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Submission

We invite the submission of completed research papers, short research papers, research slam papers, panels and workshops to the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), to be held from December 3-8  2023, in Wellington, New Zealand. ACIS 2023 will bring together students, career academics and industry professionals to exchange knowledge related to the changing face of information systems in theory and practice.

ACIS 2023 will provide opportunities for adding value to your work in a range of dimensions – to support you to grow as a researcher and build your networks, and to offer developmental reviews and feedback for your work, and opportunities to progress your research to journal submission (more information can be obtained from track chairs). In addition, there will be tutorials on leading edge topics, and panels on topical and contested issues.

Submission types

NEW at ACIS 2023

Innovative presentation formats for accepted papers are welcomed. These could include (for example) video, interactive sessions, infographics, or “question and answer” interview style sessions. Please contact the program team if you have an accepted paper and would like to use an alternate presentation format.  Standard presentation formats will still be available as follows.

Controversial papers may be accepted with an expert discussant. If there are a wide variety of views from reviewers, the paper may be routed to a “controversial papers” track. The program team will assess the paper and may elect to appoint a discussant.

Poster SLAM format: see detailed below


FINAL template for the accepted papers 
The FINAL template for the accepted papers and that all revised papers must adhere to these guidelines.

Full papers must be completed research. Completed research papers will be submitted to one of the conference tracks, where they will be peer-reviewed using a double- blind system. Accepted papers will be presented face-to face at the conference in a session format. Each session will consist of three or four papers accepted through the review process. Most sessions employ a standard format of presentation by an author and general audience discussion. Full papers must not exceed 10 pages (this is not including references, appendixes and the title page) and must conform to the ACIS 2023 submission template. Full papers that are accepted will be published in their entirety in the conference proceedings.

Short papers are research in progress. Like completed research, these papers will be submitted to a mini track for double blind review. Upon acceptance, short papers will be presented by authors while interested participants gather to share ideas and discuss topics of mutual interest. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages (approx. 2,500 words, not including references) and must conform to the ACIS 2023 submission guidelines. 

Poster Slam submissions that are accepted will be presented via a dedicated are early research that is in a conceptual stage, i.e. a research idea, thorough but no empirical or literature review data is existent yet. This can be either a PhD proposal or a research idea to be tested from early career or established researchers. The session will consist of a 3 minute pitch per poster upfront and then the whole group will discuss the posters in detail within the session. Discussion and feedback are in the centre and will be constructive and intense. The submission requires an abstract of a maximum of 1,000 words and must conform to the ACIS 2023 submission template.

Workshops are typically partial- or full-day sessions that facilitate discussion and exploration of ideas, techniques, and methodologies that advance research, teaching knowledge of IS-related concepts, or products from industry and their application to academia, educational curricula, or industry practice. The call for proposals template is available.

Panels provide an opportunity for a group of researchers to explore a topical or contested topic of interest in a panel format. This will typically involve a panel moderator (who poses questions related to the topic) and three to four expert contributors who will offer alternative views on the topic. Panels should aim to draw an audience. Depending upon the topic, the experts can be drawn from the academy and/or from industry. The panel co-chairs encourage panel submitters to contact them and will work with them to develop provocative ideas into strong panel proposals. The call for proposals template is available. 


FINAL template for the accepted papers 
The FINAL template for the accepted papers and that all revised papers must adhere to these guidelines.

Virtual paper presentations

Please note that the Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2023 is primarily intended as a conference that fosters the development of our academic community in-person. In-person registration for the conference will deliver the best experience from the conference. However, we recognize that there is still a great deal of uncertainty around travel and funding at many universities. We will accept synchronous virtual presentations upon request*. The synchronous virtual presentations will be organized as “virtual track”, i.e. rather than being interspersed with face-to-face sessions, the presentations will run in “virtual only” slots. Authors of accepted virtual presentation papers will be provided a platform for their work.” However, please note that many sessions will one run face-to-face with no option to attend virtually. In recognition of the primary intent of the conference – and to encourage in-person attendance – a modest discount of 20% is applied for virtual attendance: https://acis.aaisnet.org/acis2023/acis2023/registration/

* For presenters outside New Zealand and Australia these requests will be accepted and noted for planning reasons. For presenters in New Zealand and Australia, please let us know why you cannot attend online. Reasons may be the lack of travel budget or personal circumstances.

Submission information

All submissions must be made via the ACIS 2023 submission system.

In particular, authors should:

  1. Visit the ACIS 2023 website for a complete list of available tracks, and select the most appropriate track for your submission. Please feel free to contact the relevant track chairs with any enquiries.
  2. All submissions must be made via the link easychair ACIS 2023 submission system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acis2023
  3. If any conflict of interest exists between the authors and the track chairs – or for track chairs who wish to submit papers -the paper should be submitted to the General Track.
  4. Determine the proper type for your submission by reviewing the types of submissions described above. Submission instructions, templates, and forms can also be found on the website. 
  5. Use the templates provided n the website for formatting your submissions and follow all guidelines. Failure to do so may result in submissions being desk rejected.
Scholarly integrity is a core value in our discipline, and all ACIS submissions must comply with AIS policies. Scholars submitting papers to this conference thereby attest that they have read the AIS Code of Research Conduct and that the work submitted is in accordance with the Code in all appropriate respects.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

If you have any questions, contact track chairs directly

Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2022

4-7 December, 2022

Hosted by the University of Melbourne

Submission

ACIS2022 invites academics, from Australasia and the wider world, to submit their research for the 2022 conference. We are calling for full papers and research-in-progress (RIP).

We invite the submission of original, unpublished work in English. All papers must be submitted through the ACIS2022 submission system.

All papers will be checked. Those not in compliance with the submission format will be automatically rejected, after which all compliant submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process.

An author could submit a maximum of three papers to a single track or 5 across tracks.

Submission template

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EasyChair submission

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acis-2022

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Language: All papers must be written in English.

Originality: Papers submitted to ACIS2022 must be original, unpublished work not previously published in a journal or conference nor currently under review or consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere.

FULL RESEARCH PAPERS

Completed research papers should include all details of the research undertaken, including research method, data analyses, and results. These papers should be of the highest academic standard. Papers can be conceptual in nature, technical, design-oriented, or empirical. Empirical papers may report on research that is either quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. The maximum length for full research paper submissions is 10 pages:

  • Front page to include title, author details (only after review), abstract and keywords. This page does not count as part of the 10-page body of the paper.
  • Body of paper is 10 A4 pages (Georgia 10pt), including references and appendices.
  • Acknowledgements and Copyright statement can be added to a final page after review. This page does not count as part of the 10-page body of the paper.

All submissions must be in pdf format and must use the ACIS 2022 submission template. This template contains the full guidelines for formatting of all submissions.

Authors of accepted papers will need to address the review comments in the paper and to submit a response to reviewers table for each of the reviewer comments.

RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS PAPERS

We equally encourage the submission of research-in-progress (RIP) papers. RIP papers present an interesting research topic that has not yet been (fully) investigated but that will be of interest to the IS community. These papers should include expected results/conclusions, but may lack actual results or may have only preliminary results. RIP papers are still expected to apply the same standards of academic rigour as is the case for full research papers. In particular, RIP papers are not unfinished research papers: it is the research itself that is unfinished RIP papers will be presented by the authors as posters in a dedicated session during the conference. The maximum length of Research-in-Progress papers is 6 pages:

Front page to include title, author details (only after review), abstract and keywords. This page does not count as part of the 6-page body of the paper.

Body of paper is 6 A4 pages (Georgia 10pt), including references and appendices.

Acknowledgements and Copyright statement can be added to a final page after review. This page does not count as part of the 6-page body of the paper.

All submissions must be in pdf format and must use the ACIS 2022 submission template. This template contains the full guidelines for formatting of all submissions.

Authors of accepted papers will need to address the review comments in the paper and to submit a response to reviewers table for each of the reviewer comments.

HOW TO SUBMIT

All submissions must be made via the ACIS2022 submission system.

Completed full research, short, and research-in-progress papers must be submitted to the conference track that best fits the topic area. ACIS2022 recognises that the list of tracks is not an exhaustive one – nonetheless, we ask that authors select the track that best fits the topic area. The Program Co-Chairs may then shift a submission from one track to another, as they deem appropriate. Papers that do not fit any specialist track should be submitted to the General Track.

Please note: no duplicated submissions to different tracks will be accepted.

All submissions must be in pdf format and must use the ACIS2022 submission template. This template contains the full guidelines for formatting of all submissions.

ANONYMISING FOR INITIAL REVIEW

As all submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed, the author’s names(s) and affiliation(s) should not be included anywhere in the document for the initial submission. If referring to articles or documents by the same author(s), these should be removed from the text and reference list and replaced with “(removed for refereeing)”.

When using this template before the review process, you must also ensure that the remainder of the document contains no author information at all – not in the author/affiliation section above the abstract, the header, the copyright statement or in the document properties associated with the file.

As it places a significant administrative burden on the conference organisers to ensure that your paper does not identify you as an author, and as this is central to the integrity of the double-blind review process, failure to comply with these formatting requirements will result in rejection of your paper.

REVIEW PROCESS

All paper submissions will be pre-screened for conformity with the submission guidelines and overall appropriateness for the conference. Paper submissions that pass this initial screening will be evaluated in a double-blind peer-review process.
Each conference track is chaired by IS academics with research expertise in the respective area. The track chairs will supervise the review process, involving selected reviewers from the IS research community.

Acceptance and rejection decisions will be finalised by the Program Committee.

REVIEW CRITERIA

In general, the review criteria will be those typically used by major journals and conferences (eg, relevance of the topic, quality of the research process, contribution, etc). The results of the review process will be communicated to the author(s) by the specified date. The author(s) will be responsible for making the revisions recommended by the reviewers, and for submitting the final version of their paper by the appropriate deadline.

COMMITMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONFERENCE

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference by the Early-bird Registration date and present the paper.