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Personal Invitation to join the Scientific Committee for the IADIS International Conference on Collaborative Technologies 2010
by Nik Bessis 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

********* Invitation to join the Scientific Committee ************* To register your interest and become a member of the committee, email the Programme Chair at: nik.bessis(a)beds.ac.uk at your earliest convenience. Please state clearly your affiliation details as you wish them to appear on the conference website. For more information about IADIS see: http://www.iadis.org/ For more information about the Conference see: http://nikbessis.blogspot.com/2009/03/iadis-1st-international-conference-on… (a formal IADIS website will be made available soon) ============================================================================== IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) 1st International Conference on Collaborative Technologies 2010 Rome, Italy, 25th-28th February 2010 (dates to be confirmed) Programme/Conference Chair: Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK (nik.bessis(a)beds.ac.uk) ============================================================================== Conference Background and Goals: The IADIS Collaborative Technologies conference is dedicated to the timely publication of completed and/or work in progress research related contributions to the concepts, theory, modeling, specification, implementation and evaluation of collaborative systems, technologies and their wider applications in the information society. The conference pays particular attention to the ëwiderí dimension as a means to diversify it and broaden the applicability and scope of the current body of knowledge in the area of applied collaborative systems and technologies. Thus, the conference covers both technical and non-technical aspects of the collaborative nature of todayís information society. Although its primary goal is to provide an international forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art practices and empirical research results in collaborative technologies, it also aims prompting future direction for the development of the information society community as a means of promoting and sustaining a network of excellence in the area. Collaborative technologies have been the subject of intense research for many years. It has often been found that the identification and thus, the effective and efficient utilization of available tools and resources are a challenging process, yet frequently a very supportive mechanism for sustaining and creating an advantage within any setting. Computer-based developments over the last four decades have facilitated many organizations and individuals realizing that collaboration is the means for supporting various levels of enquiries including collaborative decision-making. In the last few years, the Internet has revolutionized the way we work and do business. In turn, this has led to an enormous increase in competiveness. In most instances, collaboration is the key to success. Thus, collaborative technologies are now even more important, given the current grand challenges, which among others include e-society, recession, economic stagnation and climate change. Collaborative practices do now requiring further re-thinking and a clear vision towards the identification and utilization of their effective and efficient functioning in the development of todayís information society. Current technologies are now capable of supporting collaborative activities in the cyber-space in a far more advanced manner. This includes enabling the sharing, integration and collaborative use of networked computer-based dispersed resources such as humans, data, application, software, services and hardware. Current synchronous and asynchronous paradigms include but are not limited to web, peer-to-peer, service oriented, grid and next generation technologies. Even though the advantages of these types of evolutionary research are continually acknowledged, it is only recently that the need to appreciate their applicability into the real world of the information society has been realized. During the last decalmost exclusively used these for their own research and development purposes, but lately the focus is clearly shifting to more interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) application domains that are closer to everyday life. These can provide individuals from different organizations and locations with the opportunity for collaboration as a means to help assist diversified progression. As such, the size and complexity of applying collaborative technologies are enormous and thus, there is a particular need to acknowledge research undertaken as a means to broaden the applicability and scope of the current body of knowledge in the area. The IADIS Collaborative Technologies conference provides such a focus for the presentation and dissemination of ongoing and new research results in the area. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Conception, modeling and developments Theory of collaborative distributed systems and technologies such as parallel or integration algorithms, ad-hoc networks, matching, mapping and other novel techniques for the integration, management and interoperability of collaborative environments, software and tools (see below) including distributed data, information, documents, systems, technologies, services, architectures, applications and legacy systems; User, teams, community and organizational needs analysis, process and management modeling techniques, collaborative methods, collaborative science, problem solving, representation techniques such as semiotics, semantics, meta-data, tagging, clouds, ontologies and case studies. * Technical infrastructures Distributed systems and technologies, standardization, network optimization, open architecture, open source systems and technologies, mobile services, concurrency, interoperability, autonomy, heterogeneity, integration, web, web 2.0, peer-to-peer, grid technologies, next generation technologies, cloud computing, service oriented approaches, wireless communications and real time systems; Collaborative systems, systems architecture and design, technologies and applications and their integration methods and tools for performance analysis, verification, testing, and benchmarking and their empirical results. * Environments, tools and software Collaborative working environments, computer support cooperative work, collaborative management tools, tools dynamics, groupware, group decision tools, electronic communication tools, electronic and web conferencing tools, voting tools, web-based collaborative tools, software collaborative tools, knowledge management tools, information management and sharing tools; Online chat, instant messaging, videoconferencing, data conferencing, application sharing, electronic meeting systems, synchronous conferencing, wikis, blogs, web 2.0, middleware, revision control, document management and sharing; Electronic calendars, workflow systems, prediction markets, online spreadsheets, social software; Collaborative learning-work, innovation network, content and enterprise content management systems, massively distributed collaboration, online consultation, virtual office and whiteboard. * Applications User and community led systems and application development, software engineering modeling, architecture, description, deployment, packaging, interfaces and distribution; Applications and system integration solutions in diverse collaborative environments including but not limited to society, education, government, science, engineering, management and business; Applications involving mining, data centers, mashups, intra-/inter- tagging and cloud computing for managing user experience and for integrating linked, streaming, media rich, multimedia, spatial, temporal services and resources; Innovative developments in collaborative distributed environments including design, analysis and implementation of algorithms, programming languages, compilers, software tools and middleware environments, autonomy services, interfaces, scheduling, synchron* Benefits realization and social implications Collaborative strategies, policies and practices for the knowledge transformation in e-society, global economies, developing countries and education; distance learning, comparative analyses; Implications including scientific or business models, human and/or market dynamics influencing decisions and transitions within small and large virtual communities or organizations; Social implications including digital divide, culture creation, effects and impacts on virtual teams or virtual organizations, trust, identity management, security, compliance, policies, quality of service, evaluation and empirical studies. * Grand challenges Advanced collaborative concepts, models, methods, systems, applications and technologies; Advanced and/or innovative paradigms in various collaborative settings including e-society, e-government, e-learning, e-science, e-work, e-commerce, early warning systems, disaster management, geographical information systems, climate change, environmental studies, health and biomedical informatics, visualization systems, computer aided design, forensics, threat detection, transdisciplinary research, cross-organizational, support for vulnerable communities including elderly and impaired users, user interfaces (this is not a comprehensive list). Best regards, Dr Nik Bessis University of Bedfordshire, UK http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/computing/staff/nik-bessis

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