Infosys v2n005 (February 22, 1995)<br>
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*    INFOSYS: The Electronic Newsletter for Information Systems     *
*    Volume 2, Number 5                       February 22, 1995     *
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*    Editor: Dennis W. Viehland, Massey University, New Zealand     *
*    Listowner: Greg Welsh, American University, Washington DC      *
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*                   Current Subscribers = 3,702                     *
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS * * * * * * * * * * * *
* EDITOR'S NOTE - I'm Back; INFOSYS on comp.infosystems; Top 40     *
* NEWS - From EDUPAGE                                               *
* REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE - Info Sys and Accntability Rsrch Partners *
* CONFERENCE - Ethical Issues of Using Information Technology       *
* CALL FOR PAPERS - Financial Information Systems Conference        *
* CALL FOR PAPERS - Advncd Info Systems Engr (CAISE*95) Workshops   *
* CALL FOR PAPERS - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-95)    *
* CALL FOR PAPERS - Conference and Exhibition on EDI-EDIFACT        *
* POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, Info Systems    *
* POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Faculty, Management Information Systems   *
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0524* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* EDITOR'S NOTE - I'm Back; INFOSYS on comp.infosystems; Top 40     *
* Dennis Viehland, Massey University <d.viehland@massey.ac.nz>      *
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This issue begins with a great big THANKS to Ake Gronlund of Umea
University in Sweden for his assistance as INFOSYS Guest Editor
during my overseas travel and Holiday.
 
Also a quick note of apology for such a big gap between INFOSYS
issues. The academic year is just beginning down under, most
INFOSYS readers know what a disruption in work flow that can cause!
But the submissions have continued to come in so v2 n6 will follow
shortly.
 
Beginning with this issue INFOSYS will be posted to the
comp.infosystem newsgroup on Usenet. If you are a Usenet reader you
can get your INFOSYS fix there.
 
Coming soon: a update to the Welcome Message and an updated
directory of INFOSYS archives.
 
Finally, a ranking of electronic-mailing lists at
http://www.clark.net/pub/listserv/top40.html shows INFOSYS is in
the Top 40 (#37) of all lists in number of members. (But some of
the entries on this list are questionable and other major e-mail
lists are missing.) Thanks to Munir Mandviwalla at Temple
University for pointing this out to me.
 
 
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* NEWS - From EDUPAGE                                               *
* Dennis Viehland, Massey University <d.viehland@massey.ac.nz>      *
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IBM IS INTO DOS: IBM will begin shipping its new PC DOS 7.0 in the
next few weeks, with upgrades for existing users priced below $50.
Big Blue sees a potential market among users of older, smaller
machines who want to modernize their systems. The new DOS is
speedier, and includes disk compression, virus detection, data
recovery and file transfer software. (Investor's Business Daily
2/2/95 A6)
 
LOW-TECH CEOs LEFT OUT OF THE INFORMATION LOOP: "The art of the game
is becoming a question of getting the tools in place that allow you
to select out of the huge mass of information. And as the computer
tools become more sophisticated, you can do that. Ultimately, that
will drive all CEOs to use a computer," predicts Quantum Corp.'s
chairman and CEO. (Investor's Business Daily 2/2/95 A6)
 
INDUSTRY/ACADEME: NO MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN: Although businesses
that collaborate with universities on projects report 59% higher
productivity than competitors, it's a partnership that's fraught
with conflict, according to a Coopers & Lybrand study. More than
half of the companies surveyed reported problems, including: a
faculty culture not receptive to business; lack of interest on the
part of academicians in designing programs and resources for
business; insensitivity to growth-oriented goals; and inappropriate
course material for employee training. (Investor's Business Daily
2/6/95 A4)
 
KEEPING TABS ON CUSTOMERS: An Ernst & Young survey says that nearly
70% of U.S. businesses, compared with 55% of Canadian businesses,
collect computerized data on their customers. (Toronto Globe & Mail
1/1/95 B8)
 
