The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

(SMC 2008)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Special Session(s) on Role-Based Collaboration

October 12-15, 2008

Suntec Singapore, International Convention and Exhibition Centre

 

Paper Submission Deadline: March 16, 2008

 

Role-Based Collaboration is an emerging methodology to facilitate an organizational structure, provide orderly system behaviour, and consolidate system security for both human and non-human entities that collaborate and coordinate their activities with or within systems.  Role-Based Collaboration Sessions (Workshops) have been organized for 8 times since its inaugural session in 2003 in Washington D.C.  The sessions are becoming a regular event organized by the Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC).   

The concept of role has been adapted from diverse fields including behavioural science, management, sociology, and psychology.  Distributed system architectures have utilized roles to anthropomorphize software agents and systems so they can integrate and interact more seamlessly with their human counterparts.  By providing role conceptualizations we can improve complex system understanding and management by providing the end user a modelled environment they are more accustomed, resembling, objects and activities they are exposed to daily like authority and organizational structures, responsibilities, functions and interactions between peers and management. 

As in the human world where roles are used everyday, ambiguities and conflicts occur, thus necessitating clear role specifications, definitions and conflict resolution mechanisms to provide proper and efficient collaboration.  These same issues arise in multi-agent and distributed intelligent systems, even more so when humans are included, and hence require related effective software collaboration algorithms, techniques, and tools for the implementation of a well organized system. 

This session will present techniques, methodologies, and architectures focusing on issues inherent to implementing Role-Based Collaboration for specific environments.  Collaborative Systems mentioned here include Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Groupware, Group Support Systems (GSS), Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), Social Computing Systems, Workflow Systems, Distributed Intelligent Systems, and Collaborative Games.  

Topics of Interest

Solicited topics should address roles and include, but are not limited to:


Roles in General

§         Fundamental concepts of roles

§         Role specification, expression, presentation and management

§         Role relationship

§         Role transfer

§         Frameworks for role-based systems

§         Applications of role-based approaches

 

Management

§         Roles in organizations and management

§         Role-based coordination

§         Role-based organization

§         Role-based process management

§         Role-based personal Information management

§         Roles in emergency management systems

 

Intelligent Systems

§         Roles in multi-agent systems

§         Role-based interaction

§         Role-based learning and reasoning

§         Role-based autonomic computing

§         Role-based game design

Software Engineering and programming

§         Roles as models

§         Roles as services

§         Roles as programming components

§         Role-based software development

§         Role-based analysis

§         Role-based architecture and design

§         Role-based programming

§         Role-based testing

§         Role-based trusted systems

§         Software development as role-based collaboration

§         Visualization of role-based collaboration

E-Learning

§         Role-based e-learning systems

§         Role-based adaptive e-learning systems

§         Role-based intelligent tutoring systems

§         Role analysis in collaborative learning environments

§         Student and tutor role playing in e-learning environments

§         Role bases in e-learning systems: theory and technology

CSCW and HCI

§         Human-factors related to roles

§         Role-based user interface design

§         Role-based conflict resolution

§         Role-based information sharing

§         Role-based view sharing

§         Roles in social computing systems

§         Evaluation of role-based collaboration


 

Important Dates:

§          March 16, 2008:   Deadline for submission of papers

§          May 15, 2008:       Notification of acceptance

§          June 30, 2008:      Submission of final camera-ready papers

 

Submission of Papers:

Use the link http://www.smc2008.org/special-session/ to submit your paper to the special session on Role-Based Collaboration.

Organizer:

 


Haibin Zhu

Ming Hou

Weiming Shen

Department of Computer Science and Mathematics

Defence R&D Canada

 

Nipissing University, 100 College Drive

Department of National Defence Canada

National Research Council of Canada

North Bay, ON P1B8L7, Canada

1133 Sheppard Ave West

Toronto ON M3M 3B9 Canada

London, Ontario, N6G 4X8, Canada

email: haibinz@nipissingu.ca

email: Ming.Hou@drdc-rddc.gc.ca

email: Weiming.Shen@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

URL: http://www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/haibinz/

URL: http://www.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/

URL: http://www.engga.uwo.ca/cdsgroup/people/wshen/

 

Proposed Session Paper Reviewers:

Gail-Joon Ahn                            UNC Charlotte, USA

Giacomo Cabri                          Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Luca Ferrari                              Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Keith Harrison-Broninski             Role Modellers Ltd, UK

Stephan Herrmann                     Technical University Berlin, Germany

Zhiqiu Huang                             Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Xueqing Li                                 Shandong University, China

James Odell                              James Odell Associates, USA

Shinksuke Tamura                     Fukui University, Japan

Shaohua Teng                           Guangdong University of Technology, China  

Bin Xu                                       Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

Murray Turoff                             New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Yu Zhang                                  Trinity University, USA

MengChu Zhou                          New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA