Chair:
Professor Doug Vogel, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Business, City University of Hong Kong, SAR, China

Co-chairs:
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Professor
Information Management & Library Science RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
& Research Track Chair, 2011 Bled eConference

Jože Gričar, Professor Emeritus,
University of Maribor, Slovenia

Draft agenda for Graduate Students Consortium
June 15, 2011, 14:00-18:00

14:00-15:00     Introduction 
15:00-17:00     Breakout into feedback sessions
                        (each student will have up to 1 hour for presentation and faculty feedback) 
17:00-18:00     Final comments and discussion 

Presentations:

• An integral EDI model in Croatian seaports
  Edvard Tijan
• Organizational agility through business rules integration
  Martijn Zoet
• Importance of Information Security Management for e-Public Services
  Ana Meskovska
• Executing nursing process with the help of an expert system
  Peter Benedik
• Impact of Cloud Computing on the Business Worldwide: The Level of Readiness of Macedonian and Slovenian Companies for Using this Approach
  Dimitar Jovevski

Graduate Student Consortium Outline

New to this year’s conference is a Graduate Student Consortium. The Consortium will be organized during the Bled eConference in a special track. Students will have an opportunity to discuss their work with distinguished professors and with one another in a friendly atmosphere.

We welcome applications from students on a master and doctoral level in the MIS field. Students should provide a paper - an extended abstract, describing their thesis proposal. The paper should include, but not be limited to, the following research motivation and goals: Brief problem description, research question(s), theoretical background, research method/approach, expected or preliminary results and contribution. In addition, submissions must be recommended by students’ professor/supervisor. Please attach a statement of support together with your paper.

Deadlines:

Submissions should be made via the conference website. Please use the conference template. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in a special section.

Students are expected to register for the conference (the fees are waived to 50%) and cover their travel and accommodation costs. Registration fees cover the conference materials, lunches and evening social events and transportation from and to the airport.

Please note that the number of students is limited. Selections based on applications will be made by Consortium committee. For more information, please contact Professor Doug Vogel, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Business, City University of Hong Kong, SAR, China.