From denise@cit.gu.edu.au Tue Jan 3 19:00:21 1995 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA23891; Tue, 3 Jan 95 19:00:21 CST Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (kurango.cit.gu.edu.au [132.234.5.1]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA10219 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 19:00:13 -0600 Received: by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au id AA17735 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for all-iceimt@einet.net); Wed, 4 Jan 1995 11:00:55 +1000 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 11:00:55 +1000 From: Denise Vercoe Message-Id: <199501040100.AA17735@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Call for Papers X-Face: "}C))xsU[zlmZ1"WWEJ#Dqwx;;ED6#,_&B?tFct./5#jw[CxwabL@3W>#toWzlV:yT-Sgr( H@V.twST%TI*u@"p'TdN_,Lv]fA~uSUTQ$(J(S+5YPY8@&:7;=V.4cOET'_#].\c;0`s_ [To those who have seen a draft CFP earlier: pls note final date.] This CFP can also be seeen at URL http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/ei95 --------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------- IFIP TC5 Special Interest Group on Architectures for Enterprise Integration WORKING CONFERENCE ON MODELS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION (EI95) 8-11 November, 1995 Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia --------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Integration and Enterprise Engineering has become a focal point of discussions during the past few years with active contribution of many disciplines. The evolution from the concept of CAD/CAM, through CIM to the Integrated Enterprise is based on the assumption that the integrated enterprise can (and should) be engineered just as any complex system can. Ingredients of this approach are: - Modelling Languages, Ontological Theories, and Generic Models to facilitate the production of descriptions of the enterprise on various levels of formality, and from various aspects; - Enterprise Engineering Methodologies which can be followed to turn an enterprise into a competitive, agile system, capable of surviving on a global market; - Enterprise Reference Architectures (describing product- and enterprise life-cycles); - Enterprise Engineering Tools allowing a computer simulation and analysis of enterprise models, and enabling experimentation with various factors, e.g., functionality, cost, quality, and agility. OBJECTIVES ========== The purpose of the conference is to - Discuss the state of the art in enterprise engineering based on enterprise modelling and associated methodologies and architectures; - Analyse the needs of the enterprise engineering / enterprise integration user community and the way present techniques meet these requirements; - Identify the most promising results for enterprise engineering as well as research results which could transform the field in the medium term future. The Conference is planned to be discussion oriented, with approximately 40-60 participants, each of whom will contribute to the conference either by a full paper or a position paper. A limited number of non-contributory audience will be allowed, mainly from industry; if you are interested in this category, please send a short professional CV to the address below. The Conference will be organised around major questions -- where papers in that area will be presented shortly and an evaluation paper of the area will be given by invited speakers. This will then be followed by a general discussion of the area, where transcripts of the discussion are taken for the proceedings, to appear as a book. All participants will receive a copy of the preprints ahead of time to be able to actively prepare for the discussions. The location has been selected to allow close interaction of participants in unique surroundings. MAJOR QUESTIONS =============== - Tools for Enterprise Modelling -- Requirements and Design Issues - Languages: Integrating Enterprise Models (Language Design and Ontological Modelling) - Gaining Advantage Though the Use Of Enterprise Reference Architectures - The Role of Enterprise Engineering Methodologies - The Role of Recently Popularised Approaches in Enterprise Integration (e.g., concurrent engineering, re-engineering, co-ordination science etc) - Significant Opportunities and Generic Building Blocks (reusable partial models, agent based integration, etc). Will They Beat the Complexity of Enterprise Engineering? SUBMISSION ========== Please let the organisers know as soon as possible of your intention to attend. Four hard copies of full papers or short position papers are due by 1 May, 1995. Full papers should not exceed 12,000 words (preferably 15-20 pages). Position papers not exceeding 2,500 words (preferably 3-5 pages). If you want to attend the working conference in the attendee-only category (without paper submission), please send a professional CV no later then 1 May 1995 but as soon as possible. Both full papers and position papers will be refereed by the International Programme Committee. Participation is by invitation based on the above submissions. The International Programme Committee reserves the right to nevertheless invite distinguished participants without them submitting any of the above. Authors will be notified by the end of June 1995 of the acceptance of their papers. Invitations to attend will be sent out accordingly. The camera ready copy of papers (to appear in the preprints) will be due 31 August. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers due: 1 May 1995 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 1995 Revised papers for preprints due: 31 August 1995 SEND PAPERS TO ============== Mrs Denise Vercoe c/o School of Computing and Information Technology Griffith University Nathan Queensland 4111 Australia phone: +61-7-875 5002 fax: +61-7-875 5051 email: ei95@cit.gu.edu.au Please use AIR MAIL (or international courier) because ordinary surface mail takes three months to get to Australia (air mail takes seven days and international courier takes three days). PUBLICATION =========== Preprints will be made available to participants before the conference to allow preparation for discussions. A book containing revised versions of papers and the transcript of discussions is being negotiated with the official IFIP Publisher LOCATION ======== Heron Island is a Coral cay in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef . The small island is 72 kilometres off the Queensland coast and is reached by catamaran (2 hours) or by helicopter (30 minutes) from Gladstone. Gladstone is 6 hours drive or 70 minutes by plane from Brisbane and can also be reached by rail. The temperatures in November are approximately air: 18-29C(64-84F) water: 22-28C(72-83F). The Giant Turtles begin laying their eggs in November, and this is usually the month for the annual synchronised mass spawning of corals, an event that really stimulates the fish activity. The conference timetable will be adjusted to tropical Queensland weather and allow time to be taken for the exploration of the Reef by reef walks, snorkeling, submarine reef viewing, and other activities. The small island has a tropical village atmosphere and has excellent conference facilities. Only casual clothes are necessary. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE ================= English ORGANISERS ========== Main organiser: Australian Computer Society -------------- Contact: Angela Laffey, conference secretary ------- Australian Computer Society Mail address: POBOX 135 Aspley (Brisbane), Queensland 4034, Australia Email: ei95@cit.gu.edu.au Phone +61-7-263 9777 Fax: +61-7-263 7020 National Organising Committee ----------------------------- Peter Bernus (chair) Laszlo Nemes(co-chair), Angela Laffey (secretary), Ljubica Vlacic, Denise Vercoe, Leon Tighe (treasurer, and chair ACS Queensland) Main Sponsor: ------------ International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) TC5 Special Interest Group on Architectures for Enterprise Integration. Co-sponsors: ----------- - International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) IFAC TC MIA - IFIP/IFAC Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration - Institution of Engineers, Australia - Queensland Information Industries Board - Andersen Consulting - CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology - Griffith University - Collaborative Research Centre for Intelligent Manufacturing Technology (IMST) INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ================================= General Chair: T.J.Williams (Purdue University, USA) Programme Committee Chair: P. Bernus (Griffith University, AUS) Members: Randy Aranguren (USA) Luis Basanez (SP) Jim Brosvic (USA) Yuliu Chen (HK) Guy Doumeingts (F) Albert Chan (CAN) David Chen (F) Fadi Fadel (CAN) Joel Favrel (F) Mark Fox (CAN) Yoshiro Fukuda (J) Mike Gruninger (CAN) Bruce Guthridge (USA) Geza Haidegger (H) Zengjin Han (PRC) Atsui Inamoto (J) Mathias Jarke (G) Mark Klein (USA) Peter Kopacek (A) Kurt Kosanke (G) George L. Kovacs (H) Toru Mikami (J) H.-J. Molstand (DEN) Laszlo Nemes (AUS) co-chair James L. Nevins (USA) Michael G Rodd (UK) Gunter Schmidt (G) Yusaku Shibata (J) John Mylopoulos (CAN) Francois B. Vernadat (F) Ljubisa Vlacic (AUS) Jakob Vlietstra (USA) R.H. Weston (UK) Christoph Bussler (G) Arturo Molina Gutierrez (MEX) N. Rozsenich (A) Tim Finin (US) Frank Neuscheler (G) Kunimasa Nishigaya (U.N.) _______________________________________________________________ RESPONSE FORM ============= Please send your expression of interest as soon as possible to the contact person Angela Laffey, conference secretary Australian Computer Society Mail address: POBOX 135 Aspley (Brisbane), Queensland 4034, Australia Email: ei95@cit.gu.edu.au Phone +61-7-263 9777 Fax: +61-7-263 7020 Conference information is also available through the WWW page http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/ei95 Name: _____________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________ Mailing address: _____________________________________ Email: _____________________________ Fax: _____________________ I plan to submit a full paper to the conference with the tentative title: _____________________________________________ I plan to submit a position paper to the conference with the tentative title: _____________________________________________ I intend to attend the conference, but can not submit a paper. I will send a professional CV to you not later then 1 May, 1995: _____ It is expected that about two third of participants will share twin Reef and Heron suites. Single occupancy of these suites is possible at an additional cost. Allocation on first come first serve basis. Due to the limited capacity of the island please advise the organisers well ahead of time if you intend to bring an accompanying person. Reservations on first come first served basis. REFERENCES: ========== References to more Enterprise Integration related information can be found at the WWW page at URL http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/ei95/clearinghouse.html From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Wed Jan 4 07:22:00 1995 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA02501; Wed, 4 Jan 95 07:22:00 CST Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu [157.182.44.3]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA15174 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 07:21:58 -0600 Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA03656; Wed, 4 Jan 95 08:21:57 EST Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA06721; Tue, 20 Dec 94 15:29:44 EST From: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu (Enabling Technology Workshop) Message-Id: <9412202029.AA06721@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: WET ICE CFP Extended To: sysinfo@einet.net Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 15:29:43 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 6720 Sender: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu NOTICE: CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED WET ICE '95 ----------- IEEE Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 20-22, 1995 Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, USA Since a number of people have requested extensions to the submission deadline for WET ICE '95 (we know, a lot of people have had end-of-semester concerns and the holidays on their minds :-) ), we will accept papers for the workshop until January 20, 1995. We will, however, begin the review process as scheduled; papers submitted by the December 16 deadline will be reviewed first, and papers submitted after December 16 will be reviewed as part of a second review group. Happy Holidays, Prof. John R. Callahan Program Chair WET ICE '95 et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '95 IEEE Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 20-22, 1995 Berkeley Springs, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society and support from AAAI, will conduct the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 20-22, 1995, at the Coolfont Resort, Conference Center, and Health Spa in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. We also have applied for the cooperation of ACM (ACM SIGOIS lent their cooperation to last year's workshop). The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Applications of collaborative technologies in * healthcare * software engineering * electronic commerce * etc. Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Mobile computing Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing Capture of design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be currently under submission for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of each author. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or PostScript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode. Papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript January 20, 1995 Notification of decisions February 15, 1995 Advance Registration March 20, 1995 WORKSHOP April 20-22, 1995 Final version of the paper May 15, 1995 Student Grant Program Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work. Funds are available to support the participation costs of a limited number of students whose papers are accepted for presentation. This support, provided by AAAI, will include free registration as well as lodging and meals for three days. Workshop Location The workshop will be held at the Coolfont Resort, Conference Center, and Health Spa, a 1,200-acre, rustic mountain retreat in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, approximately 100 miles northwest of Washington D.C. In addition to tennis, swimming, hiking (including morning nature walks), and horseback riding, Coolfont has a full-service spa, offering massages and facials. A championship golf course is located at Cacapon State Park, seven miles away. Spouse rates will be available and will be announced at a later date. WET ICE '94 Synopsis Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multi-media, graphical user-interfaces, and a precipitous drop in the "cost of computing" point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group of members) of a team. The IEEE Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focused precisely on these issues. Scientists and practitioners from around the world gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The proceedings is a compendium of 24 scientific papers and three working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Abstracts of the papers are available electronically from IEEE Computer Society's gopher server (gopher info.computer.org; or telnet info.computer.org, login: guest). Copies of the WET ICE '94 proceedings can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 1-714-821-8380 from outside the United States. Copies are $25 for IEEE members and $50 for non-members. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, April 17-19, 1994" when ordering. Proceedings of the Second Workshop are also available. WET ICE '95 Chairs General Chair: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Program Chair: Prof. John R. Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Point of Contact John R. Callahan Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 1-304-293-7226 x286 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu Internet Information Sites This CFP, and other future information about the workshop, can be accessed through: - World Wide Web at URL http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE95_cfp.html, - anonymous ftp at babcock.cerc.wvu.edu/announcements, and - Gopher at gopher.cerc.wvu.edu/announcements. From mklein@atc.boeing.com Fri Jan 6 18:09:42 1995 Return-Path: Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA28400; Fri, 6 Jan 95 18:09:42 CST Received: from atc.boeing.com (atc.boeing.com [130.42.28.80]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA12532 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 18:09:40 -0600 From: mklein@atc.boeing.com Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA17555; Fri, 6 Jan 95 16:12:09 -0800 Received: from [130.42.151.95] (lorien) by grace.rt.cs.boeing.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00680; Fri, 6 Jan 95 16:04:03 PST Date: Fri, 6 Jan 95 16:04:02 PST Message-Id: <9501070004.AA00680@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com> X-Sender: mklein@grace Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ce-digest@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu, announcements.chi@xerox.com, ckbs@cs.keele.ac.uk, csp-list@saturne.cert.fr, cnbr-L@kanga.edc.rmit.edu.au, cscw-list@gid.co.uk, DAI-List@mcc.com, dbowner@cs.wisc.edu, ce-digest-local@wheat.tc.cornell.edu, fits-list@csi.uottawa.edu, DMITTLEMAN@BPA.ARIZONA.EDU, GSS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu, HCI-Members@europarc.xerox.com, cscw@hicom.org, all-iceimt@einet.net, maamaw@cosmos.imag.fr, EIF@CME.NIST.GOV, OCISNET@BAYLOR.EDU, re-list@doc.ic.ac.uk, fay@arch.su.edu.au, uk-cscw@europarc.xerox.com, distributed-ai@mailbase.ac.uk Subject: Announcement: CERA Special Issue on Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering Cc: mklein@atc, bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com Dear Moderator: Please post if you feel it is appropriate to your list. ------- I'd like to announce the availability of the following special issue: Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering in CERA (Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications) Journal A central aspect of concurrent engineering is the management of conflicts among multiple engineering disciplines throughout the product life cycle. If such conflicts are not addressed in a timely fashion, the result can be huge unnecessary waste, delay and reduced product quality. This special issue focuses on how computer technology can support more effective avoidance, detection and resolution of conflicts in such settings. The papers address a wide range of issues in diverse domains including architecture, software and complex physical systems. The papers may thus be of interest to researchers in distributed artificial intelligence, organizational science, computer-supported cooperative work, group decision support systems, software engineering and other related fields. The issue appears in Volume 2, Number 3 of CERA journal, which became available December 5, 1994. CONTENTS Introduction to the Special Issue on Conflict Management in Concurrent Engineering by Mark Klein, Boeing Computer Services, Seattle WA. Automated Configuration Management in CE Projects by S. Tiwari, Stanford University, and H.A. Franklin, Bechtel Group, SF, Stanford, CA. Avoiding Conflicts in Architectural Subsystem Layout by M. Gross, University of Colorado, CO. Cosmos: A System for Supporting Engineering Negotiation by W. Mark, and J. Dukes-Schlossberg, Lockheed AI Center, CA. The Interplay of Context, Process and Conflict in Concurrent Engineering by S. Kannapan, and D.L. Taylor, Xerox Corp., Ithaca, NY. Mediating Conflicts in Concurrent Engineering with a Protocol Based on Utility by D. Bahler, and C. Dupont., and J. Bowen, North Carolina State University, NC. Coordinating Distributed ViewPoints: the Anatomy of a Consistency Check by S. Easterbrook, A. Finkelstein, J. Kramer, and B. Nuseibeh, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Managing Cognitive and Mixed-Motive Conflicts in Concurrent Engineering by B. Ramesh, and K. Sengupta, Naval Postgraduate School, CA Interactive Decision Support for Requirements Negotiation by W.N. Robinson, Oregon State University, OR. CERA (Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications) is an international journal published quarterly by Academic Press whose purpose is to provide a forum for the dissemination of multidisciplinary scientific work on Concurrent Engineering based on computer technologies. For more information, contact Biren Prasad, CERA Managing Editor, CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA. Fax: (313) 661 8333: Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Until January 11th I can be reached at: US Mail Express Mail (e.g. Fedex) ------- ------------------------- Mark Klein, PhD Mark Klein, PhD Boeing Computer Services Boeing Computer Services Mailstop 7L-41 Building 33-08 PO Box 24346 2710 160th Ave SE Seattle WA 98124-0346 USA Bellevue WA 98008 USA Voice: (206) 865-3412 Fax: (206) 865-2965 Email: mklein@atc.boeing.com After January 11th I will be working (as a research faculty member) at the Applied Research Lab in Pennsylvania State University: Mark Klein Information Systems Department The Applied Research Laboratory Penn State University P.O. Box 30 State College, PA 16804-0030 USA Voice: TBD Fax: (814) 863-7841 Email: klein@quark.arl.psu.edu From @festival.ed.ac.uk:mfu@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk Wed Jan 11 14:52:21 1995 Return-Path: <@festival.ed.ac.uk:mfu@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk> Received: from einet.net by ftp.einet.net (4.1/MCC_EINET_FTP_server_0.1) id AA12537; Wed, 11 Jan 95 14:52:21 CST Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk [128.86.8.45]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA02433 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:52:17 -0600 Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.festival; Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:45:41 +0000 Received: from skye-alter.aiai.ed.ac.uk by festival.ed.ac.uk id aa18863; 11 Jan 95 20:45 GMT From: Mike Uschold Received: from subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk (bute) by aiai.ed.ac.uk; Wed, 11 Jan 95 20:45:29 GMT Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 20:45:29 GMT Message-Id: <27961.9501112045@subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Enterprise Modelling Survey Cc: alm@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk, jlf@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk For you information, The following is a short description of a survey of Enterprise Modelling which is now available. --- Enterprise State of the Art Survey John Fraser and Ann Macintosh (editors), AIAI, The University of Edinburgh The survey was undertaken as part of the Enterprise Project . This is a major UK initiative to support organisations effectively in the Management of Change. The project is led by AIAI at the University of Edinburgh and the partners are IBM UK, Lloyd's Register, Logica and Unilever. The project is supported by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI ISIP Project Number 8032). There are five parts to the survey: Business Perspective for Enterprise Modelling Contexts in which Enterprise Modelling is Used Enterprise Modelling Methods Reuse Applied to Enterprise Modelling Technologies Supporting Enterprise Modelling The survey is available as a complete set from AIAI. The set costs 25 pounds UK sterling. Cheques should be made payable to The University of Edinburgh and sent to: The Publications Secretary Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute 80 South Bridge EDINBURGH EH1 1HN United Kingdom Tel: +44 (131) 650 2732 Fax: +44 (131) 650 6513 Email: AIAI@ed.ac.uk For World Wide Web information on the Enterprise Project see http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~entprise/enterprise/ Copies of project papers will be accessible from there. For general information on AIAI see http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/ If citing the survey, please use: J. Fraser and A. Macintosh, editors. Enterprise State of the Art Survey. The Enterprise Consortium, September 1994. Available from AIAI, The University of Edinburgh. ------------------------------------------------------------ If you are interested in obtaining this, contact the indicated parties directly. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO ME except to ask technical or other questions of clarification. Regards, Mike Uschold AI Applications Institute, INTERNET: M.Uschold@ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh, Tel: (031) 650 2732 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN Fax: 650-6513 Scotland From ARAHIM@delphi.com Wed Jan 18 05:44:28 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA03722 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 05:44:27 -0600 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1a.delphi.com (bos1a.delphi.com [192.80.63.1]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA23044 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 22:10:44 -0600 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #7804) id <01HLYXYNRF9O8XEBM5@delphi.com>; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 23:10:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 23:10:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: IJOA Index To: all-iceimt@EINET.NET Message-id: <01HLYXYNRF9Q8XEBM5@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: INTERNET"all-iceimt@einet.net" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE The International Journal of Organizational Analysis = INDEX TO VOLUME 2, 1994 Contac=F4=BA Afza=EC Rahim=AC Editor 157=B4 Mallor=F9 Ct Bowlin=E7 Green=AC K=D9 42103=AC USA Phone/Fax=BA 502-782-2601=BB E-Mail=BA Arahim=C0Delphi.com = =20 TITLE INDEX Agency Effects on the Outcomes of Distressed Firms-Mark Weber, (1), 54-67. An Exploratory Study of Gender Proportions on the Experiences of Managerial and Professional Women-Carol A. McKeen and Ronald J. Burke, (3), 280-294. Bases of Leader Power, Subordinate Compliance, and Satisfaction with Supervision: A Cross-Cultural Study of Managers in the U.S. and S. Korea-Afzalur M. Rahim, Nam Hyeon Kim, and Jay Sung Kim, (2), 136-154. Burnout Among Canadian Police Managers-Robert Loo, (4), 406- 417. Educating Tomorrow's Managers: The Role of Critical Thinking-T. K. Das, (4), 333-360. Expectations and Adaptations in Crosss-Cultural Education: An American-Style MBA Program in Spain-John D. Aram, (4), 418-432. Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct of Organizational Development Agents-Darla Germeroth, (2), 117-135. Ho'oponopono: A Cross Cultural Model for Organizational Development and Change-Thomas H. Patten, Jr., (3), 252-263. Labor Force Externalization in Growing Firms-Bruce Barry and J. Michael Crant, (4), 361-383. Measurement Issues in Using Paper and Pencil Instruments: Contrasting the Views of Academic Researchers, Teachers, and OD Consultants-Michael R. Manning, Conrad N. Jackson, and Valaya Pathi, (3), 236-251. OD Applications in Developmental Settings: An Addendum About Success Rates-Robert T. Golembiewski and Huaping Luo, (3), 295-308. Organization Development and Change as Prismatic-Robert T. Golembiewski, (3), 229-235. Organization Development Through Interlevel Dynamics-David Coghlan, (3), 264-279. Porter's Generic Strategies, Dynamic Environments, and Performance: A Profile Deviation Fit Perspective-Dan Marlin, James J. Hoffman, and Bruce T. Lamont, (2), 155-175. Predictors of Expatriate Adjustment-Linda K. Stroh, Leslie E. Dennis, and Tim C. Cramer, (2), 176-192. The Character of Organizational Communication: A Review and New Conceptualization-Allan H. Church, (1), 18-53. The Great Dutch Work Disability Epidemic: Cultural Construction and Institutional Action-Robert Hooijberg, Richard H. Price, and Akkeneel Talsma, (4), 384-404. There are Lessons to be Learned as Albania Undergoes a Paradigm Shift-Fred Luthans and Sang M. Lee, (1), 5-17. The Relative Utility of Culture and Climate Analysis to an Organizational Change Agent: An Analysis of General Dynamics, Electronics Division-Richard A. Barker, (1), 68- 87. The Risk/Return Connection: An Examination of Perceptual and Objective Measures of Risk Among Catalog and Mail-Order Houses-John A. Parnell, Linda Everett, and Peter Wright, (2), 193-207. Utilizing Performance Management to Improve Offshore Oilfield Diving Safety-Robert A. Reber and Jerry A. Wallin, (1), 88-98. From wallace@cme.nist.gov Wed Jan 18 07:54:34 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA21339 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 07:54:33 -0600 Received: from trumpet.cme.nist.gov (trumpet.cme.nist.gov [129.6.32.21]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA24432 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 07:54:32 -0600 Received: by trumpet.cme.nist.gov (4.1/SMI-3.2-del.6) id AA00840; Wed, 18 Jan 95 08:52:00 EST Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 08:52:00 EST From: wallace@cme.nist.gov (Evan Wallace) Message-Id: <9501181352.AA00840@trumpet.cme.nist.gov> To: all-iceimt@einet.net, ARAHIM@delphi.com Subject: Re: IJOA Index Is this list of publications appropriate for an Enterprise Integration technology mail exploder? I don't think so. Evan K. Wallace From Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Thu Jan 19 10:06:21 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA24804 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:06:21 -0600 From: Francois.Vernadat@imag.fr Received: from isis.imag.fr (isis.imag.fr [129.88.30.24]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA28064 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:06:13 -0600 Received: from [192.93.120.62] (inria-mac-2.inpg.fr [192.93.120.62]) by isis.imag.fr (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA13197 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:06:10 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:06:10 +0100 Message-Id: <199501191606.RAA13197@isis.imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CIMOSA Newsletter 2/1, 1995 CIMOSA - News, Vol. 2/1 date 95-01-10 Editor : M. Zelm, Gehenbuehlstr. 18A, D-70499 Stuttgart, Germany Announcement: ------------- The CIMOSA - News is published by the CIMOSA Association. The CIMOSA News will report on CIMOSA applications, evolution of its technical specification, standardisation, advancements in standardisation and related items. Contributions from other parties are welcome. The CIMOSA - News will be printed periodically and will be distributed to all parties interested in CIMOSA. CIMOSA Applications: -------------------- Several CIMOSA related research papers and new applications have been reported by external parties during the IMSE'94 Workshop at Grenoble, =46rance. (see also 'Reports from Events'). The work done by FIAT has led to further CIMOSA adaptation of the ARTIFEX tool by the ARTIS company and has been proposed to be used in a project of the AIT Main Phase. Model documentation is now supported via CIMOSA templates. The Institute for Real Time Computer Systems and Robotics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany has developed an integrated approach for requirements definition and software (application resources) selection based on the CIMOSA modelling methodology. The underlying idea of the approach is the conversion of the planning problem into an equivalent constraint satisfaction problem. The conversion process can be accomplished fully automatically. For details please contact Mr. Naeger (1). CIMOSA Association Contracts: ----------------------------- A first contract has been received from the European Commission under the ESPRIT III Workprogramme / Accompanying Measures as EP 9814 CIMOSA-PES. The Contract is concerned with Promotion and Evaluation Support (PES) of CIMOSA to be done jointly with EP 6682 'VOICE' and the 'Lean CIMOSA Group'. Start date of the project is 95-01-01. CIMOSA Technical Specifications: -------------------------------- Effort was spent to refine the modelling methodology of CIMOSA and to provide a graphical representation using the CIMOSA methodology. The modelling methodology, called the CIMOSA Business Modelling Process, follows the enterprise system life cycle, starting with requirements definition, followed by design specification and ending with the description, and maintenance of the implemented operational system. A paper describing the CIMOSA Business Modelling Process has been submitted for publication in the journal 'Computers in Industry' . CIMOSA Cooperations: -------------------- A comparison study of the CIMOSA IIS with the AMBAS platform of the Research Institute of Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) Ulm, Germany , evaluation done by FAW, revealed a high degree of compatibility between the two concepts. A small CIMOSA model has been prepared to validate the model execution on the AMBAS platform. CIMOSA in Standardisation: -------------------------- During the CEN TC 310/WG1 meeting of December 15-16, 1994 held at Grenoble, =46rance, several issues of standardisation in enterprise integration have been discussed. As part of a common paper on modelling constructs, FhG-IPK Berlin, Germany and the CIMOSA Association provided inputs concerning the modelling process with the IEM approach, and with CIMOSA respectively. =46urther work comparing both modelling methods is still required. Reports from Events: -------------------- IMSE'94 - European Workshop on Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Grenoble/France (94-12-12/15 - INRIA Rhone-Alpes). The European Workshop on Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE) was held in association with EC DG III ESPRIT CIME, IFIP WG 5.7 (Production Management), IFAC TC on Manufacturing Modelling , Management and Control , GSIP-CNRS (Groupement Scientifique Inter-disciplinaire pour la Productique) and ENSGI (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Genie Industriel). The main aim of the workshop was to bring together European experts from industry and academia to address and discuss key issues of Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering. The workshop agenda covered a wide spectrum of papers on enterprise architectures, modelling and infrastructures, the concept of the extended enterprise, concurrent engineering, manufacturing systems scheduling and standardisation. The discussions centered around the direction of further work required, one being the issue of how to best integrate different methodologies with possibly one language into one enterprise framework enabling the enactment of enterprise models and covering the entire enterprise system life cycle. Out of 58 papers presented at the workshop, 22 papers were referencing or relating to CIMOSA which indicates a high level of recognition of CIMOSA as an integrating methodology and a widely accepted framework. CIMOSA is referenced as a modelling language and methodology for the GERAM Reference Architecture. Workshop Proceedings may be obtained from F. Vernadat (2). CIMOSA Association Workshop: ---------------------------- 'Modelling and Simulation Tools', WZL/ADITEC, Aachen, Germany. (94-11-09). This workshop had to be cancelled due to limited registration of participants possibly caused by late announcement. 10 different tools had been registered for presentations and demonstrations. The workshop will be re-scheduled in 1995 . Upcoming Events: ---------------- 1. 95-03-9/10 - Business Process Management with CIMOSA. 2nd Open Workshop held jointly by the CIMOSA Association and the CIMOSA Foundation at the Engineering School Offenburg, Germany. The Workshop topics are Processes in Manufacturing, Engineering, Administration and Service with emphasis on Human Aspects and on SME's. For information please contact M. Klittich (3). 2. 95-tbd - CIMOSA Association; Workshops to be held at WZL/ADITEC, Aachen, Germany: - Concurrent Engineering - Modelling and Simulation Tools - Integrated Quality Strategies - Virtual Enterprise - Design Oriented Costing CIMOSA Literature: ------------------ 1. CIMOSA - Open System Architecture for CIM; ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, Springer-Verlag 1993, (ISBN 3-540-56256-7), (ISBN 0-387-56256-7) 2. CIMOSA - Open System Architecture for CIM, Technical Baseline, Version 3.0 ; CIMOSA Association (e.V.) , October 1994 . CIMOSA Association: ------------------- The CIMOSA Association is involved in promotion of CIMOSA, its active support in national, European and international standardisation and in consolidation of the evolution of its technical specification - the CIMOSA Technical Baseline. The CIMOSA Association acts as a focal point for all parties involved in applying CIMOSA in industrial and research environments. It supports these efforts through expert service for clarifications on the CIMOSA technical specifications and by providing opportunities for presenting results to interested Workshop audiences and through general publications on CIMOSA applications. Members of the CIMOSA Association are industrial and research organisations involved in the exploitation of CIMOSA or interested in the subject of enterprise integration. Membership is open to any organisation interested in supporting enterprise integration and CIMOSA. Proformas for membership application may be obtained on request. Registration of the CIMOSA Association has taken place at the Court of= Aachen . =46or more information please contact K. Kosanke at the following address: CIMOSA Association Stockholmerstr. 7 D-71034 Boeblingen, Germany (1) G. Naeger, Department of Computer Science at University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Fax: (49) 721 60 67 40; E-mail: naeger@ira.uka.de (2) F. Vernadat at, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, 46 Av. Felix Viallet, F-38031 Grenoble, France; Fax (33) 76 57 47 54, e-mail: vernadat@imag.fr (3) M. Klittich, EEISS, Spessartweg 54, D-65760 Eschborn, Germany Fax +49-6196-48 45 28 . Please, note my new phone and fax numbers ---------------------------------------- =46rancois B. Vernadat INRIA Rh=F4ne-Alpes 46, avenue F=E9lix Viallet =46-38031 Grenoble Cedex =46rance Tel.: +33 76 57 43 26 =46ax.: +33 76 57 47 54 e-mail: vernadat@imag.fr From lnm@mlb.dmt.csiro.au Thu Jan 19 22:15:09 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA12750 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 22:15:09 -0600 Received: from asgard.mlb.dmt.csiro.au (asgard.mlb.dmt.csiro.au [130.116.3.1]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA00499 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 22:14:55 -0600 Received: from localhost by asgard.mlb.dmt.csiro.au using SMTP version 5.64+DMT; id AA21989; Fri, 20 Jan 95 15:14:45 +1100 Message-Id: <9501200414.AA21989@asgard.mlb.dmt.csiro.au> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: concurrent engineering job at CSIRO, Australia Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 15:14:44 +1100 From: Laszlo Nemes CSIRO DIVISION OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY Manufacturing Systems Engineer Concurrent Engineering $47 - $66K + Superannuation Division of Manufacturing Technology, Lindfield, NSW The Division has established a project which aims to develop software based decision support systems for the concurrent design of products and processes. We require a highly skilled Manufacturing Systems Engineer to carry out research in manufacturing systems in close collaboration with industry partners. This position will provide an excellent opportunity for involvement in collaborative industrial research in the field of Concurrent Engineering. The work requires that you have a PhD or equivalent skills and knowledge in Manufacturing Systems and a high level of knowledge about state-of-the-art Concurrent Engineering solutions and world-wide research trends. You will also have a high level of expertise in advanced manufacturing and in software development. Experience in developing large integrated systems would be an advantage. This is a three year term position. Please send your application quoting reference number S010 to: The Officer- in-Charge, CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, PO Box 218, Lindfield NSW 2070, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JOB DESCRIPTION JOB TITLE: Manufacturing Systems Engineer LOCATION: Lindfield, NSW PROJECT: Concurrent Engineering POSITION NUMBER: S010 CLASSIFICATION: CSOF6 - 7 SUPERVISOR: Dr Simmy Grewal The Project and its Objectives:To develop software based decision support systems for the concurrent design of products and processes. The systems will help to reduce lead time to market for new products and provide assessments of the cost effectiveness of product designs in terms of customer/market definitions, manufacturing costs, and lead times to manufacture. The main thrust is to reduce the time required for the iterative product and process design and to resolve the uncertainties in product manufacturing costs and the lead times for manufacture. Job Statement to carry out research in manufacturing systems in close collaboration with industry partners. Work Activities and Areas of Responsibility 1. Research in manufacturing methodologies for concurrent engineering. 2. Structure information elements and practices. 3. Design and develop software. 4. Assist in the implementation of information technology in manufacturing industry. Other comments relevant to job: This is a three year term appointment. CSIRO DIVISION OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY Selection Criteria and Competency Statement JOB TITLE: Manufacturing Systems Engineer POSITION NO: S010 CLASSIFICATION: CSOF 6 - 7 FUNCTIONAL AREA: Research Scientist/Engineer Essential: 1. A PhD or equivalent skills and knowledge in Manufacturing Systems. 2. A high level of knowledge about state-of-the-art Concurrent Engineering solutions and world wide research trends. 3. A high level of expertise gained through experience in Advanced Manufacturing. 4. Demonstrated results in software development. 5. Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-skilled team. 6. Evidence of well developed communication skills and the ability to interact with industry personnel. Desirable: 1. Familiarity with software tools, including integration, communication, databases, distributed processes, and groupware EDI. 2. Experience in developing large integrated systems. From D087JS@UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU Tue Jan 24 08:07:36 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA09174 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 08:07:36 -0600 Received: from UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (utarlvm1.uta.edu [129.107.1.6]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA21213 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 08:07:35 -0600 Message-Id: <199501241407.IAA21213@einet.net> Received: from UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU by UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6874; Tue, 24 Jan 95 08:07:36 CST Received: from UTARLVM1 (NJE origin D087JS@UTARLVM1) by UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7234; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 08:07:35 -0600 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 08:07:19 CST From: Joseph Sarkis Subject: Call For Papers - Edited Book To: ICEIMT Call For Papers _Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Strategic Management and Implementation_ We invite submissions of quality papers that will be published by Gordon and Breach Publishers incorporated, in a hardcover, type-set book. We are looking for high quality papers in the following or related areas: Manufacturing Strategy Development and Deployment * National and International Manufacturing Strategy Efforts * Integrated Enterprise Frameworks * Systems Integration * Cross-functional Efforts and Management of Manufacturing Technology Planning, Justification and Evaluation * Justification Models and Tools * Configuration Development Models and Tools Implementation Strategies * Approaches and Techniques for Implementation * Team Efforts * Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Implementations * Models and Tools Auditing * Performance Measurement * Benchmarking * Pervasiveness and Need for Post-completion Audits * Continuous Improvement and Feedback Issues Other issues such as Total Quality Management, Quality Function Deployment JIT, Concurrent Engineering, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, etc., can be addressed within the above mentioned areas. Papers may be conceptual, empirical, analytical. Submission Deadlines: Submission of an Abstract of the Contribution April 1, 1995 Submission of the Complete Contribution June 1, 1995 Editorial Comments and Review Decisions October 1, 1995 Submission of Revised Contribution December 1, 1995 Authors Interested in contributing to this book should mail 4 copies of the proposed title page (containing title, author(s), affiliation, telephone and fax numbers, and electronic mail address) to either of the Editors at the following addresses: Joseph Sarkis, PhD, CPIM Assistant Professor Department of Information Systems University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas 76019-0437 Tel: (817) 273-3530 FAX: (817) 794-5801 E-mail: sarkis@uta.edu Hamid R. Parsaei, PhD, PE Associate Professor Department of Industrial Engineering University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 Tel: (502) 852-1416 Fax: (502) 852-5633 Email: hrpars01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu From ARAHIM@delphi.com Thu Jan 26 21:03:32 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA02262 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 21:03:32 -0600 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1b.delphi.com (bos1b.delphi.com [192.80.63.4]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA00981 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 21:03:30 -0600 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #7804) id <01HMBG9L5VJW8XI86W@delphi.com>; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 22:03:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 22:03:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: IJOA Table of Contents 1/95 To: all-iceimt@einet.net Message-id: <01HMBG9L65728XI86W@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: INTERNET"all-iceimt@einet.net" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The International Journal of Organizational Analysis Special Issue on ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING 1995 Vol. 3, No. 1 (January) Table of Contents Articles Issues in Organizational Learning by Afzal Rahim Learning in and by Organizations: Three Conceptual Issues by Craig C. Lundberg Going Beyond Total Quality: The Characteristics, Techniques and Measures of Learning Organizations by Fred Luthans, Michael J. Rubach, and Paul Marsnik Organizational Learning and Continuous Improvement by Edwin A. Locke and Vinod K. Jain Role of Diffusion in Collective Learning by Teri C. Tompkins Rethinking Organization Development for the Learning Organization by Karen E. Watkins and Robert T. Golembiewski Book Reviews Strategic Readiness: The Making of a Learning Organization by John C. Redding and Ralph F. Catalanello: Reviewed by Teri C. Tompkins Intelligent Enterprise: A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for Industry by James Brian Quinn: Reviewed by David M. Brock The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg: Reviewed by William A. Sodeman Exploring Complex Organizations: A Cultural Perspective by Barbara Czarniawska+Joerges: Reviewed by Christa Walck Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action edited by Nitin Nohria and Robert G. 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Calton From ARAHIM@delphi.com Sat Jan 28 21:36:53 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA01648 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 21:36:53 -0600 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1b.delphi.com (bos1b.delphi.com [192.80.63.4]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA07815 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 21:36:52 -0600 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #7804) id <01HMEA0PIMU88XIFRW@delphi.com>; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:36:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:36:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: MGT Experts Directory To: all-iceimt@einet.net Message-id: <01HMEA0PIMUA8XIFRW@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: INTERNET"all-iceimt@einet.net" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Dear Netters: The Center for Advanced Studies in Management is publishing a "Directory of Management Scholars/Experts," which will contain research interests and publications of faculty in management and administration, doctoral students, consultants, and others enga ged in the scientific investigations in management. This will be a valuable resource book for management researchers, educators, and prospective employers. You are invited to submit two hard copies of your list of publications and other particulars in a 3.5" HD floppy disk (IBM MS-DOS) in an ASCII file for inclusion in the Directory. We need the following: 1. Your name, affiliation, address 2. Phone, fax, e-mail 3. Professional affiliations 4. Research interests (e.g., leadership, ethics) 5. Exact titles of studies you are conducting (funding sources, if any) 6. List of publications (This must be prepared strictly according to the 1994 APA Publications Manual. It must begin with your last publication and may include the ones which are in press.) A. Journal articles B. Books C. Conference papers 7. Titles of books you are writing (include publishers and tentative years for publication) 8. Any other items you would like to include The above information should be entered in two doubled-spaced typed pages (11" X 8.5"). This information will be typeset (with 10 point Times Roman font) which will fit in an 11" X 8.5" page. Each typeset page will contain about 500 words. We would like to receive your list by March 15 (or shortly thereafter). Please send inquiries to the Editor, Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt, 1574 Mallory Court, Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA (Phone & Fax: 502-782-2601; E-mail: Arahim@delphi.com) From sff@MIT.EDU Fri Feb 3 07:10:18 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA08649 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 07:10:18 -0600 Received: from MIT.EDU (MIT.MIT.EDU [18.72.2.1]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA27160 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 07:10:16 -0600 Received: from TMS-E19-PORT-3.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02883; Fri, 3 Feb 95 08:10:05 EST Message-Id: <9502031310.AA02883@MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 08:12:47 From: sff@MIT.EDU (Steve Freeman) To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Patents, Copyrights & Trade Secrets Have any of you readings on Patents, Copyrights & Trade Secrets that you are happy with for a graduate/professional level entreprenuership class? Many of our students do have immediate needs in this area. Perhaps it would be best to assign a concise introduction to the topics and also provide references for more detailed materials for those who need it. Steve Freeman (617)253-2167 From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Tue Feb 7 16:22:44 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA15915 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 16:22:44 -0600 From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Received: from CMSA.gmr.com (cmsa.gmr.com [129.124.100.32]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA11902 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 16:22:41 -0600 Message-Id: <199502072222.QAA11902@einet.net> Received: from AHIPC2S by CMSA.gmr.com (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2672; Tue, 07 Feb 95 17:22:42 EST Date: Tue, 07 Feb 95 17:22:42 EST To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: CERA Journal -1995 To: Interested in Concurrent Engineering? Subject: CERA Journal -1995 Dear CE readers: Subject: CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) -- International Journal -- Now published by Technomic Publishing Corp. based in Pennsylvania, USA We are pleased to inform you that CERA, which is now in third year of its successful publication, has moved to a NEW leadership. Since 1992, Academic Press, London office was publishing CERA. Starting January, 1995, Technomic Publishing Corporation based in USA has assumed (won) the right for its (CERA) continued publication (out of a total of four finalists). As in the past, CERA will continue to be the refereed archival quality publication. This journal fills a void for a very important and timely subject matter. "Concurrent Engineering" has been recognized for some time to be a major force behind achieving international competitive- ness, responsiveness and improving productivity. If you have worked in this area, we would like to seek your inputs in making this endeavor a success. We take this opportunity to ask you to submit your original contri- bution to CERA for possible publication. Please inform your friends and colleagues or write to me, who can contribute. If you are interested in: (a) Subscribing CERA Journal in 1995, or (b) Participating in our CERA Conference in Washington, August 1995, or (c) Becoming Members of CERA Institute/ISPE, or (d) Obtaining an electronic copy of CFP to CERA Journal, or (e) Getting instructions for submitting papers to CERA Journal, or (f) Participating as a Reviewer for CERA Journal, or (g) Getting an E-mail List of Papers Published in Volume I (1993) (h) Getting an E-mail List of Papers Published in Volume II (1994) Please, write to us indicating your interest. We will send you the required information. If you have further question, please do not hesitate to EMAIL a NOTE to me or at CERA editorial office in USA. Thanking you and looking forward to hearing from you soon, Sincerely, Biren Prasad, Ph.D. Managing Editor Chairman, CERA J. Task Force. Email ID: BPRASAD@CMSA.GMR.COM Director, CERA Institute P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325-0254, USA. Tel: (810) 696-5487; Fax: (810) 661-8333. _____________________________________________________________ BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com From ARAHIM@delphi.com Thu Feb 9 21:34:10 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA24310 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 21:34:09 -0600 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1b.delphi.com (bos1b.delphi.com [192.80.63.4]) by einet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA20827 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 21:34:08 -0600 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #7804) id <01HMV1DPGWBA8XPI5M@delphi.com>; Thu, 09 Feb 1995 22:33:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 22:33:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: IJCM Contents 1/95 To: all-iceimt@einet.net Message-id: <01HMV1DPH5YG8XPI5M@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: INTERNET"all-iceimt@einet.net" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE International Journal of Conflict Management 1995, January, Vol. 6, No. 1 CONTENTS Articles: Culture, Behavior and Negotiation Outcomes: A Comparative and Cross C= ultural Study of Mexican and Norwegian Negotiators by Jan Halvor Natl= andsmyr and Jorn Rognes Community and Family Mediation in the People's Republic of China by J= ames A. 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Such ISs will manage or have access to large amounts of information and computing services. They will support individual or collaborative human work. -------------- The Conference -------------- The CoopIS-95 conference will provide a forum for the presentation and dissemination of research and practical experience covering all aspects of CIS design, requirements, functionality, implementation, deployment, and evolution. The conference will be held in a retreat-like setting, providing a collegial atmosphere fostering discussion and interaction. The CoopIS-95 conference programme includes technical sessions, invited presentations, panels, and tutorials that deal with CISs and the integration of relevant technologies. In addition, CoopIS-95 is hosting two special pre-conference seminars. Further information about the conference and its program can be obtained from the CoopIS-95 General and Program Co-Chairs by email at coopis@cs.toronto.edu. ------------- General Chair ------------- Dimitris Karagiannis Dept. Knowledge Engineering University of Vienna Bruenner Str. 72 A-1210 Vienna, Austria email: dk@dke.univie.ac.at ----------------- Program Co-Chairs ----------------- America (North & South): Steven C. Laufmann (USA) U S WEST Technologies 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, CO, 80303, USA laufmann@advtech.uswest.com Europe & Middle East: Stefano Spaccapietra (CH) EPFL-DI-LBD CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland spaccapietra@di.epfl.ch Far East, Africa, & Australia: Toshio Yokoi (Japan) Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institue Ltd. Mita-Kokusai 1-4-28 Mita, Minato-ku Tokyo 108, Japan yokoi@edr.co.jp ------------------ Steering Committee ------------------ Michael L. Brodie, GTE-Laboratories, USA Michael N. Huhns, MCC, USA Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Mike Papazoglou, Queensland Uni. Technology, Australia Gunter Schlageter, FU Hagen, Germany ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Alexander Borgida (USA) Michael L. Brodie (USA) Umeshwar Dayal (USA) Misbah Deen (UK) Lois M. Delcambre (USA) Asuman Dogac (Turkey) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA) Les Gasser (USA) J. L. Hainaut (Belgium) Yoshinori Hara (Japan) Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Aranza Illaramendi (Spain) Toru Ishida (Japan) V. Jaganathan (USA) Matthias Jarke (Germany) Nick Jennings (UK) Leonid Kalinichenko (Russia) Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Hannu Kangassalo (Finland) Roger King (USA) Craig Knoblock (USA) Jacques Kouloumdjian (France) Eiji Kuwana (Japan) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Michel Leonard (Switzerland) Victor Lesser (USA) Fred Lochovsky (Hong-Kong) Vincent Lum (Hong-Kong) Louis Marinos (Germany) Patrick Martin (Canada) Dennis McLeod (USA) Robert Meersman (Holland) Moira Norrie (ETHZ) Juzar Motiwalla (Singapore) John Mylopoulos (Canada) Erich Neuhold (Germany) Anne Ngu (Australia) Tamer Ozsu (Canada) Maurizio Panti (Italy) Mike Papazoglou (Australia) Charles Petrie (USA) Don Potter (USA) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Daniel Ries (USA) Marek Rusinkiewicz (USA) Felix Saltor (Spain) Gunter Schlageter (Germany) Sandip Sen (USA) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katsumi Tanaka (Japan) A Min Tjoa (Austria) Patrick Valduriez (France) Carson Woo (Canada) -------------------------------------------------------- Third International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-95) Preliminary Program -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Tuesday, May 9th, 1995 ---------------------- 8:00 - 9:00 registration 9:00 - 10:30 Seminar 1 "Computer Support Systems for Business Processes" - Giorgio De Michelis (University of Milan and RSO, Italy) [detailed information on this seminar is provided at the end of this posting.] 10:30 - 11:00 break 11:00 - 12:30 Seminar 1 (continued) 12:30 - 2:00 lunch 2:00 - 3:30 Seminar 2 "On The Design and Development of Large-Scale Cooperative Information Systems" - Michael Brodie (GTE Laboratories, USA) [detailed information on this seminar is provided at the end of this posting.] 3:30 - 4:00 break 4:00 - 5:30 Seminar 2 (continued) 6:00 - 8:00 Conference Reception ------------------------- Wednesday, May 10th, 1995 ------------------------- 8:00 - 9:00 registration 9:00 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker "Next Generation Workflow: Promises and Problems" - Clarence "Skip" Ellis (University of Colorado, USA) 10:30 - 11:00 break 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session 1 -- Integration "Using Object Matching and Materialization to Integrate Heterogeneous Databases" - G. Zhou, R. Hull, R. King, and J. Franchitti "A Semantic-Discriminated Approach to Integration of Federated Databases" - M. Garcia-Solaco, M. Castellanos, and F. Saltor "Process-Oriented Integration of Tools in Distributed Modeling Environments" - M. Jarke, R. Domges, H. W. Nissen, and K. Pohl 12:30 - 2:00 lunch 2:00 - 3:00 Paper Session 2 "Partitioning information bases with contexts" - J. Mylopoulos and Renate Motschnig-Pitrik "Correctness of Asynchronous Distributed Cooperation" - J. R. Getta, L. A. Maciaszek, I. T. Hawryszkiewycz 3:00 - 3:30 break 3:30 - 5:30 Tutorial 1 "Agent Technologies" - Steven C. Laufmann (U S WEST Advanced Technologies, USA) and Michael Huhns (MCC, USA) Agents provide an intuitive abstraction for cooperating information systems, and have substantial potential in future software and network markets as new agent-based products become available. With suitable knowledge and assessment skills, individuals and organizations will be better prepared to assess the advantages and disadvantages of various agent-related technologies for specific applications. This tutorial describes the current state of research in agent technologies, and presents a framework by which current and future technologies may be evaluated. 6:00 - 9:00 IFCIS Business Meeting - International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems ------------------------ Thursday, May 11th, 1995 ------------------------ 8:00 - 9:00 registration 9:00 - 10:30 Panel Session -- "Multiple Perspectives on Semantic Issues" - chair: Robert Meersman (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) Semantics capture the intentions of system designers. As such, they present some of the most difficult problems faced in the emerging field of cooperative information systems. This panel will discuss these issues from a number of diverse perspectives, seeking a better understanding of the complexities and possible solutions to the problems of semantic interoperability. Panelists will include industry and university leaders from Europe, America, and Asia/Pacific. 10:30 - 11:00 break 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session 3 -- Workflow "Enforcing inter-task dependencies in transactional workflows" - J. Tang and J. Veijalainen "The workflow activity model WAMO" - J. Eder and W. Liebhart "Exotica/FMDC: Handling Disconnected Clients in a Workflow Management System" - G. Alonso, R. Gunthor, M. Kamath, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi, C. Mohan 12:30 - 2:00 lunch 2:00 - 3:00 Paper Session 4 -- Applications "Managing Concurrent Activities in Collaborative Environments" - D. Agrawal, J. L. Bruno, A. El Abbadi, V. Krishnaswamy "IRO-DB, a solution for computer integrated manufacturing applications" - A. Ramfos, J. Fessy, B. Finance, and V. Smahi 3:00 - 3:30 break 3:30 - 5:30 Tutorial 2 "Cooperative Information Systems: An Overview" - Mike Papazoglou (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia) Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) are an emerging interdisciplinary field. A CIS consists of many existing systems distributed widely over computer/communication networks. Such systems support individual or collaborative human work, and manage access to a large number of information and computing services. Computation is done concurrently over the network by cooperative database systems, expert systems, multi-agent planning systems, and other software application systems ranging from the conventional to the advanced. This tutorial looks at technological advances in a variety of fields - which all contribute to the CIS field - and presents a framework supporting the co-existence of these technologies. 6:00 - 8:00 Conference Banquet ---------------------- Friday, May 12th, 1995 ---------------------- 8:00 - 9:00 registration 9:00 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker "The Conceptual Technology for Mediation" - Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University, USA) 10:30 - 11:00 break 11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session 5 -- Queries "Using Heterogeneous Equivalences for Query Rewriting in Multidatabase Systems" - D. Florescu, L. Rachid, and P. Valduriez "Distributed semantic query processing in a cooperative information system" - J. Cardiff, T. Catarci, and G. Santucci "Universal Contextual Queries in Database Networks" - M.C. Norrie and D. Kerr 12:30 - 2:00 lunch 2:00 - 3:00 Paper Session 6 -- Modeling "From Organization Models to System Requirements: A 'Cooperating Agents' Approach" - E. Yu, P. Du Bois, E. Dubois, and J. Mylopoulos "CapBasED-AMS -- A Framework for Capability-Based and Event- Driven Activity Management System" - K. Karlapalem, H. P. Yeung, P. C. K. Hung 3:00 - 3:30 break 3:30 - 5:00 Panel Session "Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems" - chair: Felix Saltor (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems (IMS) has been an important area of research for a number of years, and is reaching a degree of maturity. This panel will discuss: (1) Lessons learned from these years of research and development: - where it yielded tangible results, where it failed - the status of products - the nature of real life applications (2) Significant problems still open and the most promising lines of research in IMS for the next few years. Panelists will include industry and university leaders from Europe, America, and Asia/Pacific. -------------------------------------------------------- Third International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-95) Registration Information -------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Conference Seminars: May 9, 1995 Conference: May 10-12, 1995 ------------------------ Registration Information ------------------------ General and student registration privileges include participation in tutorials as well as the technical program, copies of the conference proceedings, and tutorials notes for all tutorials. Seminar registration includes participation in one of the offered seminars and the seminar notes. One-day registration includes participation privileges for one day and a copy of the conference program or the tutorial notes. 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Photocopy of picture card and student ID number must accompany payment. -------------------------------------------------------- Third International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-95) Seminars -------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- Computer Support Systems for Business Processes Giorgio De Michelis University of Milan and RSO, Italy ----------------------------------------------- Motivations Business process reengineering is a popular topic today. Its fans seem convinced that it is the panacea for most of the problems organizations encounter today, while its opponents suspect that it is only a new way to justify reductions in the number of persons employed to perform a particular task. The latter ones claim that it is well known that business process reengineering frequently does not reach its goals; while the former ones recall the successful case histories that have been made popular in the managerial literature. The controversy reappears in similar terms if the issue of support systems for business processes is raised: workflow management systems, groupware systems, workgroup computing systems are in fact at the center of sharp discussions between those who think they are only new ways to automatize office work and those who are convinced they are the engines of a new industrial revolution. I don't want to enter into either of these controversies: my opinion is, in fact, that business process reengineering, moving the attention from the organizational structures where people work to the processual nature of what they do, offers an interesting occasion to rethink socio-technical systems analysis and design methods, deepening our understanding of organizational structures, professional roles, and computer-based technologies. This seminar proposes the conceptual framework to understand work processes and socio-technical systems that I have developed during my research activity at the University of Milan and my professional activity at RSO. My aim is to show how the understanding of the social complexity of organized work can be the basis for developing new insights into controversial organizational, managerial and technological issues. The seminar is oriented to both active researchers in the areas of organizational sciences, managerial disciplines, information system theories, and CSCW and professionals and managers dealing with business process performances within organizations. No magic solution will be provided! Outline Each section of the tutorial proposes some conceptual categories and applies them to the intepretation of real case histories. Most of the examples are dedicated to enterprises. They are chosen in such a way that they can easily be generalized to other types of organizations, such as public administrations. Introduction - What is Business Process Reengineering - Business Process Reengineering and Development - Why does Business Process Reengineering Fail? - Technologies for Business Process Reengineering Work Processes, Organizational Structures, Persons - Work Processes as Business Processes: a Relational Approach - Work Processes and Communities of Practices: Cooperation Forms - Work Processes and Communities of Practices: Responsibility and Professional Skill - The Complexity of a Work Process and its Cost - The Threshold of Sustainable Complexity - The Relation between Organizational Structures and Work Processes Supporting Work Processes - Workgroup Computing Systems as Enabling Artifacts - Workflow Management Systems and Cooperative Information Systems - Rationale for Work Process Support Systems - Towards a Support System for Work Processes: the Milano System Conclusion - A Research Agenda for Computer Support Systems for Business Processes Biography Giorgio De Michelis teaches Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Milano, where he has been working since 1972. He is carrying out research on models of concurrent systems (Petri Nets) and on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, where he is developing prototypes of support systems for cooperative processes (CHAOS, UTUCS, MILANO). He is responsible for the Cooperation Technologies Laboratory at the Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione of the University of Milano; he is member of the PMC of the ESPRIT BRA Project, 6225, COMIC; he is chairman of the Management Committee of the COST 14 Action, CO-TECH. Giorgio De Michelis has repeatedly served as program committee member for both the CSCW and the ECSCW conferences. He has served as program committee chairman of the ECSCW'93 in Milano. He is author of more than sixty papers on the areas of his interest. Giorgio De Michelis is senior partner of RSO, an Italian consultancy firm specializing in change management with particular attention to professional exploitation systems, business process reengineering, and socio-technical systems design. In business process engineering, Giorgio De Michelis has guided various projects in the banking (Banca Popolare di Sondrio, Credito Emiliano) as well as in the industrial sector (various companies of the Fiat Group, Merloni). Moreover, he has authored some papers (both in Italian and English) on the use of workgroup computing systems within business process reengineering projects and he is member of the Program Committee of the ACM 1995 Conference on Organizational Computing Systems - Business Processes. Recent publications include - G. De Michelis, From the analysis of cooperation within work-processes to the design of CSCW Systems, in: Proceedings of the 15th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Informatics and Psychology: Interdisciplinary approaches to system analysis and design, Schaerding, Austria May 24 - 26, 1994. - G. De Michelis, M. A. Grasso, Situating conversations within the language/action perspective: the Milan Conversation Model. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on CSCW. ACM, New York, 1994. - G. De Michelis, Computer Support for Cooperative Work: Computers between Users and Social Complexity, in S. Bagnara, S. Stucky, C. Zucchermaglio (editors), Organizational Learning and Technological Change, Springer Berlin 1995 (to appear). - A. Agostini, G. De Michelis, M. A. Grasso, S. Patriarca, Reengineering a business process with an innovative Workflow Management System: a Case Study, 'Collaborative Computing', 1995 (to appear). -------------------------------------------------------- On The Design and Development of Large-Scale Cooperative Information Systems Michael L. Brodie Senior Staff Scientist GTE Laboratories Incorporated, U.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Several factors dominate the design, development, and deployment of information systems (IS). The larger the IS, the greater the impact of these factors, which include: * business (vs. technology) orientation and business driven solutions * business requirements (e.g., cost reduction, customer focus, reduced time to market) * current revolutions in business (e.g., re-engineer, downsizing) * advances in technology (e.g., distributed computing, client/server, transaction processors, object-oriented technology) * legacy ISs that are the backbone of most organizations With these factors and a lack of successful experience in these areas, it is increasingly challenging to develop new information systems. Indeed, it is rare that a new information system can be built from scratch. Following the premise of interoperability between most ISs in an organization, most future ISs will be built as an extension of existing computing resources. This leads to the notion of the ISs of an organization forming a large-scale cooperative IS and then to the need for a vision or model of such an environment as well as concepts, tools, and methodologies to realize them. Distributed object computing (DOC) visions, such as underlies ISO's Open Distributed Processing (ODP) and OMG's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA ), are being realized as a basis for enterprise wide cooperative information systems. Yet, fundamental challenges are arising in these approaches. These challenges concern not just the core technology but the lack of a corresponding vision of the cooperative applications that they will support. For example, CORBA lacks a reference model that encompasses the infrastructure, for which it has a model, and the applications, for which it does not. That is, there is no application architecture or model of cooperative information systems. These DOC technologies may provide an infrastructure but they do not provide a basis for application interoperation, a key requirement of cooperative information systems. We may be on a new, wonderful DOC environment but we are being left with the age old problems, such as semantic interoperability, that will inhibit the realization of cooperative information systems. These challenges may be contributing to the slow adoption of DOC technology in industry. Although object-oriented technology and products, including CORBA, have been in existence for several years, few production ISs are being launched. This seminar addresses cooperative information systems from a variety of points of view, such as those mentioned above, including: * business motivations driving future information systems * technical challenges driving future information systems * principles underlying the new technology paradigms * the death of ISs, as we knew them * status and challenges facing OMG and proposed directions * towards a comprehensive reference model for DOC, including cooperative ISs * dealing with the legacy: an incremental migration methodology and state of the art review * new methodologies and technology in support of next generation (cooperative) ISs (e.g., integration frameworks, domain-based ontology-based modelling) * case study: DOC as a technology basis for corporate wide re-engineering * case study: design and development an enterprise-wide DOC computing architecture * case study: one of the worlds largest DOC applications * research challenges The presentation will address core technology, systems management, distributed computing architectures, engineering, standards, and methodologies. We hope to address such questions as: What does it mean to put object-oriented (OO) technology to work, on a massive scale. What are the problems? What is the progress to date? What are the challenges in designing a target environment and migrating from the current, legacy, non-OO, information systems infrastructure to the target? What are the business objectives? How are the business processes determined? How do you migrate an organization from its current state to that envisioned in the re-engineering plan? What is the role of information technology (IT) in establishing this vision and migrating to it? How does business requirements relate to IT pragmatics? How do you keep the corporation running while migrating the entire information systems infrastructure? How do you introduce or utilize object-orientation in a legacy environment? Dr. Michael L. Brodie is a Senior Staff Scientist at GTE Laboratories Inc., Waltham, Mass. His primary research focus is on Distributed Object Computing (DOC). Until 1994, he headed the Distributed Object Computing Department within GTE Labs' Computer and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D.. from the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include: next generation computing and applications, and relevant emerging technologies such as distributed object computing, interoperability, cooperative information systems, database technology, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and computer communications/telecommunications. He has a major concern for the social responsibility of his own work and that of computer science as a whole. Michael has written and spoken out on this topic for many years. Michael is a on several boards including the VLDB Endowment, the ACM SIGMOD Advisory Committee, the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Scientific Committee (TINA), Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), and the International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS). He has consulted to research advisory organizations of the governments of USA, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Colombia, Brasil, Denmark, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, and the EEC. Michael has authored over 70 books, journal articles, and refereed conference papers. He has given invited lectures and short courses on Distributed Object Computing, Database Technology, Information Engineering, CASE, Integrating AI and Database Technologies, Intelligent Information Systems, and Next Generation Database Technology in over twenty five countries. His most recent book is Brodie, M.L., and M. 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Afzal Rahim, Editor Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt 1574 Mallory Court Bowling Green, KY 42103 Phone & Fax: 502-782-2601 E-Mail: Arahim@delphi.com From goranson@snap.org Tue Mar 28 10:27:39 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA21493 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:27:38 -0600 Received: from larry.infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.107]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA28187 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:27:35 -0600 Received: from [198.22.1.163] by larry.infi.net with SMTP (8.6.10/Server1.12) id LAA08924; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:28:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:28:05 -0500 X-Sender: tedg@mailhost.infi.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: goranson@snap.org (Ted Goranson) Subject: Metrics list EI Friends--- I have begun an ARPA-sponsored project "Metrics for the Agile Virtual Enterprise." We are taking a rigorous look at how VEs are formed, building on ICEIMT work but going into other areas as well. There is a discussion group being formed that addresses some of the more difficult issues. The automated server at the Agility Forum has been delayed, I hope for just a few days. But you can subscribe in advance by sending me a message. This will also put you on a temporary list to receive some historical messages that scope the issues somewhat. Best, Ted =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .....| Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta | | .....| 1976 Munden Pt, Va Beach VA 23457-1227 | ARoarABoaryAlice | .....| 804/426-6704, Fax 804/721-0781 | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From aomgt@infi.net Tue Mar 28 10:49:02 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA22148 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:49:02 -0600 Received: from larry.infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.107]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA28282 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:49:01 -0600 Received: from aomgt by larry.infi.net with SMTP (8.6.10/Server1.12) id LAA12615; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:49:24 -0500 Message-Id: <199503281649.LAA12615@larry.infi.net> Sender: From: "willem hamel" Organization: mailhost.infi.net To: ALL-ICEIMT@EINET.NET Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 12:16:05 +0000 Subject: 13th Annual Int. AoM Conference and New AoM Listservers Reply-to: aomgt@infi.net Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Colleagues: 1. REMINDER: The Association of Management's (AoM) 13th Annual International Conference (Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver, Canada, August 2-5, 1995) Postmarked Deadline Date for submissions is March 30, 1995; just a few days away! REMEMBER TO POST YOUR SUBMISSSIONS BY THEN! For those who missed or deleted the Call for Papers previously transmitted, contact for an email copy or check the WWW home page at HHTP://BILBO.ISU.EDU/Home.HTML to find the link to the AoM home page. However, your quickest bet for immediate detail is: aomgt@infi.net. 2. FOR YOUR INFORMATION: The Association of Mangement (AoM) has completed the installation of its ALL AoM listproc plus its 12 group related listservers. YOU ARE INVITED TO via LISTPROC@BILBO.ISU.EDU Once you have successfully subscribed, in addition to general information, you will receive a notice on how to subscribe to the other 12 major academic and practitioner of management lists cited below: MF&A, Management Functions and Applications Group GH&E, Global Health and Ecology Group ES&R, Educational Studies and Research Group HRM, Human Resources Management Group OS, Organizational Studies Group TTT, Transportation, Travel and Related Technology Group L&L, Leadership and Leaders Group CS, Computer Science Group IS, Information Systems Group ITM, Information Technology Management Group IRM, Information Resources Management Group MM, Multidisciplinary Management Group Each Group within the AoM has a series of Tracks (Anywhere from 8 to 20). There are currently 114 separate Tracks. The Association also publishes two major journals, _The Journal of Managemt Systems (JMS)_ and the _Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM)_. Three new launches for 1996 are: _Global Information Systems Journal (GISJ), and two others concentrating on Leadership, and Education. AoM also publishes an Annual Conference Proceedings for each of the above Groups in both hard copy and electronic publishing formats. Other publications include a Best ConferencePaper Proceedings and the publication of education papers in _On the Horizon_. Call for Papers and other information may be retrieved from: Dr. Willem A. Hamel aomgt@infi.net 804-470-5363 SEE YOU IN VANCOUVER WITH THE AoM. From mshaw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Wed Mar 29 20:08:21 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA07808 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 20:08:21 -0600 Received: from ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA06370 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 20:08:19 -0600 Received: from [128.174.213.42] (chuck.cs.uiuc.edu) by ux1.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA09104 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 29 Mar 1995 20:07:59 -0600 Message-Id: <199503300207.AA09104@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 20:25:46 +0800 To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: mshaw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Shaw) Subject: INFORMS Workshop on Enterprise Modeling INFORMS Workshop on Enterprise Modeling and Knowledge Management Sponsored by INFORMS College on Artificial Intelligence at the INFORMS L.A. National Meeting, April 23-26, 1995 Sunday, April 23, 1995, 8:15 am - 11:45 pm San Gabriel C Room The Westin Bonaventure Hotel 404 S. Figueroa St., LA Chair: Mike Shaw, Univ. of Illinois (7:45 - 8:15: Registration) Session I. Sunday 8:15 - 9:45 1. "Organizational Design and Simulation." Rich Burton, Duke University. 2. "Organizational Modelling in the ACTION Project." Les Gasser*, USC, with Ann Majchrzak, Ingemar Hulthage, & Bryan Borys. 3. "Next-Link: An Experiment in Coordination in Distributed Agents." Charles Petrie* et al., Stanford University. ---------------- Coffee Break ---------------- Session II. Sunday 10:15 - 11:45 4. "Tabu Search: Methods and Applications." Fred Glover*, University of Colorado at Boulder, with James Kelly, and Manual Laguna, 5. "Representing Organizational Cognition in Decision Support Systems." S. Ba, Andy Whinston, and Karl Lang*, University of Texas at Austin and Free University of Berlin. 6. "Modeling work processes of an enterprise as projects: Issues, Risks and Rewards." Lars Christensen, Tore Christiansen*, Yan Jin, John Kunz & Raymond E. Levitt, DNV Research and Stanford University. The workshop will adopt a format to foster interactions among the participants and the speakers. TO REGISTER: Use the registration form in the INFORMS L.A. Meeting Bulletin, or in the February 1995 issue of ORMS Today. You can call the INFORMS business office at 401-2742525 if you have any question on registration. (The deadline for early registration is April 3, 1995.) From bat@aiai.ed.ac.uk Fri Mar 31 03:01:11 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA18603 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 03:01:10 -0600 Received: from haymarket.ed.ac.uk (haymarket.ed.ac.uk [129.215.128.53]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA11980 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 03:01:01 -0600 Received: from festival.ed.ac.uk (festival.ed.ac.uk [129.215.128.24]) by haymarket.ed.ac.uk (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id KAA02020 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:01:00 +0100 Received: from skye-alter.aiai.ed.ac.uk by festival.ed.ac.uk id aa13682; 31 Mar 95 9:58 BST From: Austin Tate Received: from subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk (bass) by aiai.ed.ac.uk; Fri, 31 Mar 95 09:58:18 BST Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:01:28 +0000 Message-Id: <22280.9503310901@subnode.aiai.ed.ac.uk> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: IEEE Expert Special Issue on AI/KBS in Enterprise Modeling - Call for Articles X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 4356 IEEE Expert Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Enterprise Modeling IEEE Expert announces a Special Issue on the applications of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Based Systems to Enterprise Modeling. This Special Issue will describe work in which a model-based approach is taken to describing an enterprise and using this for capturing, analysing, (re-)engineering and controlling the work of the organization. Topics of interest include: enterprise ontologies; sector-specific ontologies and models; enterprise modeling methods and support tools; model-based analysis of enterprises; distributed business problem solving; model-based approaches to enterprise process re-engineering; intelligent workflow management; enterprise integration techniques and architectures; and other relevant topics. The aim of the Special Issue is to communicate the current state-of-the-art in applying AI and KBS approaches to problems in enterprise modeling and management and to show the breadth of current opportunities in this field. IEEE Expert is a magazine of applied AI. It is not a journal for detailed technical results. The magazine is a bridge between the research community and the user community. It aims to publish original papers that transfer to the user community ideas and tools that come out of research and development. Clear, not overly formal, writing is essential. Its readers are users, developers, managers, researchers, and purchasers who are interested in databases, expert systems, and artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on applications. They want to learn about the tools, techniques, concepts, aids, and systems that have potential for real-world applications. Conceptual or theoretical papers are welcome, provided they serve the above function of clarifying and presenting ideas of potential importance to applications. Three different types of paper are sought for the Special Issue: (a) reviews of some major aspect of the applications of AI and KBS to enterprise modeling and management. Such articles should be about 9-10 printed pages, with extensive references (1 or 2 such reviews are likely to be included). The references included should all be to widely available published papers. (b) papers describing some application of AI or KBS techniques to Enterprise Modeling. Such papers should describe both the techniques and the area in which they are being applied. References should allow the interested reader to follow-up on both techniques and the application. Papers which show the novel integration of a number of AI/KBS and conventional techniques will also be welcome. Such articles should be about 8-9 printed pages, with about 10-12 references (4 or 5 such papers are likely to be included). (c) case histories relating the applications experience of using nominated AI/KBS techniques in an Enterprise Modeling setting. Positive and negative experiences may be reported. Such articles should be about 2-3 printed pages, with at least 3 references (4 or 5 such case histories are likely to be included). Submissions should be written according the IEEE Expert style. Papers accepted on technical grounds are subject to copy editing by the Managing Editor's staff for clarity and expressiveness. Authors proposing to submit reviews of type (a) are asked to contact the guest editor, Austin Tate, by e-mail, post or fax, and to send an extended abstract of the proposed article in advance of full submission to discuss the content. This extended abstract should be received by 1st June 1995. Note that, by IEEE policy, such reviews are subject to the same review process as other submissions and involves three reviewers. Austin Tate Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN UK Tel: +44 (131) 650 2732 Fax: +44 (131) 650 6513 E-mail: A.Tate@ed.ac.uk All authors are asked to submit six copies (hard-copy only), of their paper by 1st August 1995 to: Steve E. Cross School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA Tel: (412) 268-5543 Fax: (412) 683-5348 E-mail: scross@cs.cmu.edu From rhodd@alpha.acast.nova.edu Sat Apr 1 07:16:12 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA26740 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 07:16:11 -0600 Received: from solar.nova.edu (solar.nova.edu [137.52.224.11]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA16998 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 07:16:10 -0600 Received: from alpha.acast.nova.edu by solar.nova.edu (5.61ufl/4.2) id AA09973; Sat, 1 Apr 95 08:13:45 -0500 Received: by alpha.acast.nova.edu (5.57/smail3.1.27.1/9-8-92) id AA01518; Sat, 1 Apr 95 08:15:21 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 08:15:21 -0500 (EST) From: Easton RHODD To: all-iceimt@einet.