[Air-l] CFP- HICSS-40 VIrtual Communities

[Karine Barzilai-Nahon]

Sorry for cross-posting

CALL FOR PAPERS for the Virtual Communities minitrack
Forty Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS-40)
January 3-6, 2007
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island

Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu 

Virtual Communities have been studied from a variety of different
perspectives and disciplines. Examples range from political communities,
communities of interest, communities of relationship, and gaming
communities to communities of transactions. Community building and
community management can be a key success factors in the digital economy
and society. They can either supplement existing or even represent new
business models in the digital economy. The communities we target may be
constituted as Internet shops, portal sites, educational, groupware
systems, electronic auctions, billboards, peer-to-peer file sharing
infrastructures, enterprises or organizations, social communities and
more. 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, relationships and
transactions. 

We call for papers that address communities as a social and business
phenomenon. 
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
-  Social, political and economic impact of Virtual Communities
-  Communities as a sociological phenomenon in the digital economy 
-  Sense of community
-  Community-related business models, services and best practices and
lessons learned
-  Management and organizational behavior of communities
-  Transaction-oriented Virtual Communities, Customer collaboration
-  Peer-to-Peer or mobile services for Virtual Communities
-  Personalization and use of customer profiles
-  Recommendation systems
-  Case studies and topologies of Online Communities
-  Design principles for community platforms
-  Formal or semi-formal models of communities and their platforms:
Conceptual frameworks, Organizational models, Cognitive models,
Multi-agent systems, Formalizations 

MINITRACK CHAIR:

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


IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Abstract 	Authors may contact Minitrack Chair 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).
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 to the Peer
Review System web site.  


The Virtual Community minitrack is part of the Internet & the Digital
Economy Track
Co-chaired by David King (david.king at jda.com) and Alan Dennis
(ardennis at indiana.edu)
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Karine Barzilai-Nahon
Assistant Professor
The Information School
University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840
Seattle, WA 98195-2840
(206) 685-6668, http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb