Deadline: 31 August 2015
This first edition of MIST is focusing on several key areas of sustainable economics, tourism, innovation and technologies.
MIST Conferences aim at the establishment of an annual international event to increase awareness in the context of the new trends of change at the regional and global level.
The major topics of interest at the nexus of MIST for presentations and papers include, but are not limited to:
- Innovation Economics and Policy Modelling
- Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship
- Advanced Tourism Economics
- Environmental, Energetic and Economic Sustainability
- Materials' Engineering and Aeronautics
- Management Information Systems
Session Chair: Prof. Manfred Fisher
1. Innovation Economics and Policy Modeling
- Sustainability and Innovation
- Employment and Poverty Reduction
- Governmental Innovation Policy
- Ethics and Accountability
- Management in the Public sector and the role of the nation state
- Social justice in economy- perception of inequality and poverty
- Cultural values in economic life
- Game and decision theory of international political economy
- The new Theories of Political Economy
Session Chair: Dr. Anna Sadowska
2. Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
- Health Care Management and Innovation
- New Forms of Finance
- Industrial renewal based on new technologies, new products/services
- The role of framework conditions in fostering entrepreneurial activities
- International entrepreneurship and international strategies of SMEs
- New trends in innovation and entrepreneurship
- Technology-based innovation
Session Chair: Prof. Karima Kourtit
3. Advanced Tourism Economics
- The Economic Impact of Tourism
- Economic Sustainability and Tourism
- Economic and Management implications of E-tourism
- Environmental Issues in Tourism
- Innovation and Competitiveness in Tourism
- Transport Systems for Tourism
- Tourism Planning and Regional Policies
- Tourism Products and Consumer Behavior
- Tourism and Hospitality Management
Session Chair: Prof. Peter Nijkamp
4. Environmental, Energetic and Economic Sustainability
- New trends of urban and regional economics development
- Sustainable cities and regions
- Energy efficiency
- Efficient exploitation of natural resources
- Low-carbon energy policies
- Urban Solid Waste management
- Management and policies in the municipal companies
- Circular Economy
Session Chair: Prof. Manuel Freitas
5. Materials' Engineering and Aeronautics
Materials for Sustainability:
- Energy
- Recycling
- Light Weight Materials
- Coatings
- Polymers and Composites
Session Chair: Prof. Miguel Sales Dias
6. Management Information Systems
- Electronic Procurement Systemsy
- Information and Network Securityy
- Knowledge Management Systemsy
- Health Care Information Systems
Authors are encouraged to submit papers for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. All papers will be subjected to a "blind review" process by at least three members of the Scientific Committee, on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.
Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference.
Full and short papers accepted and registered will be published in Proceedings by the organizing institution of the conference or via an academic publisher and will be submitted for indexation by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and DBLP, among others.
The selected papers will be published in the "International Journal of Information Systems and Software Engineering for Big Companies" (IJISEBC), "Campus Virtuales", Certiuni Journal and a new magazine "International Journal of Information Systems and Tourism" (IJIST).