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII // DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES // RULES DD * SEARCH iceimt-papers IN all-iceimt INDEX / * Easton Rhodd rhodd@alpha.acast.nova.edu From aomgt@infi.net Mon Apr 3 18:06:24 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA14359 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:06:24 -0500 Received: from larry.infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.107]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA26827 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:04:28 -0500 Received: from aomgt by larry.infi.net with SMTP (8.6.12/Server1.12) id TAA11253; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 19:03:20 -0400 Message-Id: <199504032303.TAA11253@larry.infi.net> Sender: From: "willem hamel" Organization: mailhost.infi.net To: HRIS-L@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:59:35 +0000 Subject: A Few Conference Submission Opportunities Available Reply-to: aomgt@infi.net (Jane Bryant) CC: all-iceimt@einet.net Expiry-date: 15 May 1995 23:59:00 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Colleagues, The response to the AoM call-for-papers has been enormously gratifying. There are, however, some spaces available in each of the groups. We shall continue to accept submissions until the May 15th, 1995 Postmark Deadline Date. See below call-for-papers for guidance. THE ASSOCIATION OF MANAGEMENT (AoM) 13th Annual International Conference August 2-5, 1995 Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada _______ ______________________________ _AoM_ ____________________________ ________Academicians_____________ _ _ ___________Practitioners________ _________________________________ _ ______________________________ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE DATE POSTMARKED MAY 15, 1995 Announcing the Association of Management's Thirteenth Annual International Conference, Waterfront Centre Hotel (Hotels et Villegiatures Canadian Pacifique), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 2-5, 1995 CALL FOR PAPERS, Research in Progress, Symposia, Panels, Workshops, Case Studies, Proposals CONFERENCE This year's conference will present 300 sessions in ten (10) parallel AoM '95 Groups consisting of 114 topical area tracks. Together they will offer an outstanding selection of papers, research in progress, symposia, panels, workshops, case studies and proposals. Awards will be made for the best papers selected from each of the 10 AoM '95 Groups listed in this announcement. AoM '95 THEME "Bridging the Global Gap between Research and Practice into the 21st Century" DRAFT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES You are invited to submit three copies of a completed paper, symposium, case study, research in progress paper, panel discussion, or other activity. Papers should be original, unpublished elsewhere, in the style of the American Psychological Association (APA), fourth edition, and no longer than 5000 words (approximately 25 front and back typewritten double spaced pages on American sized, if possible, 8.5" x 11" 20# white bond paper). Include an abstract with the body of the full paper. Symposia, panels, workshops and other proposals should include the names and affiliations of the individuals who have agreed to participate and a 1-2 page summary of the topic, including a description of how the session will be structured. Research in progress submissions should be no longer than 2000 words in length and include a one-page abstract. All submissions should include a separate title page with each author's full name, affiliation, complete address, telephone, and if available, fax number and e-mail address. Where possible, correspondence with presenting authors will be done by e-mail. Also identify the name of the AoM GROUP with its corresponding GROUP TRACK CODE (e.g., ESR-06) ON THE TITLE PAGE. In addition, include an address where you can be reached during the summer months of 1995. MAIL YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THE SUBMISSION POSTMARKED DEADLINE OF MAY 15, 1995 directly to the conference program co-chairperson noted at the end of this call. All submissions should be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped postcard (with paper title written on reverse) to acknowledge receipt, and a self-addressed, legal size envelope to be used in returning Referee Committe decisions. Submissions outside the continental limits of the United States of America must be accompanied by INTERNATIONALLY-STAMPED, self-addressed postcards and legal size envelopes. MARK YOUR CALENDAR WITH THESE IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Receipt Deadline: Monday, May 15, 1995 Acceptance Notice: Monday, June 05, 1995 Final Entry Version & Registration Fee Due: Monday, June 19, 1995 Conference Dates: Wednesday thru Saturday, August 2-5, 1995 PUBLICATIONS The AoM publishes one (1) Best Papers Proceedings (consisting of the most distinguished refereed submissions from each of the AoM Groups), and 10 separate Group Related Proceedings containing all of the refereed sub- missions accepted for conference presentation. See list of Groups below. Accepted papers are published in one of the group's refereed AoM conference proceedings to which submitted (see groups below) in both soft cover traditional, and contemporary electronic formats. Full papers will be published in their entirety. Extented abstracts will be published for symposia, panel discussions, research-in-progress papers workshops and other accepted proposal formats. Further, all accepted papers within the Educational Studies and Research Group (ESR) will be considered for insertion in a special section of _On the Horizon's_ WWW site. Modified versions of these will also be considered for publication in _On the Horizon: The Environmental Scanning Newsletter for Educational Leaders_. Contact the editor, James L. Morrison for details: Morrison@unc.edu or 919-962-2517. In addition, papers judged by the review process to be the best candidates for AoM journal publication will, with the approval of the authors, be forwarded to the Journal of Management Systems (JMS), the Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM), and/or the Global Information Systems Journal (GISJ) journal senior editors. Qualified presenting authors will be notified of acceptance before June 5, 1995. Presenting authors of accepted submissions will have the opportunity to make revisions of their accepted entries prior to submitting the final version by June 19, 1995. At that time, a disk done in MSWord or WordPerfect version of the final paper or extended abstract should be submitted, along with 2 camera ready laser printed originals. Submitting an electronic document as a backup to a camera ready version is contingent upon the paper being accepted for presentation and publication, BUT IS NOT required for submitting papers for the initial review. The conference chairperson will provide assistance for those presenting authors of accepted submissions who are new to submitting electronic documents. Accepted papers will be officially indexed and prepared for electronic publication by Maximilian Press in addition to the their publishing and distributing the standard bound publication at conference. REMEMBER, THE EXTENDED SUBMISSION POSTMARKED DEADLINE DATE IS: Monday, May 15, 1995 SUBMISSIONS MAY BE TENDERED TO ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: AoM '95 GROUPS (divisions), GROUP TRACKS AND TOPICAL CODES MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS GROUP (MF&A) Tracks: MF&A-01 Accounting; MF&A-02 Auditing; MF&A-03 Law and Taxation; MF&A-04 Finance and Investments; MF&A-05 Healthcare Accounting and Financial Management; MF&A-06 Economics; MF&A-07 Marketing and Consumer Behavior; MF&A-08 Production, Operations and Service Management; MF&A-09 Materials Management and Logistics; MF&A-10 Quality Management; MF&A-11 Management Science; MF&A-12 Business Technology; MF&A-13 Policy and Strategy; MF&A-14 Mergers, Acquisitions and Downsizing; MF&A-15 Planning and Forecasting; MF&A-16 International Business; MF&A-17 International Management; MF&A-18 Consulting and Professional Issues; MF&A-19 Case Studies MULTIDISCIPLINARY GROUP (MD) Tracks: MD-01 Corporate Social Responsibilities and Ethics; MD-02 Health Care Administration; MD-03 Budgeting and Financial Management; MD-04 Business Communication; MD-05 Administration of Justice and other Legal Issues; MD-06 Project Planning and Political Systems; MD-07 Diversity Issues in Organizations; MD-08 Leadership and Strategic Planning; MD-09 Economic Development and Cultural Change; MD-10 Entrepreneurship and Small Business; MD-11 Research Methods EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH GROUP (ESR) Tracks: ESR-01 Adult Education; ESR-02 Administration; ESR-03 Corporate, Global and Management Education; ESR-04 Curriculum Studies; ESR-05 Educa- tional Leadership; ESR-06 Education in the Professions; ESR-07 Social Context of Education; ESR-08 Instruction and Learning; ESR-09 Measurement and Research Methodology; ESR-10 Policy Analysis, Law and Education HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT GROUP (HRM) Tracks: HRM-01 Comparative Labor Relations; HRM-02 Compensation and Benefits; HRM-03 HRM in Higher Education Institutions; HRM-04 Labor Education in the 21st Century; HRM-05 Motivation; HRM-06 Participatory Management/Quality; HRM-07 Performance Appraisal; HRM-08 Private and Public Sector Collective Bargaining; HRM-09 Recruitment and Selection; HRM-10 Safety, Health and Employee Relations and Assistance Programs; HRM-11 Teaching Innovation/Cases in HRM; HRM-12 Training and Career Development ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES GROUP (OS) Tracks: OS-01 Organizational Theory; OS-02 Organizational Structure; OS-03 Organizational Behavior; OS-04 Organizational Change and Development; OS-05 Organizational Leadership; OS-06 Organizational Communication and Decision Making; OS-07 Organizational Power and Conflict; OS-08 Organiza- tional Culture and Cognition. COMPUTER SCIENCE GROUP (CS) Tracks: CS-01 Compiler Design, Data Structure and Programming Languages; CS-02 Theory and Computation and Complexity; CS-03 Numerical Analysis and Algorithms; CS-04 Computer Networks and DAta Communications; CS-05 Computer Graphics and Image Processing; CS-06 Artificial Intelligence and Human Issues; CS-07 Systems Simulations; CS-08 Software Engineering and CASE; CS-09 Parallel Processing and Distributed Processing; CS-10 Software Reliability and Fault Tolerance; CS-11 Database Design and Analysis; CS-12 Multimedia INFORMATION SYSTEMS GROUP (IS) Tracks: IS-01 IS Research, Development, Implementation and Management; IS-02 IS Planning, Strategy and Policy; IS-03 Impact on Changes in Information Systems; IS-04 Global Communication Highways and IS; IS-05 Evaluation and Measurement for IS; IS-06 Intelligent IS; IS-07 DSS, GDSS, EIS; IS-08 Competitive Systems; IS-09 Economics of Information; IS-10 Inter- organizational Networks/Systems INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT GROUP (ITM) Tracks: ITM-01 Artifical Intelligence and Expert Systems; ITM-02 Behavioral Aspects of Information Technology Management; ITM-03 CASE Reengineering and Retooling; ITM-04 Database Management Systems; ITM-05 End-user Computing; ITM-06 Groupware; ITM-07 Analytical Methods; ITM-08 Research Methods in Information Technology Management; ITM-09 Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Information and Technology Management; ITM-10 Teaching and Curriculum Development in Information Management; ITM-11 Communications and Integrated Services; ITM-12 Group Decision Tools and Process; ITM-13 Technology Management and Organizational Issues TRANSPORTATION, TRAVEL AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY GROUP (TTT) Tracks: TTT-01 Intermodal Transportation; TTT-02 Transportation Planning and Management; TTT-03 Transportation Safety; TTT-04 Environmental Quality in Transportation; TTT-05 Aviation and Management; TTT-06 Transportation and Economic Development; TTT-07 Intelligent Transportation Systems; TTT-08 Transportation and Travel Management GLOBAL HEALTH AND ECOLOGY GROUP (GHE) Tracks: GHE-01 Natural Environmental and Resource Management; GHE-02 Project Financing in the Developing World; GHE-03 Global, National, Regional or Cultural Public Policy Issues in Environment and Health; GHE-04 Renewable Resources and Alternative Energy; GHE-05 Greening of Industry Issues and Eco- Technology; GHE-06 Divergent Quality Control in Ecology and Health; GHE-07 Environment and Society: Unity and Diversity; GHE-08 Global Business Opportunities in Ecology and Health; GHE-09 Emergency Medicine for Environ- mental Emergencies; GHE-10 Education Issues and Practice for a Healthier World. MAIL ALL SUBMISSIONS TO: Jane Quincy Bryant, Ph.D., 1995 AoM Conference Program Co-Chair The Association of Management (AoM) 5309 Sidney Court, P. O. Box 64841 Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464-0841 Ph: 804-479-5363, Fax: 804-479-0656 aomgt@infi.net GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Conference Fees: The EARLY registration fee (applicable to registrations postmarked by June 19, 1995) is US $285 for academics, US $150 for full- time students and US $635 for corporate attendees. AFTER that date, reg- istration is US $385 for academics, US $200 for full-time students, and US $725 for corporate attendees. The fee covers admission to all conference sessions, one copy of the Program and Proceedings, the Opening Reception, daily refreshments, a luncheon, and all sponsored events. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ALL AoM ELECTRONIC NETWORK! 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It may be of interest to some on this list. *TRANSTECH* SN 95-06. POC: C.E. Stuart, Technical, Maritime Systems Technology Office (MSTO) (703)696-2315. The Advance Research Projects Agency, Maritime Systems Technology Office, (ARPA MSTO) and Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office (ARPA SISTO) are seeking comments from all sources (Public, Private, Governmental, Academia) regarding an upcoming FY96 program, TransTech. This is not a request for proposals nor a solicitation for bids. ARPA MSTO and SISTO plan to issue a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), as contemplated in FAR 35.016, in the 3rd quarter of Fiscal Year 1995 for TransTech. Comments on the form, structure, or contents (or lack thereof) of the following are solicited. Introduction: The US military has a requirement that by the year 2001 it must be able to conduct deployments for two nearly simultaneous major regional contingencies. The U.S. transportation infrastructure and our strategic mobility assets will be severely taxed. To meet this stressing requirement, logistics and transportation assets must be deployed, tracked, refurbished and redeployed more efficiently than ever before. In this era of downsizing, the Department of Defense (DoD) will become more and more dependent on commercial transportation. DoD must have the insight to focus its investment in research and infrastructure to take advantage of commercial trends. Examples from recent history include new methods of moving freight: overnight express packages, containerization, and intermodal transportation. All have been adopted by industry expressly for achieving efficiency and profit, and are now an integral part of the defense transportation strategy. The goal of this new program, TransTech, is to develop a comprehensive transportation and logistics operations, planning and simulation environment. This will facilitate the achievement of Total Asset Visibility, giving our forces powerful new tools to efficiently and flexibly manage the transportation and logistics ``war'' envisioned for the 21st century. The program will capitalize on the revolutionary advances made in communications, simulation, planning and information technology, as well as seek mechanical systems to improve the intermodal system performance and efficiency. ARPA plans to establish a broad network linking transportation/logistics suppliers and users. TransTech will also support the development of systematic investment and policy decisions about our national civilian and military transportation infrastructure. This will facilitate improved decision making by military planners and ultimately permit us to meet the strategic mobility requirements for the next century. As a result of this announcement, ARPA MSTO and SISTO encourage the submission of constructive comments on the following program concept and approach. Objectives: The TransTech program will be developed using revolutionary advances in key technologies of Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I), advanced design processes based on virtual prototyping and advanced modeling, high performance computing, distributed networking, and human computer interaction. The objectives of the TransTech program are to: (1) Allow distributed real-time visualization and interaction with all elements of the military and commercial transportation infrastructure. (2) Allow efficient and effective real time control, planning, replanning, and rehearsal of the movement of forces and materiel, both for initial deployment and subsequent re-deployment. (3) Allow decision makers at all levels, from operators to policy makers, to make and validate systematic investment and policy decisions about the transportation infrastructure. (4) Achieve Total Asset Visibility from factory to foxhole using advanced networks, databases and communications architectures and Automated Identification Technologies (AIT). (5) Develop and demonstrate emerging enabling technologies to enhance transportation system performance especially the physical handling and packaging of cargo to meet throughput requirements at intermodal gateways, the mitigation of relative motion for amphibious operations in the Theater of Operations, and Automated Identification Technologies (AIT) for tracking assets. Approach: ARPA MSTO and SISTO plan to issue a BAA in the 3rd quarter of Fiscal Year 1995 for execution of the TransTech Program. TransTech will focus development efforts in three areas: (1) TransWeb Synthetic Environment, (2) Applications, and (3) Enabling Technologies. Offerors, either individual or teamed, will be encouraged to propose in any or all of these three focus areas. It will not be necessary for proposers to have experience in military transportation and/or logistics. Pending approval of funding, a total of approximately $10M may be available in FY96 for funding multiple efforts selected from the upcoming solicitation. Size of awards and duration of efforts will vary according to the type of effort undertaken. Area 1. TransWeb Synthetic Environment: TransWeb is envisioned to be a high fidelity synthetic environment that accurately depicts the national military and commercial transportation infrastructure. The TransWeb Environment will permit multiple users to access the same data, view the same displays, and interact with the environment and one another. TransWeb would provide the integrating environment, permitting other transportation systems, models, and data to work together seamlessly and efficiently. TransWeb will consist of standards, databases, networks, architecture and distributed simulation. TransWeb will access models of ports (air, land, sea), transport vehicles (ship, truck, rail, plane), cost, labor, combat support, environment (weather, pollution, etc.), and safety. An information services layer will allow the user in government or industry to access the models, simulations, and data. The information will be assimilated and organized in a visual fashion. It is anticipated that the requirements for TransWeb would include: (1) An open, scalable architecture with a distributed, reconfigurable structure, (2) A self organizing and self updating system architecture with multi-level security (both commercial and DoD) and data access control, including versioning control, (3) User interfaces permitting selection of applications and use of data without regard to data transformation and location, (4) Standards-based data sharing, storage and communication, (5) High performance communications network, including satellite and others, (6) Autonomous update of data and models, (7) Optimization of multiple non-hierarchical parameters, e.g., cost, time, environmental, (8) Varying complexity levels permitting participation with small and large organizations. It is anticipated that requirements for proposals submitted in Area One for TransWeb will include: a multi-phase development plan which demonstrates a clear understanding of the elements of a TransWeb environment, meaningful demonstrations applicable to the overall TransTech program, description of the system architecture, identification of ``show-stopper'' technical issues, along with the technologies to be developed and specific technical approaches to be pursued in resolving them, a plan for periodic demonstrations over the project life, a description of how developments under areas two and three (below) will be integrated into a complete system, even if accomplished by other contractors under separate efforts, and description of personnel, facilities, schedule, and cost. Area 2. Applications: The Applications area is envisioned to include development of individual models and simulations that are used in Total Asset Visibility, planning and executing logistics and transportation operations, as well as optimization routines. This area will also include applications for Infrastructure Investment Planning which will permit the transportation users and planners (including Congress, DoD, Department of Transportation, Municipal Planning Organizations, etc.) to make informed decisions regarding investment in the infrastructure. Where necessary, technical interchange routines will be developed for legacy codes and databases that are already in use. New models and simulations may be developed, along with standards for model interoperability and seamless data exchange. Information gathering techniques, including ``knowledge rovers'' and other intelligent agents, for real time update of transport and infrastructure information will be developed, along with techniques for combining and displaying the data. Area 2A. Logistics Planning: Area 2A will be built upon the on- going Logistics Anchor Desk (LAD) program in SISTO. It is anticipated that LAD will be seamlessly integrated into TransWeb during the TransTech program. The LAD in the year 2001 would be a synthesizing facility capable of existing at various organizational command levels to provide distributed planning tools and expert ``virtual staff'' assistance to theater and deployed joint task force logistics staffs. The LAD would support mission rehearsal and refinement for the Joint Task Force (JTF) staff while enroute to the forward deployed JTF headquarters. Key aspects of the LAD are focused collaborative planning, real-time connections to defense logistics data sources and other LADs, and dynamically reconfigurable software. It is envisioned that the LAD would be capable of being dynamically configured to allow creation of customized information systems that can be individually configured without conventional reprogramming. It is anticipated that requirements for proposals submitted in Area Two will include: a description of specific application(s) to be modeled or simulated, the relevance and feasibility of the application to TransTech, a demonstration plan, an approach for interaction with TransWeb system integrator, and description of personnel, facilities, schedule, and cost. Area 3. Enabling Technologies: The final focus area will identify and develop enabling technologies. Technologies that are being considered for development include, but are not limited to: automated identification technology, global mobile communications, electronic data transfer, cargo handling technologies for port through-put, at-sea off-load technologies, and packaging technologies. Suggestions for other enabling technologies in Area Three are encouraged. It is anticipated that requirements for proposals submitted in Area Three will include: a description of the technology and its state of development, the relevance and feasibility of the technology to TransTech, a multi-phase demonstration plan, including rapid prototyping, an approach for interaction with the TransWeb system integrator, and description of personnel, facilities, schedule, and cost. Comment Submission: Your comments on this new effort should be submitted no later than 1 May 1995, so they may be incorporated into the upcoming BAA. Your response to this announcement will not be acknowledged. The preferred method of submitting comments is via email at transtech@nsnet.com. If you do not have email access, comments should be sent via FAX to 703-516-6065, ATTN: Transtech Admin. Please restrict FAX transmittals to 10 pages or less, including cover page during the period 0630 through 1800 EDT, Monday through Friday. Transmittals greater than 10 pages should be sent in parts during this period or sent between the hours of 1900 thrugh 0600. If you do not have access to email or a facsimile machine, send your comments to: Advanced Research Projects Agency, Maritime Systems Technology Office, ATTN: Transtech Admin, 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203. From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Tue Apr 4 16:35:16 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA16423 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:34:58 -0500 Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU (bimini.Stanford.EDU [36.93.0.36]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA01398 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:34:56 -0500 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA16242; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 14:34:38 -0700 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 14:34:38 PDT From: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) Reply-To: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) To: share@bimini.Stanford.EDU, all-iceimt@einet.net, afsaneh@dbresearch-berlin.de, Juergen Paulokat , Yumi Iwasaki , made-again@eit.com, Adam Farquhar , Esther Gelle , seliger@aic.hrl.hac.com, pkhosla@arpa.mil, Carolyn Valiquette , brereton@cdr.stanford.edu, smith@lia.di.epfl.ch, Donald Steiner , sfinger@ri.cmu.edu, guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de, reis@cis.Stanford.EDU, shade@HPP.Stanford.EDU, dellen@informatik.uni-kl.de, ramesh@nps.navy.mil, robert@ai.univie.ac.at, sun@dbresearch-berlin.de, rneches@arpa.mil, artg@vnet.ibm.com, gio@db.stanford.edu, jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu, lesk@bellcore.bellcore.com, malone@mit.edu, will@isi.edu, scross@cs.cmu.edu, lesser@cs.umass.edu, rhayes-roth@alfred.teknowledge.com, chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu, bobrow@parc.xerox.com Cc: dcb@owl.WPI.EDU, lander@cs.umass.edu Subject: CFP - CERA - Concurrent Engineering Message-ID: ************* Call For Papers ******************* ************************************************* CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: Research and Applications ================================================= (CERA) -- An International Journal ================================== SPECIAL ISSUE on: +++++++++++++++++ "The Application of Multi-agent Systems to Concurrent Engineering" ****************************************************************** GUEST EDITORS +++++++++++++ David C. Brown Professor Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 01609 Susan Lander Staff Scientist Blackboard Technology Group 401 Main Street Amherst, MA 01002. Charles Petrie Senior Research Associate Center for Design Research Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2232 TOPIC +++++ Concurrent Engineering (CE) is concerned with making better products in less time. A basic tenet of the approach is that all aspects of the product's life-cycle should be considered as early as possible in the design-to-manufacturing process. For example, this allows Recycling to be considered at product design time. Early consideration of later phases of the life-cycle brings to light problems that will occur downstream and, therefore, supports intelligent and informed decision-making throughout the process. Thus, considering packaging and distribution during product design would allow package design to proceed more-or-less concurrently. A key idea for implementing CE is the use of teams in which each member (either human or computational) is an expert on some aspect of the product in a phase of its life-cycle. The diversity of team members produces significant challenges in maintaining effective communication and providing appropriate computational support. Members may be geographically distributed, have different terminology, perspectives and goals, and may interact through a heterogeneous mix of computer platforms. Software agents may be primary members of a team, in which case the agents do product and process design. Alternatively, software agents may act in a support role, for example as communication specialists, mediators, translators, managers, tool specialists, schedulers, coordinators, and retrievers of information. We will consider papers that discuss infrastructure issues (for example, architectures for supporting virtual teams, decision-support tools, and design rationale) as well as those that concentrate on more theoretical issues (for example, specifications of shared languages, constraint-based problem solving, and negotiation). Papers are requested on topics concerned with multi-agent systems that support and enhance the CE process. In particular, we are soliciting papers concerned with the role of multi-agent systems in the early consideration of all aspects of a product's life-cycle, and the role of multi-agent systems in support of concurrent decision-making. All papers should comment on their contribution to these issues. THE JOURNAL +++++++++++ CERA is an international journal published quarterly by Technomic Publishing Inc. whose purpose is to provide a forum for the dissemination of multidisciplinary scientific work on Concurrent Engineering based on computer technologies. It is an official journal of the Concurrent Engineering Institute of the International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE). Subscription and other information can be obtained by contacting: CERA Managing Editor, CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA. Fax: (313) 661 8333: Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com See the CERA web page for more information about the journal. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Manuscripts should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length including all figures and references. Papers must not have been previously published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Initial abstracts and manuscripts should have a title page including the authors' full names, affiliations, physical and email addresses. Papers must be double spaced, single-sided, on 8.5" x 11" paper, with 1" margins all around, in a 12 point font. Final manuscripts must meet the guidelines for the CERA Journal set forth by CERA Institute -- these appear inside the back cover of the journal and on the CERA authors instructions web page. Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Papers that cannot be accomodated in this special issue, or that do not match the topics relevant for this special issue, will be considered for the Proceedings of the Third International Concurrent Engineering Research & Applications Conference scheduled for August, 1996. SCHEDULE ++++++++ o 1 to 2 page abstract due before July 15, 1995 o Five copies of full manuscript due August 15, 1995 o Notification of acceptance September 15, 1995 o Final version of manuscript due November 15, 1995 o Send to publisher December 1, 1995 o Special Issue March, 1996 SUBMISSIONS +++++++++++ Please submit your abstract via email to all three guest editors: David Brown Susan Lander Charles Petrie dcb@cs.wpi.edu lander@cs.umass.edu petrie@cdr.stanford.edu lander@bbtech.com Please submit your manuscripts to: Dr. David C. Brown CERA Special Issue Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Rd. Worcester, MA 01609 Phone: (508) 831-5618 FAX: (508) 831-5776 Email: dcb@cs.wpi.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This page, with embedded links to information about CERA, is available as: http://cs.wpi.edu/~dcb/CERA/CFP.html ____________________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------- Charles Petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ ----------------------------------- From juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Wed Apr 12 07:31:25 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA01099 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 07:31:20 -0500 Received: from cerc.wvu.edu (cathedral.cerc.wvu.edu [157.182.44.3]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA07164 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 07:31:18 -0500 Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA11356; Wed, 12 Apr 95 08:31:17 EDT Received: by cerc.wvu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0:RAL-041790) id AA19804; Fri, 7 Apr 95 08:55:33 EDT From: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu (Enabling Technology Workshop) Message-Id: <9504071255.AA19804@cerc.wvu.edu> Subject: Final Call for Participation: WETI ICE '95 To: sysinfo@einet.net Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 08:55:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 11064 Sender: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Final Call for Participation WET ICE '95 IEEE Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises By Invitation Coolfont Resort, Conference Center, and Health Spa Berkeley Springs, West Virginia April 20-22, 1995 sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society supported by AAAI in cooperation with ACM SIGOIS conducted by CERC, West Virginia University The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies will be presented in the following categories: Process; Computer Aided Design, Databases, and Ontology; Multimedia; Mobile Computing; and Collaborative Environments. In addition, half of the workshop agenda will be devoted to parallel working groups to allow participants to discuss key issues with other experts. Registration to the workshop is by invitation only and is based on papers submitted to the workshop. Additional participants, however, may be invited upon submission of a letter to the Workshop Chair at this address (et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu) specifying how the individual can contribute to the workshop. WORKSHOP CHAIR: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus, CERC at West Virginia University PROGRAM CHAIR: Prof. John R. Callahan, CERC at West Virginia University POINT OF CONTACT: Mary Carriger, Workshop Coordinator CERC, P.O. Box 6506, West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 (T) 304-293-7226; (F) -7541; (E) et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu PRELIMINARY AGENDA __________________ Thursday, April 20, 1995 7:00-8:00 Breakfast - Mountain Air Room 8:00-8:15 Welcome: K. Joseph Cleetus, Workshop Chair 8:15-9:00 Keynote Address: Ralph T. Wood, Program Manager, Product Development and Manufacturing, United Technologies Corp. PROCESS 9:00-9:20 "Tool Support for Collaborative Software Prototyping," Elliot Shefrin, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging 9:20-9:40 "Framework for Business Process Redesign," W. M. P. van der Aalst, Dept. of Mathematics & Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 9:40-10:00 "Modeling the Software Process using Coordination Rules," Paolo Ciancarini, Computer Science Dept., University of Bologna, Italy 10:00-10:20 "Process Enactment Support in a Distributed Environment," Kari Alho, Department of Computer Science, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 10:20-10:40 "Managing the Resources of a Portfolio of Projects," David Irving, Synergy International Limited, New Zealand 10:40-10:50 Break COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN/DATABASES/ONTOLOGY 10:50-11:10 "An Organisation Ontology for Enterprise Modelling Preliminary Concepts for Linking Structure and Behaviour," Mark Fox, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada 11:10-11:30 "Access to a CAD Repository of Prosthetic Parts Database Using an Information Sharing System," Raghu Karinthi, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University 11:30-11:50 "Personal Electronic Notebook with Sharing," Jack Hong, Center for Design Research, Stanford University 11:50-12:10 "A Collaborative Environment Based on Distributed Object- Oriented Databases," Uwe Jasnoch, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics 12:10-12:30 "An Ontology of Quality for Enterprise Modelling," Henry Kim, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada 12:30-12:50 "Manufacturing Collaboration Resource Discover System (McRDS)," Sankar Virdhagriswaran, Crystaliz Incorporated 1:00-2:00 Lunch - Mountain Air Room 1:30 Speaker: Charles Mertz, Director, NASA Software Independent Verification and Validation Facility MULTIMEDIA 2:00-2:20 "MediaWare: A Distributed Multimedia Environment with Interoperability," Yahya Al-Salqan, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University 2:20-2:40 "Subdocument Invocation Semantics in Collaborative Hyperdocuments," David Stotts, Computer Science Dept., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2:40-3:00 "WEB* - A Technology to Make Information Available on the Web," George Almasi, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University 3:00-3:20 "CAIRO: A System for Facilitating Communication in a Distributed Collaborative Engineering Environment," Karim Hussein, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3:20-3:30 Break MOBILE COMPUTING 3:30-3:50 "User Interaction with Machines on the Move: Location Aware Computing," Giles Nelson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK 3:50-4:10 "Infrastructure Support for Cooperative Mobile Environments," Sascha Kuemmel, Faculty of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany 4:10-4:30 "The Emerging Role of Agents for Deep Customisation in Collaborative Enterprises," Faouzi Daoud, Laboratoire PRiSM, France 6:30-7:30 Reception 7:30-8:30 Dinner - Mountain Air Room Friday, April 21, 1995 7:00-8:00 Breakfast - Mountain Air Room 8:00-8:45 Keynote Address: Ben Shneiderman, Head, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS 8:45-9:05 "Investigating Strong Collaboration with the Annotated Egret Navigator," Carleton Moore, Collaborative Software Development Laboratory, Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii 9:05-9:25 "Core Services for Coordination in Concurrent Engineering," Mark Klein, Boeing Computer Services 9:25-9:45 "Socrates: An Environment for High Performance Computing," Calin Costian, Computer Science Dept., Purdue University 9:45-10:05 "Brokered Collaborative Infrastructure for CSCW*," Chandrajit Bajaj, Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University 10:05-10:25 "Preparing Engineers for Collaborative Technology: A Graduate Course," Marvin Rosenberg, Dept. of Educational Leadership, George Washington University 10:25-1:00 Working Groups 1:00-2:00 Lunch - Mountain Air Room 1:30 Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Iazeolla, CERTIA Research Center, University of Rome at Tor-Vergata, Italy 2:00-5:30 Working Groups 7:00-8:00 Dinner - Mountain Air Room 8:30-? Working Groups Saturday, April 22, 1995 7:00-8:00 Breakfast - Mountain Air Room 9:00-12:00 Working group reports 12:00-1:00 Lunch - Mountain Air Room WHAT YOUR REGISTRATION FEE WILL INCLUDE Your registration fee will include admission to the workshop; all meals, from dinner on April 19 through lunch on April 22; and a copy of the proceedings, printed by IEEE after the workshop. LOCAL ACCOMODATIONS The workshop will be held at the Coolfont Resort, Conference Center, and Health Spa, a 1,200-acre, rustic mountain retreat in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, approximately 100 miles northwest of Washington D.C. In addition to hiking (including morning nature walks), tennis, swimming, and horseback riding, Coolfont also has a full-service spa, offering massages, facials, and fitness assessments for additional fees. A championship golf course is located at Cacapon State Park, seven miles away. Multi-bedroom guest homes (the best way to get to know your colleagues!) and individual lodge rooms have been set aside at Coolfont Resort at the rate of $70.85 per night. Please make your reservations with Coolfont Resort at 1-800-888-8768 (within the U.S.) or 1-304-258-4500 (fax: 1-304-258-5499) by March 19 and mention that you will be attending the IEEE WET ICE Workshop. Bring your spouse/significant other for an additional $62/night (includes lodging and all meals)! Massage therapy and other spa services should be made in advance by calling Coolfont; ask for the Spectrum Spa. Current prices for massages are $32 for 30 minutes; $49 for 60 minutes; and $72 for 90 minutes. DIRECTIONS FROM WASHINGTON, DC: Take Interstate 66 West to Route 17 North, to Route 50 West to Interstate 81 North. Take second exit off Interstate 81, which is Route 37, 3 miles to 522 North. Eight miles within the West Virginia line, turn left on Quarry Road to Coolfont. Check-in is at Treetop House, which is two miles on the right. OR Take Dulles Toll Road to Route 28 North to Route 7 West, to Interstate 81 North. Take first exit off 81, which is Route 37, and proceed as in directions above. DIRECTIONS FROM BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV Take Route 9 West off Route 522 at the 7-11 (convenience store). Go 3/4 mile, passing a castle just over the crest of the hill. Turn left onto Cold Run Valley Road. Check-in is at Treetop House, which is four miles on the left. INTERNET INFORMATION SITES This call for participation, and other information about the workshop, can be accessed through the World Wide Web at URL http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE95_cfp.html; anonymous ftp at ftp.cerc.wvu.edu/announcements; and Gopher at gopher.cerc.wvu.edu/announcements; or by sending email to et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu. REGISTRATION FORM NOTE: Registration is by invitation; individuals not previously invited may request an invitation by sending a letter to Dr. Joseph Cleetus, Program Chair, at the address given at the bottom of this form. All registrations forms and fees must be received no later than April 13. Payment will not be accepted at the door. Cancellations after April 13 will be subject to a $50 service charge. Cancellations received after the program, or no-shows, will be subject to the full registration fee. Substitutions can be made at any time. Please circle the appropriate fee. For registration between March 20 and April 13: I am a(n): IEEE, AAAI or ACM Member ($475) Membership #________________ Organization_____ WET ICE Committee Member ($475) Full-time student ($475) Other ($595) Method of Payment (circle one) Check Money order (Sorry, we do not take any credit cards.) 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The Center for Advanced Studies in Management is publishing a Directory of Management Scholars/ Experts, which will contain research interests and publications of faculty in management and administration, doctoral students, consultants, and others engag ed in the scientific investigations in management. This will be a valuable resource book for management researchers, educators, and prospective employers. You are invited to submit two hard copies of your list of publications and other particulars in a 3.5" HD floppy disk (IBM MS-DOS) in an ASCII file for inclusion in the Directory. We need the following: 1. Your name, affiliation, address 2. Phone, fax, e-mail 3. Professional affiliations 4. Research interests (e.g., leadership, ethics) 5.Exact titles of studies you are conducting (funding sources, if any) 6. List of publications (This must be prepared strictly according to the 1994 APA Publications Manual. 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Afzal Rahim, Editor Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt 1574 Mallory Court Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA Phone & Fax: 502-782-2601 E-Mail: Arahim@delphi.com From gasser@morue.usc.edu Tue May 9 14:17:56 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA18327 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 14:17:51 -0500 Received: from usc.edu (usc.edu [128.125.253.136]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA29468 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 14:16:11 -0500 Received: from morue.usc.edu (gasser@morue.usc.edu [128.125.49.4]) by usc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) with ESMTP id MAA07473 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 12:16:04 -0700 Received: (gasser@localhost) by morue.usc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.7+ucs) id MAA23393; Tue, 9 May 1995 12:16:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 12:16:04 -0700 From: Les Gasser Message-Id: <199505091916.MAA23393@morue.usc.edu> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Cc: gasser@usc.edu Subject: CFP for ICMAS95 Reply-to: gasser@usc.edu Below is the Call for Participation for ICMAS95; I think it has many aspects of interest to the einet community, so feel free to give it wide exposure. You can also check out the web page (http://ICMAS.cs.umass.edu/ICMAS) for more complete information on all aspects of the conference. Hope to see you there! -- Les ================================================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First International Conference on Multiagent Systems - ICMAS '95 June 12 - 14, 1995 San Francisco, California The First International Conference on Multiagent Systems will be held June 12-14 of 1995 in San Francisco. Organized as a joint effort of the North American Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) community, the Japanese Multi-Agent and Cooperative Computing (MACC) community, and the European Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW) community with support from AAAI, IJCAI and Keihanna Interaction Plaza Inc. It is also sanctioned by ECCAI. ICMAS-95 will be a three-day conference combining a strong technical program of highly reviewed papers (53 papers with an acceptance rate of 33%) together with invited talks (7) and panels. There will also be tutorials presented on June 11, the day before the official start of the conference. Multiagent Systems are computational systems in which several semiautonomous agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks or satisfying some set of goals. These systems may involve computational agents that are homogeneous or heterogeneous, they may involve activity on the part of agents having common goals or goals that are distinct, and they may involve participation on the part of humans and intelligent computational agents. Research and practice on these systems generally focuses on problem solving, communication, and coordination aspects, as distinct from low-level parallelization or synchronization issues that are more the focus of distributed computing. The design, implementation, and assessment of multiagent systems raises many specific issues. These include how to develop coordination strategies that enable groups of agents to solve problems effectively, negotiation mechanisms that serve to bring a collection of agents to an acceptable state, conflict detection and resolution strategies, protocols by which agents may communicate and reason about interagent communications, and mechanisms whereby agents can maintain autonomy while still contributing to overall system effectiveness. Topics of interests that will be the focus of conference papers include: Agent architectures Artificial life (from a multiagent perspective) Believable Agents Cooperation, coordination, and conflict Communication issues Conceptual and theoretical foundations of multiagent systems Development and engineering methodologies Distributed artificial intelligence Distributed consensus and algorithms for multiagent interaction Distributed search Evaluation of multiagent systems Integrated testbeds and development environments Intelligent agents in enterprise integration systems and similar types of applications Learning and adaptation in multiagent systems Multiagent cooperative reasoning from distributed heterogeneous databases Multiagent planning and planning for multiagent worlds Negotiation strategies - in both competitive and cooperative situations Organization, organizational knowledge, and organization self-design Practical applications of multiagent systems (enterprises, robotics, sensing, manufacturing, IVHS etc.) Resource allocation in multiagent systems Social structures and their significance in multiagent systems User interface issues for multiagent systems Up-to-date Information A Mosaic page (http://ICMAS.cs.umass.edu/ICMAS) can be accessed for the most up-to-date information on the conference including as it becomes available information on hotel and travel arrangements, tutorials and the technical program. Hotel Arrangements The conference will be held at San Francisco Hilton and Towers (415-771-1400). There are a block of rooms set aside for conference participants at a special convention rate only until May 11,1995 (or while they last). Reservations received after this date will be accepted based on availability. Please indicate when you are making room arrangements that you will be attending the International Conference on Multiagent Systems in order to get the convention rate. (Note that the reduced conference rate will also apply to the three days preceding and the three days following the conference days, if when you book there are rooms available.) General Chair: Victor R. Lesser Computer and Information Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-1322 icmas-95@cs.umass.edu Program Co-Chairs: North America: Susan E. Conry Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Clarkson University Box 5720 Potsdam, NY 13676-5720 (315) 268-6510 conry@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Europe: Yves Demazeau Laboratoire LIFIA/IMAG 46 Avenue Felix Viallet F-38031 Grenoble cx FRANCE +33 76574654 Yves.Demazeau@imag.fr Pacific Rim: Mario Tokoro Keio University / Sony CSL Department of Computer Science 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku Yokohama 223 JAPAN +81-45-560-1153 mario@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp Local Arrangements: Evangelos Simoudis IBM Almaden (408) 927-2215 simoudis@almaden.ibm.com Advisory Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Susan E. Conry (USA) Yves Demazeau (France) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Victor Lesser (USA) Jean-Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Mario Tokoro (Japan) Program Committee: John Campbell (England) Christiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Phil Cohen (USA) Edmund Durfee (USA) Jacques Ferber (France) Mark Fox (Canada) Les Gasser (USA) Michael Georgeff (Australia) Carl Hewitt (USA) Bernardo Huberman (USA) Michael Huhns (USA) Toru Ishida (Japan) Nick Jennings (England) Sarit Kraus (Israel) Christian Lemaitre (Mexico) Frank von Martial (Germany) Jean Pierre Muller (Switzerland) Hideyuki Nakashima (Japan) Van Parunak (USA) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Israel) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Donald Steiner (Germany) Luc Steels (Belgium) Toshiharu Sugawara (Japan) Katia Sycara (USA) =====================REGISTRATION FORM==================== INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (ICMAS-95) REGISTRATION FORM Name: Net Address: Univ/Company: Address: City: State/Province: Zip Code: Country: Daytime Phone: Daytime Fax: ------------------------------------------------------------- Mark applicable fees: Early Registration Rate Late Registration Rate TOTAL Postmarked by April 20 Postmarked by May 19 Regular / Student Regular / Student Technical Program* $300 / $125 $350 / $150 $ June 12-15, 1995 Tutorials (with Technical Program Registration) Half-day $50 / $25 $75 / $35 $ Full-day $100 / $25 $125 / $35 $ Tutorials (without Technical Program Registration) Half-day $100 / $25 $125 / $35 $ Full-day $150 / $25 $175 / $35 $ IF REGISTERING FOR TUTORIALS, MAKE SELECTION(S) HERE: Morning Sessions (limit: 1) Afternoon Sessions (limit: 1) __ A. Intro. to MAS, Part 1 __ D. Intro. to MAS, Part 2 __ B. Intelligent Agents __ E. Formal Methods in MAS __ C. Business Process Reengineering __ F. MAS Tools & Techniques & Coordination Support Tutorial Registration includes Notes; Notes alone will be available for purchase on site. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Reception*, Monday June 12 Number of guests, at $15 each ____ $ Dinner*, Tuesday, June 13 Number of guests, at $50 each ____ $ *Your technical program registration fee includes: 1 copy of proceedings, 1 ticket to reception, and 1 ticket to dinner - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TOTAL DUE $ Note: Registrations received after May 19 are subject to on-site rates. The refund request deadline is May 26, 1995. A $75 processing fee will be assessed for all refunds. Please Make Check Payable to ICMAS-95 in U.S. Dollars and send this form and your check to: ICMAS-95 V. Lesser, General Chair Computer Science Dept., LGRC, Box 34610 University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-4610 USA OR you may pay by credit card by completing the information below: (PLEASE TYPE): CIRCLE CARD TYPE: MC VISA AmEx Disc. NAME (as it appears on credit card)______________________________ CARD NUMBER:____________________________ EXP. DATE ______ SIGNATURE_____________________________ AMOUNT $_______U.S.D. FAX the completed registration form to: ICMAS-95 c/o M. Roberts 1(413) 545-1249 ===================end of registration form=============== ABSTRACTS OF TUTORIAL SESSIONS A. INTRODUCTION TO MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (Part 1) D. INTRODUCTION TO MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (Part 2) Coordinator: Les Gasser, USC (USA) This tutorial will be a one-day long, 7-hour introductory Multiagent Systems tutorial, in modules. These modules will cover, at an introductory level, motivations and applications for multiagent systems, basic multiagent systems problems such as task allocation, coordination, interaction, agent and process models, disparity resolution, implementation approaches, and engineering methodologies. Most of the fundamental MAS technologies and models will be surveyed (e.g., distributed search/CDPS, negotiation, multiagent/distributed planning, coordination, reasoning about other agents, and so on). Each module will consist of a presentation of about 30-45 minutes by people well-known and experienced in each area. The point of this introductory tutorial is to get people unfamiliar with the range and depth of MAS topics up to speed on the basic issues and background. B. INTELLIGENT AGENTS Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages Nicholas R. Jennings, Queen Mary & Westfield College (UK), Michael Wooldridge, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) The concept of an agent is now important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and mainstream computer science. In this tutorial, we introduce the key issues associated with the design and construction of intelligent agents. This tutorial addresses one of the fastest growing topics within the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence and multiagent systems: the design and implementation of intelligent agents. Thus, the tutorial will combine material from the traditional multiagent systems field with fields which are just starting to use the concept of agents (e.g., interface agents, information agents, believable agents). The tutorial will also serve as an important form of synthesis - showing the links and inter dependencies between three of the most important aspects of multiagent systems research. We divide these issues into three areas. Agent theory is concerned with the question of what an agent is, and the use of mathematical formalisms for representing and reasoning about the properties of agents. Agent architectures can be thought of as software engineering models of agents; researchers in this area are primarily concerned with the problem of designing software or hardware systems that will satisfy the properties specified by the agent theorists. Finally, agent languages are software systems for programming and experimenting with agents; these languages may embody principles proposed by theorists. We provide an overview of each of these areas, focusing particularly on the links between them. C. BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING & COORDINATION SUPPORT Business Process (Re-)Engineering: Methodologies and Multiagent Technologies Mark Klein, Penn State University (USA), Frank von Martial, DeTeMobile (Germany) This tutorial provides a thorough treatment of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and the collaborative computing technology that can be used to support it, from the perspective of multiagents systems research and technologies. We define BPR quite broadly to include the entire process management life cycle (from process definition to simulation to enactment to metrics to refinement to reuse and redesign). Topics to be covered include: what BPR is why it is important what BPR methodologies work well what process management technology is and how it can be used to support BPR weaknesses of current process management technology from the perspective of BPR (e.g. lack of organizational models, semistructured processes, rationale capture, integration between different classes of process management tools, process reuse & redesign support and run-time exception handling) current research directions for addressing these gaps (e.g. work on rationale capture, process retrieval and exception handling technology). D. (See A) E. FORMAL METHODS IN MAS Theoretical Foundations for Multiagent Systems Gilad Zlotkin, MIT (USA), Makoto Yokoo, NTT (JAPAN), Michael Wellman, Michigan (USA) This tutorial provides an introduction to the theoretical foundations underlying common technical approaches to the design of multiagent systems (MASs). The tutorial consists of three parts, each devoted to an important multiagent paradigm. Search Foundations (Yokoo) In this section, we first describe basic search formalizations (constraint satisfaction and path-planning) and associated algorithms. Then, we show how these formalizations and algorithms can be extended for representing/solving various MAS problems, such as achieving coherence among agents, adaptation/learning in unknown environments, etc. The presentation will include video animations of some of the algorithms. Game-Theoretic Models of Interaction (Zlotkin) In this section we present game-theoretic tools that are useful for the design of MASs where agents are individually motivated. In such systems, we coordinate agents' activities by providing incentives for desired behaviors. We start with some of the basic concepts, such as: individual rationality and equilibrium, group rationality, and mechanism design. Then, we explore some group decision theories and their related coordination mechanisms: bargaining theory and negotiation mechanisms, voting theory and consensus mechanisms, cooperative games, and coalition formation mechanisms. Computational Markets (Wellman) In this section we present the basic economics one needs to know in order to design a computational market system. Topics include the basic theories of consumer and producer agents, the role of prices, concepts of competitive behavior, market equilibria, auction mechanisms, and more. By way of examples, we consider how to cast real-world resource allocation and planning problems in market terms. F. MAS TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES Multiagent System Tools and Research Methods Coordinator TBA This tutorial will cover the variety of tools and research methods available for building and experimenting with practical and experimental multiagent systems, for both academic research and for real-world applications. Languages, frameworks, platforms, technologies and tools such as KQML, Agent-0, NET-GBB, Telescript, Articulator, VDT, SPARKLE, KOD, EZ-SIM, ACTION, etc. will be covered. =========================================================== INVITED SPEAKER TALKS -- ICMAS '95 "Blissful Ignorance: Knowing Just Enough to Coordinate Well" Edmund H. Durfee, EECS Department, University of Michigan "Computational Organization Research" Les Gasser, IMPACT Lab School of Engineering, USC "Parallel, Distributed and Multi-Agent Production Systems: A Research Foundation for Distributed Artificial Intelligence" Toru Ishida, Department of Computer Science, Kyoto University "Developing Industrial Multi-Agent Systems" N. R. Jennings, Distributed AI Unit, Dept of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London "Multiagent Planning as a Social Process: Voting, Privacy, and Manipulation" Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Institute of Computer Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem "What We Talk About When We Talk About Agents" Yoav Shoham, Computer Science Dept., Stanford University "Coordination of Multiple Intelligent Agents in the Infosphere" Katia Sycara, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University =========================================================== LIST OF PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED IN THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM: FORMAL APPROACHES (12) - - - - - - - - - - - Game Theoretic Approaches (6) Formal agent Frameworks (2) Reasoning about Knowledge and Belief (4) AGENT SOCIETIES (8) - - - - - - - - - - Multi-agent, Collaborative Interfaces (3) Emergent Behaviors (2) Social Commitment (3) BUILDING AGENTS: TOOLS FOR SPECIFICATION AND COORDINATION (10) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Testbeds and Specification Tools (4) Coordination Tools (3) KQML (3) APPLICATIONS (8) - - - - - - - - General Applications (4) Robotics (4) DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS (10) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Multi-Agent Planning (4) Distributed Search (4) Distributed Constraint Satisfaction (4) MARKET-BASED APPROACHES (5) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Market-based Coordination (3) Resource Contention (2) =========================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - FORMAL APPROACHES (12) - - - - - - - - - - - GAME THEORETIC APPROACHES (6) Time and the prisoner's dilemma Yishay Mor and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Introducing Blind Hunger Dilemma C. Numaoka Coordination without Communication: Experimental Validation of Focal Point Techniques M. Fenster, S. Kraus, J. S. Rosenchein A Game-Theoretic Account of Cooperation in Communication K. Hasida, K. Nagao, and T. Miyata A Rigorous, Operational Formalization of Recursive Modeling Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz and Edmund H. Durfee Recursive Agent Modeling using Limited Rationality Jose M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee FORMAL AGENT FRAMEWORKS (2) A Formal Framework for Agency and Autonomy Michael Luck and Mark d'Inverno BDI Agents: from theory to practice A. Rao and M. Georgeff REASONING ABOUT KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF (4) Generalised Proof-theoretic Multi-agent Autoepistemic Reasoning Yongyuth Aramkulchai and Y.J.Jiang Multiagent Reasoning with Belief Contexts II: Elaboration Tolerance A. Cimatti, L. Serafini Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Interactions A. Haddadi Reasoning about belief based on common knowledge of observability of actions Hideki Isozaki - - - - - - - - - - AGENT SOCIETIES (8) - - - - - - - - - - MULTIAGENT, COLLABORATIVE INTERFACES (3) Multiagent collaboration in directed improvisation B. Hayes-Roth and L. Brownston Communication for conflict resolution in multi-agent collaborative planning Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Sandra Carberry PARAgente: Exploring the Issues in Agent-Based User Interfaces J. A. Sanchez, F.S. Azevedo, & J.J. Leggett EMERGENT BEHAVIORS (2) The Emergence of Cooperation in a Society of Autonomous Agents Akira Ito and Hiroyuki Yano Understanding the Emergence of Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems A. Walker, M.Wooldridge SOCIAL COMMITMENT (3) Commitments: from individual intentions to groups and organizations Cristiano Castelfranchi Deciding when to commit to action during observation-based coordination Marcus J. Huber and Edmund H. Durfee Exploiting Social Reasoning to Deal with Agency Level Inconsistency J. Sichman and Y. Demazeau - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BUILDING AGENTS: TOOLS FOR SPECIFICATION AND COORDINATION (10) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TESTBEDS AND SPECIFICATION TOOLS (4) Formal Specification of Multi-Agent Systems: a Real-World Case F. Brazier, B. Dunin-Keplicz, N. Jennings, J. Treur How Agents Do It In Stream Logic Programming Matthew M Huntbach, Nick R Jennings and Graem A Ringwood The DRESUN Testbed for Research in FA/C Distributed Situation Assessment: Extensions to the Model of External Evidence N. Carver and V. Lesser Understanding Cooperation: an Agent's Perspective Andreas Lux, Donald Steiner COORDINATION TOOLS (3) Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms Keith Decker and Victor Lesser A Tool For Coordinating Autonomous Agents With Conflicting Goals Love Ekenberg, Magnus Boman, Mats Danielson A Cooperation Language Michael Kolb KQML (3) Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque COOL: A Language for Describing Coordination in Multiagent Systems Mihai Barbuceanu and Mark S. Fox On using KQML for Matchmaking Daniel Kuokka and Larry Harada - - - - - - - - APPLICATIONS (8) - - - - - - - - GENERAL APPLICATIONS (4) A Multi-Agent Intelligent Design System Integrating Manufacturing and Shop-Floor Control Sivaram Balasubramanian and Douglas H. Norrie A Model For Cooperative Transportation Scheduling K. Fischer, J.P.Mueller, M. Pischel A Multiagent System for Controlling Building Environments B. A. Huberman and S. H. Clearwater DIDE: A Multi-Agent Environment for Engineering Design Weiming Shen, Jean-Paul Barthes ROBOTICS (4) Motor Schema-based Formation Control for Multiagent Robot Teams Tucker Balch and Ronald C. Arkin Unsupervised Multi-Agent Exploration Of Structured Environments Dario Maio, Stefano Rizzi Recursive Agent and Agent-Group Tracking in a Real-time Dynamic Environment Milind Tambe Hierarchical and Lateral Coordination in MAS : An analysis of Message Traffic Flow Alois Knoll, J. Meinkoehn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS (10) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MULTI-AGENT PLANNING (4) A Tractable Heuristic That Maximizes Global Utility Through Local Plan Combination Eithan Ephrati, Martha Pollack, and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Synchronizing Multiagent Plans using Temporal Logic Specifications Froduald Kabanza A Metalevel Coordination Strategy for Reactive Cooperative Planning E. Osawa Reusing past plans in distributed planning Toshiharu Sugawara DISTRIBUTED SEARCH (4) Knowledge-Based Distributed Search Using Teamwork Joerg Denzinger Two is not Always Better than One: Organizational Performance Issues in Real-Time Bidirectional Search Toru Ishida Unsupervised Surrogate Agents and Search Bias Change in Flexible Distributed Scheduling Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee Distributed Scheduling of Multiagent Communication Y. Xiang DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION (4) Forming Coalitions for Breaking Deadlocks Katsutoshi Hirayama and Jun'ichi Toyoda Exploiting Problem Structure for Distributed Constaint Optimization JyiShane Liu and Katia Sycara - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MARKET-BASED APPROACHES (5) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MARKET-BASED COORDINATION (3) A Simple Computational Market for Network Information Services T. Mullen and P. Wellman Issues in Automated Negotiation and Electronic Commerce: Extending the Contract Net Framework Tuomas Sandholm and Victor Lesser Self Organizational Approach for Integration of Distributed Expert Systems Tatsuaki Itoh, Takashi Watanabe, and Takahira Yamaguchi RESOURCE CONTENTION (2) Dilemmas in computational societies N.S. Glance and T. Hogg Resource contention in multiagent systems M. Youssefmir and B.A. Huberman From grele@quark.arl.psu.edu Mon May 15 13:08:28 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA28915 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:08:27 -0500 Received: from genesis.ait.psu.edu (genesis.ait.psu.edu [146.186.142.4]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA18062 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:08:24 -0500 Received: from rlw6pc.arl.psu.edu (rlw6pc.arl.psu.edu [128.118.19.107]) by genesis.ait.psu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA08835 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 14:08:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 14:08:06 -0400 Message-Id: <199505151808.OAA08835@genesis.ait.psu.edu> X-Sender: grele@quark.arl.psu.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: grele@quark.arl.psu.edu (Eric Grele) Subject: Faculty positions at Penn State Applied Research Lab PA,OH,DC I'm posting this for my boss. Please send any replies to her. The Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University is seeking applications from technology leaders for the Information Systems Department, in one or more of the following Data and Process Modeling Standards and Protocols for the National Information Infrastructure Interoperability Architectures Computer Networking and related areas. Current research in the department is focused on establishing a national testbed for Remote Equipment Diagnostics, Defense Enterprise Integration, Distributed Interactive Simulation for Command and Control and manufacturing applications. A technical background in wide area networking, data and process modeling, discrete event control, database design or information systems architectures is relevant. A completed Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, computer science or related fields is desired. Also specialized backgrounds in information security or emerging information technologies for training systems design are desirable. Several positions are available at the main university campus in State College, in the Washington D.C. area and in Dayton, Ohio. For more information on these faculty positions please send a copy of your resume to Dr. Shashi Phoha, Head, Information Systems Department , The Applied Research Laboratory, Penn State University, P O Box 30 State College, Pa. 16804, telephone 814 863 8005 or fax 814 865 7097. Shashi Phoha sxp26@psu.edu Applied Research Laboratory Office (814) 863 8005 FAX (814) 865 7097 grele@quark.arl.psu.edu 814-863-9409 From grele@quark.arl.psu.edu Mon May 15 13:09:23 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA28947 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:09:23 -0500 Received: from genesis.ait.psu.edu (genesis.ait.psu.edu [146.186.142.4]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA18076 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:09:18 -0500 Received: from rlw6pc.arl.psu.edu (rlw6pc.arl.psu.edu [128.118.19.107]) by genesis.ait.psu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA11175 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 14:09:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 14:09:07 -0400 Message-Id: <199505151809.OAA11175@genesis.ait.psu.edu> X-Sender: grele@quark.arl.psu.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: grele@quark.arl.psu.edu (Eric Grele) Subject: Program Manager and other positions at ARL/PSU in the DC area I'm posting this for my boss. Please send any replies to her. Applications are invited for program management and technical positions in the Washington D.C. area for supporting programs in Information Systems at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) of Pennsylvania State University. ARL offices are located in Crystal City, Va. Current work in the department of Information Sciences is focused on establishing a national testbed for Remote Equipment Diagnostics, Defense Enterprise Integration, Distributed Interactive Simulation for Command and Control and manufacturing applications. Minimum qualifications are a masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field and ten years experience in managing programs in Defense Information Systems or Command and Control. A technical background relating to wide area networking, data and process modeling, interoperability, database design or information systems architectures is desirable. For more information on this position please send a copy of your resume to Dr. Shashi Phoha Head, Information Systems Department The Applied Research Laboratory, Penn State University State College, Pa. 16804 Shashi Phoha sxp26@psu.edu Applied Research Laboratory Office (814) 863 8005 FAX (814) 863 7097 grele@quark.arl.psu.edu 814-863-9409 From M.J.Johnson@qmw.ac.uk Mon May 15 13:36:03 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA29547 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:36:02 -0500 Received: from epsilon.qmw.ac.uk (epsilon.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.6.3]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA18245 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:35:50 -0500 Received: from fred.elec.qmw.ac.uk by epsilon.qmw.ac.uk with SMTP-DNS (PP) id <04305-0@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>; Mon, 15 May 1995 19:35:01 +0100 Received: by fred.elec.qmw.ac.uk (smail) id ; Mon, 15 May 95 19:29 BST Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 19:29:25 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Johnson Subject: Automatic info model integration - can you donate your info models? To: srkb@cs.umbc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Automatic Semantic Unification of Disparate Information Models -------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings all, I am working in the area of heterogeneous information systems, specificaly, I am trying to use iterative graph matching techniques to bring semantic unification (as defined in Enterprise Integration Modelling) to disparate information models. This work is being carried out in the context of an agent based intelligent information infrastructure - ADEPT, a UK DTI funded research project with BT, ICI, QMW, and Loughbourough U. You can find out more via my homepage (see URL below). What I need now are some real information models to experiment with! By information model I mean any kind of model, from highly logical global ontologies, to simple database schema. The sort of thing that may be most suitable would a pair of ER models of the databases of some company, eg one from the purchasing department and one from the production department. If you can supply me with two or more info models, with some overlap in what they are modelling, please get in touch. If you are interested to find out more about this work, or maybe you'd like to compare results, please don't hesitate to send me an email. Thankyou for your time. Mark Johnson Department of Electronic Engineering tel: +44-171-975-5354 Queen Mary and Westfield College, U. of London fax: +44-181-981-0259 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. M.J.Johnson@qmw.ac.uk --- URL: http://www.elec.qmw.ac.uk/~markj/homepage.html --- From ARAHIM@delphi.com Mon May 15 19:02:07 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA05000 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 19:02:07 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1h.delphi.com (bos1h.delphi.com [192.80.63.10]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA19581 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 19:02:05 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #7804) id <01HQJLRTX5DE8ZQQT4@delphi.com>; Mon, 15 May 1995 20:02:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 20:02:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: IJOA special issue on OL To: all-iceimt@einet.net Message-id: <01HQJLRTX5DG8ZQQT4@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: INTERNET"all-iceimt@einet.net" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT International Journal of Organizational Analysis Special Issue on Organizational Learning The International Journal of Organizational Analysis is soliciting original theoretical & empirical papers for its Second Special Issue on ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING. Papers can relate to any aspect of organizational learning & must be received by November 15, 1995. This issue is scheduled for publication in October 1996. Manuscripts must be prepared strictly according to the 1994 edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association & will be reviewed by double-blind review process. Four copies of the manuscripts & requests for other details should be addressed to the editor: Dr. Afzal Rahim, Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt, 1574 Mallory Court, Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA, Phone & Fax: 502-782-2601, E- Mail: Arahim@delphi.com From ARAHIM@delphi.com Mon May 22 22:34:01 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA08902 for ; Mon, 22 May 1995 22:34:00 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1h.delphi.com (bos1h.delphi.com [192.80.63.10]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA15446 for ; Mon, 22 May 1995 22:33:59 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #7804) id <01HQTL7ZCWN48ZTCOU@delphi.com>; Mon, 22 May 1995 23:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 23:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: IJOA special issue on OL To: all-iceimt@einet.net Message-id: <01HQTL7ZCWN68ZTCOU@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: INTERNET"all-iceimt@einet.net" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The International Journal of Organizational Analysis Second special issue on ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE The IJOA will publish a second symposium in the series on Organization Development and Change. Direct all manuscripts to: Robert T. Golembiewski Department of Political Science Baldwin Hall University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Phone/Fax: 706+542+2970/4421 Manuscripts must be prepared according to the 1994 edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and will be reviewed by double-blind review process. Manuscripts must be received by August 30, 1995. Decisions will be made promptly and publication will follow. Requests for other details should be addressed to Afzal Rahim, Editor, IJOA, Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt, 1574 Mallory Court, Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA, Phone & Fax: 502+782+2601, E+Mail: Arahim@delphi.com If you want a complimentary copy of the journal, please send a self-addressed and stamped ($1.08 for US, $1.20 for Canada, & $1.36 for other countries) manila 10.5" X 7.5" envelope. From A.J.C.Blyth@newcastle.ac.uk Fri May 26 03:24:10 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA17670 for ; Fri, 26 May 1995 03:24:10 -0500 Received: from cheviot.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.2.10]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA27217 for ; Fri, 26 May 1995 03:24:03 -0500 Received: from chopwell.ncl.ac.uk by cheviot.ncl.ac.uk id (8.6.10/ for ncl.ac.uk) with SMTP; Fri, 26 May 1995 09:24:01 +0100 X-Sender: najcb@chopwell.ncl.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:23:41 +0000 To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: A.J.C.Blyth@newcastle.ac.uk (Andrew Blyth) Subject: Enterprise Modelling List Dear All, I am in the process of putting togther a list of references on Enterprise modelling tools, techniques, methods and notations on the Wed. The current list can be found at: "http://boulmer.ncl.ac.uk/people/a.j.c.blyth/home.formal/Research/enterprise .html" Can people let me have comments, corrections, suggestions and further references to add to the list. Regards Andrew. __________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Blyth Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU. England Tel No: +44 191 222 8504 E-Mail: A.J.C.Blyth@newcastle.ac.uk Fax No: +44 191 222 8232 WWW: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/a.j.c.blyth __________________________________________________________________________ From A.J.C.Blyth@newcastle.ac.uk Tue May 30 04:19:38 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA11488 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 04:19:23 -0500 Received: from cheviot.ncl.ac.uk (cheviot.ncl.ac.uk [128.240.2.10]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA07598 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 04:19:02 -0500 Received: from chopwell.ncl.ac.uk by cheviot.ncl.ac.uk id (8.6.10/ for ncl.ac.uk) with SMTP; Tue, 30 May 1995 10:17:26 +0100 X-Sender: najcb@chopwell.ncl.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 10:17:06 +0000 To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: A.J.C.Blyth@newcastle.ac.uk (Andrew Blyth) Subject: Contract List on Enterprise Modelling/Architectures etc... Dear All, I am also putting together a contact list of people, organisations and projects concerned with enterprise modelling, enterprise architectures etc. If you are interested in being added to this list then please let me know. Andrew. __________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Blyth Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU. England Tel No: +44 191 222 8504 E-Mail: A.J.C.Blyth@newcastle.ac.uk Fax No: +44 191 222 8232 WWW: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/a.j.c.blyth __________________________________________________________________________ From HANKINSO@BS1.PRC.COM Fri Jun 2 14:10:58 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA25248 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 14:10:57 -0500 Received: from uu3.psi.com (uu3.psi.com [38.145.250.2]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA21642 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 14:10:39 -0500 Received: from bs1.prc.com by uu3.