CALL FOR PAPERS
Minitrack on Developing and Deploying Collaborative Problem Solving
Environments
This Minitrack is Part of the Software Technology Track of HICSS-34
Maui, Hawaii
January 3-6 2001
Collaborative problem-solving environments (CPSEs) are integrated
environments that enable scientists and engineers to work together to solve
real problems. CPSEs enhance researchers' productivity by providing seamless
access to data, computational resources, scientific instruments, and
colleagues regardless of geographical, organizational, or disciplinary
boundaries. CPSEs help capture expert knowledge of domain processes and
automate users' common tasks. Ideally, they:
* are configurable for novice through expert users
* eliminate artificial barriers between work, collaboration, and process
documentation
* are adaptable, supporting process variation and evolution
* are capable of dynamically including new resources (e.g. data
repositories, computational codes, visualization tools)
* allow cross-disciplinary collaboration by providing domain specific
views of shared resources, and
* support all stages of research and design work, from problem
identification and specification to development of a solution and
problem resolution.
Potential components of a CPSE include these:
* intelligent GUI to support setup and execution of computations and the
remote use of scientific
* instrumentation
* scientific visualization tools
* data/metadata management
* tools to launch, monitor, and steer computations across a distributed
network in real time
* integrated security for distributed data, resources, communications,
and computations
* integrated tools for collaborating with others, and
* scripting/visual scripting environments.
In this mini-track, we will discuss the technical challenges and software
issues of CPSE development. For example,
* Development of an integrated environment to support scientific
discovery and the research cycle
* Component/Service-based architectures to support the construction of
CPSEs
* Changing requirements at the desktop
* Building domain knowledge into the environment
* End-user extensibility of CPSEs
* Scientific workflow
* Technology necessary for developing CPSEs
Security
* Secure access to shared resources, real-time collaborations,
distributed and shared data
* Tools to integrate into a CPSE (electronic notebooks, conferencing,
data-sharing, workspaces, etc.)
* Networking issues (multicast, VPN, security)
* Collaborative session management, and
* Experiences developing and deploying CPSEs and collaboratories.
CPSE is essentially a new research area, developing from advanced Internet
technologies, collaboration technologies, problem solving environments, and
made possible by today's Internet infrastructure. The topic area of CPSE
development is extremely timely, and electronic collaboratories are a timely
topic of broad relevance in scientific research. We expect that this
minitrack session will be of interest to researchers and educators in the
physical, computational, medical and life sciences, from colleges and
universities, industry and government labs. People engaged in widespread
collaborations, especially those involving interdisciplinary work, will find
this minitrack of particular interest.
To a large degree, CPSEs have evolved from computer-supported cooperative
work (CSCW), and HICSS has been one of the major conferences where CSCW
research has been published in the past. We see this minitrack as a good
opportunity for some cross fertilization between the CPSE research community
and the CSCW research community and to reach an international community as
well as industry with this new research area.
Important Deadlines
A 300-word abstract is due by April 1, 2000
Feedback to author on abstract by May 1, 2000
Full manuscript is due by June 1, 2000
Notification of accepted papers by August 31, 2000
Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts are due by October 1, 2000
Instructions to Authors
Submit a 300-word abstract to one of the minitrack coordinators (listed
below) by April 1, 2000. Feedback on the appropriateness of the abstract
will be sent to you by May 1, 2000. Submit a full manuscript by June 1,
2000. Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, PDF, and Postscript.
Manuscripts should have an abstract and be 22-25 typewritten, double-spaced
pages in length. Papers must not have been previously presented or
published, nor currently submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript
will be subjected to a rigorous refereeing process. Individuals interested
in refereeing papers should contact the minitrack coordinators directly.
Minitrack Coordinators
Carmen Pancerella
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 969, Mailstop 9012
Livermore, CA 94551-0969
Phone: (925) 294-3538
carmen@ca.sandia.gov
James D. Myers
Batelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
MS K8-91, Q Ave
Richland, WA 99352
Phone: (509) 376-9558
Jim.Myers@pnl.gov
Christine Yang
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 969, Mailstop 9012
Livermore, CA 94551-0969
Phone: (925) 294-2016
clyang@ca.sandia.gov
Deborah K. Gracio
Batelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. Box 999 MS K1-96
Richland, WA 99352
Phone: (509) 375-6362
Gracio@pnl.gov
Jack Park wrote:
> Just browse the site. It's an instance of itself.
> The dissertation on which the whole site is based is also at the site.
>
> From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
>
> > "Dynasites documents push the CGI scripting paradigm
> > to create dynamic page elements such as collapsable hierarchies
> > and richly annotated and interlinked documents."
> >
> > --haven't seen this at work yet, but it sure sounds good.
> > (performance yet to be evaluated)
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