General Assembly 2001 (Tab 10g)

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

 Report to IFIP General Assembly August 2000 to August 2001

TC 8 officers:  Chairman Bernard Glasson AU 	(1996-98, 1999-2001)
		Chair Elect Dewald Roode ZA 	(2002-2004)
		Vice-Chair Erich Neuhold DE 	(2001-2002)
		Vice-Chair Dewald Roode ZA 	(2001-2002)
		Secretary Jan Pries-Heje DK 	(1999-2001, 2002-2004)

WG8.1 - Design and evaluation of information systems
Officers: 	Chair Hannu Kangassalo FI (1998-2000, 2001-2003)
		Vice-Chair Barbara Pernici IT (1998-2000, 2001-2003)
		Secretary Motoshi Saeki JP (1998-2000, 2001-2003)

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 - E-Business: Multi-disciplinary research and practice
	(subject to endorsement by TA/GA)
Officers: 	Chair Steve Elliot AU (2001-2003)
		Vice-Chair Kim Viborg Andersen DK (2001-2003)
		Vice-Chair Eileen M. Trauth US (2001-2003
		Secretary Sigi Reich AT (2001-2003)

WG8.5 - Information Systems in Public Administration
Officers: 	Chair Fernando Galindo ES (2000-2002)
		Vice-Chair 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)
		Elections will be held in the last quarter of 2001

Task Groups NA

TC 8 Membership and Participation Attachment 1

 Members who have not participated for the last three years

TC8 Calendar (as of 22 June 2001) Attachment 2

REL = Related Event.
SUP = Supported Event.
All other Events mentioned are traditional IFIP Workshops or Working Conferences

Attachment 3

Introduction:

Working Group 8.4 Office Systems has been looking for a new direction for some time. Many of the questions of interest when the group was founded have been solved. The new issues were coming out of attempts to integrate Internet-based technologies into office ad organisational work commonly referred to as E-Business. Many of the working groups in IFIP include some focus on elements of E-Business. However, there seemed to be an opportunity for IFIP to reach out beyond our traditional foci of interest to address multi-disciplinary issues across the breadth of E-Business.

The notion was put that current working groups focus on technology issues and impacts, primarily within organizations. However, successful implementations of E-Business frequently require additional interaction between elements that extend beyond technology and organizational issues to include environmental (eg infrastructure, national culture, national and international payment mechanisms) and consumer factors.

To test this notion, TC8 sponsored a Working Conference in Salzberg, Austria in June 2001 with the theme "Developing a dynamic, integrative, multi-disciplinary

Research agenda in E-Commerce/E-Business". Papers and panel sessions were presented by academic researchers and industry practitioners with a range of disciplinary perspectives (including technology, systems development, sociology, legal, management, education, health, banking and logistics). The conference attracted seventy-five (75) participants from seventeen (17) countries. At the concluding business meeting it was proposed and agreed that three of the conference officers become the new office bearers for WG 8.4 and as such, that they draft a revised aims and scope (see attached). Forty-two (42) participants agreed to join the revised working group. It was further agreed that the proposed officers invite a suitable North American member to serve as a second Vice Chair (which they have subsequently done). The Centre for Electronic Commerce at Copenhagen Business School proposed to host a second conference in support of this working group to be held from 10 – 11 June 2002.

The meeting agreed that Information Systems theory has, to date, largely ignored non-organizational consumers. Disciplines such as marketing, sociology and psychology have theoretical grounding in consumer issues. Also, it is intended that specific applications of Information Systems would be included in a multi-disciplinary working group, eg theory based in banking, transportation, manufacturing and other industries. WG 8.4's aims and scope have been revised with this in mind.

Action Required

Technical assembly is asked to endorse Working Group 8.4's new office bearer's and its revised aims and scope as attached (subject to editorial review by Jack Rosenfeld) and to recommend to General Assembly that they be adopted.

Nominated office bearers (2001-2003 inclusive)

Chair:

Prof. Steve Elliot, University of Newcastle, NSW Australia (selliot@mail.newcastle.edu.au)

Vice Chairs:

Assoc. Prof. Kim Viborg Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (kva.inf@cbs.dk)

Prof. Eileen M. Trauth, School of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, 002H Thomas Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA (Etrauth@ist.psu.edu)

Secretary:

Dr Sigi Reich, Salzburg Research Institute, Austria (sreich@salzburgresearch.at)

Aim:

To promote collaboration across disciplines in E-Business research and practice.

