Second IEEE ICDIM Dynamic Virtual Communities: From Connectivity to Information Society

AIMS & SCOPE:

From sensor networks to virtual organisations, from physical to virtual
worlds, the concept of community appears as a key feature for the
development of tomorrows’ applications in the information society. The
workshop will consist of animated, constructive, and inter-disciplinary
discussions about technologies, methodologies, and tools for the engineering
of applications for the collection, management, exchange and use of
information within communities.

The workshop places an emphasis on practical engineering challenges and
applications. It also welcomes theoretical, philosophical, and empirical
contributions. Prospective papers about new paradigms, theories, models are
also appreciated.

We solicit short papers (max. 10 pages) and extended abstracts (2-5 pages)
of ongoing work, recent results and position statements that encompass the
workshop's core themes. Papers will be peer-reviewed and will be selected
according to their significance to the scope of the workshop, their quality
of presentation and their ability to stimulate discussions. All the papers
must respect the IEEE Computer Society's 2-column conference proceedings
format.

High quality papers will be considered for further review and possible
inclusion in a special issue of the International journal of web based
communities (IJWBC).

TOPICS of interest include (not limited):

• Peers systems and communities-based applications
  
• Usability and user interface
  
• Centralized vs. decentralized systems and communities
  
• Virtual community and virtual team
  
• Open, large-scale communities
  
• Community-based application framework
  
• Tools and models for community management
  
• Peer to peer data and knowledge management
  
• Communities and multimedia information retrieval
  
• Recommendation system and personal assistant based on communities
  
• Middleware infrastructures for communities
  
• Web services and communities
  
• Wearable sensors, environmental sensing hardware

• Sensor-based communities, context awareness and ambient intelligence

• Mobility and virtual communities
  
• Communities based on multi-agent systems
  
• Interoperability, semantics and standards for communities
  
• Ontology-based communities
  
• Interaction, coordination, cooperation, composition within communities
  
• Autonomy, Reliability, Trust, Security, Legality, Privacy Experiences in building and maintaining community-based applications
  
• User and technical needs
  
• Supervision systems, healthcare support
  
• Impact of communities on the society, ethics
  
• Business model for communities and knowledge networks
  

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2007
Acceptance/Rejection Notification: July 30th 2007
Camera Ready Papers: August 17th, 2007

PUBLICATION:

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore.
Papers should not exceed 10 pages. High quality papers will be considered
for further review and possible inclusion in a special issue of the
International journal of web based communities (IJWBC).

CONFERENCE WEB SITE:

http://icdim.insa-lyon.fr/

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

Pierre Maret, INSA Lyon, France. Email: pierre.maret@insa-lyon.fr

Christo El Morr, York University, Canada. Email: elmorr@yorku.ca

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Nabila Benharkat, INSA Lyon, France
Klemens Böhm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Richard Etter, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Masayuki Ihara, NTT, Japan
Jalal Kawash, American University of Sharjah
Steinar Kristoffersen, University of Oslo, Norway
Guillaume Lopez, Nissan, Japan
Chumming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
Pravin Pawar, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Rami Rifaieh, University of California San Diego, USA
Ken Sasaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kimmo Tarkkanen, University of Turku, Finland
Dian Tjondronegoro, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Others (pending…)