**ACE-grid** Personal Invitation to join the Scientific Committee for the IADIS International Conference on Collaborative Technologies 2010

[Nik Bessis]

********* Invitation to join the Scientific Committee *************

To register your interest and become a member of the committee, email
the Programme Chair at: nik.bessis at 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.html
 
(a formal IADIS website will be made available soon)

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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 at beds.ac.uk)

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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