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Call for Papers
GROUP '99
International Conference on
Supporting Group Work
November 14-17, 1999
Phoenix, Arizona USA
www.acm.org/siggroup/conferences/group99
GROUP '99 is interested in topics related to computer-based systems which have
an impact on groups, organizations and social networks. Relevant issues
include design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, methodology, 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 '99 attempts to integrate two themes of research: the organizational and
behavioral issues and the modeling or implementation issues associated with
group work. GROUP'99 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.
This conference will be a little different than the last conferences. We
intend to have a high-speed connection to the Internet and try to network the
conference rooms with connections for almost every attendee. If you bring
your ethernet connectable laptop (10/100Mb), we will provide a connection. We
anticipate having some local servers available so that presenters can
demonstrate any systems they might have and allow attendees to use those
systems both during and after presentations.
Social Impacts Issues:
* 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 systems
* 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 Implementation Issues:
* 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
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 '99 is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the
Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work (SIGGROUP). For
membership information call +1 212-626-0500, email to [log in to unmask]
Submissions due: May 1, 1999
Notification of acceptance: June 15,1999
Camera ready paper due: August 25, 1999
Conference dates: November 14-17, 1999
General Conference Chair: Stephen C. Hayne
School of Management
Arizona State University West
Phoenix, AZ USA 85069-7100
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International Co-Chairs:
Australia: Simon Kaplan
School of Information Technology
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, Qld 4072, AUSTRALIA
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Europe: Giorgio De Michelis
Department of Computer Science
University of Milano
Milan, Italy
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Program Co-Chairs: Carla Simone
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185 - 10149 Torino (Italy)
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Suzanne Weisband
Department of Management Information Systems
College of Business and Public Administration
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Registration/Treasury Chair: Cathy Beise
Computer Science and Information Systems
Kennesaw State University
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Kennesaw, GA USA 30144
Program Committee:
Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology
Mark Ackerman (University of California, Irvine)
Alessandra Agostini (University of Milano)
Pierre Balthazard (Arizona State University, West)
Liam Bannon (University of Limerick)
Steve Benford (Univ. of Nottingham)
Bjvrn Bengtsson (Umea University, Sweden)
Kelly Burke (California State University, Chico)
Graham Button (Rank Xerox Research Centre)
Laku Chidambaram (University of Indiana)
Katherine Chudoba (University of Virginia)
Monica Divitini, (IDI - University of Trondheim)
Eck Doerry (University of Oregon)
Skip Ellis (University of Colorado)
Pierre Falzon (CNAM-France)
Jorge Haake (GMD Darmstadt)
Christian Heath (King's College, London)
Pam Hinds (Stanford Univ)
Mathias Jarke (Univ of Aachen)
Finn Kensing (Univ. of Roskilde)
Kalle Lyytinen (University of Jyvdskyld)
George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus)
Mark Pendergast (Florida Gulf Coast University)
Wolfgang Prinz (GMD-FIT)
Tom Rodden (University of Lancaster)
John Storck (Boston University)
Susan Straus (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ina Wagner (Technical University, Vienna)
Jacques Wainer (University of Campinas)
Ken Walsh (Louisisana State University)
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Stephen C. Hayne, Assistant Professor, MIS, Arizona State University West
SIGGROUP Secretary/Treasurer and GROUP'97/'99 General Chair
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