Interactive Program
Welcome to the OPAALS 2008, the 2nd International OPAALS Conference on Digital Ecosystems, Tampere, Finland, 7 - 8 October 2008.
The conference is organised by the Hypermedia Laboratory of Tampere University of Technology (TUT), in association with the MindTrek Conference and the W3C Finnish Office.
Tuesday October 7th at Hall 4
8:30-11:30 Welcome Desk and Registration
9:00 Welcome and Opening Session
By Seppo Pohjolainen and Ossi Nykänen
9:15 Keynote: State of the Art of DE Research
By Paolo Dini (see presentation details)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Session 1: Knowledge, collaboration, and governance
Discuss the presentations in community Session 1: Knowledge, collaboration, and governance.
- Identifying and Capturing Knowledge from Networked Knowledge Spaces: Theoretical Insights and Applications
- by Amritesh Bharadwaj and Runa Sarkar
- Appropriateness of Communication and Collaboration Tools in an International Virtual Research Community
- by Marco Braeuer, Andrea Crone, Catherina Dürrenberg, Oxana Lapteva and Frauke Zeller
- Governance in the OPAALS Community
- by Marco Braeuer, Andrea Crone, Catherina Dürrenberg and Frauke Zeller
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Session 2: Networks, sociology, and coordination
Discuss the presentations in community Session 2: Networks, sociology, and coordination.
14:30 Coffee Break
15:15 Tutorial: W3C Semantic Web technologies for the OKS
By Ossi Nykänen (see presentation details)
16:00 Tutorial: Business models and technologies for wireless community networks
By Csaba Szabo (see presentation details)
17:45-18:00 Closing Session of the day
By Seppo Pohjolainen and Ossi Nykänen
Wednesday October 8th at Cabinet 14
8:30-11:30 Welcome Desk and Registration
9:45 Keynote: Web Open Standards and Digital Ecosystems
By Daniel Dardailler (see presentation details)
10:30 Break
11:00 Session 3: Dynamic models and visualisations
Discuss the presentations in community Session 3: Dynamic models and visualisations.
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Session 4: Autopoiesis and simulations
Discuss the presentations in community Session 4: Autopoiesis and simulations.
14:30 Closing session for the conference
14:45 Coffee Break
15:00-18:00 OPAALS-related meetings
The conference is organised at the Scandic Rosendahl hotel (Pyynikintie 13, Tampere, Finland). For final program and conference details, please see the conference website at http://www.tut.fi/hypermedia/events/opaals2008/.
Contact OPAALS 2008 Conference Secretary, Mrs. Tiina Sävilahti tiina.savilahti@tut.fi (Tel. +358 40 570 9987).