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Detailed program
(all presentations etc in the rooms Interaksjon and Agonist at unless otherwise stated)
Tuesday
14/9-2004
Wednesday
15/9-2004
Hans-Christian
Haugli, Telenor R&D: '
Mr Haugli has been in the
field of mobile communications for nearly 25 years, and has designed satellite
position tracking systems both in
Session
chairs: John Krogstie and Dewald Roode
10:15-11:45 Parallel sessions, full papers
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Design and development
track – Interaksjon 2. floor |
Adoption and usage track – Agonist 3. floor |
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Multi-channel
information systems Session Chair: Jan Damsgaard |
Applications for Session Chair: John Krogstie |
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Contracts for defining QoS
levels in a Multi-channel Adaptive Information System Discussant: Jan Damsgaard |
Action, interaction and the role of ambiguity in the
introduction of mobile information systems in a UK Police Force Discussant: John Krogstie |
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Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture K. Rehrl, M. Bortenschlager, S. Reich, R. H. Rieser
R. Westenthaler Page 37 Discussant: |
A Task-Based Framework For Mobile Applications To
Enhance Salespersons’ Performance Discussant: John Krogstie |
Jens Wehrman,
Frank Elter,
Odd-Wiking Rahlff, SINTEF,
14:15-15:45 Parallel sessions, full papers
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Design and development
track – Interaksjon 2. floor |
Adoption and usage track – Agonist 3. floor |
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Session Chair: |
Multimodal systems Session Chair: |
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Conceptual Modeling of
Styles For Mobile Systems Discussant: |
A multimodal context aware mobile maintenance
terminal for noisy environments Discussant: |
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Workflow Partitioning in Mobile Information Systems Discussant: |
An Approach to Multimodal and Ergonomic Nomadic
Services- A research experience and a vision for the future Discussant: |
Legal vs. Technological Issues in
the mobile area: Chair Elaine Lawrence
Thursday
16/9-2004
Kalle Lyytinen: Design and implementation challenges of
ubiquitous computing environments
Session Chair: Dewald Roode
10:15-11:45
Parallel session, full papers
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Design and development
track – Interaksjon 2. floor |
Adoption and usage track – Agonist 3. floor |
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Adaptive and user-centered design Session Chair: Erik Gøsta Nilsson |
mCommerce market development Session Chair: Pam Coutts |
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Towards Highly Adaptive Services for Mobile
Computing Discussant: Erik Gøsta Nilsson |
Analysis of Mobile Commerce Performance by using the
Task-Technology Fit K. Lee, S.
Lee, J. Kim Page 135 Discussant: Pam Coutts |
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Discussant:Erik Gøsta
Nilsson |
A Framework For Analyzing Mobile
Telecommunications Market Development Discussant: Pam Coutts |
Ragnar Bø, SONITOR:
Indoor Positioning Systems
Session Chair: John Krogstie
14:15-15:45 Parallel sessions, full papers
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Design and development
track – Interaksjon 2. floor |
Adoption and usage track – Agonist 3. floor |
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XML Data Exchange Session Chair: Elaine Lawrence |
Design of Session Chair: |
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Finite Segmentation for XML caching Page 183 Discussant: Elaine Lawrence |
Factors Influencing the Design of Mobile Services M. Amberg, J. Wehrmann,
R. Zimmer, Discussant: |
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Repairing lost connections of Mobile Transactions
with Minimal XML Data Exchange Discussant: Elaine Lawrence |
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Mobile and Ubiquitous systems - the need
for multi-disciplinary research: Chair Dewald Roode
at Hambro’s,
Kristian IV’s gt. 7 in the
Friday
17/9-2004
09:00-10:00 Parallel Sessions, short presentations
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Design and development
track – Interaksjon 2. floor |
Adoption and usage track – Agonist 3. floor |
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Session Chair: Tetsuya Uchiki |
Collaborative mobile applications Session Chair: Bill Olle |
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Providing Premium SMS Service for Mobile Phones |
Autopoiesis and Mobile
Technology Adoption: The Case of Wireless Collaboration Page 303 |
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Mobile Process Support Systems - Experiences from a
case study |
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One-handed mobile text-entry: evaluation of
five-key text entry techniques |
Mobile support for community healthcare: A Janus view Page 341 |
10:15-11:45 Parallel
sessions, full papers
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Design and development
track – Interaksjon 2. floor |
Adoption and usage track – Agonist 3. floor |
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Ad-hoc networks Session Chair: Barbara Pernici |
Adoption of Session chair: |
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Using Group Management to Tame Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks Page 245 Discussant: Barbara Pernici |
