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*Call for Papers/Participation WISE Workshop on Web-Based Collaborative Editing Systems (The Second International Workshop on Collaborative Editing Systems) http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lidu/iwces2/ In conjunction with The 1st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2000) ( http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~wise2000/ ) Hong Kong, China, June 18, 2000 *Description Collaborative editing (CE) is an important topic in the area of computer supported collaborative work (CSCW). Collaborative editing systems (CES) allow multiple users to edit the same set of documents collaboratively over the computer networks synchronously or asynchronously. Traditional topics include the design and implementation of multi-user text file editors and graphics editors (e.g. whiteboard). Other document types such as image, multimedia, hypertext, hypermedia are emerging as the target of group editing in recent years. Applications of CES can be widely found in teleconferencing, distance learning, collaborative authoring, collaborative CAD/CASE, and so forth. As a special type of distributed systems, CESs inherit many technical challenges which have been actively addressed in the literature of distributed computing and database systems. However, due to the omnipresence of human factors, CESs present a unique set of problems and issues not addressed in traditional distributed systems and single-user interactive applications. For example, high responsiveness is expected by a user when he or she is performing local operations. Timely propagation of user operations across computer networks promotes mutual awareness of users and user activities. A CES not only needs to maintain consistency across different sites but also needs to take into account the original user intentions i.e. the context of operations. As a collaborative editing session scales up from LAN to the Internet, those problems aggravate due to the non-negligible network latencies. Algorithms and techniques (e.g. transformation, multi-versioning, optional locking) proposed in CESs can also bring new insights into the design of other distributed applications, e.g., Internet-based multi-player games, collaborative virtual environments, mobile computing, etc. *Participants We invite researchers and practicioners from different areas such as distributed computing, human-computer interaction, and CSCW in general. Researchers with experience in designing, implementing, or intensive using group editors are especially encouraged to participate. One author of each accepted paper is expected to give a 30-minute presentation. To promote more indepth discussion in one day, the number of participants is expected to be less than 20. *Submissions We invite submissions which address issues related to collaborative editing, especially web-based collaborative editing systems. Interesting topics include but are not limited to the following: - Collaborative text/graphics/image/multimedia/hypertext editors - Collaborative CAD/CASE, documentation, debugging, database design, etc. - Application of group editing techniques and algorithms in distributed applications - Usability study of group editors and human factors Each participant is encouraged to submit a paper. Short position papers should be no longer than four pages and regular papers be eight pages. Submissions should be sent to Du Li ([log in to unmask]) or David Chen ([log in to unmask]). Electronic copies should be sent by email in MS Word, PDF, Postscript, or HTML format. Hard copies can be sent to the the mailing addresses of Du Li or David Chen as indicated above. *Important dates Submission Due: March 15, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2000 Workshop: Hong Kong, China, June 18, 2000 *URLs Web site of this workshop (IWCES-2): http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lidu/iwces2/ Web site of previous workshop (IWCES-1): http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~scz/sigce/conferences/group99ws.html Web site of SIGCE (An International Special Interest Group on Collaborative Editing) http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~scz/sigce/ The First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2000) http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~wise2000/ *Organizing Committee Du Li (Program Chair, primary contact) Computer Science Department University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA Email: [log in to unmask] David Chen (Program Co-Chair) School of Computing & Information Technology Griffith University Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia Email: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Clarence (Skip) A. Ellis Department of Computer Science University of Colorado, Boulder Email: [log in to unmask] Dr. Chengzheng Sun School of Computing & Information Technology Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Email: [log in to unmask] Dr. Matthias Ressel Advanced Engineering Center UBS AG, Basel, Switzerland. Email: [log in to unmask] Dr. Yanchun Zhang (general chair of WISE'2000) Department of Mathematics and Computing University of Southern Queensland, Australia Email: [log in to unmask] Dr. Hiroyuki Tarumi Dept. of Social Informatics Kyoto University, Japan Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%