Dear colleagues,

we have decided to extend the deadline for the International Workshop on
Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments to the
*23rd of April 2007, 5pm GMT* and to slightly revise the call. Authors
of accepted short as well as full papers will be invited to give a talk
and we have introduced a new submission category of abstracts of around 
300 words for poster presentations.

Please find below the revised call for papers. You can find details
about the event at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/768 and a PDF
version of the call as well as further information at
http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/VREs_meet_CWEs_Workshop_Wiki

Best wishes,

Alex

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Revised Call for Papers for an
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International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and
Collaborative Work Environments
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To be held at the e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, UK
on the 23rd and 24th of May 2007

Organisers:
Alex Voss, Rob Procter (NCeSS, University of Manchester, UK)
Tom Rodden (University of Nottingham, UK)
Steffen Budweg, Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
Malcolm Atkinson (e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, UK)

Contact: Alex Voss, National Centre for e-Social Science, University of
Manchester, Dover Street, Manchester M13 9PL, +44 161 275 1384,
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For information on this event please visit the event webpage at
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/768 and for further information an a
PDF version of this call http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/VREs_meet_CWEs_Workshop_Wiki


Workshop Aims
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the
areas of virtual research environments (VREs) and collaborative work
environments (CWEs). Both concepts are characterised as providing
consistent and dependable work environments for particular kinds of work
organisation, emphasising the dynamic establishment of collaborative
work contexts between independent partners. Further aspects such as the
mobility of work activities and requirements such as security and
confidentiality also play a role in both concepts. Despite these
similarities, it would seem that the development of research programmes
and the establishment of research communities within these fields has to
date progressed independently. As a consequence, there is a danger of
wasteful duplication of effort, conceptual divergence and technical
incompatibility. The workshop’s aim is to address these concerns by
soliciting contributions from the research community dealing with topics
such as:

* common standards, specifications and technologies
* architectural styles and frameworks
* development methodologies and user-designer relations
* supporting research communities and eProfessional networks
* computer supported cooperative work and workplace studies

Both experience reports and conceptual papers are welcome but we would
ask authors of either type of contribution to deal with the relationship
between VREs and CWEs by considering issues such as:

* What is the common ground and what are the differences?
* How can experiences gained in one field be translated to the other?
* How can both VREs and CWEs be built on the basis of technical
foundations that are in alignment with each other and with wider
technical developments?
* What can both communities learn from previous work in, for example,
the areas of computer supported cooperative work, software engineering,
  participatory design and virtual organisations?
* How can a research programme be founded and a community established
that exploits the synergies between two strands of work?

Please note that we adopt the terminology used in the JISC VRE programme
here but are aware of the use of different terminology, e.g., in the US
(cybernenvironments, science gateways) and we explicitly wish to invite
wider international participation.

Submissions
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Submissions should be emailed as PDF files to [log in to unmask]
before 5pm GMT on the 23rd of April 2007. They should be formatted
according to the style guidelines of the ACM Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems, which are available at
http://www.chi2007.org/submit/archiveformat.php. We would like to invite
both full papers of up to 10 pages and short papers of 4 pages. In
addition, we would like to invite abstracts of about 300 words for
posters to be presented at the workshop.

All submissions will be reviewed by a programme committee drawn from
internationally recognised researchers in the area of e-Research,
Collaborative Work Environments, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and
Workplace Studies. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to
give a presentation at the workshop and authors of accepted abstracts
will have the opportunity to present a poster.

Both full and short papers will be compiled into workshop proceedings
which will be made available together with a workshop report as a UK
e-Science Technical Report and published through the National e-Science
Centre’s website at http://www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/uk.html

We expect that this workshop will lead to a special issue in an
appropriate journal such as the Journal of Computer Supported
Cooperative Work or Future Generation Computer Systems.

Workshop Timeline
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The workshop is being organised by the e-Science Institute (eSI) in
Edinburgh through its thematic programme on Adoption of e-Research
Technologies.

22.02.2007      Publication of the Call for Papers, registration opens
30.03.2007      Publication of the revised Call for Papers
23.04.2007      Extended Deadline for Submissions
30.04.2007      Notification of Acceptance
16.05.2007      Registration closes
23.-24.05.2007  Workshop at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh

There will be a registration fee of £70 to cover coffee and lunch as
well as the workshop dinner. Speakers’ registration fees will be paid by
the e-Science Institute.

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Alexander Voss, Research Associate
National Centre for e-Social Science
University of Manchester
Phone: +44 161 275 1384
Phone @ eSI: +44 131 651 4041
Email: [log in to unmask]
Homepage: http://www.alexandervoss.de