There is a growing awareness of the importance of new forms of communication on the structure and management of organisations and consequently on their IT infrastructure and engineering of information systems. On the other hand, well established information systems engineering techniques and methods can improve the development of information services in a World Wide Web environment.

This working conference will bring together researchers and practitioners in Information Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Management and Communication who have interests in information systems in the World Wide Web environment. The objective will be to advance understanding about how intra and internet communication can empower information systems in organisations, techniques for human computer interaction and methods and development tools for concurrent information systems engineering

Papers are sought on a variety of related topics :

• Experience in Information Systems in the WWW Environment
• Inpact on organisation structures and strategies
• Techniques for developing new information services
• Innovative IS based on broad bend multimedia
• Information filtering
• Scalability of information systems
• External linkages of corporate information systems
• Intranet Applications
• Security and confidentiality
• Standardisation issues
• Architechture alternatives for information services
• Interactive concurrent information systems engineering
• Groupware and co-operative work in information systems development
• Methods and tools for distributed information systems
• Models and tools for supporting the cooperative engineering process

The above list is not intended to be exhaustive. Papers wich support their theoretical contributions with empirical evidence and those wich perform in-depth analysis of industrial practices shall be preferred.

Papers in quadruplicate, upto 7000 words, written in English should be sent to :

Prof. Chen Yu, The Information School
Renmin University of China, Jien 18-30
Beijing, 100872, P.R. China
cheny@sun.ihep.ac.cn

The proceedings of the conference will be commercially published.