ITO
Grantee's Workshop
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Information Technology and Organizations
The Information Technology and Organizations (ITO) Program within the National Science
Foundation provides research funding to a diverse group of researchers. Their work ranges
from theoretical research concerned with models of organizational information structures to
applied research on coordinated work and architecture of workflow systems.
ITO supports research fundamental to understanding and developing computing and communications at organizational and social levels. Topics of research funded under this program have included theory and models of organizational information/knowledge processing; networked information systems for scientific collaboration;
multi-agent systems/distributed artificial intelligence; coordinated work and decision making; and impacts/policy implications of information technology. The focus of the ITO program will continue to evolve.
This workshop is being organized as part of this evolution, to identify productive research avenues, and to plan for the future of ITO-related research.
Objectives of the Workshop
The specific objectives of the 1997 ITO workshop are (1) to convene active researchers from different, but related disciplines to focus upon significant research issues facing researchers funded under the ITO program, (2) to build the cohesiveness and cross-fertilization of research in the ITO program (3) to generate materials that will help to communicate the ITO mission to attending PIs and to potential new PIs after the workshop, and (4) to evolve and further coalesce the ITO missions. The interdisciplinary nature of the subject areas and the people involved are both a challenge and a strength. The idea of gathering together the investigators who are supported by NSF, ITO is
an exciting one. It can be a valuable, potentially very productive way to simultaneously help NSF to solidify the ITO thrusts and to draw more proposals, and also to allow the investigators to share perspectives, to cross fertilize, and to broaden the horizons of their
thinking.