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Association For Information Systems
The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international, Not-for-profit organization, not-for-profit, professional association for scholars of Information system#As an academic discipline, information systems that was established in 1994. The association publishes journals, organizes conferences, and provides a forum for information systems professors and managers. It has members in more than 100 countries. The association is led by a president who is annually elected from one of three world regions—the Americas, Europe and Africa and Asia-Pacific—on a rotating basis. The governing council is made up of elected functional vice-presidents and other officers and council members who are elected in the three world regions. The association organizes four annual conferences for IS researchers, educators and students: The International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which alternates between the three world regions, and three regional conferences: the Americas Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Body
A professional association (also called a professional body, professional organization, or professional society) is a group that usually seeks to advocacy, further a particular profession, the interests of individuals and organisations engaged in that profession, and the public interest. In the United States, such an association is typically a nonprofit business league for tax purposes. In the UK, they may take a variety of legal forms. Roles The roles of professional associations have been variously defined: "A group of people in a learned occupation who are entrusted with maintaining control or oversight of the legitimate practice of the occupation;" also a body acting "to safeguard the public interest;" organizations which "represent the interest of the professional practitioners," and so "act to maintain their own privileged and powerful position as a controlling body." Professional associations are ill defined although often have commonality in purpose and activities. In the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review methods are used to maintain quality standards, improve performance, and provide credibility. In academia, scholarly peer review is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication. Peer review can be categorized by the type and by the field or profession in which the activity occurs, e.g., medical peer review. It can also be used as a teaching tool to help students improve writing assignments. Henry Oldenburg (1619–1677) was a German-born British philosopher who is seen as the 'father' of modern scientific peer review. It developed over the following centuries with, for example, the journal ''Nature'' making it standard practice in 1973. The term "peer review" was first used in the early 1970s. A monument to pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gray (information Technology)
Paul Gray (1930 – May 10, 2012) was an American information systems pioneer, and Professor Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University where he was the founding chair of The School of Information Systems and Technology. The School of Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate University is the home of the Paul Gray PC Museum. Biography Gray received a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1968. He has been a member of the faculty at Stanford, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, Southern Methodist University, University of California at Irvine, and Claremont Graduate University. Gray served as secretary of The Institute of Management Sciences from 1975 to 1979, vice president at large from 1983 to 1986, and president from 1992 to 1993. Gray was the founding editor of CAIS, the ''Communications of the Association for Information Systems'' and served as editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2006. He is on the editorial boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Nunamaker
Jay F. Nunamaker Jr. (born August 27, 1937) is Regents Professor and Soldwedel Professor at the University of Arizona. Regents Professor is the highest faculty rank bestowed at the university, an honor reserved for the top 3% of scholars. He founded both the MIS department (ranked top 5 in the country by '' U.S. News & World Report'' for the past 20 years) in 1974, and the Center for the Management of Information in 1985 at the University of Arizona. Biography Nunamaker has served as major professor to over 80 doctoral students from 1968–present. Students that currently hold, or have held, positions at Harvard, University of Michigan, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, Texas A&M University, University of Hawaii, and other top MIS institutions. Jay Nunamaker has been featured in the July 1997 ''Forbes'' magazine issue on technology as one of eight key innovators in in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enid Mumford
Enid Mumford (6 March 1924 – 7 April 2006) was a British social scientist, computer scientist and Professor Emerita of Manchester University and a visiting fellow at Manchester Business School, largely known for her work on human factors and socio-technical systems. Biography Enid Mumford was born on Merseyside in North West England, where her father Arthur McFarland was magistrate and her mother Dorothy Evans was teacher.Tudor Rickards. "Enid Mumford: Sociologist devoted to making computers work for people" ''The Guardian'', Wednesday 3 May 2006 She attended Wallasey high school, and received her BA in Social Science from Liverpool University in 1946. After graduation Enid Mumford spent time working in industry, first as personnel manager for an aircraft factory and later as production manager for an alarm clock manufacturer. The first job was important for her career as an academic, since it involved looking after personnel policy and industrial relations strategy for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Börje Langefors
Börje Langefors (; 21 May 1915 – 13 December 2009) was a Swedish engineer and computer scientist, Emeritus Professor of Business Information Systems at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and "one of those who made systems development a science." Children: Eva Langefors and Ola Langefors. Grandchildren: Charlotte Rosenmuller, Philip Krensler, Victor Krensler, Anna Langefors Bräutigam, Per Langefors. Biography Langefors was born in Ystad, Sweden, in 1915, and received his training from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He started his career in Nordic Armature Factories (NAF) industries, and in 1949 he got recruited for the SAAB aircraft company. In 1965 he went to Stockholm and was stationed at the University at the Department of Mathematical Statistics. From 1967 to 1980 he was Professor of Business Information Systems at the Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Systèmes D'Information Et Management
The ''French Journal of Management Information Systems (SIM)'' is a French peer-reviewed academic journal, published bEska(Paris), that covers theoretical and empirical research in the areas of information systems and information technology. Topics include computer science, operations research, design science, organization theory and behavior, knowledge management, enterprise system, cloud computing, IS architecture, IT and health, data analysis and management. The chief editor is Professor Claudio Vitari ( Aix Marseille University) and it is affiliated with the Association Information & Management. SIM is a French-language journal dedicated to the study of information systems as they pertain to organizational management. Published quarterly, it is affiliated with the AIM scientific association and upholds the ethical standards outlined in the national charter of academic research activities and the policies of the Association for Information Systems. With a rigorous scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Information Systems (journal)
''Information Systems'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering data-intensive technologies underlying database systems, business processes, social media, and data science. It is published 8 times a year by Elsevier. The editors-in-chief are Dennis Shasha (New York University), Gottfried Vossen (University of Münster), and Matthias Weidlich (Humboldt University of Berlin). Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2016 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. The Impact Factor of a journa ... of 2.777. References External links * {{Official website, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems Academic journals established in 1975 Elsevier academic journals English-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MIS Quarterly Executive
''MIS Quarterly Executive'' is a quarterly journal covering the management of information systems. The journal was founded in 2002. Its purpose is to encourage practice-based research in the IS field and to disseminate the results of that research into a much more relevant manner to practitioners. It is a journal of The Association for Information Systems. It is based in Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg .... References External links * Information systems Association for Information Systems academic journals Information systems journals Business and management journals Quarterly journals Academic journals established in 2002 Magazines published in Georgia (U.S. state) {{sci-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Management Information Systems Quarterly
''Management Information Systems Quarterly'', referred to as ''MIS Quarterly'', is an online-only quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in management information systems and information technology. It was established in 1977 and is considered a major periodical in the information systems industry. An official journal of the Association for Information Systems, it is published by the Management Information Systems Research Center at the University of Minnesota. The current editor-in-chief is Andrew Burton-Jones, University of Queensland. The journal had the highest impact factor (4.978) of all peer-reviewed academic journals in the field of business from 1992 to 2005. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 5.384. Editors-in-chief Past editors-in-chief in order of succession have been: See also * Information Systems Research ''Information Systems Research'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business & Information Systems Engineering
''Business & Information Systems Engineering'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the design and utilization of information systems. History The journal is the English language successor of ''wirtschaftsinformatik'', which was the flagship journal of the German-language information systems community for more than 50 years. The German journal ''Elektronische Datenverarbeitung'', published since 1959, was renamed ''Angewandte Informatik'' in 1971 and again in ''Wirtschaftsinformatik'' in 1989, with the first issue published in 1990. To expand its reach in Europe and internationally, and to better reach its international scientific community, ''Wirtschaftsinformatik'' was published in a cover-to-cover English translation under the title ''Business & Information Systems Engineering'' since issue 1/2009. The strategic decision to better address the international community led to the termination of the German version with issue 6/2014; from issue 1/2015 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
