WET ICE '96 "Collaborating on the Internet: The World-Wide Web and Beyond"
IEEE Fifth Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises June 17-19, 1996 Stanford University, Stanford, California
Co-sponsors IEEE Computer Society and the Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University are accepting proposals for specialized workshops for the Fifth Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE '96). The event is being hosted by Stanford University's Center for Design Research in the beautiful San Francisco Bay area and is being coordinated by CERC. We are applying for the cooperation of AAAI and ACM SIGOIS.
WET ICE '96 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 workshops should focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, particularly technologies that utilize the Internet. 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:
World-Wide Web-based environments for virtual enterprises mobile collaborative environments secure collaborative environments virtual reality-based collaborative environments virtual enterprise support environments integration of legacy databases and systems multi-media conferencing workflow and project coordination electronic design notebooks mediators/agents applications of collaboration technologies (healthcare, 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.
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 or UNIX-compatible PostScript files to Prof. Srinivas Kankanahalli, Program Chair, at wetice@cerc.wvu.edu
IMPORTANT DATES
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS due November 27, 1995 Notification of decisions to WORKSHOP PROPOSERS December 1, 1995 First Call for Papers* December 1, 1995 Full PAPERS due to accepted workshop organizers March 15, 1996 Notification of decisions to PAPER authors April 19, 1996 Advance Registration May 17, 1996 Workshop June 17-19, 1996 Final PAPERS due June 28, 1996
*NOTE: Workshop proposals that are accepted will be announced in the first call for papers and in a half-page advertisement that will appear in the January issue of IEEE Computer.
WET ICE '96 CHAIRS General Chair: Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford University Program Chair: Srinivas Kankanahalli, CERC/West Virginia University Local Arrangements Chair: Vinay Kumar, M/Cast Communications, Inc.
WET ICE '96 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hussein Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA Takashi Arano, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University, USA Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologne, Italy Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA Taher Elgamal, Netscape Communications Corp., USA Sumit Ghosh, Arizona State University, USA K.Gopinath, Indian Institute of Science, India Giuseppe Iazeolla, University of Rome, Italy Mark Klein, Pennsylvania State University, USA Richard Kouzes, West Virginia University, USA Robert Marcus, American Management Systems, Inc., USA Feniosky Pena-Mora, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Alexander Schill, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Richard Mark Soley, Object Management Group, USA Sri Sridharan, Intel Corporation, USA P. David Stotts, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA
WET ICE '95 PROCEEDINGS The WET ICE '95 proceedings includes one keynote speech, 23 scientific papers, and three working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. The proceedings 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, or by using an electronic order form at URL http://info.computer.org:80/cspress/order.htm. Specify order #PR07019.
INTERNET INFORMATION SITES This Call for Workshop Proposals, and future information about the workshop, can be accessed through:
the World Wide Web at URL http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE/WETICE96.html/ anonymous FTP at babcock.cerc.wvu.edu under /announcements/ and Gopher at gopher.cerc.wvu.edu under /announcements/
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