[comp.ai.digest] Conference - COIS88 Office Information Systems

rba@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM (Bob Allen) (02/09/88)

        COIS88 - Conference on Office Information Systems
         .              Advance Program
                        March 23-25,1988
           Hyatt Rickeys Hotel, Palo Alto, California
Sponsored by: ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA  In cooperation with: IFIP W.G. 8.4

Wednesday, March 23, 1988
Introductions: Najah Naffah, Bob Allen
Keynote: Terry Winograd
Collaborative Work: (paper session) Chair: Irene Greif
	The rapport multimedia conferencing system
	   S.R. Ahuja, J.R. Ensor, D.N. Horn, AT&T Bell Laboratories
	An integrated framework for the use of computers and computer modeling
        in negotiations
	   D. Samarasan, J.D. Nyhart, C. Goeltner, MIT
	Quilt: A collaborative tool for cooperative writing,
	   R. Fish, R. Kraut, M. Leland, M. Cohen, Bellcore
	How can groups communicate when they use different languages? 
	   J. Lee, T.W. Malone, MIT
Distributed Artificial Intelligence - DAI (panel) Chair: Les Gasser
Task Modeling, Planning, and Coordination (paper session)
	Problems in modelling tasks and task views
	   M. Mazer, U. Toronto
	OTM: Specifying office tasks
	   F.H. Lochovsky, J.S. Hogg, S.P. Weiser, A.O. Mendelzon, U. Toronto
	Using a planner to support office work
	   W.B. Croft, L.S. Lefkowitz, U. Mass.
	Customizing cooperative office procedures by planning,
	   R. Lutze, Triumph-Adler
	AMS: A knowledge-based approach to task representation, organization
        and coordination
	   M. Tueni, J. Li, P. Fares, Bull
Directions in Workstations

Thursday, March 24, 1988
Organizational Impact (paper session) Chair: Rob Kling
	Computers' impact on productivity and worklife
	   S. Dumais, R. Kraut, S. Koch, Bellcore
	The impact of electronic mail on managerial and organizational
        communications
	   M. Sumner, Southern Illinois
	The influence of training on actual use of end-user software,
 	   L. Olfman, R. Bostrom, Claremont Graduate School/Indiana U.
	Disaligning macro, meso and micro due process: A case study of office
        automation in Quebec colleges
	   F. Blanchard, A. Cambrosio, U. Quebec
Social Research: Methods and Principles (paper session), Chair: Tora Bikson
	Cost benefit analysis of information systems: A survey of methodologies
	   P. Sassone, Georgia Tech.
	Collection and analysis of data from communication system networks,
	   R. Rice, USC
	Social choice theory and distributed decision making,
	   A. Urken, Stevens Inst
	Understanding design as cooperative work, P. Ehn, U. Aarhus
SIGOIS Business Meeting
User Design of Interfaces (panel) Chair: Austin Henderson
Hypertext and Information Retrieval  (paper session) Chair: Walter Bender
	Query processing strategies : Cost evaluation and heuristics
	   E. Bertino, F. Rabitti, and S. Gibbs
	Knowledge-based generation of conceptual hypertexts,
	   U. Hahn, U. Reimer, U. Passau/U. Constance
	Knowledge based document classification supporting integrated document
        handling
	   H. Eirund, K. Kreplin, Triumph-Adler
	Shared books: Collaborative publication management for an office
        information system
	   B. Lewis, J. Hodges, Acorn Research/Xerox
	Seeing the forest for the trees: Hierarchical displays of hypertext
        structures.
	   S. Feiner, Columbia U.
Hypertext and Electronic Publishing (panel) Chair: Norm Meyrowitz
Banquet, Speaker, Kristen Nygaard, Tresidder Union, Stanford University,
7:30-10:00

Friday, March 25, 1988
Multimedia (paper session) Chair: Donald Chamberlin
	Employing voice back channels to facilitate audio document retrieval
	   C. Schmandt, MIT
	Interactive retrieval of office documents
	   W.B. Croft, R. Krovetz, U. Mass.
	An experimental multi-media bridging system, 
	   E.J. Addeo, A. Dayao, A.D. Gelman, V.F. Massa, Bellcore
	Browsing within time-driven multimedia documents
	   S. Christodoulakis, S. Graham, U. Waterloo
Object-Oriented and Distributed Databases (paper session)
	An application oriented approach to view updates,
	   J. Klein, A. Reuter, U. Stuttgart
	Aggregation and generalization hierarchies in office automation
	   M. Bever, D. Ruland, IBM
	Object flavor evolution in an object-oriented database system
	   Q. Li, D. McLeod, USC
	Semantic queries for office information system desig
	   B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano
Object-Oriented, Organizational, and Market Systems (paper session)
Chair: R.E. Fikes
	An object oriented system implementing KNOs, E. Casais, U. Geneva
	A commitment-based communication model for distributed office
        environments
	   C. Koo, G. Wiederhold, P. Cashman, Stanford/DEC
	Market automation: Self-regulation in a distributed environment
	   R. Miller, Boston U.
	Ubik: A system for conceptual and organizational development
	   P. de Jong, MIT
Object-Oriented PS/DBMSs (panel) Chair: Stan Zdonik

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