{"title":"Hypermedia EIS and the World Wide Web","authors":"G. Masaki, J. Walls, J. Stockman","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375566","url":null,"abstract":"Today the need to be nimble in and adaptive to a turbulent business environment is greater than ever. Environmental intelligence is critical to making effective strategic decisions. Strategic decision-making is based on the collection and interpretation of information from the environment. Executives must continually scan and monitor the business environment for relevant and timely information. This paper argues that a hypermedia executive information system (HEIS) can provide facilities needed to support the process and products of strategic intelligence. HEISs extend traditional executive information systems (EISs). A HEIS is designed to facilitate reconnaissance in both the internal and external environments using hypermedia and artificial intelligence technologies. It is oriented toward business intelligence, which recognizes the need for managerial vigilance.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126363334","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":"Beyond convexity: scanning 'non-convex polyhedra'","authors":"Z. Chamski","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375475","url":null,"abstract":"The enumeration of points contained in an algebraically-specified domain is one of the key algorithmic problems in the transformation of scientific programs. However, basic scanning algorithms accept only single convex polyhedra, requiring specialized techniques and causing run-time overhead if the set of points to enumerate is not convex. We review the existing approaches to the case of \"regularly non-convex\" domains, and present an algorithm for scanning arbitrary unions of polyhedra. For this, we propose to use nested loop sequences instead of perfect loop nests, and present an algorithm which generates nested loop sequences from unions of convex polyhedra.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123440060","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":"Automatic data and computation decomposition for distributed memory machines","authors":"Q. Ning, G. Gao","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375472","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed an automatic compile-time computation and data decomposition technique for distributed memory machines. Our method can handle complex programs containing perfect and nonperfect loop nests with or without loop-carried dependences. Applying our decomposition algorithms, a program is divided into collections (called clusters) of loop nests, such that data redistributions are allowed only between the clusters. Within each cluster of loop nests, decomposition and data locality constraints are formulated as a system of homogeneous linear equations which is solved by polynomial time algorithms. Our algorithm can selectively relax data locality constraints within a cluster to achieve a balance between parallelism and data locality. Such relaxations are guided by exploiting the hierarchical program nesting structures from outer to inner nesting levels to keep the communications at an outer-most level possible. This work is central to the on-going compiler development effort under the EPPP (Environment for Portable Parallel Programming) project. A brief discussion of the current implementation is included.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124786879","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}
John Johansen, U. Karmarkar, Dhananjay Nanda, Abraham Seidmann
{"title":"Business experience with computer integrated manufacturing. A survey of current strategy and practice","authors":"John Johansen, U. Karmarkar, Dhananjay Nanda, Abraham Seidmann","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375650","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes the results of a recent field study of CIM adoption strategies in US manufacturing firms. The purpose of the study was to identify the extent to which CIM technologies are in use in US firms, the impact of a facility's process characteristics on the CIM development process, and the adoption policy being followed implicitly or explicitly. The survey focused on the following aspects:(a) manufacturing process characteristics, (b) the CIM development process, (c) the CIM architecture, and (d) perceived value and benefits. Our results indicate that CIM implementations follow a definite temporal pattern with respect to the adoption of certain information technologies. In addition, the initiative for CIM programs is usually generated from the bottom-up. This gradual bottom-up approach appears to restrain, rather than enable, plant-wide integration for critical business processes such as order fulfilment or product development. While most CIM users find that their CIM projects successfully meet their initial operational goals, the technology seems to be poorly integrated still. More crucially, it appears that CIM is not being adopted as a strategic information system for competitive missions.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131313290","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":"Improving continuous improvement with CATeam: lessons from a longitudinal case study","authors":"Volker Barent, H. Krcmar, H. Lewe, G. Schwabe","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375729","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous improvement is a well known method for improving an organization step by step. This paper shows that with computer support even an improvement process can be improved. It presents a long-term study of GSS use in the Hohenheim Computer Aided Team (CATeam) room. Over two years the authors observed a natural group performing a continuous improvement process to improve their own work. The paper discusses four improvement meetings by combining case descriptions with analysis of the observed meetings. Chapters of this paper deal with anonymity, voting, managerial issues, organizational change and effects of the overall process on the group itself. Finally the authors conclude with some lessons on how to perform improvement meetings with computer support and give some basic success factors.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131585604","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}
