At the 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), http://www.wetice.org
June 29 - July 1, 2009, Groningen (The Netherlands)
WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES
Coordination is significantly responsible for the effectiveness,
performance and quality of complex systems and as a concept it is not
restricted to computer-based systems. The concept is cross-sectional
and a great impact may be reached in different application areas if
effective methods and models can be designed, implemented, validated,
and deployed. Coordination, moreover, is an essential prerequisite for
collaborative and telecooperative applications, which are of prime
interest to the WETICE series.
The CoMA workshop aims at the interdisciplinary aspects of coordination
in general, and in this year examines their application to cloud
computing environments in particular. The overall goal is to support
collaborative activities of actors, agents and services in such
environments as effectively, imperceptibly, and unobtrusively as
possible. cloud computing is seen as one of the most promising
infrastructural approaches towards so-called utility computing. The
cloud is realized by a distributed system that consists of an a priori
undefined number of inter-connected and virtualized computers that are
dynamically gathered to represent a personalized and unified computing
resource. In order to dynamically manage the distributed computers that
provide the cloud, and the distributed data, software, service and
computing devices, the use of data that is based on formal knowledge
models - as being promoted by the Semantic Web initiative - becomes a
crucial support for collaboration and the challenges associated with
coordination in large scale systems. The use of such knowledge on
the cloud, and infrastructures that enable coordinative and
collaborative tasks are the focus of this workshop.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists who are
either conducting research in cloud computing and storage, coordination
models and languages or semantic coordination systems, or in related
fields such as distributed knowledge systems, large scale collaborative
systems, CSCW, systems research, complexity management, or process
management. Secondly, this workshop also welcomes contributions by
researchers and practitioners who concentrate on concrete applications
where combinations of coordination, cloud computing and semantic data
are seen to be or have proven to be beneficiary; e.g. emergency
management or health care systems.
In this end, the workshop aims at providing a discussion groud for
recent achievements, visions and cutting-edge research in coordination,
(large scale) cloud computing and knowledge management, with the clear
vision of generating mutual benefits for all participants. To support
this, opportunities for showcases, demonstrations, and in-depth
discussions will be provided. Eventually, interdisciplinary and joint
efforts shall be fostered and future cooperations on research
activities shall be triggered.
TOPICS AND APPLICATIONS
All topics related to the interdisciplinary aspects of coordination are
welcome as much as these are in some way relevant for or applicable to
cloud computing environments. We particularly welcome submissions
addressing coordination and collaboration between services and knowlege
providers on the Internet. The following incomprehensive listing gives
examples of such potential topics:
Theoretical coordination models and foundations for cloud
computing
Coordination models and languages for knowledge (using e.g.
RDF or OWL)
Coordination middleware (such as space- or event-based
approaches)
Coordination mechanisms in (semantic) service-oriented
architectures
Distributed and P2P-based coordination
Coordination in multi-agent systems
Coordination dependent on context
Location-based coordination models
Strategies to cope with heterogeneity, dynamics, openess,
and certainly scalability
Integration of and mediation between coordination systems
Case studies, evaluations and assessments about the
benefits of (semantic) coordination
Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination
Coordination and contained topics are multidisciplinary and, hence, can
be viewed as orthogonal to a multitude of utlity computing applications
which shall be explored in this workshop too. Examples include but are
not limited to:
Collaborative applications like CSCW, groupware, or games
Emergency management systems
Coordination in highly dynamic environments
Health care systems
Decision-support systems
Operations research
Complexity-, constraint-, conflict-, and workflow management
Special-purpose coordination languages and tools
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission:
March 6, 2009 (new)
Author notification:
March 27, 2009 (new)
Camera-ready submission:
April 10th, 2009
Deadline for registration:
Workshops dates:
June 29th, 30th, and July 1st, 2009
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
WETICE workshops accept papers of up to six pages in IEEE style.
Paper can only be submitted electronically at http://conference.ag-nbi.de/coma09/.
CO-CHAIRS
Elena Simperl
Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
ICT Technologiepark
Technikerstr. 21a,
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone: +43 512 507 96884
Fax: +43 512 507 9872
Web: www.sti-innsbruck.at
Reto Krummenacher
Semantic Technology Institute Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
ICT Technologiepark
Technikerstr. 21a,
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone: +43 512 507 6452
Fax: +43 512 507 9872
Web: www.sti-innsbruck.at
Robert Tolksdorf
Dept. Computer Science, Free University Berlin
Fabeckstr.15,
D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 838 75223
Fax: +49 30 838 75220
Web: www.ag-nbi.de
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University, UK
Daniel Martin, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Federico Facca, STI Innsbruck, Austria
German Toro del Valle, TID, Spain
Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ian Oliver, Nokia Research, Finland
Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy
Lyndon J.B. Nixon, STI International, Austria
Manfred Bortenschlager, Salzburg Research, Austria
Massimiliano de Leoni, Sapienza University Rome, Italy
Miguel Branco, CERN, Switzerland
Wei Chen, Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy
(to be extended)