COSDA 2007

Short description of the event/publication:
Call for Papers COSDA 2007 Workshop International Workshop on Collaborative System Design and Applications http://dpcs.uoc.edu/COSDA2007/ In conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'2007): http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br/) October 22-24, 2007 Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

City:
Rio de Janeiro

Website:
http://dpcs.uoc.edu/COSDA2007/

Email:
[email protected]

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Call for Papers COSDA 2007 Workshop

International Workshop on Collaborative System Design and Applications
http://dpcs.uoc.edu/COSDA2007/

In conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'2007): http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br/)

October 22-24, 2007
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
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*Workshop Chairs

Joan Manuel Marquès
Open University of Catalonia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Thanasis Daradoumis
Open University of Catalonia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

* 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 (provisional)

Leandro Navarro, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Miguel Bote, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Simos Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Josep Jorba, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Pedro García, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia, Spain
Giorgos Tsekouras, University of Aegean, Mytilini, Greece
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, Salerno, Italy
Àngel Juan Pérez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Xavier Vilasojana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Oscar Ardaiz, Pamplona, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Alexandra Poulovassilis, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom
Abelardo Pardo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Daniel Lazaro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain
Ruby Krishnaswamy. France Telecom. France


*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 (http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br/openconf/author/submit.php).

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
[email protected] .


*IMPORTANT DATES:

 Paper Submission: April 16th, 2007
 Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2007
 Final Paper Submission: June 15th, 2007

*For further inquiries please contact:

Workshop Chairs

Joan Manuel Marquès ([email protected])
Open University of Catalonia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Thanasis Daradoumis ([email protected])
Open University of Catalonia
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain