19

Notice regarding COVID-19: As of the time of writing (April 26, 2021), we are planning for an in-person hybrid meeting for CIST 2021. If this changes, we will provide notification as soon as we can. If the conference cannot take place in-person, we will consider alternative formats, and registration fees will be revised accordingly.

Submission Restrictions

  • To promote diversity, we strongly recommend that no individual should appear as an author on more than three papers submitted to CIST 2021.

  • We recommend that no author be the presenting author for more than two papers on CIST 2021.

  • If your paper has already been accepted for publication, or conditionally accepted, please refrain from submitting it to the conference.

  • In the spirit of promoting original work, we ask that authors submit new work, and discourage work that has recently been presented at major IS conferences and workshops.

Submissions that violate these restrictions will be given lower priority in acceptance decisions.

Areas of interest for submitted papers include (but not limited to):

  • Artificial and Augmented Intelligence Impacts on the Economy

  • Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Business

  • Bias and Ethical issues in Data Science Practices

  • Blockchain Technologies, Cryptocurrencies and FinTech

  • Crowd Markets

  • COVID-19 and IT processes

  • COVID-19 and online communication/learning

  • Digital Advertising

  • Digital Collaboration

  • Digital Entrepreneurship & New Business Models

  • Digital Transformation and IT Innovation

  • E-Commerce

  • Economics of Digital Goods and IT

  • E-Government

  • Explainable AI and Predictive Modeling

  • Healthcare IT

  • IT and Productivity

  • IT and Labor Market

  • IT and societal problems

  • Information and Cyber Security

  • Internet of Things

  • Machine Learning Algorithms and Applications in Business

  • Mobile and Digital Environments

  • Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision for Business

  • Personalization Technologies and Recommendation Systems

  • Predictive Analytics and Data Science

  • Privacy and Ethics of IS

  • Sharing Economy

  • Social Networks and Social Media

  • Software Engineering, Open Source Software, and Open Standards

Submission Instructions

Submissions will be accepted online at this Link

Only papers that follow the specific guidelines below will be considered for acceptance:

  • Submissions must be blind, i.e., author names, contact, and affiliation information should NOT appear anywhere in the paper (NOTE: This is a consistent with last year, but a change from prior years).

  • Papers are limited to a maximum of 15 pages of body text with at most 5 additional pages for abstract, references, tables and figures. Papers that exceed the page limit will be desk rejected.

  • Papers must be printable on 8.5 x 11-inch paper.

  • Papers must use 12-point, Times New Roman font with one-inch margins on all four sides.

  • Papers must be double-spaced.

  • Student papers must indicate on the first page whether the bulk of the work was done by a student to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award.

  • Papers submitted to EasyChair must be in PDF format and no larger than 50 mb.

Please note that CIST does not take ownership of paper copyrights. However, accepted papers will be made available on the conference website prior to and during the conference. After the conference, if the authors wish, the papers can be removed from the website upon request.

DATES

  • CIST 2021 Conference dates: October 23 & 24, 2021

  • Submissions & Registration Open: June 4, 2021

  • Submission Deadline: June 11, 2021; Updated: June 21, 2021

  • Notification of Acceptance: August 6, 2021; Updated: August 10, 2021

  • Early Registration Deadline: August 20th, 2021

  • CIST Speaker Registration Deadline: August 20th, 2021

Organizing Committee

You can reach the program committee members by sending your inquiry to: cistconference2021@gmail.com. The program committee members are:

  • Jui Ramaprasad, University of Maryland

  • Mingdi Xin, University of California Irvine

  • Idris Adjerid, Virginia Tech

  • Edward Mcfowland, University of Minnesota

  • Tianshu Sun, University of Southern California

  • Vidyanand Choudhary, University of California Irvine