3rd
International Workshop on
Distributed and Mobile Collaboration
(DMC
2005)
June 13-15, 2005
Linkoping
University, Sweden
14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises WETICE-2005
Page update: 9 June 2005
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
- Coordination models, languages, and systems for distributed and mobile teamwork
- Service Oriented Computing - models and architectures for loosely coupled
teamwork
- Methodologies and techniques for web service composition and collaboration
- Services for adaptive collaboration
- Interaction patterns for distributed and mobile collaboration
Business process collaboration
- Collaborative business processes - description, modeling and composition
- Standards for business process modeling, collaboration, and choreography
- Cross-organizational business process support, contracts
- Security, privacy and trust in business process collaboration
- Ontology-based business process description, management and collaboration
Mobile collaboration
- Agent-based mobile collaboration
- Collaborative applications for mobile users
- Service quality in mobile collaboration
- Context-aware collaboration
- Mobile and pervasive collaboration systems
Middleware and platforms for distributed and mobile collaboration
- Middleware for mobile teamwork support
- Peer-to-peer services (modeling and enactment issues)
- Systems for ad hoc and virtual (project) communities
- Infrastructure support for mobile collaboration
- Event-based, publish/subscribe and message-oriented middleware
Organization
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Nikolay
Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
nikolay.d.mehandjiev@manchester.ac.uk
Samir Tata,
Institut National des télécommunications, Evry France
Samir.Tata@int-evry.fr
Schahram
Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Harald
Gall, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Steering Committee
Schahram
Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Harald
Gall, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Program Committee
W.M.P van der
Aalst, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Christoph Bussler, DERI, Ireland
Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA
Khalil Drira, National Center for Scientific Research of France
Jose Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA
Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany
Paul Grünbacher, University of Linz, Austria
Joerg Haake, Fraunhofer-IPSI
Manfred Hauswirth, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Switzerland
Paola Inverardi, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy
Engin Kirda,
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Isidro Laso, European Commission, Brussels
Heiko Ludwig, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK
Michael zur Mühlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Moira Norrie, ETH, Switzerland
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
Giacomo Piccinelli, University College London, UK
Pradeep Ray, University of New South Wales, Australia
Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Stefan Tai, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
Submission Details
DMC 2005 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.
Please submit your paper via email to Nikolay Mehandjiev.
REGISTRATION for the WETICE event
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission | 25 February 2005 (NEW extended deadline) |
Decision to paper authors | 18 March 2005 |
Camera Ready version of accepted papers due to IEEE | 9 May 2005 |
Advance Registration discount until | To be announced |
WETICE 2005 Workshops and On-site registration | 13-15 June 2005 |