1. NGITS 1993: Haifa, Israel

Opher Etzion, Arie Segev (Eds.): NGITS' 93 - The International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Technion, Haifa, Israel, June 28-30, 1993. 1993

Keynote Address

John Mylopoulos: Aligning Information Strategy with Business Strategy - A Technical Perspective. 0-

Applying The Object Oriented Paradigm in NGITS

Alfons Kemper, Guido Moerkotte, Hans-Dirk Walter: Autonomous Objects: A Natural Model for Complex Applications. 0-
Dov Dori, Erez Tatcher: Embryonic Classes: Enabling Selective Multiple Inheritance. 0-
Michele Missikoff, Herman Lam: On Semantic Verification of Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 0-

Panel: Software Engineering - The Next Generation

Cooperation and Coordination in NGITS

José A. Pino, José Miguel Montañana: Design of Software System For Negotiation. 0-
Aris M. Ouksel, Channah F. Naiman: Cooperation in Heterogenous Database Systems. 0-
Gustav Fahl, Tore Risch, Martin Sköld: AMOS - An Architecture for Active Mediators. 47-53
Menachem Alon, Dov Dori, Yehudit J. Dori: A Groupware-Based Team Training Shell and its Application to Trauma Team Training. 0-

Keynote Address

Robert M. Haralick: The Role of Machine Vision in Information Technology Systems. 0-

Knowledge Directed Information Systems in NGITS

Qing Li, Frederick H. Lochovsky: An Approach to Integrate Data and Knowledge Management in Next Generation Information Systems. 0-
Ran Giladi, Peretz Shoval: Routing Queries in a Network of Databases Driven by a Meta Knowledge-Base. 0-
Avigdor Gal, Opher Etzion: Representation of Highly-Complex Knowledge in a Database. 0-

Panel: User Interfaces - The Next Generation

Information Systems Supporting Additional Types of Information - Multi-Media and Vision in NGITS

W. Addison Woods, Srinivas Savaram, Ophir Frieder, Arun K. Sood, Gideon Frieder, Thomas Bottegal: Future Demands of Multimedia Databases. 0-
Sharma Chakravarthy, B. L. Maria, V. Krishnaprasad, Z. Tamizuddin, F. Lambay: A Federated Multi-Media Database for Medical Research: Architecture and Functionality. 0-
D. B. Sher, S. Revankar, J. G. Neal, V. L. Shalin, M. Ramamurthy: A Multimodal System for Interpreting Echocardiograms. 0-
Dov Dori, Gustavo Gambach, Adam Harris, Robert M. Haralick: Towards Objective Measurements from Medical Radiographs. 0-

Invited Talks

Bezalel Gavish: The Future and Impact of the Telecommunication Technology. 0-
Hans Hansen: Design of Self Service Information System for a Very Large Number of Occasional Users - Experiences with Videotext. 0-

Extending Existing Technologies

Eran Tuv, George Loizou: Self Organizing Feature Map for Clustering in Persistent Object Stores. 0-
Jacob Slonim, Per-Åke Larson, Gopi K. Attaluri: Advanced Transaction Systems in CORDS Multidatabase System Environment. 0-
Michael Ranft: Integrating Multiple Concurrency Control Algorithms. 0-
David W. Flater, Yelena Yesha: An Information Retrieval System for Network Resources. 0-

Integration of Technologies

Konrad Morgan, Laura Holland, Philip Hardy, James Casey, Tonny Quinn, Keith Roberts, Richard Oldfield: Next Generation Criminal Intelligence Systems: How Novel Knowledge Based Applications and Multi-Media Interfaces May Merge. 0-
Robert L. Read, Donald S. Fussell, Abraham Silberschatz: System-Wide Multiresolution. 0-
Haim Kilov: Information Modeling and Object Z: Specifying Generic Reusable Applications. 0-
Victor Raskin, Shimon Y. Nof: Internal and External Intelligent Interaction in Complex Decision Systems. 0-