[Acpc-l] CFP: Collaborative and Cooperative Environments [Deadline: June 4, 2004]

[Dieter Kranzlmueller]

Call for Papers:
PDCS 2004: Special Session on
Collaborative and Cooperative Environments

Conference Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Conference Dates: September 15-17, 2004
URL: http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/pdcs

Deadline: June 4, 2004

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Special Session on

   Collaborative and Cooperative Environments

at the

   17th International Conference on
   Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2004)
   San Francisco, CA, USA, September 15-17, 2004.
   http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/pdcs

Technological advances in high-speed networking and computational grids do
not only transform the methods applied to everyday science, but also the
collaboration and cooperation between scientists at almost arbitrary
locations around the world. The additional provision of multisensory,
immersive Virtual Reality interfaces as tools to improve the collaboration
between groups of human users is another hot topic in this research domain,
which will most likely increase the potential benefits of these distributed
research communities. The vision to facilitate large scale, complex
simulations, which may be steered through natural and intuitive interfaces,
is both intriguing and of high scientific interest.

This session encourages paper submissions concerning the application and
usage of collaborative and cooperative environments, as well as the
technologies supporting them in the scientific and industrial context.
Authors are expected to emphasize the benefits of their approaches for
collaboration and cooperation between human users with focus on up-to-date
characteristics of hard-, soft- and middleware aspects. The special session
on collaborative and cooperative environments offers the possibility to
discuss the different approaches in this domain, to show the latest results,
products, or research prototypes to potential users, and to establish
connections between developers and users of associated technologies.

The following areas and related topics are of interest:

  * Collaborative and cooperative tools and environments
  * Development of associated parallel and distributed computing solutions
  * Integration of networking and grid computing technology
  * Provision of multisensory, natural and intuitive interfaces
  * Immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality approaches
  * Requirement studies for future collaboration tools
  * Evaluation of existing collaboration environments
    and practical experiences

PAPER SUBMISSION:

We invite you to submit a full paper of 6 to 8 A4 pages in PDF, describing
new and original results, for oral presentation. The submitted paper must
already be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of ISCA.
(see http://www.isca-hq.org/sample-isca-manuscript-format.pdf)

Submission implies the willingness of one of the authors to register and
present the paper.

Please include a cover page which lists the following:
   * name, affiliation, address and e-mail address of each author
   * name of the presenting author; name of the contact author
   * a maximum of 5 keywords

Submission details will be available on the webserver at:
http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/pdcs

IMPORTANT DATES:

   June 4, 2004: Draft papers (in ISCA style) due
   July 7, 2004:  Notification of acceptance
   July 19, 2004:  Camera-ready papers
   Sept. 15-17, 2004:  PDCS 2004 conference, S.F., CA, USA

Special Session Commitee:
   Vassil Alexandrov (1), Dieter Kranzlmüller (2,3),
   David Roberts (4), and Jens Volkert (2)

(1) The University of Reading, United Kingdom

(2) GUP (Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing)
Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria

(3) ZHR (Center for High Performance Computing)
Dresden University of Technology, Germany

(4) Centre for Virtual Environments
University of Salford, United Kingdom

Contact Information:

Dieter Kranzlmüller
eMail: pdcs2004@gup.jku.at
URL: http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/iccs
GUP (Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing)
Johannes Kepler University of Linz
A-4040 Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, Austria/Europe
Telephone: (+43) 732 2468 9499
Facsimile: (+43) 732 2468 9496 or (+43) 732 2468 10

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