Federated Event 2002: Call for Case Study, Best Practice, and Industry Vision Reports

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    Call for CASE STUDY, BEST PRACTICE and INDUSTRY VISION REPORTS 
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                     COMMON INDUSTRY PROGRAM
     Federated event co-locating the three international conferences 
             DOA'02: Distributed Objects and Applications 
         ODBASE'02: Ontologies, Databases and Applied Semantics 
              CoopIS'02: Cooperative Information Systems 
     under the joint motto 
          "On the Road towards More Meaningful Internet Systems"

              October 30 - November 1, Irvine, California 
             Home Page: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf


The common Industry Program Board of the Federated Conferences Event
is specifically soliciting reports on relevant case studies, intended
to cover industry practice related to the subjects treated by these
conferences, which straddle the intersection of distributed computing,
databases, cooperative systems as their respective technologies and
methodologies become applied in the context of the internet and
semantic web.
  
Selected case study reports will be presented in a separate Industry
Program targeted at audiences interested in practical experience, best
practices and corporate strategy related to all aspects of distributed
internet- and intranet-based computing. These attendees will have a
uniquely easy opportunity to access presentations in the scientific
program as well as the keynote talks of all three conferences.
  
The program committees of DOA'02, ODBASE'02 and CoopIS'02 meanwhile
are proud to announce that more than 320 scientific papers have been
submitted for review, selection and eventual presentation in the three
Scientific Programs in Irvine. This selection process is currently
under way and will result in approximately 75 papers for publication
in the conference proceedings. We can be certain of a very high
quality technical program that will be a correct and comprehensive
representation of the state of the art!
           
The following well-known speakers have already agreed to deliver a
keynote address to the joint events:
Michael Brodie, Verizon 
Christoph Bussler, Oracle 
Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam

Several other equally representative candidate keynote speakers have
been approached and will be announced in the coming weeks. The
federated conferences aspire to be the prime defining event in
combining distributed computing's infrastructure, tools and
applications in organizations.

Submission format and subject: 
All case study reports or vision papers must be electronically
submitted, using the appropriate format and exclusively via the
conference website:

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/industry/2002/papers/submit/.

We envisage these will typically be 2-3 pages long, but should anyway
be limited to 6 pages, and must be relevant to the conferences'
subjects, and describe past, ongoing, or planned work in sufficient
detail and context to allow discussion with a wider audience (no
brochure material!)
           
Submission Deadline:
All submissions must be received by Monday September 2, 2002 midnight
Pacific Time. This is a firm deadline. To be able to submit a text, a
prior abstract must be filed on the above site by August 26, 2002
(this filing will issue a login and password for your final
submission).
           
Selection process: 
The Industry Program Board will inspect proposed contributions for
their relevance and general interest to the intended audience. The
availability of program slots is however limited. The resulting
selection will be communicated to submitters by email by September 16
or 17 depending on time zone.
           
Case Study Publication and Presentation:
Selected case study and vision paper authors will be required to
register for the conference and guarantee presentation of their
submission for wide discussion (single Industry Program track,
parallel only with the scientific program). Presented reports will be
printed and distributed at the event. Negotiations are under way with
an electronic journal publisher to publish a selection of "best
papers" (as decided by the Irvine attendees) for wider
distribution. Presenters will be responsible for production and
distribution of their own presentation material (e.g. copies of
PowerPoint slides) should they choose to do this.
           
Industry Program Board:

         Robert Meersman (VU Brussels, Belgium) (co-Chair) 
         Michael Brodie (Verizon Information Technology, USA) (co-Chair) 
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         Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden RC, USA) 
         Jurgen Angele (ontoprise GmbH, Germany) 
         Sean Baker (IONA, Ireland) 
         Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs, USA) 
         Christoph Bussler (Oracle Corporation, USA) 
         Mike Carey (BEA Systems, USA) 
         Roberto Cencioni (European Commission, Luxemburg) 
         Werner Ceusters (Language&Computing, Belgium) 
         Francesco Danza (KnowledgeStones SpA, Italy) 
         John Davies (British Telecom, UK) 
         Umeshwar Dayal (HP Labs, USA) 
         Uwe Deppisch (Dresdner Bank, Germany) 
         Pat Hallock (InConcept, USA) 
         Terry Halpin (Microsoft, USA) 
         Meichun Hsu (Commerce One, USA) 
         Dean Jacobs (BEA Systems, USA) 
         Ramesh Jain (Praja Inc, USA) 
         Mario Jeckle (DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany) 
         Vishu Krishnamurthy (Oracle Corporation, USA) 
         Alain Leger (France Telecom, France) 
         Frank Leymann (IBM Deutschland GmbH, Germany) 
         Ashok Malhotra (Microsoft, USA) 
         Tony Mejlaq (ComTel, Malta) 
         Jim Miller (Microsoft, USA) 
         Zhijing "George" Mou (Boeing, USA) 
         Joerg Muller (Siemens, Germany) 
         Anil Nori (Asera, USA) 
         Andreas Persidis (Biovista Inc, Greece and USA) 
         Francesco Pititto (Versant Italia, Italy) 
         Ulrich Reimer (Swiss Life, Switzerland) 
         Antonio Sanfilippo (SRA International, USA) 
         Andrea Servida (European Commission, Belgium) 
         David Sharp (Boeing, USA) 
         Richard Mark Soley (OMG, USA) 
         Stefan Tai (IBM, USA) 
         Satish R. Thatte (Microsoft, USA) 
         Joachim Thomas (UBS AG, Switzerland) 
         Luk Vervenne (Synergetics, Belgium) 
         Steve Vinoski (IONA, Ireland) 
         Andrew Watson (OMG, USA) 
         Arian Zwegers (BAAN, Netherlands) 

  
For further information, send all correspondence to: 
Prof Dr Robert A Meersman 
VUB STARLab, Dept of Computer Science 
Pleinlaan 2B-1050 Brussels Belgium 
email meersman at vub.ac.be 
fax +32 2 629 2535