CFP Wetice 99
Gabriele Kotsis
gabi@poseidon.ani.univie.ac.at
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:22:04 +0100
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Web-based Infrastructures and Coordination Architectures for
Collaborative Enterprises: Shared Artifacts, a Shared Language, or
Shared Spaces?
http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/workshops/WETICE99/
in conjunction with
WET ICE '99 -- IEEE Eighth International Workshops on
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises,
Stanford University, California, USA, June 16-18, 1999
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Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society and CERC at West Virginia University
Host: Center for Design Research, Stanford University
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This workshop continues two threads of workshops in the WETICE series that
were held over the last three years. In general these workshops addressed
the question how Web techniques can be used to achieve or to improve
collaboration within or between organizations, and which coordination
mechanisms could be used in such an architecture.
This problem area addresses both technical and organizational issues. The
involved organizations are typically enterprises in different spheres of
power such that it is not reasonable to require a common structure, or to
align the structure for a certain collaboration purpose. But how can a
system enable the participants for flexible and effective collaboration?
* Should we concentrate on developing an infrastructure for sharing
artifacts (documents, files, data)? Shared Artifacts require a high
degree of coordination: the participants have to agree about the tools
manipulating the artifacts, and about their structures and identifiers
of the artifacts. Often these structures of artifacts are well
established within a sphere of control and therefor hard to change for
the collaboration with external entities.
* Therefore an alternative approach is to develop a shared language to
exchange business information which represents an external
representation of the private artifacts. Various approaches based of
XML or RDF look very promising.
* The shared language mimics shared artifacts to a certain degree. For
which kind of collaborations do we need a richer communication
infrastructure supporting a shared spaces, where people are "in the
system" rather than purely using artifacts of a system? A shared space
implies the notion to be at a certain location in the systems, other
participants are aware of the presence (through the use of avatars).
While these issues address the primitives of collaboration and
coordination, their effective use requires mechanisms and procedures on the
larger scale as well:
* Some applications may follow a set of procedural rules in a work-flow
system, rules that define the relations between the entities in a
formal language, which is interpreted by a work-flow engine,
* other application my focus rather on collaboration in terms of
knowledge management, concentrating on the contribution and retrieval
of knowledge. The knowledge management system should be smoothly
integrated with everyday's work patterns.
Can current Web techniques serve as an infrastructure for both developing
and implementing networked, collaborative business applications in a
(global) distributed business environment? Well, the current Web is
certainly not a perfect environment for collaboration, but we think it is
powerful enough not to inhibit effective collaboration.
This workshop is not solely interested in "collaborating systems" but in
infrastructures for enabling humans to collaborate. We are interested on
Web based systems for knowledge management and sharing, in their
architecture, technical implementation, in coordination languages and their
integration in everyday's work.
The topics of this workshop will focus on the following areas:
Collaborative Applications
Examples of and experiences with innovative, collaborative WWW based
applications emphasizing clear relations to identified requirements.
Infrastructure and Technology
Identification of necessary elements of a general collaboration
infrastructure (Coordination, Integration, Languages, Interfaces,
Work-flows). Which elements can be realized with Web-based technology,
what extension are necessary?
Development of Collaborative Applications
Which models and methods (should) exist to identify requirements, to
relate them to infrastructure and technology, and to allow the
management of a development cycle for collaborative infrastructures
resp. applications?
Workshop Organization
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The workshop will
consist of 3 sessions presenting and discussing papers and a final working
session preparing the workshop report. 40% of the workshop's time will be
dedicated to discussion. Each paper presentation should provide answers
and/or considerations related to a list of main questions/topics that each
presenter will receive prior to the workshop.
Submission Details
Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted
elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the-art work. Authors of
accepted papers are expected to present their views of the field at the
oral presentation. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and
references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format , which
is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. Papers should
include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up
to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. Authors are also required to
provide contact addresses, if different from the submitting electronic
address.
Papers should be electronically submitted as PostScript files to
wetice@nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de . Files may be gzipped and uuencoded. We
will acknowledge all submissions. Additionally, authors may send the URL of
their paper and/or of their home page to be included into the WWW page of
the workshop. Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in
the post-proceedings. The best paper of the workshop will be nominated for
the WETICE best-paper award.
Paper submissions are not required for participation in the workshop. If
you plan to participate and want to receive a copy of the
question/topics-list prior to the workshop, of if you have further
questions or remarks please contact the organizers.
Workshop Organizers:
To address all organizers of this workshop, use:
wetice@nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de
Organizers:
PAOLO CIANCARINI
Dept. of Computer Science
Univ. of Bologna
Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7
I-40127 Bologna
Italy
GABRIELE KOTSIS
Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik
Universitaet Wien
Lenaugasse 2/8
A-1080 Wien
Phone: +43 1 408 63 66 14, Fax: +43 1 408 04 50
gabi@ani.univie.ac.at
http://www.ani.univie.at/~gabi
GUSTAF NEUMANN
Information Systems and Software Techniques
University of Essen
Universtaetsstrasse 9
D-45141 Essen, Germany
Phone: +49 201 183-4074, Fax: +49 201 183-4073
neumann@wi-inf.uni-essen.de
http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/
ROBERT TOLKSDORF
Technische Universitaet Berlin
FB 13, Informatik, KIT/FLP
FR 6-10
Franklinstr. 28/29
D-10587 Berlin
Germany
tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de
Important Dates
Full papers due to workshop organizers March 22, 1999
Notification of decisions to paper authors April 26, 1999
Advance Registration May 26, 1999
Workshop June 16-18, 1999
Final papers due for proceedings June 30, 1999
Papers are submitted directly to the Workshop organizers. Please use
wetice@nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de for submission to this workshop.
General WETICE Information
WET ICE is an annual, international forum for state-of-the-art research in
enabling technologies for collaboration. WET ICE '99 will consist of
parallel, three-day workshops on different topics related to collaboration
technology. Each workshop will include paper presentations and working
group discussions, with additional joint keynote sessions and a final joint
session to summarize each groups' findings.
What sets WET ICE apart from larger conferences is that the workshops are
kept small enough to promote fruitful discussions on the latest technology
developments, directions, problems, and requirements. Each group will
produce a summary report which will appear in the post-proceedings to be
published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Paper submissions are not
required for participation in the workshops. However, check the home page
of the workshop in which you are interested -- some workshop organizers may
require you to submit a brief position paper.
Some of the papers accepted for the workshops, and which were peer-reviewed
by a minimum of three people, will be included in the post-proceedings.
Paper submissions should be sent directly to the organizers of the workshop
in which you are interested; see the individual workshop pages, which are
linked to the left column of this page, for submission information.
General Chairs:
Ramana Reddy, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, USA
Program Chair:
Yahya Alsalqan, Sun Microsystems, USA
Workshop Host:
Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford U., USA
Steering Committee:
Yahya Alsalqan, Sun Microsystems, USA
Miroslav Benda, Boeing Commercial Aircraft, USA
V. Juggy Jagannathan, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia U., USA
Jintae Lee, Department of Decision Science, U. of Hawaii, USA
Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford U., USA
Ramana Reddy, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, USA
Alexander Schill, Faculty of Computer Science, Technical U. of Dresden, Germany
Nahid Shahmehri, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Workshop Coordinator:
Sumitra Reddy, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, USA
Inquires: Please send all inquiries regarding the WET ICE workshops to
wetice@cerc.wvu.edu or call (U.S.) 304-293-7226.