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4th International Conference on
Standardization and Innovation in
Information Technology

FINAL PROGRAM




Location:
Tower Room C
ITU Building
Place des Nations, Geneva

Wednesday, September 21

10:00-14:00 ON-SITE REGISTRATION
14:00-14:30 OPENING REMARKS
M. H. Sherif, AT&T: SIIT2005 Conference Chair
H. Zhao, ITU-T: Host
14:30-15:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The paramount importance of standards to operators, vendors and users
Keith Dickerson, BT Group
15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30-17:00 STANDARDIZATION DIRECTIONS

Chair: Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto, ITU-T

Trends in ICT Standards in European Standardisation Bodies and Standards Consortia.
Knut Blind & Stephan Gauch, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research

Global Regulatory Competition in Standards Policy: Will State or Market Prevail?
Jane K. Winn, University of Washington School of Law

Scale of Standards Dynamics: Change in Formal International IT standards.
Tineke M. Egyedi & Petra Heijnen, Delft University of Technology

17:00-17:30 COFFEE BREAK
17.30-19:00 PANEL 1: The Economic Value of Standards

Chair: John Hudson, Professor of Economics, University of Bath

Introductory lecture on trade, standards and the WTO: Robert R. Teh, World Trade Organization

Koichi Asatani, Chair Japanese Committee on NGN standards
Knut Blind, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research
Ivan Schneider, Executive Editor, "Bank Systems and Technology"

19:00 RECEPTION: ITU Cafeteria

Thursday, September 22

09:00-09:30 INVITED TALK
John Hill, SUN Microsystems, "Standardization: I Have a Dream"
09:30-11:00 THE ECONOMICS OF STANDARDISATION

Chair: Marc van Wegberg, University of Maastricht

On the effects of IS company standards on business process performance.
R.M. van Wessel, P.M.A. Ribbers, & H.J. de Vries, Tilburg University & Erasmus University

Alliance formation in standard setting.
Heide Coenen & Jörg Gröndahl, University of Hamburg

A Prototype to Analyze and Support Standardization Decisions.
Sven Schade & Peter Buxmann, Technical University of Darmstadt :
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION

Chair: Tineke M. Egyedi, Delft University of Technology

Standards and interoperability in e-government initiatives.
Luis Guijarro Coloma, Polytechnic University of Valencia

A STEP Towards the Adoption of Data-exchange Standards: The UK Defence Community Case Study.
Josephine Wapakabulo, Steve Probets, Ray Damson, & Tim King, Loughborough University and the LSC Group Limited

Web Service Security – Vulnerabilities and threats within the context of WS-Security.
Jesper Holgersson & Eva Söderström, University of Skövd
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-16:00 STANDARDS USE

Chair: Joel West, San Jose State University

Testing Industrial VoIP Implementations: Registration for SIP Phones
M. U. Uyar, S. S. Batth, J. Allen, Jr., W. H. Chriss, E. B. Phillips, D. Somers, & S. Sarwate, City College of the City University of New York and Avaya Inc.

Installation of an IEEE 802.11 WLAN in a Large University Setting.
Kai Jakobs, Aachen University

+ vs. - : Impacts and Dynamics of Competing Standards of Recordable DVD-Media.
Stephan Gauch, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research
16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:30 PATENTS AND STANDARDISATION

Chair: G. Willingmyre, GTW Associates

Open Standards and the Problem with Submarine Patents
Aura H. Soininen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, and Borenius & Kemppinen

Evaluating the Performance of Standard Setting Organizations with Patent Data.
Marc Rysman & Tim Simcoe, Boston University and University of Toronto
17:30-19:00 TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS

Chair: Ken Krechmer, ICSR

Embedded Capability Relations to Aid the Industrial Usability of Telecommunications Standards.
Krzysztof M. Brzezinski, Warsaw University of Technology

Factors Influencing the Lifetime of Telecommunication and Information Technology Standards: Analyses of the PERINORM database.
Knut Blind, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research

Mobile Communications and Standards Dynamics.
Eric J. Iversen & Richard Tee, NIFU STEP and TNO
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER: Restaurant Aux Halles de l'Ile de Genève

Friday, September 23

09:30-10:00 INVITED TALK
Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, WIPO, "Integrating Standards and Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) for enhancing the Competitiveness of SMEs"
10:00-11:00 STANDARDISATION AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Chair: Tarek Saadawi, City University of New York

Elements Influencing Standardization in Developing Countries: A Case of Wireless Security Standard Disputes.
Ping Gao
, Copenhagen Business School

Flexible Standards.
Jørn Braa, Ole Hanseth,  Arthur Heywood & Woinshet Mohammed
, University of Oslo, University of Western Cape and Addis Ababa University
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 CONCEPTS OF STANDARDS

Chair: Junghoon Kim, Keio University

Standards of quality and quality of standards for Telecommunications and Information Technologies (ICTs).  
Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Tineke M. Egyedi & Kai Jakobs
, AT&T, Delft University of Technology & Aachen University

An Analytic Model for the Prospective Exploration of Emerging Infrastructures.
Vladislav V. Fomin & Jennifer Blechar
, Copenhagen Business School & University of Oslo

The Mathematical Basis of Standards.
Ken Krechmer
, International Center for Standards Research.
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:30 PANEL 2: RFID Technologies and Ubiquitous Network Societies
Chair: Tim Schoechle, International Center for Standards Research, Consultant

Pierre-André Probst, Chair ITU-T SG16
Martina Gerst, University of Edinburgh
Lara Srivastava, ITU Strategy and Policy Unit
15:30-16:00 CLOSING REMARKS
Kai Jakobs, Aachen University


Thanks to SIIT2005 Technical Sponsors

Aachen University, International Center for Standards Research, Delft University of Technology,
IEEE Standards Association, AT&T, ITU

Thanks to SIIT2005 Corporate Sponsors

Sun Microsystems, British Telecom (BT), Microsoft Corporation


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