20th WETICE Conference: WETICE-2011
TELECOM SudParis, Paris, France
June 27-29, 2011

http://www.wetice.org

Call for Conference Track Proposals

Proposals for new conference tracks due by Oct 22, 2010.


WETICE is an annual IEEE co-sponsored International Conference on Collaboration
Technologies and Infrastructure with its Proceedings published by the IEEE CS
Press. WETICE-2011 will consist of a number of conference tracks (including a
number of ongoing tracks) on various topics related to collaboration technology.
WETICE conference promotes fruitful discussions on the latest technology
developments, directions, problems, and requirements. Each conference track will
include paper presentations and group discussions. In addition, there will be
keynote sessions and a final joint session to summarize each group?s findings.

* Topics of interest*
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The WETICE 2011 Steering Committee seeks high quality conference track proposals
related to all aspects of Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures. For a
list of ongoing tracks, please visit the WETICE-2011 web site
")http://events.telecom-sudparis.eu/wetice/list_of_tracks/) to avoid duplication.

Topics of interest are to include, but not limited to, the following:

* Collaboration and computing
o Cooperative Computing
o Autonomic computing
o Lightweight collaboration tools for distributed teams

* Collaboration, BPM and SOA
o Service-oriented architectures for collaboration
o Service-oriented architectures for pervasive systems
o Service-oriented architectures for eGovernment
o Workflow Management
o Engineering e-Business technologies

* Collaboration and technologies
o Agents and Multi-agent Systems for Collaboration
o Models and Technologies for Collaboration in Virtual
Environments
o Models and Technologies for handling dynamics and complexity
in complex collaboration

* Collaboration and evaluation
o QoS (quality of service) in collaboration
o QoE (quality of experience) in collaboration
o Benchmarking Collaborative Enterprises

* Collaboration and ontology
o Collaborative Ontology Development
o Developing Process Ontologies for Semantic Web
o Use of Scenarios in Ontology Development
o Incremental Formalization in Ontology Engineering
o Collaboration and Knowledge Management
o Ontologies for collaboration, Collaborative Ontology Development
o Information modeling

* Security Issues in Collaborative Enterprise Technologies

* Collaboration and open source
o Open source mode of collaboration
o Success factors for open source projects

* Collaboration and networks
o Web 2.0
o Crowdsourcing
o Social Networking
o Collective Intelligence
o Inter-Organizational Risk Management
o Geographically Dispersed Outsourcing and Collaboration
o Wireless Grids for Collaboration
o Supporting Mobile and Ubiquitous Collaboration

*Conference tracks* *proposal submission*
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To submit your proposal send an email to wetice@mail.wvu.edu
or to smreddy@mail.wvu.edu
with a two-page description including:

* title and description of the track
* name and contacts of the proposers
* credentials of proposers
* names of prospective program committee members and invited speaker(s)
* relevance to the conference theme
* strategy for recruiting papers
* expected duration of the proposed conference track

The proposals will be reviewed by the WETICE-2011 Steering Committee.

*Tasks of Track Chairs*
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Chairs of accepted tracks will be responsible for the following tasks:

* developing the conference track web site
* soliciting papers
* forming scientific review committee
* coordinating reviews (at least three reviews per paper are required)
* corresponding with the authors and the WETICE organizer
* writing of an introduction to the conference track to be included
in the IEEE proceedings
* conducting the conference track on the days of WETICE

*Important Dates*
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Conference track proposals October 22, 2010
Proposal results November 8, 2010
Track web site with CFP November 15, 2010
Paper submissions deadline March 5, 2011
Decision to paper authors April 4, 2011
Camera Ready papers to IEEE April 29, 2011
WETICE-2011 conference June 27-29, 2011