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     WETICE '97 - IEEE Sixth Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
	    Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises,
			  June 18-20, 1997,
				 MIT,
		    Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society and the Concurrent Engineering Research
	      Center (CERC) at West Virginia University
Host: Intelligent Engineering Systems Lab, Dept. of Civil & Environmental
			   Engineering, MIT

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                    Call for Papers for the Workshop on

            Collaborative Agents in Distributed Web Applications


Workshop Organizers
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Prof. Paolo Ciancarini    Dr.-Ing. Robert Tolksdorf     Jan Vitek
Dept. of Computer Science Technische Universit�t Berlin Object Software Group,
Univ. of Bologna          FB 13, Informatik, FR 6-10    University of Geneva,
Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7     Franklinstr. 28/29            24 rue General Dufour,
I-40127 Bologna           D-10587 Berlin                Geneva
Italy                     Germany                       Switzerland
cianca@cs.unibo.it        tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de          jvitek@cui.unige.ch
http://www.cs.unibo.it/   http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/   http://cuiwww.unige.ch/
     ~cianca/                    ~tolk/                        ~jvitek/

Description of the workshop
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The Web has been identified as the most desirable platform for the
access to distributed collaborative applications. However, the core
Web does not provide enough support for the design and operation of
distributed applications. Currently, numerous environments are
striving to establish themselves as the platform of choice for
distributed applications on the Web - examples include Netscape ONE,
Microsofts ActiveX, Suns Java RMI and JOE, and many more research
projects.

Each of these platforms has specific characteristics along several
dimensions. Among these are support for mobility of objects and
agents, secure communications, support for coordination, integration
with standard Web environments, and support for personalized access to
applications.  Research projects tend to explore concepts along one of
those dimensions in depth, whereas commercial products aim at a broad
support of all of these features.

With respect to these dimensions, applications for Web based object-
and agent-systems have diverse requirements. Applications in
electronic commerce, for instance, require strong support for
security, whereas applications in teleworking, telelearning, virtual
conferencing, or software engineering put more emphasis on different
coordination styles, mobility, or integration with standard Web
technology.

The goal of this workshop is to asses the adequacy of object- and
agent- technology to the requirements of different Web based
applications. In order to do so, the current state-of-the art in
object- and agent-systems for the Web shall be explored and the
requirements of applications shall be examined. As a result, the
workshop shall provide answers about the relation of current
directions of technological development to the anticipated application
domains.

Thus, papers presented at the workshop shall contribute to the following
questions which will serve as a coarse structure of the sessions:

  1. Technology for Web agents and objects
     What is the current state of the art in technology for Web agents and
     objects, including research directions. Issues of interest are:
        o Coordination mechanisms for Web agents
        o Techniques for mobile Web agents
        o Handling of continuous data up to real-time
        o Wrapping of legacy applications
        o Security in Web agent systems
        o Scalability and efficiency of Web agent systems
        o Techniques for personalization and adaptivity of user controlled
          agents
        o How the environment for Web agent systems is integrated to
          standard Web technology
  2. Applications for Web agents
     What real applications does Web agent technology support today?
     Experience reports and case-study are especially welcome from the
     following application domains:
        o Electronic commerce
        o Workflow management
        o Virtual conferencing and discussion support
  3. Adequacy of agent techniques for Web applications
     Web agent systems have a variety of interesting technical aspects. But
     are these functionalities adequate to the needs of applications and
     users? Based on the presentation in the first two sessions, the
     workshop shall find out more on the following questions:
        o How is the design, implementation, and functionality of
          applications affected by technology offered by Web agent systems?
        o What technology is required by applications, but not offered by
          current technology?

Each session will begin with the presentation (15 min) of a paper, up
to four presentations per session, and a discussion amongst the
participants up to one hour.

The goal of the workshop is to give answers to the above
questions. The sessions and the discussions will be documented by the
organizers.

Submitting papers
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Papers submitted for the workshop should not be less than five, and no more
than 15 pages in length. All papers will be reviewed for quality and
relevance to the workshop.

Submission should be in electronic form only. Acceptable formats are
Postscript (if standard), or HTML. Please mail your submission to
tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de.

Important dates
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Full papers due:                            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

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