D. Kagaris, S. Tragoudas, G. Pantziou, Christos D. Zaroliagis
{"title":"Quickest paths: parallelization and dynamization","authors":"D. Kagaris, S. Tragoudas, G. Pantziou, Christos D. Zaroliagis","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375479","url":null,"abstract":"Let N=(V,E,c,l) be a network, where G=(V,E) is a directed graph (|V|=n and |E|=m), c(e)>0 is the capacity and l(e)/spl ges/0 is the lead time for each edge e/spl isin/E. The transmission time to send /spl sigma/ units of data from a given source s to a destination t using path p is T(/spl sigma/,p) = l(p) + /spl sigma//c(p), where l(p) is the sum of the lead times of the edges in p, and c(p) is the minimum capacity of the edges in p. The quickest path problem is to find a path of minimum transmission time to transmit the /spl sigma/ units of data from s to t. The problem has applications to fast data transmissions in communication networks. We present parallel algorithms for solving the quickest path problem in the case where the network is sparse [i.e. m=O(n)]. We also give algorithms for solving the dynamic quickest path problem. In this problem, the network, the lead times and the capacities on its edges, as well as the amount of data to be transmitted, change over time. The goal is to build a data structure so that one can very quickly compute the quickest path to transmit a given amount of data from any node s to any node t and also, after a dynamic change (edge lead time or edge capacity modification, or edge deletion) on the input network, to be able to update the data structure in an appropriately short time. Furthermore, we improve upon the best sequential result for the single pair quickest path problem which needs O(rm+rn log n) time, where r is the number of distinct edge capacities.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125263085","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":"Innovation in business processes-a discussion of research methods to study the process of innovation","authors":"Arne Henne, Eva M. Møller","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375691","url":null,"abstract":"Our primary concern is innovation in business processes, especially with focus on how to analyze occurrences of radical innovation as a result of business process redesign (BPR) projects. BPR is a new field, and there has so far been little development of theories and methodology in the area. Important questions we address are: can BPR and innovation in business processes be studies according to the same principles as used in studies of information systems, what are the consequences of this alternative, and do we have other alternatives?.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125267821","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}
G. Kappel, B. Pröll, S. Rausch-Schott, W. Retschitzegger
{"title":"TriGS/sub flow/: Active object-oriented workflow management","authors":"G. Kappel, B. Pröll, S. Rausch-Schott, W. Retschitzegger","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375484","url":null,"abstract":"We present the multi-paradigm architecture TriGS/sub flow/ for a workflow management system. TriGS/sub flow/ is based on an active extension of the commercial object-oriented database system GemStone. TriGS/sub flow/ takes full advantage of the capabilities of the underlying database system such as reliability, recovery, transaction management, and authorization. At the current stage of implementation the novel features of TriGS/sub flow/ are the seamless integration of ECA rules into an object-oriented model, the flexibility of workflow specification due to rule modeling, and the integration of external applications as part of workflow processing.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128244091","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}
Morgen M. Sherpherd, R. Briggs, B. Reinig, Jerome Yen
{"title":"Social loafing in electronic brainstorming: invoking social comparison through technology and facilitation techniques to improve group productivity","authors":"Morgen M. Sherpherd, R. Briggs, B. Reinig, Jerome Yen","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375697","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a study of electronic brainstorming that begins with field experience, moves through theory building and experimentation and ends with practical guidance for facilitators and developers. The paper argues that social loafing impairs the productivity of electronic brainstorming groups, and that social comparison is a way to decrease the effect(s) of social loafing. By inducing social comparison with a graphical feedback tool we increased the output of EBS groups by 23%. By increasing the salience of the social comparison treatment with facilitation techniques we improved the output of EBS groups by an additional 33%.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124690499","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":"Intervals and the deduction of drug binding site models","authors":"G. Crippen","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1995.375332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1995.375332","url":null,"abstract":"In the search for new drugs, it often occurs that the binding affinities of several compounds to a common receptor macromolecule are known experimentally. But the structure of the receptor is not known. We describe an extraordinarily objective computer algorithm for deducing the important geometric and energetic features of the common binding site, starting only from the chemical structures of the ligands and their observed binding. The user does not have to propose a pharmacophore, guess the bioactive conformations of the ligands, or suggest ways to superimpose the active compounds. The method takes into account conformational flexibility of the ligands, stereospecific binding, diverse or unrelated chemical structures, inaccurate or qualitative binding data, and the possibility that chemically similar ligands may or may not bind to the receptor in similar orientations.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":433759,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134410873","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}