The International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJITSA:

The International Journal of Information
Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) is
an academic and practitioner journal created to
disseminate and discuss high quality research
results on information systems and related upper
and lower level systems as well as on its
interactions with software engineering, systems
engineering, complex systems and philosophy of
systems sciences issues, through rigorous
theoretical, modeling, engineering or behavioral
studies in order to explore, describe, explain,
predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret,
intervene and/or develop organizational systems
where Information Systems are the main objects of
study and the systems approach ­ any variant ­ is
the main research method and philosophical stance used.

Coverage of IJITSA:

IJITSA will publish papers ­ one issue per
semester ­ of high quality, rigor and relevance
on information systems that use the systems
approach as a main method of inquiry under the
following categories: (i) theoretical research
papers (from conceptual review and analysis,
formal analysis or modeling), (ii) empirical
research papers (from an engineering perspective
(e.g., papers that report the design, and/or
building and/or empirical (even as a pilot test)
evaluation of a system)) or and behavioral papers
(e.g. papers that report survey-based, case study
or action research approaches, where human
beings’ behavior ­including both subjective and
objective constructs- are the main focus of the
systems studied in laboratory and field settings).
Papers can have the following single or combined
research purposes: scholastic,
instrumental/methodological, exploratory,
descriptive, predictive, explanatory, design and
control, evaluative, interpretative or
interventionist. The studies can use the
following systemic research methodologies or
approaches: conceptual, formal mathematical,
systems simulation (discrete, multi-agent or
hybrid), systems dynamics, soft systems, action
research, critical systems, multi-methodology,
and their philosophical underpinnings can be
either positivist, interpretative, critical or
based in critical realism. They are expected to
be integrated or discussed under the perspective
of the systems approach with the long-term aim of
obtaining a unified view of information systems.

Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

Engineering frameworks, taxonomies, models,
methodologies, processes, methodologies,
standards and practices based in the systems
approach applied in the solving, dissolving or
resolving of real or theoretical systems of
problems in the disciplines of information
systems, systems engineering, software engineering and complex systems.

Management frameworks, taxonomies, models,
methodologies, processes, methodologies,
standards and practices based in the systems
approach applied in the solving, dissolving or
resolving of theoretical or real systems of
problems in the disciplines of information
systems, systems engineering, software engineering and complex systems.

Conceptual analysis, design, utilization,
evaluation, enhancement and/or critique of
research methods based in the systems approach
(conceptual, formal mathematical, systems
simulation (discrete, multi-agent or hybrid),
systems dynamics, soft systems, action research,
critical systems, multi-methodology).

Philosophical research frameworks and paradigms
based in the systems approach for doing research
in the disciplines of information systems,
systems engineering, software engineering and complex systems.

Interested authors should consult the journal's
manuscript submission guidelines at
www.igi-global.com/ijitsa.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: David Paradice at
dparadice@cob.fsu.edu
and Manuel Mora at mmora@securenym.net