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via SMTP; id AA23049 for all-iceimt@einet.net; Fri, 2 Jun 95 15:09:41 -0400 Received: by BS1.PRC.COM with Microsoft Mail id <2FCF8D26@BS1.PRC.COM>; Fri, 02 Jun 95 15:13:58 PDT From: "HANKINSON, TRICIA" To: "'EI Discussion Group'" Subject: CBD Announcement Date: Fri, 02 Jun 95 15:05:00 PDT Message-Id: <2FCF8D26@BS1.PRC.COM> Encoding: 191 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 FYI - the following CBD Announcement may be of interest to some on this list. Follow directions in the text for obtaining more information, do not contact poster. *TRANSTECH* SOL BAA 95-30 POC Grant E. *Mayberry* , Contracting Officer, (703)696-2438. The Advanced Research Projects Agency, Maritime Systems Technology Office, (ARPA MSTO) and Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office (ARPA SISTO), are soliciting proposals to meet the transportation and logistics planning and operations needs of the 21st century. This announcement constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) as contemplated in FAR 6.102 (d)(2)(i). Information in this CBD announcement is NOT complete. Prospective offerors MUST also refer to the Proposer Information Packet before submitting an abstract or a proposal.The goal of this new program, *TransTech*, is to investigate and demonstrate technologies that will make a fundamental difference in transportation. The program will capitalize on the revolutionary advances made in communications, simulation, planning, presentation, retrieval, and visualization technology, as well as seek mechanical systems to improve the intermodal system performance and efficiency. ARPA plans to establish a broad network linking transportation/ logistics suppliers and users giving our forces powerful new tools to efficiently and flexibly manage the transportation and logistics 'war' envisioned for the 21st century warfighter. *TransTech* will also support the development of systematic investment and policy decisions about our national civilian and military transportation infrastructure. This will facilitate improved decision making by military planners and ultimately permit us to meet the strategic mobility requirements for the next century. The *TransTech* program will be developed using revolutionary advances in key technologies of Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I), advanced design processes based on virtual prototyping and advanced modeling, high performance computing, distributed networking, and human computer interaction. The objectives of the *TransTech* program are to develop new technologies for the next century that will: (1) Allow distributed real-time visualization and interaction with all elements of the military and commercial transportation infrastructure. (2) Allow efficient and effective real time control, planning, replanning, and rehearsal of the movement of forces and materiel, both for deployment and re-deployment. (3) Allow decision makers at all levels, from operators to policy makers, to make and validate systematic investment and policy decisions about the transportation infrastructure. (4) Achieve Total Asset Visibility from factory to foxhole using advanced communications architectures, databases and Automated Identification Technologies (AIT). (5) Develop and demonstrate emerging enabling technologies to enhance transportation system performance especially the physical handling and packaging of cargo to meet throughput requirements at intermodal gateways, the mitigation of relative motion for amphibious operations in the Theater of Operations, and Automated Identification Technologies (AIT) for tracking assets. *TransTech* will focus development efforts in three areas defined below. Each area is of equal importance. Proposers, either individual or teamed, are encouraged to propose in any or all of these three areas. ARPA may select for award a subset of the acceptable proposals to construct a balanced program meeting its needs. It will not be necessary for proposers to have experience in military transportation and/or logistics. Proposers must be willing to cooperate and exchange information in an integrated program with other contractors and be willing to be assigned to a prime contractor, or integrator, chosen by ARPA. Pending approval of funding, a total of approximately $10M may be available in FY96 for funding multiple efforts. Size of awards and duration of efforts will vary according to the type of effort undertaken. Cost Plus Fixed Fee type contracts are anticipated to be awarded, however, offerors may propose other types. In the latter situation, ARPA will make a decision on a case by case basis choosing the type most advantageous to the Government. Area 1. TransWeb: TransWeb is defined as the communication network, software, hardware, and data architectures, standards, and protocols that allow distributed resources (users, data, applications and systems) to interact. TransWeb will enable a high fidelity synthetic environment that accurately depicts the national military and commercial transportation infrastructure. TransWeb will permit multiple users to access the same data (both real and simulated), view the same displays, and interact with the environment and one another. TransWeb will provide the integrating environment, permitting other transportation systems, models (for example: ports (air, land, sea), transport vehicles (ship, truck, rail, plane), cost, labor, combat support, environment (weather, pollution, etc.), and safety), and data to work together seamlessly and efficiently. An information services layer will allow the user in government or industry to access all distributed resources of TransWeb. The information will be assimilated and organized in a visual fashion. Area 2. Applications: The Applications area will include development of individual models and simulations that are used in planning and executing logistics and transportation operations, including Total Asset Visibility, as well as optimization routines. This area will also include applications for Infrastructure Investment Planning which will permit the transportation users and planners (including Congress, DoD, Department of Transportation, Municipal Planning Organizations, etc.) to make informed decisions regarding investment in the infrastructure. New models and simulations may be developed, along with standards for model interoperability and seamless data exchange, which must be closely coordinated with Area One TransWeb. Information gathering techniques for real time update of transport and infrastructure information will be developed, along with techniques for combining and displaying the data. Area 2A. Logistics Planning: Area 2A is the focus of the Logistics for the Warrior (LFW) program in SISTO. The goal of the LFW program is to build and deploy multi-echelon, collaborative logistical support tools that integrate planning, execution, monitoring and decision support systems to achieve logistical reallocation and redeployment within and between future combat theaters. To effectively support logistics planning, the concept of a logistics anchor desk (LAD) is being investigated. Essentially an anchor desk is a means of organizing resources to obtain access to multiple systems and decision aids that provide logistical information when it is needed and where it is needed. Further, it also provides the flexibility of determining how the information will be presented to support combat and mobilization operations. It is anticipated that LAD will be seamlessly integrated into TransWeb during the *TransTech* program. The LAD in the year 2001 would be a synthesizing facility capable of existing at various organizational command levels to provide distributed planning tools and expert ''virtual staff'' assistance to theater and deployed joint task force logistics staffs. The LAD would support mission rehearsal and refinement for the Joint Task Force (JTF) staff while enroute to the forward deployed JTF headquarters. Key aspects of the LAD are focused collaborative planning, real-time connections to defense logistics data sources and other LADs, and dynamically reconfigurable software. It is envisioned that the LAD would be capable of being dynamically configured to allow creation of customized information systems that can be individually configured without conventional reprogramming. Area 3. Critical Transport Technologies: The final area will identify and develop critical technologies focused at physical systems that will make a revolutionary and fundamental impact on intermodal system performance and efficiency. Technologies that are being considered for development include, but are not limited to: automated identification technology, global mobile communications, electronic data transfer, cargo handling technologies for port through-put, mitigation of relative motion technologies for on/off-load in unprotected waters, and packaging technologies. Proposals for technologies not listed above are also encouraged. Proposers, either individual or teamed, are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract of their proposed work. The purpose of this abstract is to preclude unwarranted effort on the part of an offeror. It is not a requirement for submission or selection of proposal. Any offeror whose abstract is found to be consistent with the intent of this BAA will be invited to submit a full technical and cost proposal. Such an invitation does not assure subsequent contract award. Regardless of the recommendation, the decision to submit or not submit a proposal is the responsibility of the party submitting the abstract. No award can be made without a proposal to perform the specific effort within an estimated cost and time framework. ARPA will evaluate proposals and make contract awards within a reasonable period of time after receipt. Proposals and abstracts will be selected through a technical/scientific/business decision process with technical and scientific considerations being most important. Proposals and abstracts submitted in a technical area are evaluated only within that area, based on their own technical merit. ARPA will evaluate proposals and make contract awards within a reasonable period of time after receipt. Evaluations will be performed using the following criteria which are the same for each area and are listed in descending order of relative importance, criteria 1 and 2 are of greatest weight, and are equal in weight to each other; criteria 3 is of significantly lesser weight than criteria 1 or 2; criteria 4 is of lesser weight than criteria 3; criteria 5 and 6 are of least weight, but are equal in weight to each other. (1) Innovation, (2) Relevance of work proposed, (3) Technical Approach, (4) Defensibility of the overall estimated cost, (5) Facilities, capabilities, and related experience, (6) Personnel in primary and subcontractor organizations. An automated-response system has been established at ARPA to provide rapid electronic information exchange regarding technical questions, as well as the Proposer Information Packet (PIP). The following describes how this system operates: (a) This System is Case Sensitive, Therefore All Commands Should Be Written In Lower Case, (b) For information on how to use this system, send an email message to baa-info@arpa.mil with the message field containing ''info baa95-30'', and the text of the instruction file will be sent by return email, (c) To obtain a copy of the Proposer Information Packet (PIP), send an email message to baa-info@arpa.mil with the message field containing ''get baa95-30 pip'' and the text of the PIP will be sent by return email, (d) To obtain a copy of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file send an email message to baa-info@arpa.mil with the message field containing ''get baa95-30 faq'' and the text of the FAQ file will be sent by return email, (e) To ask a technical question regarding the BAA, send an email message to baa95-30@arpa.mil with your question in the message field and ARPA will answer it by return email, and both the question and answer (without the name of originator) will be appended to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file. The preferred method for obtaining the PIP, FAQ and asking technical questions is by automated response email. Technical questions will only be responded to in writing. If the offeror does not have access to email, information requests or technical questions may be sent by FAX to 703-696-2204, Attention: BAA 95-30. If the offeror does not have access to either email or a FAX machine, written requests or questions may be sent to: ARPA MSTO, Attn: BAA 95-30 INFORMATION, 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203. Questions of a contractual nature shall be directed to Mr. Grant *Mayberry*, ARPA, Contract Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203, or via phone at 703-696-2438. Abstracts and Proposals Sent by Fax or E-mail Will Be Destroyed. There will be no formal request for proposals or other solicitations regarding this announcement. This BAA is open for 1 year after its appearance in the Commerce Business Daily. Abstracts are due by 30 June 1995. Abstracts received after that date will be evaluated, but may not be considered during the initial round of evaluations. Proposals should be submitted no later than 11 September 1995. Proposals received after that date will be evaluated, but may not be considered during the initial evaluation period. (0146) SPONSOR: Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Contracts Management Office (CMO), 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714 SUBFILE: PSE (U.S. GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENTS, SERVICES) SECTION HEADING: A Research and Development PUBLICATION DATE: MAY 31, 1995 ISSUE: PSA-1357 From ARAHIM@delphi.com Tue Jun 6 22:53:19 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA27327 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 22:52:53 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1h.delphi.com (bos1h.delphi.com [192.80.63.10]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA09062 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 22:52:47 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #10880) id <01HREK8P2P4W9QVG8F@delphi.com>; Tue, 06 Jun 1995 23:52:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 23:52:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: IJOA Contents, Vol. 3, No. 2 To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bets-l@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, isorg-l@albany.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HREK8P2YS29QVG8F@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The International Journal of Organizational Analysis 1995 Vol. 3, No. 2 (April), pp. 117+222 CONTENTS Effective Hospital Administration: Linking Strategies With Work Redesign by Mary Crabtree Tonges & T. K. Das Participation in American versus JIT Systems: Is It the Same? by Jin H. Im, Sandra Hartman, & Robert Folger Employee Grievances: An Application of the Leader- Member Exchange Model by Kelly L. Cleyman, Steve M. Jex, & Kevin G. Love Relationships of Environmental Characteristics, Formalized Planning, and Organizational Design to Performance by Peter A. Stanwick & Larry P. Pleshko Teaching Note Working 9 to 5: the Use of Film/Video Analysis as an Adaptation of the Case Study Method in Teaching Organizational Behavior by Lynda R. Willer Book Reviews Cross-Cultural Problems in International Business: The Role of the Cultural Integration Function by Robert C. Maddox. Reviewed by Susan Key The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken. Reviewed by Christa Walck Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Workforce by Jeffrey Pfeffer. Reviewed by Patrick M. Wright Leadership and the New Science by Margaret J. Wheatley. Reviewed by Eugene L. Donohue Controversies in Management by Alan Berkeley Thomas. Reviewed by Stephen Linstead Note: The IJOA is soliciting original theoretical and empirical papers which must be prepared strictly according to the 1994 edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and will be reviewed by double-blind review process. Four copies of the manuscripts and requests for other details should be addressed to the Editor, Afzal Rahim, Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt, 1574 Mallory Court, Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA, Phone & Fax: 502+782+2601, E-Mail: Arahim@delphi.com. If you want a complimentary copy of the journal, send a self-addressed and stamped ($1.08 US, $1.20 Canada, and $1.36 other countries) manila envelope (10.5" X 7.5") to the above address. From <@mail.wkap.com:anne.scanlan@wkap.com> Wed Jun 7 11:09:42 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA08531 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:09:42 -0500 Received: from nic.near.net (nic.near.net [192.52.71.4]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA11308 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:09:41 -0500 Received: from mail.wkap.com by nic.near.net id aa00382; 7 Jun 95 12:09 EDT Received: from cc:Mail by mail.wkap.com id AA802552742; Wed, 07 Jun 95 12:18:42 EST Date: Wed, 07 Jun 95 12:18:42 EST From: anne.scanlan@wkap.com Encoding: 0 Text, 64 Text Message-Id: <9505078025.AA802552742@mail.wkap.com> To: all-iceimt@einet.net CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTATIONAL & MATHEMATICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY (Autumn 1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers) Editors: Kathleen M. CARLEY, Carnegie Mellon University, USA William A. WALLACE, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, USA Aims and Scope: The aim of this journal is to provide an international forum for research that advances organizational theory and analysis through the use of computational and mathematical techniques. The journal will present a new perspective on organizational research that extends the traditional mathematical approach to formal organizational theory by including computer simulation, logic, and artificial intelligence. This journal will provide a home for organizational research from multiple disciplines, where that research focuses on organizations as collections of intelligent agents. We envision that the papers will fall into roughly four categories: (1) theory development through mathematical and computational analyses, (2) social network analysis as applied to organizations, (3) empirical testing of mathematical and computational models (4) mathematical or computational methods for analyzing empirical data A number of the studies across these four categories will focus on the process by which organizations operate and evolve. In addition, many of the studies will bring together both micro (organizational behavior) and macro (institutional and environmental) factors in the analysis of organizations. The editors also encourage applied research representing actual organizational problems and issues on specific industries. Finally, the journal will publish special issues on focused topics; possible topics include, but are not limited to, computational organizational design, organizational evolution, organizations of intelligent agents, emotions in organizations, and organizations and crises. The journal will also provide a didactic service. A section of the journal (a few pages per issue) will be devoted to tutorial papers. Examples of such papers would include how to check the robustness of a simulation, details of the differences between different types of systems, how to use simulations to determine what human experiments to run. Instructions for Submissions ############################# Five copies of the submitted manuscript and a 100-300 word abstract should be forwarded to: Kelly Riddle/CMOT Journal Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive Norwell, MA 02061 phone: 617-871-6600 fax: 617-871-6528 e-mail: krkluwer@world.std.com Ordering Instructions ###################### To request a free sample copy of the first issue, contact: askluwer@world.std.com. From aomgt@infi.net Tue Jun 13 06:37:01 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA11925 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:37:00 -0500 Received: from larry.infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.114]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA03526 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:36:59 -0500 Received: from aomgt by larry.infi.net with SMTP (8.6.12/Server1.14) id HAA24577; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 07:37:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199506131137.HAA24577@larry.infi.net> Sender: From: "Association of Management (AoM)" Organization: mailhost.infi.net To: all-iceimt@einet.net Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:29:27 -0500 Subject: AoM Red Eye Call for Completed Camera-Ready Papers Reply-to: aomgt@infi.net Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) AoM RED EYE CALL FOR COMPLETED CAMERA-READY PAPERS June 28th Postmarked Deadline The Association of Management (AoM) has 18 spaces available for paper presentation, and proceedings publication in its forthcoming August 2-5, 1995, 13th Annual International Conference being held at the Waterfront Centre Hotel in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The referee committee will accept two copies of finished camera-ready, single-spaced manuscripts ( 6-10 pages) for internal blind review up until June 28th, 1995 (postmarked date). Accepted manuscripts will be published in both the AoM electronic proceedings publication and the traditional bound AoM proceedings book. Manuscripts are to be accompanied by a disk done in MSWord or WordPerfect. The disk will be used for electronic publication. Categories of interest are: human resource management, organizational management, educational related topics, business, management functions and applications, transportation, computer machinery, information technology, information systems, information resources, leadership and leaders, global health and ecology and multidisciplinary topics related to all of the above. Interested persons should contact , Dr. Stephen LeMah for information, instructions and conference materials inclusive of registration fees, hotel reservation rates and so forth. Two copies each of your COMPLETED manuscripts and their disks may be sent to: Dr. Stephen LeMah, Chairperson Association of Mangement (AoM) Blind Review Committee 5309 Sidney Court, P. O. Box 64841 Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464-0841 USA Tel: 804-479-5363 Fax: 804-479-0656 Internet email: From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Mon Jun 19 17:22:05 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA04883 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 17:22:05 -0500 Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU (bimini.Stanford.EDU [36.93.0.36]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA29140 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 17:22:03 -0500 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA11986; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 14:33:23 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 14:33:23 -0700 From: Charles Petrie Message-Id: <199506192133.OAA11986@bimini.Stanford.EDU> To: share@cdr.stanford.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, agents@sun.com engineering-design@mailbase.ac.uk, afsaneh@dbresearch-berlin.de, Juergen Paulokat , Yumi Iwasaki , made-again@eit.com, Adam Farquhar , Esther Gelle , seliger@aic.hrl.hac.com, pkhosla@arpa.mil, Carolyn Valiquette , brereton@cdr.stanford.edu, smith@lia.di.epfl.ch, Donald Steiner , sfinger@ri.cmu.edu, guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de, reis@cis.Stanford.edu, shade@HPP.Stanford.EDU, dellen@informatik.uni-kl.de, ramesh@nps.navy.mil, robert@ai.univie.ac.at, sun@dbresearch-berlin.de, rneches@arpa.mil, artg@vnet.ibm.com, gio@db.stanford.edu, jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu, lesk@bellcore.bellcore.com, malone@mit.edu, will@isi.edu, scross@cs.cmu.edu, lesser@cs.umass.edu, rhayes-roth@alfred.teknowledge.com, chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu, bobrow@parc.xerox.com Cc: dcb@owl.WPI.EDU, lander@cs.umass.edu Subject: 2nd CFP - CERA - Concurrent Engineering Reply-to: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) ************* Second Call For Papers ******************* ************************************************* CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: Research and Applications ================================================= (CERA) -- An International Journal ================================== SPECIAL ISSUE on: +++++++++++++++++ "The Application of Multi-agent Systems to Concurrent Engineering" ****************************************************************** Abstracts DEADLINE: July 15, 1995 GUEST EDITORS +++++++++++++ David C. Brown Professor Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 01609 Susan Lander Staff Scientist Blackboard Technology Group 401 Main Street Amherst, MA 01002. Charles Petrie Senior Research Associate Center for Design Research Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2232 TOPIC +++++ Concurrent Engineering (CE) is concerned with making better products in less time. A basic tenet of the approach is that all aspects of the product's life-cycle should be considered as early as possible in the design-to-manufacturing process. For example, this allows Recycling to be considered at product design time. Early consideration of later phases of the life-cycle brings to light problems that will occur downstream and, therefore, supports intelligent and informed decision-making throughout the process. Thus, considering packaging and distribution during product design would allow package design to proceed more-or-less concurrently. A key idea for implementing CE is the use of teams in which each member (either human or computational) is an expert on some aspect of the product in a phase of its life-cycle. The diversity of team members produces significant challenges in maintaining effective communication and providing appropriate computational support. Members may be geographically distributed, have different terminology, perspectives and goals, and may interact through a heterogeneous mix of computer platforms. Software agents may be primary members of a team, in which case the agents do product and process design. Alternatively, software agents may act in a support role, for example as communication specialists, mediators, translators, managers, tool specialists, schedulers, coordinators, and retrievers of information. We will consider papers that discuss infrastructure issues (for example, architectures for supporting virtual teams, decision-support tools, and design rationale) as well as those that concentrate on more theoretical issues (for example, specifications of shared languages, constraint-based problem solving, and negotiation). Papers are requested on topics concerned with multi-agent systems that support and enhance the CE process. In particular, we are soliciting papers concerned with the role of multi-agent systems in the early consideration of all aspects of a product's life-cycle, and the role of multi-agent systems in support of concurrent decision-making. All papers should comment on their contribution to these issues. THE JOURNAL +++++++++++ CERA is an international journal published quarterly by Technomic Publishing Inc. whose purpose is to provide a forum for the dissemination of multidisciplinary scientific work on Concurrent Engineering based on computer technologies. It is an official journal of the Concurrent Engineering Institute of the International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE). Subscription and other information can be obtained by contacting: CERA Managing Editor, CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA. Fax: (313) 661 8333: Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com See the CERA web page for more information about the journal. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Manuscripts should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length including all figures and references. Papers must not have been previously published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Initial abstracts and manuscripts should have a title page including the authors' full names, affiliations, physical and email addresses. Papers must be double spaced, single-sided, on 8.5" x 11" paper, with 1" margins all around, in a 12 point font. Final manuscripts must meet the guidelines for the CERA Journal set forth by CERA Institute -- these appear inside the back cover of the journal and on the CERA authors instructions web page. Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Papers that cannot be accomodated in this special issue, or that do not match the topics relevant for this special issue, will be considered for the Proceedings of the Third International Concurrent Engineering Research & Applications Conference scheduled for August, 1996. SCHEDULE ++++++++ o 1 to 2 page abstract due before July 15, 1995 o Five copies of full manuscript due August 15, 1995 o Notification of acceptance September 15, 1995 o Final version of manuscript due November 15, 1995 o Send to publisher December 1, 1995 o Special Issue March, 1996 SUBMISSIONS +++++++++++ Please submit your abstract via email to all three guest editors: David Brown Susan Lander Charles Petrie dcb@cs.wpi.edu lander@cs.umass.edu petrie@cdr.stanford.edu lander@bbtech.com Please submit your manuscripts to: Dr. David C. Brown CERA Special Issue Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Rd. Worcester, MA 01609 Phone: (508) 831-5618 FAX: (508) 831-5776 Email: dcb@cs.wpi.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This page, with embedded links to information about CERA, is available as: http://cs.wpi.edu/~dcb/CERA/CFP.html ____________________________________________________________________________ From ARAHIM@delphi.com Mon Jun 19 22:43:36 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA09732 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 22:43:23 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1g.delphi.com (bos1g.delphi.com [192.80.63.9]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA00966 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 22:43:21 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #10880) id <01HRWPOXARZ68ZHFA2@delphi.com>; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:43:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:43:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: IJOA special issue on OL To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HRWPOXB1MS8ZHFA2@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The International Journal of Organizational Analysis Second Special Issues on Organizational Learning After we announced the above issue for the IJOA, we were delighted to receive a number of inquiries. Our responses to these inquiries are as follows: 1. Can you send me a copy of the APA style guide for authors? The Publication Manual (4th ed., 1994) of the American Psychological Association is available from the APA Order Department, P.O. Box 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784 (in US) or American Psychological Association, 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8LU, England (in Europe). 2. What types of manuscripts are you looking for? Manuscripts may relate to any topic on organizational learning, but should be different from the ones published in our First Special Issue on Organizational Learning (Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1995). 3. How can I send postage ($1.36) for receiving a complimentary copy of the IJOA? You can send international postal coupons. 4. What happens if my paper does not fit your special issue? If the quality of your paper is good, but it does not fit our special issue, we will publish it in one of our regular issues. Please read the articles from our special issue on OL for preparing your final manuscript. We need four clean copies of your paper with a cover letter. The cover letter should indicate that your paper has not been submitted concurrently to other journals and will not be submitted elsewhere during our review. Our review process takes about 6-8 weeks. Dr. Afzal Rahim, Editor, IJOA, Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt, 1574 Mallory Court, Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA, Phone & Fax: 502+782+2601, E+Mail: Arahim@delphi.com From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Thu Jun 22 13:24:50 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA04015 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 13:24:50 -0500 Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU (bimini.Stanford.EDU [36.93.0.36]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA16607 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 13:24:49 -0500 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA13461; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 11:24:47 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 11:24:47 -0700 From: Charles Petrie Message-Id: <199506221824.LAA13461@bimini.Stanford.EDU> To: share@cdr.stanford.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, agents@sun.com engineering-design@mailbase.ac.uk, afsaneh@dbresearch-berlin.de, Juergen Paulokat , Yumi Iwasaki , made-again@eit.com, Adam Farquhar , Esther Gelle , seliger@aic.hrl.hac.com, pkhosla@arpa.mil, Carolyn Valiquette , brereton@cdr.stanford.edu, smith@lia.di.epfl.ch, Donald Steiner , sfinger@ri.cmu.edu, guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de, reis@cis.Stanford.edu, shade@HPP.Stanford.EDU, dellen@informatik.uni-kl.de, ramesh@nps.navy.mil, robert@ai.univie.ac.at, sun@dbresearch-berlin.de, rneches@arpa.mil, artg@vnet.ibm.com, gio@db.stanford.edu, jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu, lesk@bellcore.bellcore.com, malone@mit.edu, will@isi.edu, scross@cs.cmu.edu, lesser@cs.umass.edu, rhayes-roth@alfred.teknowledge.com, chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu, bobrow@parc.xerox.com Cc: dcb@owl.WPI.EDU, lander@cs.umass.edu Subject: 2nd CFP - CERA - Concurrent Engineering Reply-to: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) ************* Second Call For Papers ******************* CERA Journal Special Issue -- Call For Papers "The Application of Multi-agent Systems to Concurrent Engineering" See web page http://cs.wpi.edu/~dcb/CERA/CFP.html or contact an editor. 1-2 page Abstract due July 15, 1995. Co-editors: David Brown Susan Lander Charles Petrie dcb@cs.wpi.edu lander@bbtech.com petrie@cdr.stanford.edu ***************long CFP with details***************************** CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: Research and Applications ================================================= (CERA) -- An International Journal ================================== SPECIAL ISSUE on: +++++++++++++++++ "The Application of Multi-agent Systems to Concurrent Engineering" ****************************************************************** Abstracts DEADLINE: July 15, 1995 GUEST EDITORS +++++++++++++ David C. Brown Professor Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 01609 Susan Lander Staff Scientist Blackboard Technology Group 401 Main Street Amherst, MA 01002. Charles Petrie Senior Research Associate Center for Design Research Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2232 TOPIC +++++ Concurrent Engineering (CE) is concerned with making better products in less time. A basic tenet of the approach is that all aspects of the product's life-cycle should be considered as early as possible in the design-to-manufacturing process. For example, this allows Recycling to be considered at product design time. Early consideration of later phases of the life-cycle brings to light problems that will occur downstream and, therefore, supports intelligent and informed decision-making throughout the process. Thus, considering packaging and distribution during product design would allow package design to proceed more-or-less concurrently. A key idea for implementing CE is the use of teams in which each member (either human or computational) is an expert on some aspect of the product in a phase of its life-cycle. The diversity of team members produces significant challenges in maintaining effective communication and providing appropriate computational support. Members may be geographically distributed, have different terminology, perspectives and goals, and may interact through a heterogeneous mix of computer platforms. Software agents may be primary members of a team, in which case the agents do product and process design. Alternatively, software agents may act in a support role, for example as communication specialists, mediators, translators, managers, tool specialists, schedulers, coordinators, and retrievers of information. We will consider papers that discuss infrastructure issues (for example, architectures for supporting virtual teams, decision-support tools, and design rationale) as well as those that concentrate on more theoretical issues (for example, specifications of shared languages, constraint-based problem solving, and negotiation). Papers are requested on topics concerned with multi-agent systems that support and enhance the CE process. In particular, we are soliciting papers concerned with the role of multi-agent systems in the early consideration of all aspects of a product's life-cycle, and the role of multi-agent systems in support of concurrent decision-making. All papers should comment on their contribution to these issues. THE JOURNAL +++++++++++ CERA is an international journal published quarterly by Technomic Publishing Inc. whose purpose is to provide a forum for the dissemination of multidisciplinary scientific work on Concurrent Engineering based on computer technologies. It is an official journal of the Concurrent Engineering Institute of the International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE). Subscription and other information can be obtained by contacting: CERA Managing Editor, CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA. Fax: (313) 661 8333: Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com See the CERA web page for more information about the journal. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Manuscripts should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length including all figures and references. Papers must not have been previously published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Initial abstracts and manuscripts should have a title page including the authors' full names, affiliations, physical and email addresses. Papers must be double spaced, single-sided, on 8.5" x 11" paper, with 1" margins all around, in a 12 point font. Final manuscripts must meet the guidelines for the CERA Journal set forth by CERA Institute -- these appear inside the back cover of the journal and on the CERA authors instructions web page. Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Papers that cannot be accomodated in this special issue, or that do not match the topics relevant for this special issue, will be considered for the Proceedings of the Third International Concurrent Engineering Research & Applications Conference scheduled for August, 1996. SCHEDULE ++++++++ o 1 to 2 page abstract due before July 15, 1995 o Five copies of full manuscript due August 15, 1995 o Notification of acceptance September 15, 1995 o Final version of manuscript due November 15, 1995 o Send to publisher December 1, 1995 o Special Issue March, 1996 SUBMISSIONS +++++++++++ Please submit your abstract via email to all three guest editors: David Brown Susan Lander Charles Petrie dcb@cs.wpi.edu lander@cs.umass.edu petrie@cdr.stanford.edu lander@bbtech.com Please submit your manuscripts to: Dr. David C. Brown CERA Special Issue Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Rd. Worcester, MA 01609 Phone: (508) 831-5618 FAX: (508) 831-5776 Email: dcb@cs.wpi.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This page, with embedded links to information about CERA, is available as: http://cs.wpi.edu/~dcb/CERA/CFP.html ____________________________________________________________________________ From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Fri Jun 23 10:56:08 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA22289 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:56:07 -0500 From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Received: from CMSA.gmr.com (cmsa.gmr.com [129.124.100.32]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA22115 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:56:05 -0500 Message-Id: <199506231556.KAA22115@einet.net> Received: from AHIPC2S by CMSA.gmr.com (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5080; Fri, 23 Jun 95 11:54:05 EDT Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 11:54:05 EDT To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: "Multiagent in CE" CFP Reminder To: Interested in Multiagent Systems and Concurrent Engineering? Subject: "Multiagent in CE" CFP Reminder Friends: Just a Reminder ....... _____________________________________________________________________ CERA Journal Special Issue -- Call For Papers "The Application of Multi-agent Systems to Concurrent Engineering" See web page http://cs.wpi.edu/~dcb/CERA/CFP.html One-two page Abstract due July 15, 1995. Co-editors: David BrownººSusan LanderººCharles Petrie dcb@cs.wpi.eduººlander@bbtech.comºpetrie@cdr.stanford.edu ºº Managing Editor: Biren Prasad ;;; CERA Journal Info, or sample ISSUE request-- direct your enquiries to Managing Editor, CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254, W. Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA (810) 696-5487/ Fax: (810) 661-8333 ________________________________________________________________________ Note: CERA stands for "Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications" ________________________________________________________________________ BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com From ARAHIM@delphi.com Fri Jun 23 23:51:29 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA03656 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:49:59 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1h.delphi.com (bos1h.delphi.com [192.80.63.10]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA26029 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:49:57 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #10880) id <01HS2D6OPXMQ921EH8@delphi.com>; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 00:49:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 00:49:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Symposium on OD To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HS2D6OPXMS921EH8@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT International Journal of Organizational Analysis Second Symposium on OD After we announced the above issue for the IJOA, we were delighted to receive a number of inquiries. Our responses to these inquiries are as follows: 1. Can you send me a copy of the APA style guide for authors? The Publication Manual (4th ed., 1994) of the American Psychological Association is available from the APA Order Department, P.O. Box 2710, Hyattsville, MD 20784 (in US) or American Psychological Association, 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8LU, England (in Europe). 2. What types of manuscripts are you looking for? Manuscripts may relate to any topic on organization development and change, but should be different from the ones published in our First Symposium on OD (Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1995). 3. How can I send postage ($1.36) from outside the US for receiving a complimentary copy of the IJOA? You can send international postal coupons. 4. What happens if my paper does not fit your symposium? If the quality of your paper is good, but it does not fit our second symposium, we will publish it in one of our regular issues. Please read the articles from our first symposium on OD for preparing your final manuscript. We need four clean copies of your paper with a cover letter. The cover letter should indicate that your paper has not been submitted concurrently to other journals and will not be submitted elsewhere during our review. Our review process takes about 6-8 weeks. Dr. Afzal Rahim, Editor, IJOA, Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt, 1574 Mallory Court, Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA, Phone & Fax: 502+782+2601, E+Mail: Arahim@delphi.com From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Tue Jun 27 09:59:03 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA11986 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 09:59:03 -0500 From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Received: from CMSA.gmr.com (cmsa.gmr.com [129.124.100.32]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA11820 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 09:58:57 -0500 Message-Id: <199506271458.JAA11820@einet.net> Received: from AHIPC2S by CMSA.gmr.com (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6290; Tue, 27 Jun 95 10:56:48 EDT Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 10:56:47 EDT To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: A New Modeling and Simulation Journal To: Interested in Modeling and Simulation? Subject: A New Modeling and Simulation Journal A NEW JOURNAL FOR 1996.......... FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Hi! I have a pleasure to forward an announcement about a new Journal on COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION IN ENGINEERING (CMSE). The first issue is planned for March 1996. I am attaching herewith a brief description about this journal including its AIMS and SCOPE. If you are interested in (a) A Detailed Call for Papers (b) Instructions for Authors (Electronic Version) (c) Sample Copy of the CMSE J. (once published in 1996) (d) CMSE Subscription Information for 1996 (e) CMSE Journal Brochure and other Information Please do not hesitate to send your interest -- request (#) to the following person directly: Publisher or to the CMSE Editor Dr. S.N.Atluri or Dr. B. Prasad All Other Journal related enquiry should be forwarded to: the SAGE Publisher E-mail: Thanks for your interest Biren Prasad, Member Advisory Board, CMSE ********************************************************** COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION IN ENGINEERING (CMSE) ********************************************************** Editor: S.N.Atluri, Georgia Institute of Technology Editorial Advisory Board: S.Attaway, Sandia National Labs; K.J.Bathe, MIT; U.Chandra, CTC; G.Donohue, FAA; D.Etter, Univ.Colorado; M.T.Jenny, MITRE; R.Loewy, Georgia Inst. Technology; E.Onate, Univ.Barcelona; B.Prasad, EDS/GM/Delphi; V.Shankar, Rockwell Int; R.L. Spilker, Rennsselaer Polytechnic Inst.; J.Tracy, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace; G.N.Vanderplaats; G.Yagawa Univ. Tokyo. Aims and scope: The central aim of CMSE is to publish application-oriented papers that utilize computer modeling and simulation techniques in order to understand and resolve industrial problems or processes that are of immediate and contemporary interest. The scope of CMSE is broad since most real industrial problems do not fall into well- defined subject-oriented categories. Articles will address issues that include, but are not limited to the design, development and analysis of both natural and engineered solids, fluids, structures, materials and elements. Examples of specific topics may include: * integrated product and process design * structural and machine design * computational fluid dynamics * multidisciplinary design optimization * manufacturing processes * design of new materials E-mail: BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com Biren: This looks great. I corrected two typos in your intro, otherwise I think your changes are good. Let me know when you send out and I will forwarn Satya he may have to respond to the a-d choice requests. Once again many thanks Biren. Nigel BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com cc: SMTP --AHIPC2S From MELANIEB@terrill.unt.edu Tue Jul 4 13:09:12 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA05314 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 13:08:51 -0500 Received: from mercury.unt.edu (mercury.unt.edu [129.120.1.1]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA22255 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 13:08:47 -0500 Received: from terrill.unt.edu by mercury.unt.edu with SMTP id AA05282 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 4 Jul 1995 13:07:00 -0500 Received: from TERRILL/SpoolDir by terrill.unt.edu (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 4 Jul 95 13:07:30 CST6CDT Received: from SpoolDir by TERRILL (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 4 Jul 95 13:06:56 CST6CDT From: "MELANIE BULLOCK" Organization: University of North Texas To: mcclure@terrill.unt.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bets-l@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, familybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, csw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, ifip82-l@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu, isorg-l@albany.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, orgcult@commerce.uq.edu.au, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, tqment.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, aom@academy.pace.edu, goes@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu, melanieb@terrill.unt.edu, manpub-l@garnet.acns.fsu.edu, qualnet-net-l@bcvs.bc.edu, sethw@maine.maine.edu, taaj@lamar.colostate.edu, teamnet-l@terrill.unt.edu, zlarsh@lamar.colostate.edu, golden@scs.unt.edu Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 13:06:49 CST6CDT Subject: Call for Papers Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: <20FEDD2698E@terrill.unt.edu> Expanded Call for Papers Work Teams 1996 University of North Texas Symposium on Work Teams The fourth Annual UNT Symposium on Work Teams will focus on the broad topic of work teams and other collaborative work designs. Papers are invited for review on such team topics as: implementation and development, empowerment and maturity, leadership, culture transformation for team implementation, compensation and reward systems, typologies of teams, peer review, virtual teams, measuring performance, decision making and problem solving, the relationship with quality, facilitation, changing roles, education, and interteam relationships. The papers/presentations should be conceptual in nature, such as theory work. Empirical information may be used to illustrate the theoretical concepts and relationships, but not as the central focus of the work. Papers must be postmarked by February 1, 1996. Reviews will be completed by April and feedback sent to authors. Selected papers will be presented May 29-31, 1996 at the Symposium in Dallas, Texas. Ten papers will be selected for presentation in plenary sessions. Symposium papers will be screened for inclusion in volume 4 of the JAI Press series: Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams. Other papers will be invited as poster presentations (emperical papers may be submitted specifically for posters). Use the American Psychological Association Publication Manual, fourth edition for submission format. Papers should range between 25 and 50 double spaced pages. Send four copies of submission to: Melanie Bullock - Symposium Center for Study of Work Teams University of North Texas Terrill Hall Room 343 Denton, TX 76203 Submission questions can be directed to melanieb@terrill.unt.edu For questions concerning paper focus please contact: Dr. Michael Beyerlein - Symposium Director Center for Study of Work Teams University of North Texas P.O. Box 13587 Denton, TX 76203 or: beyerlei@terrill.unt.edu; 817-565-2653 From ARAHIM@delphi.com Sat Jul 15 23:16:46 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA25333 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 23:16:23 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1e.delphi.com (bos1e.delphi.com [192.80.63.5]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA04364 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 23:16:22 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #10880) id <01HSX2FLYUHC9EHSZ3@delphi.com>; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:16:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:16:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Ann for Int Mgt Conf To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HSX2FLZ44I9EHSZ3@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ANNOUNCEMENT Third Biennial International Conference on Advances in Management The above conference will be held in Marriott Hotel in Newton, Boston on June 26+29, 1996. Please mark your calenders and inform your colleagues about it. We are in the process of publishing the Current Topics in Management, Vol. 1 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press). As usual, summaries of papers to be presented in the 1996 conference will be published in our Proceedings and some selected papers will be included in the Current Topics in Management, Vol. 2 and International Journal of Organizational Analysis. A Call for Papers will be announced soon. If you want to get involved in the conference as a Track Chair, Reviewer, Discussant, or Session Chair, please contact the Conference President: Afzal Rahim Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt 1574 Mallory Court Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA Phone & Fax: 502-782-2601 E-Mail: Arahim@delphi.com From ARAHIM@delphi.com Tue Jul 18 23:47:11 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA26340 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:46:57 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1f.delphi.com (bos1f.delphi.com [192.80.63.6]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA23549 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:46:55 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #10880) id <01HT1AD2B4TS9AS3B5@delphi.com>; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 00:46:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 00:46:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: IJCM, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Contents) To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HT1AD2B4TU9AS3B5@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT International Journal of Conflict Management 1995, Vol. 6, No. 3 (July), pp. 235+ TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Social Competition: Identifying New Perspectives and Strategies for Task Motivation by Steven M. Sommer Planning the Use of Power: An Episodic Model by Andreas G. Nikolpoloulos Personalizing and Managing Conflict by Judith M. Dallinger and Dale Hample Case Study Managing local Environmental Conflict Amidst National Controversy by Steven E. Daniels and Gregg B. Walker Research Note Mistrust and Misconstrual in Union-Management Relationship: Causal Accounts in Adversarial Contexts by Robert J. Robinson and Raymond A. Friedman Books Reviews Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping With Conflict by Roger Fisher, Elizabeth Kopelman, and Andrea Kupfer Schneider Reviewed by Gabriel F. Buntzman Negotiation in Social Conflict by Dean G. Pruitt and Peter J. Carnevale Reviewed by Terri R. Lituchy Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effectively Global Agreements by Lawrence E. Susskind Reviewed by Deborah Shmueli Imaginization: The art of Creative Management by Gareth Morgan Review by David Gleiser War, Aggression and Self-Defence by Yoram Dinstein Reviewed by Daniel C. Turack The Dispute Resolution Manual by Shane Henderson Reviewed by Nadja M. Spegel Books Received From ARAHIM@delphi.com Sat Jul 29 23:47:43 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA18423 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 23:47:21 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1h.delphi.com (bos1h.delphi.com [192.80.63.8]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA04352 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 23:47:20 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #10880) id <01HTGNKW7WHS9TEN6Y@delphi.com>; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:47:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 00:47:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: IJOA Contents, 3/3 To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HTGNKW864Y9TEN6Y@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT International Journal of Organizational Analysis 1995, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 223+ CONTENTS Articles Stakeholder Mismatching: A Theoretical Problem in Empirical Research on Corporate Social Performance by Donna J. Wood and Raymond E. Jones Relationship Between CEO Compensation and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence of Labor Market Norms by Rajaram Veliyath and James W. Bishop Testing the Environment-Strategy Linkage in Transition Economies: A Study of by Russian Managers by Peggy A. Golden, Denise Johnson, and Jerald R. Smith Differences in Incidences of Absenteeism and Discipline Between Vietnamese and Non-Vietnamese Employees Frank E. Kuzmits Book Reviews Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 17 Countries by Martin J. Gannon and Associates Reviewed by Regina F. Bento A World Waiting To Be Born: Civility Rediscovered by M. Scott Peck Reviewed by Susan Key Cultural Diversity in Organizations: Theory, Research, and Practice by Taylor Cox, Jr. Reviewed by Lisa Pelled The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community by Philip Selznick Reviewed by Denis Collins In over our heads: The mental demands of modern life by Robert Kegan Reviewed by Nancy B. Kurkland Business Ethics: A Managerial, Stakeholder Approach by Joseph W. Weiss Reviewed by James Weber Books Received From mshaw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Mon Jul 31 23:13:06 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA28321 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 23:13:06 -0500 Received: from ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA14732 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 23:13:04 -0500 Received: from [128.174.210.24] (chuck.ai.uiuc.edu) by ux1.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA20824 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 31 Jul 1995 23:12:57 -0500 Message-Id: <199508010412.AA20824@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 23:15:53 +0800 To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: mshaw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Shaw) Subject: a conference of interest Conference on Joining Information Infrastructure and Technology Management for Global Enterprises Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign October 11 - 12, 1995 Purpose of Conference We are entering a new era of information technology research and development brought about by industrial, economical, political, and social changes that are helping to shape a new technological landscape. The more prominent of these factors include the advance of the information technology revolution, the emerging national information infrastructure for commerce, and the ever-shorter product cycles that make information technology capabilities an important core competence for global enterprises. The vision of an "information superhighway" has facilitated the formation of an information-oriented economy: commerce travels on electronic networks. These developments have major implications for the role of information technology in businesses. Every type of company today, manufacturing or service alike, rely upon information technology to build the business infrastructure, to increase productivity, and to explore new sources for strategic advantages. Conference Format The conference will feature paper sessions and panel discussions on the National Information Infrastructure, the Impact of Information Technology on Product Development Strategies, the Management of Technology in Global Enterprises, and Emerging Information Technologies for Rapid Product Design and Development. Conference attendees will also have the opportunity to tour several research facilities on the University of Illinois campus. Speakers and Topics Keynote Address Larry Smarr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Web Technology and National Information Infrastructure. Gary Banks, Monsanto, Director of Information Systems, Virtual Enterprise Information Infrastructure. David Baxter, Toyota Technical Center, Toyota's Product Development Process. Ernest Blood, Caterpillar, Associate Director, Technical Center, Virtual Reality for Product Development. Steven Brostek, Chrysler, Manufacturing Networks for Eliminating Material Uncertainty. Larry Burkholder, John Deere, Technologies for Rapid Product Design and Development. Richard DeVor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, The World Wide Web and Agile Manufacturing. Joseph Hardin, University of Illinois, Associate Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Next Generation Web Technology. Mike Holmes, Chrysler, The Utilization of CAD/CAM Technologies. John Little, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Marketing Information Revolution. Chris Magee, Ford, Trends in Global Technology and Product Development. Jon Major, Motorola, Senior Vice-President, Global Communications and Technology Roadmap. Robert Marcell, Chrysler, Director of Small Car, The Neon Development Process. Barbara Martin, International Business Machine, Director, Corporate Logistics Systems, Integrating Information Technology and Global Supply Chains. Van Dyke Parunak, Industrial Technology Institute, Virtual Enterprises and Intelligent Agent Systems. Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electronic Document Management and the Digital Library. Dan Steinman, Andersen Consulting, Partner, New Information Technology and Enterprise Infrastructure. Howard Thomas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dean of the College of Commerce, Global Technology Strategy. David Upton, Harvard Business School, Real Virtual Manufacturing. Andrew Whinston, The University of Texas at Austin, Electronic Commerce. Virtual Reality Lab and Tours Tours of Virtual Reality Lab - "the Cave", Beckman Institute, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be offered. Demonstrations on information technology for Web browsing, visualization, scalable computing, digital library, data mining, and Web collaboration will be given as well. GENERAL INFORMATION Registration Pre-registration is required. For registration, phone 217-333-2882, fax 217-333-9561, or E-mail to info@c3po.ceps.uiuc.edu. Rooms are on hold to be reserved by conference participants at the nearby Hampton Inn (217-337-1100) and across town at the Radisson Suite hotel (217-398-3400). The registration fee for the conference is $90 per person. Fees include the costs of all reference materials, lunch on both days, and a reception and dinner on the first day. Travel and lodging expenses are the responsibility of the individual participant. Schedule The conference begins with registration at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 11 and will end on Thursday, October 12 at 5 pm. Activities will occur Wednesday and Thursday from 8 am to 5 pm. A reception and dinner is palnned for Wednesday evening beginning at 6 pm. Additional Information Conference arrangements made through the Office of Conferences and Institutes. For information regarding procedures or arrangements please contact: Conferences and Institutes, 302 E. John Street, Suite 202, Champaign, IL 61820, phone: 217-333-2882; fax: 217-333-9561; E-mail: scmiller@uiuc.edu. For information regarding program content contact the Program Co-chairs: Michael Shaw, 217-244-1266 or Harry Cook, 217-244-7992. From ARAHIM@delphi.com Sun Aug 6 16:24:26 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA25228 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 16:24:13 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1h.delphi.com (bos1h.delphi.com [192.80.63.8]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA21416 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 16:24:12 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.3-9 #10880) id <01HTREGHFGQ48ZFB3T@delphi.com>; Sun, 06 Aug 1995 17:24:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 17:24:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Rev cal for papers (ICAM) To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HTREGHFGQ68ZFB3T@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Revised CALL FOR PAPERS Third Biennial International Conference on Advances in Management The above conference will be held in Marriott Hotel in Newton, Boston on June 26+29, 1996. We are in the process of publishing the Current Topics in Management, Vol. 1 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press). As usual, summaries of papers to be presented in the 1996 conference will be published in our Proceedings (Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt) and some selected papers will be included in the Current Topics in Management, Vol. 2 (JAI Press) and International Journal of Organizational Analysis (Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt). A Call for Papers will be announced soon. You are invited to submit an original paper(s) or a two-page summary, proposal for a symposium(s) or workshop(s) to the conference president. Each submission should include: title page (separate) with names, affiliations, and telephone and fax numbers of author(s). Papers must be prepared according to the 1994 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and should not exceed 35 pages. Symposium and workshop proposals must include a statement of objectives and a two-page summary of each presentation. Send four copies of your paper or proposal with a cover letter directly to the Conference President. If you want your paper to be considered for inclusion in the book or the IJOA, send eight copies. Papers must be received by November 30, 1993. All submissions will be reviewed by a double-blind review process. Papers should not have been presented or published elsewhere prior to the conference. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. The meeting will be organized around eight Tracks (1. Strategic Management & Organization Theory; 2. Business, Society, Ethics, and Values; 3. International Management; 4. Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management; 5. Papers Based on Doctoral Dissertations; 6. Healthcare Administration; 7. Management in the Public Sector; 8. Information Management) and will feature competitive and invited paper sessions, symposia, and workshops designed to share ideas and research findings. Innovative sessions are encouraged as are research and theory targeted toward practitioners. If you want to get involved in the conference as a Reviewer, Discussant, or Session Chair, please contact the Conference President: Afzal Rahim Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt 1574 Mallory Court Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA Phone & Fax: 502-782-2601 E-Mail: Arahim@delphi.com From P.Bernus@cit.gu.edu.au Thu Aug 24 23:27:40 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA29012 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 23:27:40 -0500 Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (kurango.cit.gu.edu.au [132.234.5.1]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA04510 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 23:24:25 -0500 Received: by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au id AA05400 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for all-iceimt@einet.net); Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:27:38 +1000 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:27:38 +1000 From: Peter Bernus Message-Id: <199508250427.AA05400@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Ei95 Preliminary Programme Cc: ei95@cit.gu.edu.au Dear Colleagues, attached is a copy of the Preliminary Programme for EI95. You can also view this (and the final programme when it becomes available) at http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/ei95/ As it is with such circulars you may get this announcement in duplicate copies. Apoligies if you do. Peter Bernus chair IPC, EI95 ------ ============================================================================= IFIP TC5 SIG ON ARCHITECTURES FOR ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION WORKING CONFERENCE ON MODELS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION (EI95) Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef Queensland Australia. 8-11 November, 1995 PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME ===================== Note: the IFIP-IFAC Task Force holds its meeting in the two days prior to the conference at the same localtion. Further information from ei95@cit.gu.edu.au or angie@acslink.net.au Wednesday 8 November 1995 ========================= 1030 Courtesy bus from Gladstone airport to Gladstone Marina 1100-1400 Catamaran from Gladstone Marina to Heron Island 1400-1430 Buffet Lunch on arrival 1430-1600 Settling In 1600-1730 SESSION 1 | | ``The Field of EI'' -- Peter Bernus/ Laszlo Nemes (35 mins) | | ``EU Research Programme'' -- Georgio Basaglia (35 mins) | | Discussion (20 mins) | 1730-1750 Coffee break (20 mins) 1750-1920 SESSION 2 | | ``Present Industry Practice in Company | Transformation'' -- Paul Greenhalgh (35 mins) | | ``The Use the Purdue Guide for Master Planning | in Industry'' -- Theodore J. Williams (35 mins) | | Discussion (20 mins) 2000-2015 Cocktails 2015 Dinner Thursday 9 November 1995 ======================== 0730-0830 Breakfast 0830-1030 SESSION 3 | | ``Process Oriented Presentation of Modelling | Methodologies'' -- Kurt Kosanke (40 mins) | | ``Enterprise Reference Architecture - | Differentiate Standards Domain from the | Innovative-Software Domain'' -- Jim Nell (20 mins) | | Discussion (40 mins) 1030-1100 Morning Tea 1100-1300 SESSION 4 | | ``A Framework for Business Renovation - | Towards an Intellectual Infrastructure for | the Extended Enterprise'' -- Yusaka Shibata (20 mins) | | ``Multicriteria-based Decision Making | Models for Computer Integrated | Enterprise'' -- Ljubica Vlacic (20 mins) | | ``Conception of information systems based | on Enterprise Modelling'' -- Hans Grabowski, | Gunther Grein, Peter Milde, Ulrich Weber (20 mins) | | ``Manufacturing Startegy Assessment for Enterprise | Integration'' -- R. Bemelman, D.H.Jarvis (20 mins) | | Discussion (40 mins) 1300-1400 Lunch 1400-1730 Activities | | 1415-1530 Snorkeling | | 1600-1730 Reef Walk 1800-1930 SESSION 5 | | ``Ontologies for Enterprise Modelling'' | (title to be confirmed) -- Mark Fox (40 mins) | | ``Repository Structures for Evolving Federated Database | Schemas'' -- Manfred Jeusfeld, Matthias Jarke (20 mins) | | Discussion (30 mins) 1945-2045 Dinner 2045-2215 SESSION 6 | | ``CIM Business Process and Enterprise | Activity Modelling'' -- Francois Vernadat (20 mins) | | ``The meaning of an Enterprise Model'' | -- Peter Bernus, Bob Morris, Laszlo Nemes (20 mins) | | ``A Situation Theoretic Approach to the | Representation of Processes'' -- Christopher Menzel, | Richard Mayer, Florence Fillion (20 mins) | | Discussion (30 mins) 2215-2300 Terrace Drinks 2300 Turtle Walk (guided) | Friday 10 November 1995 ======================= 0900-1200 Activities / Free Time | | 0900-1000 Submersible Reef Viewing | | 1000-1100 Submersible Reef Viewing 1200-1245 Lunch 1245-1410 SESSION 7 | | ``Enterprise Engineering Methods and Tools which | Facilitate Simulation, Emaluation, and Enactment | via Formal Models'' -- R.H. Weston & P.J. Gilders (20 mins) | | ``Workflow-Management-Systems as Enterprise | Engineering Tools'' -- Christoph Bussler (20 mins) | | ``Objects and Environments in Dynamic CIMOSA | Models'' -- I.L.Kotsiopoulos (20 mins) | | Discussion (25 mins) 1410-1430 Coffee Break 1430-1555 SESSION 8 | | ``A Systematic Approach to the Analysis and (Re)design | of Logistic Networks'' -- Pieter van der Veer, | R. Demkes (20 mins) | | ``Enterprise Integration by Modelling and Simulation - | a framework and an application in the offshore | oil industry'' Tore Christiansen, Lars Christensen (20 mins) | | ``Production Scheduling: A Generic Building Block | for Enterprise Integration'' -- Gunter Schmidt (20 mins) | | Discussion (25 mins) 1555-1615 Afternoon Tea 1615-1740 SESSION 9 | | ``AI / DAI aspects of integration'' (title | to be confirmed) -- Mark Klein (40 mins) | | ``A Methodology for Developing Agent | Based System for Enterprise Integration'' | -- Elizabeth Kendall, Margaret Malkoun (20 mins) | | Discussion (25 mins) 1740-1755 Coffee Break 1755-1920 SESSION 10 | | ``A Change Architecture for Enterprises: A Semiotic | Model'' -- Marilyn Cross & Fergus O'Brien (20 mins) | | ``Distributed object Oriented Logic Programming as a | tool for Enterprise Modelling'' -- N. Skarmeas, | T. Wang, K.L. Clark (20 mins) | | | ``Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise | Integration'' -- Valery Tarassov, | Nikita Cherepanov, Michael Pirogov (20 mins) | | Discussion (25 mins) 2000 Conference Dinner Saturday 11 November 1995 ========================= 0630-0700 Breakfast 0700-0900 PANEL SESSION | | Chairpersons' short reports on technical sessions (60 mins) | | General Closing Discussion (60 mins) 0900-1000 Vacate Rooms 1000-1230 Activities | | 1000-1130 Island Walk 1230-1300 Lunch 1400-1530 Catamaran from Heron Island to Gladstone Marina 1530-1600 Shuttle Bus to airport after 1600 Flights Depart Gladstone to Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney Please note: Heron Island is one hour ahead of the mainland. From <@post.demon.co.uk:ted@unicom.demon.co.uk> Tue Sep 5 07:34:53 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA21443 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 07:34:52 -0500 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA27062 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 07:34:50 -0500 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa20007; 5 Sep 95 13:32 +0100 Received: from unicom.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa16688; 5 Sep 95 13:28 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 12:38:03 GMT From: ted Reply-To: ted@unicom.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <948@unicom.demon.co.uk> To: magiccap@brownvm.brown.edu, ckbs@cs.keele.ac.uk, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, all-iceimt@einet.net, mikep@icis.qut.edu.au, distributed-ai@mailbase.ac.uk, dai-list@mcc.com, DAI-List@turtle.mcc.com, COR-list@usc.edu Subject: Ontologies Seminar & Tutorial, London, England, November 95 X-Mailer: FIMail V0.9d X-User: Alpha Test Version Of FI-Mail, DisWin 1.5D:\WINSOCK\WINDIS Lines: 207 ONTOLOGIES SEMINAR AND TUTORIAL Tutorial (November 6 1995) Seminar (November 7 1995) The Westbury Hotel, London, England BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The subject of ontologies has received little or no attention outside the academic world. And yet it is already being used at the centre of some very major software developments. For example, in building the infrastructure for the Space Mission Systems of the next century - representing some of the most complex software systems in Europe - the European Space Agency is exploring the use of ontologies for the representation and exchange of mission knowledge. But how many people know what an ontology is? Simply put, an ontology is a structured definition of the terms, and relationships between the terms, within a particular domain. This simple definition belies the power behind the concept. Ontologies have a major contribution to make to some of the most important issues in the software industry, such as reuse, interoperability, distributed processing and standards. There is also the possibility of a potentially huge market in packaged ontologies, although this is still a speculative concept. This tutorial and seminar by UNICOM are the first events to present the topic from an industrial viewpoint. The aim of the tutorial is to provide attendees with a thorough understanding of the concepts and technology behind ontologies, and how and where they should be used. The objective of the Seminar is to explore in more detail the relevance of ontologies to the three themes of reuse, interoperability and distributed processing. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Technical Directors of Software Houses IT Consultants IT Strategy Planners R&D Directors WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND The complexities of the Space Mission Systems of tomorrow foreshadow the complexities of future business and industrial systems.Anyone planning or advising on the future IT infrastructure of a large corporation needs to start tracking ontologies - and these events are an ideal starting point. Suppliers of large, complex software packages also need to track the technology of ontologies since they could play a major role in the evolution of such packages. They could also represent a brand new business opportunity: packaged ontologies for vertical domains, around which different packages - from different vendors - could be built, with the assurance that they would all interoperate. Consider the strength of the market position of - and potential profits for! - the owner of such an ontology in a key domain, such as banking or process control. SEMINAR (November 7 1995) The Impact of Ontologies on Reuse, Interoperability and Distributed Processing Session One: Ontologies in Practice 1. What is an ontology and how would you use one? Professor N.J.I. Mars, University of Twente. What is an ontology? How would you use an ontology to design software systems (and in particular knowledge-based systems)? How would you use an ontology to facilitate sharing and reuse of knowledge assets? How can an ontology be designed? How can the quality of an ontology be assessed? Practical experiences and illustrations. 2. Overview of ontologies in use. Professor B.J. Wielinga Why ontologies are useful. Examples of projects that use ontologies. Libraries of ontologies. Ontologies as vehicles for reuse of knowledge. Session Two: Ontologies, Standards and Interoperability 1. Interoperability and reuse of an ontology in electrical networks. Dr. Amaia Bernaras, LABEIN, Spain Introduction to the electrical network domain. Why are ontologies useful? From ontologies to standards. Interoperability: Diagnosis and Service Recovery Planning applications. On the Usability of Reusable Ontologies. 2. Achieving interoperability in the Enterprise Project. Mike Uschold, AIAI A description of the Enterprise Project. The Enterprise ontology. How the ontology allows different tools to interoperate. Session Three: Achieving Reuse via Ontologies 1. Knowledge reuse in technical domains: the KACTUS Project. Rob Martil, Lloyds Register Introduction to Lloyds Register and the ship structures problem domain. The approach taken by the Kactus Project Goal/Solution scenario. Ontology development experiences Interoperability experiences Re-use possibilities 2. Knowledge reuse in business domains: experience with IBM BSDM. Martin King, IBM UK The need for reuse in business. The evolution of business (Enterprise) modelling. Experience with IBM BSDM. Experience of model reuse. Enhancing modelling with ontology approaches. The future outlook. Session Four: Ontological Glue in Distributed Agent Systems 1. Ontologies within the Knowledge Sharing Effort Project. Michael Grunninger, University of Toronto The scope and major elements of the Knowledge Sharing Effort. The role of Ontologies and Ontolingua. The Process Interchange Format Project The big picture for future software development environments. 2. Prospective applications of ontologies for future space missions. Joe Wheadon, ESA Some ESA studies which have used Ontologies. Perceived problems and limitations in the development and use of ontologies. A look into the future: Areas of application for further study. SEMINAR CHAIRMAN Alex Goodall has over twenty years experience in the computer industry, mostly working with leading-edge technologies. In 1980 he formed one of the very first companies to commercialise expert systems. He now runs a specialist publishing and consulting company -AI Intelligence- that focuses on commercial AI developments in Europe. His publications include the newsletter AI Watch and specialist reports on AI technologies. He has also undertaken consultancy assignments for large corporations and government bodies to help formulate their strategies concerning advanced software technologies. He has been appointed as the Co-ordinator of the recently formed Euroknowledge Association which is concerned with KBS standards. TUTORIAL (November 6 1995) ONTOLOGIES: Principles, Applications and Opportunities What is an ontology? What are the origins of the concepts and technologies? Why are ontologies needed? How mature is the technology of ontologies? What major issues are still being researched? How are ontologies used? When would you consider using an ontology? How would you go about building and using an ontology? How will ontologies impact mainstream software development? Is there or will there be a marketfor ontology products? Presented by: Mike Uschold, AIAI Edinburgh Michael Grunninger, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. Enquiries (including your full mailing address) to the person below: ***************************************************** * No sky in the world is as blue as the Greek sky...* ***************************************************** * * * Ted Lelekas * * Events Commissioner * * UNICOM Seminars * * * * Brunel Science Park * * Cleveland Road * * Uxbridge * * Middlesex UB8 3PH * * * * Tel. +44 (0) 1895 256 484 * * Fax. +44 (0) 1895 813 095 * * e-mail: ted@unicom.demon.co.uk * ***************************************************** From <@post.demon.co.uk:ted@unicom.demon.co.uk> Tue Sep 5 10:11:31 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA23786 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:11:31 -0500 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA27844 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:11:28 -0500 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa07828; 5 Sep 95 11:37 +0100 Received: from unicom.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa29205; 5 Sep 95 11:35 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 10:36:31 GMT From: ted Reply-To: ted@unicom.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <944@unicom.demon.co.uk> To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Intelligent Agents Conference, London, England, November 95 X-Mailer: FIMail V0.9d X-User: Alpha Test Version Of FI-Mail, DisWin 1.5D:\WINSOCK\WINDIS Lines: 215 INTELLIGENT AGENTS AND THEIR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS 8-9 NOVEMBER, LONDON BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES An Intelligent Software agent is a software component which acts to accomplish certain tasks on behalf of its user. Many agents are based on the idea that the user need only specify a high-level goal instead of issuing explicit instructions, leaving the 'how' and 'when' decisions to the agent. There has always been an interest in having an agent to do routine tasks for people. The move to PCs resulted in an increase in the volume of latent computing power. This potential now allows for the development of software agents to perform a multitude of tasks. Agents can be used to monitor information, looking for trends based on mathematical rules. This could be used for checking stock levels for inventory control planning or providing opportunity advice through tracking share prices. Agents can also be used in a more active role to seek out information for the user. This is becoming an invaluable service, given the increasing amount of information available and the growth of the Internet as an information provider. The important questions that need to be addressed are: What kind of tasks will agents perform? Will the agents' service be problem-free? Will agents create solutions or problems? Who will teach the agents? Can the agents be taught to use common sense? How will agents enhance human performance? This event provides an overview of agent technology and focuses on the information gathering and management aspect of agent-based systems. It is presented by experts who are actually researching this new revolutionary technology, suppliers of agent-based software products, as well as informed end users, all of whom have important knowledge, information and experiences to share. Once people attending have had the chance to come into contact with the tremendous potentials of agent software technology, they will be able to assess the impact the introduction of such a powerful software tool will have on the efficiency and effectiveness of their own organisation. WHO SHOULD ATTEND IT Managers and Directors Software developers in the fields of: -desktop access to corporate networks -enterprise information systems -OLAP and EIS applications -management of distributed systems -messaging and communications -information access (Internet/local databases) Researchers considering implementing agent software in new application areas Communications managers Developers who wish to embed intelligent agents in existing applications PROGRAMME 8 November Day One SESSION ONE (morning) Introductory Tutorial Offering an Overview of Agent Theories, Applications, Languages and Architectures. Dr. Nick Jennings, Queen Mary and Westfield College Dr. Mike Wooldridge, Manchester Metropolitan University SESSION TWO (afternoon) Focus on the main developments in agent technology and their performance in the market Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload. Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab, USA. The "information highway" presents us with an explosion of new computer-based tasks and services. The complexity of this new environment demands a new style of human-computer interaction where the computer becomes an intelligent, active and personalised collaborator using agent software. A novel approach to building software agents - the agent acquires its competence by learning from the user, as well as from agents assisting other users with similar tasks. Prototype agents built using this approach include agents that provide personal assistance with meeting scheduling, electronic mail handling, electronic news filtering, selection of entertainment items, WWW document filtering and interest group formation. Vendors of Agent Technology Christine Guilfoyle, The Trefoyle Partnership Who is selling products and services using intelligent agents What groups of vendors should be active What has happened in the last year How will intelligent agents affect IT and communications suppliers Day two SESSION ONE (morning) Managing Information Using Agents Intelligent Agents and the Information Revolution Professor Katia Sykara, Carneggie Mellon University Intelligent Agents to solve problems of locating information sources, accessing, filtering and integrating information to support decision-making. Overview of Agents uses and applications. Overview of Agents research literature. The issues involved in designing multiple intelligent agents that coordinate and learn from eachother in order to support information gathering and information. Examples from Organisational decision-making, health care, electronic commerce and financial management. The Use of Agents in Information Brokering Systems Jerry Foss, GPT Information trading environments - scenarios for the future evolution of information networks. Information models, Broker/Agent service hierarchies. Information Brokering Services - including brokering functions, Information Rights and Revenues. The anatomy of a broker, including on-line integration of service elements using agent retrieval. Agents for Pro-active marketing, for Information Brokering Services. Applications of Intelligent Agents Betty Atkinson, IBM USA Types of Intelligent Agents Users of Intelligent Agents IBM's work with Object Management Group on Agent-related standards Applications of Intelligent Agents SESSION TWO (afternoon) Agents in the Telecommunications Industry Intelligent agents managing novel services in Integrated Fixed-Mobile Networks Marius Busuioc , BRITISH TELECOM Laboratories Benefits of distributed intelligent agents The application platform Demonstrator design Agent types Scenarios and services Agents in Network Environments Michel Plu, FRANCE TELECOM/CNET Agents as a new way to think about software Agents communication language for distributed resources management Conceptual agents for an Enterprise viewpoint of open distributed processing systems Mobile agent: an attractive and useful metaphor for smart network services Agent-related research projects at FRANCE TELECOM/CNET Agent Applications to provide the business edge Derek Wordley, Mercury Communications Business edge will come from the successful acquisition and analysis of information Telecommunications companies will seek to add value to their offerings to support their customers in this area. 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Deadline for submission of papers: 15 November 1995. Acceptance notified by 15 January 1996 If you are interested in - presenting a paper - exhibiting - attending as a delegate - submitting a paper for the published proceedings, or simply would like more information, please contact UNICOM Seminars Brunel Science Park, Cleveland Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK Tel + 44 1895 256 484 fax +44 1895 813 095 Email: Unicom@unicom.demon.co.uk From ARAHIM@delphi.com Wed Sep 20 22:50:53 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA04321 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:50:29 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1f.delphi.com (bos1f.delphi.com [192.80.63.6]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA19385 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:50:28 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V5.0-5 #10880) id <01HVIN1SKUY891W67A@delphi.com>; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:50:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:50:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Final Call for Papers To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HVIN1SKUYA91W67A@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Call for Papers THIRD BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MANAGEMENT, June 26-29, 1996 Conference location: Marriott Hotel Phone/Fax: 800-228-9290 or 617-969-1000/969-8464 2345 Commonwealth Avenue Newton, Massachusetts 02166, USA Submission Deadline: Papers must be received by November 30, 1995 PROGRAM THEME Recent advances in the theory and research in management and administration. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES 1. To encourage scholars to share their theory and research on management and administration. 2. To provide effective managerial responses to environmental challenges of the 1990s and beyond. 3. To provide a forum for exchange of information between management scholars and practitioners. DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS Dr. Robert T. Golembiewski, University of Georgia Dr. Craig C. Lundberg, Cornell University Dr. Edgar H. Schein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PUBLICATIONS Summaries of papers, symposia, and workshops presented at the conference will be included in the Proceedings (edited by D. E. White). Selected papers will be included in Current Topics in Management, Vol. 2 (JAI Press) (edited by M. A. Rahim, R. T. Golembiewski, & T. K. Das) or International Journal of Organizational Analysis. If you want your paper(s) to be considered for inclusion in the book or IJOA (see page 4 for details), please send four copies of your paper with a cover letter to the President. PAPERS, SYMPOSIA, AND WORKSHOPS You are invited to submit an original paper or a two-page summary of the paper, proposal for a symposium or workshop to the appropriate track chair. Each submission should include: title page (separate) with names, affiliations, and telephone, fax and e-mail numbers of author(s). Papers must be prepared according to the 1994 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and should not exceed 35 pages. Symposium and workshop proposals must include a statement of objectives and a two-page summary of each presentation. After your paper, symposium, or workshop is accepted, you will be required to submit two hard copies of a 500 word summary of the same and one in a 3.5" HD floppy disk in an ASCII file. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCEDURES Send four copies of your paper or proposal with a cover letter directly to one of the track chairs. Papers must be received by November 30, 1995. All submissions will be reviewed by a double-blind review process. Papers should not have been presented or published elsewhere prior to the conference. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. BEST PAPER AWARDS The ICAM will present an award for the best competitive paper for each track. PROGRAM ORGANIZATION The meeting will be organized around eight tracks and will feature competitive and invited paper sessions, symposia, and workshops designed to share ideas and research findings. Innovative sessions are encouraged as are research and theory targeted toward practitioners. CONFERENCE PRESIDENT Dr. M. Afzalur Rahim Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt 1574 Mallory Court Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA Phone & Fax: 502-782-2601 E-mail: Arahim@delphi.com LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Professor Jonathan D. Hibbard School of Management Boston University 621 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617-353-4411 E-mail: Jhibbard@bu.edu TRACKS AND CHAIRS Track 1: Strategic Management & Organization Theory Dr. T. K. Das Department of Management Baruch College, CUNY 17 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10010 Phone/Fax: 212-802-6908/6873 E-mail: Tkdbb@cunyvm.cuny.edu Track 2: Business, Society, Ethics, and Values Professor Diane L. Swanson Department of Management Robert Morris College 600 5th Avenue (8th Floor) Pittsburgh, PA 15219-3099 Phone/Fax: 412-227-6889/4083 E-mail: Swanson@rmcnet.robert- morris.edu Dr. Nancy Kurland Dept of Management & Organization University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1421 Phone/Fax: 213-740-6647/749-0541 E-mail: Nkurland@sba.usc.edu Track 3: International Management Dr. A. B. Boshoff Graduate School of Management University of Pretoria Pretoria 0002, South Africa Phone: 27-12-420-3345 Fax: 27-12-43-7223 E-mail: Aboshoff@ebs.up.ac.za Dr. Braimoh Oseghale International Business, CBA Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, NJ 07666 Phone/Fax: 201-692-7267/7219 E-mail: Oseghale@alpha.fdu.edu Track 4: Organizational Behavior Dr. Nancy E. Day School of Bus & Pub Adm University of Missouri, Kansas City Kansas City, MO 64110 Phone/Fax: 816-235-2333/2312 E-mail: Nancyday@cctr.umkc.edu Track 5: Human Resource Management William S. Brown Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh 249 Marvis Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone/Fax: 412-648-1647/1693 E-mail: Wsbrown@vms.cis.pitt.edu Track 6: Healthcare Administration Dr. Patricia Minors Department of Public Health Program in Healthcare Administration Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101 Phone/Fax: 502-745-3941/4437 E-mail: Minorsp@wkuvx1.wku.edu Track 7: Management in the Public Sector Major Scott P. Morgan Air Command and Staff College 225 Chennault Circle Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6426 Phone/Fax: 334-953-2221/2514 E-mail: Morgan=scott%dea%acsc@acscsvr2.af.mil Stacie L. L. Morgan Balanced Management, Inc. 772 Green Ridge Road Montgomery, AL 36109 Phone/Fax: 334-260-7991/7995 E-mail: Ssmorgan@delphi.com Track 8: Information and Technology Management Dr. Douglas E. White Department of Management Grand Valley State University 301 W. Fulton Street Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Phone/Fax: 616-771-6812/6515 E-mail: Whitedo@gvsu.edu Professor Bharat Shah Sch of Adm & Information Management Ryerson Polytechnic University 350 Victoria Street Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada Phone/Fax: 416-979-5000/5249 E-mail: Bshah@acs.ryerson.ca TRACK DESCRIPTIONS 1. Strategic Management & Organization Theory: Specific domains for this track include strategic planning, decision making under uncertainty, strategy formulation and implementation, control, resource allocation in organizations; and organization structure and design, culture, and adaptation processes. We invite professionals to submit papers which focus on recent advances in these areas, i.e., developments during the last decade. The papers may focus on the rational or socio-political approaches or both. Prospective scholars are encouraged to submit conceptual and empirical papers. Empirical works may be case studies, experiments, field studies or the like; however, they should adhere to the usual canons of scientific enquiry. 2. Business, Society, Ethics, and Values: This track will focus on theory and applied research as it relates to domestic and international corporate social responsibility, ethical conduct in organizations, cross-cultural and comparative values embedded in areas such as corporate culture, leadership, patterns of decision-making. Special attention will be given to: managerial values, synthesizing alternative belief systems in managing cultural diversity, and ways in which individual values influence and are influenced by corporate values. Innovative research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, are especially welcome. 3. International Management: This track is appropriate for empirical and theoretical statements of problem identification and practical solutions in the arenas of cultural friction points, international strategic alliances, training and development of international managers, issues in expatriation and localization, competitive management in a world of regional trading blocs, comparative international/cultural human resource practices, managerial practices among foreign-owned firms in a host nation, and critiques of established international management concepts. Innovative research methodology for empirical papers is welcome. 4. Organizational Behavior: We welcome papers on all aspects of the study of individuals and groups in organizational settings and of the internal processes of groups and organizations. We especially encourage papers that focus on advances in management theory and practice, such as organizational learning, total quality management, culture, conflict management, self-managed work groups, innovations in dealing with personal responsibility, commitment, networking, power, leadership, performance, organizational development, and quality of the work experience. 5. Human Resource Management: Papers submitted to this track should address the process, programs, policies, and procedures for accomplishing work through people. Issues attendant to these areas include international aspects of diversity in a global workforce, regulation of the employee- employer relationship, cross-cultural motivation and performance management, training the global workers, among others. Areas of specific interest include human resource strategy for global competitive advantage, employee rights and responsibilities, managing the technological-human interface, and human resource management in the non-profit sector. 6. Healthcare Administration: This domain includes management and administration advances in health care settings within all industry populations-administration, medicine, nursing, allied health and non-professional and support staff. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, organizational assessment and structural changes of healthcare institutions in response to external and internal environmental issues, quality management and international issues and pressures; organizational climate and leadership studies in health care; healthcare finance and marketing for service delivery; public policy issues such as access to care, competition, regulation and reimbursement; information systems, use and cost; management and staff development; issues in addressing cultural diversity in health care settings; conflict; and innovation in health care management or planning and implementation of service delivery. 7. Management in the Public Sector: Specific domain for this track includes management, policy making, and planning and decision making in governmental agencies, and in public, not-for-profit and voluntary organizations. Major topics include decision making; strategic planning; public policy analysis; and policy making and implementation processes, at all government levels; intergovernmental relations; economic development, including public-private partnerships; capital improvements; public organization theory and behavior; leadership; public finance; personnel management; differences between public and private organizations, in terms of such factors as behavior, decision making, leadership, policy implementation, labor relations; the interface between public, private and non-profit entities. 8. Information and Technology Management: This track provides a venue for issues involving management information systems, technological effects on the organization, technological effects on individuals, innovative education through technology, and the management of technology within the organization. Papers which deal with these and other information systems issues will be considered for acceptance in the track. REGISTRATION Received before 3/31/96: Institutionally sponsored, $250.00; Self-sponsored,* $225.00; Students,** Delegates from LDCs, $200.00 Received after 3/31/96: Institutionally sponsored, $275.00; Self-sponsored,* $250.00; Students,** Delegates from LDCs, $225.00 Received at site: Institutionally sponsored, $350.00; Self-sponsored,* $300.00; Students,** Delegates from LDCs, $270.00 *Need letter from your institution indicating that you will not be sponsored. ** Copy of ID required. Registration will include the following: 1. Proceedings and Final Program 2. Current Topics in Management, Vol. 2 (JAI Press) 3. International Journal of Organizational Analysis (Vol. 4) 4. Reception (6/26/96) 5. Refreshments (6/27/96-6/29/96) 6. Breakfast and Lunch (6/27/96-6/29/96) 7. Dinner (6/28/96) HOTEL RESERVATION Call Marriott Hotel ((Phone/Fax: 800-228-9290 or 617-969- 1000/969-8464) directly and identify yourself as an ICAM participant to receive special room rate: Single/double, $105.00 (plus tax). International Journal of Organizational Analysis (ISSN: 1055-3185) (Co-sponsored by ICAM) This quarterly scientific journal publishes theoretical and empirical articles dealing with national and international issues in the areas of Strategic Management, Organization Theory, Organizational Behavior, Business and Society, and Human Resource Management. It also publishes case studies, simulations, teaching notes, and book reviews. The IJOA is published in January, April, July, and October. Manuscripts must be prepared according to the 1994 edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and will be reviewed by double-blind review process. Four copies of each manuscript and requests for other details should be addressed to the Editor. 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It aims to provide appropriate methodologies for those companies to integrate their business and technology. We are seeking two engineers/scientists to complement this exciting new project. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Engineer/Manager (Ref M036) $60K - $69K + Superannuation As project leader, you will manage the staff and resources of the project and will be responsible for the development of collaborative industry projects. You will have a PhD in Computer Integrated Manufacturing or Computer Science and you will have extensive experience in advanced manufacturing. You will also have a demonstrated ability to lead industry related projects and make sound management decisions in a dynamic research environment. Familiarity with enterprise modelling research and integration tools would be an advantage. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Computer Scientist (Ref M038) $29K - $43K + Superannuation This is a challenging position which will be responsible for the computer modelling aspects of the project and will assist with applying results on industrial sites. You will have a degree or equivalent in Computer Science or Computer Integrated Manufacturing. You must have developed a very good knowledge of computer integration. This is a 3 year term position. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Further information is available from Dr Laszlo Nemes (tel: 03 9662 7707; email: Inm@mlb.dmt.csiro.au. Please obtain the job description and selection criteria from Ms Teresa Squarci (tel: 03 9662 7716, fax: 03 9662 7851) BEFORE applying. Please send your application for the two positions (Ref MO36) & (Ref MO38) only, quoting the relevant reference number to: The Recruitment Section, CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, Locked Bag No 9, Preston Vic 3072 by 29 September 1995. ============================================== Mingwei Zhou Member of the Enterprise Integration Group CSIRO DMT Locked Bag No. 9, Preston, VIC 3072, AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 3 9662 7831 Fax: +61 3 9662 7851 From mshaw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Mon Sep 25 22:40:52 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA13266 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:40:52 -0500 Received: from ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (ux1.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA22073 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:40:50 -0500 Received: from [128.174.210.24] (chuck.ai.uiuc.edu) by ux1.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA22005 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:40:46 -0500 Message-Id: <199509260340.AA22005@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:46:24 +0800 To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: mshaw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Shaw) Subject: Update:Conf. on Information Infrastructure Cc: Mike Shaw Conference on Joining Information Infrastructure and Technology Management for Global Enterprises Beckman Institute Auditorium; University of Illinois October 11-12, 1995 Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (October 11, Wednesday, 8:15-9:15) Opening; Keynote Speaker: Dr. Larry Smarr, Director, NCSA, "National Information Infrastructure and Technology Development." (Wednesday, 9:15-10:45) I. Impacts of Information Technology on Product Development Strategies Chair: Harry Cook (ME/IE, UIUC) - Bob Marcell, Director of Small Car, Chrysler, The Neon Development Process - Chris Magee, Ford, Trends in Global Technology and Product Development - David Baxter, Toyota Technical Center, Toyota's Product Development Process (Wednesday, 11:00-12:00) II. Emerging Enterprise Technology Chair: Kent Monroe, (BA, UIUC) - John Little, MIT, the Marketing Information Revolution - David Upton, Harvard Business School, Real Virtual Manufacturing 12:15 - 2:15 Lunch (Granger Library); 1:15 - 2:15: Virtual Reality Lab "The Cave" Tours (sign-up at the registration desk) (Wednesday, 2:15-3:45) III. Enterprise Integration, Logistics, and Networking Chair: Tad Addy (ME&IE, UIUC) - Barbara Martin, Director, Corporate Logistics Systems, IBM, Integrating IT and Global Supply Chains - Steven Brostek, Chrysler, Manufacturing Networks for Eliminating Material Uncertainty. - Gary Banks, Virtual Enterprise Infrastructure, Director Information Systems, Monsanto (Wednesday, 4:00-5:30) IV. Information Technology for Enhancing Global Enterprises Chair: Andy Bailey (Accountancy, UIUC) - Mike Holmes, Chrysler, The Utilization of CAD/CAM Technologies in the Styling Process - Jon Major, Motorola, Global Communications and Technology Road Map - Dan Steinman, Partner, Andersen Consulting, New IT and Infrastructure Demonstrations (NCSA and Beckman Institute) - Web Browers - Scalable Computing - Visualization - Digital Library - Silicon Graphics Wednesday 6:30 Reception and Dinner (Illini Union Ballroom). Chancellor Michael Aiken Guest Speaker: John D. Zeglis (Senior VP, AT&T), The Telecommunications Industry. (October 12, Thursday, 8:30-10:00) V. Technology Management and Collaboration Strategy Chair: Howard Thomas (Dean, CBA, UIUC) - Howard Thomas, UIUC, Global Technology Strategy - Carolyn Woo, Krannert Graduate School, Purdue, The Future of Collaborative Teams - Ernie Blood, Caterpillar, Virtual Reality for Product Development (Thursday, 10:30-12:00) VI. Enterprise Computing and the World Wide Web Chair: Shiv Kapoor (MRC and ME&IE, UIUC) - Andrew Whinston, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Electronic Commerce - Joseph Hardin, Associate Director, NCSA, Next Generation Web Technology - Richard DeVor, UIUC, World Wide Web and Agile Manufacturing (Thursday, 1:30-3:00) VII. Emerging Technologies for Rapid Product Design and Development. Chair: Tom Conry (GE, UIUC) - Larry Burkholder, John Deere, Technologies for Rapid Product Design & Development - Ron Sanchez, UIUC, Corporate Strategy for Successful Product Development - Van Dyke Parunak, Industrial Technology Institute, Virtual Enterprises and Intelligent Agent Systems (Wednesday, 3:00-5:00) VIII. Tour of Virtual Reality Lab, Beckman Institute, and NCSA The registration fee for the conference is $90 per person. Fees include the costs of all reference materials, lunch on both days, and a reception and dinner on the first day. Travel and lodging expenses are the responsibility of the individual participant. Hotel Reservation Information Rooms are on hold to be reserved by conference participants at the nearby Hampton Inn and across town at the Radisson Suite hotel. Room rates at the Hampton Inn, 1200 West University, are $48 per single and $54 per double and may be reserved by calling the Hampton Inn directly at 217/337-1000 or by calling 1-800-426-7866, using the group code "J10". Room rates at the Radisson Suite hotel, 101 Trade Centre Drive, are $60 per single and $70 per double and may be reserved by calling 217/398-4000. To insure conference rates, please be sure to mention that you are attending this conference. Additional Information For information regarding conference procedures or arrangements please contact: Mr. Scott Miller, Conferences and Institutes, 302 E. John Street, Suite 202, Champaign, IL 61820, phone: 217-333-2882; fax: 217-333-9561; email: scmiller@uiuc.edu. Detailed information available on the WWW at http://www.conted.ceps.uiuc.edu/infrastructure/ From endree@idt.unit.no Tue Sep 26 11:02:55 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA23529 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:02:55 -0500 Received: from pat.idt.unit.no (pat.idt.unit.no [129.241.103.5]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA25509 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:02:48 -0500 Received: from hyll.idt.unit.no (1589@hyll.idt.unit.no [129.241.200.3]) by pat.idt.unit.no (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA29401 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:02:36 +0100 Received: (endree@localhost) by hyll.idt.unit.no (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA06559; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:02:34 +0100 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:02:30 +0100 (MET) From: Endre Eikestad To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: Retrieval of info from enterpr. models Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello Everyone This is my first posting to this mailing-list, and I hope my question is not rude or breaking the netiquette of the list. I am a graduate student in computer science at The Norwegian Institute of Technology, and I am working on a thesis on enterprise modelling and information retrieval from enterprise models in particular. The project that my thesis is part of is trying to develop methods to utilise enterprise models to build a corporate memory. In my work I am looking into the retrieval of the information that is stored in the corporate memory. So searching for information is also a central point for me. If anybody knows of any previous work on searching and information retrieval from enterprise models, I would be grateful to get a note telling me where too get more information, or maybe names of people who took part in the work. Best regards, Endre Eikestad endree@idt.unit.no From D087JS@UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU Tue Sep 26 11:04:09 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA23587 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:04:09 -0500 Received: from UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (utarlvm1.uta.edu [129.107.1.6]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA25515 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:04:08 -0500 Message-Id: <199509261604.LAA25515@einet.net> Received: from UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU by UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9181; Tue, 26 Sep 95 11:03:52 CDT Received: from UTARLVM1 (NJE origin D087JS@UTARLVM1) by UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 9050; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:03:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 11:03:36 CDT From: Joseph Sarkis Subject: Conference Announcement and Call for Papers To: all-iceimt@EINET.NET Southwest Annual Resource Management Conference Knowledge & Application: A Partnership For Success Announcement and Call For Papers Co-Sponsored by: APICS: Greater Fort Worth Area Chapter ARRI: Automation and Robotics Research Institute UTA: University of Texas at Arlington May 22-23, 1996 Arlington, Texas CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES The quest for improvement necessitated by competition in the marketplace continually expands the knowledge base. This quest translates into research conducted by both universities and corporations. The result of application of this research and the expanded body of knowledge base in our workplace will be improved competitive position for our businesses and a better quality of work life. This conference is intended to showcase the knowledge gained from original research and practical application of established theory in the field of integrated resource management. Academia will be introduced to the successes of practitioners and the direction of corporate research. Practitioners will be acquainted with the results of original research of academia. A partnership between knowledge and application will be cemented through a sharing of experiences in the quest for improvement. CONFERENCE LOCATION The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). UTA, located in the heart of the city of Arlington, is in the center of Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex which is home to many of the nations leading industrial, distribution, and service organizations. The area is the premier manufacturing and logistics hub of the Southwest. CONFERENCE EXHIBITIONS Space will be provided for tabletop display of products and services related to the conference theme. Exhibitors should contact Conference Chairs for and Exhibitor Prospectus. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference will include keynotes, invited and contributed papers on research and practical applications, for publication in the Conference Proceedings. Specific topic areas, as shown below in major/minor subdivisions, will coincide with the APICS Certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM) curriculum: 1. Customers and Products A. Product Design and Development B. Marketing and Sales C. Field Services 2. Logistics A. Production and Inventory Control B. Procurement C. Distribution 3. Manufacturing Processes A. Process Design and Development B. Manufacturing C. Industrial Facilities Management 4. Support Functions A. Total Quality Management B. Human Resources C. Accounting and Finance D. Information Systems Workshops on related topics will also be presented. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts of papers with author biographies are invited on the topics listed and within the general theme of the conference. Four copies of the abstract of 250-500 words should be submitted to the conference chairs by November 15, 1995. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results, and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. In the upper right hand corner of the abstract, reference the intended major/minor subdivision from the topic list, 4.A-Total Quality Management for example. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by January 8, 1996. The full length paper must be submitted by March 29, 1996. Speakers must be registered and formally present to have papers appear in proceedings. All abstracts and inquiries should be mailed to either of the conference chairs. TIME SCHEDULE Submit Abstract: ..........November 15, 1995 Abstract Acceptance:.........January 8, 1996 Final Paper Due:.................March 29, 1996 Conference:........................May 22-23, 1996 Conference Chairs Professor Joseph Sarkis, Ph.D., CPIM Automation and Robotics Research Institute 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S. Fort Worth, TX 76118 Phone: 817-273-3530 Fax: 817-794-5801 Email: sarkis@uta.edu Charles A. Busby, CFPIM, CIRM APICS Greater Fort Worth Area Chapter 260 P.O. Box 40424 Fort Worth, TX 76140 Phone: 817-877-4170 From ARAHIM@delphi.com Tue Sep 26 21:34:58 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA03314 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 21:34:38 -0500 From: ARAHIM@delphi.com Received: from bos1g.delphi.com (bos1g.delphi.com [192.80.63.7]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA29851 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 21:34:38 -0500 Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V5.0-5 #10880) id <01HVQY5K1MCW94FRHD@delphi.com>; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 22:34:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 22:34:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Journal Call for Papers To: aibnet@loyola.edu, asacnet@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, app-orgcomm@creighton.edu, buseth-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, bpr-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, cmdnet-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, qual-software@mailbase.ac.uk, ioob-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, dynmod-l@duticai.twi.tudelft.nl, wimnet-l@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca, qualnet-l@bcvms.bc.edu, all-iceimt@einet.net, entrep-l@ksuvm.ksu.edu, eawop-l@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl, famlybiz@pwa.acusd.edu, gss-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, healthmgmt@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, cscw-human-issues-l@netcom.com, hrnet@cornell.edu, imd-l@dekker.mtsu.edu, amint-l@psuvm.psu.edu, learning-org@world.std.com, cognition-ig@lists.colorado.edu, mba-l@marist.edu, newprod@world.std.com, omt@pX1.stfx.ca, obts-l@bucknell.edu, ocisnet@baylor.edu, odcnet-l@psuvm.psu.edu, oic@ursus.jun.alaska.edu, one-l@clvm.clarkson.edu, pubaom@mailer.fsu.edu, iabs-l@psuvm.psu.edu, quality@pucc.princeton.edu, eamwn-l@uriacc.uri.edu, stephenson@wharton.upenn.edu, rmnet@cochrane.bus.umich.edu, tim@mcmaster.ca, tqmnet.unmoderated@uwyo.edu, infosys@american.edu, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Message-id: <01HVQY5K1W0294FRHD@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: @MSS MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The International Journal of Organizational Analysis This journal is soliciting original theoretical and empirical articles dealing with national and international issues in the following areas: 3. Organization theory 2. Strategic management 1. Business and society 4. Organizational behavior 5. Human resource management It also publishes case studies, research notes, simulations, teaching cases, and book reviews. The IJOA is published in January, April, July, and October. Manuscripts must be prepared strictly according to the 1994 edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and will be reviewed by double-blind review process. Four copies of the manuscripts and requests for other details should be addressed to the Editor: Dr. Afzal Rahim Ctr for Adv Stud in Mgt 1574 Mallory Court Bowling Green, KY 42103, USA Phone & Fax: 502-782-2601 E-mail: Arahim@delphi.com From strong@tradewave.com Wed Sep 27 09:11:09 1995 Received: from sulfur.einet.net (sulfur.einet.net [192.35.179.209]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA13141 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:11:09 -0500 Received: from zinc (zinc.einet.net [192.35.179.110]) by sulfur.einet.net (8.6.12/einetsun-9506231011) with SMTP id JAA23931 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:11:08 -0500 Message-Id: <199509271411.JAA23931@sulfur.einet.net> X-Sender: strong@sulfur.einet.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:18:28 -0500 To: all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net From: Mike Strong Subject: Termination of ALL-ICEIMT list Hello, We will be terminating this list almost immediately. If any of you on this list would like to see it continue, please volunteer your site or suggest a site that might want to take over responsibility for it. We will transfer any archives to anyone willing to host this list. We will be turning off this list server probably within 24 hours so even if someone does want to continue hosting this list, it will still probably experience at least a brief interruption in service until it is re-established on its new host. Respectfully yours, Mike Strong Mike Strong Office: 512/433-5348 TradeWave Corporation (Formerly EINet, Corp.) Fax: 512/433-5303 3636 Executive Center Drive, Suite #100 http://galaxy.einet.net/ Austin, TX 78731 strong@tradewave.com From goranson@snap.org Wed Sep 27 11:05:28 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA14975 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:05:28 -0500 Received: from larry.infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.114]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA03214 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:05:27 -0500 Received: from [204.117.154.88] by larry.infi.net with SMTP (Infinet-S-3.3) id MAA00996; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 12:05:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 12:05:03 -0400 X-Sender: tedg@mailhost.infi.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: goranson@snap.org (Ted Goranson) Subject: Re: Termination of ALL-ICEIMT list >Hello, > >We will be terminating this list almost immediately. If any of you on this >list would like to see it continue, please volunteer your site or suggest a >site that might want to take over responsibility for it. We will transfer >any archives to anyone willing to host this list. > >We will be turning off this list server probably within 24 hours so even if >someone does want to continue hosting this list, it will still probably >experience at least a brief interruption in service until it is >re-established on its new host. > >Respectfully yours, > >Mike Strong > >Mike Strong Office: 512/433-5348 >TradeWave Corporation (Formerly EINet, Corp.) Fax: 512/433-5303 >3636 Executive Center Drive, Suite #100 http://galaxy.einet.net/ >Austin, TX 78731 strong@tradewave.com A reminder to those who may want to "switch over." The sponsor and PI of the ICEIMT have moved on to working on formal EI tools. This is being accomplished under the auspices of the Agile Manufacturing program, with a first target at metrics. To subscribe to the metrics list, send a message to majordomo@infi.net with the message "subscribe metrics" All who have been posting conference announcements, etc to all-iceimt are welcome to do so to the metrics list. Best, Ted =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .....| Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta | | .....| 1976 Munden Pt, Va Beach VA 23457-1227 | ARoarABoaryAlice | .....| 804/426-6704, Fax 804/721-0781 | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From P.Bernus@cit.gu.edu.au Wed Sep 27 22:20:32 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA24921 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 22:20:27 -0500 Received: from kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (kurango.cit.gu.edu.au [132.234.5.1]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA07515 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 22:20:21 -0500 Received: by kurango.cit.gu.edu.au id AA04200 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for all-iceimt@einet.net); Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:18:59 +1000 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:18:59 +1000 From: Peter Bernus Message-Id: <199509280318.AA04200@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au> To: all-iceimt@einet.net, goranson@snap.org Subject: Re: Termination of ALL-ICEIMT list I have just volunteered to take over the mailing list so you may want to hold on a few days with switching over from this list. It has been a very useful one and I propose that to mix it with another list with more special focus would upset both the iciemt scope and the metrics scope. It is a better practce to cross post if neceesary then to create unwanted noise on both lists. regards Peter Bernus From strong@tradewave.com Thu Sep 28 10:22:21 1995 Received: from sulfur.einet.net (sulfur.einet.net [192.35.179.209]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA05178 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:22:21 -0500 Received: from zinc.einet.net (zinc.einet.net [192.35.179.110]) by sulfur.einet.net (8.6.12/einetsun-9506231011) with SMTP id KAA20389; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:22:20 -0500 Received: by zinc.einet.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BA8D8D.5DBD4460@zinc.einet.net>; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:30:00 -0500 Message-ID: <01BA8D8D.5DBD4460@zinc.einet.net> From: zinc To: "ei95@cit.gu.edu.au" , "'Peter Bernus'" Cc: "'all-iceimt@ftp.einet.net'" Subject: RE: continuation of ALL-ICEIMT list Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:29:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit TradeWave is not part of MCC any longer and we are no longer involved with some projects that are oriented more toward academia and pure research. I realize, however, that I handled the announcement badly and apologize to many of you who are still very interested in the continuance of this list. I was too abrupt. Please be assured that I will work with others to see that this forum continues to serve you and your needs as we transition out of the role of hosting it. I thank those who have volunteered to take over the list. I have had two institutions offer and I need to discuss it with both parties further to reach an optimal solution for everyone. I thank Mr. Bernus and Mr. Blyth for both quickly offering to assist in this. I will update you all on the particulars when we get them settled. Again, please forgive me for "surprising" you with my inconsiderately abrupt announcement yesterday. Respectfully yours, Mike Strong ---------- From: Peter Bernus[SMTP:P.Bernus@cit.gu.edu.au] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 1995 12:06 AM To: ei95@cit.gu.edu.au Subject: continuation of ALL-ICEIMT list Dear Colleagues, For those who have been surprised about the suddent announcement by Mike Strong about the closure of the ALL-ICEIMT list: From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Thu Sep 28 12:34:00 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA07360 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:34:00 -0500 Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU (bimini.Stanford.EDU [36.37.0.36]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA11420 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:33:54 -0500 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA13698 for all-iceimt@einet.net; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:33:53 -0700 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:33:52 PDT From: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) Reply-To: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) To: all-iceimt@einet.net Subject: RE: continuation of ALL-ICEIMT list In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:23:54 -0500 Message-ID: Mike, Good message, but folks may not know what's happened down there in Austin. Briefly, MCC EINet was a co-sponsor of ICEIMT. EINet was a research project within MCC. They were funded to do things like ICEIMT and maintain the mailing list. EINet was a successful project in that they were spun-off into a private commercial enterprise: TradeWave. Thus, they no longer in the business of maintaining academic functions such as the ICEIMT mailing list. They do still maintain the ICEIMT web page from which the archives of papers from the first conference (1992) can be accessed. Some of the information here, especially about the mailing list, will need to be changed. Someone may eventually want to take over this web page as a place to post conference URLs. For the record, I have no contracts with either MCC or TradeWave. (Nor does, I believe, Bruce Speyer.) Charles Petrie Sr. Research Associate Center for Design Research Stanford University 560 Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305-2232 415/725-0162 FAX 725-8475 petrie@cdr.stanford.edu ----------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ ----------------------------------- From goranson@snap.org Thu Sep 28 13:30:31 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA08363 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:30:30 -0500 Received: from larry.infi.net (larry.infi.net [198.22.1.114]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA11830 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:30:28 -0500 Received: from [204.117.154.107] by larry.infi.net with SMTP (Infinet-S-3.3) id OAA29009; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 14:30:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 14:30:17 -0400 X-Sender: tedg@mailhost.infi.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: goranson@snap.org (Ted Goranson) Subject: RE: continuation of ALL-ICEIMT list >Mike, > Good message, but folks may not know what's happened down there in >Austin. Briefly, MCC EINet was a co-sponsor of ICEIMT. EINet was a >research project within MCC. They were funded to do things like ICEIMT >and maintain the mailing list. EINet was a successful project in that >they were spun-off into a private commercial enterprise: HREF="http://galaxy.einet.net/tradewave/tradewave.html"> >TradeWave. Thus, they no longer in the business of maintaining >academic functions such as the ICEIMT mailing list. Just to add to Charles' history: ICEIMT was the result of what was intended to be two significant efforts: 1) A large EI research program, sponsored by DARPA and Air Force ManTech; and, 2) A continuing and broad collaboration between the US and the European Community (EC) in the areas of manufacturing technology. Item one was primed by the issuing of a number of study contracts, plus an EI "Framework" contract, the support for an EI users group, and what turned out to be a rather large effort in an EI Suppliers' Working Group (SWG). It was felt that rolling those efforts into an open process would be good, especially since there appeared to be substantial SWG results. The EI group at MCC was contracted to conduct the ICEIMT workshops and conference, synthesize a coherent vision and support collaboration. (Charles was then at MCC.) Item two officially was a colloboration between the US and the EC which had taken years to negotiate. The action agencies were the ESPRIT program office in the EC and a coalition of ARPA/Dod Mantech/Dod CALS/AF ManTech/NIST on the US side. The US protocol was negotiated by NSF, so they were implicitly a partner. NIST acted as the lead agency. The action officers were myself for the US and Kurt Kosanke on the EC side. Performing bodies were the AMICE consortium on the EC side and MCC for the US. This was, I believe, before the MCC group solidified their EInet identity and mission. Funding on our side came from Dod ManTech, managed by AF ManTech, but both AF and ARPA monies were also involved. There's a more complete account of events in the book. Although the work was extremely well received, technically solid, and appropriate, funding fell victim to the fact that many US agencies were involved. All of these have been plunged into a several-year adventure in the questioning and redirection of their missions, with the result that complex efforts of this type have completely been eliminated. Also, the primary corporate sponsors of the SWG have each also gone through their own revolutions. It is only through the kindness of MCC that the list has been maintained this long. It certainly is a positive sign that some offers have emerged to continue it. That would be a very good thing. Best, Ted =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- .....| Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta | | .....| 1976 Munden Pt, Va Beach VA 23457-1227 | ARoarABoaryAlice | .....| 804/426-6704, Fax 804/721-0781 | | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From <@PSUVM.PSU.EDU:klein@quark.arl.psu.edu> Fri Sep 29 11:31:14 1995 Received: from einet.net (einet.net [192.147.157.40]) by ftp.einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA27328 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:31:14 -0500 Received: from PSUVM.PSU.EDU (psuvm.psu.edu [128.118.56.2]) by einet.net (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA18281 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:31:08 -0500 Received: from quark.arl.psu.edu by PSUVM.PSU.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Fri, 29 Sep 95 12:30:19 EDT Received: from [128.118.19.93] (hannah.arl.psu.edu) by quark.arl.psu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22134; Fri, 29 Sep 95 12:30:21 EDT X-Sender: klein@quark.arl.psu.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:30:28 -0400 To: all-iceimt@einet.net From: all-iceimt@einet.net (by way of klein@quark.arl.psu.edu (Mark Klein)) Subject: CFP: 1996 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Conference ------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ------------------------------------------------ CSCW 96 Cooperating Communities November 16-20, 1996 Cambridge, MA USA We invite you to submit original work to the 1996 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 96). This year's theme is Cooperating Communities. Communities are made up of people who share similar interests, professions, types of interaction or a common locale. Over a five-day period, we will explore the new and productive ways in which different communities can come together. With the explosion of popular interest in networked computer systems and the Internet, this conference is expected to play an important role in framing and extending the discussion about technology's role in the future of work. CSCW is a multi-disciplinary field encompassing theory and practice, engineering and social sciences. Topics suitable for submission include: o Theories of coordination and collaboration o Work practice studies of collaboration o Workplace design to support collaboration o Methodologies and tools for analyzing cooperative work o Impact of technology on individuals or organizations o Technologies or architectures to support collaboration Submissions are encouraged from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, consulting or government on topics related to the theory, practice, design or support for collaborative work conducted by small or large groups. CSCW is an international conference; we welcome submissions from all countries. Whether you submit original work or not, we hope you plan on attending the conference. Remember to mark your calendar! -------------------------- CRITICAL DATES -------------------------- March 20, 1996 Papers due April 22, 1996 Panel proposals due Tutorial proposals due Video proposals due Workshop proposals due July 17, 1996 Short Papers due Demonstration proposals due Doctoral Colloquium proposals due -------------------------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION -------------------------------------- CSCW 96 Conference Office 703 Giddings Avenue, Suite U-3 Annapolis, MD 21401 USA Email: cscw96-info@media.mit.edu WWW home page: http://info.sigchi.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/ ******** PLEASE NOTE!!! ********* Due to problems with my mailer, sometimes my mail to the outside world has an incorrect return address. Please verify when "replying" to my message that it is going to the proper address (klein@quark.arl.psu.edu). US Mail: ------- Mark Klein, PhD Information Systems Department The Applied Research Laboratory P.O. Box 30 State College, PA 16804-0030 USA Express Mail Services: --------------------- Mark Klein, PhD Information Systems Department Applied Science Building Atherton Street State College, PA 16804-0030 USA Voice: +1 (814) 863-5381 Fax: +1 (814) 865-7097 Email: klein@quark.arl.psu.edu WWW: http://quark.arl.psu.edu/klein-vita.html From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Tue Oct 10 17:06:10 CDT 1995 >From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Tue Oct 10 17:06:07 1995 Return-Path: Received: from tmac.org. by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA13892; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 17:06:07 -0500 Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU by tmac.org. (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA09547; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 17:03:52 -0500 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA05802; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:07:19 -0700 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:07:18 PDT From: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) Reply-To: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) To: iceimt@texas-one.org Cc: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com, guna@fcit.monash.edu.au, mansoor.sarhadi@brunel.ac.uk, Bruce Speyer Subject: [CFP: Enterprise Management and Integration ] Message-Id: content-length: 4701 Received: from eitech.eit.com (eitech.eit.COM [192.100.58.2]) by cdr.stanford.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA24872; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:22:27 -0700 From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 16:22:18 EDT To: made-again@eit.COM Subject: CFP: Enterprise Management and Integration ********************* Call For Papers ****************** CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: Research and Applications (CERA) -- An International Journal SPECIAL ISSUE on: Enterprise Management and Integration Concurrent engineering is a systematic approach to the integrated, concurrent design of products and their processes, including manufacture and support. This approach leads developers, from the outset, to consider all the stages of the product life cycle, from conceptual through disposal, including quality, cost, schedule, and customer requirements. Early consideration of later phases of the life-cycle leads to no downstream problems. It also supports intelligent and informed decision-making throughout the process. We will consider papers that discuss architectures for supporting virtual teams, decision-support tools, and design rationale as well as those that concentrate on more theoretical issues such as specifications of shared languages, constraint-based problem solving, and negotiation. Papers are requested on topics concerned enterprise management and integration. In particular, we are soliciting papers dealing with various aspects of enterprise integration such as assessing an organization's readiness, re- engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, agile manufacturing, and virtual enterprise. Also, papers related to the following topics are welcome for the special issue: -Modelling manufacturing resources, processes, and strategies to support concurrent engineering -Designing performance measurement systems for improving the application of the concurrent engineering process -Experience from implementing concurrent engineering systems in real life environments -The role of multimedia in enterprise management and integration -Decision support systems for integrating organizational decision making -Improving communication and decision making within quality function deployment Manuscripts should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length including all figures and references. Papers must not have been previously published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Initial abstracts and manuscripts should have a title page including the authors' full names, affiliations, physical and e-mail addresses. Papers must be double spaced, single-sided, on 8.5" x 11" paper, with 1" margins all around, in a 12 point font. Final manuscripts must meet the guidelines for the CERA Journal set forth by CERA Institute -- these appear inside the back cover of the journal. Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. The following is the schedule for the special issue: 1 to 2 page abstract due before January 15, 1996 Five copies of full manuscript due February 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance March 15, 1996 Final version of manuscript due May 15, 1996 Send to publisher June 1, 1996 Special issue September 1996 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> URL: http://cs.wpi.edu/Research/aidg/CFPapers/CERAEM.html <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Please submit your manuscripts to one of the following co-editors: Dr. A. Gunasekaran Professor M. Sarhadi School of Computing and Information Department of Manufacturing and Technology, Engineering Systems, Monash University Brunel University Churchill, Victoria 3842 Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH Australia United Kingdom Phone: +61 51 22 6832 Phone: +44 1895 203 300 Fax: +61 51 22 6842 Fax: +44 1895 812 556 E-mail: guna@fcit.monash.edu.au E-mail: mansoor.sarhadi@brunel.ac.uk For Sample copy of CERA Journal send your request to Dr. Biren Prasad Managing Editor, CERA Journal P.O. Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, USA Tel : (810) 696-5487: Fax (810) 661-8333; Email: BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com cc: SMTP --AHIPC2S Guna in Australia BPRASA03--AHDNN1A Biren Prasad ----------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ ----------------------------------- From bspeyer Thu Oct 12 12:04:30 CDT 1995 >From bspeyer Thu Oct 12 12:04:21 1995 Return-Path: Received: by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA07832; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:04:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:04:21 -0500 From: bspeyer (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9510121704.AA07832@texas-one.org> To: david.riggins@tpoint.net, iceimt, strong@tradewave.com Subject: ICEIMT's new home location content-length: 3083 --- ICEIMT ANNOUNCEMENT --- Dear subscribers of the ICEIMT list. After some discussions between people who volunteered to continue the ICEIMT list we are happy to announce that the listserver and archives have moved and are up and running at a new location TOOLS.TEXAS-ONE.ORG. Any messages sent to the old addresses at EINet/Tradewave will automatically forward here effective immediately. It will be run by Bruce Speyer (speyer@tools.texas-one.org), the US chair of the first ICEIMT conference, who maintained the service from its inception in 1992 until this year while at MCC. (Note: This name will be shortened to simply TOOLS.ORG once it is approved and activated by the Internic which hopefully will be happening in the next few weeks) --- ICEIMT WEB INSTRUCTIONS --- The easiest and recommended way to access the ICEIMT mailing list and archives is now by the web using the URL: http://tools.texas-one.org/EI/ICEIMT With this URL, the document archives are available for download, the entire mailing list archive is there as searchable hypermail including links to reply to poster or the entire list, and also you may subscribe, unsubscribe, set digest or no-digest, and review the list or recipients by selecting links and completing forms on the web. Additionally, the Tools Project and EI home pages are reachable from the ICEIMT URL using the bookmarks found at the bottom of every page. These pages contain information and services that may be of interest to the EI community and organizations. A separate announcement will be made later regarding the Tools Project, its objectives, current and planned offerings, and models for collaboration and use. --- ICEIMT LISTSERVER INSTRUCTIONS --- The ICEIMT list name has been simplified from ALL-ICEIMT to just ICEIMT. To post a message to the ICEIMT mailing list use the address: ICEIMT@TOOLS.TEXAS-ONE.ORG The Email address for the ICEIMT listserver is now: LISTPROC@TOOLS.TEXAS-ONE.ORG One or more listserver commands may be included in the body of the message. The subject field is always ignored. Some of the more common commands that you may wish to use are: HELP INFORMATION ICEIMT SUBSCRIBE ICEIMT YourFirstName YourLastName UNSUBSCRIBE ICEIMT RECIPIENTS ICEIMT For more details see the Web page or use the INFORMATION ICEIMT command. --- EI Clearinghouse Collaboration --- Peter Bernus, vice-chair of the Architectures for Enterprise Integration Task Force (IFIP/IFAC) has set up a mirror site as part of the EI clearinghouse project at: http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/ei95/clearinghouse.html so that better access to the information can be provided for users in the Asia Pacific region. The two sites, TOOLS.ORG and WWW.CIT.GU.EDU.AU will cross reference each other and share information. Bernus will also edit the Enterprise Integration Newsletter, to be periodically distributed on the ICEIMT list, after Francois Vernadat who started this newsletter has proposed to pass on this duty to him. -- Regards, Bruce Speyer speyer@tools.texas-one.org From bspeyer Thu Oct 12 12:55:34 CDT 1995 >From bspeyer Thu Oct 12 12:55:30 1995 Return-Path: Received: by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA08433; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:55:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:55:30 -0500 From: bspeyer (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9510121755.AA08433@texas-one.org> To: david.riggins@tpoint.net, iceimt Subject: MCC consortium names executives content-length: 1041 (October 12, Austin, TX. - Austin American Statesman) Austin's MCC research consortium has hired a No. 2 executive and the leader of a key research project. Erik Mettala, former associate dean of engineering for research at the University of Texas at Arlington, was named executive vice president. Mettalla, 45, worked for the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1989 to 1993, and was appointed deputy director of ARPA's software and intelligent systems technology office in 1991. He will help map MCC's research and development strategy. Marek Rusinkiewicz was named director of MCC's Infosleuth Project. The project launched in January, aims to improve the software used in locating and retrieving information across far-flung computer networks, including the Internet. Rusinkiewicz, 49, formerly was professor of computer science and director of undergraduate studies for the University of Houston. He is an expert in database systems, workflow management, distributed computer systems and knowledge bases. From bspeyer Thu Oct 12 17:43:50 CDT 1995 >From bspeyer Thu Oct 12 17:43:48 1995 Return-Path: Received: by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11401; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:43:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:43:48 -0500 From: bspeyer (Bruce Speyer) Message-Id: <9510122243.AA11401@texas-one.org> To: iceimt Subject: trying to signoff? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII content-length: 644 Note: a few of you have been trying to unsuccessfully unsubscribe from the ICEIMT list. The listserver has logic to avoid mail loops and returned messages and the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line will make a message be rejected for that reason. Either, use the web to unsubscribe: http://tools.texas-one.org/EI/ICEIMT or leave the subject line blank in your message to the listproc: Mail listproc@tools.texas-one.org Subject: (no subject - leave blank) UNSUBSCRIBE ICEIMT Sorry for any trouble this may have caused. Bruce p.s. I mistyped Eric's last name in the MCC press release I forwarded. It is Erik Mettala with only one 'l'. From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Wed Nov 1 14:28:50 CST 1995 >From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Wed Nov 1 14:28:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from texas-one.org by tmac.org. (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10308; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:28:44 -0600 Received: from CMSA.gmr.com by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA17245; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:31:04 -0600 Message-Id: <9511012031.AA17245@texas-one.org> Received: from AHIPC2S by CMSA.gmr.com (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8766; Wed, 01 Nov 95 15:32:04 EST Date: Wed, 01 Nov 95 15:32:04 EST From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com To: ICEIMT@texas-one.org Subject: CFP: Concurrent Engineering '96 content-length: 5753 To: Interested in CE Conference? Subject: CFP: Concurrent Engineering '96 CALL FOR PAPERS Concurrent Engineering 96 ========================= Third ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 26-28, 1996 ISPE Concurrent Engineering 96 Conference (ISPE/CE96) is the major forum for the international scientific exchange of research results in the development and application of information technologies and business practices in achieving concurrency and integration in engineering. Submissions of papers are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in Concurrent Engineering. Topics include: * Planning & Scheduling: Enterprise integration, assessing an organization's readiness, CE process characterization, workflow tracking and management, CE assessment models, planning and scheduling of activities, re-engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises. * Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative work, team coordination, decision support and design assessment, monitoring progress of product development, change notification across perspectives, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure, project & team coordination. * Information Modeling: Information modeling and simulation, integrated process capture, design intent capture, data version control and management, PDES/STEP, multi-level user access, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design rationale, integrated database and knowledge- base management systems, constraints. * Teaming and Sharing: Information sharing, communication tools, computer-based video and audio conferring and consulting, multimedia electronic mail, network-wide sharing of tools, graphical collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability, networked collocation. * Networking and Distribution: Integrated frameworks, architectures for building CE systems, CE languages & tools, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration, virtual team support environments, tools for multi-media conference on the networks, distributed computing environment. * Organization and Management: Principles of CE, emerging standards and practices, life cycle engineering, design for X, integrated product and process development, environmentally conscious manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality. * Reasoning & Negotiation: Conflict resolution techniques, constraint management, negotiation, blackboard and agent-based architectures, corporate technical memory. * Practical applications: Practical solutions, systematic guidelines, pitfalls and success stories, case studies, lessons learned, etc. Best Paper Award ---------------- The Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications journal (Dr. B. Prasad, Ed. bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com) will sponsor an award for the best paper. CE96 is sponsored by The International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE). Timetable --------- * 1 February 1996: Paper submissions due. Maximum 10 pages, single spaced, 12 point font. Please submit 4 copies (or postscript file by email) to Program Chair: Dr. M. Sobolewski (address below). Late submissions will be returned unopened. * 1 April 1996: Notification of acceptance/rejection sent to authors. * 1 May 1996: Camera-ready copy of accepted papers due. Further Information ------------------- * Additional information can be found on the World Wide Web: http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/ * Selected papers will be reviewed for inclusion in a special issue of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application. * Conference proceedings will be published by Technomic Pub. Co. * Information on CE94 and CE95 proceedings can be found at http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/ Conference Organization ----------------------- Conference General Chair: Prof. Mark S. Fox Dept. of Industrial Eng., University of Toronto 4 Taddle Creek Road Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, CANADA E-Mail: msf@ie.utoronto.ca Tel: +1-416-978-6823, Fax: +1-416-971-2479 Conference Program Chair: Dr. Michael Sobolewski GE Corporate Research and Development KW Building, Room C276B, P. O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 USA E-Mail: sobol@crd.ge.com Tel: +1-518-387-5150, Fax: +1-518-387-7080 Program Area Chairs ------------------- Enterprise Integration: Dr. Pravir K. Chawdhry, UK Information Modeling: Dr. V. "Juggy" Jagannathan, USA Data Exchange: Dr. Martin Hardwick, USA Collaborative Work Dr. A. Gunasekaran, Australia Reasoning & Negotiation: Dr. Mark Klein, USA Practical Applications: Dr. Anthony J. Gadient, US Planning & Scheduling: Dr. Shuichi Fukuda, Japan Organization & Management: Dr. B. Gopalakrishnan, USA BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com cc: SMTP --AHIPC2S paul SMTP --AHIPC2S Mike Sobolesky SMTP --AHIPC2S Dr. Mark Klein SMTP --AHIPC2S SMTP --AHIPC2S Mark Fox SMTP --AHIPC2S P.K. Chawdhry SMTP --AHIPC2S Juggy Jagannathan SMTP --AHIPC2S Anthony J. Gadient SMTP --AHIPC2S Suren Dwivedi SMTP --AHIPC2S Dr. J. Favrel SMTP --AHIPC2S Guna in Australia SMTP --AHIPC2S Dr. Don Lyons SMTP --AHIPC2S Gopal Krishnan SMTP --AHIPC2S Dr. Nanua Singh SMTP --AHIPC2S David Brown SMTP --AHIPC2S Mrs. Alison Donald SMTP --AHIPC2S G. Bhaskaran From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Wed Nov 8 18:18:20 CST 1995 >From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Wed Nov 8 18:18:14 1995 Return-Path: Received: from texas-one.org by tmac.org. (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA00277; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 18:18:14 -0600 Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA08408; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 18:20:38 -0600 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA17243; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:20:11 -0800 Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:20:10 PST From: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) Reply-To: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) To: iceimt@tools.org, shade@HPP.Stanford.EDU, share@bimini.Stanford.EDU, engineering-design@mailbase.ac.uk Cc: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu, wen@cerc.wvu.edu (W. Wen), wetice@cerc.wvu.edu, abe@bimini.Stanford.EDU, waterbug@epims1.gsfc.nasa.gov Subject: IEEE WET ICE '96 Call for Workshop Proposals Message-Id: content-length: 5981 Call for Workshop Proposals WET ICE '96 "Collaborating on the Internet: The World-Wide Web and Beyond" IEEE Fifth Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises June 17-19, 1996 Stanford University, Stanford, California Co-sponsors IEEE Computer Society and the Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University are accepting proposals for specialized workshops for the Fifth Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE '96). The event is being hosted by Stanford University's Center for Design Research in the beautiful San Francisco Bay area and is being coordinated by CERC. We are applying for the cooperation of AAAI and ACM SIGOIS. WET ICE '96 will consist of a series of individual workshops running in parallel, each including paper presentations and working group discussions, with the exact format to be determined by the workshop organizer. In addition, there will be joint plenary sessions and a final communal session to summarize each groups' findings. The workshops should focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, particularly technologies that utilize the Internet. Papers selected should describe survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration. Suggested topics for workshops include, but are not limited to: World-Wide Web-based environments for virtual enterprises mobile collaborative environments secure collaborative environments virtual reality-based collaborative environments virtual enterprise support environments integration of legacy databases and systems multi-media conferencing workflow and project coordination electronic design notebooks mediators/agents applications of collaboration technologies (healthcare, software engineering, electronic commerce, etc.) Workshop proposers, if selected to organize a workshop, will be responsible for soliciting papers, coordinating reviews (three reviews per paper to qualify for publication), corresponding with authors, and conducting the workshop, according to the Important Dates listed below. CERC will handle the general workshop promotions (with some additional postings as appropriate by workshop organizers), logistical/physical arrangements, and registration and will keep in contact with each workshop organizer to ensure that he/she meets all deadlines. Papers accepted for the workshops, and which were peer-reviewed by a minimum of three people, will be included in the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. CS Press and CERC will coordinate the production of the proceedings. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Proposals should be no more than three pages. Proposals should contain the full name, title, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone/fax numbers of each proposer; the proposer('s/s') credentials; the topic of the proposed workshop; a description of the proposed workshop; and the strategy for recruiting papers for the workshop. Proposals should be submitted as text or UNIX-compatible PostScript files to Prof. Srinivas Kankanahalli, Program Chair, at wetice@cerc.wvu.edu IMPORTANT DATES WORKSHOP PROPOSALS due November 27, 1995 Notification of decisions to WORKSHOP PROPOSERS December 1, 1995 First Call for Papers* December 1, 1995 Full PAPERS due to accepted workshop organizers March 15, 1996 Notification of decisions to PAPER authors April 19, 1996 Advance Registration May 17, 1996 Workshop June 17-19, 1996 Final PAPERS due June 28, 1996 *NOTE: Workshop proposals that are accepted will be announced in the first call for papers and in a half-page advertisement that will appear in the January issue of IEEE Computer. WET ICE '96 CHAIRS General Chair: Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford University Program Chair: Srinivas Kankanahalli, CERC/West Virginia University Local Arrangements Chair: Vinay Kumar, M/Cast Communications, Inc. WET ICE '96 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hussein Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA Takashi Arano, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University, USA Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologne, Italy Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA Taher Elgamal, Netscape Communications Corp., USA Sumit Ghosh, Arizona State University, USA K.Gopinath, Indian Institute of Science, India Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Rome, Italy Mark Klein, Pennsylvania State University, USA Richard Kouzes, West Virginia University, USA Robert Marcus, American Management Systems, Inc., USA Feniosky Pena-Mora, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Alexander Schill, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Richard Mark Soley, Object Management Group, USA Sri Sridharan, Intel Corporation, USA P. David Stotts, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA WET ICE '95 PROCEEDINGS The WET ICE '95 proceedings includes one keynote speech, 23 scientific papers, and three working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. The proceedings can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 1-714-821-8380 from outside the United States, or by using an electronic order form at URL http://info.computer.org:80/cspress/order.htm. Specify order #PR07019. INTERNET INFORMATION SITES This Call for Workshop Proposals, and future information about the workshop, can be accessed through: the World Wide Web at URL http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE/WETICE96.html/ anonymous FTP at babcock.cerc.wvu.edu under /announcements/ and Gopher at gopher.cerc.wvu.edu under /announcements/ ----------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ ----------------------------------- From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Fri Dec 8 16:02:48 CST 1995 >From petrie@cdr.stanford.edu Fri Dec 8 16:02:41 1995 Return-Path: Received: from texas-one.org by tmac.org. (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA20592; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 16:02:41 -0600 Received: from bimini.Stanford.EDU by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA04036; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 16:05:14 -0600 Received: (from petrie@localhost) by bimini.Stanford.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) id OAA04443; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:06:00 -0800 (PST) Sender: Charles Petrie Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:05:59 PST From: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) Reply-To: petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie) To: iceimt@tools.org, share@bimini.Stanford.EDU, shade@HPP.Stanford.EDU, abe@bimini.Stanford.EDU, engineering-design@mailbase.ac.uk, agents@sun.com Cc: paetzold@rtna.daimlerbenz.com, Yan Jin , wetice@cerc.wvu.edu, sriniv@cerc.wvu.edu Subject: WET ICE'96 DATE CHANGE Message-Id: content-length: 430 Because of logistics, we are changing the dates of WET ICE `96 from June 17-19 to June 19-21, 1996. The first round of workshops have been selected. The deadline for the second round is December 18, 1995. Details are at http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE/WETICE96.html on the WWW. cp ----------------------------------- Stanford Center for Design Research WWW URL http://cdr.stanford.edu/ ----------------------------------- From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Mon Dec 11 11:06:37 CST 1995 >From BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com Mon Dec 11 11:06:31 1995 Return-Path: Received: from texas-one.org by tmac.org. (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10195; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:06:31 -0600 Received: from CMSA.gmr.com by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA29782; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:09:03 -0600 Message-Id: <9512111709.AA29782@texas-one.org> Received: from AHIPC2S by CMSA.gmr.com (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6158; Mon, 11 Dec 95 12:10:00 EST Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 12:10:00 EST From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com To: ICEIMT@texas-one.org Subject: INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES? content-length: 4996 To: Interested in Industry Best Practices? Subject: INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES? Dear Colleagues: I have pleasure informing you about the availability of a TEXTBOOK that covers many of the INDUSTRY "BEST PRACTICES" for experienced engineers that were found relevant by an independent committee on ASME/NSF Product Realization Process (PRP) Project. If you didn't know, the findings of the Industry Task Force Report were presented & released at the ASME Annual Congress'95 in San Francisco, November 13, 1995. Though, the two (the "Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals" book and the "ASME/NSF Survey Industry Task Report") were independent undertakings, I was surprised to know that many of the identified Industry best practices were not taught in some of the American University/College Design curriculum or courses. I was equally surprised to know that many of those identified best practices coincidentally were part of the "CE Fundamentals" Book, mentioned earlier. I was not a party to this (ASME/NSF study) and I did not know about it until the day of the presentation. The good news -- there is a book that can be used to teach those best practices. Don't take my words for it. Please do your own independent evaluation. Thank you and best wishes for the holiday season, Biren Prasad EDS/General Motors __________________________________________________________________________ BOOK TITLE/SUBTITLE Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals: Integrated Product and Process Organization by Biren Prasad Published by: Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Volume I: 1996, 502 pp., ISBN # 0-13-147463-4 (Just Published) Volume 2: 1996, 500 pp., ISBN # 0-13-396496-0 (Due Spring 1996) The critically important elements of product and process organization comprise identifying and evaluating product development practices, eliminating wastes and rework, decomposing tasks, adding product values, and integrating the product, process and organization (PPO) into a taxonomic system of product realization. Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals gives an integrated view of this organization, covering management's organizational and cultural concerns, as well as the methodological fields of taxonomy, including philosophical, conceptual and virtual perspectives. The book, which largely contains fundamental ideas, is organized into nine chapters. The book begins by discussing the emerging concept of a virtual enterprise, breaking down organizational boundaries and taking a holistic view of life-cycle management. It then lays down a set of modern manufacturing invariant, which focuses on 4Ms (models, metrics, measures and methodology) for PPO as well as model enactment based on cognition to represent human behaviors. Finally, the book describes an integrated taxonomic constructs for product realization from its inception to disposal. Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals presents the key concepts of Concurrent Engineering that is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry. It also describes the performance indicators to meeting the world class competitiveness challenges that industries are facing today. With Concurrent Engineering: Fundamentals, you will learn proven CE techniques to bring new products to market faster. The book features process reengineering to help you discover your company's strengths and weaknesses, information modeling to capture the invariant of CE environments and system engineering to describe techniques of how to achieve gold successes. You will learn how to make quantum improvements in key PPO categories such as productivity, quality, cost effectiveness, design for X-ability, responsiveness, customer satisfaction, etc. Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals is fully illustrated and each chapter includes test problems and suggestions for additional readings. Professors and students will find this book quite appropriate for teaching capstone courses in design education curriculum. The book is also beneficial to practicing engineers in industries as well as executives managing CE projects. This is an excellent introduction to researchers interested in advancing the key CE ideas. The book will be of particular interest to all who are interested in understanding the process of CE and determining its impact on quality, cycle-time, resource allocations and teamwork. If you would like to get a copy of the Table of Contents, the CE Fundamentals textbook, or to discuss technical details concerning Concurrent Engineering, please direct your inquiries or Email your request to me or visit Prentice Hall's web site: http://www.prenhall.com Dr. Biren Prasad CERA Institute Electronic Data Systems, P.O. Box 250254 West Bloomfield, MI 48325-0254 Tel: (810) 696-5487: Fax: (810) 661-8333 Email: BIREN PRASAD, PH.D. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING Phone Number: (810) 696-5487 Fax Number (810) 661-8333; Email: bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com cc: SMTP --AHIPC2S Biren Prasad From J.B.M.Goossenaerts@tm.tue.nl Tue Dec 12 10:22:58 CST 1995 >From J.B.M.Goossenaerts@tm.tue.nl Tue Dec 12 10:22:51 1995 Return-Path: Received: from texas-one.org by tmac.org. (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01037; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 10:22:51 -0600 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01066; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 10:25:18 -0600 Received: from bdklan1.bdk.tue.nl [131.155.122.2] by mailhost.tue.nl (8.7.1) for id MAA22398 (ESMTP). Tue, 12 Dec 1995 12:28:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from BDKLAN1/MAILQUEUE by bdklan1.bdk.tue.nl (Mercury 1.21); 12 Dec 95 12:28:12 +1100 Received: from MAILQUEUE by BDKLAN1 (Mercury 1.21); 11 Dec 95 17:51:42 +1100 From: "Jan Goossenaerts (I&T)" To: iceimt@texas-one.org Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 17:51:33 MET-1DST Subject: DIISM '96: Call for Papers Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Message-Id: <25F930705DD@bdklan1.bdk.tue.nl> content-length: 7470 DESIGN OF INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING (DIISM '96) CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Conference Organized by the Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands September 16-18, 1996 SPONSORED BY: IFIP WG 5.3 - CAM IFIP WG 5.7 - Production Engineering PDI-CALS (NL) CIMOSA Association (D) GLENnet Association (D) SCOPE: New information and communication technologies are adding new opportunities to enterprises and are changing the ways of competition and cooperation. Extended enterprises, where core functionalities are provided separately by different companies that come together to provide a customer defined product, are emerging. They need a stable infrastructure to share information and to coordinate decisions and control, with common methods and integrated telematics applications for order processing, contract negotiation, cooperation in product and service development, etc. CONFERENCE THEMES: Building on the success of the first DIISM workshop (Tokyo, 1993) this conference will further elaborate on: (a) the co-ordination and systematization of inform-ation processing requirements and their synthesis into deeply structured, easily adaptable and comprehensive con-ceptual models; (b) the development of information infrastructures amalgamating the conceptual models with computing/ communication/storage technologies; and (c) the development of intelligent manufacturing systems amalgamating the information infrastructures with ad-vanced machine tools and skillful people. New themes of the conference are: (d) the design of models for extended enterprises and product life cycles; and (e) the definition of related infrastructure services. The conference program will leave much room for discussion and exchange of views. The conference is also a meeting place for new initiatives for joint work between research and practice. CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES: A major goal is to deepen the under-standing and agreement about design methods, languages, reference frame-works, and architectures for information infrastructure systems for manufacturing industry. Some specific objectives are: --to compare and evaluate modelling methods and languages that support one to better understand information infrastructure systems for manufacturing --to derive recommendations from cases where infrastructure services have been designed or implemented --to compare and evaluate documented model design cases --to expand enterprise models and product models such that they can be applied for modelling extended enterprises and product life cycles --to identify targets and requirements for "a process-centered re-engineering into a coherent body of standards" for product/process modelling PARTICIPANTS: Participants will be, on the one hand, professionals in the field of enterprise & product modelling and/or manufacturing engineering, as well as providers of supportive IT-tools. On the other hand, the scientific community will be represented. The number of participants will be about 100. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Submissions should include five copies of the full paper (8-12 pages), without authors' names and affiliations, and a covering letter with the authors' names and affiliation, and with address and E-mail of the corresponding author. Submission address: Drs. Monique Jansen Eindhoven University of Technology TM/BDK/I&T/Pav. D10 PO Box 513 NL-5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands phone: +31-40-2472952, fax: +31-40-2451275, e-mail: mja@tm.tue.nl TIMETABLE: Autumn 1995: pre-announcement and call for papers March 1, 1996: full papers have to be received May 15, 1996: notification of acceptance July 5, 1996: final versions of papers TOPICS INCLUDED: Contributions are invited, but not limited to concepts and applications in the area of: -- Frameworks for extended-enterprise process models and product life cycle models -- Virtual manufacturing -- Generic product and process models and step-wise derivation techniques -- Construction (derivation) of particular requirement models (by enrichment) from generic models -- Comparison of frameworks and environments for product and process modelling -- Harmonization of international standards -- Multi-agent model execution services -- Generic infrastructure services and interfaces for interflow systems CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN: Prof. Dr. J.C. Wortmann Eindhoven University of Technology Faculty of Technology Management Industrial Eng. & Management Science Section Information & Technology INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chairman: Prof. Dr. F. Kimura The University of Tokyo Faculty of Engineering Dept. of Precision Machinery Engineering Committee members: Anderl, R. (Germany), Arai, E. (Japan), Bjoerner, D. (Macau), Browne, J. (Ireland), Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (Portugal), Chan, A. (Canada), Doumeingts, G. (France), Dubois, E. (Belgium), Filip, F.G. (Romania), Goossenaerts, J. (The Netherlands), Gransier, T.A.G. (The Netherlands), Groumpos, P.P. (Greece), Houten, F. van (The Netherlands), Inoue, I. (Japan), Iwata, K. (Japan), Kjellberg, T. (Sweden), Kosanke, K. (Germany), Kusiak, A. (USA), Markus, A. (Hungary), Mertins, K. (Germany), Mize, J. (Hong Kong), Moodie, C. (USA), Mori, K. (Japan), Nemes, L. (Australia), Olling, G. (USA), Oskam, G.H. (The Netherlands), Patnaik, L.M. (India), Pels, H.J. (The Netherlands), Puymbroeck, W. Van (Belgium), Ranta, J. (Finland), Rembold, U. (Germany), Sauer, A. (Germany), Shuh, G. (Switzerland), Shewchuk, J.P. (USA), Shorter, D. (United Kingdom), Soenen, R. (France), Storr, A. (Germany), Takizawa, M. (Japan), Tatsiopoulos, I.P. (Greece), Valckenaers, P. (Belgium), Vernadat, F. (France), Weston, R. (United Kingdom), Williams, T.J. (USA), Wortmann, J.C. (The Netherlands), Wu, C. (P.R. China) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Michel van Eekhout, Jan Goossenaerts, Monique Jansen, Henk-Jan Pels, and Arian Zwegers. REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION: The call for participation will be mailed by May 15, 1996. For registration or further information on the conference please contact: Michel van Eekhout Eindhoven University of Technology Faculty of Technology Management Industrial Eng. & Management Science Section Information & Technology PO Box 513, Pav. D7 NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands phone: +31-40-2472183 fax: +31-40-2451275 e-mail: mee@tm.tue.nl Up-to-date information on the conference can also be found on the World-Wide-Web. The address of our WWW-server is: http://www.tm.tue.nl/tm/vakgr/it/diism/index.htm ======================================================== || Jan Goossenaerts || Eindhoven University of Technology || Faculty of Technology Management || Section Information and Technology || P.O.Box 513, Paviljoen || 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands || || fax: +31(40)2451275 || phone: +31(40)2472062 or 2472290 || email: jgo@bdk.tue.nl or J.B.M.Goossenaerts@bdk.tue.nl ========================================================= From chanmeng@iti.gov.sg Thu Dec 21 23:16:13 CST 1995 >From chanmeng@iti.gov.sg Thu Dec 21 23:16:06 1995 Return-Path: Received: from texas-one.org by tmac.org. (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA29762; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 23:16:06 -0600 Received: from iti.gov.sg (nighthawk.iti.gov.sg) by texas-one.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA19824; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 23:18:40 -0600 Received: (from mailer@localhost) by iti.gov.sg (8.6.11/8.6.11) id NAA03474 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 13:20:28 +0800 Received: from mailhub.iti.gov.sg(192.122.132.130) by iti.gov.sg via smap (V1.3) id sma003467; Fri Dec 22 13:20:10 1995 Received: by iti.gov.sg (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03080; Fri, 22 Dec 95 13:18:27 SST Date: Fri, 22 Dec 95 13:18:27 SST From: chanmeng@iti.gov.sg (Khoong Chan Meng) Message-Id: <9512220518.AA03080@iti.gov.sg> Received: from sol.iti.gov.sg(192.122.132.131) by atlas via smap (V1.3mjr) id sma000865; Fri Dec 22 11:18:35 1995 To: iceimt@tools.org Subject: IPIC'96 Call for Papers content-length: 8822 ============================================================== IPIC'96: Call for Papers ============================================================== IPIC'96, the International Working Conference on Integration of Enterprise Information and Processes, "Rethinking Documents", will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on November 14th and 15th, 1996. This conference will be the first in a series that addresses "integration issues" of enterprises in the context of their increasingly distributed business and operational processes. More specifically, the series addresses issues of "information integration" (creation of new, value-added information out of existing information), "process integration" (reorganization of structural relationships among enterprise process entities for enhanced performance), and synergy between information integration and process integration. The conference series is intended to provide a forum to promote communications among researchers and practitioners of information systems, management, and related disciplines on issues of information and process integration. The focus of the '96 meeting is on the role of documents in process integration, i.e., how documents and information contained in documents can be most effectively utilized in analysis, design, and implementation of processes for enhanced integration. There is an emerging notion of "document information" in the industry that is considered to be a key class of information for enabling process integration. It represents a large class of corporate information (typically over 70%), and is characterized by its strong process orientation and high business values. Yet, unlike relational data that the industry has learned to manage well, document information is typically left outside the discipline of database management due to its complexity in structure and lifecycle. This situation, however, is changing thanks to emerging network middleware technology and related document services such as document database management, document flow management, and document information interchange (via standards such as HTML and more generally SGML). It is, therefore, particularly timely to consider the role of documents in process integration and attempt to harness the business value of document information. Participation at this "Working" Conference will be limited to 50 ~ 60 people through invitation and paper selection. Conference Topics ================= Information Systems Support for Integration - Information integration tools - Process modeling tools - Document and workflow management systems - Information capture support Modeling Theory and Practice for Representation and Manipulation of Information and Processes - Modeling concepts and languages - Reference models, application models, and modeling methodology Understanding of Business and Organizational Issues Surrounding Integration - Process implementation - Business and market forces behind integration - Organizational issues surrounding information and process integration Conference Web Page =================== For further articulation of the Conference issues and topics, please visit our Web page at http://www.iti.gov.sg/conference/ipic96.html. Since the '96 meeting is the first one in a series, we have included in the Web page a more detailed account of the Conference: motivations for the general theme of the Conference and for its '96 focus, a set of working definitions for its key concepts, etc. Breakout Session ================= In order to facilitate communications among participants, we are planning breakout sessions on key topics of the conference. If you have proposals for session topics, please contact Chan Meng Khoong at chanmeng@iti.gov.sg. Submission ========== Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (one to two single-spaced pages) for papers on the Conference topics in the following categories: - Issues/vision papers: pointing out directions for future practice/research in the topics of the Conference. - User experience papers: detailed actual experience papers pointing out what organizations are currently doing with available technology and standards. - Research papers: original, in-depth studies on the Conference and related topics. Send your abstracts electronically in plain ascii to ipic96@iti.gov.sg, by March 18th, 1996. Abstracts will be reviewed by the conference Steering Committee and some members of the Program Committee for full paper submission. Papers accepted for the conference will appear in the conference proceedings, to be published by a major publisher after the conference. In order to promote participation from the user/practitioner community, we will accept some extended abstracts for presentation at the Conference without commitment to a full paper extension. The deadline for submission of "presentation abstracts" is also March 18th, 1996. Such abstracts may be included in the proceedings when they are sufficiently complete. Please include in your abstract submission the following information: - Author Name(s) - Author Affiliation(s) - Email address(es) - Submission Category: (Issues/vision, Experience, Research) - Full Paper Submission: (Yes, No). Key Dates ========= 3/18/96: "Full paper abstracts" and "presentation abstracts" received. 4/15/96: Notification of abstract acceptance for full paper submission. Notification of abstract acceptance for presentation. 6/3/96: Full papers received. 7/29/96: Notification of full paper acceptance for presentation. 8/26/96: Final versions of accepted papers received. Final Program Announcement. 11/14~15: Conference. Steering Committee ================== Srikanth Kannapan: Design Research Institute, Xerox Corporation Chan Meng Khoong: Information Technology Institute, Singapore National Computer Board Sham Navathe: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (Conference co-chair) Toshiro Wakayama: Architecture and Document Services Technology Center, Xerox Corporation (Conference co-chair) JoAnne Yates: Center for Coordination Science, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program Committee (partial list) ================================ A complete list will be announced shortly in our Web page at http://www.iti.gov.sg/conference/ipic96.html. Mark Ackerman, Dept. of Information and Computer Science, Univ. of California at Irvine Paul Cole, Lotus Development Corporation Mark Cutkosky, Center for Design Research, Stanford University Thomas Davenport, Graduate School of Business, Univ. of Texas at Austin Soumitra Dutta, European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD), France Wolfgang Klas, Institute for Integrated Publishing and Information Systems, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD-IPSI) Jintae Lee, Dept. of Decision Science, Univ. of Hawaii Frank Leyman, German Software Development Laboratory, IBM Allan MacLean, Rank Xerox Research Center, Xerox Matthew Morgenstern, Design Research Institute, Xerox/Cornell University Sunil Sarin, Xerox Advanced Information Technology, Xerox Avi Seidmann, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester Lucy Suchman, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Advisory Board ============== Allen Brown, Director of Technology, XSoft, Xerox Corporation Frank Gilbane, Editorial Director, The Gilbane Report on Open Information & Document systems Bob Halperin, Executive Director, Center for Coordination Science, Sloan School of Management, MIT Eric Neuhold, Director, Institute for Integrated Publishing and Information Systems, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD-IPSI) Ushio Sumita, Dean, Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan Francis Yeoh, Director, Information Technology Institute, Singapore National Computer Board Correspondence ============== Messages sent to ipic96@iti.gov.sg are automatically routed to Steering Committee members. You may also contact members directly: Abstracts Submission: Sham Navathe (sham@cc.gatech.edu) Full Papers Submission: Toshiro Wakayama (ipic96@iti.gov.sg) Conference Program: Srikanth Kannapan (kannapan@dri.cornell.edu) Breakout Session: Chan Meng Khoong (chanmeng@iti.gov.sg) Local Arrangements and Registration: JoAnne Yates (jyates@mit.edu) Conference Web Page: Chan Meng Khoong (chanmeng@iti.gov.sg) Sponsors ======== - Xerox Corporation - Information Technology Institute, Singapore National Computer Board - Center for Coordination Science, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology