---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: CFP: Workshop on Communication Modelling, LAP 2001 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 18:41:24 +0100 From: Mareike Schoop schoop@INFORMATIK.RWTH-AACHEN.DE To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Sixth International Workshop on the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modelling

LAP 2001

22-23 July 2001, Montreal, Canada

In conjunction with IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference Organizational Semiotics: evolving a science of information systems

http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/conf/lap2001/

Objectives ==========

Information technology has seen radical changes in the last two decades with systems to support cooperation and communication playing an ever- increasing role. In today's society, communication is present in many different facets, e.g. face-to-face dialogues, telephone conversations, email messages, information exchanges of agents. Communication is the key to smooth cooperation. Individuals working in groups coordinate their actions though communication.

Communication modelling has been studied for more than two decades. Since 1980 a new paradigm has evolved in the field of information systems which emphasises the importance of communication in an organisational context: The Language-Action Perspective (LAP).

LAP became popular in the 80s and a second wave of frameworks, models and systems emerged in the 90s. As diverse as these application of LAP are, they all have in common the fundamental agreement that language is not only used for exchanging information as in reports, statements etc. but also to perform actions, e.g. promises, orders, declarations. The conventional perspective on information systems stresses the contents of messages rather than the way they are exchanged. In contrast, the Language-Action Perspective emphasises what people do by communicating, how language is used to create a common basis for communication partners, and how their activities are coordinated through language. Here, the focus is on the pragmatic aspects of language, i.e. how language is used in particular contexts to achieve practical goals such as agreements or mutual understandings. The LAP approach argues that as social action is mediated through communication, one of the main roles of an information system should be to support intra- and inter-organisational communication.

Two theories of communication have traditionally formed the theoretical foundations of LAP: Searle's Theory of Speech Acts and Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action. Nowadays, speech act elements are used in many different facets, often combined with other theories or frameworks.

This year, the LAP workshop will be held in conjunction with the IFIP WG8.1 conference on Organizational Semiotics. This could be a good opportunity to assess the similarities and differences between the two communities. What are current research themes that we deal with? How do we define "communication", "cooperation" etc.? What are specific assumptions of LAP that cannot be applied directly to a semiotic context? These are some topics that will be addressed in the workshop.

Important Dates ===============

Submission of regular papers 30 March 2001 Submission of short papers 21 April 2001 Notification of acceptance 5 May 2001 Submission of final version 11 June 2001

Call for Submissions ====================

We encourage submissions concerning all topics related to the Language-Action Perspective and communication modelling, including (but not limited to) the following:

* E-Commerce * Empirical Modelling * Organisational Semiotics * Formal aspects * Theoretical underpinnings of LAP * Comparisons of LAP with other theories and approaches * Systems architectures * Intelligent agents * Document Management * Process Modelling * Computer-Supported Cooperative Work * Practical experiences with LAP * Reassessment of LAP

Submissions can have the following forms

* Full research papers should describe innovative and original research in any of the above or related topics. Submissions are limited to 15 pages. * Short papers should address academic or industrial approaches, including work in progress, related to the workshop theme. Submissions are limited to 5 pages.

Workshop Chairs ===============

Mareike Schoop, RWTH Aachen, Germany James Taylor, University of Montreal, Canada

Programme Committee ===================

Jens Allwood, Göteborg University (Sweden) Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) Frank Dignum, Utrecht University (Netherlands) Owen Eriksson, Dalarna University (Sweden) Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University (Sweden) Steven Kimbrough, University of Pennsylvania (USA) Jan Ljungberg, Göteborg University (Sweden) Kalle Lyytinen, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) Wolfgang Prinz, GMD FIT (Germany) Victor van Reijswoud, Devote (Netherlands) Mareike Schoop, RWTH Aachen (Germany) Carla Simone, University of Turin (Italy) Ronald Stamper, University of Twente (Netherlands) Yao-Hua Tan, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) James Taylor, University of Montreal (Canada) Dov Te'eni, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) Hans Weigand, Tilburg University (Netherlands) Carson Woo, University of British Columbia (Canada)

Organising Committee ====================

Chair: Daniel Robichaud, University of Montreal (Canada) Christoph Quix, RWTH Aachen (Germany)

Enquiries can be addressed to lap2001@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

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