[fa.arpa-bboard] Call for papers OIS-86

arpa-bboard@ucbvax.ARPA (08/13/85)

From: Carl Hewitt <Hewitt@MIT-XX.ARPA>

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        *                CALL FOR PAPERS                     *
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        *             THIRD ACM CONFERENCE ON                *
        *       OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: OIS-86           *
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        *                October 6-8, 1986                   *
        *               Biltmore Plaza Hotel                 *
        *                  Providence, RI                    *
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General Chair:  Carl Hewitt,              Program Chair:  Stanley Zdonik,
                MIT                                       Brown University

Treasurer:  Gerald Barber,                Local Arrangements: Andrea Skarra,
            Gold Hill Computers                               Brown University

An interdisciplinary conference on issues relating to office
information systems sponsored by ACM/SIGOA in cooperation with Brown
University and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Submissions from the following fields are solicited:

Anthropology                           Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Science                      Computer Science
Economics                              Management Science
Psychology                             Sociology

Topics appropriate for this conference include (but are not restricted
to) the following:

Technologies including Display, Voice, Telecommunications, Print, etc.

Human Interfaces                
                                  Deployment and Evaluation
System Design and Construction
                                  Goals and Values
Knowledge Bases and Reasoning
                                  Distributed Services and Applications
Indicators and Models
                                  Needs and Organizational Factors
Impact of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Unpublished papers of up to 5000 words (20 double-spaced pages) are
sought.  The first page of each paper must include the following
information: title, the author's name, affiliations, complete mailing
address, telephone number and electronic mail address where
applicable, a maximum 150-words abstract of the paper, and up to five
keywords (important for the correct classification of the paper).  If
there are multiple authors, please indicate who will present the paper
at OIS-86 if the paper is accepted.  Proceeedings will be distributed
at the conference and will later be available from ACM.  Selected
papers will be published in the ACM Transactions on Office Information
Systems.

Please send eight (8) copies of the paper to:

       Prof. Stan Zdonick
       OIS-86 Program Chair
       Computer Science Department
       Brown University
       P.O. Box 1910
       Providence, RI  02912

DIRECT INQUIRIES TO:   Rita Desormeau   (401) 863-3302

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                            IMPORTANT DATES

     Deadline for Paper Submission:                   February 1, 1986
     Notification of Acceptance:                      April 30, 1986
     Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copy:            July 1, 1986
     Conference Dates:                                October 6-8, 1986


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