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Preliminary Call for Papers

The 2006 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2006)
May 14-17, 2006
Luxor Hotel, Resort and Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

In Technical Sponsorship with the IEEE (Pending)

(Submission Deadline: December 30, 2005)

Invitation:
You
are cordially invited to participate in and attend the International
Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems to be held May
14-17, 2006 at the Luxor Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the
state-of-the-art in collaborative enterprises, their modeling and
simulation, design and use, and their impact. Participation is extended
to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all CTS
disciplines and specialties.
Purpose: The symposium will include invited presentations from experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in collaborative technologies, collaborative systems and all related issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, panel discussions and exhibits.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Frameworks and Methodologies for Collaboration
- Architectures and Design of Collaborative Systems
- Coordination, Cooperation and Collaboration
- Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (CE)
- Collaboration Enabling Technologies
- Analysis & Visualization of Collaborative Applications
- Tools for Collaborative Environments
- Enterprise and CE Heterogeneity
- Information Infrastructure for Collaboration
- Platforms for Collaboration
- Mobile and Wireless Collaborative Systems
- Web Infrastructure for Collaborative Applications
- Collaborative Human-Centric Systems
- Data Mining & Warehousing for Collaborative Technologies
- Collaborative Knowledge Management
- Collaborative Decision Making and Support
- Information Exchange and Fusion in CE
- Interfaces for Collaborative Work
- Shared Virtual Reality and Applications
- Intelligent Agents in Collaborative Applications
- Multi Agent Systems in Collaboration
- Cluster-based Collaborative & Distributed Systems
- Grid-based Collaborative Environments
- Collaborative Enterprise Security & Access Control
- Trusted and Reputation Based Collaboration
- Role-based Policies and Algorithms
- Coordination and Cooperation Mechanisms
- Context-& Situation based Collaboration
- Awareness in Collaborative Systems
- Work and the Virtual Collaborative World
- Collaborative Machines and Robots
- Designing Collaborative Organizations
- Collaborative Autonomous Systems & Vehicles
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Purpose:
The
symposium will include invited presentations from experts from
academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper
presentations describing original work on the current state of research
in collaborative technologies, collaborative systems and all related
issues. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special
sessions, demos, panel discussions and exhibits.

For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://www.engr.udayton.edu/faculty/wsmari/cts06.

Technorati tags: cfp, collaboration

Today I had a meeting with another student in my program to discuss a small forum (maximum 40 people) we are organising on campus next February. We are searching for ideas and will be giving a short synopsis about what we will do in our next departmental meeting on the 14th so any advice would be appreciated.

Our forum will be entitled “Visualising Sustainability”. We would like to take a number of local speakers and moderate a forum in which we hear different perspectives regarding the relationship between technology, communication, and sustainability. I think it would be interesting to hear someone that would talk about mobile technology and sustainability or have a discussion about how social software can be used as a global medium to promote sustainability issues.

Any ideas for discussion topics or do you know people that have sustainability interests in the Vancouver area?

Relevance: Does anyone wonder where discarded computer technology ends up? According to this report entitled “The Digital Dump”, it is developing countries. It would be beneficial to hear first-person reports in a open-discussion format.

Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental problems in some of the world’s poorest places

Technorati tags: sustainability, vsforum, computer, africa, developing, socialsoftware, technology

I will be blogging from tagcamp. It looks pretty cool. One of my supervisors (Lee Iverson) will be speaking at 8pm entitled Why Tagging Works and When Tagging Doesn’t Work. Apparently, I am giving a talk tomorrow. Hmmm. How did THAT happen?

Relevance: Totally cool to be an environment surrounded by interesting people discussing something that is important to you.

Technorati tags: tagcamp, tagging

I’m flying to tagcamp this weekend. There is an extensive listing of participants already. It should be a great opportunity to learn about different facets of tagging, folksonomies, and metadata.

Relevance: An opportunity to talk about my thesis project on tagging and meet people with similar interests. Can’t pass up this opportunity.

Technorati tags: tagging, folksonomy, tagcamp

This would be really interesting to attend. Found via urban atmospheres mailing list
Testing…
This is Not a Simulation

http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Experiments/Testing/

In collaboration with Anthony Burke and David Ross

Intel’s Urban Atmospheres presents a single evening event at SFMoMA….

Where are we? Locative media, GPS in car navigation, and the barrage of emerging location technologies are upon us? Somehow more than ever we find ourselves lost in the sea of longitudes and latitudes. A new wireless numerology? We invite you to thrust yourself within a space where mobs, crowds, tuples, and even the wallflower are active participants in a delicious interactive architecture of interwoven patterns. Tags, RFID, and tessellated surfaces thrust themselves into a feedback system generously lubricated by alcohol.

Thursday 27 October 2005 (ONE NIGHT ONLY)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard Streets)
San Francisco, CA

6:30 Artist talk by Edgar Arceneaux
7:00 Event featuring Testing…This is Not a Simulation
9:00 Close

** First 180 people receive active tags

$20 general; $10 SFMOMA members. Members may purchase one guest ticket at
the discounted price. Tickets are available at the Museum (no surcharge) or online.

Relevance: Opportunity to learn about tagging and location-based technologies in physical, urban spaces.

Technorati tags: urban, museum, locationbased, tagging

Lots of writing, lots of thinking

Convert Resource Folders 1-10 for Samia
revitalised working on thesis project
work on ethics form for balderdash project

___sagasnet___creativelab on concepting pervasive multi user applications___

___Moderated by: Frank Boyd, Craig Lindley
___invited guest speaker: Jane McGonigal
___January 26 2006 - February 01 2006, Oulu, Finland
Peer-to-peer creative cross disciplinary lab on concepting interactive narrative pervasive applications. Attendees will form teams of three to five members and develop during this intense 5-day think tank concepts for pervasive narrative multi-user applications considering challenges, limitations and advantages of the choice of genre.

In this lab the attendees - all experienced professionals themselves - will serve as experts as well. Requirements for participation: At least two years experience in developing mobile or multi-user or mixed reality applications.

To apply for this lab please send an email to sagas@sagas.de with your cv stating your professional experience and skills as well as a special interest topic you would like to explore during the lab.

found via sagas mailing list

Relevance: Brings together a diverse group of people that share common interests in pervasive places. I would be interested in discussing the unintended consequences of using pervasive applications in everyday life. It is an excellent opportunity to visit the country that is home to the annual Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships.

Technorati tags: cfp, mobile, pervasive

Yesterday Socialight launched a service that enables you to receive messages left by people at certain locations called “sticky shadows“.

It is from NYC and another cool former academic project from ITP (e.g. dodgeball)

Relevance: How do you balance between receiving fun messages from friends vs. annoying messages from advertisers?

Technorati tags: locationbased, mobile

Just got my Flock invitation. Yah!!!!

We can’t wait any longer. Today, we are pleased to invite you to try what will very soon become the Flock Developer Preview.

More details to come after preview.

Relevance: I’ve heard alot about Flock. Let’s see the hype matches the product.

Technorati tags: flock

After reading about Suw Charman on David Weinberger’s blog, I am very interested to hear her speak and meet other bloggers at Northern Voice 2006, the blogging conference here in Vancouver, next February 10-11.

mini-bumper sticker complements of Rob Cottingham

If I could find some other student bloggers that are interested, I could organise a panel for us.

I will also attend moosecamp which is modelled on foocamp and barcamp here the day before.

Hope to see you there!!!!

update: Schedule for Saturday is now up.

Relevance: I haven’t attended any blogging conferences yet and I am excited to meet fellow bloggers. If I was in NYC this week, I would be at Blogon. What would be really cool is if Vancouver had a tagging event like tagcamp as I would get to chill with fellow students into tagging like Sacha.

Technorati tags: northernvoice, conference, conference, nv06,