EUROPE GOES ONLINE: Industry pundits are billing 1995 as the year
that Europeans go online, thanks to an installed base of 10 million
home PCs and rapidly growing sales. CompuServe boasts 200,000
subscribers in Germany and Great Britain, and a number of services
are preparing to debut, including Europe Online, a Luxembourg-based
service backed by British, French and German publishers. Market
researchers are predicting some 500,000 Europeans going online this
year, with as many as 15 million by 2000. Even European politicians
are getting with the program -- Germany's foreign minister conducted
an online chat with citizens last month. (Business Week 2/13/95
p.91)
 
COMDEX CONVENTION SOLD TO JAPANESE COMPANY Japanese software
wholesaler Softbank Corp. has paid the Interface Group $800 million
for the Comdex convention, the world's largest computer expo. Comdex
is held in two parts each year, a Spring show in Atlanta and a Fall
show in Nevada. In recent years there has been animosity between
Comdex exhibitors and the Chairman of Interface. (Atlanta Journal-
Constitution 2/14/95 D3)
 
NEC'S REALLY BIG CHIP: NEC Corp. has succeeded in developing a one-
gigabyte chip that can store one billion bits of information in a
space a little larger than a postage stamp. The one-inch-by-1.5-inch
DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chip can hold the equivalent of
4,000 newspapers, four hours of compact-disk quality sound, or 15
minutes of video. "The DRAMs will be suitable for use in future
multimedia terminals and next-generation mobile notebook computers,"
says a NEC executive. NEC doesn't plan mass production until 1999 at
the earliest, and needs a cash infusion of about $1.5 billion just
to get started. (Investor's Business Daily 2/14/95 A7)
 
Editor's Note: Edupage, a summary of news items on information
technology, is a service of Educom. This is an abbreviated list of
news items of interest to the IS community from the February 2, 5,
7, 9, 12, and 14, 1995 issues.
 
 
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0526* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE - Info Sys and Accntability Rsrch Partners *
* Richard Heeks, University of Manchester <mzdrbhs@mh1.mcc.ac.uk>   *
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The Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of
Manchester, UK is about to embark on research into the impact of
computerised information systems on organisational accountability
in development organisations. The research will focus on both
internal accountability (for example, in terms of financial probity)
but also on external accountability (for example, to donors and to
client populations). Given this last focus, there is likely to be a
particular emphasis on social development organisations - housing,
health, community development, etc - in both government and NGO
sectors. The work is likely to be based primarily (though not
necessarily exclusively) on anglophone countries.
 
The Institute is now seeking two categories of partner:
--Active Research Partners in developing countries who are both
  willing and able to undertake field research on IS and
  accountability;
--Discussion Partners, based anywhere, who wish to receive details
  of work in progress with a view to making an input to the eventual
  research outcomes.
 
If you wish to be considered in either of these categories, please
contact the Research Coordinator:
Dr Richard Heeks, IDPM
University of Manchester
Precinct Centre, Manchester, M13 9GH, UK
Voice:  +44-161-275-2870
Fax:    +44-161-273-8829
E-mail: richard.heeks@man.ac.uk
 
 
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* CONFERENCE - Ethical Issues of Using Information Technology       *
* Simon Rogerson <srog@de-montfort.ac.uk>                           *
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Conference on the Ethical Issues of Using Information Technology
(ETHICOMP95)
Leicester, UK
28-30 March 1995
 
The conference will be attended by delegates from about 10 countries
around the world. Many of the leading authorities will be speaking.
 
For details of speakers and the programme see
http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Research/ETHICOMP95/refpaper.html
 
For further information contact:
Simon Rogerson
Co-Director ETHICOMP95
Voice:  +44 533 577475
Fax:    +44 533 541891
E-mail: srog@dmu.ac.uk
 
 
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* CALL FOR PAPERS - Financial Information Systems Conference        *
* Tony Aykroyd, Sheffield Hallam University <j.a.aykroyd@shu.ac.uk> *
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Second Annual Financial Information Systems Conference
27-28 June 1995
Novotel, Sheffield UK
 
The effective use of financial information systems is critical to
the success of the business. These systems include accounting
information systems, management information systems, decision
support systems, enterprise information systems and knowledge based
systems.
 
