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Dear Colleagues:
After successful sessions last four years, we are continuing our
mini track on Emerging Issues in Distributed Group
Decision-Making: Opportunities and Challenges at the HICSS
Conference. We invite you to submit your paper to our minitrack .
A call for papers is attached.
http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbagga/hicss_53.htm
Regards,
Anil Aggarwal
University of Baltimore
USA
Doug Vogel
Harbin Institute of technology
PRC
Yuko SJ Murayama
Tsuda College
Japan
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR the Mini-track
Emerging Issues in e-collaboration Distributed Group
Decision-Making: Opportunities and Challenges
<http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbagga/hicss_53.htm>
(Part of the Collaboration Systems and Technology track )
HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES
(HICSS-53
<http://www.hicss.org/>)
January 7-10, 2020
Grand Wailea Resorts
Maui
Given the current turbulent state of world economy, outsourcing is
coming under tremendous pressure. Companies are no longer
providing long-term contracts but are renewing them based on
deliverables from outsourced companies. This is putting tremendous
pressure on teams to deliver quality product on time. Team
adaptability and team configuration are becoming crucial to meet
deadlines. Teams must be able to adapt quickly to the changing
environment. Agile teams adapt and deliver quickly and provide
maximum customer satisfaction. By definition, however, agile teams
must be co-located. Can distributed teams be agile and adaptable?
This requires careful team configuration.
Distributed teams face many challenges of time, location,
infrastructure, language, customs, socialization and politics.
This is further compounded in globally distributed teams by
diversity, nationality and cultural issues. As old issue are
resolved, new challenges emerge that require knowledge from
multiple disciplines such as information systems, social sciences,
international management, leadership and political science. It is
almost impossible for one individual to have expertise in so many
domains, which makes this a very challenging but ultimately
rewarding collaborative area of research. Given the richness and
research potential of this area, it is essential to brainstorm and
bring diverse points of view to develop underlying theory and
frameworks. The mini track will attempt to accomplish these
objectives.
The mini track will address emerging issue such as diversity,
culture, adaptability and agility related to teams in distributed
group decision making, as well as the underlying theories of group
dynamics, coordination, communications and decision-making in
distributed environments, in creation of competitive advantage.
Examples of topics in the discussion of globally distributed
decision making mini-track will include the following (but are not
limited to):
· eCollaboration in distributed teams
· Fake news impact on ecollaboration
· Swift team collaboration
· Sub groups impact on eCollaboration
· Big data collaboration
· E-government(s) inter- , intra-collaboration
· Collaboration through crowdsourcing
· Disaster management in distributed teams
· Delivering health services through collaboration
· Economics of distributed decision making in the clouds
· Trust and distrust as motivator in distributed decision making
· Can agile teams be globally distributed?
· Agile/Adaptable team configuration in globally distributed teams
· The e (internet) to m (mobile) transformation of globally
distributed teams
· Communication and coordination in globally distributed teams
· Diversity issues in globally distributed teams
· Customer satisfaction, performance and trust building in
globally distributed teams
· Synchronous and asynchronous decision making in globally
distributed teams
· Comparison of issues across internal, inter-, intra and offshore
distributed teams
· Turbulent economy and its impact on outsourcing
· Models of globally distributed agile/adaptable teams
· Knowledge creation, transfer and integration across globally
distributed teams
· Leadership/cohesiveness issues in globally distributed teams
· Issues related to functional and dysfunctional globally
distributed teams
· Security, privacy and risk associated with globally distributed
teams
· Case Studies (success/failures) related to decision making by
globally distributed teams
Contact Information for Mini-Track Chair:
Dr. A. K. Aggarwal**
University of Baltimore, USA
410-8375275
aaggarwal@ubalt.edu<mailto:aaggarwal@ubalt.edu>
Dr. Doug Vogel
Harbin Institute of technology
PRC
isdoug@hit.edu.cn<mailto:isdoug@hit.edu.cn>
Dr. Yuko SJ Murayama
Tsuda College
Japan
murayama@tsuda.ac.jp<mailto:murayama@tsuda.ac.jp>
Important Deadlines:
* April 15 Paper submission site launched.
* June 15 Submit full manuscripts for review as instructed. The
review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be
without author names.
* Aug 17 Review System emails Acceptance/Rejection 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 fiscal/ funding procedures should
begin immediately.
* Sept 22 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.
Instructions for Paper Submission:
* HICSS papers must contain original material not previously
published, or currently submitted elsewhere.
* Do not submit the manuscript to more than one mini-track. If
unsure which mini-track is appropriate, submit the abstract to the
Track Chair for guidance.
* Submit your full paper according to the detailed formatting and
submission instructions found on the HICSS website. Note: All
papers will be submitted in double column publication format and
limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. HICSS will
conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper.
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.
For the latest information visit the HICSS web site at:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/
CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION:
Tung Bui, Conference Chair
Email:
tungb@hawaii.edu<mailto:tungb@hawaii.edu>
Thayanan Phuaphanthong, Conference Administrator
Email:
hicss@hawaii.edu<mailto:hicss@hawaii.edu>
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