From: Arun sen Subject: CFP: WITS96 in Cleveland Date: Thu, 08 Feb 96 15:17:44 CST From: Arun sen CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITSU96) Cleveland, Ohio December 14-15, 1996 The 6th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'96) will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, during December 14-15, 1996. 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. TOPICS We solicit condensed research papers describing original ideas and new results on information technologies and their applications. The research should address issues concerning the theory, development, and/or deployment of information technologies and systems. We also encourage people to submit proposals for panels that examine an emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative issue. We are offering for the first time poster sessions in WITS. These poster sessions will include "research-in-progress" and "experience reports." The research-in-progress describes interesting results that are new, while an experience report describes lessons learned in the development, operations, and maintenance of actual systems. Suggested topics include, but not limited to: - Decision Support Systems - Integrated Cognitive Architecture - Theory of Model Formulation - Executable Modeling Languages - Model Base Management Systems - Data Base Systems (Modeling, Language Development, and Implementation) - Natural Language Front-ends to Models - Extensible Data Base Systems - Object-Oriented Data Base Systems - Distributed Data Base Systems - Internet Issues - Computer Networks and Telecom - Knowledge Based Systems - Applications of Distributed AI - Collaborative and Group Systems - Human-Computer Interfaces - Software Reusability - Software Process Modeling - Virtual Reality - Software Development Environment - Software Validation - Quality and Measurement Issues in Data and Software INSTRUCTIONS The submission length of all papers (including condensed research papers, research-in-progress, and experience reports) should be limited to 10 pages (including tables, figures, and references). They should be double-spaced using 12-point font. Panel proposals, on the other hand, are limited to 5 pages. They 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 recommended. Queries regarding panels should be directed to Arun Sen. 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. Unlike condensed research papers, each entry in a poster session will get a maximum of 5 pages in the proceedings. Once the selection is finalized, we would ask the participants of poster sessions to condense their presentations. Authors of selected research papers may be invited to submit complete versions of their work for possible journal publication after the workshop. WEB SITES To find continuing information on this workshop, please visit the following websites on the Internet: a. WITS Home Page http://haas.berkeley.edu/~citm/wits.html b. WITS'96 Home Page http://acs.tamu.edu/~sen/wits96wb.html c. INFORMS- CIS Home Page http://acs.tamu.edu/~sen/informs-cis.html DATES Deadline for submission: July 8, 1996 Notification for acceptance: September 30, 1996 Camera-ready copy due: October 28, 1996 CO-CHAIRPERSONS All papers, panel proposals, research-in-progress, and experience reports should be submitted to the following co-chair: Arun Sen Department of Business Analysis College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77845, USA Phone: (409)-845-8370 Fax: (409)-845-5653 Email: sen@tamvm1.tamu.edu The local arrangements are handled by the following co-chair: George W. Ernst Computer Engineering and Science Department Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA Phone: (216)-368-2839 Fax: (216)-368-2801 Email: ernst@ces.cwru.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anitesh Barua, Univ. of Texas, USA Don Batory, Univ. of Texas, USA Robert Blanning ,Vanderbilt Univ., USA S. Brinkkemper, University of Twente, Netherlands I. Z. Ben-Shaul, Techinon, Israel Roger Chiang, Nanyang Tech Univ, Singapore James Courtney,Texas A&M Univ., USA Prabuddha De, Univ. of Dayton, USA Dan Dolk, Naval Post Graduate School, USA Amitava Dutta, George Mason Univ., USA Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel Brian Gaines, Univ. of Calgary, Canada Robert Goldstein, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada H. Altay Guvenir, Bilkent Univ., Turkey Alan R. Hevner, Univ. of South Florida, USA Michael Huhns, Univ. of South Carolina, USA Mathias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany Gail Kaiser, Columbia Univ., USA S. Kimbrough, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA R. Krishnan, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA Nazim Madhavji, McGill University, Canada R. Mahapatra, Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville, USA Arun Majumdar, IIT- Kharagpur, India Sal March , Univ. of Minnesota, USA S. Narashiman, Georgia Inst. of Tech, USA Sham Navathe, Georgia Inst. of Tech, USA Levant Orman, Cornell Univ., USA M. Papazouglou, Queensland U. of Tech., Australia Hasan Pirkul , Ohio State Univ., USA Sudha Ram, Univ. of Arizona, USA Sumit Sarkar, Louisiana State Univ., USA Arie Segev, Univ. of California-Berkeley, USA Olivia Sheng, HKST, Hong Kong Veda Storey, Univ. of Rochester, USA A. Srinivasan, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand Walter Scacchi, Univ. of South Calif., USA Timos Sellis, National Tech. U. -Athens, Greece Mike Shaw, U of Illinois,Urbana-Chmpgn, USA Edward A. Stohr , New York Univ., USA Mohan Tanniru, Syracuse Univ., USA Vijay Vaishnavi, Georgia State University, USA Rich Wang, MIT, USA SPONSORS Department of Business Analysis, College of Business Administration, Texas A&M University INFORMS-College on Information Systems REVISED EDITION (February, 1996) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Arun Sen Associate Professor Department of Business Analysis and Research Collge of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843 Phone: 409-845-8370 Fax: 409-845-5653