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Call for Papers  Theme: Collaborative
Internet Learning Hong Kong, China, 12 Dec.
2004 Held in conjunction with ISPA
04 Organized by Department of
Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cic2004 |
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Organizing Committee General Chair Stephen Chan, HK PolyU, HK Program Co-chairs Vincent Ng, HK PolyU, HK Edward Ho, HK PolyU, HK Local Arrangement Chair Allan Wong, HK PolyU, HK Publication Chair Alvin Chan, HK PolyU, HK Publicity Chair Hareton Leung, HK PolyU, HK  Important Dates Paper submission due: 24 Sept. 2004 Acceptance notification: 30 Oct. 2004 Camera ready due: 22 Nov. 2004 |
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. |
The topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
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* Evaluation Methodologies |
* Agents and Brokers for Cooperative
Computing |
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* Pedagogical Theories for CIL |
* Human-Computer Interaction for
Cooperation |
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* Interaction Models and Protocols for CIL
Systems |
* Cooperative Information System
Architectures |
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* Innovative and Emergent CIL Applications |
* Internet Communication Infrastructure for
Collaboration |
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* Interoperability of CIL Systems |
* Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided
Manufacturing |
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* Case Studies of CIL Systems |
* Workflow Systems |
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* Mobile Collaborative Learning |
* Distributed Multimedia Systems |
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* Enterprise Knowledge Management |
* Computer-Supported Cooperative Work |
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* Middleware for Collaborative Learning
Systems |
* Java, CORBA, DCOM, and XML Cooperative
Application |
Submission guidelines:
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Email your submission to: cic2004@comp.polyu.edu.hk. Submissions
may be in PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format, and should include an abstract,
key words, and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The paper
should not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures. Hard copies will be
accepted only if electronic submission is not possible. One author of each
accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the workshop. |