Objectives:
--to discuss current and emerging issues and research within
  financial information systems
--to share experiences of the application of computer based systems
  to the provision of financial information
--to encourage the collaboration of academics, practitioners and
  software houses in the development of case studies, computer based
  simulations and courseware
--to ensure that educational objectives and teaching methodologies
  are in line with developments in financial information systems
 
Abstracts (500 words maximum plus up to six key words) should be
submitted by Friday 24 February 1995. The submission date for
accepted papers is Friday 28 April 1995. Submit abstracts to:
Tony Aykroyd
Sheffield Hallam University
School of Financial Studies & Law
City Campus
Sheffield S1 1WB UK
Voice:  0114 253 3692
Fax:    0114 253 3726
E-mail: j.a.aykroyd@shu.ac.uk
 
Enquiries and further information should be directed to:
Jayne Heathcote
Sheffield Hallam University
Conference & Short Course Centre
Collegiate Crescent Campus
Sheffield S10 2BP  UK
Voice:  0114 253 2514
E-mail: j.heathcote@shu.ac.uk
 
 
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* CALL FOR PAPERS - Advncd Info Systems Engr (CAISE*95) Workshops   *
* Matti Rossi, University of Jyvdskyld <mor@jyu.fi>                 *
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7th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops
12-13 June 1995
Jyvdskyld, Finland
 
Preceding the CAISE*95 conference four workshops will take place.
Workshops last one or two days. Participation in each workshop is
limited to about 25 persons. All participants are expected to attend
the main conference.
 
For more information about the CAiSE*95 conference itself, contact:
E-mail: caise95@jyu.fi
WWW: http://www.jyu.fi/~mor/
 
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Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering:
Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'95)
12-13 June 1995
Jyvaskyla, Finland.
 
REFSQ'95 invites contributions from research as well as from
industry, dealing with (but not limited to) the following topics:
--Specification of software quality requirements
--Quality models for requirements engineering
--Quality-oriented process models for requirements engineering
--Traceability of quality requirements
--The interplay between design and requirements engineering methods
--Measurement of quality requirements satisfaction by suitable
  metrics
 
Send a full paper (<6000 words) or position paper (<2000 words) by
e-mail or post until March 1 (arrival date) to:
REFSQ'95
Lehrstuhl Informatik V
Ahornstr. 55
D-52074 Aachen Germany
E-mail: {pohl,peters}@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
 
Submission deadline:     March 1 1995
Acceptance notification: April 1 1995
Camera ready paper due:    May 1 1995
 
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2nd Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
12-13 June 1995
 
To apply for participating at the consortium, you must provide 5
copies of an abstract of your doctoral work. The abstract should:
--state clearly since when the research began, if it's a full time
  or part time work, and how the research work is financed
--identify clearly the research question
--outline the hard problems in the field of research and the
  current solutions (if any) with the help of 4-5 known references
--present the preliminary ideas and state clearly the proposed
  approach
--present the contributions of the applicant and the results of the
  work (if any)
 
The length of the abstract should not exceed two pages. Submissions
will be selected based on the topic, quality, and interest of the
two-pages abstract they submit. Admission is limited to 20 students.
 
Contact person:
Said Assar
Departement des Systemes d'Information
Institut National des Telecommunications 9, rue Charles Fourier
91011 EVRY - FRANCE
Voice:  +33 1 60 76 44 88
Fax:    +33 1 60 76 44 93
E-mail: assar@galaxie.int-evry.fr
 
Submission deadline:      March 1 1995
Acceptance notification: April 15 1995
 
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Supporting End User Development with Visual Programming and
Object-Orientation
13 June 1995
 
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the possibility and
means of achieving significant advances in end user development by
adopting ideas from visual programming and from business and
enterprise object modelling including object-role modelling, object-
oriented databases, workflow technology, process modelling and so on.
 
Submit a short position paper (maximum 1000 words) and a short self
description to the workshop organisers by the deadline. The position
papers will be reviewed. The accepted papers will be published by
the conference organisers. The preferred mode of communication is
e-mail. If your application has not been acknowledged within three
days of the submission, please re-submit it.
 
Submission deadline:      March 1 1995
Acceptance notification: April 15 1995
 
Contact person:
Nikolay Mehandjiev
Dept. of Management Systems and Sciences
University of Hull
HULL HU6 7RX, England
(Editor's Note: sorry, no e-mail address is provided in my copy!)
 
