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Tuesday, October 27
8:30 - 10:00
 The Ethics of Access: Global Perspectives (SIG HFIS,TIS)
This session will address both ethical foundations and practical applications of ethical thinking to global access issues. Access issues involve diverse political, sociological, and cultural contexts and ethical dimensions to be explored within those contexts. Ethics can assist stakeholders with conflicting interests to find common ground and reach consensus in institutional and public policy making.
Thomas J. Froehlich, Kent State University. Fee or Free: Ethical Issues in Charging for Information Services
Martha M. Smith, Indiana University. Global Information Justice: Reflections upon the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19
Rainer Kuhlen, German UNESCO Commission. UNESCO's Information Ethics Initiative: Access for All
Inez Sperr-Brisfjord, Pratt Institute, Moderator
8:30 - 10:00
 Globalization and Information Technologies: New Emerging Partnerships (Information for Industry Committee for FID, cosponsored by SIG/III and SIG/MGT)
Session 1: Expanding Partnerships for Small and Medium Size Enterprises
Globalized commerce has enabled large companies to recast their relationship with their customers and suppliers. Companies are now exploring what kinds of information exchange is take place between small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and the computers of large companies? How does the Web broaden the information exchange between organizations?
These new developments enable SMEs to handle more operations by themselves; larger companies are able to provide services to SMEs they could not previously. What kind of assistance has been most effective? How does the relationship shift?
Margie Hlava, Access Innovations. Needed: The Right Kind of Support
Irene Farkas-Conn, Arthur L. Conn Associates. Strategic Partnerships between International Banks with Small and Medium Size Enterprises in the Global Market Place
To Be Announced. Trade Associations Linking Companies and the World
Irmgard R. Fischli, St. Johann Novartis Services Inc., Switzerland, Moderator
8:30 - 10:00
Knowledge Discovery in Databases Tools and Techniques to Assist in Collaboration (SIG ALP)
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) involves the application of data analysis algorithms to assist in the discovery of patterns in a particular for or set of data. Data discovery can take place across several sources, making it an important technique for collaborative environments. Data mining tools and techniques for mining free-form text for automated annotation and indexing, for creating algorithms, and for visualizing and explaining the knowledge derived in the mining operation. While the potential for data mining is significant, the results are only as good as the tools, techniques, and the data to which they are applied. This program features developers of data mining tools speaking to the techniques behind some of the best known tools and current applications.
Claude Vogel, Chair, Semio Corporation
Rob Mattison, SPSS Inc.
Ramakrishnan Srikant, Data Mining Group, IBM
Denise Bedford, The World Bank Group, Moderator
10:30 - 12:30
International Perspectives on Universal Service: Myths, Realties, and Madness Plenary Session
This session will explore the notion of "universal service" in a global networked environment and describe the current status of establishing universal service in such an environment. Key issues, problems, and strategies will be presented to help identify the myths, realities, and madness that comprise selected policy debates regarding the development of universal services globally. Participants will also offer strategies that might improve access to and use of networked information resources and services in a global context.
Charles R. McClure, Syracuse University
John C. Bertot, University at Albany, State University of New York
Jean-Claude Burgelman, Vrije Uinversiteit Brussel (invited)
Andrew Magpantay, Director of the Office for Information Technology, ALA Added 7/27/98
Others to be announced
1:30 - 3:00
Globalization and Information Technologies: New Emerging Partnerships (FID II Committee, cosponsored by SIG/III and SIG/MGT)
Session 2: Changes in the Environment: Outside Influences Bringing About Changes
Mergers and acquisitions have forced global companies to changed established ways of doing business. New corporate policies are needed regarding information providers.
Irmgard R. Fischli, Novartis Services. New Established Global Information Providers: A Challenge for Global Industrial Operations
Maria Jos Brito, Ministry of Economics, Portugal. Government Policies and Activities to Strengthen Small and Medium Size Enterprises
Saul Hahn, Organization of American States. The Internet and OAS/RedHUCyT Project: Unforeseen UniversityPrivate Sector Partnering in Latin America
Irene Farkas-Conn, Arthur L. Conn Associates, Moderator
1:30 - 3:00
Does User Modeling Research Impact IR Systems Design? (SIG HCI)
Two main approaches exist for information retrieval (IR) research. One has focused on retrieval systems and processes, referred to as the systemscentered approach. It continues to be an active area of investigation, particularly among IR researchers in computer science. The other, known as the usercentered approach, encompasses cognitive, interactive and contextual aspects of IR interaction. Both approaches have contributed significantly to the knowledge base of IR research; however, very little crossover has taken place between the two paradigms.
The panel speakers will discuss their IR projects and how they have dealt with both approaches.
Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University. Can the Gap Between UserOriented IR Research and System-Oriented IR Research be Breached?
James Callan, University of Massachusetts. The Systems-Oriented Approach to IR Research.
Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Intermodel IR Performance Evaluation Issues.
Amanda Spink, University of North Texas. Bridging the Gap: A User-Oriented Approach.
Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University, Moderator
1:30 - 3:00
Information Retrieval Technology. Contributed Papers
Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Centre Europe. Problems and Approaches to Cross Language Information Retrieval.
Migual Ruiz and Padmini Srinivasan, both University of Iowa. Crosslanguage Information Retrieval: An Analysis of Errors.
Kwong B. Ng, and Paul Kantor, Rutgers University. An Investigation of the Conditions for Effective Data Fusion in Information Retrieval: A Pilot Study.
3:30 - 5:30
ASIS Annual Business Meeting
Michael Buckland, ASIS President, Presiding
Officer Reports
Inaugural Address, Candy Schwartz
Open Discussion
7:30 - 8:30
SIG CON
First time attendees should be sure not to miss the only technical session scheduled in the evening: SIG/CON. Most of the cuttingedge research in information science originated with SIG/CON, including the theory of titular colonicity, baloonean logic, and the historical Battle of Concordance and Lexicon. Every member of ASIS is automatically a member of SIG/CON. The importance of SIG/CON is underscored by the presence of a cash bar at the session, providing an opportunity to attain the high state of consciousness necessary to achieve full understanding of the theoretical content. |
