Fifth International Conference of
The International Society for
Decision Support Systems

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA


20-23 July 1999

Decision Support in the New Millennium
       
 

Updated Program

 

Keynote Speakers

  Professor Oleg Larichev
Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences,
Head of Department, Institute for Systems Analysis

Topic: DSS Based on Verbal Decision Analysis

Mr Robert Hillard
KPMG
Manager, Data Warehousing Practice

Topic: Decision Support Systems: How can they ever live up to their promise?

Mr Jeff Sussman
Managing Director, Delphi Consulting Australasia
Topic: Knowledge Management - is it in the software?

Day 1: Tutorials and Workshops (July 20, 1999)

9:00 Tutorial 1
cancelled
Performance Support Systems
Jacques Ajenstat, Jaime Benchimol
Tutorial 3
East Tower Level 35
Knowledge Discovery to provide Intelligent Decision Support
John Zeleznikow
Tutorial 5
Victoria Suite 2
Activity Theory: A framework for the study of information systems that support managerial decision making
Helen Hasan
       
12:00 Lunch break
       
1:00 Tutorial 2
cancelled
Decision Support Systems in Medical Information Systems
Malcolm Pradhan, Jim Warren, Gleb Beliakov
Tutorial 4
East Tower Level 35
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: A Decision Support Perspective
Tung Bui
 
       
6:00 Cocktail party
West Tower Suite, Hotel Sofitel sponsored by BRI0 Technology
       

Day 2: Paper Presentations (July 21, 1999)

9:00 Welcome 
Professor John Rosenberg, Dean, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
  Conference Opening 
Robert Clark, Parliamentary Secretary, Multimedia
Carillon Room
Chair: David Arnott
9:30 Keynote - Mr Robert Hillard,
Manager, Data Warehousing Practice, KPMG Australia
Carillon Room
Chair: David Arnott
       
10:30 Morning Tea
       
11:00 Session 1A
Web Based DSS

Victoria Suite 2
Chair: Peter O’Donnell
Session 1B
Collaboration

Carillon Room
Chair: Graham Pervan
Session 1C
IDSS & KM minitrack

East Tower Level 35
Chair: Frada Burstein
11:00 1A.1 Wen Dee Tan, David Arnott 1B.1 Mike McGrath
Intra-Organisational Collaboration
1C.1 James Nolan, John Zeleznikow
Evaluation of Soft Computing Based IDS
11:30 1A.2 Siva Sankaran
Virtual Information Centers
1B.2 Gitesh Raikundalia
Logan Electronic Meetings
1C.2 Mike Shaw
Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Marketing
12:00 1A.3 Srinivasan Rao
Lingua: A Web-based Collaborative System
  1C.3 Hussein Amein
Knowledge Discovery in a Dairy Cattle Database
       
12:30 Lunch
       
1:30 Keynote - Mr Jeff Sussman
Delphi Group Australasia
Carillon Room
Chair: Frada Burstein
       
2:30 Session 2A
Organisational Perspectives - 1

Carillon Room
Chair: Simon Goss
Session 2B
now Communication Support, moved to 4C
Session 2C
IDSS & KM minitrack

East Tower Level 35
Chair: John Zeleznikow
2:30 2A.1 Stanislaw Stanek
Building creativity into OSS
  2C.1 Andrew Stranieri
Argumentation structures for IDS
3:00 2A.2 Christer Carlsson
HYPERKNOWLEDGE - The Next Few Steps
  2C.2 Emilia Bellucci
Representations for Decision-making Support
       
3:30 Afternoon Tea
       
4:00 Session 3A
Organisational Perspectives - 2

Carillon Room
Chair: Pirkko Walden
Session 3B
GDSS - 2

Victoria Suite 2
Chair: David Arnott
Session 3C
IDSS & KM minitrack

East Tower Level 35
Chair: Christer Carlsson
4:00 3A.1 Mike McGrath
Organizational Politics Introduced to the Garbage Can
3B.1 Nasrin Rahmati
Group Decision Making, Culture and GDSS
3C.1 Ilona Jagielska
Knowledge Discovery in the Development of DSS
4:30 3A.2 Shirley Gregor
Enterprise-wide DSS: What leads to success?
3B.2 R B Jarman, D Atkinson and G Pervan
Electronically Supported Distributed Teamwork
3C.2 Gavin Finnie
IDS for On-line Information Retrieval
       
7:00 Conference Dinner
       

Day 3: Paper Presentations (July 22, 1999)

9:00 Keynote - Professor Oleg Larichev
Institute for Systems Sciences, Russia
Carillon Room
Chair: Tung Bui
       
10:00 Session 4A
DSS in Health

Carillon Room
Chair: Marco Bohanec
Session 4B
Theoretical Aspects

Victoria Suite 2
Chair: Henry Linger
Session 4C (from 2B)
Communication Support

East Tower Level 35
Chair: Bala Ramesh
10:00 4A.1 Gleb Beliakov
DSS for Coordinated Care Planning
4B.1 Jean-Charles Pomerol
Scenario Development
2B.1 Janet Aisbett
Communication Centers
10:30 4A.2 Phoebe Chen
Decision Support in Bioinformatics Research
4B.2 Zhi-Ping Fan
Determine Weights of Criteria
2B.2 Sjarif Abdat
GSS for Meeting Stage of Strategy Formulation
       
11:00 Morning Tea
       
11:30 Session 5A
Applications 1

Carillon Room
Chair: J-C Pomerol
Session 5B
DSS for SMEs

Victoria Suite 2
Chair: Walter Chung
 
11:30 5A.1 Yuan Li
Expertise-based DSS for Reengineering
5C.1 Doris Choi
A Web Centric BOM for local SME
 
12:00 5A.2 Pirkko Walden
Industry Foresight with Intelligent Agents
5C.2 H.S. Lai
A Decision Support Prototype for Inventory Control
 
       
12:30 Lunch
       
1:30 Session 6A
DSS Applications 2

Carillon Room
Chair: Graeme Shanks
Session 6B
MCDM

Victoria Suite 2
Chair: James Nolan
Session 6C
Modelling & Simulation

East Tower Level 35
Chair: Shirley Gregor
1:30 6A.1 Bala Ramesh
Supporting Distributed Information Product Development
6B.1 Zhi-Ping Fan
Multiple Attribute Decision Making
6C.1 Arunee Intrapairot
DSS for Strategic Policy Analysis
2:00 6A.2 John M. Betts
Analysis & Decision Support Tools for JIT Replenishment
6B.2 Robert Spendl
Hierarchical Decision Models
6C.2 Robert Hillard
Management of a Data Warehouse
2:30 6A.3 Sulin Ba
Transition from the Conventional Market to the Electronic Market
6B.3 Sean Maynard
Multiple Criteria Evaluation of DSS
6C.3 Aram Arakelyan
DSS for Monitoring Population Dynamics
       
3:00 Afternoon Tea
       
3:30 Panel - Decision Support in the New Millennium
Professor David Arnott, Monash University
Professor Graham Pervan, Curtin University
Professor Tung Bui, University of Hawaii
Professor Andrew Whinston, University of Texas

Carillon Room
Chair: Frada Burstein
       
5:00 Conference Close
Carillon Room
Chair: Tung Bui
       

Day 4: Doctoral Consortium (July 23, 1999)

  Includes excursion to University of Ballarat and Sovereign Hill Historical Park.
Conference Theme Program Tutorials Doctoral Consortium Registration Hotels
Conference Venue Melbourne, Australia Getting There Submission of Papers Committee Home


Sponsors

ISDSS'99 is held in association with:

School of Information Management & Systems, Monash University   Australian Computer Society   Elsevier Publishing Company   Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management   Manufacturing Information Systems Research Center, the Hong Kong  Polytechnic University


School of Information Management & Systems, Monash University
Australian Computer Society
International Society for Decision Support Systems
Elsevier Publishing Company
Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management
Manufacturing Information Systems Research Center, the Hong Kong  Polytechnic University



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