Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce
Computer-Mediated Inter-Organizational Systems
Digital Trade in Intangible Goods
Formal Aspects of Digital Commerce
Intelligent Agents in the Digital Community
Managing Information on the Web
Telework and Organizational Connectivity
Workflow and Reengineering on the Internet
Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce
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 Business-to-Consumer Electronic 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.
Minitrack Chairs:
| Joseph Paradi | Gloria Yan |
| University of Toronto | University of Toronto |
| Faculty of Engineering | Faculty of Engineering |
| 200 College Street | 200 College Street |
| Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5 | Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5 |
| CANADA | CANADA |
| (416) 978-6924 ext.: 210 | (416) 978-6924 ext.: 209 |
| FAX: (416) 978-3877 | FAX: (416) 978-3877 |
| E-mail: paradi@ie.utoronto.ca | E-mail: yan@ie.utoronto.ca |
| http: www.ie.utoronto.ca/CMTE/menu.html | http://www.ie.utoronto.ca/CMTE/menu.html |
More information to be placed here soon
Minitrack chairs:
Digital Trade in Intangible Goods
Digitally traded intangible goods are goods consisting of data, information, and knowledge content, traded digitally on the internet or through other online means. Example of such goods include not only software, financial services, entertainment, travelouges, moving images, audio products, multimedia products, single and multi-player games, but also education, training, help-desks, and consultancy. Digital, online trade of such goods represents a way of trading for which the full commercial cycle, from offer, negotiation, order, delivery, to payment can be conducted via the same network such as the Internet. In addition to the issues inherent in trading physical goods such as books, cars, wines, and CDs on the net, trading intangible digital goods on the net may include additional concerns such as version control, authentication of the product, and control over intellectual property rights (IPR).
The full deployment of digital trade in intangible goods will depend on a clear regulatory environment, fast data networks, technology, and most importantly user awareness and the existence of clear business cases, i.e., 'technology, applications and business models' for implementing and managing these trades. The mini-track would include submissions in, but not limited to the following technologies, applications and business models:
Submissions from a variety of research paradigms including field studies, case-studies, artefact-design, and conceptual work are encouraged. Practitioners' contributions and descriptions and analysis of actual practice are especially welcome.
Minitrack Chairs:
| Kuldeep Kumar | Claudia Loebbecke |
| Decision & Information Sciences | Decision & Information Sciences |
| Rotterdam School of Management | Rotterdam School of Management |
| Faculty of Business, Erasmus University | Faculty of Business, Erasmus University |
| 50 Burg.Oudlaan | 50 Burg.Oudlaan |
| 3000 DR, Rotterdam | 3000 DR, Rotterdam |
| The Netherlands | The Netherlands |
| Tel: +31 10 408 2798/2032 | Tel: +31 10 408 2854 |
| Fax: +31 10 452 395 | Fax: +31 10 452 3595 |
| E-mail: kkumar@fac.fbk.eur.nl | E-mail: claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de |
Formal Aspects of Digital Commerce
Global information infrastructures are rapidly becoming a reality. Such worldwide networks help companies to operate not only on a local or regional level, but also on a global level. Especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) this would offer tremendous opportunities to do global business electronically.
Electronic commerce (aka: digital commerce) includes all aspects of the conduct of commerce (i.e., doing business in the broadest sense) which are essentially mediated by computer and communications systems. This includes all phases of commercial activity, including marketing, opportunity finding, sales, negotiation, contract formation, monitoring of contracts, customer support, etc.
The purpose of this mini-track on electronic commerce is to attract leading-edge research and foster discussion on electronic commerce, especially conceptual, technological, theoretical and case studies.
Topics include:
Minitrack Chairs:
| Steve Kimbrough | Ron Lee |
| University of Pennsylvania |
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| 3620 Locust Walk, #1300 | Erasmus University |
| Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 | P.O. Box 1738 |
| (215) 898-5133 | 3000 DR Rotterdam |
| FAX: (215)898-3664 | THE NETHERLANDS |
| E-mail: sok@grace.wharton.upenn.edu | +31-10-408-26-01 |
| kimbrough@wharton.upenn.edu | FAX: +31-10-452-61-34 |
| E-mail: rlee@fac.fbk.eur.nl | |
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Intelligent Agents in the Digital Community
We expected to have 15 - 20 submissions, from which 6 papers will be accepted will be accepted for presentation at HICSS 32. Number of session slots requested: 2 sessions
Background of agents research:
This the third year we organize this intelligent agents minitrack. In the first two years, we have received and accepted papers that discussed what was an intelligent agent or a software agent, that discussed the important research issues, that proposed research methodology or framework, and that discussed the technology to develop agents. For this coming HICSS-32, we would like to focus on the studies of its impacts on our community, for example, electronic commerce, education, entertainment, etc., as well as on how the way we will live in the future. Or more precisely, we would like to know how software agents can support the development of a digital community.
We are particularly interested in the multi-agent systems or agent systems that run on the Internet. For example, agent systems that help organizations to manage global supply chains or workflows. What would like to see some case studies to discuss the applications of software agents or intelligent agents in solving real-world problems. We also like to see papers that discuss technology trends or propose methodology or framework to study impacts of software agents in digital community. Since agent theory is still at its infancy, there are many research issues to be solved, from establishing the theoretical framework of the agent paradigm and the logic behind it to developing ``killer'' applications that will become standard software.
Research Opportunities: Researchers are invited to submit papers on all aspect for intelligent agents on the Internet, including but not restricted to:
Minitrack Chairs:
| Jerome Yen | Jieh Hsiang |
| The University of Hong Kong | Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science |
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National Taiwan University |
| Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG | Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
| Tel: +(852) 2859-2189 | E-mail: hsiang@csie.ntu.edu.tw |
| Fax: +(852) 2559 8447 | Tel: (+886) 2362-2704 |
| E-mail: jyen@cs.hku.hk | Fax: (+886) 2365-8741 |
| http://www.cs.hku.hk/~jyen/ index.html |
Managing Information on the Web
The proliferation of Internet and World Wide Web has created many technical and managerial opportunities and challenges for researchers and managers. It not only allows a large amount of online information to be available for decision making and strategic planning, but also empowers the development of advanced or innovative applications such as real-time decision support systems and executive information systems. The increased information complexity and diversity, however, creates a strong need for utilizing and managing the ever-increasing information effectively. Organizations need efficient, effective and scalable information management techniques to reduce the load on the user. Therefore, how to utilize and manage the ever-increasing information is probably the most critical issue in the Internet era. This includes proper use of technologies for environmental scanning, information retrieval, filtering, knowledge discovery, data mining, brokerage, and security. Impacts of the Internet environment on organizations as well as associated managerial challenges also deserve more research attentions.
The objective of this proposed minitrack is to provide a forum for researchers to disseminate and exchange ideas on technical and managerial aspects of managing information on the Internet.
The minitrack will solicit papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
Minitrack Chairs:
| T.P. Liang | Mike Shaw | C.P. Wei |
| Department of Information Management | Department of Business Administration | Department of Information Management |
| College of Management | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | College of Management |
| National Sun Yat-Sen University | 350 Comm West, MC 706 | National Sun Yat-Sen University |
| Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C | 1206 S. Sixth | Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
| Tel: +886-7-525-4950 | Champaign, IL 61820 | Tel: +886-7-525-2000 ext. 4729 |
| Fax: +886-7-525-4799 | Tel: (217) 333-5153 | Fax: +886-7-525-4799 |
| E-mail: liang@mis.nsysu.edu.tw | E-mail: m-shaw2@staff.uiuc.edu | E-mail: cwei@mis.nsysu.edu.tw |
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:
Minitrack Chairs:
| David R. King | Alan Dennis |
| Comshare | Terry College of Business |
| 555 Briarwood Circle | University of Georgia |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48108 | Athens, GA 30602 |
| (313) 994-6132 | (706) 542-3902 |
| FAX: (313) 994-5895 | Fax: (706) 542-3743 |
| E-mail: dave@comshare.com | E-mail: adennis@uga.edu |
Telework and Organizational Connectivity
This minitrack explores research issues related to the role and impacts of information technology on telework, relating to its design, implementation, use and effectiveness. Topics of special interest for this year are: (1) comparative analysis of telework implementation and (2) the impacts of technologies on new modes of telework implementation.
Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to:
Minitrack Chairs:
| Tung Bui | Geoffrey N. Dick | Kunihiko Higa |
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Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| The University of Hawaii |
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| 2404 Maile Way, Room E303 | AUSTRALIA | Tokyo 152 JAPAN |
| Honolulu, HI 96822 | Phone: + 61 (2) 385 5284 | FAX: +35734-2947 |
| Tel. 808-956-5565 | Fax: + 61 (2) 662 4061 | E-mail: khiga@me.titech.ac.jp |
| Fax. 808-956-9889 | E-mail: g.dick@unsw.edu.au | |
| E-mail: TBUI@busadm.cba.hawaii.edu |
The explosive growth of the virtual space such as Internet and on-line service networks as well as proprietary corporate networks will change the business environment of the 21st century fundamentally. Capability of the instantaneous communication among business partners and availability of the near perfect information on the marketplace will strengthen the responsiveness and intelligence of the firm in meeting customer needs. Unlike in the physical space, however, we are bound to encounter more challenges in the virtual space as business cycle time shrinks, markets become more fragmented, and customers become invisible yet more demanding.
As the organizational norms and behaviors need to change when firms move from the physical to virtual space, so do their use of information technologies for various intra- and inter-organizational operations. Use of proprietary groupware changes to the use of the Intranet. Time-consuming, expensive supply chain management practices change to Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics System (CALS). Dedicated, private, firm-to-firm networks are rapidly replaced by the extranet using the Internet. From the one-directional, broadcasting style mass marketing, shift to the real-time, interactive, micro marketing will take place. Emergence of a virtual organization enables the production and retailing without heavy investment into physical facilities. Knowledge creation and sharing takes on the global scale thanks to the global network and knowledge repository.
To manage such a complex web of changes affecting each other, we need to understand the underlying semantics and structure of the various organizational behaviors by modeling them into a coherent set of graphical representations. Such models will simplify the problem domains and serve as a communication vehicle for the functional area users and the solution providers such as IT professionals or process engineers. The following topics, therefore, will be addressed from the modeling perspective in that every session paper will have modeling as the core problem solving approach.
Topics:
Minitrack Chairs:
| Young-Gul Kim | Hee-Seok Lee |
| Graduate School of Management | same contact information |
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E-mail: hlee@msd.kaist.ac.kr |
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| Seoul, 130-012, Korea | |
| Tel: 82-2-958-3614, | |
| Fax: 82-2-958-3604 | |
| E-mail: ygkim@msd.kaist.ac.kr |
A Web Information System (WIS) is an information system that runs on the WWW platform. This kind of information systems is becoming increasingly important and pervasive in our 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).
LIST OF TOPICS:
Minitrack Chairs:
| Tomas Isakowitz | Michael Bieber | Marios Koufaris |
| Wharton School of Business | CIS Department | Information Systems Department |
| University of Pennsylvania | University Heights | Stern School of Business |
| 3620 Locust Walk | New Jersey Institute of Technology | New York University |
| Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA | Newark, NJ 07102-1982 | 44 West 4th St, Room 9-181 |
| Work: (215) 472-4023 | (201) 596-2681 | New York, NY 10012 |
| Fax: (215) 898-3664 | FAX: (201) 596-5777 | Phone: (212)-998-0390 |
| E-mail: ti@wharton.upenn.edu | E-mail: bieber@cis.njit.edu | Fax: (212)-995-4228 |
| http://hertz.njit.edu/ ~bieber/ bieber.html | E-mail: mkoufari@stern.nyu.edu |
Workflow and Reengineering on the Internet
PAPERS ARE INVITED FOR A MINITRACK ON WORKFLOW AND REENGINEERING ON THE INTERNET as part of the Internet and Digital Economies track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS).
Deadlines:
300 word abstract - March 30, 1998
Full paper - June 1, 1998
Notification of accepted papers - August 31, 1998
Accepted manuscripts - October 1, 1998
DESCRIPTION OF THE MINITRACK
Workflow technologies have the potential to change the nature of work as we know it. Workflow Management Systems (WFMS) directly support business process reengineering efforts to develop more efficient process-oriented organizations. The rapid deployment and application of Internet technologies and electronic commerce creates new possibilities for inter-organizational workflow automation beyond EDI.
The objective of this mini-track is to explore a range of questions concerning the development and application of workflow technologies. Appropriate topics for the minitrack include, but are not limited to the following:
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Edward A. Stohr: estohr@stern.nyu.edu
Karl Reiner Lang: klang@uxmail.ust.hk
Pai-Chun Ma: pcma@usthk.ust.hk
| Ed Stohr | Pai-Chun Ma | Karl Reiner Lang |
| New York University | Department of Information & Systems Management | |
| Stern School of Business | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 44 West 4th Street, Room 9-70 | Clear Water Bay, Kowloon | Clear Water Bay, Kowloon |
| New York, NY 10012-1126 | HONG KONG | HONG KONG |
| (212) 998-0846 | +852-2358-7652 | +852-2358-7651 |
| Fax: (212) 995-4228 | FAX: +852-2358-5421 | FAX: 852 2358 2421 |
| E-mail: estohr@stern.nyu.edu | E-mail: pcma@usthk.ust.hk | Email: klang@uxmail/ust.hk |
Last update 4/6/98