 Dr. Dongsoo HAN |
Dr. Simon Fong |
Speaker: Dr. Dongsoo HAN, KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Korea
Short Bio
Professor Dongsoo Han received the BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He worked at Hyundai Information Technology. He is currently a professor with the Department of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea. Prof. Han is leading Intelligent Service Integration Laboratory and performing researches mainly in the fields of IT based convergence technologies including service integrations for mobile applications, bioinformatics, and e-healthcare services. Recently, he has been engaged in developing technologies for Wi-Fi based indoor positioning and indoor navigation. Including dozens of patents on indoor Location Based Services(LBS), Prof. Han have published 2 books, 20 patents, and over 100 papers for the last ten years.
Abstract
With the rapid proliferation of smart phones, location based services for the smart phones are getting the spotlight in mobile applications these days. Outdoor and/or indoor localization are essential steps to support such location based services. GPS is widely used for positioning in outdoor environment, whereas currently there is no prevailing technique accepted in indoor environment. Among the various indoor localization techniques, WiFi based localization technique draws our attention mainly due to its advantages on reducing cost and expanding coverage. This talk introduces WiFi based indoor localization techniques, system, and applications. At first, triangulation and WiFi fingerprint based indoor localization techniques will be presented. Then the introduction for an indoor localization system, Elekspot, which was developed using user participatory approach follows. Android version of Elekspot was released to the public through Android application store early 2010. Lastly, we introduce various location based services. Location based social networking services, location based working place monitoring services, location based secure authentication, indoor navigation services for complex indoor spaces, etc. are the example services to be presented in this talk.
Short Bio
Simon Fong graduated from La Trobe University, Australia, Computer Systems degree and a PhD. Computer Science degree. Simon is now working as an Assistant Professor at the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Macau. He is also one of the founding members of the Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Science and Technology. Prior to joining the University of Macau, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to his academic career, Simon took up various managerial and technical posts, such as systems engineer, IT consultant and e-commerce director in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore. Some companies that he worked before include Hong Kong Telecom, Singapore Network Services, AES Pro-Data and United Oversea Bank, Singapore. Dr. Fong has published over 90 international conference and journal papers, mostly in the area of E-Commerce, Agent technology and Data-mining.
 Prof.Shigeo KAWATA |
Dr.You, Beom-Jong |
Speaker : Prof.Shigeo KAWATA
Present Occupation : Professor, Dr.
Utsunomiya University Graduate School of Eng, Japan.
S. Kawata has published over 120 Journal papers in major international journals and a lot of papers in international conferences.
He has also published 13 technical books in Japanese.
He has worked mainly on PSE (Problem Solving Environment), Computer simulation assistant environment software, and numerical scientific simulation applications in physics, for example, ion beam inertial confinement fusion, laser electron and ion acceleration, particle accelerator physics, particle beam transport, etc.
He has been a member of IEEE, IFIP WG2.5, APS, JPS, IPSJ, JSCES, etc. He also has been involving to organize scientific societies, numerous meetings, conferences and workshops.
Education History:
PhD: Faculty of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Job History:
October 1981: Research Associate, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JapanApril 1986 : Associate Professor, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan.
April 1999 - Present: Professor, Utsunomiya University, Japan.
( During the above period:
May 1985 - February 1986: Visiting Researcher in Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
December 1988 - February 1989: Visiting Researcher in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Visiting Associate Professor in University of alifornia, Davis, U.S.A.
January 1990 - March 1990: Visiting Researcher in Tokyo University, Japan.
December 2005 - November 2008: Adjunct Professor of Shanghai University, China.)
