Call for New Workshop Proposals: WETICE-2005

 Due by October 22, 2004

  WET ICE-2005 will consist of a series of individual workshops, each including paper presentations and working group discussions, with the exact format to be determined by the workshop organizers. In addition, there will be joint plenary sessions and a final session to summarize each group's findings.  To avoid duplication of workshop topics, please see the list of ongoing workshops of WETICE.

   The workshop proposals should focus on the infrastructures issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains. The following is a non-exhaustive list of relevant topics. Prospective workshop proposers may combine these and other topics into a coherent theme. 

• Autonomic computing
• Wireless Grids for Collaboration, Supporting Mobile and Ubiquitous Collaboration  
• Lightweight collaboration tools for distributed teams
• Cooperative Computing
• Agents and Multi-agent Systems for Collaboration
• Models and Technologies for Collaboration in Virtual Environments
• Workflow Management
• Coordination Architectures
• Middleware technologies for Collaboration
  
• Evaluating Collaboration: Usability, Reliability, Performance Evaluation, and Benchmarking of Collaborative Enterprises
• Collaborative Ontology Development, Developing Process Ontologies for Semantic Web, Use of Scenarios in Ontology Development, Incremental Formalization in Ontology Engineering
• Models and Technologies for handling dynamics and complexity in complex collaboration environments (for example, technologies for supporting dynamic re-organizations, issues of self-organization, unpredictable and emergent behaviors, complex organizations, etc.)
• Security Issues in Collaborative Enterprise Technologies: (Secure grids, Trust and Privacy in Collaboration, Inter-Organizational Risk Management, Authorization and Digital Signatures, Communications and Multimedia Security.). Please note that these topics are part of the ongoing Enterprise Security workshop of WETICE, and can be organized as a separate session within this workshop.
• Open source mode of collaboration, Success factors for open source projects
•  Collaboration and Knowledge Management, Ontologies for collaboration,  Metadata and Knowledge Engineering/Semantic Web for Collaboration
•  Information modeling
•  Engineering e‑Business technologies
•  Inter‑Organizational Risk Management, Geographically Dispersed Outsourcing and Collaboration
•  Web-based communities
• Lessons from the past research - taking stock of what has been done, what worked,
  what didn't work, what is not going to work, and what we should work on--based on the lessons gathered from specific project successes and failures from the past few decades of research in CSCW.
•  Infrastructure for supporting collaboration through reuse -What has been done to support collaboration through building on other people's work? How successful were the attempts to provide a clearinghouse of reusable components? Are attempts to reuse existing components misguided? If so, why? If not, what are the issues that prevent successful reuse? Can these issues overcome and if so, how ?
• Awareness  in CSCW -Various aspects of awareness
  
  

 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

1. Workshop Proposals (maximum THREE pages long) should be submitted by October 22, 2004 to smreddy@mail.wvu.edu.  The proposals will be reviewed by the WETICE Steering Committee with a response by November 15, 2004.

2. Proposals should contain the full name, title, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone/fax numbers of each proposer.

3. Credentials of the proposer(s).

4. The topic/title of the proposed workshop

5. Description of the proposed workshop;

6. The strategy for recruiting papers and the scientific review committee members for the workshop.

  Workshop proposers, if selected to organize a workshop, will be responsible for  (1) developing the workshop web site by November 26, 2004 with a link to the main web page of WETICE http://siplab.csee.wvu.edu/wetice05, (2) soliciting papers, (3) forming scientific review committee, (4) coordinating reviews (at least three reviews per paper are required), (5) corresponding with the authors and the WETICE organizer,  (6) conducting the workshop in Linkoping, Sweden on June 13-15, 2005 and (7) submitting the final workshop report to IEEE for inclusion in the Post-conference proceedings. 

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