Session Chair Professor Keith Jeffrey - Rutherford Appleton Laboratories

Paper 1 (Full) Title - "Creating a Virtual Distributed Database - Data Definition and Search Model for Collaborative Virtual Teams in the Construction Industry" Authors - Jaspreet Singh Pahwa, Pete Burnap, Liviu Joita, W. Alex Gray, Omer F. Rana and John Miles (UK) Paper 2 (Full) Title - "Development of a Decision Support Application for Alignment of Information Systems and Organisational Strategy" Authors - David Lanc & Lachlan MacKinnon (UK) Paper 3 (Short) Title - "Dynamically switchable replication of a distributed transport logistics information system" Authors - Dirke Budke & Paul Massey (Germany/UK)