WACC '99 Early Registration Deadline

        ** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 1999 **

                  International Joint Conference on
          Work Activities Coordination and Collaboration
                            (WACC '99)

                      February 22-25, 1999

                      Cathedral Hill Hotel
                  San Francisco, California, USA

                http://www.cs.colorado.edu/wacc99/

   ** Hotel reservations made after JANUARY 28, 1999 will be **
    ** accepted on a rate available, space available basis. **

WACC '99 brings together researchers and practitioners from a variety
of disciplines who are addressing or facing issues in work activities
coordination and collaboration.  Various aspects of this topic have
been addressed previously under the separate banners of workflow,
software process, groupware, and computer-supported cooperative work.
WACC '99 provides a multi-purpose forum for the presentation,
discussion, and demonstration of key ideas in this important area.

Keynote Address
===============
 . Managing Processes in the Networked Economy 
   Thomas W. Malone, MIT Sloan School of Management

Technical Program
=================
 . Twenty-four technical papers presenting novel research results and
   valuable experiences

 . Panels, invited talks, and posters

Tutorials
=========
 . CSCW, Groupware and Workflow: Experiences, State of the Art, and
   Future Trends

 . Internet Scale Workflow: Standards for Cross-Enterprise Business
   Processes

 . XML: Modeling Data and Metadata

Workshops 
=========
 . Cross-Organizational Workflow Management and Coordination
   http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~hlu/WACCworkshop/

 . Implementing Tailorability in Groupware
   http://www11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/workshops/wacc99-ws-impltailor/


                Sponsored by ACM Special Interest Groups
                  SIGCHI - SIGGROUP - SIGMOD - SIGSOFT

   In cooperation with the International Software Process Association
  In association with the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering

GENERAL CHAIR
Richard N. Taylor, University of California

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, MCC
Wolfgang Prinz, GMD-FIT
Alexander L. Wolf, University of Colorado

STEERING COMMITTEE
Alfonso Fuggetta, Politecnico di Milano
Raul Medina-Mora, Action Technologies
Marek Rusinkeiwicz, MCC
Amit Sheth (Chair), University of Georgia

TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Rebecca E. Grinter, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

INDUSTRIAL LIAISON
Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett Packard Labs

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Karl Aberer, GMD-IPSI, Germany
Gustavo Alonso, ETH, Switzerland
Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland
Christoph Bussler, Boeing, USA
Andrzej Cichocki, MCC, USA
Jonathan Cook, New Mexico State University, USA
Giorgio De Michelis, University of Milano, Italy
Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Jacky Estublier, University of Grenoble, France
Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK
Alfonso Fuggetta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jonathan Grudin, University of California, USA
Volker Gruhn, University of Dortmund, Germany
Nuno Guimaraes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Tomoo Inoue, Keio University, Japan
Krys Kochut, University of Georgia, USA
Allan MacLean, Xerox Research Centre Europe, UK
Leon Osterweil, University of Massachusetts, USA
Thomas Rodden, Lancaster University, UK
Yvonne Rogers, Sussex University, UK
Hans Schlichter, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Kjeld Schmidt, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Lucy Suchman, Xerox PARC, USA
Keith Swenson, MS2, Inc., USA
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece
Gerhard Weikum, University of the Saarland, Germany
Terry Winograd, Stanford University, USA

Received on Wednesday, 20 January 1999 15:04:14 UTC