Advanced IT Tools: IFIP World Conference on IT Tools 2–6 September 1996, Canberra, Australia

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Computer Aided Treatment of Diabetes....Pages 59-66
Diagnosis over the Net — The Mshare project....Pages 67-71
Technology for the disabled and why it matters to you....Pages 72-77
Innovative Enterprise Information Systems: An Imperative for Public Sector Organisations of the 90s....Pages 81-88
IS outsourcing by public sector organisations....Pages 89-94
Impact of standardization work on the future of information technology....Pages 97-105
AccessNova: Broadband networks and multimedia services experiments in Chile....Pages 106-113
Wired Cities — Opportunities for small and medium sized cities on the Information Highway....Pages 3-10
New Public Management and Enabling Technologies....Pages 11-18
An electronic voting scheme....Pages 21-30
Key Issues in Digital Library Interoperability....Pages 31-38
The virtual class....Pages 41-47
Artificial Life of Agents....Pages 48-55
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Global business on the superhighway: implications for the office of the future....Pages 117-128
Towards an Intelligent Software Maintenance Network....Pages 129-136
Intellectual Property Protection for IT Developments — The Debate Continues....Pages 137-144
A Multimedia Database System VHM and Its Application....Pages 147-154
Large Scale Multi-User Virtual Worlds....Pages 155-162
The structured development method SENN for feedforward neural networks and the application to the multimedia patient record in the Bavarian Health Net....Pages 163-170
An Intelligent Model for Road Traffic Management in the Motorway Network Around Barcelona....Pages 173-180
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Support Services For Business Networking....Pages 181-188
A personal financial planning system for everyday use?....Pages 189-196
Tool support of orderly transition from informal to formal descriptions in requirements engineering....Pages 199-206
A New Type of Fourth Generation Language for Multimedia Databases: Kasuga Script....Pages 207-214
Computer-Aided Formal Specification for Concurrent Engineering Platforms....Pages 217-224
Prerequisites, effects and opportunities of Internet-distributed software development....Pages 225-232
EDI in Australian International Trade and Transport....Pages 235-248
A Long Term Initiative in the Development of I.T. Tools for Decision Support....Pages 249-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
User Services in BPAFrame, a Framework for Workflow-Management-Systems....Pages 303-310
VisLink: Breaking the communication bottlenecks....Pages 311-318
An Environment to Support the Evaluation of the Business Value of Information Systems....Pages 319-327
Trends of Flat Displays in the Multimedia Age....Pages 261-264
Design technologies for embedded multimedia systems....Pages 265-274
Virtual prototyping based development and marketing of future consumer electronics products....Pages 275-282
An Application Framework to Support Information Sharing in Collaborative Work....Pages 331-339
Collaborative intelligent decision systems....Pages 340-347
PMES: Privilege management and enforcement system for secure distributed resource sharing....Pages 348-355
Genetic neuro-fuzzy architectures for advanced intelligent systems....Pages 359-366
Supporting Organizational Learning with CSCW-Applications — The Information Trader Concept....Pages 285-292
Improving cooperative behaviour in a multi-agent system....Pages 293-300
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
CIN: An Intelligent Information Management Toolkit....Pages 395-401
PCS: A CASE Tool for Distributed Group Software Development....Pages 402-410
The IS-function: the most intelligent IT-tool....Pages 411-416
Hybrid interpretation of induction results....Pages 497-506
EnCal: An Automated Forward Deduction System for General-Purpose Entailment Calculus....Pages 507-514
A new copyright protection scheme using the multiple RSA cryptosystems in personal cards for network shopping....Pages 515-522
Integrating diverse information resources: capturing meaning in a sea of data....Pages 471-478
An Intelligent Agent for Supporting User Navigation in a Hyperspace....Pages 479-486
DDS: The Data Delivery System....Pages 487-494
Practical Issues of Dynamic Bit Allocation in Multimedia Source Compression....Pages 525-532
Motion Vector Prediction in Interactive 3D Rendered Video Stream....Pages 533-539
A Plan of Regional Tourist Information System....Pages 453-460
Two frameworks for task analysis: An application to the use of intelligent systems in the development of information systems....Pages 461-468
Toward a multi-sensor neural net approach to automatic text classification....Pages 367-373
Automation in Knowledge Engineering Via Inductive Learning....Pages 543-550
Cooperative Design on the Internet....Pages 419-428
Understanding and Guiding Requirements Engineering Processes....Pages 429-436
Object-oriented specification of coordinated collaboration....Pages 437-449
Coordination support for CSCW-systems in concurrent engineering environments....Pages 377-383
A Proposal for Reliable Information Multicast Environment: its Implementation and Evaluation....Pages 384-392
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Building computer tools for negotiation- The Family_Negotiator Project....Pages 551-558
A Model of Co-ordination Support for Unanticipated Situations....Pages 559-566
Back Matter....Pages 567-572