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First International Workshop on *Network 2.0: Work and Knowledge based on Web (WKW 2006)*
19-20 April 2007 in Barcelona during the MeshUp-2007 Conference

This workshop aims at creating a forum for discussing a critical current issues for the Work and Knowledge based on Web, that is, availability. As the Web 2.0 evolves, Network and Personal environments becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing of the availability of tools and feasibility to work and knowledge management issues of web base information and communication systems. Typically, web 1.0 deal with information described in Web languages like HTML JavaScript merged with server side scripts and provide interface and web-services.

There are two basic requirements for these systems.

First, they have to satisfy the web-applications requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support.
Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use.
Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Web 2.0, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier work and knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Network 2.0 for a long time of period and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem.

This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building manageable, scalable work and knowledge web base systems for networking.

The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects:
* foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art;
* performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools;
* identification of important issues and future research directions.

Workshop Topics
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Topics of interests for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems
* Query evaluation and optimization
* Performance evaluation and benchmarks
* Network as distributed and concurrent work and knowledge web base systems.
* Large scale work environments and knowledge management systems

* Web-based information and communication integration and coordination

In addition, the workshop will include a International Conference in order to be able to evaluate the nowadays situation of issues as Social Software, AJAX, Work scenarios and trends and exchange experiences between the major world streams.

The technological area of Network 2.0, only just started to emerge and there is no commonly agreed which can be the "Glocalization" effects a short and long time.

The workshop will address this issue in a special session on new Information and communication tools and trends. In this session, existing benchmarking initiatives will be presented and discussed by organizers and participants of the workshop.

The exhibition area will be an open space for demonstrations, stands and partnership.

 

Call for papers

The Steering Committee invites submissions on the topics above mentioned for the following:

In addition, the conference will include three plenary sessions and a concluding session. Topics for the three plenary sessions are:

Contributed papers: The deadline for submission of Contributed Papers is December 31st, 2006. Papers will be anonymously refereed. Authors will be informed about the disposition of their submissions of prospective Contributed Papers by February 15th, 2007. Submissions will comprise two elements, each of which should be prepared as a separate PDF file:

Poster papers: The deadline for submission of Poster Papers is also January 31st, 2007. Authors will be informed about the disposition of their submissions of prospective Poster Papers by February 15th, 2007. Submissions will comprise two elements, each of which should be prepared as a separate PDF file:

Languages

The Conference language is English.

 

Paper Submissions
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We invite papers that report on completed or work in progress on relevant topic areas including use-cases, scenarios and descriptions of demonstrations. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee.
A submission should include a cover page including: most appropriate topic, title of the paper, names and affiliations of authors, contact author's name, address, phone number, fax number, and email address .

Submissions should be limited to a maximum of 14 pages for full papers Submissions in PDF form should be emailed to consen(@)consen.org no later than December 10th, 2006.

Important Dates
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Submissions Due: 10th December 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 10th January 2006

Organizers
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CONSEN EEIG Euro-Group: Jaume Fabra 12, 08004 Barcelona, Spain http://consen.org

 

 

Program committee
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FIRST INTERNATIONAL

CONFERENCE ON MESHUP

MeshUp: merging contents and applications for creating new info-services.

ÔÇ£ADDING VALUE TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY FROM THE CONTENT SUPPLY CHAIN, THE NETWORK INTEGRATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENT AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTSÔÇØ

ÔÇ£State of Art, Opportunities, Conflicts and Challenges of MeshUpsÔÇØ

ÔÇ£MeshUp as Office,

Class, Market, QuarterÔÇØ

Barcelona, 19-21 April, 2007

http://MeshUp.org

Trursday 19 April	Friday 20 April	Saturday 21 April	Sunday 22 April
	MeshUp International Conference
AJAX WokShop			MeshUp Camp
Social Programme

Description

MeshUp Conference has a main forum of discussion in plenary sessions, workshops and networking sessions on specific thematic areas. It is complemented with a complet Social Programme and after and before of these activities, with a more friendly and unofficial MeshUpCamps with free exchange of experience and generation of new knowledge.

Background

MeshUp new information and communication technologies to collect and merge data and available contents in new integrated applications and information services to the society.

The basic concept behind the MeshUp open space is very simple: When individuals and organisations gain free and simplified access to an integrated open base of information services, contents and platforms and are free to integrate and modify them the whole resource environment evolves. By satisfying their needs users and resource providers enhance and upgrade the system. Unlimited end-user participation will be a source of innovation.

