6. WETICE 1997: Cambridge, MA, USA

Workshop on Information Infrastructure for Global and Virtual Environments

• Peter Bertók:
  Introduction. 2
  
• Michael Berger, Hubertus Hohl, A. Jarczyk, Birgit Otto, M. Schneider, Gerd Völksen:
  CoNus: Workspace-based Intuitive Collaboration in Virtual Enterprises. 3-9
  
• Jeff Heckel:
  The Virtual Workspace System (VWS): An Enabling Technology for Collaborating Engineering Applications. 10-16
  
• Jan Øyvind Aagedal, Jon Oldevik:
  DEM: A Data Exchange Facility for Virtual Enterprises. 17-23
  

Product Design

• Mark Klein:
  Capturing Geometry Rationale for Collaborative Design. 24-28
  
• Max Blair, Steven R. LeClair, Jeffrey V. Zweber, Adel Chemaly:
  MultiDisciplinary Design for Uninhabited Air Vehicles. 29-35
  

Enabling Technology

• Mihai Barbuceanu, Rune Teigen, Mark S. Fox:
  Agent Based Design and Simulation of Supply Chain Systems. 36-42
  

Databases

• Adrian Kobler, Moira C. Norrie:
  A Product Information System based on an Object-Oriented Internet Database System. 43-48
  
• Giuseppe Iazeolla, Andrea D'Ambrogio:
  A CORBA-based Approach to Design Gateways for Multidatabase Systems. 49-55
  

Team Management

• Chimay J. Anumba, Alistair Duke:
  Internet and Intranet Usage in a Communications Infrastructure for Virtual Construction Project Teams. 56-61
  
• Peter Bertók, Martti Mäntylä, Jim McGovern, George Fernandez:
  Working Group Report on Information Infrastructure for Global and Virtual Enterprises. 62-67
  

Workshop on Collaborative Agents in Distributed Web Applications

• Robert Tolksdorf:
  Introduction. 68
  

Agent Applications

• Debashis Saha, Anantha Chandrakasan:
  A Framework for Distributed Web-based Microsystem Design. 69-74
  
• R. K. Aditham, Rajiv Jain, Murali Srinivasan:
  Interest Based Collaboration Framework. 75-81
  

Information Agent

• David Derbyshire, Innes A. Ferguson, Jörg P. Müller, Markus Pischel, Michael Wooldridge:
  Agent-Based Digital Libraries: Driving the Information Economy. 82-86
  
• Keith L. Clark, Vasilios S. Lazarou:
  A Multi-Agent System for Distributed Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web. 87-93
  

Web Agent Technology

• Stefan Fünfrocken:
  How to Integrate Mobile Agents into Web Servers. 94-99
  
• T. Goddard, Vaidy S. Sunderam:
  WebVector: Agents with URLs. 100-105
  
• Paul Tarau, Verónica Dahl, Koenraad De Bosschere:
  A Logic Programming Infrastructure for Remote Execution, Mobile Code and Agents. 106-112
  

Coordination Mechanisms

• Paolo Ciancarini, A. Fantini, Davide Rossi:
  A Multi-Agent Process Centered Environment Integrated with the WWW. 113-120
  
• Robert Tolksdorf:
  Coordinating Java Agents with Multiple Coordination Language on the Berlinda Platform. 121-126
  
• Antony I. T. Rowstron, Sheng Feng Li, R. Stefanova:
  C2AS: A System Supporting Distributed Web Applications Composed of Collaborating Agents. 127-132
  
• Robert Tolksdorf, Ted Goddard, Muralidharan Srinivasan, Stefan Fünfrocken, Michael Schroeder:
  Working Group Report on Collaborative Agents in Distributed Web Applications. 133-138
  

Workshop on Distributed System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality

• Michael V. Capps, P. David Stotts:
  Introduction. 139
  
• Richard C. Waters, David B. Anderson, Derek L. Schwenke:
  Design of the Interactive Sharing Transfer Protocol. 140-147
  
• Tapas K. Das, Gurminder Singh, Alex Mitchell, P. Senthil Kumar, Kevin McGee:
  Developing Social Virtual Worlds using NetEffect. 148-154
  
• Michael Rowley:
  Distributing MOO-Based Shared Worlds. 155-160
  
• David J. Roberts, Paul M. Sharkey:
  Maximising Concurrency and Scalability in a Consistent, Causal, Distributed Virtual Reality System Whilst Minimising the Effect of Network Delays. 161-166
  
• Donald J. Welch, James M. Purtilo:
  Domain-Driven Reconfiguration in Collaborative Virtual Environments. 167-172
  
• Michel Soto, Sébastien Allongue:
  A Semantic Approach of Virtual Worlds Interoperability. 173-178
  
• Donald P. Brutzman, Michael Zyda, Kent Watsen, Michael R. Macedonia:
  Virtual Reality Transfer Protocol (VRTP) Design Rationale. 179-186
  
• Michael V. Capps, Seth J. Teller:
  Communication Visibility in Shared Virtual Worlds. 187-192
  
• Chris Greenhalgh, Steve Benford:
  Boundaries, Awareness and Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments. 193-198
  
• Wolfgang Broll:
  Bringing People Together-An Infrastructure for Shared Virtual Worlds on the Internet. 199-204
  
• Michael V. Capps, P. David Stotts:
  Research Issues in Developing Networked Virtual Realities: Working Group Report on Distributed System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality. 205-212
  

Workshop on Enterprise Security

• Yahya Y. Al-Salqan:
  Introduction. 213
  
• B. J. Desind, T. M. Sharick, J. P. Long, B. J. Wood:
  Development of a Public Key Infrastructure across Multiple Enterprises. 214-219
  
• James Coyle, James Demerest, Richard McAllister:
  A Proposed Security Management Framework for the Global Information Community. 220-227
  
• Yung-Kao Hsu, Stephen P. Seymour:
  Intranet Security Framework based on Short-Lived Certificates. 228-234
  

Security for the Internet/Web

• Atsushi Inoue, Masahiro Ishiyama, Atsushi Fukumoto, Toshio Okamoto:
  Secure Mobile IP using IP Security Primitives. 235-241
  
• Jatin N. Hansoty, Mladen A. Vouk, Shyhtsun Felix Wu:
  LAVA: Secure Delegation of Mobile Applets: Design, Implementation, and Applications. 242-247
  
• David P. Jablon:
  Extended Password Key Exchange Protocols Immune to Dictionary Attacks. 248-255
  
• Mourad Debbabi, Mohamed Mejri, Nadia Tawbi, I. Yahmadi:
  From Protocol Specifications to Flaws and Attack Scenarios: An Automatic and Formal Algorithm. 256-262
  

Secure Collaboration Environments

• Ravi Raman, V. Jagannathan, Y. V. Ramana Reddy:
  Secure Collaboration Technology for Healthcare Enterprises. 263-268
  
• Rohit Valia, Yahya Y. Al-Salqan:
  Secure Workflow Environment. 269-276
  
• Qun Zhong:
  Providing Secure Environments for Untrusted Network Applications. 277-284
  

Role-Based Access Control

• Marta Teresa Acevedo, David Fillingham, John Lucas Nicolettos:
  Enterprise Security Applications of Partition Rule Based Access Control (PRBAC). 285-292
  
• Mark Vandenwauver, René Govaerts, Joos Vandewalle:
  How Role Based Access Control is Implemented in SESAME. 293-298
  
• Mats Gustafsson, Benoit Deligny, Nahid Shahmehri:
  Using NFS to Implement Role-Based Access Control. 299-304
  
• Barbara C. Davis, Tatu Ylönen:
  Working Group Report on Internet/Intranet Security. 305-308
  
• Barbara C. Davis, Bradley J. Wood:
  Working Group Report on Building Secure Knowledge Systems. 309-312
  

Workshop on Distance Learning

• Shuichi Fukuda:
  Introduction. 313
  

Experiences

• Simeon J. Simoff, Mary Lou Maher:
  Web Mediated Design Courses: Challenges and Realities in Teaching Electronic Collaboration. 314-319
  
• Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Alaa Youssef, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Maly, C. Michael Overstreet:
  Reliability, Scalability and Robustness Issues in IRI*. 320-326
  

Learning Environments

• Hany H. Ammar, AbdulMobeen Mohammad, Osama Abdalla, Kankanahalli Srinivas:
  Process-Centered Environments for Web-Based Instructional Modules. 327-332
  
• Margaret Driscoll, Ronnie Thomson:
  The Web as a Learning Environment. 333-340
  

Collaborative Learning

• Katrin Franze, Olaf Neumann, Alexander Schill, Sandra Stocker:
  An Infrastructure for Collaborative Teleteaching. 341-346
  
• Shuichi Fukuda, Yoshifusa Matsuura:
  Distance Skill Learning with Special Attention Paid to the Nonverbal Aspect . 347-352
  
• Shuichi Fukuda:
  Working Group Report on Distance Learning. 353-354