The IFIP TC8 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems is a primary international event which provides an opportunity for enterprise information systems academicians and practitioners in the world to gather, exchange ideas, and present original research in their fields. Scientists and practitioners are invited to address the current research topics in the area or the research frontier at this unique international forum.

Submissions from all areas of enterprise information systems/technology are invited. Prospective authors from AIS, ACM, IEEE, IFIP, and other societies with cross-disciplinary topics are welcome.

Conference Chairs

Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Li Xu, Old Dominion University, USA

You can download the CONFENIS 2006 programme guide here

Conference Final Program (NEW)

CONFENIS 2006

The IFIP International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems

An International Forum for Exploring the Research Frontier in Enterprise Information System

April 24-26, 2006
Vienna, Austria

Sponsored by

International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) TC8

Co-Sponsored by

Austrian Computer Society

Vienna University of Technology

Monday, April 24, Morning

Plenary Session

Room: A

8:00-9:00
Conference Registration

9:00-9:15
Opening Ceremony
Conference Chairs: A Min Tjoa (Austria), Li Xu (USA)

9:15-9:45
Keynote Speech: Dr. Prof. Dewald Roode, Chair, IFIP TC8
Title: The evolution of Information Systems: from artifact to frozen organizational discourse

9:45-10:30
Keynote Speech: Dr. Bill Olle (UK), IFIP TC8
Title: The 50 year progression to the Enterprise Information Systems

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-12:00
Keynote Speech: Dr. Prof. Gottfried Vossen, Director, European Research Center for Information Systems

Title: Have service-oriented architectures taken a wrong turn already?

12:00-13:30 Lunch

Monday, April 24, Afternoon

Parallel Sessions

13:30-15:00

Session 1: EIS in Industry Sectors
Room: A
Session Chair: Sohail Chaudhry (USA)

Extending the Enterprise: An Evaluation of ERP and EAI Technologies within a Case Study Organisation Amir M. Sharif and Zahir Irani

An Extended TAM for Subscribers’ Adoption of Mobile Data Services Provided by Wireless Communication Systems Jiayin Qi, Huaying Shu, and Jianqiu Zeng

An Integrated Information Systems for Financial Investment Xiaotian Zhu and Hong Wang

OSS and ERP Systems: Likeness, Difference and Reference Jiayin Qi, Huaying Shu, and Kaili Kan

An E-Activities Platform to Support SMEs Athanasios Drigas, Leyteris Koukianakis, and Yannis Papagerasimou

Session 2: EIS Implementation
Room: B
Session Chair: Elisabeth Kapsammer (Austria)

Critical Success Factors for ERP Life Cycle Implementation Guang Hui Chen, Chun Qinq Li, and Yun Xiu Sai

Multicriteria Model for Selection of Automated System Tests Márcia Sampaio, Paula Donegan, Ana Karoline Castro, Plácido Rogério Pinheiro, Adriano de Carvalho, and Arnaldo Dias Belchior

Critical Success Factors in ERP Upgrade Projects David L. Olson and Fan Zhao

The Influence of Knowledge Transfers on the Implementation of Enterprise Information Systems Sharath Sasidharan, Radhika Santhanam, Dan Brass, and V. Sambamurthy

Metadata and Semantics: a Case Study on Semantic Searching in Web System Marut Buranarach and Michael B. Spring

Decision Support Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management in EIS
Room: C
Session Chair: James Jones (USA)

Intelligent Enterprises for Construction: Bridging the Technology and Knowledge Gaps through Innovation and Education Bee Hua Goh

A DSS based on Entropy Method in EIS in Chinese Financial Sectors Renqian Zhang and Hongxun Jiang

Knowledge Portal Construction and Resources Integration for Hydropower Corporation Li Wang, Lu Liu, and Wei Jia You

A Method for Enterprise Knowledge Map Construction based on Social Classification Lu Liu, Jing Li, and Chenggong Lu

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00

Session 4: EIS Data Integration
Room: A
Session Chair: Charles Møller (Denmark)

Improving the Accuracy of Execution Data of ERP Systems: A Case Study in the Zongxin Telecom Corporation F. Wu, H. Z. Li, L K Chu, D. Sculli, and Y.Wu

A Data Collector for Route Inspection Based on Palm Handheld in Industry Jing Wang, Qing Zhang, Sicong Zhang, Dan Liu, and Guanghua Xu

Study on Information Integration of Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis System in Manufacturing Dan Liu, Guanghua Xu, Lin Liang, and Ailing Luo

Session 5: Enterprise Integration and Modeling
Room: B
Session Chair: Radhika Santhanam (USA)

XML-based EIS—A Meta Schema for Mapping Schema to Relational DBS Elisabeth Kapsammer

Transforming the IT Organization for E-Business--A Perspective of Integration Jie Huang and Shuojia Guo

Usage of Enterprise Modeling Processes and Information Systems Design to forecast Demand Luciana Rocha dos Santos, Simone Vasconcelos Silva, and Renato de Campos

Enterprise Knowledge Integration by Semantic Web Wendong Gu, Guoping Xia, and Weijia You

Enterprise Information Integration Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine

Session 6: Enterprise Computing
Room: C
Session Chair: Vincenzo D’Andrea (Italy)

Particle Model to Optimize Enterprise Computing Dianxun Shuai and Qing Shuai

Grid Computing Simulation and Verification based on pi Calculus Tao Hu, Shaofan Chen, and Weibo Lin

Predicting Churn Probability of Fixed-line Subscriber with Limited Information: A Data Mining Paradigm for Enterprise Computing Yingying Zhang, Jiayin Qi, Huaying Shu, and Yuanquan Li

Formalization of Mining Association Rules based on Relational Database in EIS Hong Zhang and Bo Zhang

18:00 Bus trip to Klosterneuburg and Conference Dinner

The CONFENIS 2006 Chairs welcome you to the First IFIP International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of EIS. This event will be an opportunity to connect with your colleagues early in the conference.

Tuesday, April 25, Morning

Parallel Sessions

9:00-10:30

Session 7: EIS in Industry Sectors
Room: A
Session Chair: Feng Wu (China)

Mobile Customer Demand Discrimination Modeling in Enterprise Information Systems Yajing Si, Jiayin Qi, Huaying Shu, and Hua Ai

System Dynamics Empirical Report of Telecom Enterprises Jiayin Qi, Jones (Hua) Ai, and Huaying Shu

A Case of Individualized Information Monitoring and Customizing System for a News Group Guoping Xia, Jiangang Shen, and Feng Lu

Enterprise Information Systems for Large-Scale Engineering Projects Tianshe Yang, Hong Wang, Sohail Chaudhry, and Huijing Huang

The Theoretical Underpinnings of the Influence of Customer Reward Programs on Customer Retention: A Framework and Propositions for Future Research Chunqing Li, Ping Zhao, and Junping Ma

The New Cognition of Supply Chain Integration: Management Interface Integration Tao Wu and Ronqiu Chen

Session 8: EIS Implementation
Room: B
Session Chair: David Olson (USA)

On Managing the Enterprise Information Systems Transformation: Lessons Learned and Research Challenges Charles Møller

Critical Success Factors for ERP Deployments Ildemaro Araujo

Developing a Practical Framework for ERP Project Implementation: A Proposed Research Design John J. Sullivan, Mela Wyeth, and Wade M. Chumney

Renovating Information Technology Infrastructure to effectively provide E-Services M. Nikolaidou, G. Laskaridis, A. Panayiotaki, and D. Anagnostopoulos

Session 9: Decision Support Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management in EIS
Room: C
Session Chair: Bee Hua Goh (Singapore)

A Study on Knowledge Management in Enterprise Information Systems Shuojia Guo, Chengen Wang, and Xiaochuan Luo

Skeleton of a Supervisor for Enterprise Information Systems James Jones

An Open Web Service-based DSS Yaqing Si, Yonggang Chen, and Shaofeng Zhang

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30

Session 10: Service Architecture
Room: A
Session Chair: Johann Eder (Austria)

Context-aware Ubiquitous Service Composition Technology Yoji Yamato, Yohei Tanaka, and Hiroshi Sunaga

ISRUP E-Service Framework Balanced Scorecard to measure the Capabilities from the Methodologies, Processes, Notations, Life Cycles, and Standards Seyyed Mohsen Hashemi, Mohammadreza Razzazi, and Mohammad Teshnehlab

Enterprise Architecture Definition Framework for IT Service Providers Shankar Kambhampaty and Satish Chandra

