(DBWORLD) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 7th Workshop on Info Technolog & Systems (WITS

Arie Segev (dbworld@isr)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:03:29 -0800

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

7th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'97)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA December 13-14, 1997
http://isr.berkeley.edu/wits

ACADEMIC SPONSORS:

* INFORMS College of Information Systems
* Fisher Center for Management & Info Technology, University of
California, Berkeley
* Department of Computer Information Systems, College of Business
Administration, Georgia State University

INDUSTRY SPONSORS:

* Equifax
* HBO & Company
* Scientific Atlanta

The 7th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'97) will be
held in Atlanta, Georgia during December 13-14, 1997, preceding the ICIS
conference. 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.
The theme of WITS'97 is the Role of the Internet and Web-based Systems in
Networked Organizations.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

DAY 1 - Saturday, December 13

8:00 - Registration for WITS '97 at the Workshop Desk

8:30am-9am Continental Breakfast

9am-9:15am Welcome

9:15am-10:15am keynote Speaker

Mr. C. Richard Crutchfield
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Equifax,Inc.

10:15am-10:30am Refreshment Break

10:30pm-12:00pm Parallel Sessions

Session 1A: Search and Retrieval Techniques for the WWW

* The Relationship Between Relevance and Reliability in Internet-based
Information and Retrieval Systems.
Daniel E. O'Leary, Univ of Southern California
* Relational Querying of Semi-structured Web Data
Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Georgia State Univ
* Web Page Categorization and Feature Selection Using Association and
Principal Component Clustering
Jerome Moore, Eui-Hong (Sam) Han, Daniel Boley, Maria Gini,Robert
Gross,Kyle Hastings,George Karypis,Vipin Kumar, & Bamshad Mobasher,
University of Minnesota, USA

Session 1B: Database Issues

* Complexity and errors in SQL queries: Development and Empirical
Comparison of Complexity Measures
Faye Borthick, Georgia State University, USA; Paul Bowen & Russell
Diery, University of Queensland, Australia
* Resolving Instance-level Relationship Conflicts in Database
Integration Ee-Peng Lim & Roger H.L. Chiang, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
* A Comparative Study of Three Database Application Development
Environments Ahmed Iftikhar & Fred Lochovsky, Hong Kong Univ of
Science & Technology

12:00pm-1:45pm Luncheon

Best paper Award Presentation
Luncheon Speaker: TBA

1:45pm-3:15pm Plenary Session

Session 2 (Industry Session): Digital Commerce

* Carolyn Nguyen, Bell Labs
* Alan Taetle, MindSpring
* Robert Taylor, Cambridge Technology Partners

3:15pm-3:45pm Refreshment Break

3:45pm-5:15pm Parallel Sessions

Session 3A: Panel - Are Existing Systems Analysis and Design Methods
Obsolete for Web-based Applications?

* Ritu Agarwal, Florida State University, USA
* Roger H.L. Chiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
* Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
* Iris Vessey, Indiana University, USA

Session 3B: Poster Session

* Activity Based Security in Intranet and Internet workflows
Thomas A. Kindler, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Supporting Organizational Learning Processes through Failure
Management
Ralf Klamma & Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen , Germany
* Modeling Organizational Processes: Incentive Issues and a Specicific
Example
T.S. Raghu, H.R. Rao, & A. Chaudhury, University at Buffalo, USA
* Dynamic Versus Static Policies for Data Archival in Hierarchical
Storage Management
Vijay S. Mookerjee, Univ of Washington, USA

* Views for Heterogeneous Object-Oriented Database Integration
Rehab Duwairi, Nick Fiddian & Alex Gray, University of Wales, UK

5:15 END OF DAY ONE'S PRGRAM

5:15pm - 6:15pm WITS '98 PC Meeting

7:00pm Workshop Dinner

DAY 2 - Sunday, December 14

7:30am - 08:30 WITS Steering Committee Meeting

8:30am-9am Registration and Continental Breakfast

9am-10:30am Parallel Sessions

Session 4A: Data Warehousing, Mining and OLAP

* On the Discovery of Unexpected Rules in Data-Mining Applications
Balaji Padmanabhan & Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, USA
* A Conceptual Model and an algebra for On-Line Analytical Processing
in Data Warehouses
Anindya Datta & Helen Thomas, University of Arizona, USA
* A Novel Approach for Smaller, Faster Data Warehouses
Anindya Datta & Igor Viguier, University of Arizona, USA

Session 4B: Collaboration & Coordination

* Modeling Coordination in Software Construction Under Size and Learning
Effects
Vijay S. Mookerjee & Robert Chiang, University of Washington, USA
* Collaborative Object Workspaces (COWS): Exploring the Integration of
Collaboration Technology
Munir Mandviwalla & Shariq Khan, Temple University, USA
* Key Issues in the Design of an Asynchronous System to Support Meeting
Preparation
Marcos R.S.Borges, Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jose
A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, David A. Fuller, Pontificia Universidad
Catolica de Chile, & Ana C. Salgado, Universidad Federal de Pernambuco

10:30am-10:45am Refreshment Break

10:45pm-12:15pm Parallel Sessions

Session 5A: WWW and Workflows Issues

* The Architecture of the USC Integrated Digital Archives
Cavit Aydin, Navid Haddadi, Doug Ierardi, Leta Hunt, Ta-Wei Li,
University of Southern California, USA
* Workflow Management on the Internet
J. Leon Zhao, Hong Kong Univ of Science & Technology & Akhil Kumar,
University of Colorado, USA
* The Web and Small Businesses: Interaction and Impacts
Amelia Baldwin, Florida International University, USA; Andrew Lymer,
University of Birmingham & Roland, Johnson, IBM plc, UK

Session 5B: System Design Methodologies

* Using Sequences of Use Cases and Activities in Object-oriented
Analysis
E.B. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, & M. Anwar, Motorola, USA
* APSARA : A Web-based Tool to Automate System Design
Sandeep Purao & Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA
* Reconciling Top-Down and Bottom-Up Design Approaches in RMM
Tomás Isakowitz, University of Pennsylvania; Arnold Kamis & Marios,
Koufaris, New York University, USA

12:15pm-2pm Luncheon

Luncheon Speaker: Arie Segev, University of California, Berkeley

The WITS '97 Web Based Conference Systems - Lessons Learned

2:00pm-3:30pm Parallel Sessions

Session 6A: Multi-Media and Database Optimization

* Effective Distribution of Multimedia Content in Intranets
Tae-Dong Han & Sandeep Purao, Georgia State University, USA
* Scalable Video Browsing Techniques for Intranet Video Servers
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Roger Zimmermann, Seon Ho Kim, Weifeng Shi, &
Jaber Al-Marri, University of Southern California, USA
* Optimizing Relational Queries by Materializing Natural Joins
Xun Cheng & Jianwen Su,University of California at Santa Barbara,USA

Session 6B: Poster Session

* Box Structures for Software Architecture Definition and Verification
Alan Hevner, University of South Florida & Richard Linger, Software
Engineering Institute, USA
* The Impact of Introducing a Formal Enterprise Level Structured
Methodology on Software Application Quality
Kay M. Nelson, Univ. of Kansas, & Mehdi Ghods, The Boeing Company, USA
* WebCity: A WWW-based Hypermedia Environment for Software Development
Wenyu Jiang, Gail E. Kaiser, Stephen E. Dossick & Jack J. Yang,
Columbia University, USA
* A Shared Environment to Support Multiple Advanced Application Systems
Randal Peters, Peter Graham & Ken, Barker, University of Manitoba,
Canada
* Optimal use of Standardized Application Software Packages in
Distributed Systems - A Simulation Study Based on Communication and
Automation Costs
Susanne Leist & Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

3:30pm-4:00pm Refreshment Break

4:00pm-5:30pm Parallel Sessions

Session 7A: Panel - Web Data Management

* Joachim Hammer, Stanford University and University of Florida, USA
* Marian Nodine, Project Manager, InfoSleuth Project, MCC, USA
* George Mihaila, University of Toronto, CANADA
* Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA

Session 7B: Collaboration and Inference

* A Web-Based OO Platform for the Development of Didactic Multimedia
Collaborative Applications
David A. Fuller, Luis A. Guerrero, & Jenny Zegarra, Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Chile
* A Terminology Server for Quality-Driven Cooperative Terminology Work
Bettina von Buol & Stefanie KethersBettina, RWTH Aachen, Germany
* Genrating Rules from Bayesian Belief Networks
Vijay Mookerjee, Michael Mannino & Robert Gilson, University of
Washington, USA

5:30pm END OF WORKSHOP


Below are registration and hotel forms. Formatted PDF versions are
available at http://isr.berkeley.edu/wits

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WITS '97 REGISTRATION FORM

Please Type Or Print Legibly

Registrant Name: _______________________________________________________

Name for Badge: ________________________________________________________

University/Organization: _______________________________________________

Street/Address: ________________________________________________________

City/State/Province: ____________________________________________________

Zip/Mail Code, Country __________________________________________________

Telephone: __________________________ Fax: ____________________________

E-Mail Address: _________________________________________________________

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REGISTRATION FEES (IN U.S. DOLLARS):

Received Before November 1, 1997: $195 (Regular) $135 (Students)

Received November 1, 1997 and After: $255 (Regular) $160 (Students)

The registration fee includes two lunches, one dinner on Saturday,
December 13 (see the note below), coffee breaks for both days, and
one copy of the WITS '97 Proceedings.

Require Vegetarian Meals? Yes / No

Number of Extra Dinner Tickets: ______ (at $45 each)

NOTE: Tickets for the dinner are only guaranteed for people who
register before November 1, 1997. After that date, tickets will
be issued on first come first serve basis up to the seating capacity
of the restaurant.

PLEASE MAKE CHECK ISSUED BY A BANK IN USA OR A DRAFT DRAWN ON A BANK
IN USA (IN U.S. DOLLARS) PAYABLE TO WITS '97. INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT
MUST BE BY DRAFTS DRAWN AGAINST A U.S. BANK ACCCOUNT. RETURN COMPLETED
FORM AND CHECK/ DRAFT TO:

Professor Vijay K. Vaishnavi, WITS '97 Co-Chair
Department of Computer Information Systems
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4015
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4015, USA

Physical Address (for Overnight or Courier Delivery):

Ninth Floor, 35 Broad Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
Phone: (404)651-3891
Fax: (404)651-3842

Email: vvaishna@gsu.edu

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WITS '97 HOTEL RESERVATION FORM

Please type or print legibly
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PRINT THE FORM AND MAIL OR FAX DIRECTLY TO:

Atlanta Hilton and Towers
255 Courtland Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
USA
Tel: (404)659-2000
Fax: (404)222-2967

GROUP INFORMATION:

ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems)

RATES:

Main Hotel:

Single or Double/Twin: $109.00
Additional Person: +10.00
Tax: 13%

Towers:

Single or Double/Twin: $169.00
Additional Person: +10.00
Tax: 13%

Single: One Person - Deluxe King or Double/Double
Double: Two Persons - Deluxe King or Double/Double
Twin: Two Persons - Double/Double

RESERVATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE HOTEL NO LATER THAN 5 P.M. ON FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 14, 1997. Any reservation requests received after this date will
be subject to hotel availability. Check-in time is 3 p.m. and check-out
time is 12:30 p.m., and all guest room types are subject to availability
on the date of arrival. An early departure fee of $50 will be assessed if
any changes are made on the reservation after check-in that result in
early departure.

A deposit equal to one night's room and tax charges payable by check,
money order, or credit card, is required for each reservation. Deposits
are refundable if reservations are cancelled no less than 72 hours prior
to the day of arrival. If reservations are cancelled less than 72 hours
in advance of arrival, deposits will be forfeited.

NAME ________________________________________________________________

ROOMMATE ____________________________________________________________

ORGANIZATION ________________________________________________________

ADDRESS _____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

PHONE _______________________________________________________________

EMAIL _______________________________________________________________

FAX _________________________________________________________________

ARRIVAL DATE ________________________________________________________

DEPARTURE DATE ______________________________________________________

HHONORS NUMBER ______________________________________________________

ROOM TYPE ___________________________________________________________

Circle as Appropriate: Handicap Smoking Non-Smoking

CREDIT CARD TYPE ____________________________________________________

CREDIT CARD NUMBER __________________________________________________

EXPIRATION DATE _____________________________________________________

SIGNATURE ___________________________________________________________

The Atlanta Hilton and Towers is located in the heart of downtown Atlanta,
just 15 minutes from the Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport. Taxi
fare from the airport is approximately $15. Shuttle van service (Atlanta
Airport Shuttle) is available for $8 one way or $14 round trip. Rail
service within walking distance is $1.50.

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