WET ICE '98
IEEE Seventh International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises,
June 17-19, 1998, Stanford University, California, USA
Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society and CERC at West Virginia University
Host: Center for Design Research, Stanford University
http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE/
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Call for papers for the WET ICE 98 Workshop on
Collaboration in Presence of Mobility
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(http://www.camb.opengroup.org/RI/WETICE/wetice98.htm)
Topics:
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- mobile agents (applications, interoperability, standards (OMG MAF), etc.)
- mobile objects (component based computing, introspection, negotiation)
- mobile computing (wireless, mobile IP, disconnected operations, etc.)
- security and mobility (authentication, authorization, privacy, assurance)
- locating mobile entities (locating and naming schemes, proxies, etc.)
- communicating with mobile entities (transparency, message forwarding, etc.)
Program Committee:
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- Timothy Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County, finin@cs.umbc.edu
- Dag Johansen, University of Tromsų, dag@cs.uit.no
- Danny Lange, General Magic, Inc., danny@acm.org
- Murray Mazer, The Open Group, mazer@opengroup.org
- Dejan Milojicic, The Open Group, dejan@opengroup.org, workshop chair
- Juergen Nehmer, University of Kaiserslautern, nehmer@informatik.uni-kl.de
- Daniela Rus, Dartmouth College, rus@cs.dartmouth.edu
- David C. Steere, Oregon Graduate Institute, dcs@cse.ogi.edu
- Mary Ellen Zurko, The Open Group, zurko@opengroup.org
Important Dates:
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- Papers due to workshop chair (by email, please): January 30, 1998
- Notification of decisions to authors: March 2, 1998
- Advance Registration: May 17, 1998
- Workshop (Wednesday - Friday): June 17-19, 1998
- Final PAPERS due for proceedings: June 30, 1998
Description:
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Mobility has always been the focus of various research. This stems from the
fundamental need and nature of mobility:
- Users are moving: users can frequently change their location; while moving,
they prefer to retain access to their resources, including local and remote
computers and applications.
Computers are moving: lap-top computers frequently change their location
and need to transparently maintain their function despite changed location.
- Data is being moved, frequently in the form of objects: with the advance of
component based computing and the needs of collaborative environments, it
will increasingly be the case that objects with data as well as the code for
manipulating this data are transferred across the network. Applets are an
introductory pervasive form of mobile objects.
- Mobile agents are increasingly deployed: benefits, such as improving the
locality of reference, improving failure semantics, representing
disconnected
users, make them suitable for use in low-bandwidth communication
environments, electronic commerce, etc.
- Wireless networks are a natural environment for mobility: the lack of wires
make them ideally suited for mobile entities.
The following mobility and collaboration topics are relevant for the workshop:
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- New network architectures and high speed networks increase the difference
between local and remote access, making them similar to memory hierarchies
(first & second level cache, primary memory, secondary memory) and making
the case for local reference stronger. Moving the activity towards the
source
of data and vice versa naturally results from deploying mobility.
- Mobility is analogous to real world solutions (traveling salesman, buyers).
In electronic commerce, using mobile agents to represent the buyers and
sellers assumes the mobility of both.
- Mobility is inherent to survivability. In the same way that migrating birds
or nomadic tribes move where the resources are, so mobility moves entities
towards the resources. If areas lack certain aspects (communication,
computing power, or sources of information), mobile entities can move
towards areas where such resources exist).
- Mobility causes security concerns. There is no clear answer at the moment,
only a lot of research; this alone could be the topic for a whole workshop.
Particular topics of interest include agent- and host-specific forms of
authentication and delegation, determining and enforcing authorization
policies for agent and host information and resources, deploying security
for
mobile agents, objects, and code, and building mobile infrastructures that
are trustworthy.
- Collaboration is often orthogonal to mobility. Collaboration can increase
the productivity by parallelizing mobile entities, it might be required to
achieve security, locating of mobile agents or some resources, etc.
Collaboration is hard to achieve in presence of mobility, but in such a
case, its benefits are even more apparent than if deployed for stationary
solutions. Authors are expected to identify the key infrastructure
components
that enterprise architects must include in their designs so as to enable a
specific collaborative aspect within the enterprise. For example, what are
the critical infrastructure component that enable collaboration of mobile
workers?
- Finally, both mobility and collaboration are intrinsic characteristics. If
it weren't for mobility we would still be trees (George Cybenko, at
Dartmouth
workshop on Transportable Agents). If it weren't for collaboration, the
trees would be dumb and sole players. The workshop will encourage the
papers
that can articulate the levels of mobility that are achievable within an
enterprise, as well as different infrastructure requirements related to
these levels.
Contact Information:
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Dejan S. Milojicic
The Open Group Research Institute
11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
E-mail: dejan@opengroup.org
Phone: (617) 621-7365
Fax: (617) 621-8696
Papers submitted for the workshop should not be more than 15 pages in length.
All papers will be reviewed for quality and relevance to the workshop.
Submission should be mailed to the workshop chair, or made available for
downloading over the Web. Please make your submissions to the workshop chair.
The final papers for the workshop post-proceedings will be six pages in IEEE
format [http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm], which is single-spaced,
10-pt Times - something in the vicinity of 2000-2500 words, depending on the
number of graphics included.
GENERAL CHAIRS:
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- Miroslav Benda, Boeing Commercial Aircraft, USA
- Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research (CDR), Stanford University, USA
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
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Sumitra Reddy, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West
Virginia University, USA
STEERING COMMITTEE
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- Miroslav Benda, Boeing Commercial Aircraft, USA
- Mark Fox, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, U. of Toronto, Canada
- V. Juggy Jagannathan, Concurrent Engineering Research Center,
West Virginia U., USA
- Jintae Lee, Department of Decision Science, U. of Hawaii, USA
- Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford U., USA
- Sumitra Reddy, Concurrent Engineering Research Center,
West Virginia University, USA (ex officio)
- Alexander Schill, Faculty of Computer Science,
Technical U. of Dresden, Germany
- Nahid Shahmehri, Department of Computer and Information
Science, Linkvping University, Sweden
- David Stotts, Computer Science Dept., U. of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
CO-SPONSORS:
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- IEEE Computer Society
- Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC), West Virginia University, USA
HOST:
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Center for Design Research (CDR), Stanford University, USA
WET ICE '97 Proceedings
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This year's post-proceedings, which includes selected papers as well as the
working group reports from all five workshops, are available from the IEEE
Computer Society Press. The order number is PR07967 (ISBN 0-8186-7967-0),
and the price is $50 for IEEE members and $120 for non-members. You can order a
copy by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or
1-714-821-8380 from outside the United States, faxing an order to
1-714-821-4641
or via the web at http://www.computer.org:80/cspress/catalog/pr07967.htm. Some
of the abstracts are online at http://www.computer.org:80/conferen/proceed/7967
abs.htm.