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<span class="plain0020textchar"><b>CFP HICSS minitrack <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Collective Intelligence and Crowds: Structure, Roles, and Identity</b></span></div>
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Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48, January 5-8, 2015, Kauai, Hawaii <a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/"><span style="color: rgb(3, 55, 161); ">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/</span></a><span class="plain0020textchar"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b>Papers Due: June 15, 2014 </b>via the HICSS conference system <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(3, 55, 161); "><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm">http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">We live surrounded by socially constructed identities. Some examples are organizations, nations, websites, companies, products and even persons. These identities are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions,
a kind of distributed cognition. Communication requires not only a representation in an individual’s mind but also the knowledge that there is a similar representation in the minds of others. Platforms built on top of the Internet have changed the way we can
create such shared representations. They allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people – and maybe machines in the form of artificial intelligences – to negotiate identities. We can build collective
intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. The</span><span lang="FI"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational
structures, in which already committed members of a community are deployed to create or improve ideas. And the traces of these new organizations are also varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. The output
often takes the form of digital media.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are interested in papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these organization structures and the innovations they produce, papers that simulate this production through software, papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing,
collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production, and design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are particularly open to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviours, models that consider the multiple
connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions. We are interested
in applying the ideas of James March, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to information systems. We are looking for papers about the mechanisms (in the sense of Bhaskar) that explain the emergence of collective identity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In sum, the content of the track is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure, and in particular
the social construction of identity and roles.. Thus the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these relations.</p>
<div>In this minitrack, we are aiming to attract an audience from five groups: first, those interested in collective intelligence and crowdsourcing and who find a home in information systems departments; second, those in information schools who study these
topics; third, computer scientists who are interested in the analysis of network and crowd processes, fourth, those who use social networks to describe social structure and fifth, industry practitioners.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><b>Donald Steiny, </b>The Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy; <a href="mailto:steiny@steiny.com">steiny@steiny.com</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><b><span lang="EN-GB">Pnina Fichman</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington; <a href="mailto:fichman@indiana.edu">fichman@indiana.edu</a></span></p>
<div><b style="text-align: justify; ">Jeffrey V. <span lang="EN-GB">Nickerson, </span></b><span style="text-align: justify; ">Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology; <a href="mailto:jnickerson@stevens.edu">jnickerson@stevens.edu</a></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b>About HICSS conferences:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Now in its 48th 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:</p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>A matrix structure of tracks and themes that enables research on a rich mixture of computer-based applications and technologies.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Three days of research paper presentations and discussions in a workshop setting that promotes interaction leading to additional research.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>A full day of Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials. See Program Components for additional detail.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>A truly international experience with participants usually from over 40 countries, (approximately 50% non-US).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>Paper presentations and discussions which frequently lead to revised and extended papers that are published in journals, books, and special
issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>A keynote address and distinguished lecture which explore particularly relevant topics and concepts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/bestpapers2014.htm">Best Paper Awards</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in each
track which recognize superior research performance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span>HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar.<o:p></o:p></p>
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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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b>Important deadlines for authors:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><b>June 15:</b> Submit full manuscripts for review. Review is double-blind.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><b>Aug 15</b>: Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><b>Oct 1</b>: Early Registration fee deadline. (Fees will increase<br>
on Sept 16 and Dec 1.) <b>Early Registration fee: $625</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><b>Oct 2:</b> General Registration Fee begins: $695 (Registration price remains through December 1, 2014)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><b>Oct 15</b>: Papers without at least one registered author will<br>
be deleted from the Proceedings; authors will be so notified.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; ">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span><b>Dec 2:</b> Late Registration fee beings: $795 (Registration price remains through conference)<o:p></o:p></p>
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Director, Master of Library Science<br>
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