Proceedings of the 7th Doctoral Consortium at the CAiSE*00,
Stockholm, Sweden, June 5th-6th 2000

Institut für Informatik
Report B 00-23
June 2000

Annika Hinze (editor)
Institut für Informatik
Freie Universität Berlin
Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin
hinzeinf.fu-berlin.de

Bart-Jan Hommes (editor)
Department of Information Technology and Systems (ITS)
Section Information Systems and Software Engineering (ISSE)
POBox 356, 2600 AJ DELFT, The Netherlands
hommes@is.twi.tudelft.nl


Preface

The Papers published in these proceedings were presented at the 7th Doctoral Consortium of the Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering CAISE*2000, taking place in Stockholm, Sweden on June 4-5, 2000. Starting in 1994, the Doctoral Consortia have been held annually during the CAISE conference, taking place in Utrecht (The Netherlands, 1994), Jyvskyl (Finland, 1995), Heraklion (Greece, 1996), Barcelona (Spain, 1997), Pisa (Italy, 1998) and Heidelberg (Germany, 1999).

The Doctoral Consortia on Advanced Information Systems Engineering are intended to bring together PhD students within the information systems engineering field and give them the opportunity to present and to discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. They are accompanied by prominent professors in the field of information systems which provide feedback on the research work presented by doctoral students.

Submissions to Doctoral Consortia are extended abstracts of ongoing Ph.D. research in the field of information systems engineering. For the 7th Doctoral Consortium of CAISE*2000, 10 submissions were accepted, 9 papers were presented at the Workshop. The papers demonstrate a variety of research approaches and research topics, covering research on Internet systems, cooperative and distributed information systems, modeling methods and tools, object oriented component technologies, knowledge and software management and business processes. During the workshop, each paper was introduced by a 20 minute presentation, followed by a 25 minute discussion of thesis topics, research methods and research limitations.
Furthermore, the 7th Doctoral Consortium was rounded off by a discussion of general questions related to Ph.D. research. They included guidelines for presentations, guidelines for working on a Ph.D. thesis, and a comparison of the differences in Ph.D. study and research work in different countries.

Special thanks are due to the accompanying professors of the 7th Doctoral Consortium: Jan Dietz (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands), Klaus R. Dittrich (University of Zurich, Swiss), Juhani Iivari (University of Oulu, Finland), Yair Wand (Commerce University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada). The Doctoral Consortium would not have been possible without their valuable contributions. Furthermore, we thank all the participants for their great interest and effort displayed both in preparation and presentation of their own work, as well as in the discussion of the contribution of others. Finally, we sincerely thank the organizing committee and local organizers of the CAISE*2000 conference for their continuous support to preparing the Doctoral Consortium.

Stockholm, June 2000, Annika Hinze, Bart-Jan Hommes


Contents

Session 1: Data Warehousing

Jorge Bernardino:
Data Warehousing and OLAP: Improving Query Performance Using Distributed Computing

Olaf Herden:
A Design Methodology for Data Warehouses

Session 2: Session Quality of Information

Holger Hinrichs:
CLIQ - Intelligent Data Quality Management

Markus Schaal:
A Computational Model for Information Value

Session 3: Information Systems

Adrian E. Coronado M.:
An Information Systems Assessment Framework for Agile Manufacturing

Srinath Srinivasa:
The Notion of an Interaction Space of an Information System

Klaus Hammermüller:
Usability Study of Computer Support to Time-oriented, Skeletal Planning with the Asgaard Project

Session 4: Enterprise Modelling

Anne Persson:
Investigating the Influence of Situational Factors on Participative Enterprise Modelling - Making a Case for a Qualitative Research Approach

Pnina Soffer:
Matching Enterprise Requirements with ERP System Capabilities


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