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6th European Workshop on Next Generation of CASE Tools
12-13 June 1995
 
NGCT*95 invites contributions from both industry and academia,
dealing with (but not limited to) the following topics:
--Novel CASE architectures and repository technology
--Product and process support in CASE
--Method engineering
--Meta-CASE environments
--Intelligent CASE tools
--Human Factors and Organisation issues
--AI influence on CASE
--Reuse
--Re-engineering
 
Two types of submission are invited:
--State of the art review papers should give an overview of the
  work carried out in a specific field and present the results that
  constitute the state of the art in this field; max 5,000 words
--Position papers describe experience and overview of results of a
  group's work in a particular field; max 2,500 words
Attendance at the workshop is conditional on acceptance of a paper.
 
Send 4 copies of your submission in camera ready format (Times 12
point, single spacing, at least 3 cm, margins on A4 paper) to:
Georges Grosz
NGCT*95
University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne
C.R.I.
17, rue de Tolbiac
75013 Paris FRANCE
Voice:  (33) 1 44 24 93 65
Fax:    (33) 1 45 86 76 66
E-mail: grosz@masi.ibp.fr
 
Submission deadline:     March 1 1995
Acceptance notification: April 1 1995
 
 
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* CALL FOR PAPERS - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-95)    *
* <kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov>                                          *
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The First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (KDD-95)
August 20-21, 1995
Montreal, Canada
 
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) and Data Mining are areas of
common interest to researchers in machine learning, machine
discovery, statistics, intelligent databases, knowledge acquisition,
data visualization, high performance computing, and expert systems.
The rapid growth of data and information created a need and an
opportunity for extracting knowledge from databases, and both
researchers and application developers have been responding to that
need. KDD applications have been developed for astronomy, biology,
finance, insurance, marketing, medicine, and many other fields. Core
problems in KDD include representation issues, search complexity,
the use of prior knowledge, statistical inference, and algorithms
for the analysis of massive amounts of data both in size and
dimensionality.
 
This list of topics is an indication of typical topics of interest:
--Foundational issues and core problems in KDD database mining tools
  and applications
--Computationally efficient search for structure in data
--Interactive data exploration and discovery
--Knowledge representation issues in KDD
--Data and knowledge visualization
--Data and dimensionality reduction
--Parallel techniques for data management and search
--Security and privacy issues in machine discovery
 
Please submit 5 *hardcopies* of a short paper (a maximum of 9 single-
spaced pages not including cover page but including bibliography, 1
inch margins, and 12pt font) by March 3, 1995. A cover page must
include author(s) full address, e-mail, a 200 word abstract, and up
to 5 keywords. This cover page must accompany the paper.
 
In addition, an electronic version of the cover page must be sent by
e-mail to kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov by March 3, 1995.
 
Please mail the papers to:
KDD-95
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496 USA
 
Conference inquiries to the address above or:
Voice   (415) 328-3123
Fax:    (415) 321-4457
E-mail: kdd@aaai.org
 
Submissions due:          March 3, 1995
Acceptance notice:       April 10, 1995
Camera-ready paper due:    May 12, 1995
 
Conference Co-Chairs:
--Usama M. Fayyad (Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of
  Technology)
--Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Research Laboratories)
 
 
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* CALL FOR PAPERS - Conference and Exhibition on EDI-EDIFACT        *
* Juri Gornostaev, Centre for Sci and Tech Info <enir@icsti.su>     *
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1st International Conference and Exhibition on EDI-EDIFACT
Technologies and Systems in Eastern Europe (EDI-EDIFACT'95)
July 18-21, 1995
Moscow, Russia
 
Eastern Europe's countries have big plans for the coming decade to
computerize vital sectors of their economy and to continue the full-
scale modernization of national information infrastructures.
Worldwide leaders in Electronic Data Interchange that have the
capability to turn these plans into reality will be gathered in
Moscow for the presentation of the 1st International Conference and
Exhibition on EDI-EDIFACT'95. The format for EDI-EDIFACT'95 will be
three days of conference paper presentations forestalled by two days
of technical workshop and tutorials. There will also be an
exhibition during all five days
 
