Introduction to the collaboration systems and technology track

The Collaboration Systems and Technology Track seeks to advance research on information systems and technology support for interaction among groups of people in organizations. The papers in this track cut across many application domains ?? industry, academia, military, and government. The papers span the range of scientific enquiry, from the most theoretical to the most applied. The authors take a variety of epistemological perspectives - logical positivist, interpretivist, criticalist, and engineering approaches all appear in this year´s track. This track began a number of years ago with the increased interest in both Group Support Systems and Negotiation Support Systems minitracks. Out of this interest, the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track emerged. It consists of minitracks in twelve areas.