Subject: Call for Participation: ACM Siggroup 2001 Conference Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:55:45 -0700 From: Ilze Zigurs Dear IS colleagues, apologies for cross-posting, but if you haven't seen this announcement already, please check us out! The GROUP 2001 conference is seeking to broaden participation by folks interested in collaboration technology, so if your interests are in this area, please consider submitting a paper and/or attending. ----------------------------------------------------- GROUP 2001 International Conference on Supporting Group Work September 30 - October 3, 2001 Boulder, Colorado, USA Sponsor: ACM SIGGROUP Submission deadline: February 7, 2001 Conference Web Site: http://www.acm.org/siggroup/conferences/group01 GROUP 2001 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in topics related to computer-based systems which have an impact on groups, organizations and social networks. Relevant issues include design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, methodologies, and effect of these systems. In the last few years, the functionality and applicability of systems for supporting group work has expanded, leading to their growing application to organizational information, communication, and cooperation processes. This provides opportunities to study their technical and social impacts. Often the integration of new technology with existing or new organizational practices is very challenging. The knowledge gained from such experiences is a valuable resource for all those who plan to, or have integrated computer-based tools for the support of group interaction. At the same time we observe a growing influence of the Internet, mobile computing, agent systems, ubiquitous computing, and virtual reality. We can expect that these new technologies will also exert a large influence on group/organizational structures and processes. These new technologies are exciting in their own right, but their technological and organizational integration to support groups raises many interesting questions and is a challenging new research agenda. GROUP 2001 attempts to integrate two themes of research: the organizational and behavioral issues and the modeling or implementation issues associated with group work. GROUP 2001 brings together researchers and practitioners from different areas working on the development, introduction, management, deployment, and analysis of computer-based systems supporting group work within organizations. We particularly encourage submissions and participation from industry. Social Impacts Issues: Experiences with the application of computing systems for the support of group or organizational processes Strategies experiences with business process re-engineering in combination with the application of computing systems Social impact of re-engineering and the introduction of computing systems Workflow systems, models, theory, and applications Understanding and modeling groups or organizations and their processes Organizational computing and the Internet Strategies and solutions for the combination/integration of the emerging Internet business Socio-technical systems analysis Ramifications of the mobile office Social aspects of globally distributed computing and group work The effects of new technologies on group work Measurement-based approaches to organizational analysis Technical Implementation Issues: Organizational computing systems and infrastructure New groupware solutions and technologies Computer supported collaboration and negotiation Coordination and workflow technology Cooperative knowledge management and organizational or group memory Application of the Internet/Intranet for the support of organizational and group procedures WWW as a means for the collection, management, and distribution of knowledge in Intranets New technologies for the support of groups, e.g., agent technology, ubiquitous computing, virtual reality Object and database models or systems for the support of groups Multimedia information storage, retrieval, and communications Human-computer interaction aspects of groups Social networks and virtual communities GROUP 2001 is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work (SIGGROUP). For more information go to the website: http://www.acm.org/ Submission categories Papers Paper submission on original research or industrial papers on any of the conference topics are invited. Research papers should make clear the novel aspects of the work they present, and their contribution to the development of system for supporting groups, organizations or social networks. Industrial papers should describe technical or key business issues in applying group technology. All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Press conference proceedings. Each submission should have a cover page containing: title, authors, postal and electronic addresses of the contact author. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (2 columns, single spaces, 10pt Times Roman). We anticipate using a web-based review system - please look at the web site for details starting June, 2000. Workshops Workshops provide an informal and focused environment for the information exchange and discussion of Group related topics. A workshop proposal should contain a title, aim and objective, intended participants, description of the proposers (maximum of 3 pages). Furthermore specify the maximum number of participants, duration (half-day/full-day) and the technical equipment needed. Workshop organizers are requested to provide a short presentation on the discussions and outcome of their workshop in a special session of the conference. Workshops will take place on Sunday, September 30, 2001. Tutorials The tutorial program will offer the opportunity to learn about concepts, methods, systems, and techniques for specific aspects of supporting group work. Experts on any field of the conference scope are encouraged to submit a tutorial proposal. The proposal should contain a title, aim and objectives, content outline, intended audience and description of the qualification and expertise of the instructors (maximum 3 pages). Furthermore specify the maximum number of participants, duration (half-day, full-day) and the technical equipment needed. Tutorials will take place on Sunday, September 30, 2001. Conference Chair: Professor Clarence (Skip) Ellis Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Campus Box 430 Boulder, CO 80309-0430 USA Phone: 303-492-5984 Email: Skip@Colorado.edu Program Co-Chairs: Professor Tom Rodden Computing Department Faculty of Applied Sciences Lancaster University Lancaster, UK LA1 4YR Email: TAM@comp.lancs.ac.uk Professor Ilze Zigurs College of Business and Administration Campus Box 419 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0419 USA Email: Zigurs@Colorado.edu