From kamel@beach.cis.ufl.edu Fri Oct 29 12:42:33 EDT 1993 Article: 4922 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:4922 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!sparky!rick From: kamel@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Dr. Nabil Kamel) Subject: Final Program - Workshop on Information Technologies & Systems 1993 (WITS-93) Message-ID: <1993Oct29.145600.24862@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept. Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 14:56:00 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 322 X-Md4-Signature: 01592b048397cb99953546676c5493e0 FINAL PROGRAM WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES & SYSTEMS 1993 December 4 - 5, 1993 Hilton Hotel, Walt Disney World Village, Orlando, Florida Saturday, December 4, 1993 08:00 - 08:30 Registration and Coffee Break 08:30 - 08:45 Co-Chairs' Welcome Alan Hevner, University of Maryland Nabil Kamel, University of Florida 08:45 - 09:30 Keynote Address "The New Era of Technology: What's Different and What's the Same" Charles O. Rossotti, Founder and Former CEO American Management Systems (AMS), Inc. 09:30 - 10:00 Refreshment Break 10:00 - 11:30 Plenary Session Panel #1 - Data Quality: A Critical Issue in the 1990's and Beyond Panel Chair: Veda Storey, University of Rochester Panelists: Tom Redman, AT&T Arie Segev, University of California, Berkeley Diane Strong, Boston University Yair Wand, University of British Columbia Rich Wang, MIT 11:30 - 01:00 Luncheon Luncheon Address To Be Determined 01:00 - 02:30 Parallel Sessions Paper Session #1 - Database Systems A Session Chair: Sudha Ram, University of Arizona Paper 1-1: A Knowledge-Based Tool for Improving the Quality of Object-Oriented Databases Shuguang Hong and Nena Lim, Georgia State University Paper 1-2: A Partitioning Strategy for Approximate Joins Abhirup Chatterjee and Arie Segev, University of California, Berkeley Sridhar Sheshadri, New York University Paper 1-3: Constraint By Example Levent Orman, Cornell University Paper Session #2 - Data Quality Session Chair: Stuart Madnick, MIT Paper 2-1: Duplicate FHA Single-Family Data Records and Related Problems William Eilerman and Thomas Herzog, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Paper 2-2: Modeling Data Quality and Context through Extension of the ER Model Steven Tu and Rich Wang, MIT Paper 2-3: Quality Data Products Rich Wang and M. Reddy, MIT 02:30 - 03:00 Refreshment Break 03:00 - 04:30 Parallel Sessions Paper Session #3 - Database Systems B Session Chair: Amitava Dutta, George Mason University Paper 3-1: Database Requirements: Schemata as an Explanatory Construct in Database Conceptual Modelling Alain Villeneuve and Diane Strong, Boston University Paper 3-2: Multiple Classification and Instance- Based Data Modeling Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland Paper 3-3: Theoretical Foundations for Elementary Schema Updates Gabriel Baum, Claudia Pons, Clara Smith, Ana Monteiro, and Carlos Tau, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Panel #2 - Domain-Specific Knowledge in CASE Tools Panel Chair: William McCarthy, Michigan State University Panelists: Stephen Rockwell, University of Florida Veda Storey, University of Rochester Sudha Ram, University of Arizona Mike Mannino, University of Washington 06:30 - 08:00 WITS Executive Committee Meeting Sunday, December 5, 1993 08:00 - 08:30 Coffee Break 08:30 - 10:00 Plenary Session Panel #3 - Managing Access to Large Information Bases Panel Chair: Tomas Isakowitz, New York University Panelists: Michael Bieber, New Jersey Institute of Technology Steven Kimbrough, University of Pennsylvania Paul Resnick, MIT Ted Stohr, New York University Daniel Schutzer, Citibank 10:00 - 10:30 Refreshment Break 10:30 - 12:00 Parallel Sessions Paper Session #4 - Intelligent Systems Session Chair: Leo Pipino Paper 4-1: What is a Deep Expert System? Michel Benaroch, Syracuse University Paper 4-2: Obtaining Efficient Belief Network Representations Using Data Sumit Sarkar and Ishwar Murthy, Louisiana State University Paper 4-3: Developing Inductive Expert Systems Using Noisy Data: Economic and Information Theoretic Considerations Vijay Mookerjee, Michael Mannino, and Robert Gilson, University of Washington Paper Session #5 - Information Visualization Session Chair: Roger Chiang, Syracuse University Paper 5-1: The Information Cube: Using Trasparency in 3D Information Visualization Jun Rekimoto and Mark Green, University of Alberta Paper 5-2: Can Technology Enhance Presentations? Doug Vogel, University of Arizona Joline Morrison, University of Iowa Paper 5-3: A Framework for Layered Modeling of Multimedia Data Gerhard Schloss and Michael Wynblatt, State University of New York at Stony Brook 12:00 - 01:30 Luncheon Luncheon Address "Reflections on the Status of 'Systems' in Information Systems Research" John King, University of California at Irvine Editor, Information Systems Research 01:30 - 03:00 Parallel Sessions Paper Session #6 - Information Systems Development A Session Chair: Chee Ching, Arizona State University Paper 6-1: Process Modeling and Execution Christop Bussler and Stefan Jablonski, Digital Equipment GmbH, Germany Paper 6-2: The Incremental Development Process in Cleanroom Software Engineering Richard Linger, IBM Corporation Alan Hevner, University of Maryland Paper 6-3: An Organization Modelling Framework for Information Systems Requirements Engineering Eric Yu, University of Toronto Panel #4 - Improving the User Interface in Information Retrieval Panel Chair: David Grossman, Office of Information Technology Panelists: Ophir Frieder, George Mason University Raymond D'Amore, MITRE David Roberts, Office of Information Technology Julian Yochum, Logicon Operating Systems 03:00 - 03:30 Refreshment Break 03:30 - 05:00 Parallel Sessions Paper Session #7 - Information Systems Development B Session Chair - Minder Chen, George Mason University Paper 7-1: Object-Oriented Analysis - Is It Really that Simple? Yair Wand and Carson Woo, University of British Columbia Paper 7-2: Modelling the Synchronisation of Operations on Complex Structured Objects in Distributed Information Systems Andreas Oberweis, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany Paper 7-3: A Similarity-Based Clustering Algorithm to Cluster Cases in a Case-Object Server Radha Mahapatra and Arun Sen, Texas A&M University Paper Session #8 - Innovative Applications of IS Session Chair - Ritu Agarwal, University of Dayton Paper 8-1: Performance Optimization of Financial Database Applications Rakesh Chandra and Arie Segev, University of California at Berkeley Paper 8-2: Computational Ecology of Manufacturing Systems Alok Chaturvedi and Rakesh Gulati, Purdue University Paper 8-3: Learning and Classification in the Extensible Object Model Michael Mannino and Yong Kim, University of Washington Chul Jung, Korea Institute of Finance Andrew Whinston, University of Texas at Austin End of Workshop ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: WITS'93 is sponsored by the University of Maryland, the University of Florida, and MIT. 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