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</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences</span></b></b></p><b>
HICSS-48 2015 Minitrack:<span style> </span>Theory and Information Systems</b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(Organizational Systems and Technology
track)</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br style>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
“Theory and Information Systems” minitrack invites submissions that review,
integrate, or utilize meta-analytic approaches to building cumulative theory.
Submissions which present “local” contextual theory are also welcome. Research
over the last decades has emphasized theory development in IS and other social
and behavioral science disciplines.<span style> </span>The
resulting proliferation of theories and constructs may have redundancies, overlaps,
and span disciplinary boundaries. Theory reviews, meta-analysis, and interrogation
will help produce a cumulative tradition that will benefit the disciplines by
producing meta-theory and frameworks to understand the relationships among theories.<span style> </span>The goal of this minitrack is to provide social
and behavioral sciences research with a better understanding of fundamental IS-relevant
theories, help organize our theories to be accessible to practice, and increase
our understanding of the philosophical commitments represented in their use. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Topics of interest
in this minitrack include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Integration
or synthesis of social and behavioral science theories;</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
theoretical ties and boundary spanning across different disciplines (e.g.
healthcare and IS, and sustainability science and IS, energy informatics), and
the trends in theories; </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Approaches
to theory meta-analysis (meta-review, meta-theorization, meta-statistical
analysis)</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Research
on ontologies, taxonomies, frameworks, and categorizations of constructs and
variables used in information system theories; </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
use of natural language processing, data mining, and predictive analytics to
better understand and interrogate theories;</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>6.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Discussion
of the roles of theories used to explain, approaches used to predict (e.g.
neural nets and big data), and of theories of understanding;</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>7.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Exploration
of the dependencies of constructs and variables; </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style>8.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Exploration
of the boundaries of theory “domains.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This minitrack also
has an associated ISWorld website devoted to theories used in IS research (</span><a href="http://istheory.byu.edu/wiki/Main_Page"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">http://istheory.byu.edu/wiki/Main_Page</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">) —which won the 2005 AISWorldNet
Challenge Award for the best website based on AISWorldNet user voting.<span style> </span>We intend to uphold this high standard and
advance the website further by increasing the synergy between mini-track
outcomes and website content.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For
further conference details, schedules and submission guidelines, please see: <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
</span></span><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">We hope to see you in Hawaii in January 2015!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minitrack
Co-Chairs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dirk S. Hovorka,
Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Associate Professor<span style="color:black"><br>
University of Sydney Business School</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">University
of Sydney<br>
New South Wales, AU </span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><br>
</span></u><a href="mailto:dirk.hovorka@sydney.edu.au"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dirk.Hovorka@sydney.edu.au</span></a><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-AU">Kai R. Larsen. PhD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Associate Professor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Leeds School of
Business </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of
Colorado </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Boulder, Colorado
80309</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="mailto:Kai.Larsen@colorado.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext">Kai.Larsen@colorado.edu</span></a><span class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">About
HICSS – General CfP</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34);background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">The
purpose of HICSS is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research
results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners
in computer-based systems sciences. The conference consists of tutorials,
advanced seminars, presentations of accepted papers, open forum, tasks forces,
and plenary and distinguished guest lectures. There is a high degree of
interaction and discussion among the conference participants because the
conference is conducted in a workshop-like setting.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
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<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">Instructions for submitting papers:</span><br>
<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">1. Submit an electronic copy of the full
paper, 10 pages including title page, abstract, references and diagrams using
the review system available at the HICSS site, make sure that the authors’
names and affiliation information has been removed to ensure an anonymous
review.</span><br>
<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">2. Do not submit the paper to more than
one minitrack. The paper should contain original material and not be previously
published or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.</span><br>
<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">3. Provide the required information to
the review system such as title, full name of all authors, and their complete
addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es).</span><br>
<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">4. The first page of the paper should
include the title and a (max) 300-word abstract.</span><br>
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<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">DEADLINES:</span><br>
<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">• <span class="">May 15</span>:
OPTIONAL: Abstracts submitted to Minitrack Chairs for guidance,
indication of appropriate content and to receive instructions on submitting
full paper.</span><br>
<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">• <span class="">June 15</span>:
Full papers uploaded in the directory of the appropriate minitrack.</span><br>
<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">• <span class="">August 15</span>:
Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors.</span><br>
<span style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">• <span class="">September 15</span>:
Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, uploaded; author(s) must register by
this time.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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