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SYMPOSIA
Competitive Strategy, Economics,and IS (full-day)
Rob Kauffman, Eric Clemons, and Rajiv Dewan
This 20th Anniversary Research Symposium on Competitive Strategy, Economics and IS symposium will be held on Wednesday, January 3, 2007. The Symposium will cover research issues related to business value of IT, e-procurement and e-markets, transactions cost and agency theory, IT-influenced channel management issues, bundling and unbundling of information goods, digital music and entertainment services, prospective evaluation of IT investments, technology in financial markets, outsourcing and IT-focused risk management, electronic auctions, and more. The related body of knowledge—developed since 1988 through cases, theory papers, empirical studies, and simulation and conceptual work—will be the subject of evaluation for its contributions and its future directions. The discussions will be enlivened through the participation of leading scholars who have contribution seminal works to this body of knowledge in IS, as well as colleagues from Marketing, Economics, Finance and Strategy, and from academia and industry.
The symposium will have a full day of activities, with a blend of keynote presentations, research presentation in plenary and breakout sessions, and a panel discussion that will chart the most promising new areas for research.
· Eric K. Clemons is currently Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he has served since 1976. His visiting appointments include Harvard University, Cornell University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research specialties are in the areas of IT and business strategy, IT and financial markets, making the decision to invest in strategic IT ventures, managing the risk of strategic IT implementations, and strategic implications of e-commerce for channel power and profitability. Clemons is the founder and area head for Information, Strategy, and Economics, and director of the School’s interdisciplinary major in eCommerce. He also is the founder of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science’s annual Competitive Strategy, Economics and Information Systems mini-track, which will have its 20th anniversary meeting in January 2007.
Contact: Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366; Tel: (215) 898-7747; Email: clemons@wharton.upenn.edu
· Rajiv M. Dewan is an Associate Professor at the University of Rochester’s William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, where he is involved in research in electronic commerce, organizational issues in management and information systems, the information technology industry and financial information systems. He currently serves as the chair of the school-wide doctoral program. Prior to joining the Simon School, he was a faculty member at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Contact:
Computer and Information Systems, Simon Graduate School Business Administration,
Univ. Rochester, Rochester NY 14627; Tel: (716)
275-3827; Email: dewan@simon.rochester.edu
·
Robert J. Kauffman
recently became the W.P.
Carey Chair in Information Systems, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State
University, where he has joint appointments in Finance and Supply Chain
Management, and in the School of Informatics and Computing. He previously
worked in international banking, and taught at New York University and the
University of Rochester. His graduate degrees are from Cornell and Carnegie
Mellon. His research focuses on senior management issues in IS strategy and
business value, IT infrastructure investments, technology adoption, e-commerce
and e-markets, and supply chain management, as well as technology in finance and
the financial services industry. In September 2006, he won an “Outstanding
Research Contribution” award related to research on the launch of technology
products with embedded standards, from the IEEE International Society for
Engineering Management, in San Salvador, Brazil.
Contact: Information Systems Department,
W.P. Carey
School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4606; Tel: (612)
940-2885; Email:
rkauffman@asu.edu
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This
symposium seeks papers that report the effects of implementations of
collaboration technologies and processes in the workplace. We are interested
in both rigorous academic case studies and field reports from practitioners.
Academic case studies should explore complex phenomena in the rich context where
they manifest, and should be theory driven and should conform to generally
accepted rigorous case study methodologies. Practitioner papers should report
successes and failures with collaboration technology. They should describe the
technology-supported work processes in sufficient detail that others can
understand the causes of the outcomes, and reproduce them at other sites if
desired. Where possible, practitioner papers should include metrics to
demonstrate the value (if any) the technology-supported work process created for
the organization where it was implemented.
Technologies reported in this symposium could include, but are not limited to: group support systems, virtual workspaces, workflow automation, voice and video, application sharing, team repositories and document management systems, team calendaring, collaborative project management tools, and so on.
Robert Briggs is Director of Academic Affairs for the Institute of Collaboration Science at the University of Nebraska of Omaha, and Associate Professor of Systems Engineering in 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 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 an MBA from San Diego State University
bbriggs@groupsystems.com (primary contact)
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 system 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 is a registered professional engineer.
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
system 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 is a registered professional engineer.
jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu (primary contact)
Judee Burgoon
is Professor of Communication and Director of Human Communication Research of
Arizona’s Center for the Management of Information. She
has authored over 200 articles, chapters, and books related to deception,
nonverbal communication, and computer-mediated communication. Among her current
federally funded projects is a five-year multi-institutional project researching
easy ways to automate detection of deception and hostile intent. Her previous
work led to the development of interpersonal deception theory.
jburgoon@cmi.arizona.edu
Global Electronic
Government Research and Practice (full-day)
Valerie Gregg, Sharon
Dawes, Marijn Janssen, Theresa Pardo, Jochen Scholl, and Maria Wimmer
The purpose of this symposium is to engage the community of international e-Government / Digital Government scholars in an exchange of mutually interesting research topics. The symposium comprises three parts: First, it presents the groundbreaking papers in e-Government research published in 2006. Second, it advances the discussion on the e-Government research roadmap 2020. Third, it hosts a discussion led by the leaders of several special research work groups.
This symposium complements ongoing activities within the emerging global Digital Government Society and ensures that the HICSS audience, both traditional e-Government Track participants and the more general audience, have an opportunity to both become aware of and perhaps inform this community and its emerging research priorities. Both audiences would have the unique opportunity to engage in discussion about this major new interdisciplinary science and its potential connection with numerous adjacent areas within the overall HICSS program.
Valerie Gregg is Assistant Director for Development at
the University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute's Digital
Government Research Center. She is co-PI on a recent four-year NSF grant
entitled "Sustaining an International Digital Government Research Community".
For eight years she was Program Manager for the Digital Government Research
Program in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, of the National
Science Foundation.
vgregg@isi.edu (primary contact)
Sharon
S. Dawes is
Director of the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) and Associate
Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany/SUNY.
Her current research interests include government information strategy and
management and cross-boundary information sharing and integration government
operations and public services.
sdawes@ctg.albany.edu
Marijn Janssen
is Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of
Technology, Policy and Management. His
research is focused on designing and developing adaptive information
architectures supporting cross-organizational business processes in public
networks.
Theresa
A. Pardo is
Deputy Director of the Center for Technology in Government, Albany, NY. Her
current research interests include inter-organizational information integration,
preservation of state government digital records and XML as a content management
technology.
tpardo@ctg.albany.edu
Hans J (Jochen) Scholl is Assistant Professor, University of Washington’s Information School. He teaches Information Management with a special focus on the interdependency between technology, organizational context, and human interest and interaction. Other research interests are focused on modeling complex systems, in particular, by means of system dynamics and also agent-based simulation. Jochen is the PI of a NSF-funded research project on “Fully Mobile City Government” (2005-2008). jscholl@u.washington.edu
Maria A.
Wimmer is
Professor, Institute of IS research, University of Koblenz-Landau
(Germany). She leads the e-Government group and focuses on research, teaching
and RTD projects in e-Government and knowledge management. Currently, She is
involved in four RTD projects co-funded by the EC and is the PI for eGovRTD2020,
one of these EC-co-funded projects.
wimmer@uni-koblenz.de
Human-Agent Interaction: Integrating Humans with Intelligent Technologies
We
invite research submissions that explore human interaction with intelligent
systems as well as how to evaluate these systems. Performance assessment and
enhancement strategies have often focused upon the user or the intelligent
technology rather than the interaction between the two.
The aim of this symposium is:
We solicit topics in:
· user interfaces developed from knowledge of human behavior and human
· interaction with agents, robots, and sensors
· metrics for evaluation of collaborative intelligence systems
· mechanisms and models of expert cognition
· adaptive and routine expert performance
· mixed human-computer initiative with adjustable autonomy
· architectures to support symbiotic interaction
· case studies of user interfaces/interactions with intelligent systems
· affective user interfaces
· teams of users and intelligent systems
· issues of trust and privacy in symbiotic interfaces
· social implications of physiological measures of humans
· determining and monitoring cognitive status of users
· multi-modal interfaces for input and output
· issues that may arise with intelligent systems and modeling expertise
Martha E. Crosby (Primary Contact)
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
1680 East West Road POST 317
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808)956-3500
Fax: (808)956-3548
Lucy Nowell
Advanced Research & Development Activity (ARDA)
National Security Agency
9800 Savage Road, Suite 6644, Room 12A69, NBP 1 Building
Fort Meade, MD 20755-6644
Phone: (443) 479-8010 (direct) or (800) 276-3747
Fax: (301) 688-7410
Jean Scholtz
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, MS 8940
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Phone: (301) 975-2520
Fax:
(301) 975-5287
jean.scholtz@mindspring.com
Virtual teams are faced with a variety of challenges in communication, coordination and knowledge management. Those needing to be especially creative can easily be overwhelmed. Creativity encompasses aesthetic and artistic aspects as well as functional novelty and elegance in a business or engineering context. Management becomes a task of integrating different kinds of creativity across a variety of work domains. Processes involving chains of group meetings interspersed with periods of individual focus provoke both technological and behavioral issues and challenges.
Creativity crosses disciplines and interests, e.g. in collaboration systems as well as knowledge management, and, to some extent, organizational systems. Technology in the context of creativity has mixed blessings: on the one hand, providing degrees of freedom that may encourage creativity; on the other hand, creativity can easily by overwhelmed by inappropriate structure and the general avalanche of ideas often occurring in technology supported environments.
This
symposium will give special attention to the inclusion of creativity
as a specific area of focus in virtual teams, using requirements engineering and
ubiquitous workspaces as context. Specific examples from an engineering
disciplinary perspective will illustrate concepts and provide focus.
Douglas R. Vogel
is Professor and Chair of
Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong and an AIS Fellow.
Professor Vogel's research interests bridge the business and academic
communities in addressing questions of the impact of management information
systems on aspects of interpersonal communication, group problem solving,
cooperative learning, and multi-cultural team productivity as well as knowledge
management and electronic commerce. Professor Vogel is especially active in
introducing group support technology into enterprises and educational systems
and is additionally researching mobile commerce and mobile e-learning
applications. Additional detail can be found at
http://144.214.55.145/isdoug/cv/index.htm
isdoug@cityu.edu.hk (primary contact)
Paul
Swatman is
Professor, School of Computing and Information Science at the University
of South Australia. He has a broad base of global experience in engineering and
business disciplines. His technological background emphasizes the application
of distributed technology in engineering contexts. Dr. Swatman’s research
center in Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment focuses
on the development of a requirements engineering
methodology to bridge the gap between socio-oganisational
approaches and formal methods of interest to mathematical requirements
engineers. detail can be found at
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/Homepage.asp?Name=paul.swatman
paul.swatman@unisa.edu.au
Information Technology Application in Emerging Economies:
Strategies, Best Practices, Theories and Tools and Techniques (afternoon)
Increasing globalization of the world economies is being fueled by a number of Information Technology (IT) infrastructures and applications. The fact that IT is a catalyst for economic, social and human development in parts of the world emerging into global collaboration and trade brings about significantly different patterns and ways of working.
The
challenge facing policy makers, practitioners and academics is how to achieve
significant and measurable improvements in addressing development goals through
Information and Communication Technology. This requires: 1) Strategies for
sourcing goods in the less developed countries and marketing services to the
more developed countries, 2) Best practices for working in the different
countries; 3) Theories and frameworks that explain the effects of IT on
development; and 4) Tools and techniques for ascertaining the effects of IT
infrastructures in government, civil society and the private sector.
This symposium will focus
attention on the necessary research areas through a combination of contributed
papers and high-profile invited experts. An expected outcome is publication of
selected papers in ITD Journal Special Issues.
Sajda Qureshi is AssociateProfessor, Information Systems Department at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha. She holds a PhD in Information Systems from
the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. She
was coordinator of the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for
Development and has lectured at the University of Arizona, was assistant
professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and has been
involved in various consultancy projects in Italy
and the UK. She has over 60 journal publications, and is
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information
Technology for Development and Senior Editor for
DATA BASE.
squreshi@ist.unomaha.edu (primary contact)
Douglas
R. Vogel is
Professor and Chair of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong
and an AIS Fellow. Professor Vogel's research interests bridge the business and
academic communities in addressing questions of the impact of management
information systems on aspects of interpersonal communication, group problem
solving, cooperative learning, and multi-cultural team productivity as well as
knowledge management and electronic commerce. Professor Vogel is especially
active in introducing group support technology into enterprises and educational
systems and is additionally researching mobile commerce and mobile e-learning
applications. Additional detail can be found at
http://144.214.55.145/isdoug/cv/index.htm
isdoug@cityu.edu.hk
Innovation is no longer
the exclusive privilege of a selected group in a corporate office, nor is it
controlled only by large corporations with deep pockets. Innovators turned
entrepreneurs have become a major threat to large corporations. A groundswell of
innovation across all corners of the world is resulting in intensified
competition leading to shortening of product and service innovation cycles.
The use of Customer Relationship Management to identify future products and services has resulted in on-demand innovations. Service innovation is particularly compelling given that client-facing services are likely to be least affected by off-shored outsourcing. These are the only jobs that are expected to remain local in the long run.
This
symposium aims to bring together interested academics and practitioners to
examine the issues related to the management of such globalized service and
on-demand innovations. Topics of interest include: current practices in the
management of globalized on-demand innovation and service innovation; review of
case studies in globalized innovation management and a panel on “Challenges in
Managing Globalized Innovation”.
Please contact the co-chairs if you are interested in contributing to this
symposium.
Desai Narasimhalu is a Practice Professor of Information Systems at the School of Information Systems of the Singapore Management University. His areas of interest include innovation and innovation management and information systems management. His practice interest is to help entrepreneurs build new businesses that exploit market and technology shifts.
Gina Poole is Vice President, Innovation and University Relations for IBM. She has worldwide responsibility for developing and executing internal programs that drive IBM's strategic imperative for innovation further into IBM's culture; and external programs for collaborating with clients, partners, governments and academia to foster innovation. Previously, she was vice president of Developer Relations for IBM, having responsibility for IBM's developer programs that attract early adopters of technology, individual developers, and independent software vendors to IBM with tools, technical information, education, and interactive on-line resources that help developers build their skills and deliver successful IT projects. In addition, Gina has led IBM's Academic Initiative with universities worldwide to train IT students on open standards and prepare them for the "on demand" jobs of the future. Since beginning with IBM in 1984 as a programmer in the personal computer division, she has held a number of management positions in IBM's software and hardware divisions including: strategy and operations, technology and industry relationships, product management, and software development. Dr. Poole is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds degrees in computer science, business management, and economics.
Dianne Fodell is Program Director and lead strategist for IBM Innovation and University Relations. She has worldwide responsibility for developing and executing programs that foster innovation within IBM and to lead programs with University Partners that will help develop skills needed for the 21st Century. She is responsible for helping to establish Services Science curricula in Universities. She has held many technical and management positions in IBM, including strategist for IBM developer programs, offering product manager for Retail Store Solutions, WebSphere and Application Development Solutions, and Advanced System Design.
Marko Torkkeli is
a Professor of ICT Business in the Department of Industrial Engineering and
Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. His research
interests focus on strategic technology management, group support systems and
strategic entrepreneurship. He serves as Vice President of Research in the
International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM).
marko.torkkeli@lut.fi
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Mobile communication systems and handheld consumer appliances (cellular phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, etc) together with vehicular mobile systems (internet access points, diagnostics and safety tools, etc) are rapidly advancing areas in computer and communication applications. They present new challenges for designers, as these devices must be multifunctional, provide high computational performance and be very energy efficient. Also, in a mobile and wireless environment security problems become more and more important. New applications demand new technology. An emerging design approach is a configurable computing platform that aims at implementing algorithms in a computational space consisting of a large number of elementary computing cells. Such space can be (re)configured for solving a given problem. The configurable computing approach integrates the flexibility of programming conventional computers, with the efficiency of dedicated hardware devices on ASICs.
The aim of this symposium is to select speakers who will present the most
important trends in this emerging area of technology. See
http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/ERA/mocha07/mocha.htm for more
information.
Toomas P. Plaks
is currently with London South Bank University. He is a chairman of the
International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
and the Guest Editor of a series of special issues on Designing
Application-Specific High-Performance Processors on Reconfigurable Computing
Platform. His research interests include the design of high-performance
application-specific processors, massively parallel computer systems and
reconfigurable computation. Main interests are focusing on the theory of mapping
algorithms into space and time, i.e. into multi-core processors, FPGAs and VLSIs.
He has published about 85 scientific papers, including a monograph on the
synthesis of regular processor arrays.
plakst@lsbu.ac.uk
Collaboration Engineering is an approach to designing and deploying collaboration processes for high value recurring tasks, and for practitioners to execute for themselves, without the ongoing intervention of a professional facilitator. A key goal of Collaboration Engineering is to bring the benefits of facilitation and collaboration technology to groups who do not have access to professional facilitators. Collaboration engineers seek to capture and package facilitation best-practices in ways such that non-facilitators can execute them successfully, using the thinkLet concept. This workshop will allow invited authors to present their papers on the most recent insights in collaboration engineering. Furthermore two active sessions will be included in which a specific challenge in Collaboration Engineering will be discussed. The result of the workshop will contain advances in the research and will set the scene for the DESIGNING COLLABORATION PROCESSES & SYSTEMS minitrack.
Robert Briggs is Director of Academic Affairs for the Institute of Collaboration Science at the University of Nebraska of Omaha, and Associate Professor of Systems Engineering in 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 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 an MBA from San Diego State University
bbriggs@groupsystems.com (primary contact)
Gert-Jan de Vreede is Professor, Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis, University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he is director of the Peter Kiewit Institute’s Program on Collaboration Engineering. He is also affiliated with the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from where he received his PhD. His research focuses on the design of transferable practitioner-driven collaboration processes, the facilitation of group meetings, and the application, adoption, and diffusion of collaboration technology in organizations. He is co-founder of the Collaboration Engineering field and co-inventor of the thinkLets concept.
Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten is a PhD student at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She is an experienced facilitator of thinkLets-based Group Support Systems workshop having worked with numerous public and private organizations. Her research focuses on the quality of thinkLet-based collaboration process design for complex tasks. She developed the first example of Computer Supported Collaboration Engineering (CACE) technology – an integrated support suite to assist collaboration engineers in process design. Her research has been presented at HICSS and CRIWG, AMCIS and GDN conferences and has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computer Application in Technology and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
g.l.kolfschoten@tbm.tudelft.nl
COSEEKMO: Improving the State of the Art in Software Effort Estimation
(afternoon)
Jairus Hihn, Tim
Menzies, Karen Lum
This highly interactive workshop will be built around the tools and models developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Lane Department of Computer Science at the University of West Virginia. It will teach software managers and practitioners to utilize state-of-the-art cost estimation and model development techniques. We will provide an overview of cost estimation issues, modeling techniques, modeling evaluation methods and the COCOMO software effort estimation model. The majority of the time spent in will teach the participants how to access and use COSEEKMO and its associated COCOMO data sets to calibrate and validate there own estimation models, identifying optimal tuning parameters and validating the derived model based on quantitative measures of model performance. Participants will be provided with SCAT– a probabilistic COCOMO II estimation model, COSEEKMO – a tool for assessing different COCOMO style estimation models, and access to the PROMISE data sets.
Jairus Hihn is
a Principal Member of the Engineering staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
and is currently the manager for the Software Quality Improvement Projects
Measurement Estimation and Analysis Element, which is establishing a laboratory
wide software metrics and software estimation program at JPL. MEsA’s objective
is to enable the emergence of a quantitative software management culture at JPL.
He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. He has been
developing estimation models and providing software and mission level cost
estimation support to JPL’s Deep Space Network and flight projects since 1988.
Dr. Hihn has extensive experience in simulation and Monte Carlo methods with
applications in the areas of decision analysis, institutional change, R&D
project selection cost modeling, and process models.
jhihn@jpl.nasa.gov
Tim Menzies
is Associate Professor at the Lane Department of Computer Science at the
University of West Virginia (USA), and has been working with NASA on software
quality issues since 1998. His recent research concerns modeling and learning
with a particular focus on light-weight modeling methods. His doctoral research
aimed at improving the validation of possibly inconsistent, knowledge-based
systems in the QMOD specification language. He also has worked as an
object-oriented consultant in industry and has authored over 150 publications
and served on numerous conference and workshop programs and well as guest editor
of journal special issues.
tim@menzies.us
Karen Lum
is a Senior Cost Analyst at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, involved in the collection of software metrics, and
the development of software cost estimating relationships. She has an MBA in
Business Economics and a Certificate in Advanced Information Systems from the
California State University, Los Angeles. She has a BA in Economics and
Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is one of the main
authors of the JPL Software Cost Estimation Handbook. Publications include Best
Conference Paper for ISPA 2002: Validation of Spacecraft Software Cost
Estimation Models for Flight and Ground Systems.
ktlum@jpl.nasa.gov
Emergency Management Information Systems (afternoon workshop)
Murray Turoff
This will be a combination tutorial (morning) and participation-oriented workshop (afternoon) on the teaching of the Design of Emergency Management Information Systems. The primary orientation will be on the requirements and user interface considerations for the design of these systems and the incorporation of Decision Support tools to service any aspect of the Emergency Management process from the functions of planning through response and recovery.
The style of the morning tutorial presentation will be a review of the material used in a specific course, including some of the assignments. The current course is offered both as a face-to-face course section integrated (blended) with a distance section. The workshop part will be open discussion and exploration of suggestions for improving the content and assignments of such a course. Participants who teach related design courses are invited to submit to offer mini presentations consisting of up to six PowerPoint slides to be incorporated into the materials and to provide a ten-minute presentation at the workshop.
Murray Turoff is Professor, Information Systems Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is responsible for the design of the first Emergency Management Information System in 1971 at the Office of Emergency Preparedness in the Executive Offices of the President (EMISARI). It was used for the Wage Price Freeze and numerous emergencies for a 15-year period. Since 1973 Dr. Turoff has been involved in R&D on Computer Mediated Communications tailored to various different application areas. In 2001 he turned his attention back to the emergency management area and has been involved with efforts to establish a professional community for R&D in Emergency Management Information Systems. More information is available at http://is.njit.edu/turoff and http://iscram.org.
Persistent Conversation (morning)
Thomas Erickson and Susan Herring
Persistent conversation refers to
interactions carried out using chat, instant messaging, text messaging, email,
blogs, wikis, mailing lists, newsgroups, textual and graphical virtual worlds,
etc. The persistence of such conversations gives them the potential to be
searched, browsed, replayed, annotated, visualized, restructured, and
recontextualized, thus opening the door to a variety of new uses and practices.
This multidisciplinary workshop sets the stage for the persistent
conversation minitrack, and is intended to promote dialog between those who
design persistent conversation systems, and those who study them. We will select
(in late November) a publicly accessible CMC site, which each workshop member
will be asked to analyze, critique, redesign, or otherwise examine using their
disciplinary tools and techniques before the workshop convenes. The workshop
will include presentations and discussions of the participants' examinations of
the site and its content.
See http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS40pc.html for more information on the
workshop and the PC minitrack.
Thomas Erickson is a Research Staff Member and an interaction designer and researcher at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. He is interested in understanding how large groups of people interact via networks, and in designing systems that support deep, productive, coherent, network-mediated conversation. Originally trained as a cognitive psychologist, Erickson has evolved into an interaction designer and researcher via work at a start up, Apple Computer, and IBM Research.
Susan Herring is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research applies language-focused methods of analysis to digital conversations in order to identify their recurrent properties and social effects. Originally trained as a linguist at UC Berkeley, she has evolved into a researcher of communication in new media through her interests in computer-mediated communication (CMC). She has edited or co-edited a number of collections on CMC, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Legal regulation, policies and the operational functioning of information systems that process Personal Identifiable Information (PII), trade secrets, and copyrighted data have become important extensions to computer security. The integration of privacy concepts into information systems has become mandatory due in part of compliance. Integrating privacy in system architecture represents an emerging area for research.
This half-day workshop will explain basic privacy concepts and principles. Privacy will be examined as an extension of computer security, focusing on current privacy issues as they affect information systems, data management and data governance. Presentations will cover the legal, technological, compliance, and policy aspects of privacy. Methods to address privacy requirements in the specification, development, selection, deployment, and management of systems will be presented. Discussions of existing research problems will be included.
William Hafner is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Privacy and Security Studies (IPASS), Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Dr. Hafner's research interests are in the areas of privacy and security. He is especially interested in privacy and its impact on IT, privacy representation languages, data governance, and federated identity management. During his career in industrial software development and management, he has had senior positions for major computer and telecommunications companies and was a research scientist for the Department of Energy. He led the development of large-scale applications in databases, telecommunications, engineering and mathematical processing.
Timothy J. Ellis
is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Computer and
Information Sciences, Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He
has 15 years experience in the health care and human services industry as both a
therapist and administrator, is a retired U.S. Navy officer, and has 12 years
experience as an educator in higher education. He has earned a Master of Arts
degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in
Rehabilitation Administration, and a Philosophy Doctorate with a specialization
in Computing Technology in Education.
Production Quality P2P Systems (morning)
Ali Ghodsi, Jean-Henry Morin, and Bill Yeager
The new millennium vision was
100’s of millions of peers in a global Peer-to-Peer network capable of
discovering one another, establishing end-to-end connections and communicating.
This was to be done so that the user of any device with a digital heartbeat and
a connection to the Internet could participate. This vision arrived along with
the introduction of Napster, massive copyright abuse, the bursting of the
Internet bubble, the exponential growth of SPAM, viruses, DoS attacks, a
multitude of ways to compromise a user’s privacy and personal data, and
increasing surveillance. Doing something new and innovative on the Internet to
enhance the user experience and to include “garage entrepreneurs” in the revenue
stream is a noble goal to which those involved in building Peer-to-Peer Systems
aspire. To this end this workshop provides a forum to address the
challenge of building production quality P2P systems.
Ali
Ghodsi is a
researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) and KTH/Royal
Institute of Technology. He is the main designer and implementer of the
Distributed K-ary System (DKS), which is a generic P2P middleware which supports
scalable application-level multicast, name-based communication, configurable
Distributed Hash Tables (DHT).
ali@sics.se (primary contact)
Jean-Henri Morin holds a PhD and a degree in Information Systems from the University of Geneva. He has published in international conferences and journals and has worked on many European research projects. His present research interests include Digital Rights and Policy Management, electronic commerce, Peer-to-Peer computing, mobile objects (agents), business information systems, and information services over open networks.
Bill Yeager has a career in computer systems that spans 40+ years. His last 29 years have been spent at Stanford University, 19 years, and Sun Microsystems, 10 years. At Stanford he invented the multiple protocol Internet router in 1982 that was licensed by Cisco Systems. At Sun Bill was CTO of project JXTA. He has 4 patents on email, and 36 patents pending on his P2P work.
bill@peerouette.com
This
workshop covers strategic planning in information technology in challenging
environments. Participants will receive an overview of different approaches to
strategic planning for technology, including best practices and analyses of the
advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Between four and six case studies
will be presented, each of them covering a different aspect of strategic
planning in information technology in a particularly difficult situation or
adverse conditions. A hybrid approach to strategic planning will be developed
using the lessons learned from these case studies.
The session will be of interest to participants who are engaged in any type of
planning activity that involves deploying or supporting information technology
in large organizations. Participants will leave with a good grasp of best
practices in strategic planning and a framework to use with their own projects.
Glenda Morgan is Director of Academic Technology Initiatives at the California State University, Office of the Chancellor. She manages strategic planning projects involving academic technology for the twenty-three campuses of the CSU. She also is an active researcher into the use and impact of technology in higher education and has published a number of studies on these topics. This research has been supported by grants from organizations such as Educause and the National Science Foundation, from which she currently holds a multi-year research grant to investigate how faculty use digital libraries.