(DBWORLD) CFP -- Coordination Technologies for Information Systems (CTIS'98)

George Angelos Papadopoulos (george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:37:25 +0200 (WET)

*** Call for Papers ***

International Workshop on
Coordination Technologies for Information Systems
CTIS'98
(http:/www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/CTIS98.html)

in conjunction with the
9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
DEXA'98
to be held in Vienna, August 24-28, 1998
(http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa98/)

and co-located with the
22nd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
COMPSAC'98
to be held in Vienna, August 19-21, 1998
(http://compsac98.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/compsac98/)

and the
15th IFIP World Computer Congress
IFIP'98
to be held in Vienna and Budapest, August 31 - September 4, 1998
(http://www.ocg.or.at/ifip98.html)

Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press

THEME

According to Thomas Malone and Kevin Crowston, coordination is the act of
managing interdependencies between activities. Some of the issues to be
explored in this area are developing approaches to analyse coordination in
different kinds of systems, designing coordination tools and languages, and
applying the notion of coordination to distributed and parallel processing
systems.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners who are using in one way or another the notion of coordination
in the development of information systems. Of particular interest are papers
highighting the interdisciplinary nature of coordination and those
describing "coordination-in-the-large" activities.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Programming languages, tools and systems
* Software architectures
* Groupware
* CSCW
* Design patterns for coordination (coordination patterns)
* Workflow management
* Collaboration and cooperation environments
* Agent communication and coordination
* Mobile computing
* Internet and intranet technology
* Industrial applications and case studies (eg. the potential of
coordination in the development of the Information Society, Electronic
Commerce, etc.).

The papers must clearly show how the concept of coordination was used, what
were the benefits gained but also the problems encountered, if any.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: 15 March 1998
* Notification of acceptance: 15 May 1998
* Camera-ready copies: 5 June 1998

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original,
previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated
based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the
program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA'98 workshops. All submitted papers
MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE
Computer Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages.

Electronic Submission
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Please submit your paper electronically by e-mail to the address below .
Please prepare your paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding,
condensing, or encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible.
Do not use bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it.
Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files are available
here.

Please also send an electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format and
including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and
affiliations, to the address below.

Hard Copy Paper
---------------
If, for some reason, you cannot send an electronic copy of your paper, ONLY
THEN you may submit it as four hard copies to the address below.

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

George A. Papadopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
75 Kallipoleos Str.
P.O.Box 537, CY-1678 Tel: +357-2-338705/06/04
Nicosia Fax: +357-2-339062
CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy

WORKSHOP CHAIR

* George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
* Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
* Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
* Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA
* Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland
* Mike P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
* Wolfgang Prinz, GMD-FIT, Germany

For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

George A. Papadopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
75 Kallipoleos Str.
P.O.Box 537, CY-1678 Tel: +357-2-338705/06/04
Nicosia Fax: +357-2-339062
CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy

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