The 6th INFORMS Conference on Information
Systems and
Technology (CIST-2001)
Fontainebleau Hotel
Miami Beach, Florida
November 3-4, 2001
To be held in conjunction with
INFORMS Miami 2001 Meeting
Organized by
INFORMS Information Systems Society
in cooperation with
INFORMS College on Artificial Intelligence
INFORMS Computing Society
University Sponsors
Purdue University
Univeristy of South Florida
Conference Co-Chairs:
Kemal Altinkemer, Purdue University
Kaushal Chari,
University of South Florida
The 6th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST- 2001) will be held on November 3-4, 2001 in Miami Beach Florida. The theme of the conference is “IT Challenges in the E-Commerce Era”. Emphasis will be placed on research contributions that deal with technical, behavioral as well as economic issues encountered while developing IT solutions for E-commerce applications. We invite full papers, extended abstracts, and panel proposals on the following topics (but not limited to):
§ Software Agents in E-Commerce
§ Workflow Systems in E-Commerce
§ E-Commerce Enabling Technologies
§ E-Commerce Applications Architecture
§ Electronic Markets & Supply Chains
§ Market Mechanisms (including negotiations and auctions)
§ Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining
§ Databases and Distributed Systems
§ Economics of Information System
§ Artificial Intelligence Applications in E-Commerce
§ Software Engineering (including metrics, and new development methodologies)
§ Telecommunications & Networking
§ Model Management & DSS
§ Data Quality, Privacy & Security
§ Business Process Re-engineering
Selected papers will be invited for a separate fast-track review process for possible publication in Information Technology & Management Journal.