Please take a look at the WACE 2006 call for abstracts, the deadline is coming up soon. www.mcs.anl.gov/wace<http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace>
The Sixth Annual Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments will focus on the research, technological, and social issues of developing persistent collaboration infrastructure. This year WACE will be held in Geneva as part of a conference on Shaping the Future of Collaboration in Global Science Projects. This conference, co-organized by WACE and users of the Large Hadron Collider will focus on the needs and challenges that the LHC community will face in conducting a global scientific collaboration. The WACE program will be held on days 2 and 3 of this 3-day conference and will focus on emerging, advanced collaborative technologies and their use. The goal of this workshop is to provide an open, technical forum to discuss high-end, high-value solutions for supporting scientific, engineering or humanities collaboration. When developing position papers, baseline assumptions about the evolution of future computing technologies (for example, networking, computing, storage, and displays) useful for collaboration environments should be taken into account. The workshop intends to look at future-generation systems. For example, the following future infrastructure predictions are likely to affect collaboration systems: * Widespread deployment of high performance networking * Continued increases in computing power available both to end-users and through high-end computing facilities * Expanding needs and abilities to store, curate and retrieve large volumes of data * Increasing availability of large, high-resolution displays * Broad adoption of mobile computing devices * Application of new types of instrumentation, such as sensor networks Position papers are being solicited on topics including, but not limited to, the following: * High-end, high-value solutions collaboration technologies * New ideas and concepts for advanced collaboration environments * Removal of barriers to more rapid adoption of high-end technologies * Roadmaps for development of high-end collaborative technologies * Tools for monitoring and evaluating the performance of collaborations * Software for advanced collaboration environments * Applications of collaborative technologies in science, engineering or the humanities Overall registration for the workshop will be limited to 75 participants. Sponsored by: Futures Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory Microsoft Research The Computation Institute, University of Chicago
