[AISWorld] CFP: HICSS Knowledge Flows Minitrack

[Nissen, Mark (CIV)]

This minitrack examines the nature and role of knowledge flows across people, organizations, places and times from technical, managerial, behavioral, organizational, and economic perspectives. As the nature of knowledge flows changes due to digitalization, consumerization of information technology (IT), and the integration of artificial agents into daily routines, it is increasingly important to understand the changes required in how knowledge workers conduct work, share knowledge and information, and learn. Knowledge management (KM) activities in organizations are no longer supported only by traditional information and communications technologies (ICTs; e.g., databases, data warehouses, information repositories, websites, email streams), but are also enabled through new forms of ICTs including artificial intelligence (AI; e.g., agents, bots, learning algorithms), social software or Web 2.0 technologies and Internet of Things (IoT). The ubiquitous and pervasive nature of these new forms of ICTs are creating flexible KM sharing environments that need to be researched more systematically.



This minitrack focuses on examining the nature and role of knowledge flows (e.g., knowledge exchange, transfer and sharing) across people, communities, networks and organizations, as well as across both space and time. Technical, managerial, behavioral, organizational and economic perspectives on knowledge flows will be accepted and presented in this minitrack, and both qualitative and quantitative research methods are welcome. Potential topics that this minitrack will address include:

  *   Technical, managerial, behavioral, organizational and economic challenges and perspectives on knowledge flows
  *   The effects on knowledge flows of the consumerization of IT (CoIT); Internet of things (IoT); social media, social computing, social networks and communities, communities of practice (CoPs); information and computer technologies (ICTs); knowledge reuse; organization and economic incentive structures; artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotics; neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, artificial humans and other computer-based entities
  *   Knowledge system analysis, design, test, evaluation, implementation, maintenance and redesign
  *   Harnessing, analyzing, visualizing and measuring knowledge flows for creativity, innovation, competitive advantage



Manuscripts are due 14 June 2020. They must be submitted through the HICSS website and conform to all length and fomatting requirements. Experience suggests that accepted manuscripts will reflect high quality and originality, but the minitrack also encourages authors to explore new ideas and to gain constructive comments and suggestions through the conference sessions.



Please direct any questions or concerns to the minitrack chairs.



Dr. Mark E Nissen, Naval Postgraduate School, MNissen [at] nps.edu

Dr. Lynne P. Cooper, Washington State University, lynne.cooper at wsu.edu

Dr. Mika Yasuoka, Roskilde University, mikaj [at] ruc.dk