Welcome to
The 29th WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS
(WITS 2019)
DECEMBER 18-20, 2019, Munich, Germany
supported by the
INFORMS Information Systems Society and the
INFORMS Section on Auctions and Market Design
The 29th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS’19) is taking place in Munich, Germany on December 18-20, 2019, just after the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). 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’19 is “Markets for Policy Making and Sustainability.”
The digital economy has led to many new electronic services where supply is matched with demand for various types of goods and services. While only a few years ago academics were mainly concerned with models describing markets, more and more people and organizations are now in a position to design market rules that are being implemented in software. Such electronic markets have widely been adopted in the private sector, but they have also become a powerful tool for policy makers. Examples include energy markets, mobility markets, spectrum auctions, emission trading, or markets for the reallocation of access rights to public assets, where policy makers need to define the rules of the game. Markets can be an excellent means to achieve sustainability goals, e.g., to limit carbon emissions, or prevent overfishing of the seas. The design of such markets requires information technology, economics, and algorithms to implement the policy objectives. This year’s conference theme should inspire IS researchers to get involved in market design, policy advice, and the many exciting challenges in this domain.
WITS invites research papers in a broad range of topics. Papers should utilize any problem-solving paradigm, such as empirical, analytical, behavioral, experimental, or computational. Topics should cover novel ideas in the areas including, but not limited to:
| Agent-based Systems Agile System Development Cloud Computing and Virtualization Information Personalization and Recommender Systems Data, Text, and Web Mining E-Business and Electronic Market Design Enterprise Systems and Resource Planning Green IT Grid Computing Healthcare IT Human-Computer Interface Information Quality, Privacy, and Security | Intelligent Systems and 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 Web Services Social Networks Supply Chains and IT Systems Analysis and Design Systems to Support Collaboration & Negotiation Internet of Things |
Journal Publication Opportunity
Authors of selected workshop papers and research prototypes will be invited to submit complete versions of their research for fast track review or special issues at a journal. Authors of high-quality submissions related to the theme of the conference are encouraged to submit a full paper to the INFORMS ISR special issue on Market Design and Analytics.
IMPORTANT DATES
For detailed information about the submission, please check Submissions page.