Exploring new patterns and mechanisms for advanced information technology and systems in the internet-era: introduction to the WITS'05 special issue

摘要

This special issue includes four articles that were presented in the 15th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS'05), held in December 10-11, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada. Since its first meeting in 1991 in MIT, WITS has become a premier annual forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with research interests in the cutting edge issues of information technology and systems. WITS'05 addressed many important research issues as the corporate world evolves toward service-oriented computing that can support business on demand, enabled by the emergence of web services, agent technologies, wireless computing, e-commerce standards, P2P technologies, the business web, among other technologies. The four selected articles have been extended substantially and went through two rounds of reviews. Collectively, these four articles explore new patterns and mechanisms that extend the new boundaries of information technologies and systems. It is our pleasure to make these four fine articles available to the community through the journal of Information Technology and Management. We thank all authors and reviewers for their diligent work that made this special issue possible.