A Modeling Approach for Service-Oriented Architecture Tao Zhang, Shing Ying, Sheng Cao, Jiankeng Zhang, and Jun Wei

Session 11: EIS in Emerging Economies
Room: B
Session Chair: Hong Wang (USA)

A Study on EIS Market for SMEs in China Lei Zhang and Zhanhong Xin

Analysis of M-Commerce in China Jian Tong Cao, Yi Xiang Tong, Zhi Ke Che, and Xiao Li

Enterprise Maturity Model –The Technology Aligned Business Strategy Model for Indian Banks Hemalatha Diwakar and Asish Saha

ERP, Change Agent or a Legacy System in Disguise: A Chinese Case Nasrin Rahmati and Gouyi Cao

Study of Systems Methodology in ERP Implementation in China Li Zhang, Shuojia Guo, Yanping Liu, and Jung Choi

Session 12: Realization Technology
Room: C
Session Chair: Juhnyoung Lee (USA)

Exploitation of Semantic Web Technology in ERP Systems Amin Anjomshoaa, Shuaib Karim, Ferial Shayeganfar, and A Min Tjoa

J2EE Development Based on the JSED Template Hui Li, Hong Zhang, and Tiefeng Jin

Mappings from OWL-s to UML for Semantic Web Services Chong Wang, Keqing He, Yangfan He, and Wei Qian

A Tourism Resources Integration Mechanism based on XML and Web Service Tao Hu, Weicai Du, and Linfeng Dong

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Tuesday, April 25, Afternoon

Plenary Session

Room: A

13:30-14:30

Keynote Speech: Dr. Thomas Li, Director, IBM China Research Laboratory

Title: Continual Business Transformation Technology

14:30-15:30

IBM Panel on Enterprise Business Transformation

Session Facilitators: Juhnyyoung Lee (IBM, USA), Rongzeng Cao (IBM, China)

Continual Business Transformation Technology Thomas Li, Wei Ding, Chunhua Tian, Rongzeng Cao, Shunxiang Yang, and Jun Zhu

Business Componentization: a Guide to Application Service Design Chunhua Tian, Wei Ding, Rongzeng Cao, and Juhnyoung Lee

Value-Oriented IT Project Portfolio Management Rongzeng Cao, Wei Ding, Chunhua Tian, and Juhnyoung Lee

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Parallel Sessions

Session 13: Enterprise Architectures
Room: A
Session Chair: Satish Chandra (India)

Architectural Design of Distributed Operation Monitoring Systems Chengen Wang

Studies on Enterprises’ Modular Decomposition Tao Wu, Wenjin Wu, Ronqiu Chen, and Shuojia Guo

A Multi-Layer Framework for Enterprise Application Development Rodrigo Soares Manhães, Alexandre Gomes da Silva, Luiz Batista de Almeida, and Rogério Atem de Carvalho

Reuse Software Architecture through Dynamic Composition Zao Qing Liang, Ying Shi, Rongzeng Cao, XiangYang Jia, and Tao Zhang

Session 14: Realization Technology and EIS Development
Room: B
Session Chair: Athanasios Drigas (Greece)

The Timeless Way of Building REA Enterprise Systems Guido L. Geerts

Development of Enterprise Information System Using Business Component-Based Approach Xueping Wang, Chenghu Zhang, Xinqin Gao, and Zongbin Li

Reconfiguring Business Process for Enterprise Information System Based on UML and Polychromatic Sets Xinqin Gao, Zongbin Li, Liping Zhao, and Yiyong Yao

Session 15: Theoretical Research Issues
Room: C
Session Chair: Hong Wang (USA)

The Implication of Dissipative Structure Theory to Enterprise Information System Jinling Li, Renjing Liu, and Shanshan Sheng

The Study of Information Integration in EIS Based On Grid Renjing Liu and Jing Tian

Feasibility Identification for Networks with GPRs Wanan Cui, Bin Song, Xin Xie, and Chaoyuan Yue

Polychromatic Sets Theory and its Application in Enterprise Information Systems Zongbin Li, Lida Xu, and Shanshan Zhao

The Moving Competitive Advantage of Enterprises: Situation Advantage Li Jinling and Renjing Liu

Study on the Game of Payment Distribution Mode about AVEs Jinling Li, Renjing Liu, and Jiuhong Chen

A Hidden Markov Model of Customer Relationship Dynamics in Retailing Industry Gang Li, Chun Qing Li, and Wei Feng Jia

Extended Enterprise Information Sharing in a Supply Chain Environment based on Symbiosis Theory Renjing Liu and Honghong He

18:30-19:30

CONFENIS 2006 Doctoral Student Consortium
Room: B
Chair: Chun Qing Li (Tsinghua University, China)
Facilitators: Amin Andjomshoaa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Alexandre Carvalho (INESC Porto, Portugal), Domenico Gendarmi (University of Bari, Italy), Bruno Rossi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Tao Zhang (Wuhan University, China)

The session revolves around the themes of how to conduct quality research and write research articles, how to develop a long-term research agenda, how to find a job in both the academic and industry job markets. At this session, student participants will introduce themselves to their colleagues, sharing a brief description of their countries and institution affiliations.

Wednesday, April 26, Morning

Open Source Session

Room: A

9:00-10:00

Keynote Speech: Dr. Jean-Paul Smets-Solanes (France), CEO, Nexedi SARL, France
Title: Open Source ERP in Real Life: The ERP5 Project Case
Dr. Smets-Solanes holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has been providing expertise in information systems design and management to small and large corporations for more than a decade. He is the leader of ERP5 Project and Vice President of the French Speaking Association of Users of Linux and Free Software and Speaker of Eurolinux.

Room: B

First International Workshop on Free/Open Source EIS/ERP

Chair: Rogério Atem de Carvalho, Brazil

Issues on Evaluating Free/Open Source ERP Systems Rogério Atem de Carvalho

Modeling Architecture and Reference Models for the ERP5 Project Renato de Campos, Rogério Atem de Carvalho, and Ailton Ferreira

Open Source Software Migration in Integrated Information Systems in Public Sector Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, and Giancarlo Succi

Free/Open Source ERP and Translation Processes: Four Empirical Cases Elena Erbizzoni, Maurizio Teli, Gianmarco Campagnolo, Stefano De Paoli, and Vincenzo D'Andrea

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00

Parallel Sessions

Session 16: EIS in Manufacturing and Extended Enterprises
Room: A
Session Chair: Jung Choi (USA)

An Empirical Research on SMC in an Extended Enterprise Environment Jiayin Qi, Huaying Shu, and Huaizu Li

Modeling the Product Development Process As a Dynamic System with Feedback Ying-Kui Gu, Jung Choi, and Hong Zhong Huang

An Integrated Information System for Route Inspection in Manufacturing Qing Zhang, Guanghua Xu, Jing Wang, and Dan Liu

A Disassembly Model based on Polychromatic Sets Theory for Manufacturing Systems Lijun Yan, Lili Jiang, and Zongbin Li

Session 17: Enterprise Computing
Room: B
Session Chair: Shan Pan (Singapore)

A UML 2 Profile for Event Driven Process Chains Birgit Korherr and Beate List

Self-Organizing Model for Virtual Enterprises Dianxun Shuai and Qing Shuai

Personalized Trust Model in Enterprise Computing Environment Lu Liu and Yanchun Zhu

Data Clustering in Enterprise Computing: A New Generalized Cellular Automata Method Dianxun Shuai and Qing Shuai

Session 18: EIS Data Integration
Room: C
Session Chairs: James Jones (USA)

A Spatio-Temporal Database System Based on TimeDB and Oracle Spatial Alexandre Carvalho, Cristina Ribeiro, and A. Augusto Sousa

Study on Purchase Probability Model in CRM Systems Jiayin Qi, Huaying Shu, and Huaizu Li

Maintaining Temporal Warehouse Models Johann Eder, Christian Koncilia, and Karl Wiggisser

An Information Broker for Integrating Heterogeneous Hydrologic Data Sources: A Web Services Approach Fabio Calefato, Attilio Colagrossi, Domenico Gendarmi, Filippo Lanubile, and Giovanni Semeraro

12:00-13:00

IFIP TC 8 Closing Session

Room: A

Dr. Prof. Dewald Roode, Chair of IFIP TC8, will thank all the participants for contributing to the CONFENIS 2006. Recipients of academic awards will be announced.