WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS Thursday, September 23, 2004 Four Points by Sheraton Elysee Palace Nice, France
Fourth Annual Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace/ __Deadline for submissions: JULY 15, 2004 Please submit extended abstracts (2 pages maximum) Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, but hardcopy submissions will be accepted. Any questions concerning hardcopy submission or any other issues may be directed to w...@mcs.anl.gov. ___Notification of acceptance: AUGUST 1, 2004 ___Final manuscript due: AUGUST 15, 2004 Please use the following IEEE format. (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) This workshop will address research, technological, and social issues of developing persistent collaboration infrastructure to address the needs of emerging communities. Examples of such communities include the following: " Bioinformatics and Computational Biology " Nanoscience and Molecular Technology " Wide Area Environmental Sensing " Biomedical Imaging and Simulation " Education, Humanities and Technology " Unique One-of-a-Kind Facilities The goal of the workshop is to provide an open technical forum to promote the discussion of high-end, high-value solutions to the problem of supporting distributed collaboration. Baseline assumptions about the evolution of future computing technologies (e.g., networking, computing, storage, and displays) useful for collaboration environments should be taken into account in developing position papers. The workshop intends to look at future-generation systems. The following are examples of future infrastructure predictions likely to affect collaboration systems: " Network bandwidth -gigabits/s to terabits/s " Display -desktop monitors to room-oriented systems " Computing -gigaflops to teraflops PCs " Mobile devices -PDAs to personal information accessories " Storage -gigabytes to personal terabytes " Ubiquitous grid software environments Position papers are being solicited on topics including but not limited to: " Requirements for emerging collaborative communities " Roadmaps for development of high-end collaborative technologies " High-end, high-value solutions for scientific communities " Modes of evaluating high-end collaborative technologies " What is beyond VR, video, audio, and text? " Use of collaboration technologies in the humanities " Removal of barriers to more rapid adoption of high-end technologies " Software environments for advanced collaboration environments Overall registration for the workshop will be limited to 75 participants. To stay up-to-date on WACE see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace, send questions to w...@mcs.anl.gov. ---WACE 2004 Program Committee
