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<H2 align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica">Advanced Collaborative
Environments</FONT></H2>
<H3 align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica">Birds of a
Feather<BR><SMALL><SMALL>for a proposed</SMALL></SMALL></FONT></H3>
<H3 align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><A
href="http://www.globalgridforum.org/">Global Grid Forum</A> Working Group
(ACE-Grid) </FONT></H3>
<H3 align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica">Call for
Participation</FONT> </H3></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></DIV>
<P align=center>Mar 5, 2001, Monday 4pm (BOF)<BR>Mar 7, 2001 Wednesday 9am (with
Applications/Testbeds working group)</P>
<P align=center>Held at the <B>Global Grid Forum 1</B> - Amsterdam (Mar 4-7,
2001)<BR><A href="http://www.ggf1.nl/">http://www.ggf1.nl/</A></P>
<P>The proposed Advanced Collaborative Environments (ACE) Working Group
complements other <A href="http://www.gridforum.org/groups/WG.html">Global GF
Working Groups</A> by providing human-centered techniques and technologies for
facilitating interactive, collaborative, and immersive access to Grid resources
from anywhere and at any time. This Birds of a Feather meeting is a kick-off
meeting for the proposed ACE-Grid working group. Developers who are interested
in contributing in the areas defined in the draft charter below are encouraged
to participate. <I>Come and help define the future of advanced collaborative
environments on the Grid!</I></P>
<H3 align=center><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica"><B>BOF Agenda</B></FONT></H3>
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<LI>Introductions by everyone.
<UL>
<LI>What is each group doing with VR/Tele-Immersion and AccessGrid </LI></UL>
<LI>Overiew of purpose and goals of this BOF and the ACE-Grid working group.
<LI>Open discussion on the following issues (not necessarily in this order):
<UL>
<LI>Define the role of the working group (discuss charter draft below)
<LI>Identify who else we should invite to the first workgroup meeting;
Gather mailing list.
<LI>Identify what are the main products out there- e.g. CAVERNsoft, Aura,
PythonVR, Diverse, Juggler, Octopus etc.
<LI>Identify issues of greatest relevance to the Grid community (perhaps
prioritized) that the working group should tackle. For example:
<UL>
<LI>Integration of ACE-Grid products with other Grid products.
<LI>Access Grid development
<UL>
<LI>Human factors
<LI>Ubiquitous docking
<LI>Remote visualization
<LI>Remote control of instrumentation
<LI>Networking- global multicast, performance monitoring
<LI>Security
<LI>Integration with Grid middleware
<LI>Collaborative War Rooms </LI></UL>
<LI>Access Grid & Teleimmersion
<UL>
<LI>Integration of VR with Access Grid </LI></UL>
<LI>Tele-immersion
<UL>
<LI>"Standardized" crossplatform framework
<LI>Contributing modules for the framework
<LI>Crossplatform scenegraphs - which to adopt?
<LI>Teleimmersion over clusters or CAVEs and IDesks with PCs
<LI>Security </LI></UL>
<LI>Product deployment - <A
href="http://openchannelsoftware.org/">openchannelsoftware.org</A>, <A
href="http://sourceforge.net/">sourceforge.net</A>
</LI></UL></LI></UL></LI></UL>
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<FONT face=Arial><B>
<P align=center>The Global Grid Forum Working Group on<BR>Advanced Collaborative
Environments</B></FONT> </P>
<H3 align=center><FONT face=Arial><B>A C E Grid</B></FONT></H3>
<H4><FONT face=Arial>Draft Charter</FONT></H4>
<P>The Advanced Collaborative Environments (ACE) Grid Working Group complements
other Global GF Working Groups by providing human-centered techniques and
technologies for facilitating interactive, collaborative, and immersive access
of Grid resources from any where and at any time.</P>
<H4><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica">Chairs</FONT></H4>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Jason Leigh <A href="mailto:spiff@evl.uic.edu">spiff@evl.uic.edu</A></P>
<P>Rick Stevens <A
href="mailto:stevens@mcs.anl.gov">stevens@mcs.anl.gov</A></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<H4><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica">Secretary</FONT></H4>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Tom Coffin <A
href="mailto:tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu">tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu</A></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<H4><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica">Goals</FONT></H4>
<P>The goals are to:
<UL>
<LI>provide a venue at which researchers can share late-breaking ideas and
results.
<LI>encourage information and code sharing by proposing and publishing
strategies for interoperability.
<LI>identifying and resolving compatibility issues between ACE Grid products
and other Grid products.
<LI>formalize human factors techniques for optimal operation of ubiquitous,
interactive, collaborative, and immersive environments.
<LI>provide a systematic process through which researchers may contribute
their work to the community.
<LI>provide a centralized deployment point for ACE Grid products.
<LI>identify future areas of research that will be important to the continuing
advance of the Grid. </LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">These goals are to be
applied to the following ACE domains:
<UL>
<LI>Collaboration Environments - Access Grid, Access Grid Augmented Virtual
Environments (AGAVE)
<LI>Tele-Immersion - CAVE, IDesks, Tiled Displays, auto stereoscopic displays,
software frameworks
<LI>Distributed Realtime Visualization - crossplatform, cross cluster scene
graph libraries, parallel rendering techniques, video and display list
streaming
<LI>Computational Steering - software frameworks
<LI>Collaborative Gaming and Online Communities - things we can learn from
realtime online games and communities
<LI>Ubiquitous Computing - paradigms for VR to desktop to laptop to PDA
collaboration
<LI>and other human-in-the-loop Grid applications </LI></UL></BODY></HTML>