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CfP-WETICE98 [forwarded from Paolo Ciancarini (cianca@CS.UniBO.IT)]



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From: cianca@CS.UniBO.IT (Paolo Ciancarini)
To: jsv@redbeans.cs.duke.edu
Subject: CfP-WETICE98
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:30:34 +0100 (MET)

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	!! Deadline for submission extended to February 27 !!
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			     WET ICE '98
    IEEE Seventh International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
	    Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises,
	June 17-19, 1998, Stanford University, California, USA

    Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society and CERC at West Virginia University
           Host: Center for Design Research, Stanford University
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	   Call for papers for the WETICE98 Workshop on

     Coordination Architectures for Distributed Web Applications
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Workshop Chairs

 Prof. Paolo Ciancarini           Dr.-Ing. Robert Tolksdorf
 Dept. of Computer Science        Technische Universitdt Berlin
 Univ. of Bologna                 FB 13, Informatik, FR 6-10
 Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7            Franklinstr. 28/29
 I-40127 Bologna                  D-10587 Berlin
 Italy                            Germany
 mailto:cianca@cs.unibo.it        mailto:tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de
 http://www.cs.unibo.it/~cianca/  http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk

Description of the workshop

The Web as the dominating platform for distributed collaborative
applications has evolved from a static hypermedia system into a collection
of services provided at different levels. Support infrastructures have to be
provided in order to realize applications from these services. New ideas for
collaborative applications on the Web have to be explored and tested.

Of central interest within infrastructures are coordination mechanisms used
in realizing distributed and concurrent services.  In addition,
infrastructure services have to address applications requirements like
security, scalability, or real-time necessities. Collaborative exploration
of information and support for collaborative learning are amongst the most
promising fields of new Web-applications built from existing services using
support infrastructures. Their usefulness and the appropriateness of the
technology selected for them has to be evaluated by gaining experiments with
their application.

Within that context, the workshop will address the following specific
issues:

   * Infrastructures for coordinating in distributed applications on the Web
        o Coordination languages and systems
        o Novel coordination mechanisms in market oriented programming
        o Coordination patterns
   * Infrastructure services for applications
        o Support for mobile users and software
        o Security of service exchange
        o Provision and usage of meta-information on the Web
        o Handling of continuous data up to real-time
        o Scalability and efficiency of Web infrastructures
        o Mobility of users and services
        o Enhancing commercial Web technology
   * Supporting collaborative and integrated usage of services
        o Collaborative information retrieval
        o Collaborative learning applications
        o Combining and adding value to existing Web services like
          distributed metasearch services
        o Distributed collaborative applications and their support of
          coordination in business processes
   * Experience reports and case-studies in the following fields
        o Electronic commerce
        o Collaborative learning and information discovery

Each workshop session will begin with  presentations (15 min each) of papers
and consists of up to four presentations and a discussion amongst the
participants up to one hour.

Submitting papers
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Papers submitted for the workshop should not be less than five, and no more
than 15 pages in length. All papers will be reviewed for quality and
relevance to the workshop.  Submission should be in electronic form only.
The only acceptable format is standard Postscript which should print on
arbitrary Postscript printers and be manipulatable by tools like psmulti.
Please mail your submission to tolk@cs.tu-berlin.de.

Accepted authors are encouraged to make an online version of their paper
available (in concordance to IEEE copyright policy). The workshop organizers
will set up a Web site collecting links to these online versions.

We encourage authors to adapt the final publication format already for
submissions (see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm).
Published papers will be six pages in IEEE format. Your submission for
reviewing might be longer, but keep the final limit in mind.

Important Dates
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 Full papers due to  workshop organizers    February 27, 1998
 Notification of decisions to paper authors April 6, 1998
 Advance Registration                       May 17, 1998
 Workshop                                   June 17-19, 1998
 Final papers due for proceedings           June 30, 1998

Online Information
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WETICE98 Workshop on Coordination Architectures for 
Distributed Web Applications:
 http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/wetice98/

WETICE98:
 http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE/WETICE98/index.html


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