Track Chairs

Christopher Yang, Drexel University, USA (chris.yang@ischool.drexel.edu)
Michael Chau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (mchau@business.hku.hk)
Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore (eplim@smu.edu.sg)

Track Description

The success of Web 2.0, often attributed to the strong user presence and user-to-user interaction, has recently spurred much interest in social network research traditionally studied by social scientists. For information systems to succeed in the Web 2.0 age, they should be designed to nurture user generated content and social relationships among users. The knowledge gained from this additional information can potentially lead to the development of novel services that are better tailored to users' needs and at the same time meet the objectives of businesses offering them.

New designs and technologies, such as data and text mining algorithms, the semantic web, machine learning, visualization, knowledge management and virtual world systems, also play an important role in the understanding, analysis, and application of these user contents and networks. In this track, we invite original research papers that investigate the theories and practices addressing the relationships between information systems and these new Web applications, and the challenges involved in building the next-generation social network enabled and enabling information systems. We welcome both complete and research-in-progress papers that have theoretical, empirical, design, methodological, and practical implications for such kinds/types of systems.

Associate Editors

• Bob Allen, Drexel University, USA
• Patrick Fan, Virginia Tech, USA
• Xiao Fang, University of Toledo, USA
• Susan Gasson, Drexel University, USA
• Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Robert Hanneman, University of California - Riverside, USA
• Remko Helms, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Zan Huang, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Dan Kim, University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
• Nanda Kumar, City University of New York, USA
• Xia Lin, Drexel University, USA
• Hongyan Liu, Tsinghua University, China
• Dorbin Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Balaji Padmanabhan, University of South Florida, USA
• Gautam Pant, University of Utah, USA
• Dmitri Roussinov, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
• Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
• Bernard Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Jun Wang, Peking University, China
• Susan Wiedenbeck, Drexel University, USA
• Dongsong Zhang, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, USA