call for minitrack proposals
Gabriele Kotsis
gabi@heraklit.ani.univie.ac.at
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:36:23 +0100
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Call For Minitrack Proposals
http://cs.unomaha.edu/~rewini/call.html
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The Software Technology Track of HICSS-32
32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Maui, Hawaii - JANUARY 5-8, 1999
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* Emerging and strategically Important Technologies *
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D E A D L I N E
*** December 15, 1997 ***
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You are invited to submit a proposal for a minitrack for the Software
Technology Track of HICSS-32. The HICSS series of conferences has become
a unique and respected forum in computer and information systems and
technology for the exchange of ideas among the researchers and development
communities in North America, the Asian and Pacific Basin Nations, Europe,
and the Middle East. In addition to the Software Technology Track, HICSS-32
will have other Tracks in Information Systems.
A TRACK consists of three full days of parallel technical sessions, coupled
with a set of advanced seminars and tutorials. A MINITRACK is either a half
day or a full day of technical sessions. All sessions are conducted in a
workshop-like setting and participants often participate in several different
tracks. HICSS is sponsored by the University of Hawaii.
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Proposal Topics
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This particular solicitation is for the Software Technology Track which will
focus on "Emerging and Strategically Important Software Technologies."
The topics include but not limited to the following:
- - Adaptive Software
- - Agents (intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, mobile agents, etc.)
- - Collaboration technology
- - Component programming (Java Beans, Active X, etc.)
- - Coordination (languages, models, systems, etc.)
- - Computer-telephony integration
- - Data mining
- - Distributed caching and replication
- - Distributed cooperative work environments
- - Distributed parallel programming (PVM, MPI, etc.)
- - Distributed objects & standards (CORBA, etc.)
- - Distributed real time systems
- - Distributed simulation
- - Electronic Commerce
- - Emerging OS & applic. env. (network computing, intranet management, etc.)
- - HLA: Very Large Scale Distributed Simulation Standard
- - Internet, WWW, Java, etc.
- - Mobile computing (caching, location management, mobile IP, security, etc.)
- - Multimedia and Quality of Service
- - Multi-threaded systems
- - Parallel & distributed database systems
- - Parallel I/O
- - Performance (estimation, adaptation, etc.)
- - Reliability and fault tolerance
- - Safety critical systems
- - Security & safety
- - Symetric Multiprocessors (SMP)
- - Soft Computing (Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic)
- - Software engineering of parallel & distributed systems
- - Software infrastructure for cluster computing
- - Visualization
- - Wireless networks (architecture, applications, services)
- - Workflow systems
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Proposal Contents
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The proposals should be on timely and important topics in the field. Your
proposal should be about five pages long and should:
1) define the proposed technical area, discuss the topics the minitrack will
address, and describe how they fit into the area;
2) discuss how these topics have recently been covered in other conferences
and publications to substantiate that HICSS is not only an appropriate
and timely forum for the topics but also that there is a body of
unpublished good work to draw from; and,
3) contain:
a) a short paragraph (35 words) describing the topics of your
minitrack for inclusion in final call for papers, if your proposal
is approved by the advisory committee.
b) a short bio-sketch
c) an explicit statement that your organization endorses your
involvement and attendance and has the infrastructure to
support that involvement as described in enclosed list giving
the responsibilities of minitrack coordinators.
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Submission Instructions
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- All proposals in **plain ASCII** should be e-mailed to the chairman of
the track (e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu) no later than December 15, 1997.
(** Please DON'T submit latex or postscript files **)
- Include a phone number that we can use if we need to reach you
during the Christmas break.
- Each proposal will be evaluated by the track advisory committee whose
decision will be based on the overall technical merit of the proposal.
Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by e-mail no later than
January 6, 1998.
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Track Chairman
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Hesham El-Rewini
Department of Computer Science
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182-0500
e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu
Voice: (402) 554-2852
FAX: (402) 554-2975
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International Track Advisory Committee
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- Hussein Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA
- Jim Costa, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
- Peter Croll, University of Sheffield, UK
- Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
- Ian Gorton, Transarc Corporation, AUSTRALIA
- Abdelsalam Helal, MCC, USA
- Gabriele Kotsis, Universitaet Wien, AUSTRIA
- Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet, GERMANY
- Dejan S. Milojicic, TOG Research Institute, USA
- Uchihira Naoshi, TOSHIBA, JAPAN
- Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
- Diane T. Rover, Michigan State University, USA
- Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA
- Pradip Srimani, Colorado State University, USA
- Alexander D. Stoyen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
- Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
- Amr Zaky, Silicon Graphics, USA
- Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
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The Responsibilities of Minitrack Coordinators
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Interacting with authors and referees in a fair and professional manner and
employing control mechanisms that increase the overall quality of the meeting
are among the major responsibilities. The detailed responsibilities are
summarized as follows:
1. Workshop-like Setting
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A HICSS minitrack consists of two or four 90-minute sessions conducted in a
workshop-like setting. Each session consists of three papers; the papers
are allotted thirty minutes for presentation and questions. The last session
should include a forum which typically is a lively, open dialogue on the
issues raised in the presentations. You are to solicit manuscripts, have
them refereed, collaborate with the Track Coordinator in determining which
manuscripts are to be accepted, structure the sessions, introduce the
speakers in your sessions, and act as the moderator of the forum.
2. Solicit Manuscripts for the Minitrack
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After your minitrack has been approved by your Track Coordinator, you are
encouraged to distribute the Unified Call for Papers and Referees and place
it on appropriate electronic bulletin boards. This call will be prepared by
your track chairman and cover all minitracks in the Software Technology
Track. You should solicit high-quality manuscripts from people who are known
to do excellent work in the field. We recommend you contact potential
authors and referees to describe the overall objectives of the conference
and the minitrack and solicit their ideas, a manuscript, or a commitment to
referee. Each manuscript should be 22-25 type written, double-spaced pages
in length. Do not accept submissions that are significantly shorter or
longer than this. The material must contain original results and not have
been submitted elsewhere while it is being evaluated for acceptance to HICSS.
Manuscripts that have already appeared in publication are not to be con-
sidered for this conference.
3. Acquire Referees Who Will Critically Review the Submitted Manuscripts
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Quality refereeing is essential to ensure the technical credibility of HICSS.
Each manuscript should be stringently reviewed by a number of qualified
people who are actively working in the topics dealt with in the paper. You
are responsible for having each manuscript submitted to you reviewed by at
least five people in addition to yourself. The author should only be given
reviews that are technically substantive. If you wish to submit a paper to
your own minitrack, six copies should be sent to the Track Chairman who
will administer the refereeing process. Do not use authors of manuscripts
as referees as this potentially places them in a conflict of interest
situation. HICSS does not have "invited" manuscripts; all submissions go
through a rigorous peer refereeing process.
4. Accept Manuscripts for the Minitrack
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A full-day minitrack should accept nine papers. A half-day minitrack should
accept five. To ensure excellent accepted papers, typically more than two
to three times the number of papers needed must actually be solicited. Many
papers will not meet our quality standards (i.e., will not make it through
the refereeing process) and some authors may not be able to fulfill their
initial commitment and complete the paper for you. If nine technically solid
papers do not survive the refereeing process, the full-day minitrack can be
changed to a half-day minitrack.
5. Re-publication of the Manuscripts
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We encourage you to work with an Editor-in-Chief of a professional society
periodical to use your accepted papers as the basis of a special issue of
the publication. Such an arrangement encourages quality submission and
requires good refereeing standards. Enter into such an agreement as soon
as possible.
6. Write an Introduction to the Minitrack for the Proceedings
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After the authors have been notified of the acceptance of the final version
of their manuscript, you are to write a three to four-page introduction to
the minitrack for inclusion in the conference proceedings. It should not
be an overview of abstracts of the papers, but should introduce the reader
to the important problems that exist in the area.
7. Select the Best Paper Candidate from the Manuscripts
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Within ten days after you have selected the manuscripts for inclusion in
your minitrack, your candidate best paper selections must be forwarded to
the Track Coordinator. If you have your own manuscript accepted in your
minitrack, make your selection excluding your own work. An external committee
will make the selection for the minitrack, considering your manuscript along
with the candidates you have provided.
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