Conference Program
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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
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 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
14:30 Coffee Break
15:15 Tutorial: W3C Semantic Web technologies for the OKS
By Ossi Nykänen
16:00 Tutorial: Business models and technologies for wireless community networks
By Csaba Szabo
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
10:30 Break
11:00 Session 3: Dynamic models and visualisations
12:00 Lunch
13:30 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).