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 [Contact the message author for the application form. -- KIL]