EMoWI 2020: Workshop Ethik und Moral in der Wirtschaftsinformatik / Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics Wirtschaftsinformatik 2020 Potsdam, Germany, March 8-11, 2020 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/EMoWI2020 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emowi2020 |
Submission deadline | January 5, 2020 |
Call for Papers: Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics / Ethik und Moral in der Wirtschaftsinformatik (EMoWI 2020)
https://sites.google.com/view/EMoWI2020
Conference Wirtschaftsinformatik 2020
Potsdam, 8 Mar – 11 Mar 2020
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emowi2020
2020-01-05 Paper submission deadline
2020-02-07 Notifications to authors
2020-02-14 Camera-ready Version
2020-03-08 Workshop in Potsdam (Sunday!)
According to Immanuel Kant, ethics is concerned with the question, “What ought I to do?”, as opposed to the other three basic questions “What can I know?”, “What can I hope?”, and “What is human?”. “What ought I to do as a Business Informatics researcher?” therefore is the central question of the theme “Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics”. As this question is fundamentally philosophical in nature, it does not only concern judgments about proper conduct in specific situations. Instead, the questions invites reflections at a higher level of abstraction, enabling a critical reflection about methodological principles of our discipline from a distinctively philosophical outlook.
For example, it is possible to examine how basic principles and concepts of Business Informatics are related to more encompassing concepts of human life in general. In this vein, concepts like process, architecture, decision model, algorithm, and organizational rule can be studied against the backdrop of concepts like Weltanschauung, human rights, and values. The workshop “Ethics and Morality in Business Informatics” is meant to address questions of this kind.
List of Topics
Submissions to the workshop are invited to discuss ethical and moral questions arising in the whole spectrum of topics of Business Informatics. The following suggestions provide an impression of the intended orientation of the workshop, but you are cordially invited to propose additional topics.
- Are the subjects of Business Informatics associated with specific ethical questions? As the subjects in Business Informatics typically are intangible, does this raise a need for specific procedures to justify proper conduct of Business Informatics research?
- Do (research) methods in Business Informatics involve specific value statements or Weltanschauung?
- Which implications for classical moral philosophies arise from recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research?
- What challenges arise from the availability of IT-supported machines that should act as stand-alone agents (autonomous cars, drones)? Are there any pitfalls in Machine Learning based decision support?
- Are certain species of moral philosophies (e. g., deontologist or consequentialist moral theories) especially relevant for Business Informatics? Do typical decision models in Business Informatics implicate the basic principles of specific moral theories (e. g., consequentialism)?
- What kind of statements could a „Code of Ethics“ for Business Informatics professionals include (as opposed to the “Code of Ethics” of ACM)?
- What experiences in relation to ethical questions were made in previous Business Informatics research projects?
- What initiatives concerning ethical values in Business Informatics do already exist in academia and industry? What are the results of these initiatives?
- How are ethical topics considered in Business Informatics curriculums at universities world-wide?
- ...and many more.
Submission
The workshop invites submissions that discuss actions or principles of actions as manifested in methodological assumptions and commitments in Business Informatics from an ethical point of view. This also includes experience reports about concrete projects in academia and industry where questions about right and wrong conduct played a significant role. Submissions are both invited to raise questions and to report about situations where questions have already been answered in specific ways. Philosophical methods of inquiry are welcome, but not required.
Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the program committee. Accepted submissions must be presented by at least one author at the workshop, and it is planned to publish them as ceur-ws.org online proceedings.
The maximum page number of submissions is 10 pages (including title, abstract, bibliography, appendixes, author names and affiliations and acknowledgments). Short papers with a size up to 4 pages are also welcome. The abstract should not exceed 150 words. Keywords are optional. Please upload your submission at https://easychair.org/conference/?conf=emowi2020.
The proceedings of the previous EMoWI'19 workshop are published at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2297/.
Committees
Program Committee
- Oliver Bendel, School of Business FH NW, Switzerland
- Dominik Bork, University of Vienna, Austria
- Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Sedef Akinli Kocak, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
- Björn Niehaves, University of Siegen, Germany
- Stefan Strecker, Fernuniversität in Hagen, Gemany
- (to be extended)
Organization
- Jens Gulden, Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Princetonplein 5, De Uithof, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 30 2537088, j.gulden@uu.nl
- Alexander Bock, University of Duisburg-Essen, Information Systems and Enterprise Modeling, Universitätsstr. 9, 45141 Essen, Germany, Tel: +49 201 18-34563, alexander.bock@uni-due.de
- Sergio España Cubillo, Utrecht University, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Princetonplein 5, De Uithof, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 30 2535913, s.espana@uu.nl