I. Constantiou, J.
Damsgaard, L. Knutsen Discussant: |
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Discussant: Barbara Pernici |
Page 275 Discussant: |
12:00-12:45
The Future of Mobile
IS in IFIP TC8 - Agonist 3, floor
Session Chairs: Dewald
Roode and John Krogstie
Detailed descriptions
INVITED
SPEAKERS
Kalle Lyytinen, Design and implementation challenges of
ubiquitous computing environments,
Computing is becoming both mobile and pervasive. A
knowledge worker’s use of computing and communication services is no longer
limited a solitary moments at an office desk. Instead, it is extending to all
aspects of social life, transcending the traditional boundary of work and
leisure. Increasingly organizational work processes and tasks are mediated
through computing devices that are embedded in the physical spaces or move with
workers. Unlike traditional computing devices that perform dedicated tasks,
ubiquitous devices perform diverse services utilizing heterogeneous resources
available. Consequently, the experience of managing and organizing in the
future will involve multifaceted engagements with an “intelligent” computing
environment through a rich array of
computing utilities including desktop devices, mobile communicators,
digital assistants, wrist watches, game consoles, clothing, consumer
electronics (TVs, radios, refrigerators, etc), cars, RFIDs
(Radio Frequency Identification Tags) and motes, just to name a few. These engagements will accelerate
digitization of all type of information leading to new forms of services,
organization and strategy based on anytime, any place computing.
Designing and implementing
ubiquitous computing environments will be radically different from those of
traditional desktop computing environments.
Novel technical, social, and organizational challenges
will need to be addressed at all levels – individuals, teams, organizations,
and society – and many old problems need to be revisited in light of ubiquity of computing in our lives. We
have argued earlier that implementing ubiquitous computing requires
implementing and managing two layers of computing capability: infrastructure
and services and both present new social and technical challenges.
New forms of digital services will
be invented for existing business processes and, at the same time, new forms of
organizational processes and practices will emerge as a result of experimenting
with ubiquitous computing. As we have already witnessed in mobile phone
industry, the availability and provision of ubiquitous computing services will
destroy old industries and create new ones that transcend the traditional
industry boundaries.
The provisioning of digital service
will require a large-scale infrastructure.
Such an infrastructure poses complex technical challenges for
scalability, reliability, availability and security and creates new social and
economic challenges of governance, ownership, privacy and economic value. The
emergence of ubiquitous computing services and the evolution of infrastructure
will be likely reciprocally dependent and dynamic, covering both social and technical
domains.
Ragnar Bø is the CEO of Sonitor Technologies. Mr. Bø joined Sonitor Technologies in
September 2002. Ragnar Bo graduated from the
IPS (Indoor Positioning System) will
be an important element in the future Mobil information systems. IPS is the
indoor equivalent to GPS (Global Positioning System). Technologies
to handle indoor positioning is different from the technologies used in
GPS. Approximately 15 companies in the world are now taking the challenge and
have started the developing of IPS. Different technologies are being tested for
different applications. Some of the systems are based on radio, some on light
and some on sound or a combination of these. IPS companies are usually called
"tagging" companies because the systems uses an active or passive tag
to communicate the position. The passive RFID-tag market is expected to reach 4
billion USD a year in 2007, rising to 10 billion USD in 2013 (IDTechEX). Sonitor Technologies
has during the last seven years developed a unique technology based on
ultrasound. 2 major pilot projects have been run on two of
It is expected that software- and
tagging companies will team up to track and position people and items for
work-flow, security and utilization purposes. This is relevant for asset
management software, as well as applications for theft management and resource
planning. IPS on a 3D level is relevant for applications like Wearable
computing, Wearable Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.
FULL PAPERS – Most probable
presenter is underlined
Multi-channel information systems
Contracts for defining QoS levels in a Multichannel Adaptive Information System
This presentation will discuss the creation and management of a contract
formalizing the agreement between an eService provider and an eService consumer
within a multichannel adaptive information system.
The agreement regards the Quality of eServices (QoS). The presentation illustrates the prototype
web-based application developed to support creation and subscription of
contracts. The application allows a provider and to publish offers regarding
eServices with desired QoS parameters, and a consumer
to subscribe a contract with the negotiated QoS
levels.