Suggested topics:
--EDI within the context of Open Systems architecture
--Government policy and funding of EDI standards development
--Transfer to EDI and new technologies
--EDI design, and implementation experiences
--EDI in transport, trade, business
--The future impact of EDI on international trade
--The role EDI as universal business language
--New standards for EDI
--EDI in PC and LAN/WAN environments
--Choosing the right EDI platform
--EDI in eastern countries
--The role of EDI-EDIFACT in trade facilitation
 
Full version of papers due for review            March 15, 1995
Tutorial and Workshop proposals due for review   April 15, 1995
Notification to authors                            May 15, 1995
Camera-ready manuscript of papers due
Camera-ready copies of tutorial/workshop papers due
(Editor's note: dates are missing from submission to INFOSYS)
 
The written and spoken language of EDI-EDIFACT'95 is English for
an international audience.
 
An application form is available from the program Co-chair, to
whom two copies of your paper should be submitted by March 15, 1995:
Dr. Juri Gornostaev
Computer Department
International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information
125252, Moscow, Russia, Kuusinen Str., 21-B
Voice:  7(095)198-7691/7041
Fax:    7(095)943-0089
E-mail: enir@icsti.msk.su
 
For more Information on the Conference, Workshops and Tutorials
and preliminary programme, please contact:
Dr. Alexander Filippov
EDI-EDIFACT'95 Program Committee
Executive Secretary for Russia National EDIFACT Board
Deputy Division Director
Dpt. for Multilateral Economic Cooperation
Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations
121200, Moscow, Russia, Smolenskay-Sennaja 32/34
Voice: 7(095)244-4245/3413
Fax:   7(095)230-2634
Telex: 411266 SOTR SU
 
The registration fee is US$300, including local support and social
events. The conference hotel is the Hotel Ukraina (US$95 single;
US$145 double) Fax: 7(095)243-5928
 
 
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* POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, Info Systems    *
* Dennis Viehland, Massey University <d.viehland@massey.ac.nz>      *
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Senior Lecturer/Lecturer
Department of Information Systems
Massey University - Albany
Auckland, New Zealand
 
The Department of Information Systems is seeking interested and
experienced academics to complement its group of enthusiastic and
supportive colleagues. Preference will be given to candidates with
higher degrees.
 
There are a number of special interest groups including data
modelling and database, multimedia systems, object management,
spatial information systems and expert systems. Supervision for
doctorate and masterate studies is available in these and other
areas of interest.
 
You will be expected to contribute a modern view of systems
development to the teaching of the undergraduate programme, and to
teach graduate courses in an area of specialisation. In addition,
you will undertake your own personal research activities, and
participate in outreach programmes locally and nationally.
 
Enquiries of an academic nature should be addressed to:
Professor Jon Patrick
E-mail: j.d.patrick@massey.ac.nz
 
Reference number DWV 1/95A must be quoted.
Closing date: 31 March 1995
 
Editor's note: Albany is located in North Shore City, rated as the
best place to live in New Zealand. This is a wonderful opportunity
for the right person.
 
 
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* POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Faculty, Management Information Systems   *
* G Packwood, Baldwin-Wallace Collge <gpackwoo@rs6000.baldwinw.edu> *
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The Division of Business Administration at Baldwin-Wallace College
is seeking candidates for a teaching position beginning September 1,
1995, with an emphasis in MIS. The ideal candidate should have a
secondary teaching area, preferably in Operations Management at the
graduate and undergraduate levels, although other areas would be
considered. For the graduate teaching the candidate should have
experience in teaching practitioners MIS as an aid in management
decisions. Most of the teaching will be in the evening and weekend
and graduate programs. The selected candidate would be expected to
coordinate course content, provide leadership in applying
information technology to instruction, and help the Division in
building its network.
 
Candidates should possess experience in teaching adult learners
within a college environment and have demonstrated application
experience in the areas of executive information systems, client
server, networking, data base, and systems development. Preferably,
the candidate will hold a doctorate in MIS with a minor in
Operations Management, but extensive professional experience in
systems design and implementation and a graduate degree in MIS will
be considered.
 
Please submit a letter of application, resume, and telephone numbers
of three references by February 28 to:
Dr. Peter Rea
Baldwin-Wallace College
275 Eastland Road
Berea, Ohio 44017-2088 USA
Fax: 216-826-3868
 
 
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