Forwarded message from [jarke@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Prof. Dr. M. Jarke)] sent originally on Tue, 9 Nov 1999 07:45:12 +0100: : The 8th European Conference on Information Systems will take : place in Vienna, Austria, July 3-5, 2000. : The theme of ECIS 2000 is "A Cyberspace Odyssey: : Trends in Information and Communication Systems for the 21st Century". : Detailed submission guidelines and general conference information : can be found under http://ecis2000.wu-wien.ac.at/start.htm : : Deadline for submissions is November 15, 1999. : : Among other goals, ECIS 2000 has been designed to foster the dialog : between computer science advances and the behavioral and : management-oriented focus of the previous conferences in the ECIS : series. One of the vehicles of this dialogs will be the : : ECIS 2000 Track on Technology, titled : *************************************************** : Databases, Internet, Multimedia: : Redesigning Boundaries in Time, Space and Culture : *************************************************** : coordinated by Matthias Jarke : Aachen University of Technology, Germany : : Objectives : : The technology infrastructure in organisations has seen radical : changes in the last decade, with the broad acceptance of relational : database technology, widespread usage of networked personal : computing, the development of the Internet as a competing : infrastructure to the traditional phone, mail and library system, : and with the broad introduction of multimedia in a wide range : of activities. Generally speaking, database technology has : devised new ways to bridge barriers of time for a much : larger amount and variety of information, together with : other communication advances the Internet has re-defined : the way how we see spatial barriers for co-operation, and : multimedia can be seen as a way to reduce conceptual : distances between different people, organisations and : culture, by moving closer to shared reality. The real impact, : and business opportunities, of course results from the combination : of these three technological streams in various forms of what could : be called Cooperative Information Systems. : : While many organisations are still struggling with the systematic uptake : of the technologies of the 90s, the next generation of technologies : is already on the horizon. Database technology is becoming deeply : integrated with network computing, both of them with multimedia, : and the upcoming satellite communication technologies which will : redefine the most current technological price-performance trade-offs : once again in a radical manner. These trends are strengthened by : new software technologies such as mobile agents, biocomputing and : high performance computing techniques which are gradually finding : their way into business applications. : : It is a major challenge for Information Managers, Information Systems : researchers and developers to cope conceptually with these continuing : changes. The maturing of object-oriented approaches into truly : component-based solutions will, if successful, lead to significant changes : in the system development process as well as in our whole understanding : of software architecture and software markets. Conceptual modeling : technologies, once marginal aspects in the early phase of the development : process, are taking center stage in grasping the different aspects and : opportunities. : The next generation of intelligent agent technologies, together with : intelligent : interfaces to everything, will shorten the cycle in mapping concepts to : systems reality. : : Track Theme and Suggested Topics : : This track will focus on the importance of technology in information : systems in the first decade of the 21st century. We shall address : questions such as: How will the confluence of new technologies in : databases, networks and interactive media change our personal, : team-oriented and formal information management structure : within and between organisations? How can we predict, and cope : with these impacts? What will the intelligent information management : solutions resulting from these observations be? Where can we : already find "best practice" for the technological future? : : Issues to be covered include but are not limited to: : : Using the web as an open information system : Exploitation of advanced database technologies through the web : (e.g. database marketing, publishing, ) : Business applications of mobile software agents : High-performance computing in business : Impact of biocomputing and nanocomputing : Novel collaborative work solutions and their management : Customisation of information systems to people, organisations, : situations, : Technological support for organisational knowledge management and training : Implications of new satellite broadband communication systems : New development strategies for solutions (component-based) : Methods for modelling and simulating the impact of technological changes : The role of new interaction media (interactive walls, ) : : ===== Start of ISWorld List Footer ===== : Moving? Want to subscribe/unsubscribe? 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