[WISEN] Workshop on Internet Scale Event Notification, July 13-14

[Jim Whitehead <ejw at cloud.ics.uci.edu>]

           Workshop on Internet-Scale Event Notification (WISEN)

                              July 13-14, 1998
                   McDonnell Douglas Auditorium, UC Irvine
                           Irvine, California USA
                     http://www.ics.uci.edu/IRUS/wisen/



WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES & AGENDA

The WISEN workshop will gather participants from industry and academia
who are working on or researching event notification systems or
protocols for use on the Internet. Communities interested in
notification such as web authoring, instant messaging, buddy lists,
workflow, and internet printing should find this workshop highly
relevant.

The goals of the workshop include developing a better understanding
among the different communities of interest, improved definition of
requirements for an event notification service, a better appreciation
of the application domains that will benefit from an event
notification service, deeper understanding of the tradeoffs between
different approaches for providing notification services, and
suggestions for fruitful research directions.

The first day will feature a single track of presentations from invited
speakers. The second day will feature presentations from invited speakers in
the morning, and parallel breakout sessions in the afternoon. The workshop
will end with participants gathering for a summary of the breakout sessions.

Breakout sessions are currently planned on the topics of:

   * What are the requirements for internet scale event notifications?
   * What set of technologies can be leveraged to create an internet-scale
     notification service?
   * What are the scaling factors for internet event notifications?
   * What applications most benefit from an internet notification service?
   * What are the security considerations for notifications?


PRESENTERS

The following individuals will deliver presentations at the workshop:

   * Josh Cohen, Microsoft, joshco at microsoft.com
   * Mark Day, Lotus, mark_day at lotus.com
   * Surendra Reddy, Oracle, skreddy at us.oracle.com
   * Scott Isaacson, Novell, sisaacson at novell.com
   * Jim Randall, Hewlett Packard, jmr at hplb.hpl.hp.com
   * Keith Swenson, Netscape, kswenson at netscape.com
   * Matt Jensen, BLIP, mattj at blip.org
   * John Mathon, TIBCO, mathon at tibco.com
   * Jim Waldo, SMI Software Development, jim.waldo at sun.com 
   * Elisabetta Di Nitto, CEFRIEL-Politecnico di Milano and University of
     California, Irvine, dinitto at ics.uci.edu
   * Simon Kaplan, University of Queensland, Australia,
     s.kaplan at dstc.edu.au 
   * Adam Rifkin, California Institute of Technology, adam at cs.caltech.edu
   * David Rosenblum, University of California, Irvine,
     dsr at ics.uci.edu
   * Steve Reiss, Brown University, spr at cs.brown.edu
   * Michael Gorlick, The Aerospace Corp., gorlick at aero.org
   * Antonio Carzaniga, University of Colorado, Boulder,
     carzanig at cs.colorado.edu


REGISTRATION DETAILS

Participation is strictly limited to 100 participants due to capacity
constraints. Advance registrations are $125 (deadline: June 30);
on-site registrations will only be accepted on a space-available basis
at $175. The fee includes continental breakfast, box lunch, and snacks
for both days as well as a welcome reception on Monday the
13th. Discounts are available to IRUS members and full-time students.

Please consult the workshop web pages <http://www.ics.uci.edu/IRUS/wisen/>
for the latest registration details, hotel information, and the online
registration form.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

  *  Alfonso Fuggetta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, fuggetta at elet.polimi.it
  *  Michael Gorlick, The Aerospace Corp., gorlick at aero.org
  *  Dennis Heimbigner, University of Colorado, Boulder, dennis at cs.colorado.edu
  *  Rohit Khare, University of California, Irvine, rohit at ics.uci.edu
  *  David S. Rosenblum, University of California, Irvine, dsr at ics.uci.edu
  *  Richard N. Taylor, University of California, Irvine, taylor at ics.uci.edu
  *  E. James Whitehead, University of California, Irvine, ejw at ics.uci.edu
  *  Alexander L. Wolf, University of Colorado, Boulder, alw at cs.colorado.edu