Special Call - Submission Deadline extended: 17 January 2005
****************************************************************** IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2005 February 23-25, 2005 - Algarve, Portugal http://www.iadis.org/WBC2005) ******************************************************************
* Keynote Speakers Professor Gunilla Bradley, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Professor Starr Roxanne Hiltz, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
* Conference background and goals The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities. The conference invites original papers, review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities. Domain: It is increasingly important for our culture to bring people together and to promote dynamics in professional organizations, mutual understanding, learning and harmony. Creating "virtual communities" is one major way to do this. The Web Based Communities 2005 conference aims at sharing and aggregating scientifically proven methods on how to organize and moderate WWW-based communities. These communities do not limit participants to particular locations - the international and multicultural dimension is a most challenging one. Good WWW communities undergo a continuous evolution and adapt to the changing world. The nature of these communities can be corporate, scientific, social or educational. Pragmatic questions which need to be addressed include: What software tools are the most adequate and how to use them? How to promote your community so that new members can find it? How to protect the members' privacy? How to moderate discussions and how to provide information that people can use? How to create and maintain a sense of trust and commitment among the members? In addition, sociology, education, communication and philosophy issues are addressed as the main disciplines reflected in building WWW-based communities, although critical theories on societies and post-modernism are also relevant starting points. New and imminent technologies will be discussed. Objectives: The Web Based Communities 2005 Conference aims at bringing together new vital understanding of WWW communities and what new initiatives mean. Each new perspective is potentially a catalyst for finding new architectures. National and regional-oriented communities may soon be relegated to a subordinate position compared to interest-oriented communities. Multiculturalism, critical thinking, expressing aesthetic aspects of our identity, and finding sparring partners for sharpening our ideologies, are all processes that need the new communication infrastructures. The targeted audience is scientists and members and moderators of WWW communities who feel responsible for optimizing its quality and effect.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book with ISBN and also in the IADIS Digital Library (available at http://www.iadis.net/dl). The better papers will be candidate for the "International Journal of Web Based Communities" (IJWBC); ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4 issues per year] * Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
* Subject indications (but not limited to) The history, architecture and future of virtual communities 1. From mobility to connectivity 2. Identity and augmented ideologies 3. Visionary web architectures, implanted computers 4. Network revolutions, post-colonial and post-modern societies 5. Escaping from reality, virtual reality and multi-user games 6. Towards alternative ways of presence Group processes and self-organization 1. Tele-democracy, morality, netiquette 2. Social networks, tribal- and open communities, peace education 3. Computer mediated-, hyper- and narrative communication, woven stories 4. MUDs, MOOs and avatars 5. Hosting web-based communities 6. Nationalities, ethnicities and gender effects Cyborgs, teleworking, telemedicine, art games and learning communities 1. Fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship 2. Distributed cognition, the electronic cortex and constructivism 3. Community directories 4. Mechanic world, organic computer 5. Agents and the vectorized self 6. Beyond metaphors: imagining and representation 7. Communizing as a marketing approach Expanding markets through virtual communities 1. The WWW as digital market place 2. The enterprise as a learning community 3. The learning as a road map for business 4. Universities as online communities 5. Business-to-business communication in profit- and non profit sectors Virtual communities for people with special needs 1. Access to public spaces 2. Accessibility and long-term disabilities 3. Virtual communities in health care
* Important Dates: - Submission Deadline (special call extended): 17 January 2005 - Notification to Authors (special call): 28 January 2005 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (for the special call extension): Until 4 February 2005 - Late Registration (for the special call extension): After 4 February 2005 - Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 23 to 25 February 2005
* Conference Location The conference will be held in Algarve, Portugal.
* Secretariat IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2005 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Algarve, Portugal E-mail: wbc2005@iadis.org Web site: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2005
* Scientific Committee
Conference & Program Co-Chairs Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Committee Members (not complete): Alan Smith, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Alejandro Jaimes, Columbia University, USA Begoña Gros, Institut de Ciències de l´Educació, Spain Bryn Holmes, Inishnet Ltd., United Kingdom Carmel Mcnaught, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia Christina Preston, MirandaNet, United Kingdom Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece Colin Tattersall, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Demetrios G. Sampson, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Deniz Deryakulu, Ankara University, Turkey Dmitry Bystrov, Tashkent State Technical University, Russia Dragan Djuric, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Dragan Gasevic, Military Academy, Serbia and Montenegro Eliza Stefanova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria Elizabeth Stacey, Deakin University, Australia Elspeth McKay, RMIT University, Australia Fong-Lok Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hans Hummel, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands Hentie Wilson, University of South Africa, South Africa Iliana Nikolova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Crete, Greece Irina Obukhova, IITE UNESCO, Russian Federation J. Michael Spector, Syracuse University, USA Jacques Viens, University of Montreal, Canada Jan Frick, Stavanger University, Norway John P. Cuthell, Virtual Learning, UK Joop van Schie, Albeda College Rotterdam, The Netherlands Kazys Baniulis, KTU Informatics Faculty, Lithuania Keizo Nagaoka, Waseda University, Japan Kinshuk, Massey University, Australia Konrad Morgan, University of Bergen, Norway Lawrie Hunter, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Leandro Madrazo, Escola Tècnica i Superior d'Arquitectura La Salle, Spain Lee Chien-Ching, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, UK Maomi Ueno, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan Philip Bonanno, University of Malta, Malta Rafik Aliev, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Azerbaijan Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany Roger Hartley, Leeds University, UK Sandra Cairncross, Napier University, UK Saskia Brand-Gruwel, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Slavi Stoyanov, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Stanislav Zelenda, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Theo Bastiaens, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Thomas Köhler, Universität Potsdam, Germany Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA
* Please check the co-located event: Applied Computing 2005 (http://www.iadis.org/ac2005/). You may participate also in this event free of charge if you register for the Web Based Communities event.
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