SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************** WET ICE '97 "Information Infrastructure for Virtual Environments" ************************************************************** IEEE Sixth Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises June 18-20, 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Co-sponsors: Host: ----------- ---- IEEE Computer Society Intelligent Engineering Systems Concurrent Engineering Research Center Laboratory (IESL), Dept. of Civil (CERC), West Virginia University & Environmental Engineering, MIT Cooperating Organization: ------------------------ IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure (pending approval) http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE/WETICE97.html WET ICE '97 will consist of five parallel workshops, each including paper presentations and working group discussions, with additional joint keynote sessions and a final joint session to summarize each groups' findings. These workshops include: Information Infrastructure for Global and Virtual Enterprises Collaborative Agents in Distributed Web Applications Distributed System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality Enterprise Security Distance Learning Papers accepted for the workshops, and which were peer-reviewed by a minimum of three people, will be included in the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. See http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/WETICE/ for more information about each workshop. Important Dates --------------- Full papers due to specific workshop organizers March 21, 1997 Notification of decisions to paper authors April 18, 1997 Advance Registration May 19, 1997 Workshop June 18-20, 1997 Final papers due for proceedings June 30, 1997 Chairs ------ General Chair: Ramana Reddy, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University, USA Program Chair: Feniosky Pen~a-Mora, Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA International Steering Committee -------------------------------- Miroslav Benda, Boeing Commercial Aircraft, USA Mark Fox, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada V. Juggy Jagannathan, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia Univ., USA Jintae Lee, Department of Decision Science, University of Hawaii, USA Charles Petrie, Center for Design Research, Stanford University, USA Alexander Schill, Faculty of Comp. Science, Technical Univ. of Dresden, Germany David Stotts, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, USA International Program Committee ------------------------------- Andres Albanese, International Computer Science Institute, USA Yahya Al-Salqan, Sun Microsystems, USA Peter Bertok, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia John R. Callahan, NASA IV&V Facility, West Virginia University, USA Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy Renate Fruchter, Stanford University, USA Sumit Ghosh, Arizona State University, USA Raghu Karinthi, Silicon Graphics, Inc., USA Mark Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (formerly at Penn State University) Mary Lou Maher, University of Sydney, Australia Robert Marcus, American Management Systems, Inc., USA Frank Maurer, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Shoichi Nakai, Shimizu Corporation, Japan Gustaf Neumann, University of Essen, Germany Akihiko Obata, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan Shiro Sakata, NEC, Japan Nahid Shahmehri, Linkoping University, Sweden Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Kenji Takahashi, NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories, USA Robert Tolksdorf, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany WET ICE '96 Proceedings ----------------------- The WET ICE '96 post-proceedings, which includes selected papers from the WET ICE '96 workshops as well as the working group reports, is currently available from the IEEE Computer Society Press. The price is $30 for IEEE members and $60 for non-members. The abstracts are available at http://www.computer.org/conferen/proceed/wetice96/toc.htm. Copies of the proceedings can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 1-714-821-8380 from outside the United States, faxing an order to 1-714-821-8641, or by using an electronic order form at http://www.computer.org:80/cspress/order.htm. Please specify Catalog # PR07445 when ordering. Inquiries --------- Please send all inquiries regarding the WET ICE workshops to wetice@cerc.wvu.edu or call (U.S.) 304-293-7226, extension 245.