7th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'97)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA December 13-14, 1997
SPONSORS:
INFORMS College of Information Systems
Fisher Center for Management & IT, University of California Berkeley
WITS'97 (http://isr.berkeley.edu/wits)
The 7th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'97)
will be held in Atlanta, Georgia during December 13-14, 1997. The
purpose of the workshop is to promote discussion and interaction
among members of the Information Systems community with research
interests in cutting-edge information technologies and systems. We
are particularly interested in exchanging research ideas and results
which will not only contribute to the academic areas, but will also
benefit the business community in the foreseeable future. The theme
of WITS'97 is the Role of the Internet and Web-based Systems in
Networked Organizations
TOPICS
We solicit condensed research papers describing original ideas, new
results, novel applications, or "experience reports" describing
lessons learned in the development, operations, and maintenance of
actual systems The research should address issues concerning the
theory, development, management and application of advanced
information technologies and systems. We also encourage proposals
for panels that examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise
provocative issues. Suggested topics include, but not limited to:
o Intranet & Extranet Design
o Intelligent Agents
o Knowledge Discovery and Management
o Information Quality, Privacy and Security
o Human-Computer Interaction
o Information Warehousing & OLAP
o Advanced Database Technologies
o Object-Oriented Systems & Methodologies
o Web-Based Software Development & Commerce
o Intra- & Inter-Organizational Workflow Systems
o Collaborative and Negotiation Systems
o Integration with Legacy Systems
o Geographical Info Systems
o Multi-Media System
SUBMISION INSTRUCTIONS
The length of submitted papers should be limited to
double-spaced, 12-point font, 10 8.5x11 inch pages (including tables,
figures, and references). Panel proposals, are limited to 5
pages, and should include a summary of the topics to be covered,
names, and affiliations of 3-4 panelists who have made a
commitment to participate, a summary of their position statements,
and a brief biography of each. A mix of industry and academic panel
members is encouraged. Submissions violating the above
requirements will be rejected without going through the review
process.
All submissions, excluding panel proposals, will be
reviewed double blind. Selection for presentation at the workshop
and publication in the proceedings will be based on originality,
contribution to the field, and workshop interest. The program
committee may select papers as posters in which case the authors will
have to condense them to 5 pages for the conference proceedings.
Authors of selected research papers may be invited to submit
complete versions of their work for possible journal publication after
the workshop.
All submissions must be electronic in either Microsoft Word, PDF,
or postscript files not to exceed 1Mbyte. The mechanism for the
electronic submissions is as follows. An abstract, including authors
names and affiliation, must be e-mailed to wits97@isr.berkeley.edu
by July 1, 1997. A return e-mail will contain instructions and a
paper number that should be used by the authors to e-mail or ftp the
"anonymous" full papers. Panel proposals should follow the same
process except the anonymity.
For submission questions, contact Arie Segev, segev@haas.berkeley.edu
For local arrangements questions contact Vijay K. Vaishnavi, vvaishna@gsu.edu
WEB SITE: http://isr.berkeley.edu/wits
IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for abstract e-mail: July 1, 1997
Deadline for full electronic paper: July 12, 1997
Notification of acceptance: September 20, 1997
Camera-ready copy due: October 15, 1997
WORKSHOP & PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Arie Segev
Haas School of Business
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
USA
Phone: +1-510-642-4731
Fax: +1-510-642-2826
Email: segev@haas.berkeley.edu
Vijay K. Vaishnavi
Department of Computer Information Systems
Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4015, Atlanta, GA 30302-4015,
USA
Phone: +1-404-651-3891
Fax: +1-404-651-3842
Email: vvaishna@gsu.edu
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Hemant Bhargava, NPGS, USA
Anitesh Barua , Univ of Texas, Austin, USA
Paul Bowen, Univ of Queensland, Australia
Roger Chiang, Nanyang Tech Univ, Singapore
Prabuddha De, Univ of Dayton, USA
Amitava Dutta, George Mason Univ, USA
Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel
Avi Gal, Univ of Toronto, Canada
Oliver Guenther, Humboldt Univ, Germany
Al Hevner, Univ of South Florida, USA
Mike Huhns, Univ of South Carolina, USA
Varghese Jacob, Ohio State Univ, USA
Hemant Jain , Univ of Wisconsin, Milw., USA
Manfred Jeusfeld, Aachen Univ of Technology, Germany
Young-Gul Kim, KAIST, Korea
Kimbrough , Upenn, USA
Wolfgang Koenig, Univ of Frankfurt, Germany
Ramayya Krishnan, CMU, USA
Akhil Kumar , Univ of Colorado, USA
Sal March , Univ of Minnesota, USA
Sridhar Narashiman , Georgia Tech, USA
Sham Navathe , Georgia Tech, USA
Dan Oleary, USC, USA
Aris Ouksel, Univ of Illinois, USA
Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve Univ, USA
Mike Papazouglo, Tilburg Univ, Netherland
Jooseok Park, Kyung Hee Univ, Korea
Ajit Patankar, Anderson Consulting, USA
Hasan Pirkul , Univ of Texas, Dallas, USA
Sudha Ram , Univ of Arizona, USA
Louiqa Raschid, Univ of Maryland, USA
Sumit Sarkar, LSU, USA
Arun Sen, Texas A&M, USA
Mike Shaw , Univ of Illinois, USA
Olivia Sheng, HKUST, Hong Kong
Ted Stohr, NYU, USA
Diane Strong , WPI, USA
Veda Storey, Georgia State Univ, USA
Kenji Takahashi, NTT MCL, USA
Mohan Tanniru, Syracuse Univ, USA
Carson Woo, UBC, Canada
Leon Zhao, HKUST, Hong Kong
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