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Data from the
Carnegie Mellon Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and the FBI shows an
exponential growth of cyber intrusions and attacks worldwide – attacks against
businesses, utilities, banks, E-commerce, telecommunication switching centers,
Internet service providers, government agencies, and even hospitals and 911 call
centers. There is no safe harbor. Researchers anywhere need to understand the
vulnerabilities within their digital systems, and the technologies available to
mitigate the risks of cyber intrusion or attack.
Researchers in computer science and cyber security understand the frailties of
our digital infrastructures, but have done a poor job sharing those concerns and
issues with other disciplines. This tutorial presents the fundamental issues of
computer and network security in a manner that non-computer scientists can
understand. The morning session focuses on rudimentary defensive mechanisms
that all computer users should employ, defining terms, and concentrating on
defensive technologies. In the afternoon session we focus on network security
technologies, including remote authentication techniques, biometrics, email and
web security, devices for modem and network cryptography, and virtual private
networking. We conclude with a “gap analysis” showing where researchers need to
focus in order to address the unsolved issues in computer and network security.
Paul W. Oman
is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Idaho.
He is currently working on cyber security with grants from NSF and NIST. He has
published over 100 papers and has received several awards for teaching and
speaking at conferences.
oman@cs.uidaho.edu
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Full-day
Michael Stollberg, Katia
Sycara, Barry Norton, and Stefania Galizia
The tutorial presents the state of the art in Semantic Web Services. This emerging concept combines Semantic Web and Web Service technologies in order to enable automated and ad-hoc computing over the Web. Based on ontologies as the data model and exhaustive semantic description frameworks, intelligent mechanisms are applied for automated and dynamic discovery, composition, contracting, and execution of Web Services. Semantic Web Services strive towards an integrated technology for next generation Web technology, and most recently attain plenty of attention in Web technology standardization committees.
We will provide a comprehensive introduction and overview of the aims and challenges of Semantic Web Services, how these are addressed within relevant frameworks, and how existing tools and implementations support handling and usage of Semantic Web Services. Explaining conceptual models in conjunction with an extensive hands-on session will provide attendees with a better understanding, and enable you to use and assess existing as well as upcoming tools and systems of Semantic Web Services.
IMPORTANT: Please check the following web site for further information and for downloading the software for the hands-on session: http://www.wsmo.org/TR/d17/v0.2/#s315
Michael Stollberg
is a researcher with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute DERI, working in
the area of Semantic Web Services. He has published around 20 scientific
articles in the area of the Semantic Web and Web Services. He is project manager
within the DIP project, involved in several EU-funded projects, a founding
member of WSMO, and a working member of the SWSI initiative.
michael.stollberg@deri.org
Katia Sycara is
Professor in the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and the
Director of the Laboratory for Semantic Web and Agents Technology. Dr. Sycara¹s
research is with Multiagent Systems, Software Agents, Agent Teams, Web Services,
the Semantic Web, Human-Agent Interaction, Negotiation, Case-Based Reasoning and
the application of these technologies to e-commerce, crisis action planning,
scheduling, manufacturing and financial planning. She is the US Chair of the
Semantic Web Services Initiative and a Founding Member of the Semantic Web
Science Association; Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on
Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems. She is co-author of the OWL-S
Technical Note of the W3C, co-author of the W3C Technical Note on "Web Services
Architecture", the UDDI v3 specifications, and the forthcoming UDDI Semantic
Search specifications.
katia@cs.cmu.edu
Barry Norton is a Research Fellow on the 'Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services (DIP)' project at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, UK. He was previously a Research Associate on the Dot.Kom and LIRICS projects with the Natural Language Processing group at the University of Sheffield, UK, and before that a Research Assistant on the RealType and TestFlow projects with the Verification and Testing group at Sheffield. During this time he was also a visiting researcher at the ICASE Institute at NASA Langley, US, and the F3T Institute of DaimlerChrysler in Berlin, Germany. His PhD thesis, currently being prepared for submission, concerns compositional models for software design.
Stefania Galizia is a Research Fellow with the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University, UK. She has obtained in Italy a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science proposing DLP+, a new language for Ontologies specification and reasoning, based on Disjunctive Logic Programming. Currently she is involved in EU funded Integrated Project on Semantic Web Services DIP, where she deals with communication between Semantic Web Services and trust based discovery. She has published several papers in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and on semantic web services.
Full-day
Surveillance Technologies
(T)
Jay Nunamaker
· Security Informatics
· Detection of Deception and Intent
· Biometric Identification
· Knowledge Discovery and Analysis to Address Terrorism
Jay Nunamaker
is Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science and Communication,
and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the University
of Arizona, Tucson. His research on group support systems addresses behavioral
as well as engineering issues and focuses on theory as well as implementation.
Dr. Nunamaker founded the MIS department (3rd and 4th nationally ranked MIS
department) at The University of Arizona and established campus-wide
instructional computer labs that has attracted academic leaders in the MIS field
to the university faculty. He received his Ph.D. in system engineering and
operations research from Case Institute of Technology, an MS and BS in
engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS from Carnegie Mellon
University. He is a registered professional engineer.
jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu
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Half- Day
Making Learning Networks Effective: What We Know
and What We Need to Know
(T)
What does research tell us about how to create an effective online learning community? This tutorial is aimed at both researchers and practitioners. Topics will include research results and opportunities related to variations in the measured effectiveness of online courses for student learning and satisfaction, including:
Research on software enhancements to better support social presence and community building will also be covered. Breakout groups will enable participants to brainstorm and share ideas about how to apply the research results to their own teaching or future research.
Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Distinguished Professor at NJIT, has authored five books on online learning and online communities, including Learning Together Online (Erlbaum, 2005). She directs the WebCenter for Learning Networks Effectiveness Research (www.ALNResearch.org) and received the 2004 Sloan-c Award for "Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching and Learning by an Individual."
Half- Day
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) – Redefining the Supply Chain
(T)
Deb Armstrong,
Bill Hardgrave, Ken Armstrong
This tutorial will provide attendees with the
information they need to understand the fundamentals of RFID, the data generated
from RFID, how RFID affects the supply chain, and the public policy issues
(e.g., privacy) associated with RFID. Examples of current and future uses of
RFID by manufacturers and retailers, discussions of RFID research opportunities,
and applications of RFID in the classroom will be provided.
The session is intended for a broad audience consisting of academicians wishing
to understand the classroom and research implications and opportunities with
RFID, and practitioners examining the potential business uses and corresponding
impact of RFID. The desired attendee background is an interest in RFID
technologies and applications.
Deb Armstrong is an assistant professor of information systems at the University of Arkansas. Her research includes issues at the intersection of IS personnel and mental models involving the human aspects of technology, change, learning and cognition. She is currently studying shared mental models of supply chain/RFID constituents.
Bill Hardgrave is the Edwin & Karlee Bradberry Chair of information Systems and Director of the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas. He has worked closely with Wal-Mart’s RFID team since March 2004 and is considered one of the top academic experts in the field of RFID.
Ken Armstrong is an Executive in Residence at the University of Arkansas. He has taught courses utilizing RFID technologies and has supervised student projects using large-scale applications and RFID.
karmstrong@walton.uark.edu
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Half- Day
Wireless and Pervasive Healthcare: Applications,
Requirements, and Research Problems
(T)
In spite of improvements in the delivery of
services and the quality of healthcare, there are continuing challenges to the
health care industry, including an increasing cost of services, and an
exponential increase in the number of seniors and retirees in developed
countries. Pervasive healthcare is considered a solution to many of these
problems. In simple terms, pervasive healthcare can be defined as healthcare to
anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing locational, time and other restraints
while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare.
In this tutorial, we present an introduction of wireless and pervasive
healthcare, discuss several pervasive healthcare applications, derive
requirements and wireless solutions, and discuss the future of pervasive
healthcare and open issues. More specifically, we discuss how wireless
technologies can be applied to achieve wide-scale patient monitoring in and out
of hospitals and nursing homes, location management, intelligent emergency
system, and mobile telemedicine applications. We also discuss how wireless
architectures can be designed to be dependable, suitable, and implementable in
the near-term to increase the access and quality of healthcare services.
Additionally, some open issues and research challenges in pervasive healthcare
are also discussed.
Upkar Varshney is on the faculty of Computer Information Systems (Associate Professor) at Georgia State University, Atlanta. He received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering with Honors from University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, IIT-Roorkee), and an MS in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications & Networking from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His research and teaching interests include mobile commerce, pervasive healthcare, and mobile and wireless networking. He has written over 90 papers in these topics in major journals and international conferences. According to Communications of the ACM (Dec. 2004), his location management for mobile commerce paper in ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies was the 5th most downloaded paper for the whole 2004.
uvarshne@cis.gsu.edu
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WORKSHOPS
Full-day
Collaboration Engineering
(W)
Robert O. Briggs and Gert-Jan de
Vreede
People who collaborate
toward important goals often achieve far more as a group than they could as
individuals. However, group work is a mixed blessing that brings its own
challenges. Research shows that under many circumstances, groups who work with
an experienced facilitator supported by collaboration technology are much more
productive that teams who do not. However, facilitators are scarce and
expensive, so many teams that could benefit from facilitation have no access to
it.
