ECSCW09 Interoperability Workshop
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[edit] ECSCW 09 Workshop on Interoperability in CSCW
- Location: ECSCW 2009 in Vienna
- Date: 7-8 September 2009
[edit] Organisers
- Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, RWTH Aachen. Germany
- Antonio Gómez-Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
- Manuel Fradinho, Cyntelix, Ireland
- Deirdre Lee, DERI, NUIG, Galway, Ireland
[edit] Workshop overview
CSCW and groupware research yielded a large number of different systems and different approaches towards the support of cooperative work. However, we still lack an integrated environment that supports all forms of cooperation in a seamless and integrated way. This is supported by the following observations:
- During a cooperation process users are often constrained by a single cooperation application due to the fact that cooperation objects cannot be easily moved from one application to another.
- Users do not separate their cooperation needs into synchronous/asynchronous, or structured, flexible, or semi-structured. Therefore tools that aim at the support of a single cooperation type and that do not consider cooperation as an activity that integrates different types are required.
- Often different companies use different groupware environments. Due to an absence of interoperability standards and implementations, inter-organizational use of these environments becomes impossible. As a result email becomes the primary cooperation media.
These observations indicate the need for research into integrated cooperative work environments. This workshop invites researchers and practitioners to present and discuss interoperability approaches for CSCW applications.
[edit] Who should submit and attend
This full-day workshop will be of interest to researchers, designers and practitioners concerned with collaborative architectures and new approaches to collaboration services and how they can be used in working environments. Participation in the workshop requires the submission of a position paper. Each position paper should address the topic of interoperability for CSCW by presenting an architecture, a concept, or an implementation that illustrates how different CSCW applications can be seamlessly integrated into a collaborative working environment.
These position papers and their presentation provide the baseline for the development of an interoperability map during the workshop. This map will identify the following aspects:
- Basic components and modules of a CSCW application
- Basic services that CSCW applications of a certain type should provide
- Existing and required standards that have already or should be applied when developing CSCW applications
- (Reference-) Architectures for CSCW
- Interoperability applications and implementations
The workshop will be open to a maximum of 15 participants.
[edit] Dissemination
Position papers and workshop outputs will be made available on this site. The contribution of each presentation and position paper will be integrated into an interoperability landscape and architecture that will be published at the workshop website for further dissemination and discussion. A contribution to the OCA reference model will also be considered.
[edit] Submissions
Short position papers (2 pages) should be sent to ecscw09-interop@fit.fraunhofer.de by the 20th June 2009. Acceptance notifications will be sent by 6th July 2009.
