From: raghu@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Raghu Karinthi)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Call for Papers -- Enabling Technologies for Concurrent Engineering
Keywords: Concurrent Engineering, Enabling Technologies
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:42:09 GMT
Expires: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:00:00 GMT
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				Call for Papers

		2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies
	     Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE)

Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) with sponsorships from IEEE
Computer Society and AAAI is conducting a workshop on April 20-22,
1993. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and devel-
opment, and applications of enabling technologies are sought in the
following areas:

Virtual Team Support Environments
Information Sharing in Distributed Systems
Enterprise modeling
Process Capture and Characterization
Process Re-engineering
Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases
Projects and Team Coordination
Requirements, Constraints, Workflow Tracking and Management tools
Networked Collocation
Tools for multi-media conferencing on Local and  Wide Area Networks
Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate 	knowledge
Enterprise Integration Frameworks

Instructions for Submitting Papers

Papers should be no more than 20 typewritten, double spaced,
single-sided pages including all text figures and references. Papers
should have a title page that includes the title of the paper; full
name, affiliation, physical address, electronic address, and tele-
phone number of all authors; authors are encouraged to write a 300
word abstract; and a list of keywords that identify the central issues
of the paper's content. You can submit postscript files electronically
as well.

Deadlines

Four (4) Copies of the full paper 	Jan 22, 1993
Notification of Decisions		March 1, 1993
Final Version of the Paper 		April 1, 1993

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to attend
this three day workshop on Enabling technologies.

Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates
for a proposed book.

Workshop Chair: Dr. Ramana Reddy, CERC
Program Chair: Dr. V. Jagannathan, CERC

CERC Committee:
Professor John Callahan
Dr. Joe Cleetus
Professor Srinivas Kankanahalli
Dr. Harshavardhan Karandikar
Professor Raghu Karinthi
Professor Sumitra Reddy
Professor George Trapp
Dr. Ralph Wood

Program and review committee:
Dr. Willam Akin, Institute for Defense Analysis
Professor B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
Dr. Anne-Laure Charue, Cap Sesa Industrie, France
Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI
Professor Prasun Dewan, Purdue
Professor Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Columbia
Dr. Robert Furick, Institute for Defense Analysis
Professor Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Mr. Ted Goranson, SAIC
Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC
Dr. R. Kannan, Shadyside Hospital
Dr. Kurt Kosanke, ESPRIT Consortitium AMICE
Dr. Jintae Lee, MIT
Dr. John Lewis, GE Corporate Research and Development
Professor Venkat Rangan, University of California, San Diego
Professor Duvuru Sriram, MIT
Dr. Marty Tennenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technology
Professor G. C. Vansteenkiste, University of Ghent, Belgium
Dr. Robert Winner, Institute for Defense Analysis

Operations (CERC)
Finance: Robert Chico
Local Arrangements: Dr. John Spears
Publicity: Mary Carriger
Registration: Sally Robinson
Audio-Visual: Larry McLaughlin


Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to:

V. "juggy" Jagannathan
Concurrent Engineering Research Center
Drawer 2000
P.O. Box 6506
West Virginia University
886 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26506
Phone : Office: 304-293-7226 Extension: 170
	Fax: 304-293-7541
Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu