HICSS-45 Tracks and Minitracks
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Collaboration Systems and Technologies
Groups collaborate to create value that
their members cannot create through individual effort. Collaboration,
however, engenders economic, interpersonal, social, political, cognitive,
emotional, physical, and technical challenges. Groups 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 address 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. Behavioral science and
design science papers are welcome. The track seeks to synthesize broader
understandings in the diversity of approaches that contributors bring to
the conference.
Decision
Technology, Mobile Technologies and Service Science
The DA/MT/SS Track is concerned first and
foremost with managerial and organizational decision-making in the Digital
Age. We focus upon analytics as decision support processes and
technologies to address contemporary management challenges, service
science as a discipline for designing analytics-driven service systems for
the enterprise, mobile technology as a development and delivery ecosystem
for organizational services, and critical and emerging application areas
which require the confluence of all three of the above. The overall
context is to examine how these streams of research can contribute to the
development and the art and science of information systems.
Digital
Media: Content and Communication
This will be the 18th year in
which HICSS has included a major focus on the topic of content and
communication through Digital Media. This Track provides a unique
forum for this interdisciplinary topic in bringing together
research from computer science, information science, linguistics
and information systems, as well as other disciplines.
The Digital Media: Content and
Communication Track has, as its title implies, two interrelated
themes. The first theme, digital media content, focuses on the
organization and use of digital information in our increasingly
digital culture. In particular, the organization and visualization
of information and knowledge from large scale digital repositories
or data streams. The second theme, communication through digital
media, focuses on how digital media changes how we live and work;
how we leverage digital media to communicate, personally,
socially, and in the work place. In this Track we are looking for
new and innovative approaches in these areas, including the
evaluation of such systems.
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). 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. Ten minitracks cover
the full spectrum of research avenues of electronic government including
minitracks dedicated to emerging topics, open government, and social media
and social networking, or, most recently, insider threats. The HICSS
e-Government Track has assumed an excellent reputation among e-Government
scholars. Several times it has been ranked the academically most rigorous
research conference on e-Government in the world. The E-Government Track
is in the top 2 of HICSS tracks with the lowest acceptance rate and the
highest average per-session attendance. More details are available at
http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss45/
Electric Energy Systems
Electric Energy Systems seek 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.
Information Technology in Healthcare
Addressing the complexities of
today's healthcare issues requires more than one perspective. The
Information Technology in Healthcare Track serves as a forum at
which healthcare, computer science, and information systems
professionals can come together to discuss issues related to the
application of information technology in healthcare. In bringing
technical, behavioral, clinical, and managerial perspectives
together, this track provides a unique opportunity to generate new
insights into healthcare problems and solutions.
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).
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.
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 supply and service system design.
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 have a timeless value. Topics in OST welcomes papers
that do not fit neatly elsewhere.
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.
