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CALL FOR PAPERS
Forty-Sixth Annual Hawai'i
International
Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-46)
January 7 - 10, 2013
(Monday-Thursday)
Grand Walea on Maui (http://www.grandwailea.com)
Track: Knowledge Systems
Minitrack: Designing and Deploying
Next
Generation Knowledge Systems and Knowledge-Intensive Business
Processes
The objective of this minitrack is
to
contribute to the body of knowledge that helps academics and
practitioners
to
* design, deploy, and evaluate next
generation knowledge systems,
* explore and leverage appropriate
project
management methods and tools for designing and deploying knowledge
systems,
and
* study changing organizational
knowledge
processes and structures.
Work systems and the knowledge
systems
enabling them need to be aligned with emerging technologies to
ensure organizational
acceptance and to support effective organizational value creation.
Traditional,
often monolithic knowledge system architectures need to be
redesigned due
to technological progress manifested by, for example, social
media, social
networking sites, mashups, semantic technologies, and ubiquitous
information
and communication technologies. In our view, these redesigns lead
to a
new class of knowledge systems that we call "Next Generation
Knowledge
Systems." Furthermore, project management involved in the design
and
deployment of knowledge systems differs from the project
management involved
in traditional information systems projects. Examples abound in
the literature
about knowledge systems deployment efforts that failed because (1)
the
business cultures did not encourage and reinforce knowledge
sharing and
(2) the necessary organizational change could not be implemented.
Such
failures could often have been avoided if (1) more balanced
efforts between
the design and deployment of knowledge systems had been
implemented and
(2) the design and deployment efforts had been managed through
coordinated
design and deployment projects. Deployment projects have a crucial
role
in implementing organizational and social changes. Yet, deployment
is often
considered only as a phase in larger design-driven projects.
Eventually,
more and more workplaces are being taken over by young,
computer-savvy
employees who see technology as an integral part of their life.
These so-called
"Digital Natives" change the way in which knowledge management
and collaboration within and across organizations take place. They
follow
the "instant-on" mentality to adapt and use modern communication
tools such as Facebook and Twitter, which were originally not
designed
for the workplace, and mobile phones in innovative ways wherever
they are
during on- and off-work hours. Thus, digital natives draw upon and
contribute
to organizational and societal change processes by adapting and
deploying
next generation knowledge systems in organizational knowledge
processes
and structures.
Researchers and practitioners
interested
in submitting papers to this minitrack are encouraged to explore
(1) the
design, evaluation and deployment of next generation knowledge
systems
that integrate emerging technologies like social media, mashups,
ubiquitous
IT; (2) project management methods and tools involved in the
design and
deployment of such knowledge systems; and/or (3) changing
organizational
knowledge processes and structures due to the use of these
technologies.
We welcome an integrative view spanning the entire life-cycle of
knowledge
systems – from knowledge systems design through deployment to
retirement..
Topics and research areas include,
but
are not limited to:
* Methodologies, tools, processes,
and
technologies for developing knowledge systems
* Management of design and
deployment
projects of knowledge systems
* Empirical studies of designing
and
using knowledge systems
* Systems design for social
knowledge
creation and use (e.g. social media system architectures)
* Incorporating and/or integrating
knowledge
services and mashups, social media, Web 2.0, cloud computing,
and/or ubiquitous
technologies in knowledge systems
* The design, evaluation, and/or
use
of processes, semantic technologies, knowledge retrieval and
representation
methods, and/or systems to map, track, and/or visualize social
networks
and/or work systems in order to facilitate knowledge creation and
sharing
and quick problem solving (e.g., when unexpected coordination
breakdowns
emerge)
* Co-design of organizational work
systems
and knowledge systems
* Design processes and
representations
for designing work systems and knowledge systems
* The role of organizational
digital
natives in the design and use of knowledge systems
* Design science and design theory
research
in knowledge systems design and deployment
* Kernel (reference) theories for
knowledge
systems design and deployment (e.g., theories for individual,
team, and
organizational learning)
* Knowledge management processes
and
business process lifecycle
* Frameworks and strategies for
knowledge
management and business process management integration at the
business
and technical levels
* Knowledge processes and their
impact
on business process management technology implementation success
* Knowledge management issues
created
by organizational implementations of business process management
technologies
(ERP, workflow and SOA-based systems)
* Knowledge management issues in
complex
inter-organizational business processes
* Knowledge-intensive process
adoption
in creative and agile business processes
* Business process design and
improvement
as a set of coordinated collaborative knowledge management
processes
* Knowledge process modeling and
management
Co-chairs:
Timo Käkölä
Department of Computer Science and
Information
Systems
University of Jyväskylä
40014, FINLAND
Email: timokk<at>jyu.fi
WWW: http://users.jyu.fi/~timokk/
Stefan Smolnik
Institute of Research on
Information
Systems (IRIS)
EBS Business School
Konrad-Adenauer-Ring 15, 65187
Wiesbaden,
Germany
Phone: +49 611 7102 2177
Fax: +49 611 7102 102177
Email:
stefan.smolnik<at>ebs.edu
WWW: http://www.ebs.edu/iris
HICSS conferences are devoted to
the
most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system
sciences,
and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted
papers
may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.
Those
selected for presentation will be included in the Conference
Proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE
Digital
Library.
Important 2012 Deadlines for
Authors:
* From now to June 1 [Optional]:
Prepare
Abstracts. Then, contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and
indication of
appropriate content.
* June 15: Submit full manuscripts
for
review as instructed (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/HICSS46AuthorInstructions.htm).
The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission
must be
without author names.
* Aug 15: Review System emails
Acceptance
Notices to authors. It is very important that at least one author
of each
accepted paper attend the conference. Therefore, all travel
guarantees
– including visa or your organization's fiscal funding
procedures – should
begin immediately. Make sure your server accepts the review system
address
https://precisionconference.com/~hicss.
* Sept 15: SUBMIT FINAL PAPER. Add
author
names to your paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication
to the
site provided in your Acceptance Notice. (This URL is not public
knowledge.)
* Oct 1: Early Registration fee
deadline.
At least one author of each paper should register by this date in
order
secure publication in the Proceedings. Fees will increase on Oct 2
and
Dec 2.
* Oct 15: Papers without at least
one
paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings
and
not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the
Conference
Office.
How to Submit a Paper:
Follow Author Instructions to be
posted
by February 1, 2012, on the conference web site (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm).
* HICSS papers must contain
original
material. They may not have been previously published, nor
currently submitted
elsewhere. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review
process.
* Abstracts are optional, but
strongly
recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance
or verification
of content.
* Submit a paper to only one
Minitrack.
If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack, then either
paper may
be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author
or other
chairs. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit
an abstract
to the Track Chair(s) – see names and contact information at http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/46contact.htm
for determination, and/or seek informal opinion(s) of Minitrack
Chair(s)
before submitting.
* Do not author or co-author more
than
5 papers. This means that an individual may be listed as author or
co-author
on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any
names
added after submission or acceptance on August 15.
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HICSS
primary website: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
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