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Third International Workshop on
Cooperative Internet Computing
(CIC 2004)
December 12, 2004
Hong Kong, China
held in conjunction with ISPA'04
Organized by Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
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Cooperative
computing aims at enabling different parties to work together towards a
pre-defined non-trivial goal. In the past few years, the prosperity of
cooperative computing has been accelerated by the ubiquity of the Internet
and the advent of wireless technologies, giving rise to the new research
discipline of Collaborative Internet Computing (CIC). At the same time, we
have also witnessed an enormous leap in communication speed/bandwidth.
This has opened up a wide range of new cooperative applications that were
not feasible in the past.
One
of the emergent applications is Collaborative
Internet Learning (CIL). In recent years, online education has
become more and more popular, where the Internet has become a platform for
delivering various kinds of courses. Traditional approaches, however,
provide a passive and unidirectional learning environment only.
Pedagogical studies have revealed that they may not yield the best
learning outcome. Recently, researchers have advocated the use of
collaborative learning, whereby students work together as a small group
toward a common goal, like co-authoring a report or finishing a graphics
design work. A critical success factor of collaborative learning is
whether the students can interact freely, efficiently, and ubiquitously,
so as to coordinate, plan, and help each other. Toward the aim of
enhancing learning efficiency, CIC can contribute to the provision of a
reliable, efficient, and accessible application middleware platform that
can facilitate interaction between the students. With the huge market
potential of online education, driven by the move of the world towards a
knowledge-based community, we envision CIL to be one of the main foci of
research of cooperative computing in the years to come. Therefore,
stemming on the success of the previous two workshops on CIC, we organize
the third CIC workshop, with a theme on CIL. The one-day workshop will
feature papers on both the theoretical and technological aspects of CIC as
well as their applications to CIL. |
