We want to thank all those who have submitted papers to date for the Third IEEE WET ICE, to be held April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. We have received papers from the U.S., France, the Netherlands, England, and Belgium.
Because numerous additional authors have requested it, we are extending the submission deadline to January 31.
Below are the call for papers and information about registration, the student grant program, and last year's workshop.
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WET ICE '94 Third IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 17-19, 1994 Morgantown, West Virginia
The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society, with support from AAAI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGOIS, will conduct the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare.
Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas:
Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks
Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts
Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be under submission currently for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of all authors. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or postscript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode.
Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript January 31, 1994 Notification of decisions February 28, 1994 Final version of the paper April 4, 1994
Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates for inclusion in a bound volume of the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
WET ICE '94 Steering Committee ------------------------------ Chair: Prof. Ramana Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Jack Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Raghu Karinthi, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. K. Srinivas , CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Ralph Wood, CERC/West Virginia University
WET ICE '94 Program and Review Committee ---------------------------------------- Chair: Dr. Joe Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI, International Prof. Prasun Dewan, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Dr. Milena Didic, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, & ESPRIT Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, Sirius-Beta Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Prof. Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia Prof. Tom Malone, MIT Prof. Jintae Lee, Univeristy of Hawaii Prof. Sumitra Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Alex Schill, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Mr. Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. Mike Sobolewski, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Duvvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies Prof. George Trapp, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Robert Winner, The Center for High Performance Computing
WET ICE '94 Coordination ------------------------ General Chair: Prof. V. Jagannathan, CERC Finance: Anagha Karandikar, CERC Local Arrangements/Publicity: Mary Carriger, CERC Registration: Cathy O'Neal, CERC Audio-Visual: Bill Duff, CERC
Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to:
Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 304-293-7226 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION FORM
Registration to the workshop is by invitation only and is based on papers submitted to the workshop. A limited number of additional participants may be allowed depending on space availability.
Your registration fee will include admission to the workshop; refreshments each day, two lunches, and one banquet (continental breakfast is provided at both of the hotels listed below); and a copy of the proceedings, printed by IEEE after the workshop.
Please circle the appropriate fee.
For registration by March 17: I am a(n): Full-time student (Paid by AAAI grant) Student #_________________________ WET ICE Committee Member ($265) IEEE Member ($265) Membership #_________________________ Other ($345)
For registration between March 18 and April 11: I am a(n): Full-time student (Paid by AAAI grant) Student #_________________________ WET ICE Committee Member ($320) IEEE Member ($320) Membership #_________________________ Other ($415)
NOTE: All registrations forms and fees must be received no later than April 11. Payment will not be accepted at the door.
Method of Payment (circle one) Check Money order
Fee enclosed in U.S. Funds made payable to: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Date_________________________________________________________ Name________________________________________________________ Title_________________________________________________________ Organization__________________________________________________ Address_______________________________________Mail Stop_______ City__________________________State_____Zip___________________ Phone___________Fax_____________E-Mail_______________________
Mail your registration and check to:
Third WET ICE Workshop Attn: Cathy O'Neal CERC, West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 886 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26506-6506 USA Phone: (304) 293-7226
Local Accommodations
Rooms have been set aside at the following hotels. Please make your reservations by March 17 and mention the CERC WET ICE Workshop to get the special rate.
Hampton Inn 1053 Van Voorhis Rd. (less than 1 mile from CERC -- must cross a 4-lane) (304) 599-1200 $46/night for single rooms, continental breakfast included
Euro-Suites Hotel 501 Chestnut Ridge Road (several blocks to CERC -- must cross a 4-lane) (304) 598-1000 $66/night for single rooms, continental breakfast included
West Virginia has plenty of outdoor sports and scenic vistas. Its mountains and rivers, with white-water rafting, canoeing, backpacking, fishing, etc., will be a treat in April. West Virginia Travel Guides will be sent with the conference agenda.
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Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work and are eligible for financial support if they are chosen to present a paper or to otherwise participate in the workshop. This support, provided by AAAI, will include free registration, hotel expenses, and all meals.
We encourage authors who have students to take advantage of this program.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WET ICE '93 SYNOPSIS
Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multi-media, graphical user-interfaces and a precipitous drop in the "cost of computing," point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group) of a team.
The 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focussed precisely on these issues. Forty-eight scientists and practitioners from universities and other research institutions throughout the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Singapore, Columbia, and Germany gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The 244-page proceedings was a compendium of 23 scientific papers and 3 working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Copies of the proceedings from WET ICE '93 can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 714-821-8380 if you're calling internationally. Copies are $35 for IEEE members and $70 for non-members. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises" when ordering.
Selected papers from the WET ICE '93 will be published in International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems.
Below are the papers that were published in the proceedings of WET ICE '93.
Enterprise Integration ++++++++++++++++++++++
Title: Building Public Concurrent Engineering Frameworks on a National Information Infrastructure Author(s): Dennis Sng: GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Michael K. S. Yap: National Computer Board, Singapore
Title: SHARE: A Methodology and Environment for Collaborative Product Development Author(s): George Toye, Mark R. Cutkosky, Larry J. Leifer: Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA J. Marty Tenenbaum, Jay Glicksman: Enterprise Integration Technologies, Palo Alto, California
Title: SWIFT: System Workbench for Integrating and Facilitating Teams Author(s): Stephen Lu, et al.: Knowledge-based Engineering Systems Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
Title: ARTEMIS: Advanced Research Testbed for Medical Information Systems Author(s): Y. V. Reddy, et al.: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Title: An Open Systems Profile for Concurrent Engineering Author(s): Marilyn T. Gaska: IBM Federal Systems Company, Owego, New York
Process Reengineering and Coordination ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Title: Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes Author(s): Thomas W. Malone, et al.: Center for Coordination Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussets
Title: Assessing Organization Readiness for Implementing Concurrent Engineering Practices and Collaborative Technologies Author(s): H. M. Karandikar, et al.: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Title: Re-engineering the Design Process Author(s): Donald V. Steward: Computer Science Department, California State University, Sacramento, California
Title: AgentX: An Environment for Coordinating Distributed Problem Solving in Product Development Author(s): Jim Davis, Srikanth Kannapan: Xerox Corporation, Design Research Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Title: Negotiation as an Aid in Concurrent Engineering Author(s): Keith Werkman: IBM Federal Systems Company, Owego, New York
Collocation Technology ++++++++++++++++++++++
Title: CECED: A System for Informal Multi-media Collaboration Author(s): Earl Craighill, et al.: SRI International, Menlo Park, California
Title: Reliable Information Service for Internet Computer Conferencing Author(s): Hussein Abdul-Wahab: Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Title: Extending Group Communication Facilities to Support Complex Distributed Office Procedures Author(s): Alexander B. Schill: Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Title: SHASTRA: An Architecture for Development of Collaborative Applications Author(s): Vinod Anupam, Chandrajit Bajaj: Computer Science Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Title: Infrastructure Support for Multimedia Communications: A Survey Author(s): Qiang Lin, Kankanahalli Srinivas: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Title: MObViews: A Multiuser Worksheet for a Mechanical Engineering Environment Author(s): Nuno M. Guimaraes: IST/INESC, Lisbon, Portugal Paulo T. Silva, Jose T. Santos: IST/CEMUL, Lisbon, Portugal Andrzej Siemaszko: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw, Poland
Title: Support System for Different-Time Different-Place Collaboration for Concurrent Engineering Author(s): Eswaran Subrahmanian, et al.: Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Title: COMIX: A Tool to Share X Applications Author(s): Aliasghar Babadi: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Information Sharing +++++++++++++++++++
Title: Model-Based Information Access Author(s): V. Jagannathan, et al.: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Title: SHARED-DRIMS: SHARED Design Recommendation-Intent Management System Author(s): Feniosky Pena, Duvvuru Sriram, Robert Logcher: Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Title: An Approach for Supporting Inter-application Consistency Author(s): Kari Alho, et al.: Computer Science Department, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
Title: Translative Interface for Data Sharing and Integrating: A Paradigm for Distributed Data Systems Author(s): Thomas F. Maloney: Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, Washington
Title: Issues in Information System Development for the Support of a CE Environment Author(s): Francis A. Wilson: Department of Computing, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England John N. Wilson: Computer Science Department, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland