Information Systems Frontiers
Special Issue on Governance, Risk and Compliance Applications in
Information Systems
http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2008
Notification of First Round Reviews: September 15th, 2008
Revised Manuscripts Due: October 15th, 2008
Final Acceptance Notification: November 30th, 2008
Final Paper Version Due: December 23rd, 2008

Overview
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) are rapidly emerging challenges for
enterprise systems designers. The significance of these topics has
dramatically increased over the last few years as a result of numerous
events that led to some of the largest scandals in corporate history.
Compliance related software and services are expected to reach a market
value of over $27billion this year. At the same time, facilitating
compliant business process execution is increasingly complex due to the
growing number of regulations, frequent and dynamic changes, as well as
shared processes and services executing in highly decentralized
environments.

In the age of outsourcing, dynamic business networks, and global commerce,
it is inevitable that organizations will need to develop methods, tools
and techniques to design, engineer, and assess processes and services that
meet regulatory standards and contractual obligations. We expect
Governance, Risk and Compliance to play a significant part in several
applications, from transaction systems to management reporting
infrastructures. GRC is emerging as a critical and challenging area of
research and innovation. It introduces, among others, the need for new or
adapted modeling approaches for compliance requirements, the extension of
process and service modeling and execution frameworks for compliance and
risk management, and the detection of policy violations.

The goal of the special issue is to provide an outlet for researchers from
diverse backgrounds that contribute to this emerging area and make a
consolidated contribution in the form of new and extended methods that
address the challenges of governance, risk and compliance in information
systems.

Topics
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
-Compliance and Risk Modeling
-Policy definition and enforcement
-Compliant service and process design
-Noncompliant process identification
-Risk management
-Visualization and simulation of risk in process models
-Governance processes
-Integration and effectuation of multiple regulatory standards
-Compliance, risk and tolerance metrics
-Organizational structures to support compliance
-Separation of duties/Separation of rights
-Decision tracing
-Data provenance and lineage
-Work tracking
-Violation detection
-Technologies for compliance assurance
-Applications, case studies and use cases

Paper submission
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word or PDF
format no later than July 31st, 2008 to
http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/ (please specify: for Special issue
on Governance, Risk and Compliance in IS?in the submission). Manuscripts
should be within 34 pages long, double space, including references. More
information for manuscript style can be found at Springer???? website
(www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-170-70-35673075-0,00.html).
Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted
for journal publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer reviewed.

Special Issue Editorial Board

Dr Shazia Sadiq
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Brisbane, Australia
shazia@itee.uq.edu.au

Dr Marta Indulska
UQ Business School
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Brisbane, Australia
m.indulska@business.uq.edu.au

Dr Michael zur Muehlen
Howe School of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Michael.zurMuehlen@stevens.edu

A PDF version of the CFP is available at http://www.grcis.com and also on
the ISF journal website
http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/forthcoming1/ISF_CFP_GRCIS_2008.pdf.

Please contact m.indulska@business.uq.edu.au with any enquiries regarding
the special issue.