[Air-l] CFP - HICSS39 - Virtual Communities Minitrack

[Karine Barzilai-Nahon]

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 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, 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 at jda.com; Co-chair: Alan Dennis
ardennis at indiana.edu

CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION
Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair                            
Email:  sprague at hawaii.edu <mailto:sprague at hawaii.edu >  

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator
Email:  hicss at hawaii.edu <mailto:hicss at hawaii.edu > 

Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator
Email: eidennis at indiana.edu <mailto:eidennis at indiana.edu >