IADIS 1st International Conference on Collaborative Technologies 2010

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).