[Sigdl-l] FW: CFP - HICSS39 - Virtual Communities Minitrack

[Raya Fidel]

[Forwared for Raya Fidel.  Dick Hill]

Online Communities in the Digital Economy

CALL FOR PAPERS
Thirty-ninth Annual
Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences
January 4 - 7, 2006
Hyatt Regency, Kauai


Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/      and
http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/


Virtual Communities have been studied from a variety of different
perspectives. Examples range from communities of interest to communities of
practice, from gaming communities to communities of transaction. Community
building and community management can be a key success factors in the
digital economy. They can either supplement existing or even represent new
business models in the digital economy, or other form of continuous
interaction and social relationships. The communities we target may be
constituted as communities' platforms, Internet shops, portal sites,
reputation systems, educational, groupware systems, electronic auctions,
billboards, peer-to-peer file sharing infrastructures, enterprises or
organizations. Product-centred communities are relevant for online
companies, as for example the reader community at Amazon.com or mutual
support groups for software development. Other communities might enhance
real communities or other forms of social networks, like support groups, fun
and discussion groups, technical and service communities and more.

Furthermore, virtual communities can be formed on different platforms:
forums, newsgroups, listservs, chats, instant messenging and more. As the
examples show, online communities differ in their orientation. Nevertheless,
there are common features which all types of communities share: common
interests, practices, languages and ontologies with common semantics as well
as normative issues. Communities are a sociological phenomenon. They can
foster a social atmosphere for interactions and transactions. We are
interested in the common and different as well.

We call for papers that address communities as a social phenomenon, the
design of platforms and services, and community-related business models as
critical success factors in the digital economy.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy (e.g.,
dynamics, relationships, information control, managing communities, flow of
information in communities)
- Community-related business models (e.g., productivity, trust, reputation
systems)
- Business Communities
- Personalization and use of customer profiles
- Case studies and topologies of Online Communities
- M-Communities and hybrid communities
- Design principles for community platforms (e.g., coordination, trust,
normative values, design patterns and methods, implementations,
architectures and components, personalization and avatars)
- Formal or semi-formal models of communities and their platforms (e.g.,
conceptual frameworks, organizational models, cognitive models, multi-agent
systems, formalizations)
More information can be found at: http://www.e-business.fhbb.ch/hicss


MINITRACK CHAIRS:
Karine Barzilai-Nahon (Main Contact)
Assistant Professor
The Information School
University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840
Seattle, WA 98195-2840
(206) 685-6668
karineb at u.washington.edu, website: www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb

Mark Ginsburg
Asst. Professor MIS
U of Arizona 1130 E Helen St. #430
Tucson, AZ 85711
mginsbur at eller.arizona.edu
Blair Nonnecke
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computing and Information Science
University of Guelph
Guelph, Canada
nonnecke at cis.uoguelph.ca


IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Abstracts       - Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and
indication of    appropriate content at anytime.

June 15 - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following
Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All
papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to
10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind
review.
August 15       - Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the
Peer Review    System.

September 15    - Authors submit Final Version of papers following
submission
New Date!       instructions on the Peer Review System web site.  At least
one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to
attend the conference to present the paper.  Early Registration fee $525
applies.
October 2       -  General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10.
December 10     -  Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at
conference rate.
Deadline to receive conference registration refund.
Late registration fee $675 applies.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
. HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor
currently submitted elsewhere.

. Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing and
description of Minitracks for HICSS-39.

. (optional)  Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and
verification of appropriate content.

. Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair.   If unsure
of which Minitrack is   appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for
guidance.
. HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper.
. Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer
Review System website.

HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS
Collaboration Systems and Technology
Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs   bbriggs at GroupSystems;
Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker     nunamaker at cmi.arizona.edu
Decision Technologies for Management
Chair: Dan Dolk   drdolk at nps.edu
Digital Media: Content and Communication
Chair: Michael Shepherd   shepherd at cs.cal.ca
E-Government
Chair: H. Jochen Scholl   jscholl at u.washington.edu

Information Technology in Health Care
Chair: William Chismar  chismar at hawaii.edu
Internet & the Digital Economy
Co-chair: David King    david.king at jda.com; Co-chair: Alan Dennis
ardennis at indiana.edu
Knowledge Management Systems
Co-chair: Murray Jennex   murphjen at aol.com; Dave Croasdell    davec at unr.edu
Organizational Systems & Technology
Chair: Hugh Watson   hwatson at terry.uga.edu
Software Technology
Chair: Gul Agha   agha at cs.uiuc.edu

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and
system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice.
Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in
nature.  Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those
selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
Submissions must not have been previously published.


CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION
Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair
Email:  sprague at hawaii.edu
Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator
Email:  hicss at hawaii.edu
Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator
Email: eidennis at indiana.edu
2006 CONFERENCE VENUE
Hyatt Regency Kauai
1571 Poipu Road
Koloa, Kauai HI 96756
1-808-742-1234
http://Kauai.hyatt.com