CALL  FOR  PARTICIPATION
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The Fifth International Workshop on Collaborative Editing

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/ignat/ECSCW03CEW/

ECSCW 2003, Helsinki, Finland
September 15, 2003

We invite you to participate in the Fifth International Workshop on
Collaborative Editing. The workshop will be organised in a manner
designed to encourage the interaction and the exchange of ideas among
the participants. Besides paper presentations, a time slot was allocated
to open discussion forum and system demonstrations.

You can register for the workshop at the web site of the ECSCW 2003
http://ecscw2003.oulu.fi/

WORKSHOP  PROGRAM
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Opening, 8.50am to 9:00am

Session I - Consistency Maintenance in Collaborative Editing, 9:00am to
10:30am
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- A Regional Undo Mechanism for Text Editing
   Rui Li and Du Li, Texas A&M University, USA

- Grouping/Ungrouping in Graphical Collaborative Editing Systems
  Claudia-Lavinia Ignat and Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

- Semantic Consistency for Collaborative Systems
   Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Molli and Gerald Ostér, LORIA, France

Break, 10:30am to 11:00am

Session II - Architectures and Technologies used in Collaborative
Editing Systems, 11:00am to 12:30pm
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- Using Database Management Systems for Collaborative Text Editing
   Thomas B. Hodel, Marco Dubacher and Klaus R. Dittrich, University of
Zurich, Switzerland

- Computer Supported Collaborative Editing System with Speech
Recognition Functionality
   Jianshe Zhai and Liyi Wang, University of Science and Technology
Nanjing, China

- Developing Collaborative Editing Applications using Web Services
   Muhammad Younas and Rahat Iqbal, Coventry University, UK

Lunch, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Session III - Practical Applications of Collaborative Systems, 2:00pm to
3:00pm
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- Aladin: an Information System for Process-centered Cooperative Editing

   Giuseppe Psaila, University of Bergamo, Italy

- A Practical Solution to the Integration of Collaborative Applications
in Academic Environment
   Rahat Iqbal and Anne James, Coventry University, UK

Session IV - System Demonstrations, 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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Break, 3:30pm to 4:00pm

Session V - Brainstorming Session, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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- Key Issues in Collaborative Editing


INTENDED  PARTICIPANTS
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various
backgrounds having interest in collaborative editing. We invite
participation of experts in the area of distributed computing,
information systems, human-computer interaction, and social science.
Furthermore, we also encourage participation from users who are in need
of large systems offering facilities for collaborative editing to
discuss their requirements.

ORGANIZERS
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Jeffrey D. Campbell, UMBC, USA
David Chen, Griffith University, Australia
Clarence (Skip) Ellis, University of Colorado, USA
Claudia Ignat,  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Du Li, Texas A&M University, USA
Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Matthias Ressel, UBS AG, Basel, Switzerland
Chengzheng Sun, Griffith University, Australia