January 7 - 10, 2013, Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii

 


HICSS-46 Tracks and Minitracks 

                                                      [Track Chairs]  [Minitrack Chairs]   [Minitrack Titles]

Find call for Minitrack Proposals for HICSS 46 here.

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 Analytics, Mobile Services and Service Science

The DA/MS/SS Track focuses on emerging managerial and organizational decision-making strategies, processes, tools, technologies, services and solutions in the Digital Age. This track has four interrelated themes. Analytics focuses on decision making processes, models, tools and technologies. Mobile Services work with the development and delivery of data, information and services with mobile technology platforms. Challenges and issues of emerging ser-vice industries, and service orientation and -transformation of strategies, processes, organizations, systems and technologies are covered in Service Science. In this track, we also dis-cuss innovative approaches of decision making for/with Critical and Emerging Solutions in a number of high-impact areas.


Digital Media: Content and Communication

At this past (2012) HICSS conference, large complex data and web-scale information problems emerged as common themes across many of the Digital Media minitracks.   In recognition of this, for HICSS 2013 we encourage authors to address these themes from their own research perspectives.   Authors are encouraged to bring the lens of their own background and expertise to focus on big data issues ranging from the analytics of the data itself _  whether from social media or other data sets _ to the design and evaluation of effective presentations for stakeholders. The process is simple: authors send their papers to the most relevant minitrack and after the refereeing, the minitrack chairs will consult to accept papers, schedule presentations and draw connections.


E-Government

E-Government is the brand label for 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 sciences, 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. 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.


Electric Energy Systems

Electric Energy Systems seeks to explore methods at the frontier of understanding of the future electric power and energy systems worldwide. The track will focus on the electric energy systems in four areas: 1) monitoring, control and protection, 2) engineering and economics interactions, 3) engineering resilient networks, and 4) integrating distributed and renewable resources. 


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.