INFORMS Open Forum

The 32^nd Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'22) will be held primarily as an in-person meeting at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Copenhagen, Denmark with an option for remote participation reserved mainly for presenters who are unable to attend physically due to travel restrictions. A notable change for this year's workshop is that it will begin from noon (lunch provided) on the Wednesday of December 14^th, 2022 and end in the early afternoon of the Friday on December 16^th, 2022 after the award ceremony (lunch provided). Please check out the tentative program schedule at WITS Program. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with research interests in the cutting-edge issues of information technologies and systems. The theme of WITS 2022 is "Embracing Digital Asset Disruption in the Digital Economy".

A historical migration, known as the metaverse, is coming whereby the physical and virtual worlds will be unified. Faciltated by information technology, value will be allowed to flow freely within the metaverse through tokenization of tangible and intangible assets. Digital currencies, cryptos, and Non-Fungible Token (NFTs) will fuel the growth of the digital economy by giving birth to a novel class of digital assets that offer seamless on-ramp and off-ramp bridges to conventional asset classes. In turn, innovations will stem from the disintermediation and reintermediation of conventional businesses to deliver distinctive and/or greater value at higher efficiency. These new forms of value creation will be founded on the bedrock of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT). They will also disrupt existing modes of data acquisition, generation, processing, and monetization. To thrive in the digital economy, there is a fundamental need for organizations to rethink contemporary business paradigms governed by geopolitical boundaries, especially in terms of how one could create, own, protect, and transact digital assets in this space. This year's conference theme is deliberately provocative to inspire information systems researchers to explore and design pioneering technological solutions for embracing digital asset disruption. This theme is inclusive and engages research across a broad range of topics, including the following:

Agent-Based Systems Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Technologies Cloud Computing Computational Algorithms Conceptual Modeling Data, Text and Web Mining Digital Asset Technologies E-Business and E-Commerce Energy Informatics Enterprise Systems and Resource Planning Fairness and Ethics of AI Green Computing Grid Computing Healthcare Technologies Human-Computer Interface Information Quality, Privacy, and Security Intelligent Systems and Technologies

Knowledge Management Technologies Mobile Commerce and IoT Technologies Network Economics Non-Fungible Token (NFTs) Peer-to-Peer Technologies Personalization Technologies Persuasive Technologies Process Management and Mining Recommender Systems Resource and Organizational Modeling Security and Cryptography Techniques Sharing Economy and Platform techniques Social Networks Smart City & Sustainable IT Supply Chains and IT Systems Analysis and Design Systems for Collaboration & Negotiation Support Token Economics

Important Dates

Deadline for Completed Research and Research-in-Progress Papers	August 15, 2022
Deadline for Dissertation Proposal, Demo/Prototype and Industry Forum	October 1, 2022
Acceptance Notification (Completed Research and Research-in-Progress Papers)	October 1, 2022
Acceptance Notification (Dissertation Proposal, Demo/Prototype and Industry Forum)	October 10, 2022
Deadline for Camera-ready Copy of All Submissions	November 15, 2022
Workshop Dates	December 14–16, 2022

Submissions

All submissions must be prepared according to the submission template and sent in electronic form through the WITS 2022 submission system at:  https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WITS2022.

When submitting to WITS 2022, please select from one of the five categories below and each paper or proposal can only be submitted to one category.

Completed Full Research Paper             (maximum 15 pages)

Research-in-Progress Poster Paper         (maximum 10 pages)

Dissertation Proposal                            (maximum 10 pages)

Demo/Prototype                                   (maximum 10 pages)

Industry Forum                                     (maximum 10 pages)

Completed Full Research Paper

Submitted full research papers are limited to 15 double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, 8.5″ by 11″ pages (including tables, figures, and references and 1″ margins on all sides). All submissions will be subjected to double blind review. Selection for presentation at the workshop and publication in the proceedings will be based on originality, contribution to the field, and alignment with the theme of the workshop. Authors of accepted full research papers will be required to present at the workshop. Accepted full research papers will also be considered for the Best Paper or the Best Workshop Theme Paper awards. When appropriate, the program chairs may acept early-stage full research papers as research-in-progress papers.

Research-in-Progress Poster Paper

We also encourage research-in-progress paper submissions for authors to gather feedback on early stage work. Submitted research-in-progress papers are limited to 10 double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, 8.5″ by 11″ pages (including tables, figures, and references and 1″ margins on all sides). Accepted research-in-progress papers will be presented as posters with a designated space being provided for poster displays during the poster session. Authors of accepted research-in-progress will also be accorded time to briefly present their work during the ignite session.

Dissertation Proposal

Dissertation proposal submissions are targeted at doctoral students who have NOT completed their dissertation, but have successfully proposed it by July 1^st, 2022 and desired feedback on the research proposed for their dissertation. Dissertation proposals should not exceed 10 double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, 8.5″ by 11″ pages (including tables, figures, and references and 1″ margins on all sides). Accepted dissertation proposals will be invited for presentation at the workshop and be considered for the Best Dissertation Proposal award.

Demo/Prototype

Demo/Prototype submissions are intended for showcasing developed software or hardware prototypes and should not exceed 10 double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, 8.5″ by 11″ pages (including tables, figures, and references and 1″ margins on all sides). Additionally, demo/prototype submissions should include, wherever feasible, links to the associated software or hardware demo (along with screenshots to provide audiences with an indication of its functionality).

Industry Forum

WITS 2022 invites submissions from practitioners to share experience and insights from industrial practices on information technology. We especially welcome submissions on topics related to digital asset disruption, the theme for this year's workshop. Submissions for industry forum should not exceed 10 double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font, 8.5″ by 11″ pages (including tables, figures, and references and 1″ margins on all sides).

Best Paper Awards

In addition to the "Best Paper Award" and "Best Dissertation Award", WITS 2022 will also debut two new awards: "Best Student Paper" that recognizes the most outstanding accepted completed research paper led by a student and "Best Workshop Theme Paper" that recognizes an accepted full research or poster paper which best reflects the workshop theme of digital asset disruption. Apart from a plague, we plan to issue each award receipient with a uniquely-designed NFT.

For detailed information about the submission, please check Submissions page.

Journal Publication Opportunity

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit complete versions of their research for fast track review in ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Informs Journal on Data Science (JDS), Information Technology and Management (ITM), and Journal of Management Analytics (JMA).

Committee Members

Conference Chairs

Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School

Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, University of Texas at Dallas

Program Chairs

Panagiotis Adamopoulos, Emory University

Gene-Moe Lee, University of British Columia

Jingjing Zhang, Indiana University

Local Arrangement Chairs

Qiqi Jiang, Copenhagen Business School

Erol Kazan, IT University of Copenhagen

Ignite (Short Talk) Session Chairs

Abayomi Baiyere, Copenhagen Business School

Yan Leng, University of Texas at Austin

Demo/Prototype Session Chairs

Mads Bødker, Copenhagen Business School

Yijing Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Industry Presentation Chairs

Jonas Valbjørn Andersen, IT University of Copenhagen

Michael Chau, University of Hong Kong

Web Chairs

Zhao Cai, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Cheng Nie, Iowa State University

Digital Communications Chair

Mengyao Fu, City University of Hong Kong

Best Paper Award Chair

Balaji Padmanabhan, University of South Florida

Best Thesis Award Chair

Ram Gopal, University of Warwick

Publicity Chairs

Alain Chong, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

John Dong, Trinity College Dublin

Cheng Suang Heng, National University of Singapore

Satish Krishnan, Indian Institute of Management

Christian Libaque, Universidad del Pacifico

Eric T. K. Lim, UNSW Sydney

Fei Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hefu Liu, University of Science and Technology of China

Alexander Mädche, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Jingjing Zhang
Associate Professor
Indiana University
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