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Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (January 5-8, 2015)</font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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Bryan School of Business and Economics<br></font><font color="#000000">
The University of North Carolina Greensboro<br></font><font color="#000000">
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Graduate School of Computer & Information Sciences<br></font><font color="#000000">
Nova Southeastern University<br></font><font color="#000000">
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</font><p style="margin:1em 0px"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">The amount of structured and unstructured
data has been exploding in recent years leading to the concept of Big Data. </font><span><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">Analytics based on Big Data has the potential
for organizations to gain and sustain competitive advantage. </font><span><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">Companies are looking for ways to outrun their
competitors through innovation in analytics which lead to deeper understanding
of customer needs. </font><span><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">However, while there
has been significant interest in looking for ways to enhance competitiveness,
there is new interest in examining how big data can help companies collaborate
both internally and externally. </font><span><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">For
example, in marketing, companies are not just looking at how big data analytics
can help acquire, grow and retain customers but also at how it can enhance
collaboration with customers and partners. </font><span><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">Another emerging area is collaborative
generation and use of big-data through crowdsourcing and open source data sets.
</font><span><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">Managing, processing and use of these
data sets pose new challenges which make it a fertile area for research. </font><span><font size="3"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:1em 0px"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">Topics of interest include, but not limited
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</font><ul style="list-style-type:disc;direction:ltr"><li style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Challenges for
collaboration in Big Data</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Benefits of
Collaboration and Big Data</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Storage and
management of Collaborative Big Data </span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Crowdsourcing of
the Big Data tasks</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Security and
privacy in Collaborative Big Data</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Applications of
Collaborative Big Data</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Use of Big data for
internal collaboration</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">External
Collaboration through use of Big Data</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Case studies on Big
Data and Collaboration</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Adaptive
collaboration systems that feature modeling, collaboration, and advanced
analytics to detect patterns, make sense, simulate, predict, learn, take
action, and improve performance with use and scale.</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Application of
control-theoretic models to interactions among social entities</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Application of
survival models to predict hazard rate of computer supported social processes</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal">
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Application of
N-person game theory in problems arising from unregulated use of collaboration
systems</span></p></li><li style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em">
<span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Application of
social network analysis (SNA) on big data in collaboration systems</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Full paper submissions must be made electronically
through the HICSS on-line submission system.</font><span><font color="#000000">
</font></span><font color="#000000">Papers should not exceed ten pages and the initial submission will not
have author names. Please check the web site (</font></span><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm" target="_blank"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#0000ff">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm</font></span></a><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">)
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2014</font></span></p>
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