WET ICE '95 Fourth IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 20-22, 1995 Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society and support from AAAI, will conduct the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 20-22, 1995, at the Coolfont Resort, Conference Center, and Health Spa in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. We also have applied for the cooperation of ACM (ACM SIGOIS lent their cooperation to last year's workshop).
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 Applications of collaborative technologies in * healthcare * software engineering * electronic commerce * etc. Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Mobile computing Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multi-media conferencing Capture of 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 currently under submission 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 each author. 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.
Papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
Deadlines
Four copies of the full manuscript December 16, 1994 Notification of decisions February 15, 1995 Advance Registration March 20, 1995 WORKSHOP April 20-22, 1995 Final version of the paper May 15, 1995
Student Grant Program
Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work. Funds are available to support the participation costs of a limited number of students whose papers are accepted for presentation. This support, provided by AAAI, will include free registration as well as lodging and meals for three days.
Workshop Location
The workshop will be held at the Coolfont Resort, Conference Center, and Health Spa, a 1,200-acre, rustic mountain retreat in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, approximately 100 miles northwest of Washington D.C. In addition to tennis, swimming, hiking (including morning nature walks), and horseback riding, Coolfont has a full-service spa, offering massages and facials. A championship golf course is located at Cacapon State Park, seven miles away.
Spouse rates will be available and will be announced at a later date.
WET ICE '94 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 members) of a team.
The IEEE Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focused precisely on these issues. Scientists and practitioners from around the world gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The proceedings is a compendium of 24 scientific papers and three working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Abstracts of the papers are available electronically from IEEE Computer Society's gopher server (gopher info.computer.org; or telnet info.computer.org, login: guest). Copies of the WET ICE '94 proceedings can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 1-714-821-8380 from outside the United States. Copies are $25 for IEEE members and $50 for non-members. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, April 17-19, 1994" when ordering. Proceedings of the Second Workshop are also available.
WET ICE '95 Chairs General Chair: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Program Chair: Prof. John R. Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University
Point of Contact
John R. Callahan Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 1-304-293-7226 x286 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu
Internet Information Sites
This CFP, and other future information about the workshop, can be accessed through:
- World Wide Web at URL http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE95_cfp.html, - anonymous ftp at babcock.cerc.wvu.edu/announcements, and - Gopher at gopher.cerc.wvu.edu/announcements.