Abstract:
Traditional business processes are strongly impacted by the use of
emerging information technology that provides new perspectives for
strategy and relationship management between the main actors of
electronic commerce. The fast-evolving World Wide Web plaftorm
emphasizes the need for new paradigms to deal with complex information
systems that meet the requirements of innovative economic models.
Integrated secure access to heterogenous information, knowledge
publishing, and personnalized content delivery are important issues to
be
addressed. The paper concentrates on the advantages and limits brought
by a document technology approach to deal with new levels of
interaction and control in business information and communication
systems.
CV:
Dr Christine Vanoirbeek is Senior Researcher at the Computer
Science
Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Lausanne. Her main
interests in research and teaching relate to structured dynamic
documents,
hypertext and World Wide Web development. She plays a leading
role in several
research projects aiming at developing documents models to be
applied in
various purposes: distance learning, electronic commerce and
health
information systems.
She also plays an active role in ERCIM (European Research
Consortium
for Informatic and Mathematics) where she is leading a working
group on
electronic commerce.
http://lithwww.epfl.ch/~vanoirbe