Advanced IT Tools

1 Wired cities — opportunities for small and medium sized cities on the information highway.- 2 New public management and enabling technologies.- 3 An electronic voting scheme.- 4 Key issues in digital library interoperability.- 5 The virtual class.- 6 Artificial life of agents.- 7 Computer aided treatment of diabetes.- 8 Diagnosis over the Net — the Mshare project.- 9 Technology for the disabled and why it matters to you.- 10 Innovative enterprise information systems: an imperative for public sector organisations of the 90s.- 11 IS outsourcing by public sector organisations.- 12 Impact of standardization work on the future of information technology.- 13 AccessNova: broadband networks and multimedia services experiments in Chile.- 14 Global business on the superhighway: implications for the office of the future.- 15 Towards an intelligent software maintenance network.- 16 Intellectual property protection for IT developments — the debate continues.- 17 A multimedia database system VHM and its application.- 18 Large scale multi-user virtual worlds.- 19 The structured development method SENN for feedforward neural networks and the application to the multimedia patient record in the Bavarian Health Net.- 20 An intelligent model for road traffic management in the motorway network around Barcelona.- 21 Support services for business networking.- 22 A personal financial planning system for everyday use?.- 23 Tool support of orderly transition from informal to formal descriptions in requirements engineering.- 24 A new type of fourth generation language for multimedia databases: Kasuga Script.- 25 Computer-aided formal specification for concurrent engineering platforms.- 26 Prerequisites, effects and opportunities of Internet-distributed software development.- 27 EDI inAustralian international trade and transport.- 28 A long term initiative in the development of IT tools for decision support.- 29 Keynote paper: Trends of flat displays in the multimedia age.- 30 Design technologies for embedded multimedia systems.- 31 Virtual prototyping based development and marketing of future consumer electronics products.- 32 Supporting organizational learning with CSCW-applications — the information trader concept.- 33 Improving cooperative behaviour in a multi-agent system.- 34 User services in BPAFrame, a framework for workflow-management-systems.- 35 Vislink: breaking the communication bottlenecks.- 36 An environment to support the evaluation of the business value of information systems.- 37 An application framework to support information sharing in collaborative work.- 38 Collaborative intelligent decision systems.- 39 PMES: privilege management and enforcement system for secure distributed resource sharing.- 40 Genetic neuro-fuzzy architectures for advanced intelligent systems.- 41 Toward a multi-sensor neural net approach to automatic text classification.- 42 Coordination support for CSCW-systems in concurrent engineering environments.- 43 A proposal for reliable information multicast environment: its implementation and evaluation.- 44 CIN: an intelligent information management toolkit.- 45 PCS: a CASE tool for distributed group software development.- 46 The IS-function: the most intelligent IT-tool.- 47 Cooperative design on the Internet.- 48 Understanding and guiding requirements engineering processes.- 49 Object-oriented specification of coordinated collaboration.- 50 A plan of regional tourist information system.- 51 Two frameworks for task analysis: an application to the use of intelligent systems in the development of informationsystems.- 52 Integrating diverse information resources: capturing meaning in a sea of data.- 53 An intelligent agent for supporting user navigation in a hyperspace.- 54 DDS: the data delivery service.- 55 Hybrid interpretation of induction results.- 56 EnCal: an automated forward deduction system for general-purpose entailment calculus.- 57 A new copyright protection scheme using the multiple RSA cryptosystems in personal cards for network shopping.- 58 Practical issues of dynamic bit allocation in multimedia source compression.- 59 Motion vector prediction in interactive 3D rendered video stream.- 60 Automation in knowledge engineering via inductive learning.- 61 Building computer tools for negotiation — the Family_Negotiator Project.- 62 A model of co-ordination support for unanticipated situations.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.