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IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing
IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the First World
Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. An umbre11a organization for societies
working in information processing, IFIP's aim is two-fold: to support information processing
within its member countries and to encourage technology transfer to developing nations. As
its mission statement clearly states,
IFIP's mIssIon is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization which
encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of information
technology for the benefit of a11 peop1e.
IFIP is a non-profitmaking organization, run almost solely by 2500 volunteers. It operates
through a number of technical committees, which organize events and publications. IFIP's
events range from an international eongress to loeal seminars, but the most important are:
• the IFIP World Computer Congress, held every seeond year;
• open eonferenees;
• working eonferenees.
The flagship event is the IFIP World Computer Congress, at which both invited and
eontributed papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the rejection
rate is high.
As with the Congress, partieipation in the open eonferenees is open to a11 and papers may
be invited or submitted. Again, submitted papers are stringently refereed.
The working eonferenees are struetured differently. They are usually run by a working
group and attendance is small and by invitation only. Their purpose is to create an atmosphere
eonducive to innovation and development. Refereeing is less rigorous and papers are
subjected to extensive group diseussion.
Publieations arising from IFIP events vary. The papers presented at the IFIP World
Computer Congress and at open conferenees are published as eonference proceedings, while
the results of the working eonferenees are often published as eolleetions of seleeted and
edited papers.
Any national society whose primary aetivity is in information may apply to beeome a full
member of IFIP, although full membership is restrieted to one society per country. Full
members are entit1ed to vote at the annual General Assembly, National societies preferring a
less eommitted involvement may apply for associate or corresponding membership. Associate
members enjoy the same benefits as full members, but without voting rights. Corresponding
members are not represented in IFIP bodies. Affiliated membership is open to non-national
societies, and individual and honorary membership schemes are also offered.
Information Systems in
the WWW Environment
IFIP IC8 / WG8.1 Working Conference on
Information Systems in the WWW Environment
15-17 July 1998, Beijing, China
Edited by
Colette Rolland
Universiti de Paris I
France
Vu Chen
The Information School
Renmin University of China
Beijing, China
and
MeiQi Fang
The Information School
Renmin University of China
Beijing, China
Published by Chapman & Hall on behalf of the
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
Inlll
CHAPMAN & HALL
London . Weinheim . New York . Tokyo . Melbourne . Madras
First edition 1998
© 1998 IFIP
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998978-0-412-82980-2
ISBN 978-1-5041-2964-0 ISBN 978-0-387-35347-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-0-387-35347-0
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
Committees ix
PART I Information Processing
Ensuring information quality in a very large web-based information
network
M. Missikoff and R. Pizzicannella 3
2 BASE-fundamentals of web system design
C.AC. Tepfers and C. Davidsen 23
PART 11 Cooperative Working 47
3 CASE tool support for co-operative work in information system design
S. Kelly 49
4 leE: an object oriented toolkit for tailoring collaborative
web applications
BabakA. Farshchian 70
PART 111 Implementation I 87
5 An electronic handbook for accessing domain specific generic patterns
C. Rolland, G. GrosZ, S. Nurcan, W. Yue and C. Gnaho 89
6 HERE: a web based environment for requirements engineering
V. Papaioannou and B. Theodoulidis 112
7 X.500: information infrastructure of distributed systems in
heterogeneous environments
Z Tao, X. Xiren and C. Ming 140
PART IV Implementation 11 149
8 Generic agent framework for Internet information systems
A. Erni, M. C. Norrie and A. Kobler 151
9 Designing a multimedia application for the WWW: the multimedia
broker experience
A. G. Sutcliffe, M. Ryan, H. Jiawei and J. Grijfyth 171
10 Inter-enterprise collaborative design and manufacturing
via WWWlInternet "
Z Deng, B. Bang and B. Solvang 197
VI Contents
PART V Searching & Retrieving 207
11 Searching information on WWW for the Intranet
L. Ruihong, L. Yuanming and Z. Xu 209
12 Chinese full text retrieval technology applied in national occupational
occupation training and testing network in WWW environment
M. Qingyuan, C. Min, L. Jingsheng, Z. Linzhi and D. Shuming 220
13 Research on design and appraisal of management information systems
X. Li and Z. Guan 233
PART VI IS Development 237
14 Two-tiered architecture ofIS in WWW environment
y. Chen, H. Han and X. Wang 239
15 The design ofInformation Systems in thin-client environment
over Intranet
H. Tao and Z. Xu 258
PART VII Application I 275
16 A COllaborative educational IS based on WWW
M. Fang, T. Li, J. Rao and X. Su 277
17 FAQ answering on WWW using shallow language understanding
E. Sneiders 298
18 An Internet business-oriented Java workstation at French utility EDF
R. Le Delliou and T. Brethes 320
PART VIII Application 11 323
19 Commerce Information System based on the WWW
M. Fang, J. Li and B. Yin 325
20 Shenzhen net based on ATM and Internet techniques
L. Zhou, G. Wu and G. Wang 346
21 Diagram drawer & browser for visual information processing
on theWWW
W. Yue and C. Gnaho 361
Index of contributors 373
Keyword index 375
PREFACE
The Renmin University is very proud to host this year the IFIP WG8.1
Conference on Information Systems in the WWW environment. There is a
growing awareness of the importance of new forms of communication on the
structure and management of organizations and consequently on their IT
infrastructure and engineering of information systems. On the other hand, weIl
established information systems engineering techniques and methods can improve
the development of information services in a World Wide Web environment.
This working conference is organized with the aim to bring together researchers
and practitioners in Information Systems, Human Computer Interaction,
Management and Communication who have interests in information systems in
World Wide Web environment. The objective is to advance understanding about
how intra and internet communication can empower information systems in
organizations, on techniques for human computer interaction and methods and
development tools for concurrent information systems engineering. The
conference aims also at discussing the impact of multi-media and hyper-media
technologies on information systems.
The call for ISWebE was given international audience. The program comrnittee
was chosen from very weIl reputed researchers in the international information
systems, human computer interaction and communication communities. Nineteen
papers have been selected for presentation and discussion during the conference.
The spectrum of the contributions in the present proceedings extends from issues
regarding the design of information systems and multi media applications in a
WWW environment to various novel views for some specific aspects of
information systems development such as collaborative design, intelligent
searching and quality assurance and new applications such as electronic commerce
and computer aided education.
The editors express the hope that these papers will contribute to improvements in
both the understanding and practice of information systems engineering in the
WWW environment. The ISWebE98 conference would not have been possible
without the efforts of the authors, the program committee members and the
additional referees. The): deserve our deepest thanks.
Colette Rolland
Yu Chen
MeiQi Fang
PROG RAM COMMITTEE
S.Brinkkemper, Netherlands lBubenko Jr, Sweden
G.Femandez, Australia R. Gan, China
lGrundy, New Zealand H.Kangassalo, Finland
S.Kelly, Finland M.Leonard, Switzerland
I.MacDonald, UK M.Missikoff, Italy
K.Moody, UK M.Norrie, Switzerland
G.kappel, Austria M.Papazoglou, Netherlands
AOlive, Spain YPigneur, Switzerland
C.Rolland, France M.Saeki, Japan
K.Siau, USA ASolvberg, Norway
Q. Sun, China B. Theodoulidis, UK
AWang, China B.Wangler, Sweden
Y Chen, China M.Fang, China
PART I
Information Processing
