Forwarded message from [petrie@cdr.stanford.edu (Charles Petrie)] sent originally on Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:03:40 -0700 (PDT): : Internet-Based Workflow : : IEEE Internet Computing : http://computer.org/internet : : Guest Editors : : Charles Petrie - Stanford University : petrie@stanford.edu : http://cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/bio.html : : Sunil Sarin - InConcert Inc. : sarin@inconcert.com : http://www.inconcert.com/press/bios.htm : : May/June 2000 : Deadline 5 Nov 99 : : Workflow systems have become both more widely deployed and : more adaptable in the last decade of the 20th century. : Workflow systems traditionally were monolithic and required : the installation of client software on the desktop. With the : advent of Java, commercial software quickly moved towards : applet-based clients and to more distributed systems. : : More radically, workflow systems are increasingly taking : advantage of Internet technologies to become more open. One : example is the Workflow Management Coalition : (http://www.aiim.org/wfmc/mainframe.htm) initiative to : promote XML-based interoperability among workflow systems, : which builds on earlier work on the draft Simple Workflow : Access Protocol (SWAP) initiative. At a higher-level of : abstraction are efforts to develop adaptable agent-based : workflow systems : (http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~paj/ijcai-wflow-wshop/). : : We solicit papers on workflow and process management systems : that leverage the technologies and openness of the Internet. : We distinguish workflow and process management systems from : collaborative systems in that the latter supports the sharing : of information whereas the former also facilitate and : automate the coordination and execution of processes. Novel : approaches, technical evaluations, and case studies of : commercial deployments are invited especially.All papers will : be peer-reviewed. : : Authors should read carefully the IEEE Internet Computing : guidelines at : http://computer.org/internet/edguide.htm : Papers must be in a standard non-proprietary format such as : HTML, PostScript, or PDF. Authors should send an email to : either of the Guest Editors with a URL pointing to the paper : submission. If this is not possible, submissions may be : an HTML, PostScript, or PDF email attachment. : : In general, industrial papers (describing technologies : and/or case histories) should be sent to Sarin : and research papers to Petrie. : : Charles Petrie : -- : http://cdr.stanford.edu/~petrie/bio.html

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