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From: erikp@cs.kun.nl (Erik Proper)
Subject: CFP: Information System Concepts (ISCO3)
Date: 11 Apr 1994 12:11:44 -0500
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IFIP WG 8.1 International Working Conference on
I N F O R M A T I O N S Y S T E M C O N C E P T S
TOWARDS A CONSOLIDATION OF VIEWS
(ISCO3)
Marburg/Germany, 28-30 March 1995
Sponsor: International Federation for Information Processing
Co-sponsor: Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V.
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BACKGROUND AND THEME:
Most mature scientific disciplines have a sound and widely accepted
foundation of basic concepts. This is not yet the case for our discipline
of information systems. Numerous and widely diverting views abound in our
field. It is acknowledged that there are various good reasons for applying
different views, modelling approaches or paradigms for different sorts of
information systems. But most of these differences are unmotivated or not
well justified; they are the historical products of different research
cultures and schools of thought. More regrettable are the differences
caused by a school ignoring the work of others, or resulting from
deliberate "product differentiation" by companies or universities in the
information system field.
For the future of our field, it is desirable to encourage a
consolidation and harmonisation of views, wherever that is feasible. The
current work of the IFIP WG 8.1 Task Group FRISCO ("FRamework of
Information System COncepts") is a major step in this desirable direction.
After the two successful ISCO conferences in Namur and Alexandria, this
third ISCO conference is being organised, with consolidation and
harmonisation as its aims.
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
* Investigations of the reasons for the divergence of views and paradigms
in the information systems field, and possible remedies.
* Studies to clarify and axiomatise key concepts for information systems.
* Studies regarding integration or unification of conceptual frameworks
for information systems.
* Investigations of the conceptual relationships between the information
systems field and the various neighbouring disciplines, such as software
engineering, organisation theories, system theories, cognition, or
semiotics.
* Improvements to existing frameworks of information system concepts.
* Approaches for integrating, unifying or transforming different modelling
techniques or design methods for information systems.
* Approaches to inter-operable information systems and re-usability of
information system designs in different environments.
* Approaches for adapting general modelling techniques or methods for
specific application domains or sorts of information systems.
* Investigations of the suitability of conceptual frameworks for
addressing problems encountered in various sorts of information systems,
such as database systems, active database systems, deductive database
systems, multi-media database systems, knowledge-based systems, decision
support systems, expert systems, document retrieval systems, information
disclosure systems, real-time information systems, office information
systems, management information systems, communication systems, etc.
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
Researchers, teachers and practitioners in the information systems
field, regardless of their special connection to some specific scientific
culture or school, sort of information systems, or sort of application
domains.
CONFERENCE SET-UP:
It is planned to incorporate in the conference a tutorial about the
results of the work of the FRISCO Task Group, followed by regular, original
paper sessions, a poster session, and a panel session. For each regular
paper, a discussant will reflect and comment on it, to provoke an in-depth
discussion and debate.
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS:
Original papers, fitting into the theme, are invited. They may cover one
or several of the suggested topics, but are not limited to them. To submit
a paper, send five (5) copies of your manuscript in English to the Program
Committee Chairman by 28 October 1994:
Prof. Dr. E. D. Falkenberg
Department of Informatics, University of Nijmegen
Toernooiveld, NL - 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Email: ef@cs.kun.nl , Fax: +31-80-553450
Submitted papers should not exceed 8000 words, and should have a front
page where the title, the authors, their postal addresses, their email
addresses, their fax numbers and their phone numbers are stated. The full
paper, including title and abstract, but excluding the authors, should
begin on the second page.
Submitted papers will be reviewed and judged with respect to
originality, significance, depth of analysis or insights, clarity and
readability, and relevance to the conference theme. All submitted papers
will be blind refereed. Pre-prints will be available at the time of the
conference. The proceedings will be published after the conference by the
official IFIP publisher.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Papers due: 28 October 1994
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 December 1994
Final papers for pre-prints due: 10 February 1995
GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Antoni Olive, University of Catalunya, Spain
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:
Eckhard Falkenberg, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
F. van Assche, Belgium D. Avison, U.K.
P. Creasy, Australia W. Hesse, Germany
R. Hotaka, Japan M. Jarke, Germany
L. Kalinichenko, Russia P. Kerola, Finland
P. Loucoupulos, U.K. K. Lyytinen, Finland
B. Nilsson, Sweden J. Odell, U.S.A.
N. Prakash, India C. Rolland, France
H. Sol, Netherlands R. Stamper, Netherlands
R. Traunmueller, Austria T. Tse, Hong Kong
A. Verrijn-Stuart, Netherlands D. Vogel, U.S.A.
K. Voss, Germany Y. Wand, Canada
S. Wrycza, Poland
ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR:
Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany
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| Erik Proper (Erik.Proper@zeus.cs.kun.nl),
| University of Nijmegen, Department of Software Engineering,
| Information Systems Group, Toernooiveld, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen,