Call For Abstract

Those who would like to present a research paper at the conference are requested to submit the title and abstract (within 2000 characters) along with the personal information of the authors (name, affiliation, postal address, phone number, fax number and email address) using email (apcim2012@seattleu.edu) by June 30, 2012.

All the submitted abstracts will be reviewed on the basis of the relevance and the significance to information management and originality. Even though the due date for full papers has already expired, abstracts will be accepted until the end of June and the accepted abstracts will be given a presentation session.

Call For Paper

Those who would like to present a paper at the conference are requested to submit the title and abstract (within 2000 characters) along with the personal information of authors (name, affiliation, postal address, phone number, fax number and email address) using Abstract Form or email(apcim2012@jsim.gr.jp) by December 5, 2011 January 8, 2012. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed on the basis of relevance and significance to information management and originality. Once notified of abstract acceptance, full papers should be submitted by March 6th, 2012 to apcim2012@jsim.gr.jp . The submission of full papers is not compulsory, but optional.

Alternatively, you may just submit your full paper without the abstract accepted by March 6th, 2012 to apcim2012@seattleu.edu unless you are a member of the JSIM or other Japanese academic societies. Your full paper will be peer-reviewed and will be notified of acceptance by May 7, 2012.

If you plan to organize a panel session with four or five presenters, please send your proposal with the title, abstract, and panel members to apcim2012@jsim.gr.jp or apcim2012@seattleu.edu by March 6, 2012.

Those full papers will be thoroughly reviewed for inclusion in the conference proceedings and special issues of authorized academic journals related to information management after the conference. Instructions for preparing full papers and sample files in Word and PDF formats will be available on the conference website. Awards will be given to excellent full papers in different categories. Abstracts and full papers must be submitted in English.

=> The format instruction for papers to be submitted to APCIM2012 (PDF; 87KB)

=> Format File (Word; 36KB)

Important Dates

Start of Abstract Submission:

October 1, 2011

Abstract Submission Due:

December 5, 2011 January 8, 2012

Notification of Abstract Acceptance:

January 9, 2012

Full Paper Submission Due:

March 6, 2012 March 31, 2012

Notification of Full Paper Acceptance:

May 7, 2012

Camera-ready Full Paper Submission Due:

June 4, 2012

Early Registration Due:

June 4, 2012 June 30

At least one of the authors for each accepted full paper/abstract must register for the conference by June 4, 2012. Otherwise, the paper will be removed from the conference program.

Topics of Interest

The main theme of the conference will be “Smart Socio-Economic Environments.” The focus of this main theme is how we can develop and sustain an affluent society, both materially and spiritually, using IT-based solutions in a global and multi-cultural environment. Another aim of this conference is to overcome the nominal understanding of technologies, and to seek out a way to create a new knowledge system based on a deep understanding of fundamental business principles. We would like to have high-quality original papers in the areas of interest that include, but are not limited to the following :

• Case Studies on Data and Information Management, Monitoring and Analysis
• Cloud computing and its business implications
• Customer Relationship Management
• Data and Information Quality Management
• Data Exchange Issues and Agile Supply Chain
• Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes
• Data Mining and Business Intelligence
• Data Models for Production Systems and Services
• Database Management
• Digital Libraries/Multimedia Information Systems
• Distributed Information Systems
• e-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government
• Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Systems
• Environmental Management and Green IT
• Governance of Information Management
• Human-Computer Interactions
• Information Content Security and Access Control
• Information Management
• Information Retrieval and Data Mining
• Innovation and Knowledge Management
• Legal issues in Information Management
• Management of Technology
• Manufacturing Systems/Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
• Mobile Data Management
• New Infrastructure for the Internet - IPv6
• Organizational Aspects of Information Management
• Payment and Secure Transactions on the Internet
• Peer-to-Peer Data Management
• Protecting Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet
• Quality of Service Issues
• Security on the Internet
• Social Justice -- How to use IT to achieve a just society
• Sustainable Supply Chain and Environmental Issues
• Ubiquitous Systems and RFID Applications
• Use of Social Media for Business
• Web Databases and Web Services
• Web Metrics and their Applications
• Web Mining, Web Intelligence and Web 3.0