[Tccc] Call for chapters - decision support systems - deadline 16 sept 2011
Zaigham Mahmood
z.mahmood
Thu Sep 8 09:24:10 EDT 2011
******** CALL FOR CHAPTERS *********
Refereed Book:
Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement: Decision Support Systems
Editor:
Nata?a Pomazalov?, Ph.D.
University of Defence, Czech Republic
Call for Chapters:
Proposals Submission Deadline: September 16, 2011
Full Chapters Due: December 1, 2011
Submission of Final Chapters: April 30, 2012
Introduction
The profound changes in social, economic, and political fields may have hit public sector transformation processes hard in the area of Internet public procurement (IPP) and decision support systems (DSS), but there are still lots of opportunities for the sector to succeed and developed. DSS is need to success and this is something that many organizations of the public sector are innovative at. If public sector is looking to improve it, then the IPP has to make sure that it is high quality, in-time, transparent, non-corruption, non-discrimination, efficient as it can be. The organization of public sector achieves good IPP results, that the DSS is operating as well as it possibly can. This circumstances generate expected conditions for seeking ways for grow in the future.
This book will bring together knowledge from practitioners, academics, educationalists, and others in an innovative, exciting, and mutually informing manner and will offer a fresh and living interdisciplinary approach to the issues and aims to identify new areas of theories, methods, research and practice.
Objective of the Book
The purpose of this book is to highlight Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement and DSS. In this book, here are examined the methods, theories and practice related to the explosive growth and expansion of DSS issue.
Target Audience
Expected audiences of this book are researchers and lecturers as well as consultants and practitioners who are interested in Internet Public Procurement and DSS.
Recommended Topics
In this book, more complex aspects of public sector transformation processes related to the IPP and DSS are being explained. These include but are not limited to:
General topics: Information society and socio-technical approach for Internet public procurement in the context of paradigm shift, institutional approach to public procurement, DSS - information and knowledge sharing.
Government, public sector and public administration topics: political changes in public sector, public sector and transformation processes, e-government issue.
Innovation topics: impact of new technologies on public administration processes, adoption and development of new DSS ? technologies, innovation, knowledge, possible direction for methodology development and investigation or barriers.
Ethics and legal topics: rights, transparency, non-discrimination and non-corruption environment, green procurement in the area of public Internet procurement and DSS.
Infrastructure topics: Internet procurement and DSS - information infrastructure, network infrastructures, web technologies, green IT approaches.
Management and Economic topics: Internet procurement DSS and organizational issue, expenditures, quality and risks.
Practice topics: case example, case study
Submission Procedure
The editor invites submissions of chapters on a range of issues related to public sector transformation processes, internet public procurement, and DSS, considering the public administration view and seeks colleagues from all of the fields involved with these areas who are willing to provide quality chapters.
Researchers, readers, and practitioners are invited to submit on or before September 1, 2011, three pages of the chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of proposed chapter.
An international board of reviewers supervises the book project and all submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 31, 2011 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 1, 2011.
The language of the book is English. All of the chapters must be original, unpublished, and not currently under review by any other publication, conference, or other institution.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published in 2012 by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science Reference,? ?Business Science Reference,? and ?Engineering Science Reference? imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
Important Dates
September 16, 2011: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 31, 2011: Notification of Acceptance
December 1, 2011: Full Chapter Submission
February 28, 2012: Review Results Returned
March 21, 2012: Revised Chapter Submission
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
Nata?a Pomazalov?, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Logistics
Faculty of Economics and Management
University of Defence
Kounicova 65
662 10 Brno
Czech Republic
e-mail: natasa.pomazalova at unob.cz
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