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Angel A. Juan & Meritxell Roca
ajuanp(@)gmail.com, mrocasa(@)uoc.edu
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain
Thanasis Daradoumis
daradoumis(@)aegean.gr
Dep. of Cultural Technology and Communication
University of the Aegean, Greece
Scott E. Grasman
grasmans(@)mst.edu
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Javier Faulin
javier.faulin(@)unavarra.es
Dep. Statistics and Operations Research
Public University of Navarre, Spain
Updated December 21st, 2010
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Call for Chapters for IGI Book
http://dpcs.uoc.edu/ajuanp/e-research
Collaborative and Distributed E-Research: Innovations in
Technologies, Strategies and Applications
CALL FOR CHAPTERS - IGI GLOBAL
Collaborative and Distributed E-Research
(CDER) refers to the use of the Internet and Information Technologies
(ITs) in general to develop international and distributed scientific
research. In a global world, researchers and research groups do not
have to limit themselves to geographic or temporal regions and zones.
On the contrary, they have now the opportunity to use ITs to
collaborate, without physical interaction, with other researchers and
groups from different parts of the planet. Benefits of collaborative
e-research are evident, just to name a few: researchers can interact
and share knowledge with other remote researchers with similar
interests without having to move from one country to another;
international knowledge communities or social science networks can be
easily and quickly configured; participation in foreign research
projects is promoted; PhD and Master theses can be co-advised by
several senior researchers from different institutions; and so forth. Therefore,
there is little doubt that ITs, and particularly the Internet, are
becoming a decisive tool in the international research arena and, in
fact, they are changing the way scientific research is performed
worldwide.
OVERALL OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK
The main purpose of this text is two-fold: (1) to
provide insight and understanding into practical and methodological
issues related to collaborative e-research, and (2) to provide insight
and understanding into current and future trends regarding how research
is performed over the Internet and what technology is being employed. In particular, the objectives of this book are:
- To identify and publish worldwide best practices regarding Collaborative and Distributed e-Research at international level.
- To share theoretical or applied models and systems used
in Computer Supported Collaborative Research, including the use of
computer-supported collaborative research for international research
projects.
- To forecast emerging technologies and tendencies regarding Collaborative and Distributed e-Research and e-research management systems.
- To
provide the academic community with a base text that could serve as a
reference in research on Computer Supported Collaborative Research.
- To
present up-to-date research work on how the WWW is changing
international research experiences and practices in a global and
web-based world.
The
text will be useful for academics and professionals involved in
Collaborative and Distributed e-Research, international research centers,
collaborative software developers as well as instructors implementing
courses in computer-supported collaborative work.
The text will also be potentially useful for senior year undergraduate
or graduate studies in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and
Information Technologies.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
- Computer supported collaborative research
- Collaborative and distributed e-research
- Computer supported collaborative learning/work
- Internet- and web-based research
- Groupware for collaborative e-research
- Research management systems
- Scientific social networks for research
- Internet-based knowledge communities
- International experiences and case studies on CSCR
- Best practices and strategies for efficient CSCR
- Benefits, challenges and future trends in CSCR
- Human-computer interaction in collaborative e-research
- Quantitative and qualitative data analysis in CSCR
- Monitoring and assessment of collaborative e-research
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 30th, 2011, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal (MS Word) clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational
guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 15, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded by e-mail to ajuanp(@)gmail.com
The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global, http://www.igi-global.com,
publisher of the IGI Publishing (formerly Idea Group Publishing),
Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing,
Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), and
Medical Information Science Reference imprints.
- 2-5 Page Proposal Deadline: January 30th, 2011 (hard deadline)
- Full Chapters Deadline: March 15, 2011
- Review Results: May 31, 2011
- Revised Chapters Deadline: June 30, 2011
- Notification of final acceptation/rejection: July 30, 2011
- Print-ready manuscript: August 15, 2011
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