From: "Stephen C. Hayne" Subject: CFP: GROUP'97 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:16:19 -0700 Message-ID: I hope the community of "collaborative" systems will find this of interest! Preliminary Call for Papers GROUP `97 International Conference on Supporting Group Work "The Integration Challenge" November 16-19, 1997 Phoenix, Arizona USA "http://www.acm.org/sigois/group97.html" GROUP `97 is interested in topics related to computer-based systems which have an impact on groups, organizations and social networks. A strong emphasis of GROUP `97 is the integration of multiple computer-based tools and technologies. Relevant issues include design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, methodologies, and effect of these systems. In the last few years, the functionality and applicability of systems for supporting group work has expanded, leading to their growing application to organizational information, communication, and cooperation processes. This provides opportunities to study their technical and social impacts. Often the integration of new technology with existing or new organizational practices is very challenging. The knowledge gained from such experiences is a valuable resource for all those who plan to, or have integrated computer-based tools for the support of group interaction. At the same time we observe a growing influence of the Internet, mobile computing, agent systems, ubiquitous computing, and virtual reality. We can expect that these new technologies will also exert a large influence on group/organizational structures and processes. These new technologies are exciting in their own right, but their technological and organizational integration to support groups raises many interesting questions and is a challenging new research agenda. GROUP '97 addresses the integration challenge in two tracks: a Social Impacts Track to address organizational and behavioral issues and a Technical Track to address modeling and implementation issues. It brings together researchers and practitioners from different areas working on the development, introduction, management, deployment, and analysis of computer-based systems supporting group work within organizations. We particularly encourage submissions and participation from industry. Social Impacts Track: * Experiences with the application of computing systems for the support of group or organizational processes * Strategies experiences with business process re-engineering in combination with the application of computing systems * Social impact of re-engineering and the introduction of computing system= s * Workflow systems, models, theory, and applications * Understanding and modeling groups or organizations and their processes= * Organizational computing and the Internet * Strategies and solutions for the combination/integration of the emerging Internet business * Socio-technical systems analysis * Ramifications of the mobile office * Social aspects of globally distributed computing and group work * The effects of new technologies on group work * Measurement-based approaches to organizational analysis Technical Track: * Organizational computing systems and infrastructure * New groupware solutions and technologies * Computer supported collaboration and negotiation * Coordination and workflow technology * Cooperative knowledge management and organizational or group memory * Application of the Internet/Intranet for the support of organizational and group procedures * WWW as a means for the collection, management, and distribution of knowledge in Intranets * New technologies for the support of groups, e.g., agent technology, ubiquitous computing, virtual reality * Object and database models or systems for the support of groups * Multimedia information storage, retrieval, and communications * Human-computer interaction aspects of groups * Social networks and virtual communities Each track of the conference has a program chair and program committee. Submissions to the conference can be in the form of papers, demonstrations, panels, workshops, or tutorials. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Press conference proceedings. GROUP '97 is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Special Interest Group on Office Information Systems (SIGOIS). For membership information call +1 212-626-0500, email to acmhelp@acm.org or see SIGOIS. This conference builds on the tradition of COOCS, while recognizing change of mission and name of SIGOIS to SIGGROUP. Submissions due:May 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance:June 30,1997 Camera ready paper due:August 25, 1997 Conference dates: November 16-19, 1997 General Conference Co-Chairs: Stephen C. Hayne Arizona State University West School of Management 4701 West Thunderbird Road Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100, USA hayne@asu.edu +1 602-543-6256 Wolfgang Prinz GMD-FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology Schlo=E1 Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany wolfgang.prinz@gmd.de +49 2241 14-2730/2717 Social Track Program Chair: Kjeld Schmidt Systems Analysis Dept. Risoe National Laboratory DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark kjeld.schmidt@risoe.dk Phone: (+45) 4677 5146 Fax: (+45) 4675 5170 Technical Track Program Chair: Mark Pendergast Business Faculty Washington State University 100 Sprout Rd Richland, WA 99352 MOP@BETA.TRICITY.WSU.EDU Phone: (509) 372-7359 Fax: (509) 372-7100 -- Stephen C. Hayne, Assistant Professor, MIS, Arizona State University West __!__ (602)543-6256 (w) (602)543-6221 (f) (602)863-2496 (h) _____(_)_____ "I love to fly - my banker will verify." C210 N9734X "http://www.west.asu.edu/hayne" hayne@asu.edu