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INTERNET AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Cybercrime in the Digital Economy
Topics include (but not limited to):
Gurvirender Tejay is an Assistant Professor of Information Security at Nova Southeastern University. He received Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University. Gurvirender's work has been published in journal and conference proceedings including HICSS. He serves as reviewer for established journals including European Journal of Information Systems. Dr. Tejay has served as Associate Editor for 2009 and 2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Gurvirender Tejay
Nova Southeastern University
Email: tejay@nova.edu
Diffusions, Impacts and Adoption of ICT
The aim of this minitrack - building on the success of our previous minitracks at HICSS _ will be to offer a global perspective of how ICTs are being diffused, used and adopted within society (households and social communities). Adoption, usage and diffusion studies are prevalent in Information Systems (IS) research and offer an insight into many issues surrounding 'how' technologies are being introduced, 'when' and 'how'. By undertaking this research, academics, industry and government agencies will learn how ICTs are being utilised by various groups and communities in society, and what measures are being undertaken to have households and the various social communities adopt and use the ICTs with a further consideration of the impacts of the ICTs.
Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* The adoption and usage of ICTs, broadband, mobile phones, Web 2.0 technologies and other ICTs within households and Small to Medium Sized Enterprises
* The impacts of ICTs upon households and Small to Medium Sized Enterprises
* The adoption and usage of ICTs upon various social communities (eg. Residential neighbourhoods and Internet cafes)
* The impacts of ICTs upon various social communities
* Evaluation the technological and non-technological aspects of the adoption and usage of ICTs
* Evaluating the technological and non-technological aspects of the impacts of ICTs
* The diffusion, adoption and usage of ICTs within households and Small to Medium Sized Enterprises
* The diffusion, adoption and usage of ICTs within various social communities
* Stakeholder theory and the adoption, diffusion and usage of ICTs
* Innovation and the diffusion of ICTs
* Project Management and the adoption and usage of ICTs
* Project Management and the impacts of ICTs
* Human Computer Interaction issues related to the adoption, usage and impact factors in the context of ICTS
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Jyoti Choudrie (Primary Contact)
University of Hartfordshire
Email: j.choudrie@herts.ac.uk; jyoti.choudrie@btopenworld.com
Sherah Kurnia
The University of Melbourne
URL: http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff/sherahk/
Email: sherahk@unimelb.edu.au
Mathew Overton
University of Hertfordshire
Email: m.overton@herts.ac.uk
Electronic Marketing
Firms continue learning how to more effectively market with new media. What are effective strategies to attract customers, and to increase purchase, satisfaction and loyalty? How do consumers behave in social networks or online auctions? How do they respond to novel forms of advertising or representation of product and store information? Why do they engage and how do they use consumer generated media?
Submitted papers may be quantitative or qualitative, including (but not limited to):
A goal of this session will also be showcasing novel electronic marketing methods studied through diverse and unconventional methods. Papers that provide rich cases for theory generation, or identify and evaluate new methods, systems and practices for electronic marketing, and novel analytic models, theories and frameworks are especially welcome.
Ajit Kambil is the Global Research Director – CFO Program of Deloitte Research and is also a Research Executive in Residence at Babson College. Dr. Kambil earned a Ph.D in Information Systems from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and was previously on the faculty of the Stern School of Business of New York University. At NYU he led the EDGAR on the Internet project - making corporate disclosures widely available to investors on the Internet in the early days of the WWW, and introduced eCommerce into the curricula. His book Making Markets: Designing Online Markets and Auction for Profit is published by Harvard Business School Press.
Arnold Kamis is an Associate Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management at Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Stern School of Business of New York University and his B.S. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Carnegie Mellon University. Arnold’s research interests are in electronic business, decision support technologies, and human-computer interaction. His publications appear in MIS Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, The Database for Advances in Information Systems, and The American Statistician.
Bruce Weinberg is Chair of the Marketing Department and an Associate Professor of Marketing and E-commerce at Bentley University. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the MIT Sloan School of Business. Dr. Weinberg is a leading authority on the online consumer experience, including online shopping, retailing and auctions. His publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Marketing Letters, Business Horizons, Journal of Business Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Interactive Marketing Journal, the Journal of Database Marketing & Customer Strategy Management, and Journal of Promotional Management. His recent lead article in the Wall Street Journal Business Insights section (in collaboration with Sloan Management Review) on “The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World” was the most emailed article in the Wall Street Journal for two consecutive days. In addition, he has received awards for both teaching and research, e.g., in 1997, the MSI/H. Paul Root Award from the American Marketing Association for the "most significant contribution to the advancement of marketing practice" for the paper "Premarket Forecasting of Really-New Products" published in the Journal of Marketing.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Bruce Weinberg (Primary Contact)
Bentley College
Email: Celtics@bentley.edu
Ajit Kambil
Deloitte and Touche
Email: akambil@deloitte.com
Arnold Kamis
Suffolk University
Email: akamis@suffolk.edu
Emerging Risks and Systemic Concerns in Information Security Research and Applications
This minitrack provides a venue for systemic and holistic issues related to detecting, mitigating and preventing the threat of computer-based attacks and operational failures. Papers that address improving the security of computer-reliant organizations from these threats through technical, organizational, or behavioral change are encouraged. These may include simulation studies, case-based research, empirical studies, and other applications of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
After research visits to Stanford University and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, Guido Schryen received a doctorate in information systems from the RWTH Aachen University and earned a post-doctorate degree (habilitation/venia legendi) at the RWTH Aachen University. Since May 2007, he holds a position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Business Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University. From September 2008 to August 2009, he joined the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley (USA), sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). From October 2009 to July 2010, he was temporary professor (Vertretungsprofessor) of Information Systems Research at the University of Freiburg. Since October 2010, he is on leave at the Christian-Albrechts-UniversitŠt Kiel, where he holds a position as temporary professor of Information Systems Research. His fields of interest cover technical and economic issues of information and communication (systems) security, electronic business, and Internet voting.
Jose J. Gonzalez (dr.rer.nat., University of Kiel, DE, dr.techn., University of Science and Technology, NO) has long experience as professor of SD and information security at the University of Agder and as adjunct professor of information security at Gj¿vik University College, both in Norway. He has published in leading journals and conferences on SD modeling, information security, critical infrastructure, organizational learning and Interactive Training Environments. Many of these papers are the result of international cooperation involving an extensive network of German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish and American partners. Among the most recent large-scale projects led and coordinated by Dr. Gonzalez is AMBASEC (funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Oil Industry Association), dealing with incident response and handling in eOperations in the oil & gas sector. Dr. Gonzalez also participates in the SEMPOC project, funded by the EU through the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Eliot Rich received the Ph.D. degree from the University at Albany, State University of New York. He also holds degrees from Harvard University and Brooklyn College. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology Management, School of Business, University at Albany, State University of New York. His research and teaching focus on the interplay between software systems and organizations. His approach combines computer simulation with the techniques of organizational analysis to identify and analyze complex business and governmental problems. Prior to receiving his Ph.D. from the University at Albany, he worked for 13 years as a software designer, business analyst, and software development manager in the financial, health care, and public sectors.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Guido Schryen (Primary Contact)
RWTH Aachen University
Email: schryen@gmx.net
Jose J. Gonzalez
University of Agder
Email: jose.j.gonzalez@uia.no
Eliot H. Rich
University of Albany
Email: e.rich@albany.edu
INNOVATION AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Recent developments in the internet and the digital economy touch on established ways of thinking in various aspects of innovation management. The full innovation cycle is affected, from opportunity identification, product or service design, testing, to market introduction.
In the minitrack “Innovation and the Digital Economy” we want to provide a platform for research that provides insights into how innovation management and processes are affected by the digital economy and how managers can take advantage of it.
Relevant topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to):
We seek qualitative and quantitative research including surveys, experiments, and (econometric) analyses of cross sectional, panel, time series, social network, or similar data.
Reto Hofstetter holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BSc and MSc in Business Administration from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of Bern in 2008. During his PhD and as a post-doc, he visited the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and Stanford University. His research focuses on innovation, pricing and online marketing. He published in various conference proceedings in the Journal of Marketing Research.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Prof. Dr. Reto Hofstetter (Primary Contact)
University of St. Gallen
Email: reto.hofstetter@unisg.ch
Christophe Vetterli
Institute of Information Management
Email: christophe.vetterli@unisg.ch
Learning Analytics & Networked Learning
This minitrack calls for papers that address leading edge use of technology or system design to analyze, support, and/or create learning and learning environments. The remit is wide and calls for papers that use technology to examine how social learning happens, use data from learning environments to support learning processes, and examine new practices of formal and informal learning on and through the Internet. Papers that fit this minitrack fall under new and ongoing areas of learning research that may be referred to as learning analytics, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, ubiquitous learning, and mobile learning. Of particular interest are papers that capture, analyze and show novel use of data produced from online learning environments, develop and/or test methodologies for analyzing online learning, address automated data collection and analysis in support of learning, professional development and knowledge creation, and discuss issues and opportunities relating to information literacy, literacy and new media, ubiquitous learning, entrepreneurial learning and/or mobile learning.
We envision papers that
Caroline Haythornthwaite is Director and Professor, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia. She joined UBC in 2010 after 14 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. In 2009-10, she was Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London presenting and writing on 'Learning Networks'. She has an international reputation in research on information and knowledge sharing through social networks, and the impact of computer media and the Internet on work, learning and social interaction. Major publications include The Internet in Everyday Life (2002, with Barry Wellman); Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education (2004, with Michelle M. Kazmer), the Handbook of E-learning Research (2007, with Richard Andrews), and E-learning Research and Practice (2011, with Richard Andrews).
