SIGSAND is the AIS special interest group on Systems Analysis and Design. SIGSAND provides services such as annual symposia, news, research and teaching tracks at major IS conferences, listserv and special issues in journals.

The Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems (PLAIS) was established in 2006 as the joint initiative of Prof. Claudia Loebbecke, former President of AIS and Prof. Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland. PLAIS co-organizes international and domestic conferences on Systems Analysis and Design, as well as on Business Informatics, e.g. BIR 2008 – International Conference on Business Informatics Research.

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OVERVIEW
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The EuroSymposium on Systems Analysis and Design has the objective of promoting and developing high quality research on all issues related to systems analysis and design. It provides a forum to researchers and practitioners in SAND in Europe and beyond to interact, collaborate and develop the Systems Analysis and Design area. The EuroSymposium is currently headed by an Advisory Board consisting of prominent researchers to guide this initiative. Previous EuroSymposia were held at:

- University of Galway, Ireland – 2006
- University of Gdansk, Poland – 2007
- University of Marburg, Germany – 2008

The accepted submissions of EuroSymposium 2007 were  published in A. Bajaj, S. Wrycza (eds), Systems  Analysis and Design for Advanced Modeling Methods: Best Practises, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey, New York, 2009.
The EuroSymposia were initiated by Prof. Keng Siau as the  SIGSAND - Europe Initiative.

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EUROSYMPOSIUM ADVISORY BOARD
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David Avison, ESSEC Business School, France
Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, USA
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Gordon B. Davis, University of Minnesota, USA
Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Guy Fitzgerald, Brunel University Uxbridge, UK
Joey F. George, Florida State University, USA
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Julie E. Kendall, Rutgers University, USA
Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne, Germany
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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RELEVANT TOPICS
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- Systems Theory and Principles
- Ontological Foundations of Systems Analysis and Design
- Philosophical Issues in Systems Analysis and Design
- Design Theory
- Requirements Engineering
- Business Process Modeling
- Conceptual Modeling
- Database Analysis and Design
- Information Systems Development Methods and Techniques
- Soft Systems Methodologies
- Object Oriented Techniques and Methodologies, transitions from and to related approaches
- UML/SysML/BPMN
- Agility and MDA
- Rapid Systems Development
- Human-Computer Interaction and Prototyping
- Software Engineering
- Open Source Software (OSS) Solutions
- Ethical, Human and Organizational aspects of IS Development
- ERP systems
- Workflow Management
- Teaching Systems Analysis and Design
- Curriculum Design and Implementation issues
- E-learning in Systems Analysis and Design
- Empirical Studies of Systems Analysis and Design Methods and Techniques
- SOA and Cloud Computing

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland - Chairman
Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Akhilesh Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA
Dinesh Batra, Florida International University, Miami, USA
Jan vom Brocke, University of Liechtenstein
Glenn J. Browne, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Sven Carlsson, Lund University, Sweden
Marco De Marco, Sacro Cuore Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Bjoern Erik Munkvold, University of Agder, Norway
Andrew Gemino, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Rolf Granow, Luebeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Alan R. Hevner, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Seamas Kelly, University College Dublin, Ireland
Vijay Khatri, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Andrzej Kobylinski, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Karl Kurbel, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Miroslawa Lasek, University of Warsaw, Poland
Bogdan Lent, University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia and Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Bartosz Marcinkowski, University of Gdansk, Poland
Jacek Maslankowski, University of Gdansk, Poland
Nava Pliskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Paul Ralph, Lancaster University, UK
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Matti Rossi, Aalto University School of Economics, Finland
Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
Iryna Zolotaryova, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine
Joze Zupancic, University of Maribor, Slovenia

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Faculty members, independent scholars and SAND  practitioners are invited to submit: completed research papers, research in progress papers, extended position statements, case studies and panel proposals in the area of Systems Analysis and Design. Given the broad range of topics in this Call, submissions can be based on any range of IS research methods. The following length limits apply:

Completed research - 5,000 words
Research in Progress - 3,000 words
Position statements - 2,500 words
Case studies - 2,500 words
Panels proposals - 500 words

On-line submission is to be executed via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurosymposium2011

All submissions will be reviewed by the EuroSymposium Programme Commitee for relevance and contribution to the theme.  Accepted submissions will receive in-depth feedback from EuroSymposium participants. Accepted papers will be published as Pre-Symposium proceedings (+CD) but authors will retain copyright on their work, allowing them to submit revised versions of their papers to other journals and books.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of Manuscript:  July 15, 2011
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:  August 8, 2011
Final Paper Submission:  September 1, 2011
EuroSymposium:     September 29, 2011

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Stanislaw Wrycza (Chairman), Anna Szynaka,
Lukasz Malon, Bartosz Marcinkowski, Jacek Maslankowski
Department of Business Informatics, University of Gdansk

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CONTACT
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Department of Business Informatics
University of Gdansk
81-864 Sopot
Piaskowa 9
Poland

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Additional information will be posted on the
EuroSymposium website:
http://eurosymposium.eu
Please check this site regularly for updates.