[AISWorld] CFP - Web Science: A New Paradigm in IS-Research (minitrack at AMCIS 2010)

[Johannes Putzke]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
"Web Science - A New Paradigm in IS-Research"

Minitrack at
17th Americas Conference on Information Systems
(AMCIS 2010)
August 12-15, 2010, Lima, Peru

http://www.amcis2010.org

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Web Science is a new, interdisciplinary scientific paradigm (or even discipline) that seeks to understand the Web in its whole with a focus on technical and social challenges. The AMCIS 2010 minitrack on Web Science welcomes in particular submissions (1) examining social aspects of the Web, (2) using Web data for forecasting or other purposes, and (3) proposing architectural principles of a Web infrastructure for social software.

The term Web Science was coined by Berners-Lee and colleagues (2006) in a short Science article. Since than many researchers adopted the paradigm, organized specialized Web Science conferences and developed the paradigm further (e.g. Hendler et al. 2008). In this minitrack, we intend to foster the interdisciplinary discourse between scholars developing the Web and scholars examining the increasing amount of networked data in a variety of disciplines such as Information Systems, Computer science, Sociology, Physics, Management Science, Economics, Anthropology and Communication Studies. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Social Network Analysis 
* Semantic Network Analysis
* Web mining for purposes of (collective) trend prediction / collective intelligence / prediction markets / link prediction / agenda setting 
* Social media (e.g. blogs, media sharing sites, opinion aggregators, Massively Multiplayer Online Games, social bookmarking sites and folksonomies, social networking platforms (like Facebook, Habbo Hotel, LinkedIn), and Wikis)
* Diffusion processes (e.g. eWOM, viral marketing, identifying influentials)
* Decision Support Systems using the Web
* Theoretical properties of social machines in the Web
* Algorithms for creating social machines in the Web and analyzing social networks
* Architectural principles of a Web infrastructure for social software
* Cultural differences and social mechanisms on the Web
* Applications of the Web including e-government, e-health, e-science and other emerging areas
* Collaborative innovation networks (COINS) / virtual communication and collaboration
* Random graphs, modeling and simulation, or other approaches to empirical network analysis
* Trust, privacy, risk, transparency and security
* Promoting the paradigm of Web Science (e.g. curricular and epistemological underpinnings)

The minitrack is interdisciplinary in nature. We invite contributions from a broad spectrum including information systems, computer science, economics, management, sociology, psychology, biology, and physics in order to take full advantage of methodological broadness. We also invite practitioners that will enrich the discussions through their experiences with developing the Web.

Papers will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind system and will be considered for Best Paper Awards. In 2010, a Best Paper Award for a practitioner-oriented paper will be selected with input from CIOs.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Opens		: January 4, 2010
Papers Due                    	: March 1, 2010
Notification of Acceptance    	: April 12, 2010
Camera Ready Copy Due         	: April 26, 2010


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

Please submit final papers via Manuscript Central(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2010). (For more details see http://amcis2010.org/). Please note that this minitrack is part of the "Ecommerce and Ebusiness" track (SIGeBiz).


MINITRACK CHAIRS
Kai Fischbach*, Peter A. Gloor (MIT Sloan School of Management), James A. Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Johannes Putzke*, Detlef Schoder*

*primary contacts
Department of Information Systems and Information Management
University of Cologne
Pohligstr. 1, 50969 Köln, Germany
Phone: +49 221 470-5394
Email: {fischbach|putzke|schoder} (at) wim.uni-koeln.de


PETER A. GLOOR is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. Until the end of 2002, Peter was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading its E-Business practice for Europe. Before that, he was a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Section Leader for Software Engineering at Union Bank of Switzerland. Peter's research focuses on social network analysis. His most prominent publications about social network analysis include the two books "Swarm Creativity - Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks", and "Coolhunting - Chasing Down The Next Big Thing", as well as three articles published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Management Science, and MIT Sloan Management Review.

JAMES A. (JIM) HENDLER is the Tetherless World Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, and the Assistant Dean for Information Technology, at Rensselaer. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Experimental Multimedia Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), serves as a Director of the Web Science Trust, and is a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technology at DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK. One of the inventors of the "Semantic Web," Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, a recipient of the AAAI Robert Engelmore Memorial Prize, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the British Computer Society and the IEEE. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. He serves as a Director or Advisory Board member for six Semantic Web companies, is the Editor-in-Chief emeritus of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.

DETLEF SCHODER is a Professor of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is the author of a large number of reviewed publications in leading international outlets. His teaching, research, and project management focus on the economics and management of IT in organizations including electronic commerce/electronic business, social software, and social network analysis. In the mid 90's, he designed one of Europe's largest empirical studies on Web-based electronic commerce. He was appointed reviewer for electronic commerce to the German Parliament. He consults the European Commission on research projects conducted under Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. Detlef Schoder holds the patent for "An individualized, printed newspaper", WO03052648. Recently he won the prestigious innovation award of the German 'Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI)'. 

KAI FISCHBACH and JOHANNES PUTZKE are Research Associates with the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne, Germany. Kai successfully chaired three minitracks at AMCIS 2005, 2006 and 2007 on peer-to-peer. Both chaired the "Social Network Analysis in IS Research" minitracks at AMCIS 2008 and AMCIS 2009.