Call for Papers
The OPAALS 2008 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within Digital Ecosystems Research. This theme has become increasingly important in recent years, because of the development of technical infrastructure, both state of the art and mainstream applications, theoretical research, and public awareness. Besides technological questions, Digital Ecosystems Research fundamentally includes topics related to social networks, knowledge modelling, and language evolution, to name a few.
The OPAALS 2008 conference aims to cover many of the aspects related to the development of Digital Ecosystems (DE) Research. The long-term goal of this work is to establish and strengthen DE research as a scientific discipline. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Accessibility and Quality Issues
- Artificial Intelligence and Smart Applications
- Automatic Code Generation
- Business and Process Modelling
- Case Studies and Applications
- Community Currencies
- Community Networks and DE
- Contracts and Negotiation
- Distributed Identity
- Distributed Transaction Models
- Ecosystem-Oriented Architectures and SOA
- Evolutionary and Biology-Inspired Algorithms
- Formalisation of Knowledge and Business Modelling
- Governance of DE
- Knowledge Modelling (KM), KM in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks
- Knowledge and Information Visualisation
- Mathematical and Computational Models
- Natural Language and Communities
- Tools and Applications
- Open Source and Open Knowledge
- P2P Architectures
- Regulatory Frameworks
- Simulations and Dynamic Models
- Social Networks and Applications
- Standards and Regulations
- Trust and Accountability
- Web Technologies for DE
Submission is open to all researchers and practitioners of the field(s). Submission categories include short papers (max 8 pages, peer-review, short oral presentation), full papers (max 10 pages, peer-review, long oral presentation), and tutorials (optional tutorial article max 12 pages, tutorial review, oral presentation and demonstration).