{"title":"Electronic communities as intermediaries: the issues and economics","authors":"Ai-Mei Chang, P. K. Kannan, Andrew Whinston","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.772942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772942","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual communities or electronic communities are social aggregations of a critical mass of people on the Internet who engage in public discussions, interactions, and information exchanges with sufficient human feeling on matters of common interest to form webs of personal relationships. Many such e-communities are rapidly evolving on the Internet, some formed organized, and controlled by community members themselves, some organized and controlled by marketers, and some by third parties who act as intermediaries between members and other interest groups such as marketers and advertisers. While some communities strongly disavow any interactions of a commercial nature, many communities view commercial interactions as being beneficial to the growth of the communities and to the community members. We explore the role of e-communities as intermediaries in exchange relationships among community members and between community members and other interest groups such as marketers and advertisers from an economic perspective. In particular, we focus on the types of interactions that take place among community members and between community members and other interest groups and examine the economic issues involved in maintaining a healthy community. Deriving parallels from extant research in intermediation, we explore conditions and incentive mechanisms under which such communities could thrive on the Internet. We also draw on limited empirical examples from the World Wide Web in support of our hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117297607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ATC computational issues [electricity supply]","authors":"M. H. Gravener, C. Nwankpa, Tai-Sim Yeoh","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.772867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772867","url":null,"abstract":"A method of calculating Available Transfer Capability (ATC) and the exploration of the relative effects of certain computational issues are described. Specifically, the calculation of ATC is laid out for the purposes of pointing out the various computational aspects that affect it, such as algorithmic tolerances and source/sink composition among others. Test cases from the Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland (PJM) Interconnection is used to obtain results on this study. Among the inferences obtained from this work is the necessity to properly account for uncertainties that exist not only in the physical structure of the power system but also those that exist in the computation of its properties reflected in ATC evaluation. In addition, from the studies on sink composition we notice from ATC values, underlying behavior that are characteristic of sub-areas within a given control area. The quantification of such effects can lead to better understanding of the underlying properties involved in ATC computation.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116214311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Security and privacy aspects of SmartFlow Internet payment system","authors":"P. Hung, K. Karlapalem","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.773051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.773051","url":null,"abstract":"Smart cards are replacing traditional magnetic cards for payment transactions. One of the main reasons is enhanced security capabilities that can be built in a smart card. With the high popularity of web technology, there is a trend towards smart cards being used as an electronic wallet for payment transactions on Internet. Most of the related work of smart card payment transactions concentrates only on the security aspects of hardware/firmware, encryption method and key management, or they only propose the online shopping protocol for uni-directional payment transaction based on the scenery of exact payment from the elastomer to merchant during business activity. We developed a prototype system called \"SmartFlow\" to demonstrate these kinds of business activities on Internet by smart card. The main focus of this paper is to present the framework of \"SmartFlow\" and some important security and privacy issues for bi-directional payment transaction with change among more than two parties involved business activity. Further, we present the application of downloading software license key from Internet into smart card in SmartFlow environment. We have already implemented a prototype \"SmartFlow\" system with these functionalities.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116499403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graduate IS curriculum for the 21st century","authors":"J. Gorgone, P. Gray","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.772656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772656","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the interim results of the work of the joint ACM/AIS Task Force on Graduate IS Curricula. This Task Force was appointed in January 1998 with the charge of recommending a curriculum guideline for MS programs in Information Systems. The paper describes the initial design and the answers to frequently asked questions about the curriculum. The design of the curriculum is being discussed at a number of international meetings, including HICSS, to obtain input and feedback from the IS community prior to issuing a final set of recommendations.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116833961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing a knowledge medium in a multi-centered clinical trial","authors":"R. Grütter, W. Fierz, K. Stanoevska-Slabeva","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.773003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.773003","url":null,"abstract":"The health care industry is essentially knowledge-based. Despite of this fact, knowledge management and processing techniques are mainly used in form of isolated systems for very specific domains. The basic processes of knowledge generation, distribution and consumption across domains and locations are not supported by integrated computer systems. Under the growing pressure on quality assurance and cost reduction, concepts and technologies to support the management of knowledge are increasingly gaining the interest of stakeholders. Such a concept-the knowledge medium-is introduced in this paper, and its applicability to the health care domain is demonstrated on the example of a multicentered clinical trial, i.e. the Swiss HIV Cohort Study. We define a knowledge medium as a platform for the exchange and management of knowledge within a specific community of agents. It comprises the following components. Information objects, i.e. interactive carriers containing externalized knowledge; agents who form a community with common interests and goals, a logical system, which defines the common syntax and semantics of the knowledge managed by the medium. We conclude that there great opportunities for knowledge media in the health care domain, and that the development of a knowledge medium must evolve such as to take into account both the processes of knowledge management and the technological convergence.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115632381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Short-term generation asset valuation","authors":"C. Tseng, G. Barz","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.772863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772863","url":null,"abstract":"We present a method for valuing a power plant over a short term period using Monte Carlo simulation. The power plant valuation problem is formulated as a multi stage stochastic problem. We assume there are hourly markets for both electricity and the fuel used by the generator, and their prices follow some Ito processes. At each hour, the power plant operator must decide to run or not to run the unit so as to maximize expected profit. A certain lead time for commitment decision is necessary to start up a unit. The commitment decision, once made, is subject to physical constraints such as minimum uptime and downtime constraints. The generator's startup cost, is also taken into account in our model. The Monte Carlo method is employed not only in forward moving simulation, but also backward moving recursion of dynamic programming. We demonstrate through numerical tests how the physical constraints affect a power plant value.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116840462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed caching and replication","authors":"Oliver E. Theel, M. Pizka","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.773026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.773026","url":null,"abstract":"The number of people and services daily relying upon distributed information, such as in the Word-Wide Web (WWW) or distributed shared memory systems is tremendously growing. This trend will surely continue, so that the resources of those systems will be exhausted not too far from today. There are two alternatives for coping with the tremendously increasing workload of distributed information systems. One long-term strategy consists in enhancing the resources, e.g., by replacing low-bandwidth communication links by high-bandwidth ones. Unfortunately, this approach is very expensive and its realization will take many years. For some distributed information systems, like the WWW, putting this strategy to work - although unavoidable on the long run - is further complicated by the absence of a central authority being responsible for the system administration. A more promising strategy with respect to cost and time constraints is to manage available resources in a more appropriate fashion. It is the latter short-term strategy on which we focus our attention in the scope of this mini-track.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115074191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The genre of mathematics writing and its implications for digital documents","authors":"E. Rieffel","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.772664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772664","url":null,"abstract":"The genre of mathematics writing has several distinctive features that point to some of the weaknesses of current digital documents (DDs). Some of these weaknesses are surprising. While it might be expected that the importance of formatting and special symbols in mathematics writing would pose challenges for DDs, the linked, chunked style of mathematics writing, with its theorems, lemmas, corollaries and remarks explicitly referring to each other, resembles standard hypertext so closely that one would expect that mathematics writing would take well to online hypertext form. It does not. This failure points to deficiencies in our understanding of the true strengths and weaknesses of DDs. This paper describes mathematics writing, with particular emphasis on features of interest with respect to DDs. The difficulties in producing effective mathematics DDs are examined and used as a basis for talking about general challenges for DDs. The paper then discusses the strengths of DDs and some of the problems that need to be overcome before DDs can live up to claims made for them. It also examines some of the misguided claims, such as superior support for nonlinearity, that are commonly made for DDs, explains why these claims are unwarranted and speculates on why the claims have been made anyway. Suggestions are given as to what the true benefits of digitization are, including performing computations on text, flexible control of time and better support for hiding information. The paper concludes with a list of questions whose answers are critical to understanding the capabilities, and therefore the future, of DDs.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121458537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A framework for determining IT effectiveness: an empirical approach","authors":"S. Z. Hassan, K. Saeed","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.772780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772780","url":null,"abstract":"A framework has been developed to understand the factors that influence the benefits that an organization attains from the use of information technology (IT). The key elements of this framework included: (a) the linkage between IT objectives and the specific IT investments; (b) the influence of IT investments, market and economic conditions, and the organizational IT capabilities on the IT benefits and impact on an organization; and (c) the influence of the IT benefits and the impact, experienced in the past, on the future IT plans of an organization. This paper discusses the implications of various relationships, as demonstrated through statistical analysis by considering qualitative information on the market and economic conditions within which the firms operate. Our work indicates the need to follow a contingency-based approach in formulating IT objectives and making investment decisions for IT projects.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"358 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123551246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An approach to intensional query answering at multiple abstraction levels using data mining approaches","authors":"E. Park, Suk-Chung Yoon","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.772601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772601","url":null,"abstract":"Introduces a partially automated method for generating intensional answers at multiple abstraction levels for a query, which can help database users find more interesting and desired answers. Our approach consists of three phases: pre-processing, query execution and answer generation. In the pre-processing phase, we build a set of concept hierarchies constructed by generalization of the data stored in a database and a set of virtual hierarchies to provide a global view of the relationships among high-level concepts from multiple concept hierarchies. In the query execution phase, we receive a user's query, process the query, collect an extensional answer and select a set of relevant attributes to be generalized in the extensional answer. In the answer generation phase, we find the general characteristics of those relevant attribute values at multiple abstraction levels with the concept hierarchies and the virtual hierarchies by using data mining methods. The main contribution of this paper is that we apply and extend data mining methods to generate intensional answers at multiple abstraction levels, which increases the relevance of the answers. In addition, we suggest strategies to avoid meaningless intensional answers, which substantially reduces the computational complexity of the intensional answer generation process.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125110058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}