Programme/Conference Chair:
Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK (email: nik.bessis@beds.ac.uk)
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1st International Conference on Collaborative Technologies, IADIS, 26-28 July 2010, Freiburg, Germany
(part of the MCCSIS 2010 multi conference that will be held in the period 26-31 July)
Conference Committee Members*:
Jameela Al-Jaroodi, United Arab Emirates University, Arab Emirates
El Hassan Abdelwahed University Cadi Ayyad, Morocco
Omar Abou Khaled, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Fribourg)
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Liz Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK
Thierry Badard, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Susmit Bagchi, Samsung Electronics (SISO), India
Gabriel Baum, La Plata University, Argentina
John Beaumont-Kerridge, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Barbara de Benito Crosetti, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
Fadila Bentayeb, University of Lyon 2, France
Boyan Bontchev, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
Imed Boughzala, Institut Telecom SudParis, France
Haifeng Chen, NEC Laboratories America, USA
Hao Cheng, University of Central Florida, USA
Samira Si-said Cherfi, CNAM of Paris, France
Alton Chua, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gordon Clapworthy, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Phil Clipsham, University of Greenwich, UK
David E. Cook, Sohar University, Oman
Louise Cooke, Loughborough University, UK
Mateus Barcellos Costa, IFES - Serra, ES, Brazil
Sharon Cox, Birmingham City University, UK
Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Violeta Damjanovic, Salzburg Research, Austria
Jérôme Darmont, University of Lyon, France
Alicia Diaz, La Plata University, Argentina
Dorel Dusmanescu, Petroleum and Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
Vladimir Dyo, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Stephen Emmitt, Loughborough University, UK
Alejandro Fernandez, La Plata University, Argentina
Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna, Italy
Chris Fowler, University of Essex, UK
Tim French, University of Reading, UK
Renate Fructer, Stanford University, USA
Gary Hill, Northampton University, UK
Frederic Hubert, Laval University, Québec, Canada
Michael Gardner, University of Essex, UK
Bogdan Ghita, Plymouth University, UK
Jeni Giambona, University of Reading, UK
Björn Gottfried, University of Bremen, Germany
Ian Grimstead, Cardiff University, UK
Adrian Groza, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Lin Guan, Loughborough University, UK
Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Lizzie Jackson, University of Westminster, UK
Anne James, Coventry University, UK
Guillermo Jimenez, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico
Ejub Kajan, University of Nis, Serbia
Pankaj Kamthan, Concordia University, Canada
Rushed Kanawati, University Paris Nord, France
Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece
Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Dimitris Kotzinos, Technical Educational Institution of Serres, Greece
A.V.Senthil Kumar, Bharathiar University, India
Dimosthenis Kyriazis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Massimiliano Laddomada, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA
Nadira Lammari, CNAM of Paris, France
Chaoying Ma, University of Greenwich, UK
Areti Manataki, University of Edinburgh, UK
Pilar Manchón, Intelligent Dialogue Systems S.L. (INDISYS), Spain
Carsten Maple, University of Bedfordshire, UK
M. Antonia Martínez-Carreras, University of Murcia, Spain
Sati McKenzie, University of Greenwich, UK
Roula Michaelides, University of Liverpool, UK
Martin Molhanec, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Marina Mondin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Elena Mugellini, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Fribourg)
Mihaela I. Muntean, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Wail M. Omar, Sohar University, Oman
Federica Paci, Purdue University, USA
Roberto Paiano, University of Salento, Italy
Vasos Pavlika, University of Westminster, UK
Patrizio Pelliccione, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich, UK
Iain Phillips, Loughborough University, UK
Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro, Dublin City University, Ireland
Elaheh Pourabbas, National Research Council, Italy
Roman Povalej, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Hakikur Rahman, SchoolNet Foundation, Bangladesh
Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Toni Robertson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Kirti Ruikar, Loughborough University, UK
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Dinesh Kumar Saini, Sohar University, Oman
Jesus Salinas, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
Daniel Sánchez, University of Granada, Spain
Jose A. Santos, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Marcello Sarini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Silvia Schiaffino, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia de Buenos Aires, Argetina
Andrei Semeniuta, Gomel State University, Belarus
Rossi Setchi, Cardiff University, UK
Mohsen Sharifi, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
Dongwan Shin, New Mexico University, USA (doshin at nmt.edu)
Mitul Shukla, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Åke Sivertun, Swedish National Defence College Stockholm, Sweden
Darijus Strasunskas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab,Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Konstantinos Tserpes, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Raquel Trillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Manolis Tzagarakis, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Samuel Fosso Wamba, University of Wollongong, Australia
Sarah Wilson-Medhurst, Coventry University, UK
Mudasser F. Wyne, National University, USA
Mario Vacca, University of Salerno, Italy
Tony Valsamidis, University of Greenwich, UK
Monica Vladoiu, PG University of Ploiesti, Romania
Gert-Jan de Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Jabar H. Yousif, Sohar University, Oman
Ting Yu, University of Sydney, Australia
Ji Zhang, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
* currently, open
For more information about IADIS see: http://www.iadis.org/
(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
26-28 July 2010, Freiburg, Germany
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 decade, scientists have almost 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, synchronization and fault-tolerance services.
* 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
Implications of Collaborative Technologies;
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, sensors, 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).
Thursday 26 March 2009
Saturday 24 January 2009
IJDST Call for Papers
*All submissions must be forwarded electronically to nik.bessis@beds.ac.uk *
Regular submissions are welcomed at any time (open call).
SUBMITTING TO IJDST:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. Submissions should be between 5,500 to 8,000 words in length. Interested authors must consult the Journal's guidelines for manuscript submissions at:
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.
Click here to go back to the IJDST page
Click here to go to the IJDST page at IGI Publishers
Click here to go to the IJDST page at the University website
****************RECOMMENDED TOPICS********************************
Topics covered by the International Journal include but are not limited to the heterogeneity and autonomy of Internet, web, peer-to-peer, service oriented, grid, next generation grid, next generation technologies and other distributed systems paradigms and concepts; algorithms, software, application, services and technologies integration methods; process, resource, service and data virtualization, sharing, and integration; process, resource, service and resource flow management; scheduling; aspects of quality provision, policies; trust, identity management, forensics and security; application developments centered on the integration and management of various (e-) science-to-science, science-to-business, business-to-business, business-to-customer, and customer-to-customer models.
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
* Theory of distributed systems and technologies such as parallel or integration algorithms;
* Matching, mapping and other novel techniques for the integration, management and interoperability of distributed data, systems, technologies, services, architectures, applications and legacy systems;
* Innovative developments in distributed computer, operating systems, databases, middleware, networking and application architecture including design and analysis of distributed algorithms, programming languages, compilers, software tools and middleware environments; autonomy services; cloud computing, service oriented, grid, peer-to-peer, throughput and cluster programming interfaces; scheduling and fault-tolerance service and algorithms; synchronization and concurrency theory and programming;
* Forensics, security, cryptography, threat detection, business continuity, trust, identity management, policies and quality of service management;
* Representation techniques like semantics, meta-data, tagging, clouds, ontologies and knowledge bases in distributed environments;
* User and community led systems and application development, software engineering modeling, architecture, description, deployment, packaging, interfaces and distribution;
* Theory and use of distributed technologies for collaborative work, resource sharing and problem solving;
* Distributed technology applications and system integration solutions in diverse collaborative environments including but not limited to science, engineering, management and business;
* Distributed technologies for science or business process, models and, application integration and management such as in operational research, economic models and supply chain;
* Theory and applications of distributed computing such as algorithms and services, and their implementation in Internet, pervasive and utility computing, cloud computing, peer-to-peer, grid, next generation grid and next generation technologies;
* Theory, applications and technologies such as click stream, data mining, databases, data warehouses, web houses, web data centers and sites, mashups, intra-/inter-tagging and cloud computing for managing and integrating linked, streaming, media rich, multimedia, spatial, temporal data, services and resources;
* Distributed systems, system architecture and design, technologies and applications and their integration methods and tools for performance analysis, verification, testing, and benchmarking and their empirical results;
* Novel algorithms, uses and implications of distributed concepts, models, architectures, technologies and practices for example in Internet, wireless communications, mobile, ad-hoc networks and sensors;
* Distributed concepts, systems, applications, technologies and advanced paradigms for early warning systems, evacuation processes, climate change, disaster management, and threat detection including geographical information systems and health informatics;
* Distributed strategies and practices for e-society, global economies, developing countries and education;
* Other implications, including scientific or business models; human and/or market dynamics influencing decisions and transitions within small and large virtual communities or organizations;
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Regular submissions are welcomed at any time (open call).
SUBMITTING TO IJDST:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. Submissions should be between 5,500 to 8,000 words in length. Interested authors must consult the Journal's guidelines for manuscript submissions at:
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.
Click here to go back to the IJDST page
Click here to go to the IJDST page at IGI Publishers
Click here to go to the IJDST page at the University website
****************RECOMMENDED TOPICS********************************
Topics covered by the International Journal include but are not limited to the heterogeneity and autonomy of Internet, web, peer-to-peer, service oriented, grid, next generation grid, next generation technologies and other distributed systems paradigms and concepts; algorithms, software, application, services and technologies integration methods; process, resource, service and data virtualization, sharing, and integration; process, resource, service and resource flow management; scheduling; aspects of quality provision, policies; trust, identity management, forensics and security; application developments centered on the integration and management of various (e-) science-to-science, science-to-business, business-to-business, business-to-customer, and customer-to-customer models.
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
* Theory of distributed systems and technologies such as parallel or integration algorithms;
* Matching, mapping and other novel techniques for the integration, management and interoperability of distributed data, systems, technologies, services, architectures, applications and legacy systems;
* Innovative developments in distributed computer, operating systems, databases, middleware, networking and application architecture including design and analysis of distributed algorithms, programming languages, compilers, software tools and middleware environments; autonomy services; cloud computing, service oriented, grid, peer-to-peer, throughput and cluster programming interfaces; scheduling and fault-tolerance service and algorithms; synchronization and concurrency theory and programming;
* Forensics, security, cryptography, threat detection, business continuity, trust, identity management, policies and quality of service management;
* Representation techniques like semantics, meta-data, tagging, clouds, ontologies and knowledge bases in distributed environments;
* User and community led systems and application development, software engineering modeling, architecture, description, deployment, packaging, interfaces and distribution;
* Theory and use of distributed technologies for collaborative work, resource sharing and problem solving;
* Distributed technology applications and system integration solutions in diverse collaborative environments including but not limited to science, engineering, management and business;
* Distributed technologies for science or business process, models and, application integration and management such as in operational research, economic models and supply chain;
* Theory and applications of distributed computing such as algorithms and services, and their implementation in Internet, pervasive and utility computing, cloud computing, peer-to-peer, grid, next generation grid and next generation technologies;
* Theory, applications and technologies such as click stream, data mining, databases, data warehouses, web houses, web data centers and sites, mashups, intra-/inter-tagging and cloud computing for managing and integrating linked, streaming, media rich, multimedia, spatial, temporal data, services and resources;
* Distributed systems, system architecture and design, technologies and applications and their integration methods and tools for performance analysis, verification, testing, and benchmarking and their empirical results;
* Novel algorithms, uses and implications of distributed concepts, models, architectures, technologies and practices for example in Internet, wireless communications, mobile, ad-hoc networks and sensors;
* Distributed concepts, systems, applications, technologies and advanced paradigms for early warning systems, evacuation processes, climate change, disaster management, and threat detection including geographical information systems and health informatics;
* Distributed strategies and practices for e-society, global economies, developing countries and education;
* Other implications, including scientific or business models; human and/or market dynamics influencing decisions and transitions within small and large virtual communities or organizations;
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International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJSDT)
To be published by IGI Global (Inaugural issue: January 2010)
Regular submissions are welcomed at any time (open call).
IJDST Description:
The IJDST is dedicated to the timely publication of top-quality original and scholarly research related contributions to the theory, modeling, specification, implementation, evaluation and use of distributed systems, technologies and their integration (including data, agent and mining technologies). Areas of interest include next generation technologies, next generation grid, distributed and throughput computing concepts, theories, and applications and their integration at various levels (conception, theory, back-end, middleware level and front-end developments). Special attention is given to research papers focusing on the integration techniques, methods and tools employed in applied distributed systems and technologies. The IJDST pays particular attention to this dimension as a means to diversify it and broaden the applicability and scope of the current body of knowledge in the area of distributed systems and technologies. The IJDST is also dedicated to push boundaries of typical developments and publish cutting-edge developments related to science-to-science, science-to-business, business-to-business, business-to-customer, or customer-to-customer interactions. Although its primary goal is to provide an international forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art theories, practices and empirical research results in distributed systems, technologies and their integration, it also prompts future direction for the development of the community as a means of promoting and sustaining a network of excellence in the area.
Mission:
The IJDST is dedicated to the timely publication of top-quality original and scholarly research contributions and thus, publishes papers in all aspects of the traditional and emerging areas of distributed systems, technologies and integration research. The IJDST is a multi-disciplinary outlet, and welcomes submissions from all relevant fields of research.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Click here to go to the IJDST page at IGI Publishers
Click here to go to the IJDST page at the University website
Editor-in-Chief:
Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Associate Editors:
Viktor Abrukov, Moscow State Open University, Russia
Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
Roberto Barbera, Catania University, Italy
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, USA
Dariusz Król, Wrocùaw University, Poland
Pierre Kuonen, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Fribourg), Switzerland
Carsten Maple, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Iain Phillips, Loughborough University, UK
Rob Procter, University of Manchester, UK
R. Ponalagusamy, National Institute of Technology, India
Alain Roy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Richard O. Sinnott, University of Glasgow, UK
Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Theodora Varvarigou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Chengdong Wu, Northeastern University, China
Yong Yue, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Editorial Review Board:
Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA
Vassiliki Andronikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Eleana Asimakopoulou, formerly Loughborough University, UK
Tatiana Atanasova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Mehmet Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Marina Burakova-Lorgnier, University of Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France
Jessica Chen-Burger, University of Edinburgh, UK
Marc Conrad, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Rogério Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Violeta Damjanovic, Salzburg Research - University of Belgrade, Austria
Alicia Diaz, La Plata University, Argentina
James Dooley, City University, UK
Marco Fargetta, Consorzio COMETA - Catania University, Italy
Tim French, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Michael Gardner, University of Essex, UK
Jeni Giambona, Reading University, UK
Sergei Gorlatch, University of Münster, Germany
Ye Huang, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Valery Kuriakin, Intel, Russia
Krzysztof Kurowski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Dimosthenis Kyriazis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Rania Labaki, University of Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, France
Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK
Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Lu Liu, University of Leeds, UK
Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby, UK
Areti Manataki, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sati McKenzie, University of Greenwich, UK
Milan Milanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Anton Minko, OKTAL, France
Navonil Mustafee, Brunel University, UK
Jovita Nenortaitë, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Peter Norrington, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Mariusz Nowostawski, University of Otago, New Zealand
Panayotis Petratos, California State University - Stanislaus, USA
Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich, UK
Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Paul Sant, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Muhammad Sarfraz, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Vitaly Schetinin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Hala Skaf-Molli, University of Henri Poincaré, France
Rob Smith, Newcastle University, UK
George Spanoudakis, City University, UK
Konstantinos Tserpes, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Scott Turner, University of Northampton, UK
Hossana Twinomurinzi, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Steven Warburton, King's College London, UK
Journal Coverage:
IJDST adopts an inclusive approach in its coverage. Topics covered by the IJDST include but are not limited to the heterogeneity and autonomy of Internet, web, peer-to-peer, service oriented, grid, next generation grid, next generation technologies and other distributed systems paradigms and concepts; algorithms, software, application and technologies integration methods; process, resource, service and data virtualization, sharing, and integration; process, resource, service and resource flow management; scheduling; aspects of quality provision, policies; trust, identity management, forensics and security; application developments centered on the integration and management of various science-to-science, science-to-business, business-to-business, business-to-customer, and customer-to-customer models.
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Theory of distributed systems and technologies such as parallel or integration algorithms;
• Matching, mapping and other novel techniques for the integration, management and interoperability of distributed data, systems, technologies, services, architectures, applications and legacy systems;
• Innovative developments in distributed computer, operating systems, databases, middleware, networking and application architecture including design and analysis of distributed algorithms, programming languages, compilers, software tools and middleware environments; autonomy services; cloud computing, service oriented, grid, peer-to-peer, throughput and cluster programming interfaces; scheduling and fault-tolerance service and algorithms; synchronization and concurrency theory and programming;
• Forensics, security, cryptography, threat detection, business continuity, trust, identity management, policies and quality of service management;
• Representation techniques like semantics, meta-data, tagging, clouds, ontologies and knowledge bases in distributed environments;
• User and community led systems and application development, software engineering modeling, architecture, description, deployment, packaging, interfaces and distribution;
• Theory and use of distributed technologies for collaborative work, resource sharing and problem solving;
• Distributed technology applications and system integration solutions in diverse collaborative environments including but not limited to science, engineering, management and business;
• Distributed technologies for science or business process, models and, application integration and management such as in operational research, economic models and supply chain;
• Theory and applications of distributed computing such as algorithms and services, and their implementation in Internet, pervasive and utility computing, cloud computing, peer-to-peer, grid, next generation grid and next generation technologies;
• Theory, applications and technologies such as click stream, data mining, databases, data warehouses, web houses, web data centers and sites, mashups, intra-/inter-tagging and cloud computing for managing and integrating linked, streaming, media rich, multimedia, spatial, temporal data, services and resources;
• Distributed systems, technologies and applications and their integration methods and tools for performance analysis, verification, testing, and benchmarking and their empirical results;
• Novel algorithms, uses and implications of distributed concepts, models, architectures, technologies and practices for example in Internet, wireless communications, mobile, ad-hoc networks and sensors;
• Advanced distributed concepts, systems, applications, technologies and advanced paradigms for early warning systems, evacuation processes, climate change, disaster management, and threat detection including geographical information systems and health informatics;
• Distributed strategies and practices for e-society, global economies, developing countries and education;
• Other implications, including scientific or business models; human and/or market dynamics influencing decisions and transitions within small and large virtual communities or organizations;
Submission Guidelines:
Submissions should be between 5,500 to 8,000 words in length. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to nik.bessis@beds.ac.uk
Regular submissions are welcomed at any time (open call).
IGI Global now has standard guidelines that must be followed and not changed.
These are available from here.
Regular submissions are welcomed at any time (open call).
IJDST Description:
The IJDST is dedicated to the timely publication of top-quality original and scholarly research related contributions to the theory, modeling, specification, implementation, evaluation and use of distributed systems, technologies and their integration (including data, agent and mining technologies). Areas of interest include next generation technologies, next generation grid, distributed and throughput computing concepts, theories, and applications and their integration at various levels (conception, theory, back-end, middleware level and front-end developments). Special attention is given to research papers focusing on the integration techniques, methods and tools employed in applied distributed systems and technologies. The IJDST pays particular attention to this dimension as a means to diversify it and broaden the applicability and scope of the current body of knowledge in the area of distributed systems and technologies. The IJDST is also dedicated to push boundaries of typical developments and publish cutting-edge developments related to science-to-science, science-to-business, business-to-business, business-to-customer, or customer-to-customer interactions. Although its primary goal is to provide an international forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art theories, practices and empirical research results in distributed systems, technologies and their integration, it also prompts future direction for the development of the community as a means of promoting and sustaining a network of excellence in the area.
Mission:
The IJDST is dedicated to the timely publication of top-quality original and scholarly research contributions and thus, publishes papers in all aspects of the traditional and emerging areas of distributed systems, technologies and integration research. The IJDST is a multi-disciplinary outlet, and welcomes submissions from all relevant fields of research.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Click here to go to the IJDST page at IGI Publishers
Click here to go to the IJDST page at the University website
Editor-in-Chief:
Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Associate Editors:
Viktor Abrukov, Moscow State Open University, Russia
Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
Roberto Barbera, Catania University, Italy
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, USA
Dariusz Król, Wrocùaw University, Poland
Pierre Kuonen, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Fribourg), Switzerland
Carsten Maple, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Iain Phillips, Loughborough University, UK
Rob Procter, University of Manchester, UK
R. Ponalagusamy, National Institute of Technology, India
Alain Roy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Richard O. Sinnott, University of Glasgow, UK
Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Theodora Varvarigou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Chengdong Wu, Northeastern University, China
Yong Yue, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Editorial Review Board:
Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA
Vassiliki Andronikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Eleana Asimakopoulou, formerly Loughborough University, UK
Tatiana Atanasova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Mehmet Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Marina Burakova-Lorgnier, University of Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France
Jessica Chen-Burger, University of Edinburgh, UK
Marc Conrad, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Rogério Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Violeta Damjanovic, Salzburg Research - University of Belgrade, Austria
Alicia Diaz, La Plata University, Argentina
James Dooley, City University, UK
Marco Fargetta, Consorzio COMETA - Catania University, Italy
Tim French, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Michael Gardner, University of Essex, UK
Jeni Giambona, Reading University, UK
Sergei Gorlatch, University of Münster, Germany
Ye Huang, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Valery Kuriakin, Intel, Russia
Krzysztof Kurowski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Dimosthenis Kyriazis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Rania Labaki, University of Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, France
Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK
Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Lu Liu, University of Leeds, UK
Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby, UK
Areti Manataki, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sati McKenzie, University of Greenwich, UK
Milan Milanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Anton Minko, OKTAL, France
Navonil Mustafee, Brunel University, UK
Jovita Nenortaitë, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Peter Norrington, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Mariusz Nowostawski, University of Otago, New Zealand
Panayotis Petratos, California State University - Stanislaus, USA
Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich, UK
Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Paul Sant, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Muhammad Sarfraz, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Vitaly Schetinin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Hala Skaf-Molli, University of Henri Poincaré, France
Rob Smith, Newcastle University, UK
George Spanoudakis, City University, UK
Konstantinos Tserpes, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Scott Turner, University of Northampton, UK
Hossana Twinomurinzi, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Steven Warburton, King's College London, UK
Journal Coverage:
IJDST adopts an inclusive approach in its coverage. Topics covered by the IJDST include but are not limited to the heterogeneity and autonomy of Internet, web, peer-to-peer, service oriented, grid, next generation grid, next generation technologies and other distributed systems paradigms and concepts; algorithms, software, application and technologies integration methods; process, resource, service and data virtualization, sharing, and integration; process, resource, service and resource flow management; scheduling; aspects of quality provision, policies; trust, identity management, forensics and security; application developments centered on the integration and management of various science-to-science, science-to-business, business-to-business, business-to-customer, and customer-to-customer models.
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Theory of distributed systems and technologies such as parallel or integration algorithms;
• Matching, mapping and other novel techniques for the integration, management and interoperability of distributed data, systems, technologies, services, architectures, applications and legacy systems;
• Innovative developments in distributed computer, operating systems, databases, middleware, networking and application architecture including design and analysis of distributed algorithms, programming languages, compilers, software tools and middleware environments; autonomy services; cloud computing, service oriented, grid, peer-to-peer, throughput and cluster programming interfaces; scheduling and fault-tolerance service and algorithms; synchronization and concurrency theory and programming;
• Forensics, security, cryptography, threat detection, business continuity, trust, identity management, policies and quality of service management;
• Representation techniques like semantics, meta-data, tagging, clouds, ontologies and knowledge bases in distributed environments;
• User and community led systems and application development, software engineering modeling, architecture, description, deployment, packaging, interfaces and distribution;
• Theory and use of distributed technologies for collaborative work, resource sharing and problem solving;
• Distributed technology applications and system integration solutions in diverse collaborative environments including but not limited to science, engineering, management and business;
• Distributed technologies for science or business process, models and, application integration and management such as in operational research, economic models and supply chain;
• Theory and applications of distributed computing such as algorithms and services, and their implementation in Internet, pervasive and utility computing, cloud computing, peer-to-peer, grid, next generation grid and next generation technologies;
• Theory, applications and technologies such as click stream, data mining, databases, data warehouses, web houses, web data centers and sites, mashups, intra-/inter-tagging and cloud computing for managing and integrating linked, streaming, media rich, multimedia, spatial, temporal data, services and resources;
• Distributed systems, technologies and applications and their integration methods and tools for performance analysis, verification, testing, and benchmarking and their empirical results;
• Novel algorithms, uses and implications of distributed concepts, models, architectures, technologies and practices for example in Internet, wireless communications, mobile, ad-hoc networks and sensors;
• Advanced distributed concepts, systems, applications, technologies and advanced paradigms for early warning systems, evacuation processes, climate change, disaster management, and threat detection including geographical information systems and health informatics;
• Distributed strategies and practices for e-society, global economies, developing countries and education;
• Other implications, including scientific or business models; human and/or market dynamics influencing decisions and transitions within small and large virtual communities or organizations;
Submission Guidelines:
Submissions should be between 5,500 to 8,000 words in length. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to nik.bessis@beds.ac.uk
Regular submissions are welcomed at any time (open call).
IGI Global now has standard guidelines that must be followed and not changed.
These are available from here.
Sunday 2 November 2008
NEW BOOK RELEASE (2010): Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks
A book edited by:
Dr. Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Dr. Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
To be published by IGI Global
Introduction
Using advanced ICT to effectively and efficiently manage the complexity of foreseen and unforeseen disastrous situations and to detect potential threats is perhaps one of the most prominent challenges in any organizational setting. With an increased number of natural and man-made disasters, there has been an evolved interest in revisiting past and current disaster management and threat detection approaches. Reviewing these approaches as a means to advance practices and prompt future directions could alleviate or even prevent human, property and environmental loss via emergent collaborative distributed technologies and frameworks.
During the last several decades the number of losses caused by natural and man-made disasters has increased. Humans are not always capable of avoiding extreme natural phenomena, technological accidents or terrorist attacks. There is a need to prepare and plan in advance actions in response to these events in order to support sustainable livelihood by protecting lives, property and the environment. In turn, various disaster management bodies (FEMA, EMA, European Civil Protection, etc) involving authorities at a local, national and international level have been formed to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from such disasters and to detect potential threats. There are also collaborative research institutes, scientific laboratories and other non-profit organizations studying the natural phenomena and, most importantly, the response processes with the intention of advancing the disaster management discipline, its practice and application as a whole. Recent concerns and threats, such as climate change, support for developing countries, diseases or terrorism, have contributed to the evolution of the way that disaster management and threat detection practices approach extreme situations. Hence, there is a need to revisit current approaches in order to advance the discipline and cope with these new and unforeseen threats.
On the other hand, ICT developments over the last four decades have facilitated organizations with numerous collaborative tools to support various levels of enquiries within the field of application. In particular, the use of advanced distributed technologies has evolved over the years in such a way to accommodate and advance collaborative endeavors between interested parties (including disaster management stakeholders) scattered across the world. Such utilization of distributed data and resources related to ICT developments – including but not limited to service oriented approaches, grid technologies, cloud computing, mashups, data mining, data visualization, geographical information systems, intelligent agents, artificial intelligence and neural networks – should be further aligned for the purpose of disaster management and threat detection.
The Overall Objective of the Book
The primary goal of the book is to demonstrate how strategies and state-of-the-art ICT have and/or could be applied to serve as the vehicle to advance disaster management and threat detection approaches, decisions and practices. The achievement of such a goal implies the contribution of various practitioners, scholars in the area and researchers from other disciplines who are willing to offer their expertise and skills in advancing the disaster management and threat detection discipline both as a theory and practice. The book also aims to provide conceptual and practical guidance to disaster management stakeholders including ICT and senior managers of relevant organizations. It will help assist in identifying and developing effective and efficient approaches, mechanisms, and systems using emerging technologies to support their effective operation. Specifically, this book aims to build a network of excellence in effectively and efficiently managing advanced strategies and next generation distributed ICT for disaster management stakeholders to advance their current practices and approaches.
The overall mission of the book is to introduce both technical and non-technical details of strategies and ICT demonstrating their application and their potential utilization within the disaster management and threat detection sector. It also prompts revisiting current approaches (through critical reviews) and further developing the area for best practices for coping with emerging and unforeseen threats. The book aims to collect the vast experience of many leaders demonstrating past and current methods, tools and practices employed for disaster management purposes. As such, the book aims to be a definitive state-of-the-art collection and to prompt future directions for disaster managers to identify applicable theories and practices in order to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from various foreseen and/or unforeseen disasters.
Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection:Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks
Dr. Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Dr. Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
To be published by IGI Global
Introduction
Using advanced ICT to effectively and efficiently manage the complexity of foreseen and unforeseen disastrous situations and to detect potential threats is perhaps one of the most prominent challenges in any organizational setting. With an increased number of natural and man-made disasters, there has been an evolved interest in revisiting past and current disaster management and threat detection approaches. Reviewing these approaches as a means to advance practices and prompt future directions could alleviate or even prevent human, property and environmental loss via emergent collaborative distributed technologies and frameworks.
During the last several decades the number of losses caused by natural and man-made disasters has increased. Humans are not always capable of avoiding extreme natural phenomena, technological accidents or terrorist attacks. There is a need to prepare and plan in advance actions in response to these events in order to support sustainable livelihood by protecting lives, property and the environment. In turn, various disaster management bodies (FEMA, EMA, European Civil Protection, etc) involving authorities at a local, national and international level have been formed to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from such disasters and to detect potential threats. There are also collaborative research institutes, scientific laboratories and other non-profit organizations studying the natural phenomena and, most importantly, the response processes with the intention of advancing the disaster management discipline, its practice and application as a whole. Recent concerns and threats, such as climate change, support for developing countries, diseases or terrorism, have contributed to the evolution of the way that disaster management and threat detection practices approach extreme situations. Hence, there is a need to revisit current approaches in order to advance the discipline and cope with these new and unforeseen threats.
On the other hand, ICT developments over the last four decades have facilitated organizations with numerous collaborative tools to support various levels of enquiries within the field of application. In particular, the use of advanced distributed technologies has evolved over the years in such a way to accommodate and advance collaborative endeavors between interested parties (including disaster management stakeholders) scattered across the world. Such utilization of distributed data and resources related to ICT developments – including but not limited to service oriented approaches, grid technologies, cloud computing, mashups, data mining, data visualization, geographical information systems, intelligent agents, artificial intelligence and neural networks – should be further aligned for the purpose of disaster management and threat detection.
The Overall Objective of the Book
The primary goal of the book is to demonstrate how strategies and state-of-the-art ICT have and/or could be applied to serve as the vehicle to advance disaster management and threat detection approaches, decisions and practices. The achievement of such a goal implies the contribution of various practitioners, scholars in the area and researchers from other disciplines who are willing to offer their expertise and skills in advancing the disaster management and threat detection discipline both as a theory and practice. The book also aims to provide conceptual and practical guidance to disaster management stakeholders including ICT and senior managers of relevant organizations. It will help assist in identifying and developing effective and efficient approaches, mechanisms, and systems using emerging technologies to support their effective operation. Specifically, this book aims to build a network of excellence in effectively and efficiently managing advanced strategies and next generation distributed ICT for disaster management stakeholders to advance their current practices and approaches.
The overall mission of the book is to introduce both technical and non-technical details of strategies and ICT demonstrating their application and their potential utilization within the disaster management and threat detection sector. It also prompts revisiting current approaches (through critical reviews) and further developing the area for best practices for coping with emerging and unforeseen threats. The book aims to collect the vast experience of many leaders demonstrating past and current methods, tools and practices employed for disaster management purposes. As such, the book aims to be a definitive state-of-the-art collection and to prompt future directions for disaster managers to identify applicable theories and practices in order to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from various foreseen and/or unforeseen disasters.
Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection:Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks
A book edited by:
Dr. Eleana Asimakopoulou,University of Bedfordshire, UK
Dr. Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Foreword by:
Professor Efthymios Lekkas,National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Editorial Advisory Board:
Dr Steve Bloomer, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, University of Teesside, UK
Dr Andre Clark, University of Glamorgan, UK
Professor Angus Duncan,University of Bedfordshire,UK
Dr Stathes Hadjiefthymiades,University of Athens, Greece
Professor Fuad Mallick,BRAC University, Bangladesh and Kathmandu University, Nepal
Dr Ralf Steinberger, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy
Dr Tim Thompson,University of Teesside, UK
Table of Contents:
Section I: Current Approaches in Disaster Management
Chapter I
A Systemic Approach to Managing Natural Disasters
1Jaime Santos-Reyes and2Alan N. Beard
1 SEPI-ESIME, IPN, Mexico
2 Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK
Chapter II
ICT Approaches in Disaster Management: Public Awareness, Education and Training, Community Resilience in INDIA
Sunitha Kuppuswamy
Anna University Chennai, India
Chapter III
Multimedia Educational Application for Risk Reduction
Ana Iztúriz, Yolanda Barrientos, María A. González, Larry Rivas, Matilde V. de Bezada and Simón Ruíz
Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, Venezuela
Chapter IV
Natural Hazards: Changing Media Environments and the Efficient Use of ICT for Disaster Communication
Helena Zemp
University Zurich, Switzerland
Chapter V
United Arab Emirates: Disaster Management with Regard to Rapid Onset Natural Disasters
Hamdan Al Ghasyah Dhanhani 1, Angus Duncan1 and David Chester 2
1 University of Bedfordshire, UK
2 University of Liverpool, UK
Chapter VI
Disaster Informatics: Information Management as a Tool for Effective Disaster Risk Reduction
Jishnu Subedi
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Section II: Advanced Collaborative Technologies for Disaster Management
Chapter VII
Efficient Deployment of ICT Tools in Disaster Management Process
Aysu Sagun
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Chapter VIII
Current State and Solutions for Future Challenges in Early Warning Systems and Alerting Technologies
Ulrich Meissen and Agnès Voisard
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST), Germany
Chapter IX
MedISys - Medical Information System
Jens P. Linge1, Ralf Steinberger1, Flavio Fuart1, Stefano Bucci1, Jenya Belyaeva1, Monica Gemo1, Delilah Al-Khudhairy1, Roman Yangarber2 and Erik van der Goot1
1Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen Global Security and Crisis Management Unit, Italy
2 University of Helsinki, Finland
Chapter X
Social Media (Web 2.0) and Crisis Information: Case Study Gaza 2008-09
Miranda Dandoulaki1 and Matina Halkia2
1National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government, Greece
2European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy
Chapter XI
Utilizing Web 2.0 for Decision Support in Disaster Mitigation
Kumaresh Rajan1, Rui Chen2, Hejamadi Raghav Rao1 and JinKyu Lee3
1The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
2Ball State University, USA
3Oklahoma State University, USA
Chapter XII
Incident and Disaster Management Training: Collaborative Learning Opportunities Using Virtual World Scenarios
Anne M. Hewitt1, Susan S. Spencer2, Danielle Mirliss1and Anne Riad Twal1
1Seton Hall University, USA
2SetonWorldWide, USA
Section III: Next Generation Approaches and Distributed Frameworks for Disaster Management
Chapter XIII
Mathematical Models Generators of Decision Support Systems for Help in Case of Catastrophes: An Experience from Venezuela
José G. Hernández R1 and María J. García G.2
1Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela
2Minimax Consultores C.A., Venezuela
Chapter XIV
Integrating Scenario-Based Reasoning Into a Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Emergency Management
Tina Comes1, Michael Hiete1, Niek Wijngaards2, and Frank Schultmann1
1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), GermanY
2Thales Research & Technology Netherlands/D-CIS Lab, The NetherlandS
Chapter XV
POP-C++ and Alpine3D: Petition for a New HPC Approach
Pierre Kuonen1, Mathias Bavay2, and Michael Lehning2
1University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Switzerland
2WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland
Chapter XVI
Sensor and Computing Infrastructure for Environmental Risks – The SCIER System
Odysseas Sekkas, Dimitrios V. Manatakis, Elias S. Manolakos and Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
University of Athens, Greece
Chapter XVII
A Personalized Forest Fire Evacuation Data Grid Push Service – The FFED-GPS Approach
Eleana Asimakopoulou, Nik Bessis, Ravikanth Varaganti, and Peter Norrington
University of Bedfordshire, UK
The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the IGI Publishing (Idea Group Publishing), Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints in 2010.
