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