HICSS-31

INTERNET AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY TRACK

 

MINITRACKS

 

TRACK CHAIRS

Co-Chair: Robert W. Blanning
Dept. of Information & Systems Management
School of Business and Management
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
HONG KONG
Tel: +852-2358-7639
Fax: +852-2358-2421
E-mail: blannirw@uxmail.ust.hk

Co-Chair: David R. King
Comshare
555 Briarwood Circle
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
Phone: (313) 994-6132
Fax: (313) 994-5895
E-mail: dave@comsahre.com

 

MINI-TRACKS

 

Internet and the Information Superhighway

One aspect of information technology that is highly visible to the public, political leaders, managers, scientists, and professionals is the Information Superhighway (ISH) a system of high-capacity, public-access computer communication networks. The most visible and widely-used implementation of the ISH concept is the Internet, which is undergoing exponential growth in usage in academe, business, and among the public at large. The purpose of this session is to report research on both the Internet as an existing manifestation of the ISH and the ISH itself. Although much has been written on the Internet, as one can see by visiting any bookstore, there is a pressing need for substantive research on both the Internet and the ISH. We invite papers reporting both theoretical and empirical research on a variety of relevant topics. These topics include but are not limited to the following:
* An analysis of Internet applications and/or users (e.g., business, personal, educational, professional)
* Industrial impact of the ISH
* The economics of the Internet and the ISH
* New technologies (e.g., mobile communications) and the ISH

Chairs

Robert W. Blanning
Dept. of Information & Systems Management
School of Business and Management
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
HONG KONG
Tel: +852-2358-7639
Fax: +852-2358-2421
E-mail: blannirw@uxmail.ust.hk

David R. King
Comshare
9600 Great Hills Trail, 300 East
Austin, TX 78759
Tel: (313) 994-6132
Fax: (313) 994-5895
E-mail: dave@comsahre.com

 

Electronic Commerce

 

Chairs

Steve Kimbrough
University of Pennsylvania
3620 Locust Walk, #1300
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366
(215) 898-5133
FAX: (215)898-3664
E-mail: sok@grace.wharton.upenn.edu
kimbrough@wharton.upenn.edu
http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~sok/electrocom/hicss98call.html

Ron Lee
Erasmus University Research Institute for Decision & IS (Euridis)
Erasmus University
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam,
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31-10-408-26-01
Fax: +31-10-452-61-34
Euridis Web Page-- http://www.euridis.fbk.eur.nl/Euridis/welcome.html
FTP server: ftp.euridis.fbk.eur.nl

 

 

Computer-Mediated Inter-Organizational Systems

The minitrack theme addresses several types of IOS, including Electronic Trading systems between companies in the same business, EDI-enabled transactions between companies in the same channel, and supplier-customer direct connections such as airlines and insurance agents.

These papers could cover a range of topics, including:
1. Technological, organizational, or market structure explanations for failure of firms to adopt IOS, in spite of perceived efficiency benefits of IOS implementation.
2. Technological advances, such as multimedia, which might facilitate the adoption of IOS in markets and across organizations where the technological capabilities of IOS were inadequate without these advances.
3. The role of business process redesign (BPR) and supply chain management (SCM) innovations in facilitating adoption of IOS or in creating value through applying IOS innovations.
4. Examples of companies or markets that have overcome sources of resistance to IOS implementation and have demonstrated the ability of these systems to provide clear economic benefit for both customers and suppliers in the IOS relationship (e.g., supply chain innovations using IT capabilities).

Chairs

Ted Clark
Information & Systems Management Dept.
University of Science & Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
HONG KONG
Fax: +852-2358-2421
E-mail: tclark@usthk.ust.hk

Ho Geun Lee
Information & Systems Management Dept.
University of Science & Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
HONG KONG
Tel: +852-2358-7649
Fax: +852-2358-2421
E-mail: hlee@uxmail.ust.hk

Donna Stoddard
Babson College
Babson Park, MA 02157
Tel: 617-239-6449
E-mail: dstoddard@babson.edu

 

Electronic Marketing

Marketing scholars and marketing practitioners have traditionally focused on the "STP" (segmentation, targeting and positioning) and "4Ps" (product, promotion, price, place) of marketing. While those aspects of marketing remain excellent guidelines for analysis, electronic markets and electronic marketing are creating a whole new framework in which these constructs can, and are, being pursued. For example, many service products could be developed, positioned, priced, promoted, delivered and serviced on the Internet, to narrowly segmented target markets. The entire marketing function, from concept to delivery and payment, is conducted in the new "transaction space" of the Internet (or another of the "new media").

The purpose of this mini track on electronic marketing is to engage marketing scholars and practitioners in a leading-edge discussion of electronic markets and marketing. Both actual core studies and theoretical approaches are sought.

Chair

Richard W. Oliver
Vanderbilt University
OGSM
401 21st Ave. S.
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 355-3493
FAX: (615) 343-7177
E-mail: oliverrw@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

 

Telework and Organizational Connectivity

In the broadest sense, the term telework refers to organizational work performed outside of the normal organizational confines of space and time, augmented by computer and communications technology. Its growth has been fueled by new information technologies, changing demographics and organizational imperatives. This minitrack seeks innovative research contributions that deal with the design, deployment and evaluation of technology-supported telework, and the impact of telework in organization effectiveness. Case studies are particularly encouraged.

Chairs

Kunihiko Higa
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku
Tokyo 152 JAPAN
Fax: +35734-2947
E-mail: khiga@me.titech.ac.jp

Tung Bui
Naval Postgraduate School
Information Technology Curriculum
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: (408) 656-2630
Fax: (408) 656-3068
E-mail: tbui@nps.navy.mil

 

 

Intelligent Agents on the Internet

 

Chairs

Jerome Yen
University of Science & Technology
School of Business & Management
Department of Business Info. Sys.
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
HONG KONG
E-mail: jyen@cs.hku.hk

Kar Yan Tam
University of Science & Technology
School of Business & Management
Dept. of Business Information Sys.
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
HONG KONG
Tel: +852-2358-7658
Fax: +852-2358-2421
E-mail: kytam@usthk.ust.hk

Jieh Hsiang
Department of Information Science and Computer Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
E-mail: hsiang@csie.ntu.edu.tw

 

Workflow Technologies: Organizational and Interorganizational Dimensions

 

Chairs

Ted Stohr
New York University
Stern School of Business
44 West 4th Street, Room 9-70
New York, NY 10012-1126
(212) 998-0846
Fax: (212) 995-4228
E-mail: estohr@stern.nyu.edu

Karl Reinger Lange
Dept. Of Information & Systems Management
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
HONG KONG
Tel: +852-2358-7651
Fax: +852-2358-2421
E-mail: klang@uxmail.ust.hk

Pai-Chun Ma
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
E-mail: pcma@usthk.ust.hk

 

Information Sharing Across Multiple Heterogeneous Data Sources Distributed Across the Internet

The mini-track will solicit papers on, but not limited to, the topics listed below. We will specifically encourage papers that address any of these topics in the context of scientific or medical databases.

- Resource discovery in digital libraries
- Semantic incompatibilities in digital libraries
- Intelligent Agent-based solutions to problems in digital libraries
- Discovery of semantic knowledge from heterogeneous databases using statistical, and/or AI machine learning approaches
- Schema evolution in heterogeneous databases
- Intelligent software agents and their applicability to heterogeneous databases
- Novel architectures for heterogeneous database interoperability
- Interoperability issues and solutions for advanced applications, such as, medical, statistical, scientific and biological databases - Any aspect of Data Warehousing
- "Traditional" approaches to Heterogeneous database interoperability and their applicability in a Data Warehousing context
- New techniques for schema integration - global schema and federated schema approaches
- Resolution of semantic heterogeneity among heterogeneous databases
- Advanced semantic data models for facilitating heterogeneous database interoperability
- Semantic integration and instance level integration in diverse databases.
- Multidatabase approaches to heterogeneous database interoperability
- Metadata representation and its role in heterogeneous database interoperability
- Query language specifications for heterogeneous database access
- Syntactic and semantic query optimization in heterogeneous databases
- Query decomposition and assembly of results
- Information retrieval techniques and their application to heterogeneous databases
- Communication paradigms in a heterogeneous database management system
- Transaction management and concurrency control in heterogeneous databases
- Interoperability among advanced databases such as: temporal, active, real-time, multi-media databases.
- Integration of Geographic Information Systems
- Techniques for sharing Spatial and Temporal Data

Chairs

Dr. Sudha Ram
Professor
Department of Management Information Systems
College of BPA
McClelland Hall
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: (602)-621-2748
E-mail: ram@bpa.arizona.edu

Dr. Ramesh Venkataraman
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: (410) 455-3937
E-mail: venkatar@umbc.edu

 

 

Electronic Banking and Financial Services

The purpose of this minitrack is to stimulate research on applications of Internet technology to banking and other financial services. The minitrack will accept papers that present new and original research or case studies on Internet Commerce, specifically, financial services on the Internet. Papers may be on banking, trust services, stock market access, portfolio management. The unifying theme is that of applying Internet technology in novel ways to new applications of this rapidly growing information systems technology.

Chairs

Joseph Paradi
University of Toronto
Faculty of Engineering
200 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5
CANADA
Tel: (416) 978-6924 ext.: 210
Fax: (416) 978-3877
E-mail: paradi@ie.utoronto.ca
http: www.ie.utoronto.ca/CMTE/menu.html

Gloria Yan
University of Toronto
Faculty of Engineering
200 College Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3E5
CANADA
Tel: (416) 978-6924 x 209
Fax: (416) 978-3877
E-mail: yan@ie.utoronto.ca

 

 

The Internet and Process Reengineering

The objective of this minitrack is to provide a forum for researchers to disseminate and exchange ideas on the organizational factor on business process automation. We encourage authors to submit papers that deal with the interactions between organizations and technologies with respect to business process automation. Specifically, we would like to encourage papers on but not limited to the following topics:
* The driving forces of organizational change
* Radical and incremental organizational changes
* Paradigms of organizational restructuring induced by workflow automation
* Problems in current business process automation (BPA) applications
* Technology flexibility issues
* Corporate communication theory applied to BPA
* Measurement of organizational efficiency
* Change management for BPA
* Workflow support for virtual organizations
* Process and workflow modeling with a strong organizational emphasis
* Design theory for adaptive workflow management systems
* Organizational communication paradigms on the Internet
* Technologies for organizational communication applications
* Evaluation of specific technologies for BPA

Chairs

J. Leon Zhao
Dept. of Information and Systems Management
The HK University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2358-7644 (office)
Tel: +852-2358-7633 (message)
Fax: +852-2358-2421
zhao@uxmail.ust.hk
http://www.bi.ust.hk/"zhao/hicss98.html

Kishore Sengupta
Dept. of Information and Systems Management
The HK University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
Hong Kong
kishore@uxmail.ust.hk

 

 

Information Technology and Virtual Organizational Forms

 

This mini-track seeks paper submissions examining the role of information technology in facilitating virtual organizational forms. Virtual organizational forms are a relatively new organizational
* Types of information technology used to support virtual organizations
* Management of workers in a virtual organization. Different virtual organizational forms and the factors that influence the emergence of these forms
* The influence of virtual organizations on individuals, workgroups, and organizations
* Financial measures used to justify/sustain the existence of a virtual organizational form
* Factors influencing the adoption of virtual over traditional organizations
* Financial, legal, ethical, and strategic issues associated with virtual organizations

Chairs

Professor Jonathan Palmer (Contact person)
University of Oklahoma
College of Business Administration
206A Adams Hall
Norman, OK 73019
Tel: 405-335-2651
Fax: 405-325-2217
Email: jpalmer@cbafac.cba.uoknor.edu


Professor Cheri Speier
University of Oklahoma
College of Business Administration
206A Adams Hall
Norman, OK 73019
Tel: 405-325-2487
Email: cspeier@ou.edu

 

Web Information Systems

A Web Information Systems (WIS) is an information system that runs on the WWW platform. These kind of information systems is becoming increasingly important and pervasive in out information society. Among others, such systems provide customer support, enable electronic commerce and remote collaboration, all via the Web. From an Information Systems perspective, there are important differences between WWW-based information systems and more traditional ones. The differences range from the platform (Internet) to the basic computational model (hypertext) and the kind of interaction with users (usually geographically dispersed and with no special training). Only electronic submissions please.

List of topics will include but not limited to:
* The software development process for WIS's
* Architecture (hardware and software) for WIS's
* INTRANET development and evaluation
* Security for WIS's

 

Chairs

Tomas Isakowitz
Information Systems Department
Stern School of Business
9-79 MEC
New York University
44 West 4th St.
New York, NY 10012-1126
Tel: (212) 998-0833
Fax: (212) 998-4228
E-mail: tomas@stern.nyu.edu
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~tisakowi

Michael Bieber
CIS Department
University Heights
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ 07102-1982
Tel: (201) 596-2681
Fax: (201) 596-5777
E-mail: bieber@cis.njit.edu
http://hertz.njit.edu/~bieber/bieber.html

 

Managing the Virtual Enterprise: Humans, Organizations and Networking Technology

The minitrack "Managing the Virtual Enterprise: Humans, Organizations, and Networking Technology" discusses various aspects of collaboration in virtual enterprises encompassing business requirements, methods and tools as well as the underlying IT infrastructure. Topics of interest include:
- business requirements from the application area and general collaboration requirements depending on the organization of virtual enterprises,
- approaches to improve organizational and IT flexibility in (international) organizations and to design collaborative processes in virtual enterprises
- modeling and designing an enabling (IT) infrastructure to increase the speed and reduce the cost of establishing virtual enterprises and to develop appropriate policies.

Chairs

Lore Alkier
Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien
MIS Department
Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna
AUSTRIA
Tel: +43 1 31336 4443
Fax: +43 1 31336 746
E-mail: alkier@wu-wien.ac.at

Wolfram Conen
University of Essen
Dept. of Information Sys.& Software-Techniques
Altendorferstrasse 97, D-45117 Essen
GERMANY
Tel: +49 201 81003 19
Fax: +49 201 81003 73
E-mail: conen@wi-inf.uni-essen.de

Gustaf Neumann
University of Essen
Department of Information Systems and Software-Techniques
Altendorferstrasse 97, D-45117 Essen
GERMANY
Tel: +49 201 81003 74
Fax: +49 201 81003 73
E-mail: neumann@wi-inf.uni-essen.de
http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/


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