-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call For Papers: HICSS 53 - Mini-track on Technology Mediated Collaborations for the Professional Service Sectorations Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 23:14:47 -0400 From: Souren Paul souren.paul@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
Call for Papers:
*Technology Mediated Collaborations for the Professional Service Sector*
*Collaboration Systems and Technologies Track*
*Fifty-third Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (January 7-10, 2020)*
*Mini-track Chairs:*
Souren Paul¶
College of Engineering and Computing
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314
USA
souren.paul@gmail.com
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Swinburne University and
Epworth HealthCare
John St,
Hawthorne, VIC 3122, Australia
nilmini.work@gmail.com
¶ Primary Contact
*Proposed area of the mini-track:*
Today, the professional service sector, including: healthcare, legal services as well as banking and finances, is facing significant challenges and opportunities afforded by the embracement of collaborative technologies. Some areas within this sector are more advanced such as banking and finance while other areas are still slower to fully embrace the full potential of the numerous technologies currently available. For example in banking it has been possible to access and transfer funds electronically anywhere in the world for many decades while in healthcare we still struggle to transfer an electronic medical record from one healthcare organization to another within the same city. However, for all the industries making up the professional service sector it is not just essential but a competitive necessity as we move forward in the 21st Century that they conquer technology and effectively embrace the tools techniques and technologies of the digital age. Further, we believe it is useful to look at developments in the various industries which make up the professional service sector as there is merit to compare and contrast successes, challenges and learnings to enable all areas to best utilize collaborative technologies to their fullest.
In order to achieve successful and superior delivery of services it is necessary to consider people, process and technology issues; i.e. to have a socio-technical perspective. To do this effectively and efficiently and thereby have a higher success it is also necessary to be cognizant of the primary stakeholders including: customers, employers, organizations, administrators, regulators and researchers who form the basis of any partnership. Successful collaborations depends on pertinent information , relevant data and germane knowledge being expeditiously and appropriately shared to the right people at the right time in the right form so that critical and effective decision making can take place. This also requires essential security and privacy to be ensured as well as accuracy and integrity of the content to be assured. The efficacy of the architecture will determine the efficacy of the system, and the efficacy of the system will determine the efficacy of the strategy.
We welcome papers which address the state-of-the-art, state-of-the-need, and the state-of-the-practice of these combinations. Topics include:
- RPA(robotic process automation) and TQM(total quality management) and Six sigma - MDMs(multidimensional meetings) - Block Chain - Big Data and Analytics - 3D printing - Virtual reality (VR), Augmented reality (AR) - Bots - DSS - EMRS (Electronic medical records) - Electronic legal records - Electronic financial records
This mini track has evolved from just focusing on the healthcare sector in previous years where we offered one session in the mini-track on HICSS-43 and two in HICSS-44, 45, and 46, and again one session in HICSS-47 and two sessions in HICSS-48 and one session again in HICSS-49, HICSS-50, HICSS-51 and HICSS-52 to now opening this up to all professional service sector industries such as healthcare, law and banking and finance for HICSS-53. One of the papers in the mini-track in HICSS-44 won the best paper award for the Collaborative Systems and Technologies track. We have defined the scope of the mini-track using the ontological framework and solicit papers from a variety of researchers studying these types of collaborations. Further, selected papers from this mini-track will be published in a special issue of IJNVO (International J Networking and Virtual Organizations) published by InderScience.
If you want to discuss your paper topic we are happy to do so.
*Due Date *
April 20 | 6:00 pm HST: Paper submission begins. June 15 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper submission deadline
Please refer to the web site to ensure your submission meets required format https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org