Collaboration Engineering is an approach to designing effective, efficient collaboration processes for high value recurring tasks, and deploying them for practitioners to execute for themselves, without the ongoing intervention of a professional facilitator. A key goal of Collaboration Engineering is to bring the benefits of facilitation and collaboration technology to groups who do not have access to professional facilitators. Collaboration engineers seek to capture and package facilitation best-practices in ways such that non-facilitators can execute them successfully.
In this workshop, presenters will report on the latest breakthroughs in Collaboration Engineering research. All participants will then collaborate to advance the state of thinking on several challenges that face the collaboration research community. Workshop position papers will published on the HICSS web site. Workshop leaders will edit a findings paper to report the results of the workshop to the HICSS community at the following HICSS.
Topics for presentations in this workshop could include, but are not limited to theoretical foundations for phenomena of interest to collaboration; thinkLets and thinkLets-based design, structured methods for collaboration process design, modeling methods for thinkLets and processes, management of Collaboration Engineering designs and projects.
Prospective presenters should send an abstract to the workshop chairs as soon a possible.
Robert O. Briggs is research coordinator at the Center for the Management of Information, and associate professor of Systems Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He researches the cognitive foundations of collaboration and applies his findings to the development and deployment of collaboration technologies and processes. As director of Innovation at GroupSystems, he oversees the future evolution of collaboration software. Dr. Briggs is co-founder of the emerging discipline of Collaboration Engineering and co-inventor of the thinkLets concept.
Gert-Jan de Vreede is a Professor at the Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he is director of the Peter Kiewit Institute’s Program on E-Collaboration. He is also affiliated with the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from where he received his PhD. His research focuses on Collaboration Engineering, the application, adoption, and diffusion of collaboration technology in organizations, facilitation of group meetings, and the application of collaboration technology in different socio-cultural environments.
Knowledge Management Research – Exploring the
Boundaries (W)
Murray Jennex and Dave Croasdell
During the past twelve years, HICSS has evolved into a key international forum for knowledge management, organizational learning, and organizational memory researchers and practitioners. This workshop seeks to utilize this expertise to establish the foundations of knowledge management. Selected teams of researchers will be invited to generate position papers that will be presented, discussed, and finalized during the workshop. Four areas initially identified for exploration are KM definitions, KM flow and transfer models, KM metrics, and KM research methods. Additional suggestions for discussion are welcome.
Murray Jennex is an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University (SDSU). Dr. Jennex has been involved in organizational memory and knowledge management research for a number of years and has published several papers in this area. He just recently joined the faculty at SDSU after spending twenty years as a practitioner in the electric utility industry. He is committed to building better links between the academic and practitioner knowledge management communities and views HICSS as an appropriate forum for this as it attracts both academic and practitioner researchers.
Dave Croasdell is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on knowledge management as it relates to organizational memory, organizational learning, and inquiry in organizations. Dr. Croasdell joined the faculty at UNR following ten years in industry.
Full-day
Media
Literacy
(W)
In our new world, traditional notions of a document as “letter” "office memo" or "textbook chapter" have changed, now likely to include email, pointers to web sites, references to IRC channels, images in the body of the document, interactive content (such as Flash or Java-based media), audio annotations and video. As media types multiply and increasingly becoming real-time and connected in nature, we must reconsider what it means to have "documents" in the workplace. Is RSS a documents or a media stream? Is MSNBC a web site or a channel?
In all arenas we are seeing entirely new practices emerge in literate media creation. These changes promise to fundamentally reconfigure what it means to be a writer and a reader. Video and audio, once difficult and esoteric, are becoming the tools of choice for a new generation of authors with low cycle development time, cheap media costs, and an attitude to bend boundaries.
There are still a large number of issues in defining new media types, creating the content, and developing methods of using the media content. This workshop will bring together leading figures in the world of media creation for an engaging discussion of what such fusion and fission means, and how the sudden shifts and changes will affect our collective ideas of literacy for the next decade.
This workshop is intended to create not just insights, but also an analysis of what the new literacy means. Each participant will be asked to write an article giving their perspective on New Literacy. From the workshop will come a plan to craft a (traditional medium) book out of the materials created.