Recent Activities on PSE and Numerical simulation applications:
- Workshop Chair, PSE Workshop 2005 ("Workshop on Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in Distributed Resources") at Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 5, 2005,http://www.ee.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp/kwt/workshop/PSE2005.html
, in e-Science2005 (IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies Dec. 5-8, 2005),
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/index.html
- Workshop Chair, PSE Session 2006 ("Session on Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment (PSE) in Distributed Resources") at Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dec. 4- 6, 2006, in e-Science 2006
http://www.escience-meeting.org/eScience2006/workshop-list.php#ws0
in e-Science 2006 (IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies)
http://www.escience-meeting.org/eScience2006/index.html
- Workshop Chair, PSE Workshop2007, IEEE e-Science 2007 ("Session on Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment (PSE) in Distributed Resources") at Bangalore, India, Dec. 10-13, 2007.
- Workshop organizing committee member, PSE Workshop 2008, IEEE e-Science08 ("Session on Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment (PSE) in Distributed Resources"), Indianapolis, U.S.A. Dec., 2008.
- PSE Workshop organizer in Japan (Every year PSE Workshop in Japan is organized.)
http://www.ee.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp/~kawatalab/pse/workshop.html
- Japanese PSE Research group Chair:
http://www.ee.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp/~kawatalab/pse/psetop.html
- NAREGI-PSE studies in NAREGI (National Research Grid Initiative) project conducted by MEXT (The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) in Japan for Scientific Grid Computing:
http://www.naregi.org/index_e.html
- NCAS Project: Scientific Program generation support system. The NCAS PSE inputs a problem description, and outputs a program flow, a C-language source code for the problem and also a document for the program. Each PSE module is distributed on network-linked distributed computers. The PSE holds all the information of the problem, PDEs, discretization scheme, mesh information, equation manipulation results, designed program structure, variable and constant definitions and program itself. The PSE concept has been opening a new direction for the computer-assisted programming or development of scientific simulation programs or CAEs.
A part of recent papers & talks on PSE:
- Shigeo Kawata, Hitohide Usami, Yoshikazu Hayase, Yutaka Miyahara, Motohiro Yamada, Masahide Fujisaki, Yohji Numata, Shinji Nakamura, Noriyuki Ohi, Masami Matsumoto, Takayuki Teramoto, Masumi Inaba, Ryouji Kitamuki, Hideaki Fuju, Yasuhiro Senda, Yoshio Tago and Yukio Umetani, "A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for Distributed Computing", Int. J. High Performance Computing and Network, Vol.1, No.4, pp.223-230 (2004)
- M. Inaba, H. Fuju, R. Kitamuki, S. Kawata, T. Kikuchi, "Computer-Assisted Documentation in a Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for Partial Differential Equation Based Problems", Paper No. 20040025, Transactions of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (2004),
http://save.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/jsces/trans/trans2004/No20040025.pdf
- S. Kawata, "A Distributed Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for Scientific Computings and Recent Activities of PSE Researches in Japan", Symposium on Scientific Computing and Mathematical Software in Emerging Sciences and Technology, June 15-16, (2005), Hong Kong
- S.Kawata, M.Inaba, H.Fujiu, H.Sugiura, Y.Saitoh, T.Kikuchi, "Computer-Assisted Liaison among Modules in a Distributed Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for Partial Differential Equation Based Problems, "Transaction of JSCES , Paper No. 20050029, (2005) .
http://save.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/jsces/trans/trans2005/No20050029.pdf.
- S.Kawata, "Recent Activities of PSE Researches", Keynote Speech at Japan Computing Engineering and Science, May (2005).
- S.Kawata, "Future PSE researches in Computing Engineering and Science", Panel Speech, May (2006).
- S. Kawata: "PSE for Scientific Numerical Computation", IFIP 2007 Stockholm, Sweden 12-17 Aug., (2007).
- H. Kanazawa, S. Kawata and H. Usami: "[keynote] Collaboration Tool on Science Grid: NAREGI Problem Solving Environment", APCOM’07-EPMESC XI, 3-6 December, (2007), Kyoto, Japan.
- T. Teramoto, T. Okada and S. Kawata: "Database Design in a Distributed Educational PSE System", APCOM’07-EPMESC XI, 3-6 December, (2007), Kyoto, Japan.
