Advanced Topics in Database Research, Volume 1

Advanced Topics in Database Research features the latest, cutting-edge research findings dealing with all aspects of database management, systems analysis and design and software engineering. This book provides information that is instrumental in the improvement and development of theory and practice related to information technology and management of information resources.

This book is part of a new series entitled “Advanced Topics in End User Computing”. This book is Volume One within this series (Vol. I, 2002).

Dr. Keng Siau received his Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of British Columbia where he majored in Management Information Systems and minored in Cognitive Psychology. Dr. Siau's current research interests are web-based systems development, Internet/electronic commerce security, systems analysis and design methods and methodologies, user-database interaction, and creativity/innovation. He was the Organizing Chair for the 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 CAiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design held in Crete, Greece and Barcelona, Spain respectively. He has served on numerous program committees (e.g., IFIP8.1, CAiSE'98, ECIS'98, IRMA'98, ER'98, CAiSE'99, ECIS'99, IRMA'99, etc.) and is the minitrack chair for Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences in 1998 and 1999. He has recently been voted in as a member of International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.1. Dr. Siau's publications have appeared in journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Data Base, Behavior and Information Technology, Informatie, Information Systems, Information and Software Technology, Transactions on Information Systems, Journal of Creative Behavior, and others. In addition, he has over 35 refereed conference proceedings papers in conferences such as ICIS, ECIS, CAiSE, HICSS, HCI, AIS, IRMA, etc. Dr. Siau has worked for Computer Systems Advisors, National Computer Board of Singapore, Hewlett Packard, and Citibank.