[AISWorld] Call for Papers - Call for Papers - CompleXity: Technology for Complex Urban System Symposium

[Prof. Dr. Dominik P.H. Kalisch]

Dear AIS community and friends,

Together with the MIT Senseable City Lab and Arizona State University, the Shidler College of Business is inviting you to submit a paper and/or presentation to the CompleXity: Technology for Complex Urban System Symposium (http://complexity.urban-systems.net) at the next Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) (http://www.hiss.org) in Kauai, Hawai'i.

Please find below relevant information about the conference. If you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

We also would be happy if you could forward this email to other people that might be interested in the symposium.

Best regards,
Dominik Kalisch

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# CALL FOR PAPERS

## ABOUT
The technological revolution resulted in the broad penetration of digital technologies into the everyday lives of people and the cities are creating big data records of human behavior. More and more big urban data becomes available every day and there is a trend in cities to use the data that is available to improve quality of life, reduce costs, and improve decision objectivity to deliver urban services to people in need. This is especially true for cities like Chicago or New York which start to roll out city-wide sensor data for managing the urban system. Data, analytics, and technology are therefore the keys to make this data not just accessible but to gain meaningful insight into urban systems to understand the city, to create sustainable solutions and innovations, and to improve the quality of a city allowing evidence based decisions.

However, the high complexity of modern urban systems creates a challenge for the data and analytic methods used to study them, calling for new more unified, robust, and efficient approaches. Also, recent advances in network science allow for consideration of interactions between people, companies, and urban infrastructure from the new complex network perspective.

The primary goal of the symposium is to outline important research challenges in the field of complex urban systems, discussing applicable data sources, methodologies and their current limitations. 
We invite papers and presentations on the topics above. Submitted papers should present a novel scientific contribution and will undergo a regular peer-review procedure.

Accepted papers will be published in the “Decision, Negotiation, Leadership, Social Communities and Technology” minitrack proceedings of the HICSS Conference. Outstanding papers will be given the opportunity to be published in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal “Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems”. The goal of this special issue is to present novel methodological and technical approaches, use cases in urban (big) data analysis applications and technology, as well as share the related practical experiences with the readers. This special issue will provide clear proof that (big) data analytics and technologies are playing an ever increasing important and critical role nowadays in urban governing, sustainable and resilient cities, and business intelligence, which is a new cross-discipline research in computer science and business. It is also expected that this special issue will research new best practices and learn from the past experiences in (big) data analytics applications.

## IMPORTANT DATES
- July 15, 2015 - Deadline to submit paper for HICSS mini-track
Final deadline for paper submission to the HICSS mini-track. Papers submitted by that date will be considered for the mini-track.

- September 13, 2015 - Deadline to submit presentation/paper for review
Final deadline for presentation/paper submission to the Symposium. Papers submitted by that date will be considered for publication in the special issue.

- December 13, 2015 - Deadline for revised submission of presentation/papers.
The improvements to papers that have been accepted with mandatory changes have to be finished and the paper has to be resubmitted by now.

For more information please visit the symposiums website at: http://complexity.urban-systems.net





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Dr. Dominik P.H. Kalisch, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology Management
Shidler College of Business
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
2404 Maile Way, E601a
Honolulu, HI  96822

Phone:   (808) 956-7580  |  Fax:  (808) 956-9889
E-Mail: dominik.kalisch at hawaii.edu
Skype: d.kalisch



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