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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
2nd International Conference on Information and Communications Technology
in the Field of Tourism - ENTER 95
 
January 18th - 20th, 1995
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
 
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CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:
 
ENTER `95 is intended to be an international forum dealing with the use and development of information systems and communication technologies in the domain of tourism and leisure time. Information and communication systems embedded in a global net have profound influence on the tourism and leisure industry and will alter it considerably. Reservation systems, distributed multi-media systems, highly mobile working places, so-called "electronic markets" are the first noticeable results of this development. Advances in the use and development of tools, technologies and methodologies that have facilitated the efficient netting of information and communication systems in the tourism industry are to be presented and discussed within ENTER.
 
Apart from scientific and technical sessions the conference offers additional tutorials, workshops and presentations for practitioners in the area of tourism. ENTER is directed towards two target groups: system developers and practitioners which are actively involved in the field of touristic information technology and methodology as well as system users and practicians interested in a further discussion of the subject. Both these groups will be offered joint presentations to facilitate and support communication.
ENTER represents the first international forum of this kind and is intended to held in regular intervals. Each of these conferences will be headed by a general topic which will especially be dealt with by the presentations for the practitioners. The general topic for 1995 is entitled electronic marketing.
 
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
 
Contributions in the scientific and technical range will cover the following areas:
 
 Information systems
 enterprise modelling
 expert systems
 decision support systems
 multi-media
 capacity management
 distributed systems - WAN's
 system architectures
 reservation systems
 management information systems
 optimization and simulation models
 reverse marketing
 management / organization / business and national economical aspects
 virtual reality and tourism
 quality control in tourism
 legal aspects
 
as well as other areas concerned with information technology in tourism.
 
INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS:
 
The conference languages will be German and English.
Contribution to the conference in the form of papers are to be submitted exclusively in English.
 
Papers are invited on the topics listed and others within the general theme of the conference. Abstracts of no more than 1000 words should be submitted by August 15th 1994 to the Program Chair:
 
Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa,
Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems,
University of Vienna,
Liebiggasse 4,
A- 1010 Vienna, Austria
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Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by September 15th 1994. The category designation from the list of topics and final acceptance will be based upon review of the full length paper, which must be received by November 1st, 1994.
 
All papers received will be refereed by an International Program Committee and each paper will be reviewed by independent referees. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (Springer Verlag) to be distributed to the participants at the conference.
 
TIME SCHEDULE:
 
Submit abstract (1000 Words)    August 15th, 1994
Preliminary acceptance  September 15th, 1994
Submit final paper      November 1st, 1994
 
Program Committee / Co-Chairs:
 
TJOA A Min      University of Vienna, Austria,
        Scientific and Technical Range
WERTHNER Hannes University of Vienna, Austria
        Application Oriented Range
SCHMID Beat     University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
SCHERTLER Walter        University of Trier, Germany
 
Program Committee members:
 
AIVALIS Constantin      University of Crete, Greece
BAUKNECHT Kurt  University of Z|rich, Switzerland
BRANDES Wolfram P.      Arthur D. Little, Germany
EBNER Arno      TIS GmbH, Austria
HITZ Martin     University of Vienna, Austria
JAFAR Jafari    University of Wisconsin, USA
KASPAR Claude   University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
KUBICEK H.      University of Bremen, Germany
MAARTMANN-MOE Erling    Norwegian Computing Center,
        Norway
MATA-MONTERO Erick      Instituto Tecnslogico de Costa Rica
MAZANEC Josef A.        Wirtschaftsuniversitdt, Austria
MEIJS Chris     Wageningen Agricultural University,
        The Netherlands
OSTROWSKI Doreen        Travel Trust International, Canada
PAOLINI Paolo   Politecnico di Milano, Italy
PERONI Giovanni CST Perugia, Italy
REVELL Norman   City University of London,
        Great Britain
RIBBERS Pieter  Tilburg University, The Netherlands
ROITHMAYR F.    University of Innsbruck, Austria
SHELDON P.      University of Hawaii, USA
STOCK Oliviero  Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica
        e Tecnologica, Italy
WAGNER Roland   University of Linz, Austria
WEIERMAIR Klaus University of Innsbruck, Austria
WIETRZYK Vlad   University of Technology Sydney,
        Australia