ICIS 2011 Track Chair Meeting

1. East Meets West: Connectivity and Collaboration through Effective Information Systems Shanghai, China December 4-7, 2011 ICIS 2011 Track Chair Meeting 1

2. Agenda • ICIS 2011 Program Co-Chairs • ICIS 2011 Tracks • Target Number of AEs/Reviewers • ICIS 2011 Program • Submission Types • Best Paper Awards • ScholarOne • Important Dates • Questions 2

3. Program Co-Chairs Cynthia Beath, University of Texas at Austin Michael Myers, University of Auckland Business School KK Wei, City University of Hong Kong 3

4. ICIS 2011 Tracks • 21 Tracks • 45 Track Chairs 4

5. Number of AEs & Reviewers • Assume 800 submissions (808 in 2010) • About 360 A.E.s (2-3 papers per AE) • Minimum of two reviews per submission • Suggest AEs invite 3 reviewers per submission

6. ICIS 2011 Acceptances • We will advise track chairs how many papers you can accept (your track quota) • Track chairs will need to agree on their accept and reject list • Track chairs are responsible for ensuring the review packet is complete and makes sense • Track chairs make the final decision on acceptances based on their track quota • Program Co-Chairs oversee entire process 6

7. Submission Types 7

8. Track Chair Outputs to Program Chairs 8

9. Best Paper Awards: Selection Process 9

10. ScholarOne • Maggie Kempken • Communications ManagerAssociation for Information Systems • Michael Chau (HKU) and Liu Yuewen (CityU) • ICIS 2010 Review Coordinators • Chee Wei (David) Phang (Fudan) • ICIS 2011 Webmaster 10

11. ScholarOne • ScholarOne will be used to manage ICIS 2011 submissions and reviews. • ScholarOne has been used for ICIS from 2007 onwards. • The entire workflow should be managed in ScholarOne. • ScholarOne will be open for ICIS 2010 to create accounts in mid-January • We will send out instructions on how to use ScholarOne. 11

12. ScholarOne: Accounts • Track Chair accounts will be created by ScholarOne in January. • AEs and Reviewers create accounts for themselves. • Initially, AEs are at first registered as reviewers. • Track Chairs change the status from reviewer to AE when they assign a paper to an AE. 12

13. ScholarOne A.E.s and Reviewers: Please do NOT state acceptance decisions in reviews, reports, or emails to authors until informed otherwise. This is for the Track Chairs only. 13

14. Important Dates • 1/14: Track Chairs send final list of AEs to Program Co-chairs; • Track Chairs ask AEs to register in ScholarOne • 1/28: AEs registered in ScholarOne • 2/1: Submissions open • 2/15: AEs ask reviewers to register in ScholarOne 14

15. Important Dates • 5/3: Submissions closed Tuesday 11:59PM Pacific Time • 5/7: Papers released to Track Chairs • 5/10: Track Chairs have assigned papers to AEs • 5/14: AEs have assigned all papers to reviewers • 6/15: Reviews are completed • 7/1: AE recommendations due to Track Chairs 15

16. Important Dates • 7/8: Track Chair decisions due to Program Co-chairs • 7/26: Program Co-chairs confirm final acceptances/rejections w Track Chairs • 7/30: Authors are notified • 8/31: Track Chairs assign Session Chairs • 9/8: Deadline for final papers • 9/15: Track Chairs approve revised papers 16

17. East Meets West: Connectivity and Collaboration through Effective Information Systems Shanghai, China December 4-7, 2011 See you in Shanghai! 17