Call for Papers
Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises 
 

Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises Important Dates Registration Agenda Program Committee General Information WET ICE '2000 Home Page Conference Location Hotel and Local Information IEEE Format for Proceedings Manuscripts IEEE Copyright Policies Previous WET ICE Workshops Participating Organizations IEEE IEEE Computer Society CERC, West Virginia University National Institute of Standard and Technology Linkoping University	Effective collaboration involves people communicating over shared data. Web technology has enabled basic communication infrastructures needed for collaborative applications. However, using and building on the basic infrastructures has proven much more difficult in enabling effective collaboration within and among enterprises. Although higher technological layers are being developed and a general, deeper understanding of collaboration is slowly evolving, progress on efficient and effective web-based collaboration lags behind. Researchers need tools to measure the incremental progress towards developing useful collaborative systems, as well as methods to evaluate the impact of specific technologies on the effectiveness of collaboration. We believe effective evaluation and appropriate standardization are mechanisms that will facilitate progress in web-based collaboration. Workshop Description: This workshop continues themes emanating from previous WETICE workshops held over the last several years. In general, these workshops addressed a number of issues, including: How can Web techniques be used to achieve or to improve collaboration within or among organizations? Can the Web serve as an infrastructure for both developing and implementing business applications in a, possibly globally, distributed and collaborative business environment?  Can Web-based software be an answer to the challenges that globally operating companies are facing? To address these issues, recent workshops have reported on systems that demonstrate the Internet can be used for swift data transfer, asynchronous message exchange and software/documentation deployment. They have also realized that different paradigms such as programming, modeling, representing and interface describing capture different aspects of control, data and behavior. For example, a general purpose programming language such as Java supports the encoding of behavior, control and data; modeling languages, such as XML, support encoding (structurally-rich) data only. Because of these different levels of abstraction, there are common developer issues associated with equivalence that need to be addressed as standards come into place. This session continues in the vein set forth in previous workshops and explores the issues surrounding the evaluation of collaborative systems: when and how do we achieve collaboration successfully, and how do users realize that success when they experience it. We also propose to explore opportunities for standardization of applicable protocols, languages and interchange formats. Topics to be included are as follows:
	Requirements Software characteristics  Requirements identification  Implementation effectiveness  Traditional computing comparisons Standards Technology base  Collaboation technology role  Extending opportunities New opportunities	Evaluation Experiences Methods and mechanisms  Enterprise effects
	Submissions Technical papers:  Authors of technical papers should submit an original paper (not submitted or published elsewhere) in postscript (ps) or portable document format (pdf) format by email to robert.allen@nist.gov. Submissions should include the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and no more than 8 keywords. Submissions should not exceed 3000 words in length (including figure equivalents). The name, position, address, telephone number, and if possible, fax number and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence must be included.  Poster papers:  The evaluation collaborative enterprises workshop committee invites poster papers on new and exciting research work, work-in-progress and demonstrations related to the workshop themes. Authors of poster papers should submit an extended abstract by email to michelle.steves@nist.gov. Submissions should include the title of the paper, the name and affiliation of each author, a 150-word abstract, and no more than 4 keywords. Submissions should not exceed 1500 words in length. The name, position, address, telephone number, and if possible, fax number and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence must be included.  A selection of accepted papers will be published in the workshop post-proceedings. Papers accepted for publication in the proceedings are limited to six pages (about 2000-2500 words) in IEEE format (two columns, single spaced, 10pt Times) for technical papers and two pages for poster papers. Authors are strongly encouraged to adhere to this format also when submitting papers. Detailed information on the IEEE format (together with some templates) is available at  http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.  Panel proposals Send six copies of panel proposals, or by email, to michelle.steves@nist.gov. Include a title, a 150-word scope statement, proposed session chair and panelists and their affiliations, the organizer's affiliation, address, telephone and fax number, and e-mail address.
	Program Co-Chairs Robert Allen Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA E-mail: robert.allen@nist.gov	Michelle Steves NIST 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8260 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8260 USA E-mail: michelle.steves@nist.gov
	Workshop Program Committee Jill Drury, The Mitre Corporation Tom Finholt, University of Michigan Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan Doug Johnson, Hewlett Packard Amy Knutilla, Knutilla Technologies Srinivas Nidamarthi, Cambridge University Leysia Palen, University of Colorado Jennifer Preece, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Jean Scholtz, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Eswaran Subrahmanian, Carnegie Mellon University Marian Williams, University of Massachusetts Lowell Important Dates Full papers due to workshop organizers  March 10 extended to March 31, 2000 Notification of decisions to paper authors April 14 extended to April 28, 2000 Advance registration deadline May 26 extended to June 5, 2000 Workshop June 14-16, 2000 Final papers due for post proceedings July 1 extended to July 6, 2000 Inquiries Please send all inquiries regarding this workshop to michelle.steves@nist.gov or robert.allen@nist.gov. For inquiries regarding WET ICE in general, contact wetice@cerc.wvu.edu or call (U.S.) +1-304-293-7226.

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