Scope:

This working group provides a reference point and a focus for multi-disciplinary research and practice in E-Business. The intention is to extend the community’s focus on E-Business to recognize, acknowledge and facilitate research and practice as it crosses the boundaries of IS, organizational, consumer, community, industry and national domains.

Where researchers and practitioners focus on specific issues and technologies, eg smart-card developments, mobile technologies or organizational adoption of IT practices then that research is more properly located within existing working groups. Where that work is cross or multi-disciplinary it can be located here.

 Attachment 4

Introduction:

WG 8.8 have revised their scope and aims to keep abreast of contemporary developments in their field.

Action Required:

Technical assembly is asked to endorse Working Group 8.8's revised aims and scope as shown below (subject to editorial review by Jack Rosenfeld) and to recommend to General Assembly that they be adopted.

Working Group 8.8 Revisions:

Aims

Smart cards are to be understood as personal, portable, flexible, secure tokens that form an integral part of a larger information infrastructure. Therefore the aims of WG 8.8 are:

• to encourage interaction between the numerous actors in the smart card area.
• to create a common and coherent approach of a specific methodology.
• to address the background technologies of component architectures; for example dedicated chips, security devices, memory management.
• to specify and design smart card operating systems.

• to identify and develop relationship between different themes of information systems and smart cards, for example promote the theme of smart cards as a widely distributed data base.
• to identify interfaces between smart cards as an active components of distributed systems and networks.
• to promote a global security analysis of information systems using smart cards.
• to investigate the field of applications of smart cards and propose a scheme for a design methodology.
• to create new models for information systems which use smart cards.
• to participate to advanced standardization discussions and propositions.

Scope

The study of smart cards as an innovative component of widely distributed systems. The scope includes all the aspects of smart cards design and applications:

• Technology with hardware, software and security specific requirements.
• Application design with a special emphasis on development methodology of distributed systems.
• Service providing including analysis of transactions, protocols and more generally speaking, the process of a top down design of smart cards projects.
• The interaction of smart card related technology with society, economics, public services and organisations.
  

 Attachment 5

Memo by E-mail

To:       Chair, IFIP Publications Committee
From:     Chair, IFIP TC8
Subject:  Electronic Publications
Date:     16 August 2001                     			Ref:
Cc        Chair, IFIP Technical Assembly
          IFIP TC Chairs
          Members, IFIP TC8

Prins,

Formal Request to Publications Committee

At the last TC8 meeting in Salzburg in 21-22 June 2001, TC8 voted unanimously to formally request changes in processes for dissemination of TC8 working group proceedings by (1) printed proceedings as at present and (2) electronic distribution via an IFIP or other website after one year (one year embargo).

Discussion

One of the major missions of IFIP is dissemination of scientific knowledge. Conferences and conference proceedings are key elements of this dissemination. TC8 proposes to improve the dissemination of its work by continuing hard copy book distribution but adding electronic distribution of proceedings after a one-year embargo. If the proceedings are not printed in an IFIP book, the electronic distribution would be immediate. The proposed changes would (1) retain the IFIP books and the revenues from royalties. Most of the royalties are received from conference sales and library sales in the first year and (2) expand the dissemination of TC8 conference proceedings because of easy access and low cost (after one year).

Implementation

To implement the proposal, the following need to be done:

1. Amend the publisher agreement to allow electronic distribution by IFIP after one-year embargo
2. IFIP office to decide if it can provide the hosting service for TC8 proceedings. If not, TC8 will locate a hosting service, perhaps a university.
3. TC8 to have responsibilities as follows:

a. Prepare hard copy proceedings as at present
b. Provide hosting service with proceedings in format suitable for electronic distribution (after one year) as searchable text and pdf files for downloading of articles.

Cost issues

1. Search costs. Proposal is to allow search of abstracts of articles without cost.
2. Cost of download of articles: Download of articles in pdf format at a modest cost (say 3 to 5 EUC) per article.

Timing

Propose implementation by December 31, 2001. Electronic access would be optional for 2001 TC8 working conferences with published books, but only after one year from the conference. Example: 8.2 conference in August 2001 would be available electronically in September 2002.

Thank you and regards
Bernie Glasson