Information systems and decision technologies for sustainable
development
Forty-third Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS-43)
January 5 - 8, 2010 (Tuesday - Friday)
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
http://kauai.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/
According to the final report of the World Commission on the
Environment and Development (also known as the Brundtland report)
[WCED, 1987], sustainable development is defined as "development that
meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs". Subsequent international
efforts such as the Rio de Janeiro conference in 1992, the publication
of Agenda 21 [UNCED, 1993], the Rio+5 special session of the United
Nations (UN) in 1997, and the formation of the World Business Council
for Sustainable Development in 1997 can be credited with raising
environmental concerns to increase public awareness, serving as an
initial focus and impetus for collaboration as well as conflict
between government, industry, and academia. The Johannesburg "Plan of
Implementation," revealed at Earth Summit 2002, affirmed commitment by
the UN to the "full implementation" of Agenda 21. Environmental
management systems standards (EMSS), such as ISO 14001 [ISO, 2002] and
the European Eco-management and Audit System (EMAS) [EMAS, 2006]
attempt to provide a sound practical basis for environmental
management within organizations. The urgency and scope of
environmental problems call for both immediate action and sustainable
long-term strategies.
This mini-track emphasizes the significant research synergies that
exist between information systems and environmental management for
sustainable development from an organizational as well as a technical
perspective. We maintain that collaboration and cross-fertilization
between these domains can be mutually beneficial and may in fact
present unique, timely and socially relevant 'real-world' research
opportunities as well as viable public sources of empirical ecological
information for interdisciplinary research and application.
Accordingly, the mini-track welcomes both research articles and
practitioner reports exploring technical and organizational issues
that pertain to the development, implementation, and deployment of
environmental management information systems (EMIS) and environmental
decision support systems (EDSS) in the context of sustainable
development. Theoretically founded papers that illustrate the
application of information systems and decision technologies
technology in sustainable development are particularly welcomed. . The
mini-track is receptive to all types of research methodologies, with a
particular interest in design science research. Possible topics
include (but not limited to):
· Sustainable development and decision making
· Emerging technologies for environmental decision support
systems (EDSS) development and applications (e.g.,
computational intelligence, service-oriented computing, semantic
web, artificial intelligence, agent-based computing,
human computer interaction and multiple criteria decision making).
· Environmental knowledge acquisition and management
· Environmental management information systems (EMIS)
· EMIS and EDSS design and integration
· Adoption and diffusion of EMIS and decision technologies
· Evaluation and cost/benefit analysis of EMIS and EDSS
· Environmental online communication and collaboration
· Environmental education
· Community building and social software applications
· Applications and case studies of EMIS and EDSS for
sustainable development
Important Dates:
• Paper Submission Deadline – June 15th, 2009
• Notification of Acceptance - August 15th, 2009
• Camera Ready Copy Due- September 15, 2009
• Papers without at least one registered author will be pulled from
the publication process; authors will be
notified October 2nd 2009
Mini-track co-chairs:
Omar El-Gayar
College of Business and Information Systems
Dakota State University,
820 N. Washington Avenue, Madison, SD 57042
Email: Omar.El-Gayar@dsu.edu
TEL (605) 256-5799
FAX (605) 256-5060
Arno Scharl
Department of New Media Technology
MODUL University Vienna
Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria
Email scharl@ecoresearch.net
PingSun Leung
Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering
University of Hawaii at Manoa
3050 Maile Way, Gilmore 111
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Email: psleung@hawaii.edu
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Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor * Computer Science Department * CW 308.22
University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
dhh@cs.uregina.ca * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting
tel: (306) 585-5210 * fax: (306) 585-4745 * cell: (306) 596-6312
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