HICSS-43 Tracks and Minitracks  [Chairs]
Collaboration Systems and Technologies
The Collaboration Systems and Technology Track addresses many questions of collaboration science. Collaboration Science is the study of the individual, group, organizational, and social factors that affect outcomes of interest among people making joint efforts toward a group goal. Many concepts of collaboration science can be organized within a seven-layer model: Goals, Deliverables, Activities, Patterns, Design, Script, and Technology. Each layer pertains to different aspects of collaboration, drawing significance from the layer above it, or support from the layer below it.  Our track seeks to bring all these perspectives to together. We strive to synthesize broader understandings from the diversity of approaches all contributors bring to the conference. 

* Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies
* Collaboration Systems and Technologies in Healthcare Teams
* Collaboration Systems for Open Innovation
* Collaborative Modeling
* Context-aware Computing and Collaboration
* Creativity in Teams and Organizations
* Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration
* Emerging Issues in Distributed Group Decision-Making: Opportunities and
   Challenges
* Emergency Response Systems (ERS)
* Global Virtual Teams
* Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
* Measuring the Effectiveness of Collaboration Technologies
* Negotiation Support Systems (NSS)
* Processes and Systems for Collaboration Support
* Social Networks and Collaboration

Decision Technologies and Service Sciences
The Decision Technologies and Service Sciences Track weds decision support system theory, concepts and technology with the emerging field of service sciences, management and engineering (SSME). We seek papers around three themes:  Theme 1: Services Computing (Computer science; business strategy; business applications); Theme 2: Operations Research and Computational Modeling (OR/MS; industrial engineering; social and cognitive sciences; agent-based technology); Theme 3: Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Soft Computing (Information sciences; cognitive science).

* Analytical and Simulation Models for Knowledge, Enterprise, and Service
   Networks
* Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research
* Information Systems for Sustainable Development
* Intelligent Decision Support for Logistics and Supply Chain Management
* Knowledge Discovery for Managerial Decision Support
* Mobile Business: Issues and Applications
* Multi-Agent and Intelligent Systems for Decision Support
* Service Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME)
* The Service Oriented Enterprise

Digital Media: Content and Communication
The Digital Media: Content and Communication Track has, as its title implies, two main themes. The first theme, digital media content, focuses on the organization and retrieval of digital information. In particular, the organization and visualization of and retrieval from large scale digital repositories, including the Web. The second theme, communication through digital media, focuses on how digital media has changed how we communicate and how are we leveraging digital media to communicate, both in our personal lives and in the work place. In this Track we are looking for new and innovative approaches to these areas.

* Digital Divide/s and Inclusion/s
* Digital Media at Scale: Confronting the Digital Tsunami
* Documenting Work and Working Document
* Information Access & Retrieval: The Web, Users, and HCI
* Innovation and Situated Design for Digital Media Applications
* Persistent Conversation
* Visual Analytics in the Context of the Organization

Electronic Government
The Electronic Government Track focuses on Electronic Government – also known as Digital Government – as a multidisciplinary research domain that studies the use of information and technology in the context of public policy making (electronic governance), government operations (management, organization, infrastructure, interoperability, security, citizen engagement (e-participation and digital democracy), and government services (inbound and outbound). Numerous disciplines contribute to this intersection of research; for example, computer science, information systems research, information science, political science, organizational sciences (public administration and business administration), sociology, and psychology, among others. For years, HICSS has featured groundbreaking studies and new ideas in E-Government, including a minitrack specifically dedicated to emerging topics and technologies. More details is available at  http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss43/HICSS-43/Welcome.html.

* Development Methods for Electronic Government
* Emerging Topics
* E-Participation, e-Citizenship, and Digital Democracy
* E-Policy, e-Governance, Ethics, and Law
* E-Services and Information
* Information Security
* Infrastructure and Interoperability
* Organization and Management

Future Electric Power Systems: Smart Grids, Engineering, Economics, Security
The Future Electric Power Systems: Smart Grids, Engineering, Economics and Security Track seeks to explore methods at the frontier of understanding the future electric power system worldwide. It will focus on smart grids, engineering, economics, and security issues that are at the forefront of current thinking. 

* Engineering and Economics Interactions
* Integrating Non-Conventional Resources
* Monitoring and Control
* Reliability, Security and Trust

Information Technology in Health Care
The Information Technology in Health Care Track serves as a forum at which health care, computer science, and information systems professionals can come together to discuss issues related to the application of information technology in health care. The complexity of today's health care issues requires more than one perspective. This track provides a unique opportunity for cross-disciplinary interaction and new insights into problems and solutions. Our goal is to keep the track focused on current issues in health care, and minitracks have been selected accordingly.

* Bioinformatics Tools for Health Care and Translational Research
* Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health and Health Services
* IT Adoption and Evaluation in Healthcare
* IT Architectures and Applications in Healthcare Environments
* HCI and Consumer Health Informatics Issues in Healthcare IT

Internet and the Digital Economy
The Internet and the Digital Economy Track recognizes that this field has transformed the way we work, learn, and play. Our track focuses on the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies (e.g., markets, social networks), as well as fundamental issues in the development and operation of the Internet and Internet applications (e.g., security, open source).

* Collaborative Commerce
* Electronic Marketing
* Emerging Risks and Systemic Concerns in Information Security
   Research and Applications
* Innovation Processes for the Digital Economy
* Internet Security: Intrusion Detection and Prevention in Mobile Systems
* Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents, Open Access and Open
   Communities
* Research 2.0: Web 2.0 and Virtual Worlds as Research Environments
* Social Networking and Communication
* The Diffusion, Impacts, Adoption and Usage of ICTs upon Society

Knowledge Management Systems
The Knowledge Management Systems Track is recognizing a changing world. Organizational drivers for KM include an aging work force, the need to distribute knowledge and encourage collaboration in widely dispersed organizations, and competitive forces requiring organizations to adapt and change rapidly. We seek papers that reflect such changes.

* KM in a Changing Society: Retirement, Contingent Workers, Immigration and
   Other Societal Impacts
* KM in a Multinational Context
* Knowledge Evolution: Methods and Measures for Organizational Learning
* Knowledge Flows, Transfer, Sharing and Exchange In Organizations
* Knowledge Management for Creativity and Innovation
* Knowledge Management/Organizational Memory Success and Performance
   Measurements
* Knowledge-Intensive Business Processes
* Web 2.0/3.0 Technologies, Mashups, KM Tools, & KMS Design Approaches

Organizational Systems and Technology
The Organizational Systems and Technology Track has a broad scope, and is therefore one of the larger tracks at HICSS. Its eclectic interests range from BI and data warehousing, to theoretical approaches to IS research, to social issues associated with the use of IT. There are continually new topics, such as emergent ethical issue, and many topics relate closely to what is currently “hot” in the world of practice – BI, IT governance, and RFID. Others like project management and social issues in IT have a timeless value. This track may contain papers that do not fit neatly into any of the other tracks, and topics that eventually emerge as minitracks themselves.

* BI, Data Warehousing and Information Logistics
* Business Process Management (BPM)
* Competitive Strategy, Economics and IS
* Enterprise Architecture
* Enterprise System Integration: Issues and Answers
* Ethical Challenges in Cyberspace Research and Design
* Implementation and Usage of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
* Information issues in Supply Chain and in Service System Design
* IT and Project Management
* IT Governance and its Mechanisms
* Organizational Engineering
* Social Issues in Information Technology
* Theoretical Approaches to IS Research
* Topics in Organizational Systems and Technology

Software Technology
The Software Technology Track addresses issues surrounding the technical quality of software: how to build systems that are secure, high performance, distributed, ad hoc, high reliability, and so forth.  Thus we address technical issues such as architecture, algorithms, theory of computation, artificial intelligence, and complexity.  But this focus does not stop at simply examining the structure, components, and operation of complex software-intensive systems.  Our focus naturally leads to a wide set of topics that delve into software life-cycle and project management issues, models of software development, usability, ubiquity, assurance, and the relationship between technical decisions and business decisions.  

* Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable
* Algorithmic Challenges in Emerging Applications of Computing
* Application and Research in System Virtualization
* Artificial Intelligence and Pervasive Computing Technology
* Assurance Research for Dependable Software Systems (ARDSS)
* Digital Forensics - Pedagogy and Foundational Research Activity
* Distributed Systems for Ubiquitous Computing
* New Application Areas in Open Source Software: Use, Development
   and Evaluation
* Software Product Lines: Engineering, Service, and Management
* The Business Model of Product and Process Assurance
* Trust and Dependability
* Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks