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 about HICSS: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu , More information about the minitrack can be found at: http://www.e-business.fhbb.ch/hicss 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) 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@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@eller.arizona.edu Blair Nonnecke Assistant Professor Dept. of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph Guelph, Canada nonnecke@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, 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. HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACK - Internet & the Digital Economy Co-chair: David King david.king@jda.com; Co-chair: Alan Dennis ardennis@indiana.edu CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague@hawaii.edu <mailto:sprague@hawaii.edu > Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss@hawaii.edu <mailto:hicss@hawaii.edu > Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis@indiana.edu <mailto:eidennis@indiana.edu >