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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 --8<-- Revised Call for Papers for an ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Virtual Research Environments and Collaborative Work Environments ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, [log in to unmask] 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 ------------- 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 ----------- 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 ----------------- 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. -- 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