CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
************************************************************** WET ICE '97 "Information Infrastructure for Virtual Environments" **************************************************************
IEEE Sixth Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises June 18-20, 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Co-sponsors: Host: ----------- ---- IEEE Computer Society Intelligent Engineering Systems Concurrent Engineering Research Center Laboratory (IESL), Dept. of Civil (CERC), West Virginia University & Environmental Engineering, MIT
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The Computer Society, CERC, and IESL are accepting proposals for specialized workshops for the Sixth Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE '97).
WET ICE '97 will consist of a series of individual workshops running in parallel, each including paper presentations and working group discussions, with the exact format to be determined by the workshop organizer. In addition, there will be joint plenary sessions and a final communal session to summarize each groups' findings.
The workshop proposals should focus on information and modeling infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains. Papers selected should describe survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration.
Suggested topics for workshops include, but are not limited to:
multi-user virtual environments information infrastructures for global manufacturing, global engineering, and virtual corporations virtual reality-based collaborative environments human-cyber creatures mixed collaborative environments mobile collaborative environments secure collaborative environments multi-media conferencing environments distributed project coordination coordination as a management of dependencies human and organizational modeling in virtual environments multi-media information understanding adaptive presentation of information floor control mechanisms for virtual conferencing systems human expression understanding Web and object infrastructures for coordination process representations and interchange formats enterprise integration reference frameworks information infrastructure protocols plug-and-play components for collaboration (JAVA, ORBs, etc.) mediators/agents basic platforms (CSCW-oriented, distributed, mobile agents...) experiences with collaborative applications (teleworking, distance learning, health care, software engineering, electronic commerce, etc.)
Workshop proposers, if selected to organize a workshop, will be responsible for soliciting papers, coordinating reviews (three reviews per paper to qualify for publication), corresponding with authors, and conducting the workshop, according to the Important Dates listed below. CERC will handle the general workshop promotions (with some additional postings as appropriate by workshop organizers), logistical/physical arrangements, and registration and will keep in contact with each workshop organizer to ensure that he/she meets all deadlines.
Accepted workshop organizers will be expected to publish Web pages for their respective workshops which will be linked to the WET ICE '97 site.
Papers accepted for the workshops, and which were peer-reviewed by a minimum of three people, will be included in the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. CS Press and CERC will coordinate the production of the proceedings.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Proposals should be no more than three pages. Proposals should contain the full name, title, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone/fax numbers of each proposer; the proposer('s/s') credentials; the topic of the proposed workshop; a description of the proposed workshop; and the strategy for recruiting papers for the workshop. Proposals should be submitted as text, UNIX-compatible PostScript, or HTML files, to wetice@cerc.wvu.edu.
IMPORTANT DATES
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS due November 25, 1996 Notification of decisions to WORKSHOP PROPOSERS December 13, 1996 Accepted workshops publish web pages December 16, 1996 First Call for Papers* December 16, 1996 Full PAPERS due to accepted workshop organizers March 21, 1997 Notification of decisions to PAPER authors April 18, 1997 Advance Registration May 19, 1997 Workshop June 18-20, 1997 Final PAPERS due for proceedings June 30, 1997
*NOTE: Workshop proposals that are accepted will be announced in the first call for papers over the internet and in a half-page advertisement that will appear in the January issue of IEEE Computer.
CHAIRS General Chair: Ramana Reddy, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, USA Program Chair: Feniosky Pen~a-Mora, Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
STEERING COMMITTEE Miroslav Benda, Boeing Commercial Aircraft, USA Mark Fox, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada V. Juggy Jagannathan, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, USA Jintae Lee, Department of Decision Science, University of Hawaii, USA Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford University, USA Alexander Schill, Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Dresden, Germany David Stotts, Computer Science Dept., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA
INVITED INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andres Albanese, International Computer Science Institute, USA Yahya Al-Salqan, Sun Microsystems, USA Peter Bertok, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia John R. Callahan, NASA IV&V Facility, West Virginia University, USA Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy Yao Feng, Neocraft Inc., USA Renate Fruchter, Stanford University, USA Sumit Ghosh, Arizona State University, USA Toshiyuki Itoko, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Japan Raghu Karinthi, Silicon Graphics, Inc., USA Mark Klein, Penn State University, USA Mary Lou Maher, University of Sydney, Australia Robert Marcus, American Management Systems, Inc., USA Frank Maurer, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Shoichi Nakai, Shimizu Corporation, Japan Gustaf Neumann, University of Essen, Germany Atsuo Nishino, Kajima Corporation, Japan Akihiko Obata, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan Shiro Sakata, NEC, Japan Nahid Shahmehri, Linkoping University, Sweden Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Kenji Takahashi, NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories, USA Tomoyoshi Takebayashi, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan Robert Tolksdorf, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Jorge Vanegas, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Shigetoshi Yokoyama, NTT Data Communications Systems Corporation, Japan
WET ICE '96 INFORMATION Information about WET ICE '96, which was held at Stanford University in June 1996 and included approximately 140 participants, can be found at http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE/WETICE96.html.
The WET ICE '96 post-proceedings were published by IEEE Computer Society Press and include 46 papers and seven working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Abstracts can be read at http://www.computer.org/conferen/proceed/wetice96/toc.htm. The book (Catalog # PR07445) can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 1-714-821-8380 from outside the United States, faxing an order to 1-714-821-8641, or by using an electronic order form at URL http://info.computer.org:80/cspress/order.htm. The price is $30 for IEEE members and $60 for non-members.
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