[Pal-dc] CfP: FINANCEcom - deadline 10/9 - Enterprise Applications, Markets, and Services in the Finance Industry, Sydney, Australia

[artur.lugmayr at tut.fi]

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                          Call for Papers - FinanceCom 2014
              Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry 
                  Theme of 2014: ?New Emergent Trends of IT in Finance Industry?

                          Sydney, Friday 12th December 2014

             Publications will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the
              Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series
                           (indexed in Scopus among others)
                          http://www.springer.com/series/7911 

      SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th September 2014
      http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014FinanceCom/

      WORKSHOP WEBSITE
      http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameamain/financecom2014 
       
         A good opportunity to attend ICIS 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand 
             14th-17th December and attend this workshop beforehand!
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Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have paved the way to new business 
models, markets, networks, services, and players in the financial services industry. FinanceCom 
2014 invites papers that help to understand, drive and exploit the associated systems, 
technologies and opportunities. 

After very successful FinanceCom workshops in Sydney, Regensburg, Montreal, Paris, Frankfurt 
and Barcelona, FinanceCom 2014 will be returning to Sydney on 12th December 2014. The workshop 
spans multiple disciplines, including technical, services, economic, sociological and behavioral 
sciences. We welcome research from any of these disciplines, as well as cross-disciplinary work. 
We are open to various levels of analysis and methodology. 

Topics of interest in this research area include but are not limited to:
* Networks and business models
o Technology-Driven Transformation of the Financial Industry - towards Banking Value Networks 
o Business process outsourcing/offshoring and Information Systems 
o New e-Finance business models enabled by IT 
o New Bank Business Models & Challenges in a Post-Financial Crisis
o Approaches for evaluating operational and credit risks as well as banking and market performance

* Financial Markets 
o Electronic Markets Design and Engineering
o Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading / Post Trading Systems and Infrastructures
o Analysis of Intraday Market Data and News
o Regulation of Electronic Financial Markets (e.g. MiFiD, EMIR or Dodd-Frank)
o Private Equity and Ventual Capital Investments

* IT and implementations
o Role of new technologies (e.g. Web Services, Cloud, Big Data, and Grid Computing) 
o Implementation experiences and case studies 
o Enabling decision support systems in banking and financial markets 
o Enterprise communication in Banking & Financial Services
o Interoperability of heterogeneous financial systems and evolving international standards 

*  ?New? Emerging Digital and Virtual Financial Markets
o Virtual Currencies (Bitcoin, Amazon, ?)
o Alternative Banking, Loan, and Financial Market Models
o New Customer Contact Trends
o Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, and B2B/B2C Social Media
o Loyalty Card, and Smart Card Markets
o New consumer identification methods (e.g. Biometrics)
o M/T/I Banking and Trading Services
o New Banking and Payment Trends
o Banking, payments, and currencies in emerging countries

Important Dates
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? Submission open: 		30th July 2014
? Submission deadline:		10st September 2014 
? Notification of authors:		15th October 2014
? Deadline revision: 		15th November 2014
? Final submission: 		31st January 2015 (final book chapter version)

Submission Details
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Authors should submit papers of not more than 15 pages as per the Springer guidelines 
(see ?Instructions for LNBIP Authors? on the Springer series website: 
http://www.springer.com/series/7911). Authors will be given instructions after the workshop 
how to submit their works for the edited book. Note, that all submitted papers will 
be published in conference proceedings, however, only the very best papers will be 
selected for the Springer publication. All papers undergo a double blind review process. 
All papers are to be submitted via the following link:
http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014FinanceCom/ 

Instructions will be provided via a supplied email address (in case of any problems, 
please send an email to lartur at acm.org). Submitted papers will be reviewed by the 
program committee. All correspondence will be with the specified primary contact.

Publication
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We plan to publish best papers as a post proceedings book in the Springer Lecture 
Notes in Business Information Processing series. For previous proceedings in this 
series, see LNBIP 4, LNBIP 23 and LNBIP 135 on http://www.springer.com/series/7911. 

Program Committee Chair
Lugmayr Artur, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Local Organisation Chair
Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Maurice Peat, University of Sydney, Australia

Program Committee
Martin Aichner, Erste Group, Austria
Peter Gomber, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Dennis Kundisch, University of Paderborn, Germany
Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
Jan Muntermann, University of Goettingen, Germany
Dirk Neumann, University of Freiburg,Germany
Maurice Peat, University of Sydney, Australia
Fethi Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ryan Riordan, University of Ontario, Canada
Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Axel Winkelmann, University of Wuerzburg, Germany