Maarten de Laat is associate professor and director of the Networked Learning program at the Ruud de Moor Centrum, Open Universiteit Nederland. His research concentrates on learning and professional development through (online) social networks and the impact technology and social design has on the way these networks work and learn.
Shane Dawson is the Director of Instructional Support and Information Technology with the Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on the application of data derived from online student interactions to better enable teaching staff to make pedagogically informed decisions regarding the impact of their learning activities.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Caroline Haythornthwaite (Primary Contact)
University of British Columbia
Email: haythorn@interchange.ubc.ca
Maarten de Laat
Open University of the Netherlands
Email: maarten.delaat@ou.nl
Shane Dawson
University of British Columbia
Email: shane.dawson@ubc.ca
Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents, Open Access and Open Communities
Therefore, this minitrack solicits papers about open projects, including Open Source Software development, Open Content creation, Open Access publishing and Open Communities. Example of topics include:
Wolfgang Bein
is an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Algorithms. He holds a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Osnabrueck, Germany (1987). His research interests include on-line algorithms, combinatorial optimization, adaptive algorithms and heuristics, scheduling, networks, parallel architectures and open-source projects.Kevin Crowston joined the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University in 1996. He received his A.B. (1984) in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His current research interests focus on new ways of organizing made possible by the use of information and communications technology. He approaches this issue in several ways: empirical studies of coordination-intensive processes in human organizations; theoretical characterizations of coordination problems and alternative methods for managing them; and design and empirical evaluation of new kinds of computer systems to support people working together.
Clinton Jeffery is an Associate Professor at the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. (1993) in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. He is the director of two open-source software projects hosted on SourceForge.net, a programming language (Unicon) and a collaborative virtual environment (CVE).
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Kevin Crowston (Primary Contact)
Syracuse University
Email: crowston@syr.edu
Wolfgang Bein
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Email: bein@cs.unlv.edu
Clinton Jeffery
University of Idaho
Email: jeffery@uidaho.edu
Social Networking and communities
The focus of this minitrack is primarily on social media and their interrelations with communities (online and offline) in the context of work, personal life, and education. We would like to attract papers that address issues of social networking and online communities of practice, inquiry and interest; political, social, and gaming communities. Community building and community management can be key success factors in the digital economy and society, encompassing work, education, social life, and play. Examples of the possible interdisciplinary topics of interest in these contexts include, but are not limited to the following:
Karine Nahon is an associate professor at the Information School, Director of the Virality of Information (retroV) research group, faculty adjunct at the department of communication, affiliated faculty at the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement and former director of the Center for Information & Society in University of Washington. Her research are is information politics and policy. More specifically, she deals with three areas of study that are intertwined: (1) information flows and network gatekeeping; (2) digital divide/s and inequalities; and (3) cultured technology. This area mainly derives from my academic training in multiple disciplines and fields: political science, computer science, management of information systems, sociology and information science.
Caroline Haythornthwaite is Director and Professor, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia. She joined UBC in 2010 after 14 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. In 2009-10, she was Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London and in summer 2009 was a visiting researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has an international reputation in research on information and knowledge sharing through social networks, and the impact of computer media and the Internet on work, learning and social interaction. Her studies have examined social networks of work and media use, the development and nature of community online, distributed knowledge processes, the nature and constraints of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the transformative effects of the Internet and web 2.0 technologies on learning and collaborative practices.
SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Karine Nahon (Primary Contact)
University of Washington
Email: karineb@uw.edu
Caroline Haythornthwaite
University of British Columbia
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Email: haythorn@interchange.ubc.ca
Web Mining
Web Mining is the application of data mining and information extraction techniques aimed at discovering patterns and knowledge from the Web. Traditionally, Web Mining is divided into three classes:
This minitrack encourages papers of a quantitative, theoretical or applied nature whose content falls within one or more of the above classes. Examples of more specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Web Mining is covered by a series of conferences devoted to Web Mining specifically (see
wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=webmining), those conference Text Mining and Analytics (see ourglocal.com/event/?q=Text+Mining&start=30&limit=10) and is included as a section in a myriad of data mining conferences (see kdnuggets.com/meetings/ ). Additionally, the various topics are discussed in a series of publications (see kdnuggets.com/publications/web-mining.html and filebox.vt.edu/users/wfan/text_mining.html ), as well as a number of new books in the area (e.g. Web Data Mining by Bing Lui).SUBMIT INQUIRIES TO:
Dave King
JDA Software Inc.
Email: David.king@jda.com