Daniel Russell is a senior research scientist in the User Sciences and Experience Research (USER) lab at IBM’s Almaden Research Center (San José, CA). Dr. Russell is best known for his recent work on the large, interactive IBM BlueBoard system for simple collaboration, for his studies of sensemaking behavior of people dealing with understanding large amounts of information, and for a long-term commitment to understanding new media in computational environments.
Dr. Russell received his B.S. in Information and Computer Science from U.C. Irvine, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rochester.
Stephanie Barish is an award-winning producer and a prominent figure behind leading initiatives that are expanding our ideas of literacy in the 21st century. As founder and executive director of USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, she led the organization through significant successes in helping educators and students redefine their relationship with their scholarship and research. Her previous work included nearly a decade with Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, where she served as director, producer, designer, and art-director of award-winning interactive publications, installations, and Academy- and Emmy-Award-winning documentaries. She is currently Senior Partner of the Creative Media Collaborative, a consulting group she founded to seek out and foster innovations in multimedia expression and to develop creative strategies for applying them widely and beneficially across a range of institutions and organizations.
sbarish@annenberg.edu
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Full-day
Quality of Service in Wireless and Mobile Networks (W)
In recent years, the areas of mobile computing and wireless networks have seen an explosive growth both in terms of the number of services provided and the types of technologies that have become available. Indeed, it is fair to say that wireless communications and mobile computing are redefining society, impacting the way we live and work. The impact is expected to be profound and lasting, ranging from educational, to medical, to military, to industrial, and to societal.
By now, sophisticated multimedia services have become commonplace and the demand for enhanced capabilities will continue to grow into the foreseeable future. It is anticipated that in the not-so-distant future, mobile users will be able to access their data and other services such as email, video telephony, stock market news, map services, electronic banking, while on the move. Already today, there are more portable phones than computers connected to the Internet.
As mobile and wireless networks are being called upon to support real-time interactive multimedia traffic, such as video tele-conferencing, these networks must be able to provide their users with Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees. Although the QoS provisioning problem arises in wireline networks as well, mobility of hosts, scarcity of bandwidth, and channel fading make QoS provisioning a challenging task in mobile and wireless networks. Recently it has been argued that multimedia applications can tolerate and gracefully adapt to transient fluctuations in the QoS that they receive from the network. The management of such adaptive multimedia applications is becoming a new research area in wireless networks. As it turns out, the additional flexibility afforded by the ability of multimedia applications to tolerate and adapt to transient changes in the QoS parameters can be exploited by protocol designers to significantly improve the overall performance of wireless systems.
The workshop will focus on fundamental challenges and issues arising in the process of QoS provisioning in mobile and wireless networks, including cellular, ad-hoc, sensor, satellite, and IP-based networks. Our principle goal is to bring together leading researchers in this booming field of research in order to identify the fundamental challenges and future perspectives of this important area.
Stephan Olariu is a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. He has co-chaired the minitrack on Quality of Service Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks since 2002. Professor Olariu earned his Ph.D. in computer science in three years at the McGill University, Montreal. His research interests include wireless networks and mobile computing. Dr. Olariu has co-authored two books: Solutions to Parallel and Distributed Computing Problems: Lessons from Biological Sciences (with A. Zomaya and F. Ercal), and Parallel Computation in Image Processing (with S. Tanimoto), and he is also the author of Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications.
Hesham H. Ali is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). During his tenure at UNO, Dr. Ali has held a number of administrative positions and he is currently serving as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the college of Information Science and Technology. He has received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his BS and MS from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, all in computer science. His current research interests include the areas of bioinformatics, mobile computing and wireless networks, scheduling, and distributed systems.
hesham@unomaha.edu
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Half-day
Advanced Computational Approaches and IT Techniques in Bioinformatics (W)
With the advent of faster and more reliable technology of sequencing nucleic
acids and proteins, very large centralized biological databases have become
widely available. The massive size of the current available biological databases
and its high rate of growth have a great influence on the types of research
currently conducted and researchers are focusing more than ever to maximize the
use of the available biological databases.
In addition, from the information technology (IT) point-of-view, the problem of
efficiently collecting, sharing, mining and analyzing the wealth of biological
and clinical data has common roots with the enterprise and the research and
development of IT businesses.
