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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Call For Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>E-Government Cloud Services and Interoperability at HICSS46<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#333333'>Within the 46th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), we organise a minitrack on Cloud Services and Interoperability in the Public Sector. The 46th HICSS, one of the most prominent Conferences on Information Sciences worldwide, will be held on January 7-10, 2013, in Maui, Hawaii (</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu</a>)</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#333333'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>BACKGROUND </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Public organizations are joining-up and collaborating with each other and with the public. All these efforts require vertical and horizontal interoperability and need to be supported by the next generation of digital government infrastructures. By overcoming the fragmentation, public organizations can exchange information and benefit from each other facilities. The creation of an interoperable government faces challenges at the technical, organizational, managerial and strategic level.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Interoperability</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> is the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together and covers a mixture of technical and organizational aspects. Infrastructures are generic facilities facilitating organizational collaborating, service provisioning and business processes. Cloud services are a new way of providing and using ICT based on virtualized resources meeting security, privacy and scalability requirements. Clouds provide the opportunity to share resources and provide shared services over the Internet, so that administrations, enterprises and citizens can benefit from open data and shared services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>This minitrack is aimed at discussing theories, methodologies, experience reports, literature and case studies in the field of cloud services and interoperability. We solicit for papers covering technical and organizational aspects and combining theory and practice. Papers in the field of government cloud, integration, agile development, information exchange, enterprise architecture, cloud computing, ICT-(shared) services and Software as a Service (SaaS) are strongly encouraged. We promote a diversity of research methods to study the challenges of this multifaceted discipline focusing on various aspects of interoperability and also theoretical papers and papers from developing countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>POSSIBLE TOPICS</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>System development, implementation and agility for digital public services</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>System, user data- and process-based integration <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Information infrastructures, cloud infrastructures, reuse and quality in digital public services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Semantic ontologies, web services and modeling for governmental infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Software as service (SaaS), utility computing, shared services, cloud providers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Cross-organizational modeling and visualization ranging from the organizational to technical level<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Infrastructure, interoperability and enterprise architecture planning, alignment, strategies and governance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Interoperability and architecture standards, principles and frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Technical, semantic, organizational, managerial and legal/policy aspects of interoperability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Organizational and/or policy perspectives on the dynamics of the infrastructure and interoperability process and barriers to interoperability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Service-oriented architectures, web services, semantic web services, orchestration and composition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies leading to enhanced digital public services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Best practices and case studies and longitudinal studies <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.4pt;text-indent:-14.4pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Theoretical contributions and contributions from developing countries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>MINITRACK CHAIRS<br>Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, </span><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:m.f.w.h.a.janssen@tudelft.nl"><span lang=EN-US>m.f.w.h.a.janssen@tudelft.nl</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> (primary contact)</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece, <a href="mailto:yannisx@aegean.gr">yannisx@aegean.gr</a></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Helmur Krcmar, Technische Universität München, Germany, </span><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:Krcmar@in.tum.de"><span lang=EN-US>Krcmar@in.tum.de</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>IMPORTANT DATES</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>June 15 Submission full manuscripts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Aug 15 Acceptance Notifications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Sept 15 Submission camera-ready paper<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Oct 1 Early Registration fee deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>More info: <a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu</a></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dr. Yannis Charalabidis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>---------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Assistant Professor, Governance Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Information Systems Lab, ICS Department, University of Aegean <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>email: <a href="mailto:yannisx@aegean.gr"><span style='color:blue'>yannisx@aegean.gr</span></a> web: <a href="http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/is-lab"><span style='color:blue'>www.icsd.aegean.gr/is-lab</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Chief Research Scientist, eGovernment & eBusiness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Decision Support Systems Lab, National Technical University of Athens<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>email: <a href="mailto:yannisx@epu.ntua.gr"><span style='color:blue'>yannisx@epu.ntua.gr</span></a> web: <a href="http://www.epu.ntua.gr/"><span style='color:blue'>www.epu.ntua.gr</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Twitter: http://<a href="http://www.twitter.com/yannisc"><span style='color:blue'>www.twitter.com/yannisc</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Linkedin: http://<a href="http://www.charalabidis.gr/"><span style='color:blue'>www.charalabidis.gr</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Blog: <a href="http://t-government.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:blue'>http://t-government.blogspot.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Tel: +30-210-7723555, Mob: +30-6974-142112<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>---------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>