Final Programme


Wednesday, September 15
 
9.30 - 10.00 Keynote: Christiane Schatzl, CEU DG III, B.
'The role of standards in the information society'
10.15 - 11.45 Paper Session 1: 
'Organisational Aspects of Standardisation'
13.15 - 14.15 Invited Talk: Helmut Schink, ETSI, F.
'Standardization - Welcome to the Market Place'
14.30 - 16.00 Paper Session 2: 
'The Standards Setting Process'
16.15 - 17.45 Debate:
'Is There a Future for the Internet's standardisation process?'
18.15 - 20.15 Poster Session (with wine and cheese)
'The Many Facets of Standardisation'

 

Thursday, September 16
 
9.00 - 10.00 Invited Talk: Gary Robinson, Independent Standards Consultant, USA.
'There are no Standards for Making Standardsí
10.15 - 11.45 Paper Session 3: 
'On Innovation'
13.15 - 14.15 Invited Paper: Robin Williams, U. of Edinburgh, UK.
'ICT Standard Setting from an Innovation Studies Perspective'
14.30 - 16.00 Paper Session 4: 
'Economic Issues and Theory of Standardisation'
16.15 - 17.45 Panel Discussion:
'Standardisation in the Next Millenium - Where Do We Go from Here?'
19.30 - late Conference Dinner

 

Friday, September 17
 
9.00 - 10.00 Panel Discussion:
'Standards Strategies in the Commercial World'
10.15 - 11.45 Paper Session 5:
'Specific Standards and Applications'
13.15 - 14.15 Invited Paper: Fabio Bigi, ITU-TSB, CH.
'ITU-T Studies in GII'
13.15 - 14.45 Workshop: 
'Electronic Tools to Support Standardisation Work'

 

Paper Session 1: Organisational Aspects of Standardisation

Standard Selection Modes in Dynamic, Complex Industries: Creating Hybrids between Market Selection and Negotiated Selection of Standards
Marc van Wegberg; University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Frank Vercoulen; Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Organizational Decisions for I.T. Standards Adoption: Antecedents and Consequences
Joel West; University of California, Irvine, USA.

Standardisation through SAP R/3: A Proposed Model for Effective Implementation
Majed Al-Mashari, Mohamed Zairi; University of Bradford, UK.

CAPE-OPEN: Experiences from a Standardization Effort in Chemical Industries
Matthias Jarke, Jörg Köller, Wolfgang Marquardt, Lars von Wedel; RWTH Aachen, Germany.
Bertrand Braunschweig; Institut Français du Pétrole, France.
   
 

Paper Session 2: The Standards Setting Process

Consortia and the Evolution of Information Technology Standardization
Carl Cargill; Sun Microsystems, USA.

Taming the West - CEN/ISSS is a pioneer in opening up participation in the Information Society
James Boyd; CEN/ISSS, Belgium.

Standardization and Intellectual Property Rights: ETSIís controversial search for new IPR procedures
Eric J. Iversen; The STEP-Group, Norway.
 
 

Debate: Is There a Future for the Internetís standardisation process?

'Tension between Standardisation and Flexibility' - A brief presentation of this earlier paper's main points
Eric Monteiro; NTNU, Norway.

Critique on an Analysis: 'Tension between Standardisation and Flexibility' Revisited
Tineke M. Egyedi; TU Delft, The Netherlands.
 
 

Poster Session: The Many Facets of Standardisation

Developing corporate infrastructure: implications for international standardization
Eric Monteiro; NTNU, Norway.
Ole Hanseth; University of Oslo, Norway.

The Process of Standard Making: Equilibrium and Transformation in Social Networks.
Vladislav Fomin, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Company Strategies Relating to the Participation In Standardisation Processes in the Context of Digital Convergence
Matthias Krieb; Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.

Using TMN Standards to Solve Proprietary Aspects in SDH Multivendor Network Management
Rogério Koehn, Carmen Guerrero, Angel Viña; University of A Coruña, Spain.

Experiences and Positions of the DIN IT Standards Committee
Ingo Wende; DIN German Institute for Standardization, Germany.

Contribution Towards a Theory of Standardization in Telecommunications
Mostafa Hashem Sherif; AT&T, USA.
 
 

Paper Session 3: On Innovation

The Influence of Innovation and Standardisation on Macroeconomic Development: The Case of Germany
Knut Blind, Hariolf Grupp, Andre Jungmittag; Fraunhofer-Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung, Germany.

The ëTechnology Fixí: Developing Improved Search Engines to Sustain Web Growth
Paul Windrum; University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
G. M. Peter Swann; University of Manchester, UK.

Technical Communications Standards: New Directions in Innovation
Ken Krechmer; International Center for Standards Research, USA.

The Human Characteristics for Innovation in the Development of Information Technology
David A. DeMarco, Jonathan D. Rabson, Michael Seebacher; Idea Connections, USA.
 
 

Paper Session 4: Economic Issues and Theory of Standardisation

The Development of Standards in the Mobile Telephone Industry and their Effect on Regional Industry Growth
John Rice, Peter Galvin; Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

The Standardization Problem - An Economic Analysis of Standards in Information Systems
Peter Buxmann, Tim Weitzel, Falk v. Westarp, Wolfgang König; J. W. Goethe-University, Germany.

Reconsidering the Assumptions for ìTippingî in Network Markets
Joel West; University of California, Irvine, USA.

Toward a Theory of Standards
Timothy Schoechle; International Center for Standards Research, U. of Colorado, USA.
 
 

Panel Siscussion: Standardisation in the Next Millenium - Where Do We Go from Here?

K. Asatani; Kogakuin University, Vice Chairman ITU SG 13, Japan.

H. Schink; Director Standards, Internet and Broadband, Siemens AG, Germany.

P.A. Probst; Executive Vice President, Swisscom Corporate Operations, Switzerland.

V. Ghiladi; Vice President Standardisation, DaimlerChryseler, Germany.

J. Boyd; Strategy Manager, CEN/ISSS, Belgium.

E. Sutherland, General Manager, INTUG, Belgium..
 


Panel Discussion: Standards Strategies in the Commercial World

Stephen Walli; Interix Software Systems Inc., USA.

Carl Cargill; SUN Microsystems, USA.



Paper Session 5: Specific Standards and Applications

Posix: A Case Study in a Successful Standard Or, why We Donít Need Radical Change in the SDO Process
Stephen R.Walli; Interix Software Systems, Inc., USA.

An Environment to support flexibility in process standards
Carla Blanck Purper; Bremen University, Germany.

Standardization and Innovation of Multimedia Technology in Consumer Electronics
Shoei Kataoka; Electronic Industries Association of Japan, Japan.
Henk Kolk; Philips Consumer Electronics, The Netherlands.

Using The ISO/IEC 12207 Tailoring Process For Defining a Maintenance Process
Macario Polo, Mario Piattini, Francisco Ruiz, Coral Calero; Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
 
 

Workshop: 'Electronic Tools to Support Standardisation Work'

Usability of a Collaborative Authoring System for Standards Development: Preferences, Problems, and Prognosis
Michael Spring, Restiani Andriati, Vichita Vathanophas; University of Pittsburgh, USA.

A Proposal for a Web Based Standardization Process
Carl Cargill; SUN Microsystems, USA.

Progress towards web-based Electronic Committees in the CEN/INES project (Internet Network for European Standardization)
Simon Downe; DIN, Germany.
Ilidio G. Chaves, Pedro Nunes Institute, Portugal.

An evolutionary view of working proven tools for thousands of members
Jay Iorio; IEEE, USA.
 
 

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