[Sighci-l] CFP - inaugural issue - Information and Communication Technologies for the Advanced Enterprise: an international journal

[Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha]

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Please consider contributing to and/or forwarding to the appropriate groups and peers the following Call for Papers.
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------------ Information and Communication Technologies for the 
------------ Advanced Enterprise: an international journal
------------ ICT’ae  |  Call for Papers

http://www.ict4ae.org
submission deadline:  March 31, 2009
Inaugural issue: July 2009
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Dear Sirs,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to consider submitting to the inaugural issue of ICT’ae (Information and Communication Technology for the Advanced Enterprise: an international journal) within the areas bellow listed.

ICT’ae is a fully refereed journal and will publish only original papers (originality in theory, technical advancement or application), technical reports, case studies and book reviews. 
At the end of this message you will find the composition of the Editorial Board.

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------------ Coverage and Scope

Today's business environment is impelling organizational models to shift into the so-called Advanced Enterprises. These emerging models require suitable information systems, electronic business support, electronic commerce, communication technologies, etc.
ICT’ae intends to promote, discuss and disseminate the utilization and advancements of Information Technologies and Systems and ICT within these advanced organizational models.

The journal is targeted to both an academic audience (teachers, researchers and students, mainly of post-graduate studies), IS/IT professionals (IS managers and IT specialists,) and high-level managers. 

Recommended topics include, but are not limited, to the following:
   -  IT-based supporting environments and organizations
   -  Net-enhanced organization 
   -  Enterprise Resources Management (ERP)
   -  ERP and SRM in public sector
   -  Supplier relationship management (SRM)
   -  Customer relationship management (CRM) 
   -  Logistics information systems
   -  Supply chain and demand chain management 
   -  ICT in support of the Advanced Enterprise Energy Efficiency
   -  e-Commerce and collaborative commerce
   -  e-Business
   -  Collaborative product design and development
   -  Production and operations systems 
   -  Knowledge management 
   -  Collaborative work technologies, tools and management
   -  Data mining and business intelligence 
   -  Decision support and knowledge-based systems 
   -  Trust and Legal aspects
   -  Privacy and IPR
   -  Security
   -  Analysis tools
   -  Business mobile technologies
   -  Semantic technologies
   -  Technologies and standards
   -  Information integration
   -  interoperability and interoperability testing
   -  IT governance
   -  IT outsourcing
   -  Information systems management
   -  Change management enabled by ICT
   -  ICT/IT/IS and business strategic alignment
   -  ICT supported accounting, finance, marketing, design, production in advanced organizational models
   -  Human-computer interfaces 
   -  Case studies and surveys in the public and private sectors

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------------ Submission Guidelines and Paper Format

(For more detailed information, please visit  http:// www.ict4ae.org )

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the Editor-in-Chief (editor at ict4ae.org) as an attachment to an email, in Word or PDF format (LaTex files cannot be accepted). 
All papers must be written in English. 

Paper layout can be A4 or Letter size format, with a typical length of around 7,000 words, excluding figures. 
Text should be formatted in Times New Roman 11, 1 1/2 line spacing and at least 2,5 cm (1 inch) margins and should not exceed 20 pages (plus the cover page).
The cover page must include the paper title, name, affiliation, email and complete mail address of all authors. The paper starts on the second page, where the paper title must be repeated, as the first page will be removed for the blind review process.

Your paper should ideally include at least 25-30 references, related only to the material cited in the manuscript, and appearing alphabetically in the references section formatted according t the APA 5th edition style (American Psychological Association)

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Submissions are to be permanently open, except for the first issue, for which will only be considered submissions received until March 31, 2009.

For more detailed information, please visit  http:// www.ict4ae.org 

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief (editor at ict4ae.org)


Kind regards,
Manuela Cunha  (mcunha at ipca.pt)
(editor-in-chief)
Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave
Portugal

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------------ Associate Editors

Álvaro Rocha, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Anca Draghici,  University of Timisoara, Romania
Andrew Targowski, Haworth Business College, USA
Goran D. Putnik, University of Minho, Portugal
João Eduardo Varajão, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Jorge Marx Gómez, Oldenburg University, Germany
Ljubo Vlacic, Griffith University, Australia
Paul Kidd, Cheshire Henbury, UK
Philip Powel, University of Bath, UK 
Ricardo Simões, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
Rinaldo Michelini, Università di Genova, Italy
William Lawless, Paine Colege, USA

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------------ Editorial Review Board

Adamantios Koumpis, Research Programmes Division, Altec S.A., Greece
Albert Boonstra, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Alexandra Pereira-Klen, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Ana Alice Batista, University of Minho, Portugal
Ana Maria Fermoso Garcia, Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain
António Pithon, Brazil
Carlos Ferrás Sexto, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Cláudia Viana, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology Savannah, USA
Dirk Werth, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Germany
Dominique Vinck, University of Grenoble, France
Efrem Mallach, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Fernando Moreira, University Portucalense, Portugal
Francisco Alvarez, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico
Francisco Andrade, University of Minho, Portugal
Gabor Hosszu, Budpest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Gilberto Santos , Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
Irene Portela , Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
Jack Ring, INCOSE, USA
Jaideep Motwani, Grand Valley State University, USA
Jaime Muñoz, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico
Jens Eschenbacher , BIBA Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Germany
Jerzy Kisielnicki, Faculty of Management, Poland
João Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal
Kakuro Amasaka, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Kam Hou Vat, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau
Klara Antlova, Technical university of Liberec, Czech Republic
Leonel Duarte dos Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK
Luís Paulo Reis, University of Porto, Portugal
Manuel Filipe Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Manuel Mora, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico
Manuel Pérez Cota, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Maria José Fernandes , Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
Maria Laires, EHTO, Portugal
Michal Zemlicka, Charles University, Czech Republic
Nicolaos Protogeros, University of Macedonia, Greece
Özalp Vayvay, Marmara University , Turkey
Patrícia Gonçalves, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
Paulo Novais , University of Minho, Portugal
Paulo Silva Ávila, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Pedro Nunes, Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal
Peter Rittgen, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School , Belgium
Reima Suomi, Turku School of Economics Finland, Finland
Ricardo Gonçalves , New University of Lisbon, Uninova, Portugal
Richard Weston, MSI Research Institute, Loughborough University, UK
Samo Bobek, University of  Maribor, Slovenia
Sven Carlson, Lund University, Swede
Tomasz Ochinowski, Faculty of Management, poland
Valentina Janev, The Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Serbia
Vítor Carvalho, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
Vítor Santos, Microsoft, Portugal
Vladimir Modrak, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Wai Ming Cheung, University of Bath, UK