Ninth Workshop On Information Technologies And Systems

December 11-12, 1999

Hilton Charlotte And Towers

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11

7:45 AM onwards Registration for WITS 99

7:45 AM - 8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (Mecklenburg)

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome (Charlotte)

Sridhar Narasimhan, Georgia Institute Of Technology, USA

Sumit Sarkar, University Of Texas At Dallas, USA

WITS’99 Co-Chairs

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Session I: Keynote Address (Charlotte)

Talk: Applying Data Warehousing to Community Health Assessment, Alan R. Hevner, Salomon Brothers/Hidden River Corporate Park Chair of Distributed Technology, University of South Florida

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM Refreshment Break

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Parallel Sessions

Session II.a: Internet Business Models (Graham)

Chair: Paulo Goes, University Of Connecticut

II.a.1 The Design And Operation Of A System To Analyze After-Hour Stock Market Behavior

Ming Fan, University of Notre Dame

Andrew Whinston and Jan Stallaert, University of Texas at Austin

II.a.2 An Empirical Investigation Of Market Leadership In The Web Portal Industry

John Gallaugher and Charles Downing, Boston College

II.a.3 Diffusion Of Electronic Stores (Nominee: Best Paper Award)

Ting-Peng Liang and Yi-Cheng Ku, National Sun Yat-sen University

Session II.b: Machine Learning And Information Retrieval (Dunn)

Chair: Atish Sinha, University Of Dayton

II.b.1 Reuse-Based Questionnaire Design In Survey Research

Arun Sen and Marietta Tretter, Texas A&M University

II.b.2 Disease Prognosis With An Isotonic Prediction Technique

Young Ryu, R. Chandrasekaran, and Varghese Jacob, University Of Texas At Dallas

II.b.3 Bias In Information Retrieval Systems

Abbe Mowshowitz and Akira Kawaguchi, City College of New York

11:45 AM - 1: 15 PM Luncheon (Mecklenburg)

Talk: ERP and E-Commerce: New Initiatives for the Year 2000 and Beyond, Bernd Heesen, Prescient Consulting

1:15 PM - 3: 15 PM Session III: Poster Session (Charlotte)

III.1 Model Composition In DSS Using Filter Spaces

Kaushal Chari, University of South Florida

III.2 Analyzing Investments In Object-Oriented Middleware (Nominee: Best Paper Award)

Qizhi Dai, Robert Kauffman, and Sal March, University Of Minnesota

III.3 Linking Concepts To Identifiers In Information Systems Engineering

Peter Wendorff, University of Westminster

III.4 A Flexible Agent-Based Toolkit For Developing Collaborative Systems Analysis And Design Tools

Ramesh Venkataraman, Indiana University

Samir Dhume, Nbase-Xyplex

III.5 A Novel Architecture For Next-Generation Internet Services

Samir Chatterjee, Georgia State University

III.6 Awareness Mechanisms For Coordination In Asynchronous CSCW

Marcos Borges, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Jose Pino, Universidad de Chile

III.7 The Hybrid Fiber Co-Axial Network Design Problem

Erik Rolland, University Of California, Riverside

Raymond Patterson, University Of Texas at Dallas

III.8 An Automated System For Artifact Reuse In Systems Analysis And Design

Vijayan Sugumaran and Mohan Tanniru, Oakland University

Veda Storey, Georgia State University

III.9 Facilitation Tool - A Tool To Assist Facilitators Managing Group Decision Support Systems

Pedro Antunes and Tania Ho, Instituto Superior Tecnico

III.10 Design Of Efficient Hybrid Neural Networks For Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling

Erik Rolland, University Of California, Riverside

Varghese Jacob, University of Texas at Dallas

Hong Wang, Wright State University

III.11 Reducing Electronic Commerce Coordination Costs Through A Semantic Routing Protocol

David Kuechler and Vijay Vaishnavi, Georgia State University

William Kuechler, University of Nevada at Reno

III.12 Toward Automated Support For Transparent Interoperable Queries

Alan Kaplan, Bradley Schmerl, and Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Clemson University

III.13 Managing Software Development Projects Using System Fault Data (Nominee: Best Paper Award)

Vijay Mookerjee, University of Washington

Robert Chiang, University of Connecticut

III.14 Pricing Strategy For Priority-Based Networks

Debabrata Dey and Yong Tan, University Of Washington

III.15 Efficient Handling Of Micropayments In Electronic Commerce

Anindya Datta, Georgia Institute of Technology

Supriyo Ghose, Price Waterhouse Coopers

3:30 PM - 4: 30 PM Session IV.a: Joint WITS/WISE Panel (Adam’s Mark: Symphony IV)

Research Opportunities In Electronic Commerce

Mike Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Moderator)

Benn R. Konsynski, Emory University

Arie Segev, University of California, Berkeley

Abraham Seidmann, University of Rochester

Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas at Austin

4:45 PM - 5: 45 PM Session IV.b: Joint WITS/WISE Panel (Adam’s Mark: Symphony IV)

Academic Programs in Electronic Commerce

Chris F. Kemerer, University of Pittsburgh (Moderator)

Amit Basu, Vanderbilt University

Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Carnegie Mellon University

Hasan Pirkul, University of Texas at Dallas

6:00 PM - 7: 00 PM UTD/ITM Reception (Adam’s Mark: Symphony IV)

7:00 PM - 9: 00 PM Workshop Dinner: Joint WITS/WISE (Adam’s Mark: BRAVO! Ristorante)

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12

7:45 AM onwards Registration for WITS 99

7:45 AM - 8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (Mecklenburg)

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM Parallel Sessions

Session V.a: Business Processes And Workflow Management (Graham)

Chair: Giri Tayi, SUNY at Albany

V.a.1 Mining Instance Data To Discover Process Models

Wan-Shiou Yang and San-Yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-Sen University

V.a.2 Developing Business Models To Support Information System Evolution

Yair Wand, Carson Woo, and Samson Hui, University Of British Columbia

V.a.3 A Framework For Handling Delegation In Workflow Management Systems

Akhil Kumar, University of Colorado

Session V.b: Network Design (Dunn)

Chair: Waleed Muhanna, Ohio State University

V.b.1 A New Prioritized Channel Assignment Scheme For Reducing The Forced-Termination Rate Of Handoff Call In Mobile Cellular Network

Kim Gun-Hee and Park Myong-Soon, Korea University

V.b.2 Hierarchical Cellular Network Design With Channel Allocation

Rakesh Gupta and Joakim Kalvenes, University of Texas at Dallas

V.b.3 Residential Broadband Networks: Preliminary Findings From A Canadian 'Information Highway' Trial

Catherine Middleton, York University

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Parallel Sessions

Session VI.a: Designing E-Commerce Systems (Graham)

Chair: Jeff Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland

VI.a.1 The Effect Of Download Time On E-Commerce: The Download Time Brand Impact Model

Gregory Rose and Detmar Straub, Georgia State University

VI.a.2 Reputation Mechanisms In Web-Based Commerce - A Theoretical Overview And Research Agenda

Ross Malaga, University of MD, Baltimore County

VI.a.3 A Web Personalization Engine Based On User Transaction Clustering

Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University

Session VI.b: Advanced Data Management Issues (Dunn)

Chair: Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati

VI.b.1 A Comprehensive Framework For Classifying Data- And Schema-Level Semantic Conflicts In Geographic And Non-Geographic Databases

Sudha Ram, Jinsoo Park, Kangsuk Kim, and Yousub Hwang, University of Arizona

VI.b.2 Accessing Data In Block-Compressed Data Warehouses (Nominee: Best Paper Award)

Anindya Datta and Helen Thomas, Georgia Institute Of Technology

VI.b.3 Conceptual Data Type Primitives And Attribute Modeling

Cecil Chua, Nanyang Technological University

Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati

Lim Ee-Peng, Nanyang Technological University

12:00 PM - 1: 45 PM Luncheon And Best Paper Award Presentation (Mecklenburg)

Talk: The Use of Software Agents in Enterprise Integration, Bei-Tseng (Bill) Chu, UNC Charlotte

1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Parallel Sessions

Session VII.a: Information Products And Services (Graham)

Chair: Paul Bowen, University of Queensland

VII.a.1 Exploring Traffic Pricing For The Virtual Private Network

Zhangxi Lin, Dale Stahl, Peng Si Ow, and Andrew Whinston, University of Texas at Austin

VII.a.2 How Many Functions Should Software Vendors Include In Their Products? A Game Theoretic Analysis Of Software Function Decisions

Kai-Lung Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

VII.a.3 Optimal Software Maintenance And Replacement Policies

Vijay Mookerjee and Yong Tan, University of Washington

Session VII.b: Agent Technologies (Dunn)

Chair: Mysore Ramaswamy, Southern University

VII.b.1 A Multi-Agent Approach To Supply Chain Disintermediation

Mark Nissen, Naval Postgraduate School

VII.b.2 Secure Disconnected Agent Interaction For Electronic Commerce Activities Using Capbased-AMS

Patrick Hung and Kamalakar Karlapalem, HKUST

VII.b.3 Agent Sophistication: Mapping Out Design Aspects For Data-Collecting Agents

Robert J. Kauffman, Salvatore T. March, and Charles Wood, University of Minnesota

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Refreshment Break

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Parallel Sessions

Session VIII.a: Panel – Teaching and Promoting Improvement Research Methods in Information Systems and Technology (Graham)

Vijay Vaishnavi, Georgia State University (Moderator)

Al Hevner, University of South Florida

Sal March, University of Minnesota

Sudha Ram, University of Arizona

Carson Woo, University of British Columbia

Session VIII.b: Knowledge Management (Dunn)

Chair: Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago

VIII.b.1 Support For The Management Of Interorganizational Knowledge On Disasters

Wally Smith, Edith Cowan University

John Dowell and Miguel Ortega-Lafuente, University College London

VIII.b.2 Use Of Knowledge Management Databases: An Analysis Of Data From A Big 5 Firm

Daniel O’Leary, University of Southern California

VIII.b.3 The Semiotics Of Knowledge Management

Arkalgud Ramaprasad and Paul Ambrose, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale