Advanced IT Tools

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Innovative Applications in the Public Sector

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Enabling Technologies

      1. Wired Cities — Opportunities for small and medium sized cities on the Information Highway

         • R. E. Strauss, D. Schoder, G. Müller

         Pages 3-10

      2. New Public Management and Enabling Technologies

         • R. Traunmüller, K. Lenk

         Pages 11-18

   3. Applications I

      1. An electronic voting scheme

         • Tatsuaki Okamoto

         Pages 21-30

      2. Key Issues in Digital Library Interoperability

         • Renato Iannella, Nigel Ward, Kaveri Chakrabarty, Chris Curtis

         Pages 31-38

   4. Virtual Education

      1. The virtual class

         • J. T. Tiffin

         Pages 41-47

      2. Artificial Life of Agents

         • Carl Eugene Loeffler

         Pages 48-55

   5. Health Care and Technology

      1. Computer Aided Treatment of Diabetes

         • Christian Gapp, Wolfgang Reh, Karl Werner

         Pages 59-66

      2. Diagnosis over the Net — The Mshare project

         • Yanlin Guan, Hanqing Lu, Songde Ma

         Pages 67-71

      3. Technology for the disabled and why it matters to you

         • G. Busby

         Pages 72-77

   6. Public Sector Information Systems

      1. Innovative Enterprise Information Systems: An Imperative for Public Sector Organisations of the 90s

         • Helen Hasan

         Pages 81-88

      2. IS outsourcing by public sector organisations

         • L. A. de Looff

         Pages 89-94

   7. Standardization

      1. Impact of standardization work on the future of information technology

         • T. W. Olle

         Pages 97-105

      2. AccessNova: Broadband networks and multimedia services experiments in Chile

         • Ricardo Baeza-Yates, José Miguel Piquer, Eduardo Vera, Masatoshi Makino, Yuji Inoue

         Pages 106-113

3. Innovative Applications on the Horizon

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Information Superhighway

      1. Global business on the superhighway: implications for the office of the future

         • B. C. Glasson

         Pages 117-128

      2. Towards an Intelligent Software Maintenance Network

         • P. A. Bailes, P. Burnim, M. Chapman, J. V. Harrison, I. Peake

         Pages 129-136

      3. Intellectual Property Protection for IT Developments — The Debate Continues

         • D. B. Webber

         Pages 137-144

   3. Information Spaces

      1. A Multimedia Database System VHM and Its Application

         • Shoichiro Ishigaki, Kazuhiko Kushima, Tetsuo Sakata

         Pages 147-154

TRACK 1: Innovative Applications in the Public Sector The integration of multimedia based applications and the information superhighway fundamentally concerns the creation of a communication technology to support the ac­ tivities of people. Communication is a profoundly social activity involving interactions among groups or individuals, common standards of exchange, and national infrastruc­ tures to support telecommunications activities. The contributions of the invited speakers and others in this track begin to explore the social dimension of communication within the context of integrated, information systems for the public sector. Interactions among businesses and households are described by Ralf Strauss through the development within a real community of a "wired city" with information and electronic services provided by the latest telecommunications technologies. A more specific type of interaction between teacher and student forms the basis of education. John Tiffin demonstrates how virtual classrooms can be used to augment the educational process. Carl Loeffler presents yet another perspective on interaction through the integration of A-life and agent technologies to investigate the dynamics of complex behaviors within networked simulation environments. Common standards for communication in the form of electronic documents or CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), according to Roland Traunmiiller, provide en­ abling technologies for a paradigm shift in the management of organizations. As pointed out by William Olle, the impact of standardization work on the future of information technology depends critically upon the interoperability of software systems.

• Workflow-Management
• architectures
• classification
• data compression
• database
• database system
• formal specification
• information management
• information system
• information theory
• multimedia
• multimedia system
• neural networks

• Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

  Nobuyoshi Terashima

• ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

  Edward Altman

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