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		CSCW Developers Workshop
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		Developing Open CSCW Systems 
	ECSCW'91, Amsterdam, 24th September, 1991

A CSCW Developers Workshop will be held in conjunction with 
ECSCWU91 the 2nd European Conference on CSCW in 
Amsterdam on the 24th September, 1991. The workshop is 
being organised in conjunction with the COST-14 COTECH 
working group on Models of Open Cooperative Applications 
and will focus on the problems of developing open CSCW 
systems.

What are Open CSCW Systems ?
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Open CSCW systems are systems designed to support 
cooperative work in an open manner. "Open" can be interpreted 
in several ways

	* Systems which can be tailored to particular work 
	  practices, models or conventions. 

	* Systems which support the integration of families of 
	  tools to provide an integrated work environment for 
	  both individuals and groups.

Many CSCW open systems are designed with the intention of 
supporting cooperative processes: activities performed by 
groups and with specific (although not necessarily well 
articulated) goals, such as paper writing or software 
development. 

Goals of the Workshop
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The goals of the workshop are to:

	* Bring together researchers and practitioners on all 
	  aspects of the problems associated with 
	  conceptualizing, designing and implementing open 
	  CSCW systems.

	* Identify and discuss appropriate theoretical and 
	  practical models which are suitable to describe the 
	  tailoring of open CSCW systems.. This applies both to 
	  tailoring to support work practices and models and 
	  mechanisms for tool integration.

	* Identify and discuss the "hard issues" related to 
	  implementing open CSCW systems.

	* Identify problems with current approaches and suggest 
	  possible solutions.

	* Identify open issues, both theoretical and practical, 
	  related to open CSCW systems, and identify directions 
	  for future work. Examples of such issues include:

		- Supporting Interoperability among open 
		   CSCW systems
		- Self-adapting open CSCW systems
		- Integrating open CSCW systems into 
		  existing support environments and 
		  process models: How should this be 
		  achieved and what are the effects ?

This list of goals is not intended to be complete, but rather an 
indication of the kinds of topics we wish to discuss at the 
workshop.

Participation
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To ensure a coherent workshop, and because attendance is 
limited, admission will be by invitation only. Invitations will be 
issued in response to a 3-5 page position paper. The paper 
should address your work relative to the issues outlined above. 
We encourage position papers from anyone working in the field 
with a vested interested in the development of CSCW systems. 

If you wish to participate send 4  copies of your position paper 
to:

In the USA:
	Simon Kaplan
	ECSCW-CSCW-Developers Workshop 
	Department of Computer Science
	University of Illinois
	1304 W. Springfield Avenue
	Urbana, Illinois 

	Fax: +1 217 333 4201.
	Email: kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu

In Europe:-
	Tom Rodden
	ECSCW-CSCW-Developers Workshop
	Computing Department
	Lancaster University
	Baillrigg
	Lancaster LA1 4YR
	U.K.

	Fax: +44 524 65201 x 3823
	Email: tom@comp.lancs.ac.uk


Position Papers should arrive no later than Monday 8th July  1991.
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Invitations will be mailed by Friday 30th August 1991..


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uucp:   ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!tam       Department of Computing
arpa:   tam%lancs.comp@ucl.cs          University of Lancaster
janet:  tam@uk.ac.lancs.comp           Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK