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         SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE DESIGN 

                OF COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS (COOP'96). 

June 12 - 14, 1996, Juan-les-Pins,  France

OBJECTIVES

Information systems or knowledge-based systems of the new 
generation no longer aim at performing 
by themselves the whole task for which they are designed. 
They are rather intended to cooperate with their users for 
performing the task, as it is a real-world, complex task,
often performed in the framework of a collective work: 
therefore, they are called cooperative systems. 


The design, validation and maintenance of such cooperative 
systems, their integration in workplaces and the analysis of their effects
in workplaces will take benefit 
from relying on an interdisciplinary approach, so as to exploit
the characteristics of the cooperation between human agents and 
software agents.


The purpose of the conference is to help to solve the problems arisen
from the construction of cooperative systems, by :
- a better understanding of human-human or human-computer
cooperation,
- the proposition of models of cooperation,
- and the proposition of new functions for cooperative systems
and of suitable design methodologies.

Therefore, we hope to  bring  together researchers 
from various communities (cognitive psychology and ergonomics, 
computer-supported collaborative work, 
distributed artificial intelligence, group decision 
support systems, knowledge engineering, 
management, organization sciences...) 
that all contribute to the understanding of the 
specificities of cooperative systems and to the modelling 
of cooperation. Both theoretical 
contributions or empirical studies may be valuable for the 
conference.

The conference will include both presentation of communications 
and panels upon specific topics.

Suggested topics   for  submissions include,   but  are  not  
limited  to:

1. What models of cooperation can be achieved for human-computer
interaction (in particular for collective problem 
solving in workplaces)? 
2. What are the characterizations of  cooperative, heterogeneous 
agents (i.e.human  agents  and  software  agents)?
3. What frameworks/methodologies can be offered for building 
cooperative systems (for example, for knowledge acquisition 
and validation of cooperative systems)?
4. How to identify appropriate agents to involve in 
a task, and the cooperative interactions required to perform 
a task (e.g. synchronous or asynchronous interactions) ?
5. Which techniques are helpful for collective problem solving?
6. What are the possible architectures for cooperative
systems?
7. What communication skills are required for the use of 
cooperative systems (e.g. face to face or distant)?
What kinds of dialogues, negotiation or 
explanation techniques, or user models are relevant for 
cooperative systems?
8. How to provide a cooperative system for supporting a 
workgroup? In particular, how to build intelligent computer 
environments for facilitating cooperation among users of 
diverse abilities during a problem-solving process?
9. What lessons have been learned from the implementation
and integration of actual cooperative systems?


IMPORTANT DATES
December 20, 1995: Papers submission deadline
March 11, 1996: Notification of acceptance or rejection
April 15, 1996: Camera ready copies received

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages.
The contribution should be in Times 12 points or equivalent, 
1/2 spaced text.
Postcript (possibly compressed) files are the only formats accepted 

if you want to send your contribution by electronic mail.

In addition to the abstract, the authors are invited to indicate
the topics and the field of their paper
(preferably, but not exclusively chosen in the two following lists):



TOPICS:
Applications
Context, User Modelling and Intention Recognition
Cooperation Models
Design Rationale Tools
Interaction, Communication and Information Sharing
Knowledge Acquisition and Methodology, 
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Task Allocation and Coordination


FIELD:
Cognitive Ergonomics
Cognitive Psychology
Computer Supported Collaborative Work
Decision making support
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Human-computer Interaction
Knowledge Engineering
Information systems
Management
Organisation Science
Sociology


Four copies of the papers should be sent by the 20th December 1995 to:

Madame Monique Simonetti
INRIA
COOP'96
Bureau des Relations Exterieures
2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93
06 902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex
France
Tel.: 33 - 93 65 78 64
Fax: 33 - 93 65 79 55
E-mail: simoneti@sophia.inria.fr

For further information, please contact Madame Monique Simonetti.

PROCEEDINGS
The conference proceedings will be available for the participants 
in the conference. After the conference, a selection of the best 
papers will be published later in a book.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

CHAIRMAN
Manuel Zacklad (CNET - COOP Group, FR)

MEMBERS
Liam Bannon (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland)
Guy Boy (EURISCO, France)
Francoise Darses (CNAM - COOP Group, France)
Paul De Greef (Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Giorgio De Michelis (CTL, Italy)
Sylvie Despres (Paris 5  - COOP Group, France)
Rose Dieng (INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis - COOP Group, France)
Pierre Falzon (CNAM, France)
Gerhard Fischer (Univ of Colorado, Colorado, USA)
Les Gasser (Univ. of Southern California, LA, USA)
Alain Giboin (INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis - COOP Group, France)
Laurent Karsenty (EURISCO - COOP Group, France)
Gregory Kersten (Carleton Univ., Canada)
Alfred Kobsa (GMD, Germany)Liam Bannon (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland)
Patrick Millot  (Univ. de Valenciennes, France)
Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux (Univ. Paris 9  - COOP Group, France)
Bernard Pavard (ARHAMIS-CNRS, France)
Kjeld Schmidt (Riso National Laboratory, Denmark)
Jean-Luc Soubie (Univ. Paul Sabatier, France)
Gilbert de Terssac  (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Regine Teulier-Bourgine (CNRS - ENS Cachan - COOP Group, France)
Wolfgang Walhster (DFKI, Germany)
David Woods (Ohio State Univ., USA)
Pascale Zarate (Univ. Paris 6  - COOP Group, France)

ORGANIZATION : COOP Group
LOCAL ORGANIZATION : INRIA (SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS)

LOCATION
The conference itself will take place in Juan-les-Pins (near Nice, in
South of France),
June 12 - 14, 1996.  The organizing body
for the conference will be the "Institut National de Recherche en
Informatique et en Automatique" (INRIA).  The official language for the
conference will be
English.