Welcome to
The 31st WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS
(WITS 2021)
Austin, Texas
DECEMBER 15-17, 2021
supported by the
INFORMS Information Systems Society
Update: the ignite session videos are now available on WITS YouTube channel
The 31st Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS’21) will be held in a hybrid mode that has an in person meeting in Austin, TX and allows for remote participation for presenters and attendees who are unable to travel. WITS will be held 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’21 is “Fair and Inclusive Information Systems by Design”
Fairness and inclusiveness are widely perceived as important values by societies worldwide. Because information systems are integral to a broad array of activities — from finance, health care, to one’s social life — it is important to consider how these constructs can and should be integrated in the design of systems, and what approaches can productively promote such socially desirable values. This edition of the workshop seeks to promote research that meaningfully and creatively consider different aspects of fairness and inclusion issues in information systems. We are particularly seeking papers that rigorously study fairness and inclusiveness of systems for their diverse stakeholders through careful theoretical analysis or that include sound and meaningful empirical evaluations.
This theme seeks to engage research in a broad range of topics, including the following:
| Agent-based Systems Agile System Development Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Computational Ontology Conceptual Modeling Data, Text and Web Mining Data Warehousing & OLAP E-Business and E-Commerce Energy Informatics Enterprise Systems and Resource Planning Ethics of AI Green IT Grid Computing Healthcare IT Human-Computer Interface Information Personalization Technology | Information Quality, Privacy, and Security Intelligent Systems and Technologies Knowledge Management Technologies Market Design Mobile Commerce and Wireless Technologies Network Economics Peer-to-peer Technologies Process Management and Mining Recommender Systems Resource and Organizational Modeling Search Engines Security Techniques for Information Systems Social Networks Smart City & Sustainable IT Supply Chains and IT Systems Analysis and Design Systems for Collaboration & Negotiation Support |
IMPORTANT DATES
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| Final copy due: | November 25, 2021 |
| Workshop Date: | DECEMBER 15-17 |
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 the Journal of Business Analytics and/or INFORMS Journal on Data Science.