TC8 - Information Systems http://ifiptc8.cis.gsu.edu/ifip/

Report to IFIP Council August 2000 to February 2001

As at: 11 February 2001

Part 1 Council

1.1 TC 8 Composition

TC 8 officers: Chairman B. Glasson AU (1996-98, 1999-2001)
               Vice-Chair Erich Neuhold DE (2001-2002)
               Vice-Chair Dewald Roode ZA (2001-2002)
               Secretary Jan Pries-Heje DK (1999-2001)
WG8.1 - Design and evaluation of information systems
Officers:      Election will be held in 2000
               Chair Hannu Kangassalo FI (1998-2000)
               Vice-Chair Barbara Pernici IT (1998-2000)
               Secretary Motoshi Saeki JP (1998-2000)
WG8.2 - The interaction of information systems and the organisation
Officers:      Chair David Avison FR (2000-2002)
               Vice-Chair Julie Kendall US (2000-2002)
               Secretary Michael Myers NZ (2000-2002)
WG8.3 - Decision Support Systems
Officers:      Chair Andrew McCosh GB (2001-2003)
               First Vice-Chair Patrick Humphreys GB (2001-2003)
               Second Vice-Chair Bengt Lundberg SE (2001-2003)
               Secretary Zita Paprika HU (1998-2000, 2001-2003)
WG8.4 - Office Information Systems
Officers:      Chair Gert-Jan de Vreede NL (1999-2001)
               Vice-Chair O. Petrovic AT (1996-98, 1999-2001)
               Secretary W. Hewett AU (1996-98, 1999-2001)
WG8.5 - Information Systems in Public Administration
Officers:      Chair Fernando Galindo ES (2000-2002)
               The other officers will soon be elected. For now we have:
               American Vice-Chair John King US (1998-2000)
               European Vice-Chair T.F. Gordon DE (1998-2000)
               Secretary A. Gronlund SE (1998-2000)
WG8.6 – Transfer & Diffusion of Information Technology
Officers:      Chair Karlheinz Kautz DK(2000-2002)
               Vice-Chair Linda Levine US (2001-2003)
               Vice-Chair Richard Veryard GB (2001-2003)
               Secretary Deborah Bunker AU (2001-2003)
WG 8.8 - Smart Cards
Officers:      Chair Pieter Hartel NL (2000-2002):
               Vice-Chair J.-J. Quisquater BE (1999-2001)
               Vice-Chair P. Honeyman US (1999-2001)
Task Groups NA

1.2 TC8 Meetings

2000

• Date: 18-19 August
• Location: Hong Kong, China
• Number of TC members attending: 18
• Number of TC members absent with apologies: 11
• Number of TC members absent without apologies: 13

2001

• Date: 20-22 June
• Location: Saltzburg, Austria

1.3 Attendance Statistics (see Attachment 1)

1.4 TC8 Events/Activities (see Attachment 2)

Part 2 TC Forum

TC8 has invited members of other TC's and all of its own WG members to participate in two e-Commerce/e-Business activities being sponsored by TC8 or TC8 in conjunction with TC6 and TC11 (see Attachment 3). TC8 believes it important for IFIP to appropriately accommodate this topic within the IFIP structure. For its part TC8 sees e-Commerce/e-Business as an opportunity for collaborative research within the IFIP family itself (hence the joint work with TC's 6 and 11) and as an outreach opportunity for collaboration with other disciplines (hence the focus of the Salzburg event).

TC 8 Membership and Participation Attachment 1

Members who have not participated for the last three years

TC8 Calendar (as of August 2000) Attachment 2

Status Code: OT = Other Type
1 = Placeholder, 2 = Approved by TC8, 3 = Approved by AMB, 4 = Taken place, 5 = Closed off

Attachment 3

Subject: TC8 E-Business/E-Commerce research conferences

Message:

IFIP TC8 is involved in two E-Business/E-Commerce research activities this year. We would like to encourage members of the TC8 family with an interest in the field to consider participating in one or both events or bringing the opportunity to the attention of colleagues who may be interested in participating. In event sequence they are as follows.

June 22-23 Multidisciplinary research in eBusiness

IFIP TC8 is running a working conference with the theme "Multidisciplinary research in eBusiness". 
< http://www.salzburgresearch.at/suntrec/IFIPTC8Conference/ >

The idea of the conference is to reach-out beyond the IS community, which some would see as the traditional home of "E-Commerce/E-business" and draw researchers from other fields into our research discussions.

The IFIP conference runs Friday and Saturday June 22-23. The organizers will arrange rail coach bookings on the Sunday for those continuing on to the 14th Bled Conference on Electronic Commerce, Bled, Slovenia, June 25-26 < http://ecom.fov.uni-mb.si/ > and ECIS < http://ECIS2001.fov.uni-mb.si/ >

October 4-5 The First IFIP Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business, e-Government in Zürich, Switzerland sponsored by TC's 6, 8 and 11

< www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference >

This conference is the first IFIP conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government sponsored by the three committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to:

• Pre-sales support, ordering, settlement, delivery, and payment
• Post-sales services and customer care
• Innovative business models and business process re-engineering
• Interorganizational systems, virtual organizations, and virtual markets
• Supply chains, work flow management, control and audit mechanisms
• Procurement, negotiations and dynamic pricing models (bidding, auctions)
• Trading of intangible goods
• Information & communication platforms, mobile agents, unified messaging
• Security, privacy, and consumer protection
• Smart Cards and biometrics
• Information retrieval, data mining, semantic web
• Legal, social, cross-cultural issues
• Trust and confidence in digital signatures and certificates
• Mobile e-commerce and ubiquitous electronic markets
• Innovative government services for the citizen
• Strategic management of e-commerce, e-business, e-government systems
• Measuring of E-Commerce impact/results

Bernard Glasson
Chair, TC8