The workshop will focus on the use of advanced mathematical and statistical methods (such as graph theory, Bayesian networks, hidden Markov models, machine learning, etc.), effective use of novel computational approaches (such as computer clusters and grid computing), as well as utilization of advanced Information Technology technique (such as data warehousing, data mining, on-line analytical processing, integration of information, etc.) in order to solve database problems in Bioinformatics. Special attention will be made on approaches for advanced temporal support, support of continuously valued data, support of data with advanced classification structures, and support of dimensionally reduced data.
Hesham H. Ali is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). During his tenure at UNO, Dr. Ali has held a number of administrative positions and he is currently serving as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the college of Information Science and Technology. He has received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his BS and MS from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, all in computer science. His current research interests include the areas of bioinformatics, mobile computing and wireless networks, scheduling, and distributed systems.
Simon Sherman
is a professor at the Eppley Cancer Institute of the University of Nebraska
Medical Center (UNMC) and the director of the Bioinformatics Shared Resource at
the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center, as well as the director of the Nebraska
Informatics Center for the Life Sciences. He has an MS degree in mathematics
and Ph.D. in biological physics. Dr. Sherman. He also has joint appointments in
the Department of Pathology and Microbiology (UNMC), the Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department (UNMC) and the Department of Computer Sciences, College of
Information Science and Technology University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO).
ssherm@unmc.edu
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Half-day
IT Solutions to
Changing Corporate Governance
(W)
Gail Corbitt, Lorraine
Gardiner, Louis Girolami, Peter Jones, Heather Czech Matthews and Amelia A.
Maurizio
Recent
developments have caused Congress to pass laws and issue guidelines to regain
investor confidence as a result of issues resulting from recent corporate
bankruptcies (e.g. Enron, World Com, etc.). These laws have personal
implications for not only the CEOs and CFOs of companies, but IT managers as
well. As the changes in corporate governance require better financial data that
are verifiable, companies have a renewed interest in ERP and Data Warehousing (DW)
systems as a way to address the legal issues involved. In addition, new tools
added to the ERP/DW infrastructure are available to give managers and thus
students of management in general, and IT in particular, needed information
about the system and its data.
In this workshop we review the legal implications for companies in general, and
CIOs in particular, of recent legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley for US
companies and Basel2 for European-based companies. We also plan to provide an
update of how companies are responding to the new laws and what the IT solutions
are that support companies’ responses. We end by having some working examples
of data that can be used in classes to show how strategic information can
support the management of a company.
Gail Corbitt is a Professor of Management Information Systems at California State University, Chico and chair of the Department of Accounting and MIS. She is a past Director of the CSU Chico SAP program, has worked on SAP implementation projects for HP and Chevron, and has taught SAP Systems Administration, ABAP and ERP Configuration and Use.
Lorraine Gardiner received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1989 with a major in management science and minor in management information systems. She taught from fall 1988 through summer 2002 at Auburn University in the Department of Management and joined the MIS faculty at CSU, Chico beginning fall 2002. She has developed and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that incorporate development and use of BW and SEM.
Louis Girolami, CPA, is a Vice President of Finance for SAP America. In addition to his role in Finance, Lou was responsible for initiatives connected with Customer Relations Management, Consumer Products and Manufacturing. Currently his duties extend to corporate strategic initiatives. Prior to joining SAP America, Lou worked for J.P. Morgan and KPMG Peat Marwick.
Peter Jones joined SAP America as an Educational Consultant in the Training Group. Platinum Educational Consultant for BW and SEM. He is a curriculum author for curriculum for Sarbanes-Oxley Act at SAP, Educational Material Expert (EME) for CO, BW, SEM and Auditing, and has contributed numerous implementations for BW and SEM, as well as of articles written in the FI/CO, and served as BW Expert on BW configuration, SEM functionality and SOA requirements for BW and SEM.
Heather Czech Matthews is the U.S. University Alliances Program Director at SAP, and is responsible for helping member schools use SAP solutions in the classroom. She has 15 years experience in SAP software sales, curriculum product management, teaching SAP functionality, and software implementation and process improvement consulting.
Amelia A. Maurizio joined SAP America as an Associate Manager of the U.S. University Alliance Program in 1998. In July of 2004, she was given responsibility for the global University Alliance program that currently has a membership of over 500 universities and colleges around the world. Prior to joining SAP, Dr. Maurizio spent several years in higher education in Academic Administration and as an Adjunct Professor. Dr. Maurizio continues in the adjunct professor role at Stetson University.
amelia.maurizio@sap.com
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Half-day
Next-Generation Software Engineering:
Transformation to a Computational Engineering Discipline (W)
Alan Hevner, Richard Linger, and Gwendolyn Walton
The Next-Generation Software Engineering Workshop focuses on research and automation required to transform software engineering into a computational discipline capable of fast and correct development of future software systems. Current manual software engineering methods have reached complexity and scalability limits that no amount of being careful and trying harder can surmount. An opportunity exists for systematic exploitation of the mathematical semantics of software engineering representations that can lead to new computational capabilities for analysis of specifications, architectures, designs, and implementations, as well as software behaviors, quality attributes, and compositions into systems.
This workshop will bring together thought leaders in computational software engineering to define and energize this research and development agenda. Participants will be fully involved in the workshop discussions. The results of the workshop will be a summarized in a report on the future research agenda for Next-Generation Software Engineering and the building of a community to initiate research projects that address this agenda.
Alan R. Hevner is an Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the College of Business Administration at the University of South Florida. He holds the Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology. His areas of research interest include information systems development, software engineering, distributed database systems, healthcare information systems, and telecommunications. He has published over 120 research papers on these topics and has consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Hevner received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. He has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, AIS, and INFORMS.
ahevner@coba.usf.edu
Richard C. Linger is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and Manager of the Survivable Systems Engineering group at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He conducts research on theoretical foundations and engineering development of automation for Next-Generation Software Engineering, including Function Extraction technology for computation of the full behavior of programs. He is a member of the faculty of the CMU Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. At IBM, he co-developed the Cleanroom software engineering technologies of box-structure specification, function-theoretic correctness verification, and statistical testing for software certification. He has over 30 years of experience in software and system engineering research, development, and management, and has published three software engineering textbooks. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE, and vice-president of the Center for National Software Studies.
Gwendolyn H. Walton
is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the CERT Network System
Survivability (NSS) program at the Software Engineering Institute. Her areas of
research interest include rigorous yet practical methods for specification,
development, and testing of large, complex software-intensive systems. Dr.
Walton has over 20 years of industry experience in all aspects of software
engineering, including project management, development, and support of complex
systems for the defense, energy, space, medical, and telecommunications
industries. She has held positions as President of Software Engineering
Technology Inc, Assistant Vice President of Science Applications International
Corp (SAIC), senior software developer for SAIC and Lockheed, and research
associate for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She received a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from the University of Tennessee. She is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the
IEEE Computer Society.
gwalton@sei.cmu.edu
Half-day
Thomas Erickson and Susan Herring
Persistent conversation – "talk" that occurs via instant messaging, email, collaborative environments, etc. – afford new uses (e.g., searching, replaying, restructuring) and raise new problems. In this multi-disciplinary workshop (associated with the Persistent Conversation minitrack), participants will analyze a to-be-chosen CMC site (before the workshop), and compare and discuss their findings.
Thomas Erickson
is a Research Staff Member and an interaction designer and researcher at IBM's
T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. He is interested in understanding how
large groups of people interact via networks, and in designing systems that
support deep, productive, coherent, network-mediated conversation.
snowfall@acm.org
Susan Herring is a Professor of Information Science and Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Editor of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Her research applies language-focused methods of analysis to digital conversations in order to identify their recurrent properties and social effects.
herring@indiana.edu
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Half-day
Socialware for Learning Environments (W)
Social software (socialware) enables users to collaboratively create and use information while also providing a community context. Socialware has been applied to learning environments for many years, predominantly through shared discussion forums/BBSs. Recently new socialware technologies have become available, notably weblogs and wikis. Their use is yet in the early stages, and has remained for the most part un-researched.
This workshop will be a follow-up to the workshop
on the same topic presented at HICSS-38. In the current workshop participants
will present examples of the use of socialware in educational settings. These
will include both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Key topics of interest
include:
Lorne Olfman
is Dean of the School of Information Science and Professor of Information
Science at Claremont Graduate University (CGU). He has been a participant at
HICSS every year since 1988 and has been an author and mini-track leader.
Currently, he is a member of the HICSS information systems advisory board.
lorne.olfman@cgu.edu
Todd Richmond
is Managing Director of the Annenberg Center at the University of Southern
California. A former professor of chemistry at The Claremont Colleges, Dr.
Richmond sought early on to incorporate multimedia and Web technologies in his
teaching. As a result, he became interested in developing a broader
understanding of technology and content.
Case and Field Studies of Collaboration Technologies (S)
This symposium seeks papers that report the effects of implementations of collaboration technologies and processes in the workplace. It seeks both rigorous academic case studies and field reports from practitioners. Academic case studies should explore complex phenomena in the rich context where they manifest. Academic studies should be theory driven and should conform to generally accepted rigorous case study methodologies. Practitioner papers should report successes and failures with collaboration technology. They should describe the technology-supported work processes in sufficient detail that others can understand the causes of the outcomes, and reproduce them at other sites if desired. Where possible, practitioner papers should include metrics to demonstrate the value (if any) the technology-supported work process created for the organization where it was implemented.
Technologies reported in this symposium could include, but are not limited to: group support systems, virtual workspaces, workflow automation, voice and video, application sharing, team repositories and document management systems, team calendaring, collaborative project management tools, and so on.
Robert Briggs is Research Coordinator for the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona, is on the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, and is Director of R&D for GroupSystems.com. Since 1990 he has investigated the theoretical and technological foundations of collaboration, and has applied his findings to the design and deployment of new technologies, workspaces, and processes for high-performance teams. He and his colleagues are responsible for numerous recognized theoretical breakthroughs and technological milestones. In his field research he has created team processes for the highest levels of government, and has published more than 60 scholarly works on the theory and practice of collaborative technology. He earned his Ph.D. in MIS at the University of Arizona, and holds a BS and an MBA from San Diego State University
Jay Nunamaker is Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science and Communication, and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His research on group support systems addresses behavioral as well as engineering issues and focuses on theory as well as implementation. Dr. Nunamaker founded the MIS department (3rd and 4th nationally ranked MIS department) at The University of Arizona and established campus-wide instructional computer labs that has attracted academic leaders in the MIS field to the university faculty. He received his Ph.D. in system engineering and operations research from Case Institute of Technology, an MS and BS in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a registered professional engineer.
jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu
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Mobile communication systems and handheld consumer appliances (cellular phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, vehicular mobile systems, etc) together with vehicular mobile systems (internet access points, ad hoc networks, diagnostics and safety tools, etc) are rapidly increasing areas in computer and communication applications. They present new challenges for designers, as these devices must be multifunctional, provide high computational performance and be very energy efficient.
New applications demand new technology. An emerging design approach is to use an adaptive computing platform that aims at implementing algorithms in a computational space consisting of a large number of elementary computing cells. Such space can be configured, or adapted, for solving a given problem. The adaptive computing approach integrates the flexibility of programming conventional computers, with the efficiency of dedicated hardware devices on ASICs.
The aim of this symposium is to select speakers who
will present the most important trends in this emerging area of technology,
those in architecture and in development tools.
Website:
http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/ERA/mocha06/mocha.htm
Toomas P. Plaks is currently with London South Bank University. He is chairman of the International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, in Las Vegas, and the Guest Editor (Kluwer) of a series of special issues on Designing Application-Specific High-Performance Processors on Reconfigurable Computing Platform. The biography of Dr. Plaks is published in the Marquis "Who's Who in the World" and "Who's Who in Science and Engineering". His research interests include the design of high-performance application-specific processors, massively parallel computer systems and reconfigurable computation. Main interests are focusing on the theory of mapping algorithms into space and time, i.e. into hardware, into FPGAs and VLSIs. He has published about 75 scientific papers, including a monograph on the synthesis of regular processor arrays.
Skilled Human-Intelligent Agent Performance: Measurement, Application, and
Symbiosis (S)
Paul Ward, Jean
Scholtz, and Martha Crosby
The agenda and papers for this symposium may be found at
www.nist.gov/hicss39 after November
15.
Performance assessment and enhancement strategies
have often focused upon the user or the intelligent technology rather
than the interaction between the two. Where system interaction has occurred, we
have often settled for co-operation rather than collaboration or symbiosis. The
aims of this symposium are:
We invite research submissions from a range of domains and disciplines that explore performance-related issues in skilled human-agent symbiosis, for example, topics may include:
Paul Ward is an Applied Cognitive Psychologist at the Learning Systems Institute’s Human Performance Laboratory, Florida State University. His research interests include the assessment of expert performance and cognition in a range of applied skill domains.
Jean Scholtz is a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her research is in evaluation of interactive systems. She is currently working in evaluation of user interfaces for intelligent systems - primarily robotics and in the evaluation of several research programs for the Intelligence Community.
Martha E. Crosby is a professor and the associate chair of the department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii. Her research interests are in the area of human-computer interaction, human factors, cognitive science, models of user cognition, intelligent computer tutors, and evaluation of human use of computer interfaces and applications. She uses human physiological measures to provide detailed analysis of research involving human- computer interaction and models of the user.
This symposium continues the mini-track in HICSS 05 offering a stimulating forum on Security Informatics among academic researchers, local, state, and federal law enforcement, intelligence experts, consultants and practitioners. This symposium will deal with the issues of Security Informatics; such as detection of deception and intent; biometric devices for identification; methods for analyzing terrorism, fraud and criminal activities and theories and techniques for alerting, addressing and preventing security problems. Submissions may include descriptions of systems, methodology, evaluation, test-beds, intelligence policies, and position papers. Research should be relevant to security informatics and include, but not limited to, the following topics:
Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing;
Analysis and identification of authorship;
Bio-metric devices;
Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis;
Border/transportation safety;
Collaborative systems for intelligence sharing;
Countering terrorism;
Crime analysis and security informatics;
Crime and intelligence visualization;
Criminal and network analysis;
Criminal data mining; social-network analysis, and event detection
Criminal/intelligence information sharing and visualization;
Cybercrime detection and analysis;
Deception and intent detection;
Disaster prevention, detection and management;
Forecasting terrorism;
Intelligence-related knowledge discovery;
Intent infrastructure design and protection;
Internet crime detection and analysis;
Intrusion detection;
Knowledge discovery and knowledge management of criminal and terrorist behavior;
Linguistic analysis of text, audio, video;
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns;
Measuring the impact of terrorism on society;
Motion and gestures for determination of intent;
Non-verbal analysis for determination of intent;
Privacy security and civil liberties of security issues;
Psychology and Causes of Terrorism;
Responses to terrorism;
Social network analysis of criminal activities and terrorism;
Terrorism knowledge portals and databases;
Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools;
Terrorist incident chronology databases;
Terrorist prevention, detection, and management;
Verbal analysis of deception and intent detection;
Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis;
Web-based intelligence monitoring, mining, and visualization.
Jay Nunamaker is Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science and Communication, and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His research on group support systems addresses behavioral as well as engineering issues and focuses on theory as well as implementation. Dr. Nunamaker founded the MIS department (3rd and 4th nationally ranked MIS department) at The University of Arizona and established campus-wide instructional computer labs that has attracted academic leaders in the MIS field to the university faculty. He received his Ph.D. in system engineering and operations research from Case Institute of Technology, an MS and BS in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a registered professional engineer.
jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu
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Electric Power Systems: Reliability, Control, and Markets (S)
The past several years have seen marked changes in
the institutional structures of the electric power industry in many countries
including the USA. Often the objective is to introduce more competition and to
increase private sector ownership of the electric supply industry. This
symposium will explore the effects and impacts of institutional change either
proposed or in place. It is especially aimed at exploring new tools and analysis
methodology, that is, the technical underpinnings needed to transition the
system from the old to the new. Papers related to the affected elements of
restructuring of an electric power industry on topics such as power system
monitoring and control, communication systems and data integration, agent-based
simulations, market design, advanced real-time measurements, and incentive
mechanisms for new investments will be presented.
Robert J. Thomas is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He is the author of over 100 technical papers, and two book chapters, and is founding Director of the 11 university-member National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, PSerc ( Power Systems Engineering Research Center), a Center focused on problems of restructuring of the electric power industry. Dr. Thomas has worked closely with USDOE for many years, and served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution and a member of the DOE August 14, 2003 blackout investigation team. His current technical research interests are broadly in the areas of analysis and control of nonlinear continuous and discrete time systems with applications to large-scale electric power systems.
Half-day
Hot Topics in Negotiation Support Systems (S)
Tung X. Bui and Melvin Shakun
This symposium will consider hot topics in negotiation support systems, such as e-auctions and e-negotiations, configurable e-negotiation systems, analysis of e-negotiation messages, multi-agent systems, etc. with authors both presenting papers and participating with the Symposium chairs in panel discussion with audience participation on these and other hot topics.
Melvin F. Shakun is on the faculty of the Stern School of Business, New York University, and is involved in research, teaching and consulting in group decision and negotiation (GDN) with an emphasis on formal modeling and negotiation support systems. His work has an international focus. Professor Shakun is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Group Decision and Negotiation. In 2004, he received the first INFORMS GDN Section Award for his contributions to the GDN field.
Tung X. Bui is Matson Navigation Company Distinguished Professor of Global Business and is on the Information Technology Management faculty of the College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has made numerous, major contributions to group decision and negotiation, negotiation support systems and other areas of systems/information sciences, and is widely published in leading journals. Professor Bui has extensive international experience, especially in Asia. He is Departmental Editor for Group Decision and Negotiation Support Systems of the journal Group Decision and Negotiation.
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