Ever since its inception, technology has always played a critical role in the global economy. Over the last decade or so, rapid pace of technology advancements has created both challenges and opportunities for business, governments, and society as whole. Newer and innovative technologies, often disruptive, have facilitated both tactical and strategic decision making by helping users collect, mine and analyze a large amount of data. Availability of this large data is continuing to transform every aspect of organizational processes and decision-making. Since technologies facilitate low cost data collection, organizations have troves of data, also termed as Big Data, which needs to be managed, mined and analyzed carefully to create value for all stakeholders. This becomes even more crucial because the large amount of detailed data poses security and privacy challenges for stakeholders. At issue is developing capabilities to design solutions by leveraging innovative technologies and big data to create value for all the stakeholders. Since it is a workshop, WITS 2014 also actively solicits papers describing novel research ideas that may be at a relatively early stage of development. Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Agent-based Systems |
Intellectual Property Protection Intelligent Systems and Technologies Knowledge Management Technologies Mobile Commerce and Wireless Technologies Peer-to-peer Technologies Process management and mining Resource and organizational modeling Search Engines Security techniques for information systems Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services Social Networks Supply Chains and IT Systems Analysis and Design Systems to Support Collaboration & Negotiation IT Infrastructure for Evolving Business Models Virtualization |