- T. Teramoto, T. Okada and S. Kawata: "A Distributed Education-Support PSE System", the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 10-13 December, 2007, Bangalore, India, Proceeding of e-Science (2007), pp. 516-520.
Abstract
"In computing sciences (e-Sciences) we need computer power, excellent algorithms and programming power in order to solve scientific problems leading to discoveries and development of innovative new products. So far, the computer power and the computing algorithms have been developed incredibly, and have provided enormous contributions to e-Sciences and e-Productions. Problem solving environments (PSE) support the programming power in e-Sciences and e-Productions, and have been studied actively for a few decades.In this keynote a distributed computing support PSE, named NCAS, is presented, and our PSE activities are also introduced in the presentation.
NCAS helps users solve partial differential equation (PDE) based problems in scientific computing. The NCAS PSE inputs a problem description and outputs a program flow, a C-language source code for the problem and also a document for the program. Each PSE module is distributed on networklinked distributed computers. The PSE holds all the information of the problem: PDEs, discretization scheme, mesh information, equation manipulation results, designed program structure, variable and constant definitions and program itself. Therefore the documents is also mechanically generated in the PSE framework.
In addition, the PSE world covers a rather wide area, including education support system, CAE learning support system, intelligent e-learning PSE, automatic documentation, visualization support PSE, mathematical support PSE, PSE for cloud computing, PSE for PSE, etc. Some of these activities are also introduced. The PSE concept has been opening a new direction for the computer-assisted programming or development of scientific simulation programs or CAEs, e-Sciences and e-Productions."
Name in Full : You, Beom-Jong
Nationality: Korea
Beom-Jong You is Principal Researcher of Division of Information Technology Research at Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), Republic of Korea. He received Master and Ph.D. degrees in Library and Information Science from the Chungnam National University, Korea. His research interests lie in the information science, knowledge bases and semantic technologies.
- Graduated from Sogang University with the B.A. degree in Electronic Engineering
in February, 1984
- Graduated from Graduate School of Chungnam National University
with the M.A. degree in Library and Information Science in February, 2000
- Graduated from Graduate School of Chungnam National University
with the Ph.D. degree in Library and Information Science in February, 2005
Professional Experience
- Entered the System Engineering Research Institute(SERI) of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) as Researcher in May, 1987- Participated in Australian IBM BlueGum Project, 1990
- Senior Researcher, Korea R&D Information Center(KORDIC) as Manager of System Development Department, 1993-2000
- Principle Researcher, Korea Information of Science & Technology Institution (KISTI), 2001-Present, currently in charge of Director of Information System Research Division
- Adjunct Professor, Library & Information Science in Chungnam University, 2007-Present
Selected Accomplishments
- As a leader of Online Shared Cataloging System(Unix Version), the first of its kind in Korea, which was developed from 1991-1993.- As a leader of System Development Department, developed a KRISTAL System : Information Retrieval System, 2002 - 2004.
- As a leader of System Development Department, developed National Technology Information System(NTIS) : System of the project sponsored by government, 2005-2006.
- Currently as a leader of OntoFrame(Ontology-enabled Information Service Framework) development, Knowledge Base construction and Natural Language Process.
Abstract:
According to the US NSF (National Science Foundation), researchers are reportedly spending more than half of total research and development hours for finding proper information. Thus, to allow researchers to have more time on research and development itself, it is crucial to reduce time on information gathering. However, previous search engine method only provides linear search result by keywords, so it is limited in terms of efficiency of information acquisition. Therefore, new type of information service that can seek the information desired by the researcher and connect, combine and analyze the information to provide is necessary. As one of such high class information services, we developed a prototype of knowledge-driven semantic portal that provides analysis service on academic research information by using OntoFrame®. OntoFrame®, developed by KISTI, is an information service platform using semantic web technologies, including OntoURI®, a semantic knowledge management tool that manages ontology schema and ontology instance and especially processes co-reference resolution between URI-based individuals, OntoReasoner®, an inference engine that stores and infers ontology-based RDF triples and answers SPARQL queries, and Mariner® that provides search function. Dr. Paul P.Wang |
Dr. Soonwook Hwang |
Speaker : Paul P.Wang
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Pratt School of Engineering
Duke University
Editorial Affiliations
-Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Member of Advisory Board, John Wiley Publishers-Policy Analysis and Information Systems, Area Editor, Plenum Publishing Corp., Fuzzy Mathematics, Editorial Board
-Advisory Editor, The Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, International Fuzzy Mathematics Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA, since 1991.
-Bulletin Pour Les Sous Enserbles Flous et leur Applications Correspondents Etrangers
-Editor-in-Chief, Information Sciences-An International Journal, North Holland, Elsevier Publishing Company
-Three Journals: (i) Computer Theory & Informatics, (ii) Intelligent Systems, (iii) Applications.
-Member, Advisory Editorial Board, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision-Making, Editor-in-Chief, Shu- Cherng Fang, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (Kluwer Academic Publishers) 2000 to Present.
Professional Background
1960-62 Instructor in Electrical Engineering Dept., University of New Brunswick.1962-65 Graduate and Research Assistant, E.E. Dept., Ohio State University.
1965-68 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Inc., Holmdel, N.J.,
(Communication Systems Research, Operations Research and Modern Control Theory).
1968-70 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Duke University
1970-75 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Duke University
1974-75 Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts
1975-present Professor of Electrical Engineering, Duke University
Consulting Activities
1962: (Summer) Gibbs & Hill Consulting Co., New York City, (Electrical Power Plant Design)
1969-72: Consultant, Safeguard ABM, Western Electric Co., (Reliability, OR Models, Quality Control)
1974-75: Operation Researcher, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke Medical Center, (Statistical Pattern Recognition)
1975-76: Consultant, Emerson ElectricWorld Headquarters at St. Louis (Advanced F-5E Fighter Plane, Optimal Estimation and Digital Control Systems).
1976: Researcher, Research Department, Grumman Aerospace Corporation, (Highly Reliable Systems).
1977-Present: Member, Board of Directors, Knowledge Systems Institute, Chicago.
1977-78: Consultant to Assistant Secretary of the State of North Carolina on energy Matters.
1977-79: Investigator, behavioral Neuropharmacology Laboratory, Duke Medical Center.
1978-89: Consultant, Western Electrical Co., (Kalman Filter design for Naval Surface Ships Navigation).
1980-90: Consultant, LORD Corporation (Touch Sensors, Robotics)
1986-2000 Advisor and Distinguished Lecture Chair to Computer Science Department, Tamkang University, Taiwan, Republic of China.
1990-91: Summers, ASEE-NASA Fellow, Langley Space Research Center, NASA.
1991-Present: Member, Board of Directors, Intelligent Machines, Inc., Sunnyvale, California.
2000-Present: Member of advisory board, Gravidata, Inc., a start-up information company with 20 employees.
2000-Present: Advisor for EICA, Equipo de Investigacion en Computo Artificial, Universidad Anahuac de Xalapa, Mexico
Grants and Awards
1968-76: Principal Investigator and Associate Investigator on research projects supported by Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA.
1972-74: Faculty Fellow, ASEE-NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center).
1978: Lecture Chair in Mathematical System Theory, Tamkang College, Taiwan, Republic of China.
1981 & 1982 Distinguished National Professorship at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and other Universities, Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China.
1988-Present: Hing Hua University, Honorary Board Member, University Foundation
1993-97: NSF and EPRI Research Grant
1993-96: CANON, Inc., Japan Research Center
1995-99: Holiday Inn World Wide Research Grant.
1997-Present: Director, Cooperative Research program between Duke University and Yuan Ze University.
1998-Present: Southwest Jiao Tung University, Advising Professor.
1998-2001: Visiting Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Yuan Ze University.
1999-2000: Cross Century Outstanding Scholar Award in Fuzzy Logic by Chinese Oversea Talents Foundation, Republic of China. (pure gold Chinese painting, etc.).
2000-2003 Co-Investigator (Principal Investigator, Erich Jarvis, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology), Klingenstein Fund, 2000-EJ. Whitehall Foundation and Packard Foundation.
Professional Affiliations
Founder: Association for Intelligent Machinery.
Joint Conference on Information Sciences.
Fuzzy Theory and Technology Conference (7th, 2000).
Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Association for Computing Machinery
Classification Society
Pattern Recognition Society
North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
Honorary member, Hing Hua Technical University Educational Foundation.
Abstract:
In modeling the real world,physical or mental,one must cope with the issue of modeling the vagueness.Classical mathematics simply does not cope very well with the required vagueness modeling because it has been designed for preciseness.Philosophers have had recognized this issue for a long long time,but this issue has been neglected by most disciplines other than philosophers.Only recently,the focus of research in intelligent systems and complex systems have brought this issue to the center stage.This issue is particularly important to information and communication fields,even though the issue is applicable to all fields of research.Chronologically,the philosophers recognized the importance of this issue first,the scientists ,physical or social,and engineers,especially computers,also recognize this.One may now conclude that mathematics for uncertainty is absolutely necessary for us to break the deadlock.
In this talk,the definitions of the "uncertainty","mathematics of for uncertainty" will be given by studying the history of mathematical research.The motivation for this subset of classical mathematics will be given.The relationship of the new and old would also be explored.In particular,their influence in research and job opportunity will also be examined.
So far as the vagueness is concerned,two important researchers,William James and Charles Sanders Peirce are of paramount important!Their contributions are indeed huge!Thanks to their philosophical debate,a society called "Society for Mathematics of Uncertainty" was founded on global basis.One of the thrusts in this speech is to illustrate many examples in order to explain the advantage of such a society with the objective of advancing this significant research area in speedy manner. It is also important to take advantage of many failure examples in order to learn what one should do it right in the future,especially the confrontation with vagueness head on,not just to recognize the phenomena! This is of particular important after half century of research in artificial intelligence.
In conjunction with the development of the mathematics of uncertainty,especially those yet to be invented,we must also change the value system in information technology research and education systems.The impact to economics,the optimization in the sense of overall system with multiple constraints,conflicts and social need should be brought to the front.Students ought to be taught the importance of the quality assurance reliability,survivability,endurance,human value,rather than those topics of which the classical mathematics becomes the only glass ceiling,to name only a few examples.
Abstract:
EGEE is the world largest multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure built ever so far, composed of over 80,000 CPU cores and tens of petabytes of storage in 300 sites around the world. It provides sustainable Grid services available to users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that enables the building of reliable and scalable scientific applications ranging from high energy physics and life sciences to geology and computational chemistry.
KISTI has been an official partner of the EU-funded EGEE project since 2006. Among the many EGEE activities, KISTI has been actively engaged in Grid operation and management, and Grid applications. Since late 2007, we has been contributing to ALICE computing by operating an ALICE Tier2 center in KISTI. The KISTI ALICE Tier2 center currently processes about 400 MC simulation jobs per day that come from CERN. Recently, we have been actively involved in the development of AMGA that has been used as a metadata catalogue service for many scientific applications in the field of High Energy Physics and Biomedical Science. We have also been participating in the EGEE WISDOM project, an international initiative aiming to develop new drugs for neglected and emerging diseases with a particular focus on malaria and avian flu.
In this talk, I will introduce the EGEE project and KISTI's activities relevant to EGEE including the operation of ALICE Tier2 center, new developments of AGMA and the WISDOM data challenge against diabetes recently carried out by KISTI.
Bio:
Soonwook Hwang is a principal researcher at Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), responsible for the research and development of enabling Grid technologies for e-Science in KISTI e-Science Division. His research interest is in Grid computing and e-Science with a particular focus onwp enabling technologies for e-Science, Grid middleware, Grid PSE systems, data management on the Grid and Grid workflow systems. He received his BS and MS from Seoul National University in Korea, in 1990 and in 1995, respectively and got his Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Southern California in 2003 under the supervision of Dr. Carl Kesselman, one of the authorities in grid technologies.
He used to be a visiting scholar at Information Sciences Institute (ISI) in the US, involved in the development of the Pegasus workflow system. He also worked for the Japanese National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) in 2004, which aims to develop grid middleware for a next-generation CyberScience infrastructure in Japan. In 2006 he joined KISTI as chief architect for Korea's national e-Science project. He is now leading the international collaboration with EGEE in KISTI.
- Dr. Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
- Dr. Duane P. Truex III (Georgia State University, USA)
- Dr. Rajiv Kishore (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
- Dr. Sungwon Sohn (ETRI, Korea)
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 Dr. Ngoc Thanh Nguyen |  Dr. Duane P. Truex III |  Dr. Rajiv Kishore |
Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Invited talk title:Advanced Aspects of Knowledge Inconsistency Processing
Summary:
Inconsistent Knowledge Processing deals with methods not for removing inconsistency, but for reconciling inconsistent content of knowledge from different autonomous sources. The aspects of Knowledge Inconsistency may be considered on two levels: syntactic and semantic. On the syntactic level inconsistency is treated in the same way as for contradictory of logic formulas. On the semantic level, on the other hand, inconsistency appears when these formulas are interpreted in some concrete real world. For solving a large number of conflicts, and especially, for resolving inconsistency of knowledge on semantic level, consensus methods have been shown to be useful. The integration process in case of inconsistency often needs conflict resolution. For realizing this task we define first a set of postulates which are intuitive conditions for integration, next we analyze the postulates referring to their dependencies and independencies and work out the algorithms for integration process. In this talk the following elements will be presented: Measures for knowledge inconsistency; Consensus theory as a tool for conflict resolution; Syntactic & semantic levels of inconsistency; A model for knowledge integration; Expert knowledge integration and finally the practical aspects and applications.
Short bio:
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Ph.D., D.Sc.) currently works as a professor of Computer Science at Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. His scientific interests consist of knowledge integration methods, intelligent technologies for conflict resolution, inconsistent knowledge processing, multi-agent systems, collective intelligence and E-learning methods. He has edited 10 special issues in international journals, two books and three conference proceedings. He is the author of 4 monographs and about 130 other publications. His latest monograph entitled "Advanced Methods for Inconsistent Knowledge Management" has been published by Springer this year. He serves as Co-editor of book series "Computational Intelligence and its Applications (COMIA)" for IGI Global Publishers. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Associate Editor of International Journal of Computer Science & Applications; Journal of Information Knowledge System Management and KES Journal and a member of Editorial Boards of several other prestigious international journals such as Journal of Applied Intelligence and Journal of Universal Computer Science. He has been a General Chair, Program Chair, Program Co-chair for several international conferences in Artificial Intelligence. He is the Chair of KES symposium series on Agent and Multi-agent Systems. He is the Chair of Ph.D. Committee of the Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology. He is a Member of Ph.D. Thesis Examiners Register of University of South Australia. He is a Member of the Interdisciplinary Committee for Preparatory FP7 Grants in Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is a Senior Member of ACM, a Member of IFIP WG 7.2 and several other international scientific societies.
For details please visit his homepage:
http://www.iit.pwr.wroc.pl/~nguyen/eng_index.html
Computer Information Systems,J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, USA
Dropping Your Tools: the Diversification of the Research Agenda in understanding the Impact of the
Convergence of Information Technology in Organizations
Summary:The debate between protagonists of different theoretical approaches continues in the Information Systems
field, with little prospect of resolution.
The debate is typically characterized by tendentious arguments as advocates from each approach offer a
somewhat one-sided condemnation of other approaches.
A recent debate in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) illustrates the manner in which IS
researchers are polarized into opposing camps, each tending to view the other as inferior. Ironically further
polarization is occurring in the manner various groups of IS scholars are simultaneously calling for order,
discipline and clearer notions of the "core of the discipline" while other scholars call for greater
research diversity. In order to overcome this polarization we advocate a strategy recommended by Weick
(1996): Drop your tools, hold your concepts lightly and update them frequently.
Three reasons for dropping our theoretical tools are suggested as a means for moving forward, both for
individual researchers as well as for the research community as a whole.
Short bio: Duane Truex is interested in the social impacts of ISD especially the impact on workers and how emergent properties of organizations may be reflected in emergent ISD. Truex is active in the IFIP 8.2 community. He is an Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal, has co-edited two special issues of The Database for Advances in Information Systems and is on the on the editorial board of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Communication, Information Technology & Work and the Online Journal of International Case Analysis.
An Associate Professor in the Computer Information Systems (CIS) department the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, USA, he has held visiting international posts as a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the United Kingdom at the University of Salford, England and a visiting Full Research Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Nantes, France. In the United States he has held posts at Binghamton University, Florida International University, and Cornell University.
His work has been published in the Communications of the ACM, Accounting Management and Information Technologies, The Database for Advances in Information Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), le journal de la Societ®¶ d°ØInformation et Management (SIM), the Information Systems Journal (ISJ), the Journal of Arts Management and Law, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and forty assorted IFIP transactions and edited books and conference proceedings. In July 2004 he published an edited book entitled "Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice" published by Kluwer Academic Press.
State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
Impacts and Implications of the Global Collaboration Platform on Global Outsourcing
By Rajiv Kishore, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
The beginning of the confluence of the telecommunication technologies and information technologies occurred sometime in the early 1960s when the seeds of the Internet were first sown. This merger of the two technologies continued strengthening and achieved a major milestone in the 1990s with the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the web browser, and the connection of the now ubiquitous PC to the Internet. Further convergence occurred with the development of a wide variety of new technologies and software applications, including e-mail, file sharing, workflow, search engines, instant messaging, voice over IP (VOIP), Internet video conferencing, etc., and it spawned the first truly global platform with vastly superior capabilities for communication and collaboration than ever before. The rapid growth in global outsourcing of IT and IT-enabled services, also termed as offshoring, that we have seen in the last decade has been propelled in no small measure by this global collaboration platform. In my presentation, I will examine how this coalescing of communication and information technologies has shaped the global outsourcing phenomenon. I will also discuss some implications of the global collaboration platform for the global outsourcing field and those who work in it. I will also explore the new capabilities that client and vendor organizations may need to develop to use this convergence to the fullest extent to their advantage.
Short bio:
Rajiv Kishore
State University of New York at Buffalo
325N Jacobs Management Center
Buffalo, New York 14260-4000, USA
Ph.D. (Computer Information Systems), Georgia State University
M.S. (Computer Information Systems), Georgia State University
M.T. (Technical), IIT Madras, India
B.E. (Industrial Engineering), University of Roorkee, India
Dr. Kishore's primary research interest is in improving organizational and IT performance through the effective management of global IT and business process outsourcing projects, agile methods for business process analysis and integration, and technology and innovation management. He received a multi-year research grant as a co-principal investigator from the National Science Foundation for conducting research in the IT outsourcing area. Dr. Kishore has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and refereed proceedings and has presented his research at various international, national, and regional conferences. He has also consulted with a number of large companies including BellSouth, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Clearnet Communications (Canada), Dun and Bradstreet Software, IBM, and Pioneer-Standard Electronics. He continues to regularly consult and speak to industry and professional groups. Dr. Kishore is also the co-editor-in-chief of JITTA (www.jitta.org), a scholarly information systems journal.