Workday on collaboration, coordination and ad-hoc processes at HP Labs, Dec 6th

I'm taking a break from posting about INFORMS (which still I feel is great - more about it later) to publicize a workday that some colleagues and I are organizing.

We call it COCOA 2010: Workday on collaboration, coordination and ad-hoc processes. We'll get together at HP Labs Palo Alto on Monday, Dec 6th - just before ICSOC begins in San Francisco, and taking advantage that quite a few of the experts from the service oriented computing side are going to be in town for that.

We are asking prospective participants to send us a position papers on topics that range from traditional CSCW and BPM related themes to groupware and adaptive case management. More details at the COCOA website that Hamid has put up.

Way to run a conference

I might reconsider this by the end of the INFORM annual meeting (actually by the time I leave on Tue), but this is a pretty interesting way to run a conference. The selection was just made based on the submission of an abstract. I have no sense for how many abstracts were accepted vs. submitted, but I've been really impressed so far with the quality of the presentations. Maybe we should leave all that lengthy peer review process for journals...

INFORMS 2010 annual meeting

I'm at the INFORMS 2010 meeting in Austin, TX. First time I attend, this is huge. There are up to 70 (!) parallel sessions at any time. It's a little overwhelming actually.