Call for Papers - areas of  conference themes

Orignial papers that are not published nor submitted elsewhere are welcome on the following topics. We emphasize the cooperative aspect of all of them but not the disciplines themselves. Please make sure that your paper addresses the cooperative aspect.

Cooperative design (CD)

• Multiple user, multiple location collaborative design applications
• Concurrent design, collaborative editing, real time user interactions
• Demonstrating feasibility and applicability in CD
• Design for total life cycle support: from design to manufacturing or construction
• Cooperative design analysis, verification, integration and interoperability, standards
• Scenarios, case studies of cooperative design in mechanical engineering, aero-space engineering, building architecture, engineering and construction, automobile, microelectronics, software engineering, entertainment and other areas
• Special issues in cooperative design

Cooperative visualization (CV)

• Multiple user, multiple location visualization, concurrent visualization,
• System architecture, prototypes, user interfaces for CV: web applications, textual and multimedia 2D, 3D desktop interfaces, 3D virtual world environments, and multiple user embedded systems.
• Large scale, massive data storage, access, exploration, and manipulation, for cooperative visualization
• Multi-resolution and other efficient computer graphics, visualization algorithms for cooperative visualization
• Visualization in multiple user games, networked games, simulation visualization for multiple users

Cooperative engineering (CE)

• Total life cycle support: from design to manufacturing and construction
• Collaborative process planning, scheduling, control, conformance testing and interoperability checking, cooperative decision making.
• Human-machine interfaces, frameworks, reference models, architectures, tools and systems for CE
• Concurrent prototyping, manufacturing and engineering.
• Concurrent process modeling, product modeling, reference models, business models, data representations and standards.
• Integration and interoperability, intelligent infrastructures and automated methods for integrating systems, multi-level integration, enterprise integration
• Long-term large scale project data archiving, access, concurrent data control for CE
• Industrial scenarios, case studies of CE: in mechanical engineering, aero-space engineering, AEC (architecture, engineering and construction), automobile, microelectronics, and others

Cooperative applications (CA)

• Cooperative learning,
• Multiple user gaming
• Cooperative decision making
• Social networks
• Information integration in sensor networks
• Web based cooperation tools, cooperative web design such as Wiki's
• Other cooperative applications

Basic theories, methods and technologies that support CDVE (BT)

• Distributed systems, grid systems, real time systems, groupwares
• Algorithms, architectures, frameworks, platforms for CDVE
• Data consistency, concurrent processing, middleware, agent based methods
• Collaborative and multimode working environment
• Design patterns, reusability and component-based methods
• Communication, transport, application protocols for CDVE
• Internet computing, web environment for collaborative working
• Knowledge management, information systems, large databases, data-mining
• Ontology for information sharing, cooperative applications
• Security for CDVE
• Human machine interaction for CDVE

Topics NOT on call for papers - why your paper was rejected

• Only design, visualization, engineering and applications themselves NOT cooperative
We emphasize the cooperative aspect of the applications, not themselves.
• Basic therories, methods and applications with no direct relationship with cooperative design, visualization and engineering, nor any cooperative aspects


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