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Theme
Large companies
increasingly need geographically distributed product development:
products are built up from components developed by teams dispersed
in different cities or countries, and possibly in different time
zones. Frequently, information is relocated within this
geographically distributed system according to rules that are
only seldom defined as a well-codified business process. This
creates a need for a software infrastructure that enables seamless
distributed retrieval as well as support for cooperative work
on such artifacts.
The latest trends in communication
technology and mobile computing allow people to move across organization
units and collaborate with others in various branches of the company.
The ability to query the company's distributed knowledge base
and to cooperate with co-workers is still a requirement, but mobility
brings new access scenarios and higher complexity:
How to enable users to retain
their ability to cooperate while displaced in a different point
of the enterprise? What is the role of context and location in
determining how cooperation can be carried out? How to provide
support for ad-hoc cooperation in situations where the fixed network
infrastructure is absent or cannot be used?
Still, software architectures
for such mobile cooperative communities must support the fundamental
requirements for distributed cooperation: efficient information
sharing across a widely distributed enterprise environment; constant
and timely update of the distributed knowledge base with many
different sites acting both as potential users and potential providers
of information; shared access to different, integrated manufacturing
engineering services.
The approaches and technologies
for supporting these new ways of work are still the subject of
research. Nevertheless, they are likely to "borrow" concepts and
technologies from a variety of fields, like event-based systems,
mobile computing, mobile code and mobile agents, software architecture,
distributed database systems, and so on. A particularly interesting
line of research is exploring a peer-to-peer paradigm enriched
with sharing abstractions in which each network node is both a
potential user and provided of information for the rest of the
community.
Mobile
Teamwork 2002 intends to bring together researchers
and practitioners to discuss the key issues, approaches, open
problems, innovative applications, and trends in this research
area. The program committee seeks position
papers, high quality technical
papers, and experience reports
for this workshop. A specific session of the workshop will be
dedicated to tool
demonstrations of prototype tools
of some of the accepted papers.
Topics include, but not are
limited to:
- Teamwork
support services and protocols
- Middleware
for mobile teamwork support
- Distributed
resource management
- Information
distribution paradigms
- Coordination
models and systems for mobile teamwork
- Peer-to-peer
document sharing architectures
- Information
tailoring and filtering
- Device-independent
data & service access
- Ad
hoc and virtual communities
- Mobile
collaboration systems
Organization
Program
Committee Co-Chairs
Harald
Gall, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
gall@infosys.tuwien.ac.at
Gian
Pietro Picco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
picco@elet.polimi.it
MOTION
Advisory Board
Mehdi
Jazayeri, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Carlo
Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marco
Boero, Softeco Sismat, Italy
Mikko
Tarkiainen, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Program
Committee
Christoph
Bussler, Oracle Corporation, USA
Gianpaolo
Cugola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Schahram
Dustdar, Caramba Labs Software AG, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang
Emmerich, University College London, UK
Li
Gong, Sun Microsystems Palo Alto, USA
Manfred
Hauswirth, École Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Paola
Inverardi, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy
Engin
Kirda, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Gabriele
Kotsis, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration,
Austria
Ivan
Marsic, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA
Cecilia
Mascolo, University College London, UK
Nenad
Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
Amy
L. Murphy, University of Rochester, USA
Wolfgang
Prinz, Fraunhofer Institut FIT, Germany
Claudio
Riva, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Richard
N. Taylor, University of California, Irvine, USA
Sponsors
The workshop is organized
as a dissemination activity of the European IST-Programme MOTION
project (MObile Teamwork Infrastructure for Organisations Networks)
with the goal of fostering the exchange of ideas and results
between the project consortium and other research groups working
in this field. The workshop is hence supported by: European
Commission CEC, Framework V Information Society Technologies
Programme (IST), Key Action II New Methods of Work and eCommerce
IST Project MOTION (MObile Teamwork Infrastructure for Organisations
Networks), IST Project, IST-1999-11400.
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