Bis '99

Welcome to BIS'99! Business Information Systems 99 is an international conference being held for the third time. BIS'99 aims to discuss the development, implementation, application and improvement of computer systems for business processes. It is addressed to the scientific community, people involved in the development of business computer applications, and to consultants helping to properly implement computer technology and applications in industry. Over 50 selected papers will be presented at BIS'99 during the scientific and practical sessions. The papers deal with a variety of topics related to computer systems in management, from the point of view of their application (e.g., electronic commerce), their business or industrial users (e.g., business process re-engineering), and technology (e.g., data warehousing). The submitted papers underwent a rigorous reviewing process, and the resulting program should provide an outstanding representation of international research in this area. We believe that BIS'99 will provoke some interesting international discussion amongst participants, particularly as this meeting includes a number of invited lectures by international experts in the area. The BIS'99 international Program Committee was composed of 53 scientists from diverse locations -from the USA to Australia, from countries with a stable economy through to those undergoing economic transformation. This aspect further helps to enrich the conference program.

Zusammenfassung
The papers deal with a variety of topics related to computer systems in management, from the point of view of their application (e.g., electronic commerce), their business or industrial users (e.g., business process re-engineering), and technology (e.g., data warehousing).

Inhalt
Inauguration Session.- Building a Case for Consonance.- The Impact of Time Pressure on Idea Generation.- A Discussion on Process Losses in GSS: Suggested Ground Rules for the Electronic Environment.- Suggestions for Improving the Diffusion of GroupSystems in Organizations.- Facilitating and Coordinating Distributed Joint Applications Development.- Knowledge Management.- Information Systems in Customer-Oriented, Dynamic Environments: The Marketplace as a Metaphor.- Knowledge Management: Life Cycle and Implementation Techniques.- Utilising Knowledge Resources: An Activity Perspective of Knowledge Management.- The Strategic Role of Marketing Information Systems in Modern Business.- Internet.- Software Engineering on the Web.- Data Warehousing.- Data Warehousing Beyond Tools and Data: Justification, Organization, and Structured Development of Data Warehousing Applications.- To the Stars through Dimensions and Facts.- Generating Sample Data for Mining and Warehousing.- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Business: Past, Present, and Future.- From Economical Theory to Management Systems.- On the Difficulties of Cost/Benefit Analysis: What Management is Buying when Buying Information Technology Systems.- User Preferences in Evaluating Usability of Software Product: A Multicriteria Approach.- Business Process Re-engineering.- Re-engineering: Problems with Theory and Practical Application.- Flexible Business Process Models and their Application.- Business Processes Based Information Systems Development.- Database in Support of BiS.- Towards Exploitation of the Data Universe - Database Technology for Comprehensive Query Services.- Prototype Validation of the Rectangular Attribute Cardinality Map for Query Optimization in Database Systems.- Workflow Management Issues.- Time Management in Workflow Systems.- On Capturing Process Requirements of Workflow Based Business Information Systems.- Author Index.