COVID-19 brought unprecedented hardships for everyone. Among many other difficulties, the pandemic negatively affected the research productivity of many scholars. Taking this into consideration, we at the AIS Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (SIGSAND), designed a unique event to help you get back on track with research! We thus invite you to the Virtual SIGSAND 2021 Symposium to be held on June 5th, 2021.
We encourage you to participate in the collaborative writing (as well as, if you wish, present your work) with the other members of Systems Analysis and Design community during the Virtual SIGSAND 2021! The past and current members of AIS SIGSAND are among the most prolific scholars in information systems/information technology disciplines. Let’s join forces and write an amazing paper together!
The AIS Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (SIGSAND) is a global organization focusing on all issues of information systems/information technology (IS/IT) planning, analysis, design and development. We study all kinds of technologies, including organizational (e.g., ERP), productivity (e.g., Microsoft 365), social media (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn), artificial intelligence (e.g., AWS SageMaker, IBM Watson), and other kinds of IS/IT created by professional developers or ordinary people!
The focus of the SIGSAND Symposium is to nurture high-quality research dedicated to SAND (Systems Analysis and Design). While we welcome completed research papers, we especially encourage work-in-progress and visionary papers to be submitted for further development and early feedback. Over the last two decades, SIGSAND has been a unique incubator of publications of the highest caliber, many of which ended up in leading journals, such as MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research.
Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, SIGSAND 2021 will be held virtually. To make this event more useful and valuable for our participants, we have altered the original format. It will be a single-day event and will be held on Saturday, June 5th.
In the morning we are planning to have short paper sessions; in the afternoon, we will have a collaborative paper-writing workshop. The aim of the paper sessions is to present research at any stage of development and receive valuable feedback from the community. In the paper-writing session we will find a common topic of interest and work together to write a paper that we can later submit to a journal or a conference. Hence, June 5th , 2021, will be an exciting day designed to share ideas and create new opportunities.
Join us for SIGSAND 2021!
Yours truly,
SIGSAND 2021 Conference and Program Chairs, AIS SIGSAND Executive Committee
Roman Lukyanenko (HEC Montreal), AIS SIGSAND President
Arturo Castellanos (City University of New York), AIS SIGSAND Vice-President
Jon W. Beard, Secretary (Iowa State University), AIS SIGSAND Secretary and Publicity Coordinator
Important Dates:
− Submission of Manuscript – May 15, 2021
− Notification of Acceptance/Rejection – May 24, 2021
− Final Paper Submission – May 30, 2021 (for inclusion in Symposium Proceedings)
− Conference Date: June 5, 2021 (Saturday)
SIGSAND Topics
SIGSAND topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
− Systems Analysis and Design: Methodologies and Processes
− Systems Analysis and Design: Modeling Methods, Techniques, and Languages
− Systems Analysis and Design: Requirements Elicitation, Modeling, and Validation
− Analysis and Design for Service-Oriented Enterprises
− Contemporary Issues in Agile Development
− Strategic Software Management: Issues, Experiences, and Theory
− Technical and Managerial Issues in Open-Source Development
− User Participation in Information Systems Development
− Impact of Systems Analysis and Design on IS use (e.g., adoption, information quality, etc.)
− Ontological foundations of Systems Analysis and Design
− Project Management Issues in Systems Analysis and Design
− Security Issues in Systems Analysis and Design
− Software Testing and Quality Control
− Workflow Modeling
– User Interface Design
− Organizational Issues in Systems Analysis and Design
− New, Emerging, and Innovative Approaches on Systems Analysis and Design (e.g., Design Science, DevOps, Micro-Services, Agile in Analytics, blockchain etc.)
– Development of analytics, machine learning, data mining
Paper Writing Track – Proposals
Be part of history; join the Paper Writing track at SIGSAND!
Whether you are planning to submit a paper to the regular track at SIGSAND 2021 or not, you can participate in the collaborative writing of a SAND-focused paper.
To participate in the Paper Writing Track:
- you can submit an abstract proposal for the topic you wish to be included in the paper writing process. An accepted abstract reserves your seat at the paper-writing table. Please note the actual paper-writing session may not engage with the ideas proposed in your abstract.
- alternatively, you can register and participate in the symposium (e.g., as an author of a regular paper or a conference participant) and express your interest in joining the paper writing session. The chairs would then decide on whether to accept you into the session based on space availability.
Paper-writing proposals are limited to 1 page, which includes all materials and references formatted according to the SIGSAND template.
The proposals will undergo the same review process as other submissions. The proposals will not be shared publicly.
Submission categories for papers
You can also present your work during SISGAND 2021. We also solicit submissions of original research from both researchers and practitioners, welcoming any topic where SAND is a major theme.
Our review process is single blind, with reviewers knowing the identity of authors, but authors not knowing the identity of the reviewers.
Please include the author information for the papers including complete affiliation(s) (as per the SIGSAND template).
Full Papers
Full papers are for mature work, requiring explanations of the conceptual background, methodology, and data and analysis. Full paper submissions typically present: (a) the major issue(s) addressed, (b) discuss the novelty and/or significance of the work, (c) explain the theoretical and methodological approach(es) pursued, (d) report on empirical results and findings (e) discuss the findings and their implications, and contain (f) relevant references.
Full papers are limited to 8 pages, which includes all materials and references formatted according to the SIGSAND template.
Short / Research-in-Progress Papers
Short papers are for work that makes an important contribution which can be briefly reported.
Research-in-Progress submissions are for works that are in the early stages of development which offer novel and promising ideas. This is the preeminent category at SIGSAND, as we see our symposium as a unique incubator of top-quality research. Research in Progress papers may contain early results.
Short and Research-in-Progress papers are limited to 2 pages, including all materials and references formatted according to the SIGSAND template.
Proceedings
The SIGSAND Symposium aims to be a developmental workshop, focusing on providing feedback on research with the aim to facilitate further submission of papers to top journals and conferences. As a result, we will publish only the abstract and bibliographic information of the accepted papers on our website, SIGSAND.com. The Proceedings of SIGSAND which contain full papers are traditionally made available only to the conference attendees.
SAND Template
All submissions must be based on the SIGSAND submissions template.
Submissions
To submit your paper, please submit the following form:
https://baruch.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_07jRnE018QlpOYt
Research Opportunity and Agenda-setting papers related to SAND
To stimulate future SAND research, below, please find a list of some of the research opportunity and agenda-setting papers related to SAND (for a more complete list, visit our dedicated page curating SAND agenda papers):
Abbasi, A., Sarker, S., & Chiang, R. H. (2016). Big data research in information systems: Toward an inclusive research agenda. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 17(2).
Beath, C., Berente, N., Gallivan, M. J., and Lyytinen, K. 2013. “Expanding the Frontiers of Information Systems Research: Introduction to the Special Issue,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems (14:4).
Becker, J., Vom Brocke, J., Heddier, M. and Seidel, S., 2015. In search of information systems (grand) challenges. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 57(6), pp.377-390.
vom Brocke, J., Winter, R., Hevner, A., and Maedche, A. 2020. “Accumulation and Evolution of Design Knowledge in Design Science Research: A Journey through Time and Space,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 21 (3).
Browne, G. J., and Parsons, J. 2012. “More Enduring Questions in Cognitive IS Research,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems (13:12), pp. 1000–1011.
Burton-Jones, A., and Grange, C. 2012. “From Use to Effective Use: A Representation Theory Perspective,” Information Systems Research (24:3), pp. 632–658.
Burton-Jones, A., Recker, J., Indulska, M., Green, P., and Weber, R. 2017. “Assessing Representation Theory with a Framework for Pursuing Success and Failure,” MIS Quarterly (41:4), pp. 1307–1333.
Chen, P. 2006. “Suggested Research Directions for a New Frontier – Active Conceptual Modeling,” in ER 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 1–4.
Clarke, R., Burton-Jones, A. and Weber, R., 2016. On the ontological quality and logical quality of conceptual-modeling grammars: The need for a dual perspective. Information Systems Research, 27(2), pp.365-382.
Hansen, S., Berente, N., and Lyytinen, K. 2009. “Requirements in the 21st Century: Current Practice and Emerging Trends,” Design Requirements Engineering: A Ten-Year Perspective, pp. 44–87.
Indulska, M., Recker, J., Rosemann, M., & Green, P. (2009, June). Business process modeling: Current issues and future challenges. In International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (pp. 501-514). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Krogstie, J., Lyytinen, K., Opdahl, A. L., Pernici, B., Siau, K., and Smolander, K. 2004. “Research Areas and Challenges for Mobile Information Systems,” International Journal of Mobile Communications (2:3), pp. 220–234.
Lukyanenko, R., Castellanos, A., Parsons, J., Chiarini Tremblay, M., and Storey, V. C. 2019. “Using Conceptual Modeling to Support Machine Learning,” in Information Systems Engineering in Responsible Information Systems, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 170–181.
Lukyanenko, R., Parsons, J., Wiersma, Y. F., Sieber, R., & Maddah, M. (2016). Participatory Design for User-generated Content: Understanding the challenges and moving forward. Scand. J. Inf. Syst., 28(1).
March, S. T., & Allen, G. N. 2009. Challenges in requirements engineering: A research agenda for conceptual modeling. In Design requirements engineering: A ten-year perspective (pp. 157-165). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Recker, J., Lukyanenko, R., Sabegh, M. A., Samuel, B. M., and Castellanos, A. 2021. “From Representation to Mediation: A New Agenda for Conceptual Modeling Research in A Digital World,” MIS Quarterly (45:1), pp. 1–40.
Sengupta, B., Chandra, S. and Sinha, V., 2006. A research agenda for distributed software development. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering (pp. 731-740).
Storey, V. C., and Song, I.-Y. 2017. “Big Data Technologies and Management: What Conceptual Modeling Can Do,” Data & Knowledge Engineering (108), pp. 50–67.
Taipalus, T., & Seppänen, V. (2020). SQL education: A systematic mapping study and future research agenda. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), 20(3), 1-33.
Tilson, D., Lyytinen, K., and Sørensen, C. 2010. “Research Commentary—Digital Infrastructures: The Missing IS Research Agenda,” Information Systems Research (21:4), pp. 748–759.
Topi, H. and Ramesh, V., 2002. Human factors research on data modeling: a review of prior research, an extended framework and future research directions. Journal of Database Management (JDM), 13(2), pp.3-19.
Wand, Y., and Weber, R. 2002. “Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling – A Research Agenda,” Information Systems Research (13:4), pp. 363–376.
Winter, S., Berente, N., Howison, J., and Butler, B. 2014. “Beyond the Organizational ‘Container’: Conceptualizing 21st Century Sociotechnical Work,” Information and Organization (24:4), pp. 250–269.
Yoo, Y., Henfridsson, O., & Lyytinen, K. (2010). Research commentary—the new organizing logic of digital innovation: an agenda for information systems research. Information systems research, 21(4), 724-735.
