Research Topics of Interest

All aspects of theoretical and empirical research in information systems, especially those
related to the globalisation of information technology development, next generation
outsourcing practices, mobile commerce and digital convergence are appropriate for this conference.

Other specific topics of interest include:

* Advances in management of information systems
* Business value measurement and strategic impacts of IT
* Mobile commerce, digital convergence, 3G and Wimax
* Contracting and agency theoretic issues in IT management
* Multi-sourcing and related contractual issues
* Consumer Internet, Web 2.0 e-commerce, auctions and pricing
* Data warehousing, data mining and business intelligence
* Database modeling, technology and systems
* Distributed computing
* Market design for Grid computing
* Impact of IT on organisations and markets
* Information and data security
* Information technology (IT) and industrial organisation
* Intellectual property, privacy, and assurance
* Intelligent/expert systems
* Knowledge management technologies
* Productivity and quality in information systems development and maintenance
* Public policy issues in IT
* Software engineering
* Supply and demand of IT
* IT adoption in emerging markets and for small and medium sized enterprises
* Systems analysis and design
* Technology adoption and diffusion
* E-learning and knowledge worker training and retention