Subject: , Collaboration in Multimedia NA and Groupware (Deadline is approaching)

From: Khalil Drira <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 09:31:32 +0100

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				CALL FOR PAPERS
  
	  Special Session on Collaboration in Multimedia 
		Networked Applications and GroupWare
Session Co-ordinators: Michel Diaz, Khalil Drira, Thierry Villemur ({diaz,drira,[email-masked])

	at the EUROMICRO WORKSHOP on Multimedia and Telecommunication
		Maastricht, Netherlands, Sept. 4-7, 2000
	Workshop Programme Chair: Claude Ghaoui ([email-masked])
 
		http://www.laas.fr/~khalil/cmnag.html

Important Dates 
Deadline for Paper Submission and Compositions: February 28th, 2000 
Notification of acceptance: May 2nd, 2000 
Camera-ready paper due: June 15th, 2000 
Deadline for proposals(of Other Submissions): October 15th, 1999 
Proposal acceptance: October 30th, 1999 
  
Overview 
The Euromicro workshop is a forum for interdisciplinary research and practice in computer systems, interfaces, 
architectures and applications. As part of the year 2000 conference in the Netherlands there will be a special session 
looking at . This session is organised as part of the Workshop on Multimedia and Telecommunication. 
  
Background 
The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers, and practitioners working on cooperation, coordination 
and communication in Multimedia Networked Applications and GroupWare. The session serves as a forum enabling 
experience exchange between academia and industry as well as between researchers working in the different 
multimedia and groupware  research branches. 
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 
+ Formal and semi-formal methods for groupware and multimedia  applications modeling and analysis
+ architecture of groupware and multimedia  applications
+ object oriented design and implementation of cooperation and coordination protocols
+ coordination models and applications for CSCW using multimedia applications
+ group membership protocols
+ applications in  Java and CORBA

Queries 
Any questions regarding submissions for this session should be made (ideally via email) to one of the session 
coordinators , but full papers should be sent to the Programme Chair directly (Claude Ghaoui). 
The Call for Papers for the whole workshop can be viewed in pdf format here. 

Submission of Papers 
There is no restriction on the number or type of submissions. For technical papers, both regular papers 
and short contributions are invited. Authors should send their full paper to the Programme 
Chair directly as: 1) a PostScript version by Email, and 2) four copies by Post. The papers 
should not exceed 4000 words and should include an abstract of up to 150 words. The title page 
should be separate and clearly show the name, full mailing address, e-mail and fax number of the 
author to contact, as well as the topic areas of the submitted paper. Papers will be blind-refereed 
by three reviewers who are expert in the domain area. Accepted papers will appear in the 
proceedings which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and be available at the 
conference. Papers exceeding 8 pages will be charged NLG 100 per page in excess. 
The following signed statement should be included on the cover page: "Neither this paper nor 
any version close to it has been or is being offered elsewhere for publication. All necessary 
clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the paper will be 
made available in Camera-ready forms by June 15th, 2000, and it will be personally presented at 
the EUROMICRO 2000 Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting 
author(s) will pre-register for EUROMICRO 2000 before the due date of the Camera-ready 
paper." 

Journal Publication for Best Papers 
In addition, selected best papers will be considered for journal publication. Authors of these papers will be advised 
on submitting extended versions of their originals for this purpose. Journals offered are: 
+ Special issue, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Guest Editor is Claude Ghaoui, 
'Support for Open and Distance Learning on the WWW', Academic Press pub. 
+ Special issue, J. `Digital Creativity', Swets pub. 
+ European J. Engineering Educ. (EJEE), SEFI pub. 
+ J.Interactive Learning Environments, Intellect pub. 
+ International J. of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Springer-Verlag pub. 
+ Real Time Graphics & ACM SIGBIO Newsletters 

Other Submissions  
Special Sessions, Panels, Half-day or 1-day tutorials and Short Courses (90-180 minutes) on 
related topics are welcomed. Companies and students working on Projects of different levels 
(undergrad., postgrad. or industrially-oriented) are invited to participate in a Project Showcase. 
Submission and reviewing will follow the same procedure of the regular papers. Email the 
proposal to the programme chair, including: your submission title and aims, targeted audience, 
your plan of how to make it a success, short CV and full contact address of the proposer (with 
email) and any other supporting information. For special sessions or panels, please include a 
detailed Call for Papers/Participation. 

Keynote Speaker 
Prof. H. Maurer, Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported Media, Technical 
University Graz, Austria. His main research areas are: multimedia systems; E. publishing, Web based 
learning; telematic; computer networks; CAL; computer supported media & social implications. He is 
the author of fourteen books, over 450 scientific contributions and dozens of multimedia products. He is 
the project manager of a number of multimillion-dollar projects. 
(see http://www.iicm.edu/maurer) 

Programme Chair 
Dr Claude Ghaoui 
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, 
Liverpool John Moores University, 
Byrom Street, 
Liverpool L3 3AF 
United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 151 .231 2276 
Fax: +44 151 207 4594 
[email-masked] 

Session Coordinators 
Michel Diaz , Khalil Drira , Thierry Villemur
Communication Tools and Software Group 
LAAS-CNRS 
7, Av. Colonel Roche 
31077 Toulouse Cedex 4 
FRANCE 
e-mail: [email-masked] ,  [email-masked] ,  [email-masked] 
Tel: +33 5 61 33 62 56 / +33 5 61 33 63 22 / +33 5 61 33 69 55
Fax: +33 5 61 33 64 11 

General Information 
The workshop is an integral part of the EUROMICRO 2000 conference. 
UPDATED INFORMATION 
See the EUROMICRO WWW : http://www.euromicro.org