DAI-List Digest Wednesday, 23 September 1992 Issue Number 91 Topics: CFP for Special Track on Human Computer Cooperative Work at ICICIS Please send submissions to DAI-List@mcc.com. Send other requests, such as changes in your e-mail address, to DAI-List-Request@mcc.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Human Computer Cooperative Work to be part of the First International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS) Rotterdam, May 12-14, 1993 Held in cooperation with: IEEE CS, ACM SIGART, AAAI, IFIP TC-12, NGI I. Description The area of Human Computer Cooperative Work (HCCW) considers the question of how to view and support human AND machine agents as equal partners in communication, cooperation, problem solving, and task execution. This area has major relevance to, in fact, may be regarded as an intersection of, the fields of Distributed AI and CSCW, as well as ICIS, Enterprise Integration, and Coordination Theory. Advances have been made in DAI research towards allowing computers to participate in collaborative work with each other through using largely formal application-independent methods of coordination and cooperation. Humans can participate in collaborative work with each other by using groupware tools, such as joint editing, group scheduling, and video-conferencing. These cooperative processes are, however, usually either loosely structured and informal or highly structured and very rigid. Thus, it is the aim of this call to solicit papers for a special track on Human Computer Cooperative Work. The papers should be related to the following question: How can the approaches of DAI and CSCW be unified, allowing for the informal cooperative processes of humans to be embedded within the formal framework of computer-computer cooperation? The complete track will consist of a couple of papers, together with a panel discussion on the integration of human computer collaborative work into its associated fields. II. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Integration of / Interaction among different coordination mechanisms at different human and software agent levels 2. Modelling of formal and informal structures on the human work / organizational level and how they might apply to the coordination and cooperation of software agents 3. Agent models and architectures - considering solutions from DAI, CSCW, EI, and User Modeling 4. Definition, Modeling and Formalization of cooperative styles of human computer interactions 5. Participation of humans in software agents' collaborative work 6. Supporting the (stand-alone and collaborative) work of humans by one or several software agents. III. Format Contributions should be double spaced, not exceeding 5000 words. Please indicate on the first page that the paper is a submission to the SPECIAL TRACK on "Human Computer Coooperative Work". IV. Important Dates Paper submissions due: October 19, 1992 Notification of Acceptance: January 10, 1993 Camera-ready copies: February 20, 1993. All accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Press in the Conference Proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. Further information on the special track is available from: Stefan Kirn Donald Steiner University of Muenster Siemens AG Inst. of Business and c/o DFKI Information Systems Grevener Str. 91 Postfach 2080 D-4400 Muenster D-6750 Kaiserslautern Germany Germany phone: +49 251 839753 phone: +49 205-3501 fax: +49 251 839754 fax: +49 205-3210 stefan.kirn@fernuni-hagen.de steiner@dfki.uni-kl.de V. Additional Information European Chairman: American Chairman: Gunter Schlageter Michael Huhns FernUniv. Hagen MCC Praktische Informatik I 3500 West Balcones Center Dr. P.O. Box 940 Austin TX 78759 Feithstrasse 140 USA D-5800 Hagen huhns@mcc.com Germany schlageter@dhafeu11.bitnet Far East Chairman & General Conference Chair: Mike Papazoglou QUT School of Information Systems Faculty of Information Technology GPO Box 2434 Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia mikep@snow.fit.qut.edu.au For further information and/or enquiries about the conference please contact the above mentioned addresses or write to ICICIS@fac.fbk.eur.nl Organizing Committee and Finance Chair: Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ.) Local Arrangements Chair: Jos Schreinemakers (Erasmus Univ.) Publications Chair: Patrick Bobbie (Univ. of Florida) Publicity Chairman: Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY) Program Committee: Bruce Blum (John Hopkins Univ.), Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY), Patrick Bobbie (Univ. of Florida), Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Labs), David Bree (Univ. of Manchester), Michael Brodie (GTE Labs Inc. MA), Edward Durfee (Univ. of Michigan), Les Gasser (USC, Los Angeles), Jaap v. d. Herik (Univ. of Limburg, Holland), John Hughes (Univ. of Ulster), Matthias Jarke (Univ. of Aachen), Yahiko Kambayashi (Univ. of Koyoto), Dimitris Karagiannis (FAW - Ulm), Stefan Kirn (University of Muenster), Bernd Kraemer (GMD, Bonn), Steven Laufmann (US West Advanced Technologies), Frederick Lochovsky (Univ. of Hong-Kong), Vince Lum (Naval Postgraduate School), Frank Manola (GTE Labs Inc. MA), Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam), Robert Meersman (Kath. Univ. Braband, Tilburg), John Mylopoulos (Univ. of Toronto), Moira Norrie (Univ. of Glasgow), Marek Rusinkiewicz (Univ. of Houston), Jos Schreinemakers (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam), Timos Sellis (Univ. of Maryland), Susan Urban (Arizona State Univ.), Joe Urban (Arizona State Univ.), John Vittal (GTE-Labs Inc. MA), Ben Wah (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana), Jay Weber (Lockheed Labs, Palo Alto), Keith Werkman (IBM, Owengo Labs), John Zeleznikow (La Trobe Univ. Australia), Noshihiko Yoshida (Kuyshu Univ. Japan) Local Organization: Ruud Smit (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam), Joyce Bokhoven (Erasmus Forum) Conference Office: Erasmus Forum Burg. Oudlaan 50 P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands