[AISWorld] HICSS49 Minitrack | Big, Open, Linked Data (BOLD), Analytics, and Interoperability Infrastructures in eGovernment

[Marijn Janssen - TBM]

CFP: Big, Open, Linked Data (BOLD), Analytics, and Interoperability Infrastructures in Government
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 49, January 5-8, 2016
Kauai, Hawaii, USA http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/

Part of the Electronic Government Track at HICSS-49 http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss49/Welcome.html

Conference Location: Grand Hyatt, Kauai, HI, USA

Conference Dates: January 5 to 8, 2016

Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015 (non-negotiable)

The HICSS e-Government track has been a hotbed for groundbreaking studies and new ideas in this particular research domain. Many studies first presented here were developed further and then turned into publications at top journals. Eleven minitracks cover the full spectrum of research avenues of electronic government including minitracks dedicated to emerging topics, open government, and social media and social networking, or most recently, insider threats.

The public sector is information-rich by nature. The opening of data by public organizations is a recent phenomenon in which public sector information is made available and thus can be combined with other data sources and used by others for a variety of purposes including improving the public sector, business innovation and transparency.
As data can often be generated and provided in huge amounts and through multiple sources, specific needs for processing, curation, linking, visualization result in the need for big data and linked data approaches. Data pipelines are created in which data is in real-time combined for creating new applications and changing user behaviors. Cloud services are now changing the ways of providing and using ICT, based on virtualized resources meeting requirements like security, privacy and scalability. Clouds provide the opportunity to share resources and services. This requires both infrastructure for the opening, processing and visualization of data, organization readiness for making use of these data and innovative ideas. Although there is a huge potential how this should be accomplished and what the impact of public organizations is not understood. All these developments impact the operation of governments, their relationship with the private sector enterprises and the society and there are changes at the technical, organizational, managerial and political level impacting the capabilities needed, the making of policies and traditional institutional structures.
This minitrack is aimed at discussing theories, methodologies, experience reports, literature and case studies in the field of Big, Open and Linked Data in Government. We solicit for papers covering both organizational and technical aspects and combining theory and practice. Papers covering a multitude of aspects are strongly encouraged. Furthermore we promote a diversity of research methods to study the challenges of this multifaceted discipline including best practices, case studies, design approaches, literature reviews and interviews.

Minitrack topics include, but are not limited to:
*             Impact of BOLD on government and society on the technical, organizational and institutional level
*             Organizational strategies and policy for BOLD, esp. privacy and security
*             Changing relationship between government, private organizations and society
*             Methods and technologies leading to enhanced digital public services
*             Big data innovations, applications and other approaches utilizing huge amounts of data
*             Linked data, metadata and semantic approaches
*             Interoperability and architectural standards, principles and frameworks
*             Technical, semantic, organizational, managerial and legal/policy aspects of interoperability
*             System development, implementation and agile approaches for digital public services
*             System, user, data and process-based integration
*             Information and cloud infrastructures, shared services, cloud providers
*             Reuse and data quality and ownership
*             Semantic ontologies, web services and modeling for governmental infrastructures
*             Cloud computing, Software as service (SaaS), ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility
*             Multi-sided platforms, interoperability, information sharing and business models
*             Cross-organizational modeling and visualization ranging from the organizational to technical level
*             Service-oriented architectures, web services, semantic web services, orchestration and composition
*             Citizen-driven and entrepreneurial approaches based on Open Data
*             BOLD adoption and success factors

MINI-TRACK CHAIRS
*             Marijn Janssen
*             Yannis Charalabidis
*             Helmut Krcmar

More info: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss49/BOLD.php

ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES
Now in its 49th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas. Unique characteristics of the conference include:
*       A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies.
*       Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research.
*       A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail.
*       A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US).
*       Papers published in the Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press and carried in the IEEE digital library Xplore. Access to HICSS papers is in the top 2% of IEEE Conferences.
*       Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special issues.
*       A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts.
*       Best Paper Awards in each track which recognize superior research performance.
*       HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar.
Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
*       April 1: paper submission begins.
*       June 15: Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind.
*       Aug 15: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors.
*       Sept 15: submission camera-ready papers.
*       Oct 1: Early Registration fee deadline.
*       Oct 15: Papers without at least one registered author will