welcome to iwips 2001

This site is designed to support the iwips 2001 conference being held at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. iwips, the international workshop on internationalisation of products and systems, moves to Europe in its third year. If you were not enticed sufficiently by the first two years of iwips workshops please browse this site for further information.

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iwips 2001

GLOBAL BUSINESS IMPERATIVES OR USER NEEDS?
STRIKING THE BALANCE IN INTERNATIONALISATION

Executive committee
Elisa del Galdo, Chair Donald Day Lynne Dunckley Brenda Hall Girish Prabhu
International committee
Donald Day, Chair Kristoffer Aberg Murugan Anandarajan Atta Badii Red Bradley Kursat Cagiltay Ewa Callahan Jane Carey Jose Coronado Sourin Dutta Roberto Evaristo Hans-Juergen Hoffmann Stefan Holmlid Pia Honold Susan Keenan	Barbara Klein Ritva Koivisto Christine Modica Emile Morse Tom Plocher Sari Räisänen Nancy Shaw Anongnart Srivihok Adrie Stander Mark Treglown Lejla Vrazalic Michael Wilson Alvin Yeo Fahri Yetim
Local committee
Lynne Dunckley, The Open University, Co-chair (programme) Pat Hall, The Open Univesity, Co-Chair (Resouces) Monica Chong, Yahoo! Elisa del Galdo, Cambridge Technology Partners Vanessa Evers, Boston Computer Group Gordon Rugg, University College, Northampton Keith Simpson, Optimum Web (Public Relations) Jennifer Rook, The Open University, Workshop Administrator Debbie Donovan, The Open University, Workshop Secretary Mike Richards, The Open University, Workshop WebMaster
iwips 2001 is only possible thanks to the generous support of its sponsors.

hosting

The Computing Department at the Open University is a large and expanding department. Each year over 8,000 students take undergraduate courses and 4,500 students take postgraduate courses in computing developed by the Department. The Open University admitted its first students in 1971. It is the UK's largest university, with over 200,000 students and customers in 1997/98. The OU represents 21% of all part-time higher education students in the UK.

The department is experienced in running international conferences such as the conference that was held at the Open University in December 1998 on "Architectural Approaches to Software Engineering: Frameworks, Patterns, Components and Architectures".

location

The Open University campus is situated in South-Eastern Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, UK. This is close to the main M1 motorway, approximately 40 miles north of London. It is also approximately half way between Oxford and Cambridge and gives easy access to areas of interest such as Stratford and Warwick.

Milton Keynes is served by Milton Keynes Central railway station about 4 miles (6 kilometres) from the OU campus. There are direct rail links to London (Euston), Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow with services run by Virgin West Coast, Connex South-Central and Silverlink Trains. Trains are frequent with journey times to London of between 40 and 80 minutes. Taxis operate within the town, the main rank is outside Milton Keynes Central railway station. The fare is approximately £6:00 each way between the town and the campus.

Travel information

The conference venue is close to accommodation, both the Milton Keynes Hilton National Hotel and DeMontfort University will be available during the conference. For more details please click on the link below.

Accommodation details

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