A paradigm for conference collaboration across a globally networked environment
By:  James Wyatt Coffman
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Description: Manual, labor intensive efforts are traditionally required to plan professional conferences and symposiums.      Methods for receiving, verifying, recording, sorting and scheduling papers and presentations continue to rely      heavily on administrative personnel resources. In recent years, some electronic methods have been incorporated      into the conference planning process, but there have been no efforts to provide an integrated collaboration      system which takes full advantage of the existing Internet architecture. Advances in World Wide Web      technology provide an opportunity to revolutionize the entire conference planning process. For the 1998 IEEE      International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, a prototype is built to demonstrate and evaluate the      effectiveness in using Internet technology to provide an automated system for conference collaboration. Use of      this prototype throughout the ISCAS conference planning effort clearly identifies the on-line requirements which      are essential to support a globally networked collaboration environment.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): John C. McEachen, Carl R. Jones.

"March 1998."

Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management) Naval Postgraduate School, March 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 95).

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