We are pleased to announce that the 2019 SIGSAND Symposium will be hosted by the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics at Baruch College (CUNY) on June 1-2, 2019 (please note this is a Saturday - Sunday). This is the weekend before Desrist, which is in Worcester, MA from June 4-June 6, 2019. 

Timeline:

Submission of Manuscript - April 1, 2019

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - April 30, 2019

Final Paper Submission - May 10, 2018

Symposium - June 1-2, 2019

Please save the date and consider submitting a paper.  Keeping with the tradition of past SIGSAND Symposiums, the symposium is intended to be a collegial forum with constructive feedback for developing research for publication. Papers representing early research and research-in-progress are welcome.  Please encourage any doctoral students you work with to submit their research as well.  

RSVP if you plan on attending (for a preliminary head count): https://baruch.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MchGAu3UQ4YmRT

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Systems Analysis and Design: Methodologies and Processes

• Systems Analysis and Design: Modeling Methods, Techniques, and Languages

• Systems Analysis and Design: Requirements Elicitation, Modeling, and Validation

• Analysis and Design for Service-Oriented Enterprises

• Contemporary Issues in Agile Development

• Strategic Software Management: Issues, Experiences, and Theory

• Technical and Managerial Issues in Open Source Development

• User Participation in Information Systems Development

• Impact of Systems Analysis and Design on IS use (e.g., adoption, information quality, etc.)

• Ontological foundations of Systems Analysis and Design

• Project Management Issues in Systems Analysis and Design

• Security Issues in Systems Analysis and Design

• Software Testing and Quality Control

• Workflow Modeling

• Innovative Approaches on Systems Analysis and Design on emerging topics (Design Science, DevOps, Microservices, Agile in Analytics, etc.) 

Submissions are made through the link below:

https://baruch.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cvSJp1WP8HfWol

Please do encourage your doctoral students to submit their SAND-related work. We look forward to seeing you in New York City!

2019 SIGSAND Symposium Program Co-Chairs & Officers

Arturo Castellanos, arturo.castellanos@baruch.cuny.edu

Jon W. Beard, jwbeard@iastate.edu

Padmal K. Vitharana, padmal@syr.edu