ECSCW 09 2009 - ECSCW 09 Workshop on Interoperability in CSCW

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Category ECSCW 09 2009

Deadline: June 20, 2009 | Date: September 07, 2009

Venue/Country: Vienna, Austria

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Location: ECSCW 2009 in Vienna <http://www.ecscw09.org/>

Date: 7-8 September 2009

http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/ECSCW09_Interoperability_Workshop

Workshop overview

CSCW and groupware research yielded a large number of different systems

and different approaches towards the support of cooperative work.

However, we still lack an integrated environment that supports all forms

of cooperation in a seamless and integrated way. This is supported by

the following observations:

? During a cooperation process users are often constrained by a

single cooperation application due to the fact that cooperation objects

cannot be easily moved from one application to another.

? Users do not separate their cooperation needs into

synchronous/asynchronous, or structured, flexible, or semi-structured.

Therefore tools that aim at the support of a single cooperation type and

that do not consider cooperation as an activity that integrates

different types are required.

? Often different companies use different groupware

environments. Due to an absence of interoperability standards and

implementations, inter-organizational use of these environments becomes

impossible. As a result email becomes the primary cooperation media.

These observations indicate the need for research into integrated

cooperative work environments. This workshop invites researchers and

practitioners to present and discuss interoperability approaches for

CSCW applications.

Who should submit and attend

This full-day workshop will be of interest to researchers, designers and

practitioners concerned with collaborative architectures and new

approaches to collaboration services and how they can be used in working

environments. Participation in the workshop requires the submission of a

position paper. Each position paper should address the topic of

interoperability for CSCW by presenting an architecture, a concept, or

an implementation that illustrates how different CSCW applications can

be seamlessly integrated into a collaborative working environment.

These position papers and their presentation provide the baseline for

the development of an interoperability map during the workshop. This map

will identify the following aspects:

? Basic components and modules of a CSCW application

? Basic services that CSCW applications of a certain type should

provide

? Existing and required standards that have already or should be

applied when developing CSCW applications

? (Reference-) Architectures for CSCW

? Interoperability applications and implementations

The workshop will be open to a maximum of 15 participants.

Dissemination

Position papers and workshop outputs will be made available on the

website. The contribution of each presentation and position paper will

be integrated into an interoperability landscape and architecture that

will be published at the workshop website for further dissemination and

discussion. A contribution to the OCA reference model will also be

considered.

Submissions

Short position papers (2 pages) should be sent to

ecscw09-interopfit.fraunhofer.de by the 20th June 2009. Acceptance

notifications will be sent by 6th July 2009.

Organisers

Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, RWTH Aachen. Germany

Antonio G?mez-Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain

Manuel Fradinho, Cyntelix, Ireland

Deirdre Lee, DERI, NUIG, Galway, Ireland

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Antonio F. G?mez Skarmeta

Dept. Ingenier?a de la Informaci?n y las Comunicaciones

Facultad de Inform?tica

Universidad de Murcia

30100 Murcia

e-mail: skarmetaum.es

Telf: +34-868-884607

fax: +34-868-884151