MONDAY JAN 6, 2003
   
                                                    (4) FULL DAY TUTORIALS
   
                                                                 9AM - 4PM  

(1) Enterprise Application Integration Architectures : Architecture Design Best Practices,           Return to Tutorial Schedule  
     
EAI Product Insights
      Anna Liu and Ian Gorton


We will highlight some of the major problems and issues in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technology selection and deployment. This is an advanced seminar that will also provide a taxonomy of the different types of EAI solutions, including those based on proprietary, MOM, COM+ and J2EE based technologies.

We will show how the selection of the different types of EAI solutions will implicitly lead to integration solution taking shape very differently in terms of architectural qualities and trade-offs. The choice of an EAI solution has a Dramatic effect on the performance, scalability and cost of the deployed solution. This session will demonstrate the effects of these trade-offs by presenting some of the latest results from CSIRO's Middleware Technology Evaluation (MTE) project, which is providing independent, rigorous evaluations of the spectrum of middleware technology, and in particular, EAI technologies.

Anna Liu is a R&D Leader at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, in the area of Software Architecture and Component Technologies. At CSIRO, she heads up the Middleware Technology Evaluation project, and leads various architecture review and design consultant projects for various industries. She also holds a senior lecturing position at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a visiting scientist position at CMU-SEI. She has in-depth knowledge and experiences in the area of architecture analysis and design, involving middleware technologies. She has been a tutorial presenter at WICSA-2001, TOOLS Pacific 2000, industry track presenter at ICSE-2002, and various paid professional seminars on Middleware in Australia.
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/anna.liu/

Ian Gorton is Chief Architect in the Information Sciences & Engineering Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He has over a decade of experience in both research and industry providing distributed solutions to complex information systems. He has previously worked for CSIRO, IBM Transarc, UNSW and Microsoft Australia, and has published over 60 refereed papers and one book.
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Ian.Gorton/

Contact information
Anna Liu
SACT, CMIS, CSIRO                      
Locked Bag 17, N.Ryde NSW 1670
Australia Fax: +61 2 9325-3280
Tel: +61 2 9325 3216
Mobile: 0408 618848
Email:  Anna.Liu@cmis.csiro.au


(2) Knowledge Management Frameworks: Tools for Capturing the Knowledge Edge                   Return to Tutorial Schedule  
     Socio-Technical Activity Research (STAR) Group on Knowledge Management

This tutorial will present and discuss a number of knowledge management frameworks ranging from Nonaka’s knowledge management model through a number of more recent perspectives and approaches. The more recent include a socio-cultural framework and an activity theory approach to knowledge management. We will thereby guide participants through discussions to facilitate their developing their own hybrid frameworks from their own particular perspectives that can be tailored to best suit their own organizations.

Helen Hasan has a PhD in Information Systems and is a member of the Australian Standards Committee on Knowledge Management.  She is Head of the Department of Information Systems at the University of Wollongong and Director of the Activity Theory Usability Laboratory at the university and has published extensively in the areas of Human Computer Interaction, Executive Information Systems and Knowledge Management.

Leoni Warne is a senior research scientist responsible for researching and developing Enterprise Social Learning Architectures and Decision Processes.  Dr Warne’s research work is primarily focused on the social and organisational aspects of information systems. Her work has been presented in numerous international books, journals and conferences.

Edward Gould is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in Information Systems at the University of Wollongong. His research interests include the application of tool mediation aspects of Vygotskian psychology and Activity Theory to knowledge management and human computer interaction.

Kate Crawford heads the Novae Research Group at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney.  She also works as a consultant with leading innovators to facilitate the entrepreneurial learning, knowledge making and development processes that are an essential element of technical and scientific innovation. 

Irena Ali is a Defense Scientist in DSTO.  Ms Ali’s background is in information management and information seeking. Her work focuses on researching organizational and cultural factors contributing to effective organizational learning. She has published and presented both nationally and internationally in the field of organizational and social learning. 

Contact  information
A/Professor Helen Hasan
University of Wollongong
Department of Information Systems
Northfields Ave.
Wollonggon
NSW 2522
Australia
Tel: +61 21 4221 3757
Fax: +61 21 4221 4474
Email: helen_hasan@uow.edu.au
www.uow.edu.au/commerce/buss/dept.htm


(3) Bringing ERP to the Classroom                                                                                                        Return to Tutorial Schedule  
     Ray Boykin, Gail Corbitt, Louis Girolami, Amelia Maurizio, and Jim Mensching

Enrollment limited to 30.

