European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group
13th Annual Conference
“The Science of Spreadsheet Risk Management”
Manchester, United Kingdom
5th/6th July 2012
The Committee of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (www.eusprig.org) is pleased to announce the call for papers for their 13th Annual Conference on the theme “The Science of Spreadsheet Risk Management”. The conference will be held on the 5th and 6th of July 2012 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Papers are welcomed on the management, development and use of spreadsheets but especially concerning:
- corporate governance, best practice, risk management, regulatory compliance;
- education, training and certification;
- development, testing, documentation and quality assurance methods & technologies;
- exemplar models & applications;
- audit, management, version, configuration & control tools;
- enhancement, migration & replacement strategies;
- backup, security & archiving;
- human & psychological factors including assumptions, abstraction, interpretation, denial, overconfidence & human resource management.
Academic papers and practitioner reports describing how organisations have developed enterprise policies and best practices covering the development, testing, use, deployment and control of spreadsheets will be particularly welcome.
We are seeking the following types of submission:
Full academic papers (up to 5000 words),
Practitioner reports (up to 2000 words).
We invite original papers from both new and established researchers within the academic and practitioner communities that present material related to the conference theme. The conference proceedings will be published by EuSpRIG.
It is expected that academics and students will contribute full papers which will be double-blind refereed by members of the programme committee. Practitioner reports are predominantly expected from business people and practising professionals such as spreadsheet users, developers, auditors and accountants - all who can contribute to the prevention, detection and correction of errors in spreadsheet models and applications and the management of risks associated with spreadsheet use. Such summaries will be reviewed by two referees.
Submissions to EuSpRIG 2012 may not have (already) been published in a journal or conference proceedings, nor presented at another conference. Moreover, they may not be currently under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere. Only papers that are accepted and presented in person will be published.
Students please note: EuSpRIG in association with ISACA (Northern England Chapter) has arranged for the creation of an annual prize to be awarded for the best EuSpRIG conference paper submitted by an undergraduate or masters postgraduate student.
To submit a paper, please read the author guidelines and email a Microsoft Word / RTF compatible paper, complying with those guidelines to Dr Simon Thorne: sthorne @ cardiffmet.ac.uk
Important Dates
- Submission deadline for papers and practitioner reports: 31st March 2012
- Acceptance notice: 30th April 2012
- Final camera-ready copy: 31st May 2012
Click here for Author Guidelines
Click here for Details of the David Chadwick Student Prize
If you would like to sponsor the conference, contact Patrick O'Beirne at
