Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, but hard copy submissions will be accepted.

Any questions concerning hard copy submission or any other issues may be directed to wace@mcs.anl.gov

Notification of acceptance:
Postponed

Final manuscript due:
Postponed

PUBLICATION
The workshop proceedings will be published and distributed at the conference.

GENERAL CHAIR
Ivan Judson, ANL/MSU

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ronald Tobias, MSU
Terry Beaubois, MSU
Jason van Eaton, MSR
Mark Hereld, ANL/UC
Luc Renanbot, UIC
Dave Morin, Facebook
Carolina Cruz-Niera, UofL
Richard Anderson, UW
Bruno Raffin, INRIA
GeeBum Koo, KISTI

STEERING COMMITTEE
Jason Leigh, UIC
Todd Needham, Microsoft Research
Michael E. Papka, ANL/UC
Rick Stevens, ANL/UC

Big Ideas in Big Sky Country

The Seventh Annual Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments will focus on the research, technological, and social effects of collaboration technology on science and academia.
This year WACE will be held in Bozeman, Montana; the goal of this workshop is to provide an open, technical forum to discuss high-end, high-value solutions for supporting scientific, engineering or humanities collaborations. When developing position papers, baseline assumptions about the evolution of future computing technologies (for example, networking, computing, storage, and displays) useful for collaboration environments should be taken into account. The workshop intends to look at future-generation systems and their effects on specific communities of users. For example, the following future infrastructure predictions are likely to affect collaboration systems:

• Widespread deployment of high performance networking
• Continued increases in computing power available both to end-users and through high-end computing facilities
• Expanding needs and abilities to store, curate and retrieve large volumes of data
• Increasing availability of large, high-resolution displays
• Broad adoption of mobile computing devices
• Application of new types of instrumentation, such as sensor networks

Position papers are being solicited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• High-end, high-value solutions collaboration technologies
• New ideas and concepts for advanced collaboration environments
• Removal of barriers to more rapid adoption of high-end technologies
• Roadmaps for development of high-end collaborative technologies
• Tools for monitoring and evaluating the performance of collaborations
• Software for advanced collaboration environments
• Applications of collaborative technologies in science, engineering, the humanities, and education

Overall registration for the workshop will be limited to 75 participants.

Sponsored by:
Futures Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory
The Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Montana State University, Bozeman

For comments or questions regarding WACE project,
feel free to contact wace@mcs.anl.gov.