This workshop includes interactive presentations using Chico’s ERP installation.  Participants can use their own laptops, (although we will have 5-6 available).  Topics to be covered include:

Note:   CSU Chico was the first SAP Academic Alliance partner in the Americas and is considered one of the leading universities worldwide in the discipline of ERP education and applied research.  The university has done both theoretical and applied research in the ERP area for companies such as Hewlett Packard, SAP Laboratories, Penguin Computing, Nortel Networks and IBM Global Services.  In addition, CSU Chico is presently of a handful of universities designated as a University Competency Center (UCC) for SAP services.  In this role, we offer ERP services to other universities in North America.  Presently, there are fewer than 10 SAP UCC’s in the world.  

Dr. Raymond F. Boykin is a Professor of Operations Management and SAP Fellow in the College of Business at California State University, Chico (CSUC).  He is the current Director of the CSU Chico SAP Program, a SAP Distinguished Scholar, and on the advisory board of the SAP Innovation Institute. His SAP related industry experiences include: supply chain analysis, SAP R/3 (MM and QM modules) and implementation and configuration. 

Dr. Gail Corbitt is a Professor of Management Information Systems at California State University, Chico and she is also a Distinguished Scholar for SAP’s Academic Alliance Program.  She is a past Director of the CSU Chico SAP program, has worked on SAP implementation projects for HP and Chevron, and has taught SAP Systems Administration, ABAP and ERP Configuration and Use. 

Louis Girolami joined SAP America as Director of Finance in 1999.  In addition to his role in Finance, Lou is responsible for initiatives connected with Customer Relations Management, Consumer Products and Manufacturing.  Prior to joining SAP America, Lou worked for J.P. Morgan and KPMG Peat Marwick

Dr. Amelia A. Maurizio joined SAP America as an Associate Manager of the University Alliance Program in 1998.  In October of 2000, Dr. Maurizio was named Director of  SAP’s Education Alliance Program.  Prior to joining SAP, Dr. Maurizio spent several years in higher education as Assistant Vice President for Academic Administration and Adjunct Professor of Finance.  

Professor Jim Mensching, Ph.D., CPA earned his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Chicago in Management Science, has taught in the information systems area for over 28 years.  Presently Dr.Mensching's major focus is on ERP systems, dealing with basis support, ABAP programming, cross system implementations, system bolt-ons and ERP configuration and implementation. Recent business experience includes SAP related software development and configuration for many organizations, including IBM and Hewlett Packard.

Contact information
Email: gcorbitt@csuchico.edu  

(4) Scenario-Based Usability Engineering                                                                                          Return to Tutorial Schedule  
    Mary Beth Rosson and John M. Carroll

In scenario-based design (SBD), descriptions of usage situations are more than just orienting examples; they are first-class design objects. SBD takes literally the adage that a tool is what people can do with it—the consequences for them and for their activities that use it. This tutorial introduces SBD as part of a usability engineering framework, using case studies and group exercises to illustrate and practice the methods.

Mary Beth Rosson is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. She is author of numerous articles, book chapters, and tutorials, including Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction (Morgan Kaufmann, 2001).

John M. Carroll is Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. His books on scenario-based design include Scenario-Based Design: Envisioning Work and Technology in System Design (John Wiley, 1995), Making Use: Scenario-Based Design of Human-Computer Interactions (MIT Press, 2000), and Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer Interaction (Morgan Kaufmann, 2001).

Contact information:
Mary Beth Rosson and John M. Carroll
Center for Human-Computer Interaction
& Department of Computer Science,
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106
Email: rosson@vt.edu
http://www.cs.vt.edu/~rosson

   

 MONDAY JAN 6, 2003
 (
5) MORNING TUTORIALS
9AM - 12 NOON

 

(5) MultiMedia Literacy                                                                                                                           Return to Tutorial Schedule
     Stephanie Barish  and Elizabeth Monk Daley

This workshop will continue and develop the interactive conversation begun last year wherein participants expand notions of literacy and their impact on discipline-based teaching and learning.   The format will be based on the University of Southern California’s Institute  for Multimedia Literacy which in 1998 emerged from a single realization: if students graduate without being able to "read and write" in new and emerging media, they are not truly literate in the language of their own society. 

The proliferation of computer-mediated and networked communication has resulted in the need for written and spoken languages to expand in terms of vocabulary and even beyond words.  As we absorb the visual, audio, and combined media into our daily lives, what will it mean to be truly literate and, by extension, educated in the 21st Century? And in what ways will this fit into, subvert, change, and even support the Ivory Tower?

By virtue of embracing today’s new and emerging media technology, the goal of the Institute  for Multimedia Literacy is to build upon existing written literacy to embrace enhanced literacy — incorporating still and moving images, aural communication, and multimedia applications, as well as the written word. This paradigm with its shifting and expanding notion of literacy has the potential to change the future of education.

Stephanie Barish is Director of the Institute  for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication. Previous accomplishments include her work as Producer and Creative Director at Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation since 1994.

She has worked with New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage as Art Director for a permanent exhibition of computer-generated artworks, and with the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles as Project Director for the design of its new interactive learning center. She also supervised graphics-imaging and designed the titles for the 1998 Academy Award-winning documentary, "The Last Days."

Elizabeth Monk Daley As Dean of University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television since May 1991, and the first holder of Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Dean's Chair, Elizabeth Monk Daley has strengthened School's long standing ties with the entertainment industry and  addressed the newest technological developments. Under her leadership, the School has added numerous new curricula, including the Sony Media Center, the Entertainment Technology Center, the Animation and Digital Arts program, a graduate and undergraduate program in the Business of Entertainment., and recently established the MFA degree in Interactive Media.  The Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, a 35,000 sq. ft. production facility officially opened in March 2001, nearly doubling the physical infrastructure of the School.

Daley also serves as Executive Director to the Annenberg Center for Communication whose activities focus on research and applications in the new communication media.

Prior to joining USC, Daley served as executive director of Taper Media Enterprises, the film and television subsidiary of the Mark Taper Forum, and as a producer for MGM/UA Television. Daley was an independent television producer in Washington, D.C., where she established a media-consulting group that produced a variety of art, educational, documentary and corporate programming for public television, the federal government and the private sector.

Daley has served as a consultant to a variety of national and international arts and media organizations,  and serves as a member of the boards of the California Film Commission, the Center for Governmental Studies, and the Benton Foundation.  She  has twice been honored by American Women in Radio and Television and was twice nominated for a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award.  She has received several other state and local honors, including a Cine Golden Eagle and the Barbara Jordan Award, and the California Governor's Award for her work with programming about the handicapped, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the International Electronic Cinema Association.

Daley earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin and M.A. and B.A. degrees from Tulane University and Newcomb College.


(6) Repeatable Success with Collaborative Technology: ThinkLets, and Methodologies   
            
Return to Tutorial Schedule       Robert O. Briggs, Gert-Jan de Vreede, and Jay F. Nunamaker

As more organizations incorporate virtual teams into their standard operations, they encounter varied success; from those reporting substantially enhanced performance and efficiency to wildly unpredictable successes to no success at all.   In order to produce predictable, useful results, research has begun to focus on development, discovery, and documentation of team processes on two levels two levels of abstraction: ThinkLets, and Methodologies.  ThinkLets are packaged and scripted thinking activities that fall into five categories representing fundamental patterns of group thinking: Diverge, Converge, Organize, Evaluate, and Build Consensus.  A Methodology is a step-by-step process for accomplishing a mission-critical task like strategic planning, risk assessment, requirements negotiation. 

In this tutorial participants will:

Robert O. Briggs is Research Coordinator for the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona, is on the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, and is Director of R&D for GroupSystems.com.  Since 1990 he has investigated the theoretical and technological foundations of collaboration, and has applied his findings to the design and deployment of new technologies, workspaces, and processes for high-performance teams.  He and his colleagues are responsible for numerous recognized theoretical breakthroughs and technological milestones. In the course of his field research he has created team processes for the highest levels of government, and has published more than 60 scholarly works on the theory and practice of collaborative technology.  He earned his PhD in MIS at the University of Arizona and holds a BS and MBA from San Diego State University.

Gert-Jan DeVreede is full professor at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.  Previously, he was department head of the Faculty of Engineering, Policy, and Management at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he is still an affiliated fellow.  He received his PhD in Systems Engineering from Delft, where he established a successful program of Group Support Systems research.  His research interests include the application of collaborative technologies to facilitate organizational design activities, and the adoption and diffusion of GSS in both Western environments as well as developing countries.  His articles have appeared in various journals, including JMIS, JDS, Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, Holland Management Review, Database, Group Decision and Negotiation, CACM, and Journal of Simulation Practice and Theory.

Jay Nunamaker is Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science and Communication, and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the  University of Arizona, Tucson.  His research on group support systems addresses behavioral as well as engineering issues and focuses on theory as well as implementation.  Dr. Nunamaker founded the MIS department (3rd and 4th nationally ranked MIS department) at The University of Arizona and established campus-wide instructional computer labs that has attracted academic leaders in the MIS field to the university faculty. He received his PhD in systems engineering and operations research from Case Institute of Technology, an MS and BS in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University.  He has been a registered professional engineer since 1965. 

Contact information
Robert O. Briggs, PhD
Director of Research and Development
GroupSystems.com
1430 E. Ft. Lowell Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85719
Tel:  520-322-7179
Fax: 520-325-8319
Email: bob@groupsystems.com
www.groupsystems.com


(7) Reconciling Business Modeling and Requirements with Object-Oriented                                   Return to Tutorial Schedule
     Software Development 
     Hermann Kaindl

This intermediate-level tutorial addresses several important issues with regard to object-oriented approaches because they are relevant for business modeling and industrial software development. Starting to utilize object-oriented ideas already from business models and early requirements, this tutorial explains their relationship with use cases and a Domain Model, as well as its clean transition to a Design Model.

Hermann Kaindl is a senior consultant with the division of program and systems engineering at Siemens AG Austria for business modeling, requirements engineering and object-oriented modeling.  At Siemens he gained more than twenty years of experience in software development. He is also an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Vienna, where he is currently negotiating an offer for a full professorship. He has contributed to the theory of scenario-based design (relating scenarios both with goals and functional requirements), and this theory underpins the practical applications of his approach in real-world projects. He published three books and more than sixty papers in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings. He has given in-house courses about object-oriented modeling, and he has previously held tutorials on the reuse of requirements at CAiSE’00 and RE’01.

Contact information
Hermann Kaindl
Siemens AG Austria, PSE
Geusaugasse 17
A-1030 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 51707 43288
Fax: +43 51707 53270
Email: hermann.kaindl@siemens.com


(8) Exploring Cognition  in Information Systems Using the Repertory Grid                                       Return to Tutorial Schedule    
    
Felix B. Tan and M. Gordon Hunter

Recent studies have confirmed the importance of understanding the cognition of users and information systems (IS) professionals. These works agree that organizational cognition is far too critical to be ignored as it can impact on IS outcomes. While cognition has been considered in a variety of IS contexts, no specific methodology has dominated. A theory and method suitable to the study of cognition - defined as personal constructs that individuals use to understand IT in organizations - is Kelly's (1955) Personal Construct Theory and its cognitive mapping tool known as the repertory grid (RepGrid). This tutorial introduces the RepGrid to IS researchers. This technique offers the potential to significantly enhance our understanding of how users, managers and IS professionals make sense of IT in their organizations.

Felix B. Tan serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Information Management. He is also the Vice President of Research for the Information Resources Management Association and Editor of the ISWorld Net's “EndNote Resources” page. Dr. Tan's current research interests are in business-IT alignment, global information management, management of IT and cognitive mapping methods.

M. Gordon Hunter serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Information Management. Dr. Hunter has previously held academic positions at universities in Canada, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His current research interests relate to the productivity of systems analysts with emphasis upon the personnel component, including cross-cultural aspects, and the effective development

Contact information
Felix B. Tan
Department of Management Science & Information Systems
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Tel: +649 3737999
Fax: +649 3737566
Home Tel: + 64 9 5349041
Email: f.tan@auckland.ac.nz 

M. Gordon Hunter
Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Management
The University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta
Canada T1K 3M4
Tel: 1 (403) 329 2672 Ÿ Fax: 1 (403) 329-2038
Home Tel: + 1 403 381 1888
Email: ghunter@uleth.ca   

(9) Open-Source MIS Programs                                                                                                          Return to Tutorial Schedule
     Andrew Urbaczewski and Mark Ginsburg

This tutorial will introduce you to the philosophy and general classes of software products that fall under the Open Source umbrella, and it will demonstrate actual uses of powerful operating systems and software products that can strengthen MIS core and elective classes.  Demonstrations include Linux, Apache/Tomcat, PHP, Java JDBC and mySQL, mySQLFront, the ALICE Chatbot, StarOffice, and XML/XSL.

Andrew Urbaczewski is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at Washington State University.  His research interests include wireless mobile collaboration, electronic commerce, and electronic monitoring of employees.  He received a PhD in Information Systems from Indiana University.

Mark Ginsburg is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona. His research interests include social and technical aspects of virtual community platforms and collaborative systems to support document and knowledge management. Ginsburg received a PhD in information systems from New York University.

Contact information:
Andrew Urbaczewski
School of Accounting, Information Systems, and Business Law
Washington State University
P.O. Box 644729
Pullman, WA 99164-4729
phone +1 509.335.2422
dept. phone +1 509.335.8541
Fax:  +1 509.335.4275
Cell Tel:  +1 509.432.5868
Email: andrew@urbaczewski.com

Mark Ginsburg
MIS Dept., Eller College of Business
University of Arizona
1130 McClelland Hall, #430BB
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: +1 520 621 7472
Fax: +1 520 621 2433
Email: Mark@Eller.Arizona.edu


MONDAY JAN 6, 2003
(
4) AFTERNOON TUTORIALS
1PM - 4PM

 

(10) Technology Supported Learning                                                                                                Return to Tutorial Schedule
       Robert O. Briggs and Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr.

The goal of education is to increase the likelihood that the learner and those around the learner will survive and thrive.  Eight hundred years ago, as educational institutions were organized to optimize available information technologies.  Knowledge repositories were rare and very costly.  Books were painted by hand on parchment made of sheepskin.  Today's technology is radically changing the economics of learning.  This, in turn, is changing the role of the learner, the teacher, and the educational institution.  In this tutorial you will hear from researchers at the cutting edge of research on technology supported learning. They will offer pragmatic insights based on their experiences in the field, and will discuss future implications of today's research.

Robert O. Briggs is Research Coordinator for the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona, is on the faculty of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and he is Director of R&D for GroupSystems.com.  He has investigated the theoretical and technological foundations of collaboration, and has applied his findings to the design and deployment of new technologies, workspaces, and processes for high-performance teams.  He earned his PhD in MIS at the University of Arizona and holds a BS and MBA from San Diego State University.

Jay Nunamaker is Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science and Communication, and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona, Tucson.  His research on group support systems addresses behavioral as well as engineering issues and focuses on theory as well as implementation. He received his PhD in systems engineering and operations research from Case Institute of Technology, MS and BS in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University.

Contact information
Robert O. Briggs
Director of Research and Development
GroupSystems.com
1430 E. Ft. Lowell Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85719
Tel:  (520) 322-7179
Fax: (520) 325-8319
Email: bob@groupsystems.com
www.groupsystems.com


(11) Grid Computing                                                                                                                        Return to Tutorial Schedule
        Michael A. Langston and Faisal N. Abu-Khzam

The computational grid is an increasingly popular model of wide-area distributed computing.  Such a grid need not have a rigid framework, but may instead contain many sorts of computation nodes, file servers, high-speed switches and so forth.  It can provide an attractive means for achieving parallelism and resource sharing, as well as providing wide access to scarce or one-of-a-kind scientific instruments.  Given its potential for providing an integrated, collaborative research environment, some have even predicted that an international grid will one day be the natural successor to the world wide web.

Topics to be addressed in this tutorial include grid access methods, computation /communication tradeoffs, algorithmic techniques and novel applications of grid technologies.

Michael A. Langston currently holds the title of Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee.  He is perhaps best known for his long-standing work on combinatorial algorithms, complexity theory and design paradigms for sequential and parallel computation.

