Greg
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:54:19 +0100 (MET)
From: "B. Koetting" <koetting@informatik.uni-kl.de>
To: gbolcer@ics.uci.edu
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Call for Papers
2nd Workshop on
COORDINATING DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
for the
Eighth International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE '99).
16-18 June 1999, Stanford University, California, USA
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Up-to-date information on the workshop can be found at
http://wwwagr.informatik.uni-kl.de/~koetting/WETICE99/
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Workshop Description
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Although there were tremendous improvements in software engineering over the last decades,
basic problems remain: software development is expensive and time consuming; software
projects often run out of time and over budget. These problems are aggravated by the fact
that software projects get continually larger and more complicated. The knowledge and
skills required in a large project often cannot be found in one location, necessitating
the global distribution of software projects, and leading to the creation of virtual
corporations.
The resulting need for distributed development of software in (virtual) enterprises is a
great challenge for project management and requires new techniques for project
coordination, document management and communication. Getting "the right information to the
right people at the right time" becomes an even harder problem than before.
Last year's Workshop on Coordinating Distributed Software Development Projects identified
three aspects that need to be considered by distributed software development support
systems:
The data exchanged between the different development sites needs to be managed, and
coordination mechanisms for multiple user access have to be provided. This and other
functionality for data exchange between different sites is provided by middleware systems.
Cooperative work and meetings need to be supported by providing shared workspaces that can
be accessed from geographically distributed locations. Groupware approaches tackle this
problem by providing an infrastructure for synchronous and asynchronous work.
Tasks that are done asynchronously still need to be coordinated. In a software project,
there are often hidden dependencies that might lead to inconsistencies if the involved
people are not made aware of potential problems. Process modeling and enactment support
systems approach this problem by explicitly representing project dependencies, and
notifying the involved people when changes occur.
This year's workshop will discuss these aspects of distributed support for software
projects, especially with respect to
the integration of two or more of the above aspects in a single software development
environment,
and
support for project planning and management in distributed software projects.
In particular, topics for paper submissions include (but are not limited to):
distributed software development support
software agents for software development
distributed process modeling
distributed project planning and plan enactment
workflow management and coordination support in distributed projects
Internet-based software process coordination
multimedia support for software project coordination
monitoring and managing distributed development processes
distributed change management
distributed document management
middleware for software development environments
groupware approaches to software development
knowledge management and access in distributed projects
around-the-clock software development
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Paper Submission
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Papers can be submitted for review in HTML, PDF, PostScript, or Word format. Papers of
more than 8 pages (single-spaced, 10-pt Times) will not be reviewed.
Papers must be submitted via e-mail.
Please send your submissions to
Sigrid Goldmann
email: sigig@informatik.uni-kl.de
Final papers may not exceed six pages in IEEE format
[http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm], which is single-spaced, 10-pt Times.
Authors will be requested to take part in the peer review process and
will be asked to review other submissions.
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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline March 22, 1999
Notification of acceptance April 26, 1999
Advance Registration May 26, 1999
Workshop June 16-18, 1999
Final papers due for proceedings June 30, 1999
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Workshop Organizers
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Fawsy Bendeck, University of Kaiserslautern, Department of
Computer Science, P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Tel: +49 631 205-3358; Fax: +49 631 205-3357
e-mail: bendeck@informatik.uni-kl.de
Barbara Dellen, University of Kaiserslautern, Department of
Computer Science, P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Tel: +49 631 205-3367; Fax: +49 631 205-3357
e-mail: dellen@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Sigrid Goldmann, University of Kaiserslautern, Department of
Computer Science, P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Tel: +49 631 205-3360; Fax: +49 631 205-3357
e-mail: sigig@informatik.uni-kl.de
Harald Holz, University of Kaiserslautern, Department of
Computer Science, P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Tel: +49 631 205-3326; Fax: +49 631 205-3357
e-mail: holz@informatik.uni-kl.de
Boris Koetting, University of Kaiserslautern, Department of
Computer Science, P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Tel: +49 631 205-3328; Fax: +49 631 205-3357
e-mail: koetting@informatik.uni-kl.de
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science,
2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Kanada
Tel. ++ (403) 220 3531; Fax ++ (403) 284 4707
e-mail: maurer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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Contact
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Sigrid Goldmann
University of Kaiserslautern
Department of Computer Science
P.O. Box 3049
67653 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Tel.: +49 631 205-3360
Fax: +49 631 205-3357
E-mail: sigig@informatik.uni-kl.de