[AG-TECH] Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments - Call for Participation

[Michael E. Papka]

Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments
Monday, August 6, 2001
To be held in conjunction with the Tenth IEEE International Symposium on
High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10)Hotel Nikko, San Francisco,
California
www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/wace

SUBMISSION
Please submit extended abstracts(6 pages maximum)
Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, but hardcopy submissions will
be accepted. Any questions concerning hardcopy submission or any other
issues may be directed to wace at mcs.anl.gov.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: June 1, 2001
Notification of acceptance:  June 15, 2001
Final manuscript due: July 10, 2001

PUBLICATION  The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed at
the conference.

Sponsored by:
Futures Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory
The Computation Institute, University of Chicago
National Computational Science Alliance

This workshop will address research, technological, and social issues of
developing persistent collaboration infrastructure to address the needs of
emerging scientific communities. Examples of such communities include the
following:
o	Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
o	Nanoscience and Molecular Technology
o	Wide Area Environmental Sensing
o	Biomedical Imaging and Simulation

The goal of the workshop is to provide an open technical forum to promote
the discussion of high-end, high-value solutions to the problem of
supporting distributed scientific collaboration. Baseline assumptions about
the evolution of future computing technologies (e.g., networking, computing,
storage, and displays) useful for collaboration environments should be taken
into account in developing position papers. The workshop intends to look at
future-generation systems. The following are examples of future
infrastructure predictions likely to affect collaboration systems:
o	Network bandwidth – gigabits/s to terabits/s
o	Computing – gigaflops to teraflops PCs
o	Storage – gigabytes to personal terabytes
o	Display – desktop monitors to room-oriented systems
o	Mobile devices – PDAs to personal information accessories
o	Ubiquitous grid software environments

Position papers are being solicited on topics including but not limited to:
o	Requirements for emerging scientific communities
o	High-end, high-value solutions for scientific communities
o	New ideas and concepts for advanced collaboration environments
o	Removal of barriers to more rapid adoption of high-end technologies
o	Roadmaps for development of high-end collaborative technologies
o	Modes of evaluating high-end collaborative technologies
o	Software environments for advanced collaboration environments
o	What is beyond VR, video, audio, and text?

Overall registration for the workshop will be limited to 75 participants.
The morning session will feature several invited talks from the application
community to set the stage, followed by several invited talks by technology
providers to frame the future. The afternoon session will consist of
presentations and discussion by the collaboration research community. Talks
will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes allocated for questions and comments. The
day will end with a town hall-style discussion of the future of
collaboration.

GENERAL CHAIR Rick Stevens, ANL/UC

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Deb Agarwal, LBNL
Robert Balance, UNM
Jay Beavers, Microsoft
Terry Disz, ANL
Geoffrey C. Fox, FSU
Joseph Hardin, UM
Mark Hereld, ANL/UC
Andy Johnson, UIC
Chris Johnson, Utah
Jason Leigh, UIC
Don Middleton, NCAR
Michael E. Papka, ANL/UC
Emilee Patrick, Motorola
Dan Reed, NCSA/UIUC
Rick Stevens, ANL/UC
Valerie Taylor, NWU

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
Lisa Childers, ANL
Richard Coffey, Utah
Jim Miller, Insors
Robert Olson, ANL
Dana Plepys, UIC
Tony Rimovsky, NCSA
Jennifer Teig von Hoffman, BU