CALL FOR PAPERS
EXTENDED DEADLINE: deadline for
submissions has been extended to 30 April 2007 !!!
COSDA2007:
The First International Workshop on Collaborative System Design and
Applications
(In
conjunction with ISDA'2007: http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br/)
*Workshop Chairs
Joan Manuel
Marquès
Open
University of
Thanasis
Daradoumis
Open
University of
* SUPPORTED and CO-ORGANIZED by:
The
Kaleidoscope Learning Grid SIG (http://grid.noe-kaleidoscope.org),
the European FP6-IST-EU project grid4all (http://grid4all.eu)
and the MosaicLearning project (http://mosaic.gast.it.uc3m.es)
*SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES:
Collaborative systems have caused a drastic
change in the way people focus work and learning, especially at a distance. P2P
and grid middleware and applications have opened new interesting possibilities
for collaboration and learning. P2P allowed collaborators to share their own
resources, whereby grid facilitated the access to remote resources not
affordable locally as well as the increase of the participants’ capacity to
carry out specific tasks. Special emphasis is given to systems and applications
that focus on participants that provide their own resources for the achievement
of their goals. Another influencing issue concerns the analysis of both the
systems performance and group interactions. The latter constitutes an important
factor for group monitoring, support and performance.
This workshop aims at providing a forum for
academic researchers, professionals and practitioners to exchange their
experiences and their ideas about problems and solutions related to the design,
development and use of groupware systems and applications. Researchers can
report their ideas, models, designs and experiences on the proposed topics.
*TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:
·
P2P
and grid-based applications for collaboration/collaborative learning
·
P2P
and grid middleware for collaboration
·
P2P
and grid systems performance analysis
·
Semantic
grid and ontologies for collaboration/collaborative learning
·
Collaborative
applications and case studies
·
Case
studies and experiences in learning grid
·
Nomadic
and mobile collaborative work
·
Multi-agent
systems to support collaborative work
·
Monitoring
and analysis of group interactions
·
Group
awareness and scaffolding
·
Self-properties
in collaborative systems
·
Distribution
and replication of shared information
* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Leandro
Navarro, Universitat
Miguel Bote,
Simos Retalis,
Josep
Jorba, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Pedro
García, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain
Giorgos Tsekouras,
Pilar Herrero,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Santi Caballé,
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Nicola
Capuano, Centro di Ricerca
in Matematica Pura ed Applicata,
Àngel Juan Pérez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Xavier
Vilasojana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Oscar Ardaiz,
Alexandra Poulovassilis,
Abelardo Pardo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Daniel
Lazaro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Ruby Krishnaswamy.
*PAPER PRESENTATION
Regular Papers, Oral Presentations and Posters.
* Instructions to Authors
The manuscripts should closely reflect the
final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings, which will be maximum 6 pages
in IEEE double column format. Please format your paper, as described in the IEEE Computer Society Press
Proceedings Author Guidelines where you can find instructions (Word, PDF, Postscript).
See details
at main conference website http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br
*PUBLICATION:
All accepted papers (presented orally or as a
poster) with paid registration will be included in the Proceedings of ISDA'07.
COSDA 2007 papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society.
After the conference, authors of best papers
will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible
inclusion in special issues of a
selection of international journals.
Submission
implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present
the paper.
*SUBMISSIONS
All papers
should be submitted electronically via the Online Paper
Submission System.
The format
of the initial submissions can be PDF. The file of the final accepted papers
should be in either Word or Latex. After uploading the paper through the
conference web site, please also send a copy of the paper to <adaradoumis@uoc.edu>
*IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper
Submission: April 30th, 2007 (Extended)
Notification of Acceptance:
Final
Paper Submission:
*For further inquiries please contact:
Workshop Chairs
Joan Manuel
Marquès (jmarquesp@uoc.edu)
Open
University of
Thanasis
Daradoumis (adaradoumis@uoc.edu)
Open University
of