HICSS-44 Tracks and Minitracks [Track
Chairs] [Minitrack
Chairs]
Collaboration Systems and Technologies
Groups collaborate to create value that their members
cannot create through individual effort. Collaboration, however,
engenders interpersonal, social, political, cognitive, and
technical challenges. Croups can improve key outcomes using
collaboration technologies, but any technology that can be used
well can also be used badly; IS/IT artifacts do not assure
successful collaboration. The value of a collaboration technology
can only be realized in the larger context of a collaboration
system, a combination of actors, hardware, software, knowledge,
and work practices to advance groups toward their goals. Designers
of collaboration systems must therefore many issues when creating
a new collaboration system. This track seeks new work from
researchers in many disciplines to foster a growing a body of
exploratory, theoretical, experimental, and applied research that
could inform design and deployment choices for collaboration
systems. We seek papers that address individual, group,
organizational, and social factors that affect outcomes of
interest among people making joint efforts toward a group goal. We
look for papers from the range of epistemological and
methodological perspectives. The track seeks to synthesize
broader understandings in the diversity of approaches all
contributors bring to the conference.
* Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies
* Cognitive Perspectives on Collaboration
* Collaboration and Competition in Global Software Development
* Collaboration in Virtual Worlds and Metaverses
* Collaborative Modeling
* Creativity in Teams and Organizations
* Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration
* Emergency Response Information Systems
* Emerging Issues in Distributed Group Decision-Making:
Opportunities and Challenges
* Global Virtual Teams
* Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
* Negotiation Support Systems
* Processes & Systems for Collaboration Support
* Social Networks and Collaboration
* Technology Mediated Collaborations in Healthcare (cross-listed
in Healthcare Track)
Decision
Technology, Mobile Technologies and Service Science
DT/SS/MS captures the confluence of decision
science and associated technologies for decision support with the
rapidly expanding arenas of service science and mobile services.
Four thematic threads form the fabric of this Track: 1: Services
Computing (Computer science; business strategy; systems design);
2: Mobile Computing (Ubiquitous computing; mobile services; mobile
business); 3: Operations Research and Computational Modeling
(OR/MS; multi-criteria decision support; agent-based technology);
4: Decision Analytics and Soft Computing (Information sciences;
knowledge discovery; approximate reasoning). The overall context
is to examine how these streams of research can contribute to the
development and the art and science of information systems.
* Advanced Analytics for Managerial Decision Support
* Designing and Developing Consumer-focused Information Systems
and Services
* Information Security and Cyber Crime
* Information Systems and Decision Technologies for Sustainable
Development
* Intelligent Decision Support for Logistics and Supply Chain
Management (see Organizational Track)
* Mobile Business: Issues and Applications
* Mobile Social and Sensor Networks for Man-Machine Collaboration
* Mobile Value Service: Mobile Technology and Value Creation
* Multi-criteria Decision Support Systems
* Service Science, Management, and Engineering
* Service Systems and Cloud Computing Services
(see Software Track)
Digital
Media: Content and Communication
Digital Media: Content and Communication 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 Libraries
* Documenting Work and Working Document
* Information Access & Retrieval: The Web, Users, and HCI
* Visualizing and Analyzing Digital Media across Scales
* Web Information Credibility Analysis
Electronic Government
Electronic Government, or Digital Government, is a
multidisciplinary research domain, which studies the use of
information and technology in the context of public policy making
(electronic governance, open government, and digital divide/s),
government operations (transformation, management, organization,
infrastructure, interoperability, security), citizen engagement
(e-participation, transparency, collaboration, and digital
democracy), and government services (including using social
media). Numerous disciplines contribute to this intersection of
research such as computer science, information systems research,
information science, political science, organizational sciences
(public administration and business administration), sociology,
and psychology among others. The HICSS e-Government track has been
a hotbed for groundbreaking studies and new ideas in this
particular research domain. Many studies first presented here were
developed further and then turned into publications at top
journals. Nine minitracks cover the full spectrum of research
avenues of electronic government including minitracks dedicated to
emerging topics, open government, and social networking. More
details are available at
http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss44/
* Development Methods for Electronic Government
* Emerging Topics
* Interoperability
and Cloud Infrastructure
* Open Government, Transparency and Citizen Engagement
*
E-Policy, e-Governance, Ethics, and Law
* Services and Information
* Security and Critical Infrastructure
* Social Networking and Government
* Transformational
Government: Strategy, Management, Organization, and Users
Electric Power Systems: Smart Grids, Engineering, Economics, Security
Electric Power Systems: Smarter Grids, Engineering,
Economics and Security seeks to explore methods at the frontier of
understanding the future electric power system worldwide. It will
focus on the smart grid, engineering, economics, and security
issues that are at the forefront of current thinking.
* Engineering and Economics Interactions
* Integrating Emerging Infrastructure
* Monitoring and Control
* Reliability, Security and Trust
Information Technology in Health Care
Addressing the complexities of today's healthcare issues requires more
than one perspective. 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. In bringing
technical, behavioral, clinical, and managerial perspectives together,
this track provides a unique opportunity to generate new insights into
healthcare problems and solutions.
* Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health and Health Services
*
HCI and Consumer Health Informatics Issues in Healthcare IT
* Innovative Data Analysis and Data Mining Tools in Biomedical Informatics
* IT Adoption and Evaluation in Healthcare
* IT Architecture and Application in Healthcare Environments
* Technology Mediated Collaborations in Healthcare (cross-listed in
Collaboration Track)
Internet
and the Digital Economy
The Internet and the Digital Economy Track recognizes that the
Internet 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).
* Electronic Marketing
* Emerging Risks and Systemic Concerns in Information Security Research
and Applications
* Innovation and the Digital Economy
*
Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents, Open Access and Open Communities
(cross-listed in Software
Track)
* Research 2.0: Web 2.0 and Virtual Worlds as Research Environments
* Social Networking and Communities
* The Diffusion, Impacts, Adoption and Usage of ICTs upon Society
* Virtual Worlds in the Workplace
[Cancelled]
Knowledge
Systems
Knowledge Systems recognizes the evolving nature of work and society to
being knowledge based. Competitive pressures are forcing organizations to
do more with less and to leverage all they know to succeed. Knowledge
systems are those systems developed to facilitate collaboration, knowledge
capture, storage, transfer and flow; knowledge use; as well as to foster
creativity and innovation. This track explores the many factors that
influence the development, adoption, use, and success of knowledge
systems. These factors include culture, measurement, governance and
management, storage and communication technologies, process modeling and
development. The track also looks at the societal drivers for knowledge
systems including an aging work force, the need to distribute knowledge
and encourage collaboration in widely dispersed organizations and
societies, and competitive forces requiring organizations of all types to
adapt and change rapidly. We seek papers that address these issues through
the following minitracks:
*
KM in a Changing Society: Using Knowledge to Impact Societies
*
KM Systems in a Multinational Context
*
Knowledge and Innovation Systems
*
Knowledge-Intensive Business Processes
* Knowledge Flows, Transfer, Sharing and Exchange In Organizations
*
Knowledge Management Value Success and Performance Measurements
*
Web 2.0/3.0 Technologies, Mashups, KM Tools, and Design Sciences
Approaches
Organizational Systems and Technology
Organizational Systems and Technology (OST) has a broad scope that
covers a variety of topics. Its eclectic composition ranges from BI, to
theoretical approaches to IS research, to social issues associated with
the use of IT. There are continually new topics, and many relate closely
to what is currently “hot” in the world of practice – business process
management, IT governance, and RFID. Others like project management and IT
personnel issues have a timeless value. Topics in OST welcomes papers that
do not fit neatly elsewhere.
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BI, Data Warehousing, and Process Analytics
*
Business Process Management (BPM)
*
Communication Networks
*
Competitive Strategy, Economics, and IS
*
Enterprise Architecture: Processes, Approaches and Products
*
Enterprise System Integration: Issues and Answers
*
Implementation and Usage of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
*
Information Issues in Supply Chain and in Service System Design
(cross-listed in Decision
Track)
*
IT and Project Management
*
IT Governance and its Mechanisms
*
IT Personnel: The IT Artifact the Field Cannot Do Without
*
Organizational Design and Engineering
* Social Issues for Information Systems
* Theoretical Approaches to IS Research
*
Topics in Organizational Systems and Technology
Software Technology
The Software Technology track at HICSS is about methods, tools and
techniques related to software, as distinct from the context in which it
is deployed or its applications. Software Technology is among the oldest
tracks at HICSS and has provided a central point of interaction among all
participants in the conference, as well as a natural forum to foster new
technologies. Among the topics that the Software Technology track has
covered are: software engineering, security, networking, software-based
product-lines, open source software, pervasive computing, artificial
intelligence, agile methods, mobile/ad hoc networking, cloud computing,
virtualization, parallel and distributed computing, and software
assurance. The Software Technology track continues to invite novel and
emerging areas of research in what remains a dynamic and exciting field.
*
Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable
*
Application and Research in System Virtualization
[Cancelled]
*
Assurance Research for Dependable Software Systems (ARDSS)
*
Cloud Computing
* Digital Forensics – Education and Research
*
Dynamic Analysis of Software Systems
*
Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents, Open Access and Open Communities
(cross-listed in Internet
Track)
*
Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence
* Practical Formal Methods for Next-Generation Software Engineering
*
Software Product and Process Assurance
*
Software Product Lines: Engineering, Services, and Management
*
Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
