[sem-grd] CFP: Special Session on Collaboration Grids and Community Networks at CTS06

[David De Roure]

This workshop will be of interest to some of you, and in particular
is an excellent opportunity for us to look at the emerging "semantic
collaborative grid" (semantic annotation, social tagging, communities
of practice, ...).  Deadline is Feb 7.

Please circulate the call.  There are other formats available on
http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/cts06/

Thanks

-- Dave


                              CALL FOR PAPERS

       Special Session on Collaboration Grids and Community Networks

             A Joint Call from CTS06 and the Global Grid Forum

     The 2006 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and
                              Systems (CTS06)
                              May 14-17, 2006
                       Luxor Hotel, Resort and Casino
                           Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
             http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/wsmari/cts06/

                   Submission Deadline: February 7, 2006

Brief Description:

This special session on Collaboration Grids and Community Networks -
to be held as an integrated part of the 2006 International Symposium
on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'06) - is a dedicated
session that aims to foster closer interactions among researchers and
users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet
and discuss their ideas. Collaboration is being revolutionized by the
increasing power of communication infrastructure which allows both 
new modes of collaboration and new technologies to support existing
approaches. Traditional central (MCU) approaches to audio-video
conferencing are being challenged by P2P (peer to peer) models like
Skype. Grids are enabling scientific collaboratories that will be
essential for managing the deluge of information coming from sensors
and instruments from the tiniest environmental monitor to distributed
high throughput biological devices and the mammoth CERN LHC and shared
international satellites. Social or community networks are being 
created by intelligent bookmarking tools like del.icio.us and linked 
back to scientific grids by projects like Connotea. Further Wikis 
and collaborative collections of MP3 files point to other models 
of resource sharing. We believe that Collaboration will drive new
approaches to business, science and the harmonizing of civilizations.
Further, it seems likely that we will support multiple modes of
collaboration with multiple technologies. Thus this special session 
of CTS06 will bring together researchers interested in bridging the 
gaps between technologies and applications. We invite original
contributions from researchers in academia and computer industry on
the technology practice and user experience for these emerging and
important areas.

Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

* Technology practice and User experience for Collaboration and
  Community Networks
* Linkage of Grids and P2P systems and other collaboration, resource
  sharing and network building technologies
* Service oriented architectures for Collaboration and Community
  Networks
* Any practice and experience bridging application areas and
  technologies
* The implications of issues like trust and technologies like the
  Semantic Web and Grid
* Digital Libraries and Grids and Community Networks

Instructions for Authors:

Authors are invited to submit 4 page extended abstracts to the special
session organizers by February 7, 2006. Electronic (postscript or pdf)
submissions should be sent to gcf at indiana.edu. All submitted
manuscripts will have at least three reviewers. Include up to 5
keywords and an abstract of no more than 250 words. Submissions should
also include the title, author's name, affiliation, e-mail address, fax
number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, an indication
of which author is responsible for correspondence must be indicated.
If accepted, final manuscript will follow the CTS 2006 format (up to
10 IEEE pages) that will be available on the conference web site. All
such accepted papers will be published as CTS06 papers in the
conference proceedings. We will accept and evaluate late extended
abstracts if there is space available in the session with an absolute
cutoff date of April 1, 2006. Only abstracts submitted by February 7,
2006 can be published in CTS06 proceedings, once accepted. Further,
all session speakers (whether or not they met CTS06 proceedings
deadline) may submit enhanced manuscripts for a refereed special issue
of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience,
with full papers due July 1 2006. Abstracts and Presentations for all
accepted submissions will be made available on both GGF and CTS06 web
sites.

Important Dates:

Extended Abstract Submission Deadline:  February 7, 2006
Notification of Acceptance:             February 15, 2006
Full CTS06 Paper Due:                   March 10, 2006
Journal Special Issue due date:         July 1, 2006

Special Session Organizers:

Dr. Geoffrey Fox
Community Grids Laboratory
Indiana University
501 N. Morton, Suite 224
Bloomington, IN 47404
Email: gcf at indiana.edu 

Dr. Wenjun Wu
Community Grids Laboratory
Indiana University
501 N. Morton, Suite 224
Bloomington, IN 47404
Email:wewu at indiana.edu

Technical Program Committee:

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special
session technical program committee members.

* Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
* Tony Hey, Microsoft
* David De Roure, University of Southampton
* Wenjun Wu, Indiana Universit
* Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Other members of the committee will be announced later

If you have questions regarding session paper submission or the
session content, please contact Geoffrey Fox at gcf at indiana.edu. 

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://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/wsmari/cts06/ 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).