---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CfP (ext. DL) IEEE WETICE WS on Web-Based Infrastr. and Coordination Archs Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:58:08 +0100 (MET) From: Robert Tolksdorf tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de To: neumann@wi-inf.uni-essen.de

Call For Papers WITH SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO March 23, 2001:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3rd International Workshop on:

WEB-BASED INFRASTRUCTURES AND COORDINATION ARCHITECTURES FOR COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES http://www.dsi.unimo.it/wetice2001

at the 10th IEEE WETICE Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/WETICE/WETICE2001/

June 20-22 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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The workshop addresses 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.

TOPICS:

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

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

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. Detailed format instructions can be found at http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

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.

Papers should be submitted via Web using the appropriate Web submission form at: http://www.ani.univie.ac.at/wetice01ws

Authors are also required to provide contact addresses, if different from the submitting electronic address.

PROCEEDINGS

Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the post-proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

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

IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers due to workshop organizers March 23, 2001 Notification of decisions to paper authors April 23, 2001 Final papers due for Post-proceedings June 6, 2001 Advance registration deadline June 6, 2001 Workshop June 20-22, 2001 Papers due for Post-proceedings July 6, 2001

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 bellman@aero.org

GABRIELE KOTSIS Institut fuer Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik Universitaet Wien Lenaugasse 2/8 A-1080 Wien gabi@ani.univie.ac.at http://www.ani.univie.ac.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 cal@aero.org

GUSTAF NEUMANN Information Systems and Software Techniques University of Essen Universtaetsstrasse 9 D-45141 Essen, Germany neumann@wi-inf.uni-essen.de http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/

ROBERT TOLKSDORF Technische Universität 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 Vignolese 905 41100 Modena, ITALY franco.zambonelli@unimo.it http://www.dsi.unimo.it/Staff/st35/Zambonelli.idc

Program Committee (Preliminary)

GIACOMO CABRI, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy MARCO CREMONINI, Dartmouth College, USA ENRICO DENTI, Università di Bologna, Italy ALOIS FERSCHA, University of Linz, Austria MICHAEL MAHAN, Nokia Research Center, USA CECILIA MASCOLO, University College London, UK AMY MURPHY, University of Rochester, USA ANTONY ROWSTRON, Microsoft Research Center, UK

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