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                                WET ICE 2000
IEEE Eighth International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure
                       for Collaborative Enterprises
                             June 14-16, 2000,
 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
            http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/WETICE/WETICE2000/

    Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society and CERC at West Virginia University
            Host: Center for Design Research, Stanford University

                              Call For Papers:

                       Web-based Infrastructures and
          Coordination Architectures for Collaborative Enterprises

This workshop continues two threads of workshops in the WETICE series that
were held over the last four years. In general these workshops addressed the
question of 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
(e.g., documents, files, data)? Should we develop a shared language (e.g.,
XML, RDF) to exchange business information which represents an external
representation of the private artifacts? Or will we need a richer
communication infrastructure supporting shared virtual spaces (e.g., tuple
spaces, MUDs) where people are "in the system" rather than purely using
artifacts of a system?

While the above issues address the primitive level of collaboration and
coordination, their effective use requires higher-level mechanisms and
procedures as well. In fact, a collaborative application can reflect the
real-world organizations overlaying the system or even become part of the
organization itself. The system must therefore both enforce specific
organizational rules (e.g. workflow rules) and facilitate knowledge
management and exchange. From this perspective, the workshop is interested
not only in "collaborative systems", but also in the models and
infrastructures needed for enabling human organizations, or hybrid
organizations made up of both human and software agents/processes, to
effectively interact and cooperate.

A list of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to):

Collaborative Applications
   o virtual organisations
   o show case scenarios
   o reports on hands-on experiences
Infrastructure and Technology
   o coordination models and languages for the Web
   o workflow languages
   o languages and architectures for Web interoperability
   o use of recent Internet and Web standards
   o agent based approaches
   o support for mobile users and software
Development of Collaborative Applications
   o engineering methodologies for collaborative Web applications
   o collaboration versus competition
   o development methodologies, tools and platforms
   o coordination patterns

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.

Please, submit your paper in electronic format (PostScript or PDF) via the
following WWW-Interface (thanks to David Nicol for providing WIMPE):
http://scylla.ani.univie.ac.at/~wetice2k/forms/authpaper_reg.html

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.

As an exception, papers may also be submitted as hardcopies. In that case
submit 5 copies of your paper to one of the organisers.

Interested experts in one or many of the workshop's focal points are invited
to register as a referee via
http://scylla.ani.univie.ac.at/~wetice2k/forms/referee_reg.html

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, please contact the organizers.

If you have further questions or remarks, don't hesitate to contact the
workshop organizers.


Workshop Organizers

KIRSTIE L. BELLMAN
Aerospace Integration Science Center
The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214
P.O.Box 92957
Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA
Phone: +1 (310) 336-2191
bellman@aero.org

GABRIELE KOTSIS
Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik
Universitaet Wien
Lenaugasse 2/8
A-1080 Wien
Phone: +43 1 4277 38463, Fax: +43 1 4277 38451
gabi@ani.univie.ac.at
http://www.ani.univie.at/~gabi

CHRISTOPHER LANDAUER
Aerospace Integration Science Center
The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214
P.O.Box 92957
Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA
Phone: +1 (310) 336-1361
cal@aero.org

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 Universit�t Berlin
FB 13, Informatik, KIT/FLP
FR 6-10
Franklinstr. 28/29
D-10587 Berlin
Germany
tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk

FRANCO ZAMBONELLI
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ingegneria
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Campi 213-b
41100 Modena
ITALY
Phone: +39-059-376735
franco.zambonelli@unimo.it
http://www.dsi.unimo.it/Staff/st35/Zambonelli.idc

Important Dates

 Full papers due to workshop         March 10, 2000
 organizers

 Notification of decisions to        April 14, 2000
 paper authors

 Advance Registration                May 26, 2000

 Workshop                            June 14-16, 2000

 Final papers due for proceedings    July 1, 2000

Papers are submitted directly to the Workshop organizers. Please use the
following URL for submission to this workshop:

http://scylla.ani.univie.ac.at/~wetice2k/forms/authpaper_reg.html.

General WETICE Information

WET ICE is an annual, international forum for state-of-the-art research in
enabling technologies for collaboration.

WET ICE 2000 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.

Chairs

General Chair:

Dr. Ram D. Sriram, Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Program Chair:

Nahid Shahmehri , Department of Computer and Information Science, Link�ping
University, Sweden

Workshop host

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),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
Dr. Srinivas Kankanahalli, Hewlett-Packard Company, 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
Sumitra 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, Link�ping
University, Sweden
Dr. Ram D. Sriram (ex-officio), Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory,
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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.

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