FYI. /Caroline ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:21:43 -0500 From: Raya Fidel <fidelr@u.washington.edu> Reply-To: rhill@asis.org To: asis-l@asis.org, sigdl-l@asis.org Subject: [Asis-l] FW: CFP - HICSS39 - Virtual Communities Minitrack [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@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 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@GroupSystems; Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker nunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu Decision Technologies for Management Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk@nps.edu Digital Media: Content and Communication Chair: Michael Shepherd shepherd@cs.cal.ca E-Government Chair: H. Jochen Scholl jscholl@u.washington.edu Information Technology in Health Care Chair: William Chismar chismar@hawaii.edu Internet & the Digital Economy Co-chair: David King david.king@jda.com; Co-chair: Alan Dennis ardennis@indiana.edu Knowledge Management Systems Co-chair: Murray Jennex murphjen@aol.com; Dave Croasdell davec@unr.edu Organizational Systems & Technology Chair: Hugh Watson hwatson@terry.uga.edu Software Technology Chair: Gul Agha agha@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@hawaii.edu Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss@hawaii.edu Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis@indiana.edu 2006 CONFERENCE VENUE Hyatt Regency Kauai 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, Kauai HI 96756 1-808-742-1234 http://Kauai.hyatt.com ____ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-l@asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l