Faisal N. Abu-Khzam is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Tennessee.  He holds an MS from the American University of Beirut.  His research interests include grid computing, graph theory and the analysis of algorithms.  Additional information may be obtained at http://www.cs.utk.edu/~abukhzam.

Contact information:
Michael A. Langston
Department of Computer Science
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-3450
Tel:   865-974-3534 
Email: langston@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~langston


(12) The History,
Principles, and Methods of System Dynamics and its Relationship to                   
Return to Tutorial Schedule
       Other Fields of Systems Sciences  

 
      Jochen Scholl, Paulo Goncalves, Nadine Schieritz, Andreas Groessler, and  Laura Black

System Dynamics (SD) is a methodology designed for modeling complex systems, in which variables are circularly linked and causally interdependent.  In recent years, the idiosyncrasy of complex systems under study has increasingly forced scholars from various fields to look beyond the traditional linear relationship of "independent-dependent variable" since complex systems typically defy such a dichotomous distinction.

This tutorial will appeal to scholars from all fields at HICSS who encounter the limitations of sequential cause-effect research designs and try to familiarize themselves with the promises of methodological alternatives. In particular, it supports and complements ideas and methods as they are presented in the Complex Systems Track and in the Modeling Nonlinear Natural and Human Systems Minitrack in the Decision Technologies for Management Track.

Topics to be covered include: historical roots of feedback thought, basic principles and concepts of System Dynamics, and several exemplary SD models.  Handouts will be provided.

Jochen Scholl is a researcher and project support manager at the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany/SUNY. He received a PhD in Information Science from the University at Albany and holds an MBA from the GSBA in Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests are focused on modeling complex systems, in particular, by means of system dynamics and agent-based simulation. Areas of study include information systems success. e-Government, and private-sector firm survival. He teaches at the University of Albany School of Business.

Paulo Goncalves is a doctoral candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  His research focuses on understanding supply chain instability using control theory and simulation. Currently, he is investigating how apparently rational decisions by supply chain organizations can have detrimental effects to their own performance. This research focuses on developing strategies to improve performance for both the organization and the supply chain. He is also involved in research with the MIT's Supply Chain Visualization project, the Intel Corporation, and Monsanto.

Nadine Schieritz is a teaching and research assistant at Mannheim University, Germany. She holds a Master in industrial engineering. Her doctoral studies focus on the integration of agent-based and system dynamics modeling applied to the field of supply chain management.

Andreas Groessler is an assistant professor of operations management at Mannheim University, Germany. He teaches system dynamics and manufacturing strategy courses at the graduate level. His current research interests include modeling of decision making, concepts of rationality, and human/organizational behavior. He holds his PhD in business administration.

Laura Black obtained her PhD in system dynamics and organization studies from MIT's Sloan School of Management.  Her research examines determinants of success and failure to collaborate across boundaries within and across organizations.  With experience in journalism and internal and external consulting, she is now an independent writer, consultant, and researcher.

Contact Information:
Hans J. (Jochen) Scholl
Center for Technology in Government (CTG)
University at Albany/SUNY
1535 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12203-3513, USA
Tel: (518) 442-3892
Fax: (518) 442-3886
Email: JocScholl@aol.com

 

(13) Learn How to Select the “Right” Requirements Elicitation Technique                                    Return to Tutorial Schedule
       Al Davis and Ann Hickey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

In this workshop, participants will learn how to accelerate identification of customer needs and improve the probability of developing information systems that satisfy customers by selecting the “right” requirements elicitation techniques. Participants will: (1) Learn why it is important to choose the “right” requirements elicitation techniques for each situation; (2) Analyze situation-specific technique selections during role-playing exercises; and (3) Learn a comprehensive requirements elicitation technique selection process and apply it to one of their own projects.

Al Davis is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is also chairman and CEO of Omni-Vista, Inc. Previously, he was Vice President at BTG, and a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of IEEE Software and author of Software Requirements (Prentice Hall 1993) and 201 Principles of Software Development (McGraw Hill, 1995).

Ann Hickey is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and has extensive program management and systems analysis experience. Her research focuses on collaborative requirements elicitation and has been published in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Database for Advances in Information Systems and Requirements Engineering Journal.

Contact information
Ann M. Hickey
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
College of Business and Administration
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Tel: (719) 262-3294
Fax: (719) 262-3494
Email: ahickey@uccs.edu