Fw: Workshop on Role-Based Collaboration (RBC 2008)/CTS 2008

Fri Nov 16 17:31:25 CST 2007

Dear Adam,

Thank you for passing this interesting stuff on.

I think this use of role theory is one where the role is first described 
and delineated, perhaps in a larger organisational structure and then a 
living breathing person is expected to take up that role. While it uses the 
terms role it bears an almost opposite relationship to how roles are worked 
with and taught in Australia and New Zealand. But hey! Moreno  was only one 
of a school of role theorists and this is clearly from one of the other 
schools. And I think ANZ people have significantly progressed the usage of 
role and role language and theory into a more applicable and usable and 
human friendly process that aims to expand both the people using the role 
language and the conceptualisations of the person being considered through 
a role theory framework.

The workshop uses what I think of as wonderfully robotic conceptualisation 
of humans as though being more IT and less human would make life easier. If 
I was going to submit a paper I would be alerting this group to the danger 
when describing roles first - the danger of reducing a p[erson down to 
their role. So I use the term Role for a designated role and role for an 
enacted role to describe my meaning. If I am given a Role in an 
organisation then the way I enact that role will be unique to me. How I 
enact the role of taking up the designated Role may not look like anything 
to do with a role. Lets say the designated role is Clear Concise Leader. 
And that will usually have reams of definitions. But when I come to enact 
that Role the role I am in could be anything - maybe more of an 
obsequiousness crawler  or  perhaps and overbearing bastard or then again I 
could enact the Role as a friendly beach comber or painful mischief maker. 
And these roles that I am putting words to are not designated Roles of some 
type. They would simply be a description of what I would look like to 
others as I enacted the Role.

This idea that is very prevalent in organisations around here and over 
there, according to the US books I read on the subject, treat humans still 
as cogs in a machine - albeit a more sophisticated version of a machine 
these days - adding in IT frames etc. Treating a person as a cog is 
displayed when there is a description of a job and a person is put into the 
description and, in my view, unrealistically, expected to perform as that 
Role. Much like all people are interchangeable, like cogs. Over here it is 
especially evident when an organisational change is scheduled and it comes 
in between one day and the next - and everyone in the organisation is 
expected to simply adjust themselves to the 'new' organisation. Not 
surprisingly this rarely is successful.

Thanks again for keeping up with these other organisations. The 
International Drama Education and Arts mobs do a lot of role training, 
sociodrama, and simulation stuff in thier conferences. I will check it out. 
I first ran groups for men with disabilities when I kicked off running groups.

Cheers

Peter Howie
Brisbane, Australia

At 10:57 AM 11/16/2007 -0600, you wrote:
> From what I can gather, this uses role theory in the sense of functions 
> within complex systems---often computer and technological rather than 
> psychotherapeutic or even sociometric.
>       I have other priorities, but if you know anyone who might be 
> interested, I'm passing this along. Sincerely, Adam Blatner
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Haibin Zhu" <haibinz at nipissingu.ca>
>To: <roles at nipissingu.ca>
>Cc: <smari at arys.org>
>Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 10:10 AM
>Subject: Workshop on Role-Based Collaboration (RBC 2008)/CTS 2008
>
>
>>Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>Please find the attached CFP for the Workshop on Role-Based Collaboration 
>>(RBC 2008)/CTS 2008.
>>You are more than welcome to distribute this CFP.
>>
>>PS. I establish the group email based on my research on RBC, I beleive 
>>you are interested in this topic. If you hope not to be included in this 
>>group email, please let me know.
>>
>>I appologize for those receiving duplicate CFPs.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>Haibin
>>
>>--------------
>>Haibin Zhu, PhD
>>Associate Professor
>>Department of Computer Science and Mathematics,
>>Nipissing University
>>100 College Drive, Box 5002,
>>North Bay, ON P1B 8L7 Canada
>>Tel : (705)474-3461 ext 4434
>>Fax: (705)474-1947
>>Email: haibinz at nipissingu.ca
>>URL: http://www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/haibinz/
>>---------------------------
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>>
>>The 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and 
>>Systems(CTS 2008)
>>
>>CALL FOR PAPERS
>>
>>Workshop on Role-Based Collaboration (RBC 2008)
>>May 19-23, 2008
>>The Hyatt Regency Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
>>
>>Submission Deadline: January 7, 2008
>>
>>Workshop Theme
>>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 7 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) and the 
>>ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
>>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.
>>The workshop 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
>>ï‚§ Fundamental concepts of roles
>>ï‚§ Role specification, expression, presentation and management
>>ï‚§ Role relationship
>>ï‚§ Role transfer
>>ï‚§ Frameworks for role-based systems
>>ï‚§ Applications of role-based approaches
>>
>>Management
>>ï‚§ Roles in organizations and management
>>ï‚§ Role-based coordination
>>ï‚§ Role-based organization
>>ï‚§ Role-based process management
>>ï‚§ Role-based personal Information management
>>ï‚§ Roles in emergency management systems
>>
>>Intelligent Systems
>>ï‚§ Roles in multi-agent systems
>>ï‚§ Role-based interaction
>>ï‚§ Role-based learning and reasoning
>>ï‚§ Role-based autonomic computing
>>ï‚§ Role-based game design
>>Software Engineering and programming
>>ï‚§ Roles as models
>>ï‚§ Roles as services
>>ï‚§ Roles as programming components
>>ï‚§ Role-based software development
>>ï‚§ Role-based analysis
>>ï‚§ Role-based architecture and design
>>ï‚§ Role-based programming
>>ï‚§ Role-based testing
>>ï‚§ Role-based trusted systems
>>ï‚§ Software development as role-based collaboration
>>ï‚§ Visualization of role-based collaboration
>>
>>CSCW and HCI
>>ï‚§ Human-factors related to roles
>>ï‚§ Role-based user interface design
>>ï‚§ Role-based conflict resolution
>>ï‚§ Role-based information sharing
>>ï‚§ Role-based view sharing
>>ï‚§ Roles in social computing systems
>>ï‚§ Evaluation of role-based collaboration
>>
>>Important Dates:
>>ï‚§ Jan. 7, 2008: Deadline for submission of papers
>>ï‚§ Feb. 8, 2008: Notification of acceptance
>>ï‚§ March 3, 2008: Submission of final camera-ready papers
>>
>>
>>Submission of Papers:
>>Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent directly to 
>>roles at nipissingu.ca.  Paper reception will be acknowledged by e-mail 
>>within 2 days.
>>The format should be compliant with and follows the CTS 2008 format 
>>(instructions available at http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/).  Papers drafts 
>>submitted for review should not exceed 10 pages.  Some papers can be 
>>accepted as short papers, with a total length reduced to 5 pages.  If 
>>accepted, the final manuscript must follow the CTS 2008 format that is to 
>>be made available on the conference Web site.  The format is similar to 
>>IEEE conference formats.
>>Submissions should include the title, authors name, affiliation, e-mail 
>>address, fax number and postal address.  In case of multiple authors, an 
>>indication of which author is responsible for correspondence should also 
>>be included.
>>All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program 
>>committee members and the reviewers they invite. Papers will be selected 
>>based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and 
>>clarity of presentation.
>>Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to 
>>register and present the paper, once accepted.  All accepted papers are 
>>required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings.
>>If you have questions regarding workshop paper submission or the workshop 
>>content, please contact the workshop organizer.
>>
>>
>>Organizer:
>>
>>
>>Haibin Zhu
>>Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
>>Nipissing University, 100 College Drive
>>North Bay, ON P1B8L7, Canada
>>email: haibinz at nipissingu.ca
>>
>>URL: http://www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/haibinz/
>>
>>
>>
>>Workshop Program Committee:
>>Gail-Joon Ahn UNC Charlotte, USA
>>Kenneth Astley Loughborough University, UK
>>Giacomo Cabri UniversitÃ  di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
>>James O. Coplien Nordija A/S, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
>>Luca Ferrari UniversitÃ  di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
>>Bill Gruver Intelligent Robotics Corp., Canada
>>Keith Harrison-Broninski Role Modellers Ltd, UK
>>Ming Hou Defense Research and Development Canada, Canada
>>Zhiqiu Huang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
>>Stephan Herrmann Technical University Berlin, Germany
>>Kiran K. Garimella Software AG, USA
>>Xueqing Li Shandong University, China
>>Qi Luo Wuhan Institute of Technology, China
>>James Odell James Odell Associates, USA
>>Shinksuke Tamura Fukui University, Japan
>>Murray Turoff New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
>>Yan Xiao University of Maryland, USA
>>Bin Xu Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
>>Yu Zhang Trinity University, USA
>>MengChu Zhou New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
>>
>>
>>For information or questions about the full Symposium's program, 
>>tutorials, exhibits, demos, panel and special sessions organization, 
>>please consult the conference web site at URL: 
>>http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ or contact the symposium co-chairs: Bill 
>>McQuay at AFRL/IFSD, WPAFB (William.McQuay at wpafb.af.mil) or Waleed W. 
>>Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of 
>>Dayton (Waleed.Smari at notes.udayton.edu).
>
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