Preface

The Forty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-46) was held at Grand Wailea Hotel Resort and Spa on Maui, January 7-10, 2013. This year´s proceedings consist of approximately 500 papers in ten major tracks. The topics are summarized on the Overview page showing the tracks and minitracks. Increasingly, Symposia, Workshops, and Tutorials on the first day are a particularly exciting feature of the conference. Again, these special sessions created active discussions, continuing throughout the week of the conference, with many interesting presentations from academic, government, and corporate researchers. Some of the symposia leaders developed separate published reports of their sessions that are posted on the HICSS web site. These HICSS-46 Proceedings consist only of papers that have not previously been published. They have undergone a detailed peer review process and were selected based on rigorous standards. At the conference, these papers were presented by the authors and discussed in highly interactive sessions. HICSS provides a unique forum for the interchange of ideas, including advances and applications among academicians and practitioners in the information, computing, and system sciences. This year we had approximately 900 registrations from over 30 countries around the world. The papers in each minitrack are arranged alphabetically by title, but may have been presented in a different order at the conference.