HICSS-39

CALL FOR PAPERS

Thirty-ninth Annual

Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences

January 4 - 7, 2006

Hyatt Regency, Kauai

 

 

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

Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/      and    http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/

 

We invite papers for a Minitrack on Genres of Digital Documents. Document genres are communicative actions with a socially recognized communicative purpose and/or common aspects of form (such as newsletters, FAQs, and homepages). Such genres are situated in complex communicative practices; they are anchored in specific institutions and processes and can be equally applicable to physical as well as electronic documents. Recognizing the genre of a document is useful because it helps build an understanding among communicating parties. Besides enhancing our understanding of information searching and use, studying genres provides insights into organizational or community structures, since each community generates its own set of communicative genres.

 

It is becoming increasingly clear that the use of digital media brings with it the emergence of new or transformed genres of digital communication. In a digital environment, documents have functionality as well as form and content, but in many ways the contextual clues by which functionality can be ascertained may be missing. For this reason, genre provides a certain fixity in communication and becomes increasingly important in providing users a resource for the interpretation of the content, role, and function of a digital document.

 

Suggested topics for the Minitrack include:

 

Minitrack co-chairs:

Barbara Kwaśnik, Professor (please address all correspondence to this address)

4-206 CST

School of Information Studies

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY 13244

Phone: 315 443-2911

Fax: 315 443-5806

bkwasnik@syr.edu

 

Natalia Levina, Assistant Professor

Information, Operations, and Management Sciences Department

Stern School of Business, New York University.

44 W. 4th Street, KMEC 8-78

New York, NY 10012

Phone: 212-998-0850

nlevina@stern.nyu.edu

 

 

Dmitri Roussinov, Assistant Professor

Department of Information Systems
W.P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
Office: BA 267 E
P.O Box 873606
Tempe, AZ, 85287

 Phone: (480) 965-8488
 dmitri.roussinov@asu.edu
 http://www.public.asu.edu/~droussi/

 

 

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Abstracts                                  - Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of    appropriate content at any time.

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

New Date!                                 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.

-    Deadline to receive conference registration refund.

-    Late registration fee $675 applies.



INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.


• Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-39.

• (Optional)  Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content.

Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair.   If unsure of which Minitrack is   appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. 

 

• HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper.

 

• Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer Review System website. 



HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS

Collaboration Systems and Technology
Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs   bbriggs@GroupSystems;

Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker     nunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu

 

Decision Technologies for Management
Chair: Dan Dolk   drdolk@nps.edu

 

Digital Media: Content and Communication
Chair: Michael Shepherd   shepherd@cs.cal.ca                        

 

E-Government
Chair: H. Jochen Scholl   jscholl@u.washington.edu 

                                               

Information Technology in Health Care

Chair: William Chismar  chismar@hawaii.edu

 

Internet & the Digital Economy
Co-chair: David King    david.king@jda.com; Co-chair: Alan Dennis  ardennis@indiana.edu

 

Knowledge Management Systems
Co-chair: Murray Jennex   murphjen@aol.com; Dave Croasdell    davec@unr.edu

 

Organizational Systems & Technology
Chair: Hugh Watson   hwatson@terry.uga.edu

 

Software Technology

Chair: Gul Agha   agha@cs.uiuc.edu


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.

 

 

CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION

Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair                           

Email:  sprague@hawaii.edu

 

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator

Email:  hicss@hawaii.edu

 

Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator

Email: eidennis@indiana.edu

 

2006 CONFERENCE VENUE

Hyatt Regency Kauai

1571 Poipu Road

Koloa, Kauai HI 96756

1-808-742-1234

http://Kauai.hyatt.com