CfP: Distributed and Mobile Collaboration Workshop @ WETICE 2003

Call for Papers - Extended Deadline 17 March

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                          International Workshop on
              Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2003)

                      9-11 June, Linz, Austria
                               WETICE 2003

                    http://netserver.cerc.wvu.edu/wetice03/
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Workshop Theme

Business processes and distributed collaboration have been changing
radically over the last years. Business environments demand increased
flexibility, interconnectivity, and autonomy of involved systems as well
as new coordination and interaction styles for collaboration between
people. The latest trends in distributed and mobile collaboration
technologies allow people to move across organizational boundaries and
to collaborate with others within/between organizations and communities.
The ability to query the company's distributed knowledge base and to
cooperate with co-workers is still a requirement, but new paradigms such
as Service-oriented computing (e.g. Web Services), increased
pervasiveness, and mobility enable new scenarios and lead to higher
complexity of systems. Some questions include: How to enable users to
retain their ability to cooperate while displaced in a different point
of the enterprise? What is the role of context and location in
determining how cooperation can be carried out? How to provide support
for ad-hoc cooperation in situations where the fixed network
infrastructure is absent or cannot be used? How will Service-oriented
computing change collaborative software?

Software architectures for distributed and mobile cooperative
communities must support the fundamental requirements for distributed
cooperation: efficient information sharing across a widely distributed
enterprise environment; constant and timely update and placement of the
distributed knowledge base with many different sites acting both as
potential users and potential providers of information; shared access to
a set of services. The approaches and technologies for supporting these
new ways of work are still the subject of research. Nevertheless, they
are likely to "borrow" concepts and technologies from a variety of
fields, such as workflow systems, groupware and CSCW, event-based
systems, software architecture, distributed database systems, mobile
computing, and so on. A particularly interesting line of research is
exploring a peer-to-peer paradigm enriched with sharing abstractions in
which each network node is both a potential user and provided of
information for the rest of the community.

Topics include, but not are limited to:

Collaborative Services
* Process-aware collaboration
* Mobile and pervasive collaboration systems
* Coordination models, languages, and systems for distributed and mobile
teamwork
* Interaction patterns for distributed and mobile collaboration
* Contextual information on collaborative work activities
* Virtual Project Communities
* Service Oriented Computing - models and architectures for loosely
coupled teamwork
* Software services and protocols for teamwork
* Collaborative Web Services - desrciption, modeling, composition, and
enactment
* Quality of Service aspects of collaborative Web Services
* Methodologies and techniques for web service composition
* Standards and design principles for Web Service flows (e.g. BPEL4WS,
ebXML, etc.)
* Issues on process modeling and enactment of Web Services

Abstractions and Resources
* Distributed resource management
* Information distribution and placement models
* Transaction management issues (e.g., extending distributed transaction
models)
* Meta data

Middleware & Platforms
* Middleware for mobile teamwork support
* Message-oriented Middleware
* Tuple-Spaces
* Peer-to-peer document and information sharing - architectures and systems
* Peer-to-peer services (modeling and enactment issues)
* Systems for ad hoc and virtual (project) communities

Mobility Concerns
* Information tailoring and filtering
* Device (in)dependent presentation
* ad hoc communities
* disconnected working
* nomadic working

Organization

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Harald Gall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Program Committee

Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA
Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation, USA
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Li Gong, Sun Microsystems Palo Alto, USA
Paul Grefen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany
Paul Grünbacher, University of Linz, Austria
Manfred Hauswirth, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
Paola Inverardi, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy
Engin Kirda, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Heiko Ludwig, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK
Michael zur Mühlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institut FIT, Germany
Claudio Riva, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Stefan Tai, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Andreas Wombacher, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany

Submission Details

DMC 2003 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to
discuss the key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative
applications, and trends in this research area.

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. 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. Authors
should also provide contact addresses, if different from the submitting
electronic address. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and
will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three programm commitee members.

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

If you have further questions or remarks, please do not hesitate to
contact the workshop organizers.

Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission March 17, 2003 (NEW extended deadline)
Decision to paper authors April 11, 2003
Camera Ready version of accepted papers due to IEEE May 16, 2003
WETICE 2003 Workshops and On-site registration June 9-11, 2003



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