From: raghu@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Raghu Karinthi)
Subject: Call for Papers on Enabling Technologies for Concurrent Engineering
Date: 2 Dec 91 23:36:42 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Dec2.233642.16112@tss.com>


Crossposted from news.announce.conferences.  

[MODERATOR'S NOTE: I believe this is the future of our field. -- Bob Jacobson]


Call for Papers on Enabling Technologies for Concurrent Engineering
 Co-Chairs: 	Prof. Ramana Reddy (Concurrent Engineering Research Center)
		Prof. Ed Haug (U. of Iowa)


CE & CALS conference in Washington June 1992 is planning a special
track devoted to the enabling technolgies for Concurrent Engineering.
Extended abstracts (no more than 3000 words) reporting original research,
design and development, and applications of Enabling Technologies for
Concurrent Engineering are sought immediately in the following areas:

Virtual Team Support Environments
Information Sharing in Disutributed Systems
	Enterprise modeling
	Integration of heterogenous and legacy databases
	Remote Information Access
Project and Team Coordination
	Requirements, Constraints, Workflow Tracking and management tools
	Tools for Design Assessment
Networked Colocation
   Tools for multi-media conferencing and Local, Wide Area and ISDN Networks
   Distributed Computing Environment and Directory services
Corporate Memory
   Capturing design intent and intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge
Enterprise Integration Frameworks

Deadlines

Four (4) Copies of a 250-word  Abstract         Dec 15, 1991
Four (4) Copies of the Extended Abstract	Jan 15, 1992
Notification of Decisions			March 15, 1992
Final Version of the Manuscript		        April 15, 1992
Date of Conference				June 1-5 1992

Send Submissions and Questions Regarding the Enabling Technologies Track to:

R. Karinthi
Drawer 2000
Concurrent Engineering Research Center
West Virginia University
955 Hartman Run Road
Morgantown, WV 26505
Ph: 304-293-7226
Fax: 304-293-7541
Email: cecals@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu