Hewitt@MIT-MC.ARPA (01/22/86)
Because of the delay in the distribution of the call for papers for OIS-86 in the Newsletter, we have decided to postpone the deadline for paper submission from February 1 to March 1, 1986 in order to satisfy the requirements for broad distribution of the call. Enclosed please find the call for papers which reflects this change: ******************* C A L L F O R P A P E R S * * ---------------------------------------------- * * Third ACM Conference On * * OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS * OIS-86 * * * October 6-8, 1986 * * Biltmore Plaza Hotel * * Providence, RI ******************* ---------------------------------------------- General Chair: Carl Hewitt, Topics appropriate for this MIT conference include (but are not restricted to) the following as Program Chair: Stanley Zdonik, they relate to OIS: Brown University Technologies including Display, Treasurer: Gerald Barber, Voice, Telecommunications, Print, Gold Hill Computers etc. Local Arrangements: Andrea Skarra, Human Interfaces Brown University Deployment and Evaluation An interdisciplinary conference on issues relating to office System Design and Construction information systems (OIS) sponsored by ACM/SIGOIS in cooperation with Goals and Values Brown University and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Distributed Services and Submissions from the following Applications fields are solicited: Knowledge Bases and Reasoning Anthropology Artificial Intelligence Distributed Services and Cognitive Science Applications Computer Science Economics Indicators and Models Management Science Psychology Needs and Organizational Factors Sociology Impact of Computer Integrated Manufacturing The program committee includes: Bob Allen Ray Panko Bellcore University of Hawaii Guiseppe Attardi Robert Rosin University of Pisa Syntrex James Bair Erik Sandewall Hewlett Packard Linkoping University Gerald Barber Walt Scacci Gold Hill Computers USC Peter de Jong Andrea Skarra MIT Brown University Irene Greif Susan Leigh Star MIT Tremont Research Institute Sidney Harris Luc Steels Georgia State University University of Brussels Carl Hewitt Sigfried Treu MIT University of Pittsburgh Heinz Klein Dionysis Tsichritzis SUNY University of Geneva Fred Lochovsky Eleanor Wynn University of Toronto Brandon Interscience Fanya Montalvo Aki Yonezawa MIT Tokyo Institute of Technology Naja Naffah Stanley Zdonik Bull Transac Brown University Margrethe Olson NYU Professor J.C.R. Licklider of MIT will be the keynote speaker. 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-word 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 (which must arrive by March 1, 1986) to: Prof. Stan Zdonik OIS-86 Program Chair Computer Science Department Brown University P.O. Box 1910 Providence, RI 02912 DIRECT INQUIRIES TO: Margaret H. Franchi (401) 863-1839. ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Paper Submission (postponed 1 mo.) March 1, 1986 Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1986 Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copy: July 1, 1986 Conference Dates: October 6-8, 1986 ======================================================================