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WACE 2004 Friday, September 24, 2004, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France This workshop will address research, technological, and social issues of developing persistent collaboration infrastructure to address the needs of emerging communities. Examples of such communities include the following: • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology • Nanoscience and Molecular Technology • Wide Area Environmental Sensing • Biomedical Imaging and Simulation • Education, Humanities and Technology • Unique One-of-a-Kind Facilities 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 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: • Network bandwidth – gigabits/s to terabits/s • Display – desktop monitors to room-oriented systems • Computing – gigaflops to teraflops PCs • Mobile devices – PDAs to personal information accessories • Storage – gigabytes to personal terabytes • Ubiquitous grid software environments Position papers are being solicited on topics including but not limited to: • Requirements for emerging collaborative communities • Roadmaps for development of high-end collaborative technologies • High-end, high-value solutions for scientific communities • Modes of evaluating high-end collaborative technologies • What is beyond VR, video, audio, and text? • Use of collaboration technologies in the humanities • Removal of barriers to more rapid adoption of high-end technologies • Software environments for advanced collaboration environments Overall registration for the workshop will be limited to 75 participants. Submission deadline: July 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2004 Final manuscript due: August 15, 2004 SUBMISSION Please submit extended abstracts (2 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 [email protected] To stay up-to-date on WACE see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace, send questions to [email protected]