MeshUp merges many data and contents, loosely adding knowledge in a practical information service for all. MeshUps connect crossing networks of data, breeding the usability and feasibility with hybrids contents and interfaces.

MeshUps are ecological evolving meshes of networks without obvious limits, from nanotechnological wearable processing to wireless mobile networks that distribute the infrastructure throughout all devices which store and process data in ambients intelligent in interactive systems of people and data and evolve for sustainable principles of survival.

Network 2.0 in the context of enterprise and web applications is the ability of a person or team to work and interact with other person/team through the web and internet in a join effort with all the synergistic opportunities raised by new business models, available contents and technologies and geographical localization "glocalization". Audience-relationship businesses take these proliferating content options as an opportunity, rather than a challenge. The more options there are, the more value that can be created by producing, organising, packaging, presenting and adding to these options for specific content audiences and clients. So the producers and consumers need to see themselves as members of open networks and immerse in a global Meshup. All2All or All4All.

Objectives and Topics

The Conference constitutes an opportunity to bring Information and Communication MeshUp experts, technicians, practitioners, economists, journalist and scientists to discuss the actual situation and future challenges of MeshUps and the content production and Information services provision and trade. The Conference aims to provide a forum for reviewing the state of the art and new directions in the scientific, technological, economic, social and political issues related to the MeshUp. It can also contribute to increased research and business cooperation in world projects.

MeshUp'07 Congress is an important opportunity for Scientific and Technological Community, Industrials, Content producers and information services providers, Knowledge Managers and all practitioners of the Information Society Technologies, to:

• Contact with the experts community and with other user communities;

• Plan for the future usage of the MeshUp, network applications, wireless and grid infrastructure, contents production and reutilitzation, creative and journalist, net applications developers, etc.

• Learn about the latest advances can be developed and used;

• Discuss the future evolution of the Global and specific MeshUp and Netwoks aspect;

• Identify technological and business opportunities to apply MeshUp to the Society of the Information and Knowledge.

This First MeshUp Conference is born with the aim of continuity. The future area is envisioned to be growing from the nano-technologies to complex merged MeshUp under Ambient Intelligent, exploring the creative, technical, and business potentials of MeshUp such as body implants, wearable computing, sensor based memory devices, location-based rich experiences that rely on ubiquitous computing and mobility. Applications span personalized media systems, location based games, training applications, security systems, wellness, recreational, working and living technologies.

The First International Conference on MeshUp'07 has four plenary sessions addressed to the themes, Meshup and:

1. Work, Learn and cooperation

2. Science and technology

3. Society, Citizen and Policy

4. Editorial and World Trade

First International Conference on Meshup

Network sessions and Workshops

The Conference is completed with parallel Networking and Workshop sessions. The sessions cover recent Meshup areas of developments on Four Web and Net Thematic Areas ÔÇô Work, Knowledge, Society and Trade - on a wide range of topics:

• Security, trust, identity and privacy;

• Integration, Standards, Accessibility, Usability and Interoperability;

• Ambient Intelligent and Pervasive Computing;

• Potential impacts of the Glocalization. Incomes, Market and Development;

• Abroad exploitation of local infromation services versus open-services to reach global market for local industries;

• Legal, Licensing and IPRs of data, contents, information applications and communication infrastrcutures;

• Meshup and Network impact in Work and Cooperation. IT skills and competences. Human assets and knowledge resources;

• Personal Media and IT Environments and collaborative communities;

• Social Software and Open-Source;

• Creativity and Competitiveness along the infrormation services, content production and supply chain;

• Production and consumption of information services;

• MeshUp policies. Conflicts and impact;

• Trends in MeshUp.

   

1. Work The MeshUp as Office	3.Society The MeshUp as Quarter
2. Knowledge The MeshUp as Classroom	4.Trade The MeshUp as Market

Sponsoring

MeshUp'07 is one of the most innovative international conferences in the IST research, development and business calendar. MeshUp'07 will attract over 2000 delegates and speakers from commercial, government and research organisations from 20 countries. Confirmed sponsors for MeshUp'07 include different development Community and networks. MeshUp'07 is expected to be also supported by the European Commission.

The MeshUp'07 The Organization offers the possibility to give active support to the MeshUp'07 event by means of a sponsorship, and to benefit from the media coverage and publicity of the event.

Sponsorship Opportunities: Several sponsorship items including promotional material, decorations, technical material, telecommunications, transport and hospitality are available. Depending on the sponsored items, you will receive a number of attractive benefits. Terms of agreement shall be defined on a case by case basis and will be subject to a formal, written agreement.

We are delighted to be able to offer four sponsorship levels at MeshUp'07 to raise the international profile of your organization within the international IST research, development, practitioners and stakeholders community: Diamond, Platinum, Gold & Silver Sponsor.

Each sponsorship package offers sponsors different levels of visibility at the event and benefits.

All sponsors are acknowledged in the conference documentation and on the MeshUp'07 portal. Further acknowledgement and benefits are associated with each sponsorship package as outlined below. The organisers will be happy to discuss custom sponsorship packages on request.

The Organization reserve the right to accept or decline any proposed sponsorship. Should you have further questions on MeshUp'07 sponsorship, please contact our team: consen(@)consen.org who will be pleased to provide any further information you may require.

Scientific and Programme Committee

The Scientific and Programme Committee is formed by:

• Mr.Linmi Tao (Univ. of Beijing) CHN

• Mr.Ron McQuaid (Napier Univ.) Scotland GBR

• Mr.J.M.Seigneur (Univ. of Geneva) CHE

• Mrs.M.Ramachandran (Univ.Leeds) GBR

• Mrs.Doinita Arinton (Univ.Galati, COPT) ROM

The Committees are now open to receive applications by email to

consen(@)CONSEN.org that we deal with the convenient confidentiality.

 

Social Programme

The Social Programme has long been an integral part of this conference series. The goal is to maximise networking and community building both during and after the conference, while ensuring that partners accompanying delegates enjoy their stay in Barcelona and feel part of the MeshUp community.

It has four main acts:

The Gala Dinner held on Thursday 20 April. Tickets for the Gala Dinner will be restricted and assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

Evening Walk in the Friday and Saturday evening by the Gothic Quartier and Ramblas followed by a dinner in the Old Harbour and city, respectively.

A outdoor unofficial lunch in Sunday for all the BarCamp and Congress participants and guided visit to the CaixaForum Modernist building and expositions.

Venue

The MeshUp'07 Conference takes place in Barcelona (at the Modernist Building of CaixaForum in the centre of the city (Metro Station: Spain Square. Plaza Espa├▒a) (to be confirmed) in the Montjuic area.

Practical Information.

Please wear your name badge for all MeshUp'07 activities, as it is your identification and allows you access to the facilities on offer. Unfortunately, conferences provide a tempting target for thieves, so please take care of bags, personal computers and other personal belongings, as any other big cosmopolitan city.

Important dates

September, 20^th, 2006: Call for papers

November, 20^st, 2006: Scientific and Programme Committee

December, 31^st, 2006: Deadline for contributed and poster papers

February, 10^th, 2007: Notification of Contributions acceptance

February, 20^th, 2007: Deadline for reduced fee registration

March, 10^th, 2007: Final Programme

April, 10^th, 2007: Deadline for Inscriptions

April, 19^th, 2007: MeshUpCamp

April, 20^rd-21^th, 2007: Conference

April, 22^th, 2007: MeshUpCamp

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

Meshup information

• http://wiki.idmashup.org/Identity_Mashup

• http://www.meshconference.com

• http://MeshUp.org

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshup

General information

• Barcelona home site

• Barcelona tourist guide

• Barcelona total tourism

• Barcelona online

• Barcelona tourism

• Catalunya tourism

• Interactive map of Barcelona's underground

• Travelcards information (types and prices)

• Interactive map of Barcelona

Registration Fees

prior 2007-02-20	General	Students
Conference	240Ôé¼	100Ôé¼
BarCamps	Free

Accompanies and social events to be detailed and publish during the next weeks on the website.

There will be a limited amount of grants covering registration fees, travelling and accommodation for scientific and technological committee and researchers with accepted contributed or poster papers.

Organization

The organization and the event itselft are non-profit and is directed and coordinate by:

MUFICATA

Mr.Seamus Keating (MUFICATA s.l.)

CONSEN EEIG Euro-Group

Mr.Ferran Cabrer (CONSEN EEIG )

Jaume Fabra 12

08004 Barcelona ESP

Email: consen(@)consen.org

for further information, please contact ius or consult the official website http://MesUp.org