Towards a Service-Oriented
Architecture for Mobile Information Systems Karl Rehrl, Manfred Bortenschlager, Sigi Reich, Harald Rieser, Rupert Westenthaler, Salzburg Research, Austria
In
this presentation, the service-oriented middleware ASOMNIA is presented, which
adapts traditional service-oriented concepts in order to cope with requirements
arising from mobile computing challenges.
Applications for
Action, interaction and the
role of ambiguity in the introduction of mobile information systems in a UK
Police Force David Allen, Tom D. Wilson, University of Leeds, England
This presentation provides a rich description of the situated activities
of a particular set of mobile workers (police officers) during the
implementation of mobile wireless laptops. The paper describes two
implementations of one type of technology in a single organisation. The
implementations took very different trajectories; in one the technology was
resisted and eventually withdrawn while in the other it was embraced and embedded
into working practices. The presentation explores the use of an alternative
theoretical approach to the use of technological frames to understand ambiguity
and implementation of technology: Strauss’s Theory of Action. Using Strauss’s concept
of trajectory the presentation demonstrates the importance of understanding the
relationship between ambiguity and the implementation of mobile information
technology.
A Task-Based Framework For
Thanks
to the convergence of telecommunication and data communication, new work
applications will rely on seamless wireless networking and will thus be inherently
mobile. The presentation will describe how the role of the professional selling
which has expanded and changed dramatically in recent years,
can be supported with mobile technology.
Modeling of mobile systems
Conceptual Modeling of Styles For
When designing a mobile application, we have to be aware of the
properties and facilities of the target platform. At a conceptual level, this
platform can be specified by a style, defining the structures and operations
available to applications. In this presentation, a UML-like meta model use used for modelling
the structural aspect and graph transformation rules over its instances is used
to specify the dynamics.
Workflow Partitioning in
Mobile Information Systems
The execution of business processes in a wireless context must cope with
the variable and fluctuating bandwidth available to the different devices. This
leads the designer to stress the independence of each actor -- by minimizing
interactions and knowledge sharing -- to increase the reliability of the whole
system.
Given these problems, the presentation proposes a rigorous approach to
partition the execution of BPEL workflows on a set of portable devices, that
is, the infrastructure of the mobile information system. The approach exploits
the UML profile for BPEL to consider workflows as stereotyped activity diagrams
and thus attributed graphs. Then, graph transformation systems supply the rigor
to define formal partitioning rules that split the single process into a
meaningful set of related processes. The presentation presents a formalization
of such rules using a tool called AGG (Attributed Graph Grammars) and
exemplifies them on a case study in the cultural heritage domain.
Multimodal systems
A multimodal context aware
mobile maintenance terminal for noisy environments Fredrik Vraalsen, Trym Holter, Ingrid Storruste Svagård, Øyvind Kvennås, SINTEF, Norway
This
presentation proposes a mobile context aware system for maintenance work in the
oil sector based on electronically tagged equipment and handheld wireless
terminals with a multimodal user interface. Particular attention has been given
to voice interaction in noisy industrial scenarios. An important component
enabling this is the PARAT earplug; an intelligent device designed for hearing
protection, speech recognition and human-to-human communication in noisy
environments. A proof-of-concept demonstrator of the system has been developed.
The presentation presents the demonstrator architecture and experiences gained
through this work.
An Approach to Multimodal and
Ergonomic Nomadic Services- A research
experience and a vision for the future Marco Riva, Massimo Legnani CEFRIEL, Politechnico de Milano, Italy
In this presentation a solution for the multimodal and ergonomic
delivery of hypertexts to mobile devices is provided.
Adaptive and user-centered
design
Towards Highly Adaptive Services
for Mobile Computing Alessandra Agostini, Claudio Bettini, Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi,
Dario Maggiorini, Daniele Riboni, Michele Ruberl, Cristiano Sala, Davide Vitali, University degli Studia di Milano,
Italy
The heterogeneity of device capabilities, network conditions and user
contexts that is associated with mobile computing has emphasized the need for
more advanced forms of adaptation of internet services. This presentation
provide a framework that addresses this issue by managing distributed profile information
and adaptation policies, solving possible conflicts by means of an inference
engine and prioritization techniques. The profile information considered in the
framework is very broad, including user preferences, device and network
capabilities, and user location and context. The framework has been validated
by experiments on the efficiency of the proposed conflict resolution mechanism,
by the implementation of the main components of the architecture, and by
experiments with testbed applications including
proximity marketing.
User-Centered Design Of
Tourism is an industry in which mobile services should be especially
valuable to the user but so far few mobile applications have been successful in
the market. Mobile services are said to suffer, among other things, from poor
usability. We assigned 5 groups of international, advanced-level Information
Systems students the design of a mobile service for tourists while applying the
user-centered design (UCD) approach. Our objective is
to find out how the UCD design process guided their work: What difficulties
there were in the application of the UCD? Does the UCD deliver the promise of
usable design? Does the UCD set some undesirable constraints to design work?
mCommerce market development
Analysis of Mobile Commerce
Performance by using the Task-Technology Fit Kun Chang Lee, Sangjae Lee, Jin Sung Kim,
Korea
The presentation identifies pertinent issues and
problems that are critical in the development of M-commerce. The study presented
draws upon the task-technology fit model as its theoretical basis and its
empirical findings to pragmatically explain the key factors that affect the
performance and user acceptance of M-commerce. A total of 110 usable responses
were obtained. The findings indicate that the task, technology, and individual
user characteristics positively affect task-technology fit and M-commerce
usage. The task-technology fit and M-commerce usage are the dominant factors
that affect M-commerce performance.
A Framework For Analyzing
This presentation combines factors from technology innovation and service adoption into
one framework to pursue a holistic understanding of mobile telecommunications
market innovation. To test its explanatory power, we apply this framework to
dissecting two cases based on data from literature. It concludes that our model
enables a systematic description on the mutual influence of infrastructure
innovation and innovation adoption that moves beyond unilateral accounts. Our
framework also captures the interplay between mobile telecommunications market
and the social network formed by interrelated providers, users and
institutions.
Using Group
Management to Tame
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) offer a convenient basis towards
pervasive computing, due to inherent support for anytime,
anywhere network access for mobile users. Group management appears as a promising
paradigm to ease the development of distributed applications over dynamic,
mobile networks. This paper introduces
the design and implementation of a group service for MANET, which is generic
with respect to the various attributes of relevance. Generic group management
allows supporting various applications, as illustrated through groups dedicated
to mobile collaborative data sharing.
Ad hoc Service Grid - A
Self-Organizing Infrastructure for Mobile Commerce Klaus Herrmann, Kurt Geihs, Gero Mühl, Berlin University of
Technology, Germany
In the presentation
a new service infrastructure called Ad hoc Service Grid (ASG) is
proposed to complement existing frameworks for mobile service provisioning such
as mobile phones and WLAN. We define the necessary structures and components for
realizing ASGs and identify the important problems
and research challenges. Our experimental data indicates that it is possible to
develop an ASG Serviceware that minimizes the need
for manual administration and enables a self-organizing service provision.
Design of
Factors Influencing the
Design of
A widely accepted understanding of the number and type of factors to be
analysed during the development of mobile services does not exist.
This presentation provides a theory based framework that helps to
identify relevant influencing factors in a balanced way. For this purpose the
contribution of different scientific approaches is examined. By combining these
approaches a classification is derived within a two step process. The
classification appears to be suitable for a significant improvement of the
transparency of risk and success potentials of mobile services.
XML Data Exchange
Finite Segmentation for XML Caching
Adelhard Türling, Stefan Böttcher,
We
present the concept of advanced pattern segments that uses sets of advanced XML
patterns in order to describe a finite and complete partitioning of the XML
document’s data space. Based on such segmentations, we present fast evaluation
of pattern relations. In order to meet the needed granularity for data
processing, we extend the common definition of XML patterns based on the recent
processing focus. Beside the given overview and properties we show how to
compute an optimal set of patterns based on frequent XPath
queries and give a caching example for the proposed concept.
Repairing lost connections
within transactions on mobile XML clients Stefan Böttcher, University of Paderborn,
Germany
Whenever
applications running on mobile clients share XML data within a server-side
database, optimized data exchange, transaction synchronization and a correct
treatment of lost connections during application execution are key requirements.
In order to reduce the costs for data exchange, it may be considerably
advantageous when the client caches and reuses XML data of previous queries in
comparison to delivering the same XML data from server to client repetitively.
Furthermore, transactions synchronization has to provide not only a correct
treatment of parallel updates, but has also to take into account lost
connections. We present solution for both problems, which combines an exchange
of XML difference fragments with an optimized transaction synchronization
technique for long transactions that is capable to handle lost connections
correctly.
Adoption of
Strategic planning for mobile
services adoption and diffusion: Empirical evidence from the Danish market Ioanna D. Constantiou, Jan Damsgaard, Lars Knutsen, Copenhagen
Business School, Denmark
This
presentation investigates mobile services adoption, diffusion and usage
patterns in the Danish market. A similar empirical research was conducted
during 2001 in
Applicability of an
Integrated Adoption Model for E-Business Innovation to an Adoption-Resistant
M-Business Technology, Steve Elliot, John Muller,
This
presentation aims to advance IS theory and to better assist organizations
seeking to successfully adopt and to implement m-business innovations by
testing the applicability of a general purpose e-business adoption model with a
worst-case, adoption-resistant example of m-business technology. The Integrated
Adoption Model was successfully applied to capture the complexity of the
industry innovation and to identify major drivers and inhibitors of m-business
success. Implications for practitioners and researchers are discussed.
Short papers:
New
Services
Providing Premium
SMS Services for Mobile Phones
Petter Nielsen, Jo Herstad,
In this presentation the authors describe the value networks enabling
the provision of content services for mobile phones. In particular, we discuss
the concept of services and how the concept of the user changes with a service
perspective.
We frame the nature of mobile content service, more exactly
entertainment services, in relation to the existing paradigm users in system
development. By describing the provision as building on a value network, we
illustrate the necessity to expand from a single focus on developing systems to
a focus on providing services, and from a focus on the single user - developer
relation to a multi-layered network of direct and indirect relations between
actors, as e.g. service providers and subscribers and content providers and
consumers.
The discussion provided here gives insights in the success factors
enabling provision of content services for mobile phones in the Norwegian
market. In addition, the concepts of services and mediating relations together
with a value network perspective should prove as a valuable analytical tool for
system developers engaged with content services for mobile phones.
Inviting New
Players To The
Multimedia M-Commerce Arena - An Approach to enhance the current m-Commerce
business model with regard to emerging DVB-T networks
Stefan Figge, Kai Rannenberg,
The
presentation will show that currently the television industry applies different
business models more flexibly than the mobile telecommunications industry does.
Looking at the likely upcoming competition between the both industries, the
paper proposes an approach to expand the business model that is currently
applied in the mobile telecommunications industry in order to make it
competitive against broadcasted mobile multimedia services
One-handed mobile
text-entry: evaluation of five-key text entry techniques
Frode Eika Sandnes, Høgskolen i
This
presentation addresses one-hand text entry techniques intended for miniature or
wearable devices. Five keys are used for interaction control --- one key for
each finger. Tree approaches are examined: one dictionary-independent technique
(multi-tap), a partially dictionary-dependent technique (tree-based) and a
dictionary dependent technique (one-stroke). The study shows that users can
type text at rates of up to 30 characters-per-minute after just 5 minutes of
practice using the one-stroke approach. Although the proposed methods are
slower than chord-based techniques they do not require the same amount of
training that is required to acquire and maintain chording skills. Consequently,
the proposed strategies are more suitable for users that only type texts on a
small device occasionally.
Collaborative
mobile applications
Autopoiesis and
This presentation will explore issues of
technology adoption from an autopoietic perspective
in order to explain the success and failure of two case study approaches to
wireless collaboration with a view to informing a new approach for wireless
collaboration in the construction industry. Large construction projects involve
multiple participants who need to collaborate in order for the project to be
successful. To date, the collaborative process on construction sites has failed
to take advantage of communications technology developments. This presentation
will discuss the results of empirical research in three contexts with regard to
the adoption of new mobile technologies in order to propose an acceptable
system for collaboration in the construction industry
Mobile Process
Support Systems - Experiences from a case study
Børge
Haugset, SINTEF,
In this presentation experiences in connection to the development, introduction
and evolution of mobile process support systems through results from a case
study in the telecom installation business. Our main conclusions relating to
the study, is that rather than presenting a revolution in the way of doing
things, the introduction of support of mobility rather means evolutionary
changes, usually happening on a much slower pace than first anticipated, and
that rather than supporting purely mobile process support systems, the need is
to in a proper way support multi-channel process support environments.
Mobile support
for community healthcare: A Janus view
Carl Adams, Tineke Fitch,
One area where substantial enhancements through powerful multimedia and
communication devices are possible, as well as potentially offering
considerable ‘social good’, is healthcare. The full infrastructure of the
health systems can be brought to support the patient, irrespective of location.
The role of community healthcare professionals could be considerably enhanced,
enabling a fuller range of patient care to be provided in the community.
However, such enhancements will require considerable changes to existing
infrastructure, working practices and the relationships of healthcare
professionals. In addition, applying such technologies are likely to have unforeseen
consequences. This presentation explores a Janus
faced view of such technological changes to identify some of the unforeseen
consequences. A generic case of district nurses in the
Panels
Legal vs. Technological
Issues in the mobile area: Chair Elaine Lawrence, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Other
participants:
Kun-Chang Lee, School of
Prof. Kun-Chang Lee is a full
professor of MIS at
Jan Trzaskowski,
Jan Trzaskowski (master of business
administration and commercial law) is conductinga PhD
research project on 'Legal Risk Management in Cross-Border ElectronicCommerce'
(www.legalriskmanagement.com). Jan
has previously worked for the Danish Ministry of Business and Industry and is
co-founder of a
Haakon Flage Bratsberg, Telenor R&D,
John
Lawrence,
John Lawrence,(LL.B,
BSc (Hons), MBA, MIAMA,
MICE, MIEAust, CPEng) is a
Barrister and Arbitrator practising in the areas of
commerce, environmental, planning, construction, building and contract law. He
is a registered legal practitioner in the State of
Panel
description:
In the area of mobile commerce and in the mobile enterprise there are unique legal risks as well as concerns that also apply to
traditional businesses. The Mobile Enterprise must be alert
also to the potential threats posed by hackers, virus and worm writers as well
as warchalkers and wardrivers
and take steps to secure itself. This panel will review the impact of attacks
on the wireless communication systems in a legal and security context with a
view to formulating technical and legal policy suggestions for technologists,
scientists, managers and government policy makers. Practitioners must be aware
of legal requirements and the risks involved in doing mbusiness.
The panel will also examine the role of technology and the law in both
addressing and/or hindering the solving of these issues. The digital economy
develops at e-speed but the law does not.
Challenges in development and
implementation of mobile, multi-channel and ubiquitous information systems:
Chair John Krogstie, SINTEF, Norway
Participants:
Jens Wehrman,
Frank Elter,
Odd-Wiking
Rahlff, SINTEF,
Designing and implementing mobile information systems will be radically
different from those of traditional desktop computing environments. Novel
technical, social, and organizational challenges will need to be addressed at
all levels – individuals, teams, organizations. The mobile clients still
develop rapidly, which means that idea generation should not be limited by the
technologies that are currently available. It also means that systems must be
designed for change. There is little accumulated experience in designing
software for the new technologies. As a consequence, lightweight design
techniques and early prototyping are the natural choice for practical
development projects at the moment. In addition, research is needed on
accumulating experience from early development projects and packaging this
knowledge into comprehensive, integrated and model-based development methodologies.
There is also a need for user-interface guidelines and standards for mobile
solutions. While these challenges to traditional software design are not new
when seen in isolation, the emerging generation of new information and
communication technologies increases their importance because (1) each
challenge is amplified by the new
technologies and (2) the new technologies combine
the challenges in ways that are not yet understood.
This panel will discuss different aspects of these challenges and how they
can be attacked, both from the point of view of practitioners and of
researchers within the field.
Panel on Mobile and
Ubiquitous Systems: The need for
Multi-Disciplinary Research: Chair Dewald Roode, South Africa
Participants:
Barbara Pernici,
Kalle Lyytinen,
Jan Damsgaard,
Steve Elliott,
The announcement
of the TC8 Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems clearly indicated
the need for new collaboration paradigms to address the perhaps unique demands
that mobile information systems present.
TC8 constantly keeps an eye on developments in the field of Information
Systems, and identified Mobile Information Systems as a sub-field that merited
more focused attention. It was decided,
therefore, to organize this Working Conference to bring together interested
parties from a variety of backgrounds to address these issues. One of our objectives is also to gauge the
need for the establishment of a new working group on Mobile Information Systems
within TC8.
In June 2001 TC8 similarly organized a Working
Conference in
It is proposed
that in this panel we discuss the multi-disciplinary demands posed by mobile
and ubiquitous systems. The 2001
Salzburg Working Conference focused on the successful implementations of
E-business that frequently require additional interaction between elements that
extend beyond technology and organizational issues, including environmental
(e.g., infrastructure, national culture, national and international payment
mechanisms) and consumer factors.
What are the
corresponding multi-disciplinary demands of mobile and ubiquitous systems? Do we need to focus separately on these, or
are they subsumed under the focus area of WG 8.4?