Submission (2nd call): 18 December 2006


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                                   IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB
BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
                                         February 18-20, 2007 -
SALAMANCA, SPAIN

http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/

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* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Jenny Preece, Dean, College of Information Studies,
University of Maryland, 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
2007 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 2007 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. 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, Reflection 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 (2nd call): 18 December 2006
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): 10 January 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call):
Until 23 January 2007
- Late Registration (2nd call): After 23 January 2007
- Conference: Salamanca, Spain, 18 to 20 February 2007

* Conference Location: The conference will be held in Salamanca,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.webcommunities-
conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2007
http://www.computing-conf.org/ - 17-20 February 2007

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

An International Training Program on "INFORMATION":


STIMULATE
= Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and
Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 7)


Announcement


Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium,
for 3 months from May 2 to July 27, 2007
Language used is English.
Our motto is
“Helping educators and innovators to advance knowledge and to enrich lives”


Context and evolution of the program:

The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council
(VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international
training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree
(Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and
documentation centres, and libraries, including of course university
libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.
The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program
reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is
stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the
infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".


Aim / goal of the training program:

The main aim and goal of this International Training Program is to offer a
stimulating learning environment to the participants. These are young
scientists and professionals who have a function as information
intermediary in the area of science and technology, so as to sharpen their
skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing
information. This can be of great benefit to the teaching and research
activities going on in their institute and to the further development of
their organisation and region.
This initiative corresponds well with the basic, general aim of all VLIR
the International Training Programs: to train young scientists and
professionals from developing countries in a domain that is relevant for
the further development of the country, and to stimulate the participants
to transfer their increased knowledge and skills to their colleagues and
other stakeholders in their home country.


More specific objectives of the training program:

-- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of
information in general and for their environment in particular, and on how
to manage information:
summarised: ”Management in libraries and information centres”
-- to learn the participants to cope with modern technology, in view of the
increasing importance of ICT;
summarised: “Information and communication technology for libraries and
information centres”
-- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on
an international scale:
summarised: “Information retrieval/searching”
and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information
resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: “Information architecture”

After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every
participant will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for
their organisation
-- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate
information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and management of information,
using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an
information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users of information,
information providers, colleagues,…
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information
systems and services
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users,
using information technology


Contents of the program:

3 months means about 10 weeks or about 50 days.

During about 3 days per week for 10 weeks = 30 days, the participants will
be guided by professors and other experts.

During the other 2 days per week for 10 weeks = 20 days, they will work on
tasks=assignments as individuals or in groups, and their reports will be
presented and discussed afterwards again guided by professors and other
experts.
The sessions are organised in such a way that
--the first month = introduction level,
--the second month = intermediate level, and
--the third month = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may make sense to participate
exceptionally during only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships are granted only to persons
who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an orientation tour of the
University and the University Library. Then some of the following subjects
are covered. Of course, due to the limited available time, not all the
mentioned subjects can be discussed in each training program, but a
SELECTION will be made by the organisers. The concrete content of each
training program depends on the availability of suitable expert lecturers
from Belgium and from abroad during the period of the training program. As
soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made available through the WWW
site of the program.


1. Management in libraries and information centers:

Statistics to support decision making for information science and for
library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of electronic journals and
databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification schemes; thesaurus systems,
ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Architecture of libraries and information centers.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and information technology
transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related to the establishment of an
information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.


2. Information and communication technology for libraries and information
centers:

Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data communication; computer networks; Internet.
Internet services.
Client-server systems.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system; writing a proposal for a
computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Methods for access to databases through Internet: telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50
and ISO239.50, Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol.


3. Information retrieval/searching:

Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database searching; search tactics and
strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge; open access.
Online access databases about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.


4. Information architecture:

Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family for information storage
and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data in a database, output of
selected data to file or printer; developing a database structure; indexing
data for fast retrieval; ISIS for Windows; WINISIS; history and future of
ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Relational databases.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.
Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).


Study visits:

In addition to the courses taking place at the university campus, study
visits are organised.
A selection from the following possible visits is made:
--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology Department of the Royal Museum
on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on information and library
science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the human sciences library of the University of Antwerp in old Antwerp
city, Belgium
--to the old central library and to the modern science and technology
library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and documentation centre near the
sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen
/ Antwerp, Belgium
--to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the Royal Tropical
Institute), and to the high school on libraries, documentation and
information, both in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the headquarters of IFLA and to the National, Royal Library in Den
Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in Den Haag / The Hague, in
Nederland / The Netherlands
More culturally oriented guided visits are also organised; these may
include trips to the old cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam,
Paris, and to the North Sea coast.
Soon after the start of the program, each participant presents to the other
participants and to interested lecturers his/her interests, working
environment, planning, tasks, experience. This is organised with printed
posters in a small poster exhibition with time allotted for stimulating and
ice-breaking discussions.
At the end of the course, each participant completes a presentation
supported by slides managed on computer, with constructive comments on the
training program experienced and with concrete recommendations to the
organisers of this training program and to the director of their own
organisation.

About half of the time, the participants are guided by experts who are
invited to the university. They use the other half time to solve problems,
to make exercises, to use microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare
discussions, for self study...
Besides the formal, guided course activities, the participants have access
like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed material, CD-ROMs and PCs
with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.

At the end of the program all participants obtain a certificate stating
that they have indeed participated, with a reference to the full detailed
overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program.
Several substantial parts of the program are followed by an evaluation by
the responsible expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by each
participant; this can lead to a certificate of active and successful
participation.

Participants should of course bring a notebook or laptop computer, if they
have one available.
Ideally they should buy or rent a personal notebook computer as soon as
they arrive, assisted by the program organisers.


Poster session by participants:

Each participant is expected to create a poster about ongoing activities
related to information management in their home institution. This poster is
presented in a poster session early in the program. In this way,
participants and some professors get to know each other efficiently and the
participants learn to present information in the format of a scientific
poster. Therefore, participants are encouraged to bring supporting
materials like folders, leaflets, photos, maps, etc… for inclusion in their
poster.


Scientific tutorial presentations by participants:

Each participant is expected to present a tutorial presentation during the
program of maximum 15 minutes, with 10 minutes of questions and answers
plus discussion foreseen. The audience is composed of the other
participants. The topic of each presentation is one aspect of their
expertise. The aims are the following:
- participants improve their scientific presentation, teaching and
communication skills,
- they share their knowledge with the other participants,
- participants get to know each other better,
- the session may form a basis for possible later co-operation, etc…


Teachers, professors, experts, resource persons:

The following will be invited. They may contribute as they did in previous
programs, if their agenda and the limited duration of the training program
allow this:
Collier, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
Dekeyser, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
De Keyser, Hogeschool, and Library School, Belgium
Dell'Orso, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
De Smet, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, and INASP, UK
Egghe, Hasselt University and Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Koninckx, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
Holans, KUL, Leuven, Belgium
Hopkinson, London, England, UK
Nieuwenhuysen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
Nyssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
Quiroga, University of Hawai, USA
Rousseau, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
Vanden Berghe, VLIZ, Oostende, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel,
Belgium
Vanderpijpen, Royal/National Library, Brussel, Belgium


Social activities planned:

- Welcome reception with drinks and appetizers. (first evening of the program)
- Evening with the possibility to taste some of the world-famous Belgian
beers and some Belgian food.
- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks. (final evening of the program)


Participation, registration=tuition fee and costs:


Grants=scholarships:

Participation is free of charge (!) for 12 participants from developing
countries. They are selected by the Steering Committee of the program, by
VLIR (the Flemish Inter-university Council) section for University
Co-operation VLIR-UOS, and by DGOS. They also receive a grant to cover the
costs of accommodation and a return flight ticket. The detailed forms
needed to request a grant=scholarship should be available through the
Internet from the WWW site of VLIR-UOS. Their site is http://www.vliruos.be/
At the time of writing this text, the required forms could be downloaded
from
http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=380&direct_to=Scholarships_Programme
and from
http://www.vliruos.be/index.php?navid=322&direct_to=Downloads
Grant applications must be received by VLIR before the end of January! (and
NOT before the end of February as in previous years up to 2005)
Official and formal requests for a grant-scholarship or any other
correspondence about the grants should be sent to VLIR-UOS in Brussels, and
NOT to the organizers/co-ordinators of this specific program.
If this procedure is not suitable for you, you can contact your local
Belgian embassy or VLIR-UOS. The e-mail address is scholarships@...
The ideal participant applying for a grant is younger than 40 years, and
will be able to apply what has been learned directly in a professional
scientific or technical environment afterwards.


Normal registration:

Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through
VLIR, 8 persons can participate after paying a registration=tuition fee
that is small in comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel, meals and accommodation, but
do include transport from the airport upon arrival, course materials, study
visits and social activities.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate for the whole period can
nevertheless participate during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1 month
only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend for instance the first month or
the first two months only. It makes less sense to participate only during
the second or the third month, as introductions to some activities or
topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from the program: 30 Euro per
half day.

To register and pay the registration=tuition fee, send the form (see below)
by classical mail or by private courier, together with an international
bank transfer / bank cheque / bank draft, payable to
University Library Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL,
Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple and fast procedure is NOT suitable for you, then you
can transfer the required sum of money to the following bank account of the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark:
for internal account VOPA21 BIBLINK3 University Library STIMULATE
International Training Program
The money received by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel financial department
must be transferred internally; this transfer takes about 1 week, which
means a delay in the registration procedure that is better avoided.
(Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.)
Realize that some bank transfer costs are involved and that these should be
paid besides the requested participation fee that is transferred.

There is no formal deadline. However, we recommend you to register as early
as possible, because “first come, first served”: the arrival of your
participation fee determines who can participate. Furthermore the later a
participant is registered, the more difficult it becomes to find cheap and
suitable accommodation.

There is NO need to “apply” prior to the registration, to request
permission to participate or to be accepted, from the organizers of the
program or from their universities. The decision if the program is suitable
and appropriate for an interested person is to be made by that person and
not by the organizers. This is similar as participation to a conference.
Invitation letters can be sent on request if needed, but in principle only
when the participation = registration fee has been received. This
announcement is in fact an invitation.

It is a waste of time to ask the organisers of the program about sponsors
besides VLIR mentioned above.

Medical insurance:

Participants are covered during their stay by a full medical insurance.
This costs about 40 Euro per month.
This is formalised as soon as possible after arrival in Belgium, with the
secretariat of the program.


Accommodation:

The organisers of this program normally book in advance a single, cheap,
basic room with access to a shared kitchen, as accommodation for each
participant, unless a participant writes us that he/she wants to take care
of accommodation personally, for instance by staying with a friend or by
renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their accommodation directly to the person or
organisation providing accommodation in Brussels, as soon as they arrive in
Belgium. If we can book many weeks in advance, then we can normally find
basic accommodation for about 300 euro per month, meals not included;
however, a late receipt of the registration=tuition fee forces us probably
to book a more expensive room.


The cost of living in Belgium

According to previous participants and in agreement with the grants
provided by VLIR-UOS, 1100 euro per month should be enough to cover all
expenses, including accommodation, transport, food…


How to contact the organizers?

E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in case that this does not
seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be)
(change at in @ when you want to use an address)
Fax  32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)
Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429  or 32 2 629 2609
Telex 61051 vubco-b
Classical mail:
STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University Library, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM


Location:

The training is mainly organized at the University Library of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B). The campus is located south of the older
centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be reached by Metro
(subway), tram and bus.
Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be found through the WWW; see
for instance:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels
http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in Brussels (in French and in
Dutch)
http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/ offers information on Brussels
and some photos, based on the experience of living there for some time
http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml
http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm offers an interactive map
and photos of Brussels
http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/
http://www.jack-travel.com/
http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels
http://www.timeout.com/brussels/
http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html
http://www.visitbelgium.com/

Interesting trips are possible to places in neighbouring countries like The
Netherlands and France. Therefore, participants should try to obtain also a
visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).


Program and Steering Committee:

The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen, Science
and technology librarian of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/professional/
An official, formal Steering Committee is composed of members from the
co-operating universities in Flanders,
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
- Universiteit Antwerpen
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
This Steering Committee supervises the organisation, the program and the
budget. This committee reports formally to VLIR.

Feel free to distribute this document; this version is dated November 12, 2006.


____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________
to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a letter AND I pay the
registration=tuition fee as described in the announcement of the
International Training Program on INFORMATION.
(So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant.
Use this form only when you pay the registration=tuition fee.)
   a. Family name (surname): ...............................
(married female participants please fill in maiden-name as well as name of
husband)
b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............
Personal address: ...................................
     .....................................................
Country:.............................................
Electronic mail address
Telephone, fax, telex:

Date of birth:                                     Place of birth:
Nationality:                                       Sex: male / female

Present employment:
a. Name and address of employer: .................
        ...............................................
        ...............................................
b. Since: ../../..
c. Position – function - specialization
d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:

Education - studies:
     Name of institute   Degree   Date





Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......
Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:


Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:
.................................................................
.................................................................

Please book a room for me   OR
Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation

Date and signature:………………………………………….

Please include a recent photograph, as this will simplify identifying you
upon arrival.

Submission Deadline extended: 13 November 2006


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                                   IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB
BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
                                         February 18-20, 2007 -
SALAMANCA, SPAIN

http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/

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* 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
2007 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 2007 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. 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, Reflection 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 extended: 13 November 2006
- Notification to Authors: 15 December 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 8
January 2007
- Late Registration: After 8 January 2007
- Conference: Salamanca, Spain, 18 to 20 February 2007

* Conference Location: The conference will be held in Salamanca,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.webcommunities-
conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2007
http://www.computing-conf.org/ - 17-20 February 2007

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

Submission Deadline: 9 October 2006


*************************************************************
                                   IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB
BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
                                         February 18-20, 2007 -
SALAMANCA, SPAIN

http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/

*************************************************************

* 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
2007 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 2007 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. 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: 9 October 2006
- Notification to Authors: 15 December 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 8
January 2007
- Late Registration: After 8 January 2007
- Conference: Salamanca, Spain, 18 to 20 February 2007

* Conference Location: The conference will be held in Salamanca,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.webcommunities-
conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Committee Members:

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2007
http://www.computing-conf.org/ - 17-20 February 2007

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

Grants are not available anymore,
but we can accept 8 more participants without a grant.


An International Training Program on "INFORMATION":

STIMULATE
= Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and
Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 6)


Announcement


Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium,
from Monday morning October 2 to Thursday evening December 21, 2006.
Language used is English.





Context and evolution of the program:

The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council
(VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international
training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree
(Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and
documentation centers, and libraries, including of course university
libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.
The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program
reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is
stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the
infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".





Aim / goal of the training program:

The main aim and goal of this International Training Program is to offer a
stimulating learning environment to the participants. These are young
scientists and professionals who have a function as information
intermediary in the area of science and technology, so as to sharpen their
skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing
information. This can be of great benefit to the teaching and research
activities going on in their institute and to the further development of
their organisation and region.
This initiative corresponds well with the basic, general aim of all VLIR
the International Training Programs: to train young scientists and
professionals from developing countries in a domain that is relevant for
the further development of the country, and to stimulate the participants
to transfer their increased knowledge and skills to their colleagues and
other stakeholders in their home country.





More specific objectives of the training program:

-- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of
information in general and for their environment in particular, and on how
to manage information:
summarised: ”Management in libraries and information centers”
-- to learn the participants to cope with modern technology, in view of the
increasing importance of ICT;
summarised: “Information and communication technology for libraries and
information centers”
-- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on
an international scale:
summarised: “Information retrieval/searching”
and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information
resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: “Information architecture”

After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every
participant will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for
their organisation
-- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate
information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and management of information,
using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an
information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users of information,
information providers, colleagues,…
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information
systems and services
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users,
using information technology





Contents of the program:

The sessions are organised in such a way that
--the first month               = introduction level,
--the second month           = intermediate level, and
--the third month              = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may make sense to participate
exceptionally during only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships are granted only to persons
who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an orientation tour of the
University and the Library. Then some of the following subjects are
covered. Of course, due to the limited available time, not all the
mentioned subjects can be discussed in each training program, but a
SELECTION will be made by the organisers. The concrete content of each
training program depends on the availability of suitable expert lecturers
from Belgium and from abroad during the period of the training program. As
soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made available through the WWW
site of the program.





1. Management in libraries and information centers:

Statistics to support decision making for information science and for
library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of electronic journals and
databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification schemes; thesaurus systems,
ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Architecture of libraries and information centers.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and information technology
transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related to the establishment of an
information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.





2. Information and communication technology for libraries and information
centers:

Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data communication; computer networks; Internet.
Internet services.
Client-server systems.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system; writing a proposal for a
computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Methods for access to databases through Internet: telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50
and ISO239.50, Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol.





3. Information retrieval/searching:

Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database searching; search tactics and
strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge; open access.
Online access databases about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.





4. Information architecture:

Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family for information storage
and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data in a database, output of
selected data to file or printer; developing a database structure; indexing
data for fast retrieval; ISIS for Windows; WINISIS; history and future of
ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Relational databases.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.
Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).





Study visits:

In addition to the courses taking place at the university campus, study
visits are organised.
A selection from the following possible visits is made:
--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology Department of the Royal Museum
on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on information and library
science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the human sciences library of the University of Antwerp in old Antwerp
city, Belgium
--to the old central library and to the modern science and technology
library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and documentation centre near the
sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen
/ Antwerp, Belgium
--to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the Royal Tropical
Institute), and to the high school on libraries, documentation and
information, both in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the headquarters of IFLA and to the National, Royal Library in Den
Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in Den Haag / The Hague, in
Nederland / The Netherlands
More culturally oriented guided visits are also organised; these may
include trips to the old cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam,
Paris, and to the North Sea coast.
Short after the start of the program, each participant presents to the
other participants and to interested lecturers his/her interests, working
environment, planning, tasks, experience. This is organised with printed
posters in a small poster exhibition with time allotted for stimulating and
ice-breaking discussions.
At the end of the course, each participant completes a presentation
supported by slides managed on computer, with constructive comments on the
training program experienced and with concrete recommendations to the
organisers of this training program and to the director of their own
organisation.

About half of the time, the participants are guided by experts who are
invited to the university. They use the other half time to solve problems,
to make exercises, to use microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare
discussions, for self study...
Besides the formal, guided course activities, the participants have access
like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed material, CD-ROMs and PCs
with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.

At the end of the program all participants obtain a certificate stating
that they have indeed participated, with a reference to the full detailed
overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program.
Several substantial parts of the program are followed by an evaluation by
the responsible expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by each
participant; this can lead to a certificate of active and successful
participation.

Participants should of course bring a notebook or laptop computer, if they
have one available.
Ideally they should buy or rent a personal notebook computer as soon as
they arrive, assisted by the program organisers.





Poster session by participants:

Each participant is expected to create a poster about ongoing activities in
their home institution. This poster is presented in a poster session early
in the program. In this way, participants and professors get to know each
other efficiently and the participants learn to present information in the
format of a scientific poster. Therefore, participants are encouraged to
bring supporting materials like folders, leaflets, photos, maps, etc… for
inclusion in their poster.





Scientific tutorial presentations by participants:

Each participant is expected to present a tutorial of maximum half an hour
to the other participants, about one aspect of their expertise, during the
program. The aims are that participants improve their presentation and
teaching skills, that they share their knowledge with the other
participants, that participants get to know each other better, that they
form a basis for possible later co-operation etc…





Social activities planned:

-- Welcome reception with drinks and appetizers (on the first evening of
the program)
-- Evening with the possibility to taste some of the world famous Belgian
beers and some Belgian food.
-- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks (on the final evening of the
program)





Participation and registration; tuition fee and costs:

The cost of living in Belgium is not exceptional.





Normal registration:

Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through
VLIR, 8 persons can participate after paying a tuition fee that is small in
comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel, meals and accommodation, but
do include transport from the airport upon arrival, course materials, study
visits and social activities.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate for the whole period can
nevertheless participate during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1 month
only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend for instance the first month or
the first two months only. It makes less sense to participate only during
the second or the third month, as introductions to some activities or
topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from the program: 30 Euro per
half day.
To register and pay the tuition fee, send the form (see below) by classical
mail together with an international bank transfer / bank cheque / bank
draft, payable to
University Library V.U.B., Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable for you, then you can
transfer the required sum of money to the following bank account of the V.U.B.:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark: for WD006240 BIBL WER3
The money received by the VUB must be transferred internally to this account.
(Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.)

There is no formal deadline. However, we recommend you to register as early
as possible, because “first come, first served”: the arrival of your
participation fee determines who can participate.

There is NO need to “apply” prior to the registration, to request
permission to participate from the organizers of the program or from their
universities. The decision if the program is suitable and appropriate for
an interested person is to be made by that person and not by the organizers.

It is a waste of time to ask the organisers of the program about sponsors
besides VLIR mentioned above.




Medical insurance:

It is recommended that participants are covered during their stay by a full
medical insurance.
This costs 40 euro per month, if you want that the program organisers take
care of this; in that case this should be arranged as soon as possible
after arrival in Belgium, with the secretariat of the program.





Accommodation:

The organisers of this program normally book in advance a single, cheap,
basic room with access to a shared kitchen, as accommodation for each
participant, unless a participant writes us that he/she wants to take care
of accommodation personally, for instance by staying with a friend or by
renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their accommodation directly to the person or
organisation providing accommodation in Brussels, as soon as they arrive in
Belgium. If we can book many weeks in advance, then we can normally find
basic accommodation for about 300 euro per month, meals not included;
however, a late receipt of the tuition fee forces us probably to book a
more expensive room.





How to contact the organizers?

E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in case that this does not
seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be)
(change at in @ when you want to use an address)
Fax  32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)
Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429  or 32 2 629 2609
Telex 61051 vubco-b
Classical mail:
STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University Library, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM





Location:

The training is mainly organized at the University Library of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B). The campus is located south of the older
centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be reached by Metro
(subway), tram and bus.
Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be found through the WWW; see
for instance:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussels
http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in Brussels (in French and in
Dutch)
http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/ offers information on Brussels
and some photos, based on the experience of living there for some time
http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml
http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm offers an interactive map
and photos of Brussels
http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/
http://www.jack-travel.com/
http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels
http://www.timeout.com/brussels/
http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html
http://www.visitbelgium.com/

Trips are perhaps organised to places in neighbouring countries like The
Netherlands and France. Therefore, participants should try to obtain also a
visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).





Program and Steering Committee:

The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen, Science
and technology librarian of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/professional/index.html
An official, formal Steering Committee is composed of members from the
co-operating universities in Flanders,
-Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
-Universiteit Antwerpen
-Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
This Steering Committee supervises the organisation, the program and the
budget; this committee reports formally to VLIR.

Feel free to distribute this document; this version is dated July 14, 2006.


____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________
to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B.),
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a letter AND I pay the
registration fee as described in the announcement of the International
Training Program on INFORMATION.
(So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant.
Use this form only when you pay the registration fee.)
   a. Family name (surname): ...............................
(married female participants please fill in maiden-name as well as name of
husband)
b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............
Personal address: ...................................
     .....................................................
Country:.............................................
Electronic mail address
Telephone, fax, telex:

Date of birth:                                     Place of birth:
Nationality:                                       Sex: male / female

Present employment:
a. Name and address of employer: .................
        ...............................................
        ...............................................
b. Since: ../../..
c. Position ­ function - specialization
d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:

Education - studies:
     Name of institute   Degree   Date





Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......
Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:


Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:
.................................................................
.................................................................

Please book a room for me   OR
Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation

I take care of a medical insurance myself          OR
Please see that I am covered by a medical insurance for my stay in Belgium,
which costs 40 euro/month, to be paid upon arrival.

Date and signature:………………………………………….

Please include a recent photograph, as this will simplify identifying you
upon arrival.

International Workshop On Research Issues in Digital Libraries(IWRIDL 2006)
12th - 15th December, 2006, Kolkata, India

Please check the workshop website
  http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/

Call For Participation

The number of Digital Library initiatives worldwide has been
increasing in recent times. The problem of organizing and accessing
information from these digital libraries has given rise to research
issues like indexing and retrieval, multilingual and multimedia
information processing, natural language processing and many others.
This workshop is intended to give participants a better understanding
of these issues, along with an awareness of state-of-the-art tools and
technologies involved in digital libraries, through invited lectures
by internationally renowned researchers, practitioners, and
developers. Interested participants from academia, government and
industry are invited to attend the workshop to exchange views and to
help formulate future directions of research in this exciting area.

The workshop will address the following sub-areas:

Indexing/Retrieval
Multilingual Information Access
Natural Language Processing
Document Analysis and  Processing
IR/DL Tools
Standardization Issues (Archiving, Annotation, Metadata)


We are delighted to have among us as

Contributors :

Karen Sparck Jones (confirmed)
Donald H. Kraft (confirmed)

Contributors and Speakers :

Stephen Robertson
Gerard Huet
Carol Peters
Michel Beigbeder
Stephen M. Griffin
Brigitte Grau
Hiromichi Fujisawa
David Doermann
William I. Grosky
Joemon M. Jose
Prateek Sarkar
Hsin-Hsi Chen
Edward A. Fox
Ian H. Witten
Michael S. Hart
Henry S. Baird


Important Dates:

Position Paper- 4th Oct. 2006
Registration- 31st Oct. 2006
Workshop- 12th - 15th Dec. 2006

For details:
http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/
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Dear Colleague

This is a call for participation for the e-Society conference to be
held in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 13–16 July 2006, organised
by IADIS and co-organised by Trinity College.

Please find the preliminary program below. The 2006 edition of the e-
Society conference will comprise three keynote talks from well known
world experts:
Norm Sondheimer, co-Director Electronic Enterprise Institute,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Daniel Rainey, Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute
Resolution Services for the National Mediation Board, USA
Professor Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Professor Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of
Michigan, USA
Professor Cathie Norris,University of North Texas in Denton, USA

For registration details please access
http://www.iadis.org/es2006/rates.asp .

If you feel this email might be of interest to a colleague or
student please re-send it to him or her. Thank you.

Best regards,
Prof. Pedro Isaías, Prof. Maggie McPherson and Prof. Frank Bannister


Here is the Preliminary program:

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Thursday 13th, July 2006
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08:30-19:00 Welcome Desk

09:30-10:00 Session O – Opening Session (Theatre LB04)
Prof. Pedro Isaías, Prof. Maggie McPherson and Prof. Frank Bannister

10:00-11:00 Session KL1 – Keynote Presentation (Theatre LB04)
E-GOVERNMENT AND ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Norm Sondheimer, co-Director Electronic Enterprise Institute,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Daniel Rainey. Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute
Resolution Services for the National Mediation Board, USA

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session FP 13.1: eLearning (Collaborative Learning)
(Theatre LB01)

UTILISING CSCL COMMUNITIES TO ADVANCE PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS'
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TEACHING MATHEMATICS (F_049)
Rod Nason, Chris Chalmers and Andy Yeh

FOSTERING LEARNING COMMUNITIES WITH GAME-BASED LEARNING (F_061)
Stephan Lukosch

DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND INITIAL EVALUATION OF A CASE-BASED
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION (F_265)
Ma. Pamela D. Patdu and Alvin B. Marcelo

11:30-13:10 Session FSP 13.2: Information Management (Human Computer
Interaction) (Theatre LB04)

E-CREATIVITY: INVESTIGATING COMPUTER-SUPPORTED CREATIVITY (F_166)
R. T. Jim Eales, Sophie Nichol and Dharani Perera

UNVOICED SPEECH CONTROL BASED ON VOWELS DETECTED BY FACIAL SURFACE
ELECTROMYOGRAM (F_172)
Sridhar Poosapadi Arjunan, Dinesh Kant Kumar, Wai Chee Yau and Hans
Weghorn

SUPPORTING PARTICIPATORY URBAN PLANNING SYSTEMS WITH MOBILE DEVICES
(S_295)
Teija Vainio

FIND THE INFORMATION YOU WANT ON THE WEB, HOW LIKELY COULD BE GET IT
SUCCESSFULLY? (S_296)
Mª Teresa González Aparicio, Ángel Neira Álvarez and Jose Antonio
López Brugos

11:30-12:10 Session SP 13.3: Information Management (Information
Search And Retrieval) (Theatre LB08)

INCREASING RELEVANCE OF INTERNET SEARCH RESULTS USING A TOPIC
NETWORK (S_025)
Stephen C F Chan, Terry C H Lai, Edward K F Dang, Michael M K Chan
and Cane W K Leung

IMPROVING WEBSITE VISIBILITY AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL OF E-COMMERCE
VENTURES: A SPECIFICATION TO PLEASE THE CRAWLERS (S_047)
M. Weideman and R. Chamber

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:30 FP 13.4: eGovernment/eGovernance (eGovernment
Management) (Theatre LB01)

EGOVERNMENT: CARROT OR STICK? (F_023)
Frank Bongers and Rex Arendsen

CONSIDERATION TO IMPROVE E-GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE (F_116)
Flavio Corradini, Francesco De Angelis, Chiara Ercoli, Alberto
Polzonetti and Barbara Re

DISTRIBUTED SERVICE AND DATA EXCHANGE: A CASE OF STUDY OF THE
ECUADORIAN LEGAL SYSTEM (F_148)
Sergio Ruiz and Paul A. Watters

POLITICAL ADMINISTRATIONS ON THE INTERNET: WHAT KIND OF TERRITORIAL
NETWORK REPRESENTATION? (F_077)
Guillaume Perrin and Eric Boutin

14:30-16:30 FSP 13.5: eLearning (Curriculum Content Design &
Development) (Theatre LB04)

SERVICE LEARNING - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION THROUGH
COMMUNITY SERVICE (F_027)
Stephen C F Chan, Vincent T Y Ng, Grace Y Y Ngai and Cane W K Leung

MEETING THE DIVERSE TECHNOLOGY NEEDS OF PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY
TEACHERS IN A SCIENCE METHODS COURSE (F_198)
Connie Doyle

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF WEBLOGS FOR REFLECTION IN LEARNING
(S_270)
Muireann O'Keeffe, Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Anita Flanagan

JAVA APPLETS TO PROMOTE ACTIVE LEARNING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE CONEPTS
(S_121)
Casey W. Manion and Michael J. Quinn

PERSPECTIVES OF LECTURERS, STUDENTS, AND PRACTITIONERS ON
INFORMATION ECONOMICS (S_136)
Noa Aharony and Daphne R. Raban

14:30-16:40 Session FSP 13.6: eLearning (Web-based Learning
Communities) (Theatre LB08)

PRESENTING A KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT PORTLET FOR USE WITHIN COMMUNITY
ORIENTED INFORMATION PORTALS (F_089)
Albertus Abraham, Kruger Buitendag and Jacobus Sefanus van der Walt

WHAT IS AN ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY? (F_181)
Ieda Santos and Michael Hammond

SOCIOLOGY OF STUDENT-CENTRED E-LEARNING COMMUNITIES: A NETWORK
ANALYSIS (F_230)
Andrew Laghos and Panayiotis Zaphiris

CITATIONS IN ONLINE PATIENT GROUPS (S_131)
Roy Rada

MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPMENT FOR WEBSITE PROMOTING THAI HERB LEARNING
(S_098)
Suwanna Sombunsukho

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:40 Session FSP 13.7: eGovernment/eGovernance (Democracy And
The Citizen) // (eProcurement) (Theatre LB01)

USING BALANCED SCORECARDS FOR SUPPORTING PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATIONS (F_277)
Francesco Guerra

ON-LINE CONSULTATION - ENHANCING THE SENSE OF CIVIC INTEGRATION
AMONGST CITIZENS (F_308)
Philip J. Weston

A DISTRIBUTED-RESPONSIBILITY ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM (S_233)
Alan Ward

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ADAPTIVE DECISIONING FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN
PROCESS (D2P) (F_152)
N. M. Mohamad Noor, K.N. Papamichail and B. Warboys

17:00-18:30 Session FSP 13.8: eLearning (Virtual Learning
Environments And Issues) (Theatre LB04)

MULTIMEDIA STORY-TELLING: ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF LIVING BOOKS TO
INCIDENTAL LEARNING (F_037)
Yoram Eshet

UNDERSTANDING LEARNERS' TRUST WITHIN AN ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING
CONTEXT  (S_094)
Sónia Sousa, David Lamas and Brian Hudson

CANDADIAN NATIVE LITERACY AT A DISTANCE: CHALLENGE, INNOVATION, AND
SUCCESS (S_229)
Michelle Eady

GENDER AND LEARNING STYLE IN THE USE OF HYPERTEXT FOR READING IN AN
EFL PROGRAM (S_305)
Patricia Haseltine

17:00-18:50 Session FSP 13.9: eBusiness / eCommerce (eBusiness
Models) (Theatre LB08)

EXTENDING A WEBSHOP WITH A FUZZY CLASSIFICATION MODEL FOR ONLINE
CUSTOMERS (F_252)
Andreas Meier and Nicolas Werro

A SUBVENTION MODEL FOR THE ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER: REQUIREMENTS AND
SCENARIO ANALYSIS (F_137)
Dirk Braun and Jürgen Karla

UNDERSTANDING BENEFITS AND IMPEDIMENTS OF B2E E-BUSINESS SYSTEMS
ADOPTION: EXPERIENCE OF TWO LARGE AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES (F_269)
Md Mahbubur Rahim and Mohini Singh

A NEW MOBILE DEVICE FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF AN ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER
(S_158)
Jürgen Karla


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Friday 14th, July 2006
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08:30-19:30 Welcome Desk

09:00-10:00 Session KL2 – Keynote Session (Theatre LB04)
EDUCATIONAL INFORMATICS: A FORCE FOR CONVERGENCE OR CREATIVITY?
Professor Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

10:00-10:40 Session SP 14.1: eLearning (Delivery Systems And
Environments) (Theatre LB04)

A TRAINING FILE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR THE LEARNER OF FEATURE-
BASED DESIGN SYSTEMS (S_178)
Li-Chieh Chen and Yen-Fu Chen

SACS - PILOT IMPLEMENTATION OF SYSTEM PROVIDING AICC-COMPLIANT
REUSABLE ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA E-LEARNING CONTENT (S_289)
Miroslav Bures and Ivan Jelinek

10:00-11:00 Session FP 14.2: eLearning (Educational Systems Design)
(Theatre LB08)

RESEARCHING ADULT DISTANCE STUDENTS SATISFACTION (F_028)
P Valasidou Areti, Sidiropoulos Dimitrios and Bousiou-Makridou
Despina

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: SUPPORTING
TEACHING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (F_115)
Olivera Marjanovic

10:00-11:00 Special Talk (Theatre LB11)
ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS BENEFITS THROUGH OPEN SOFTWARE
STANDARDS
Patrick Gannon

10:00-11:00 Session D 14.3: Doctoral Papers (Room 1.07)

COMPLEX LEARNING COMMUNITIES & EMERGENCE (D_054)
Diane M. McDonald

BANK BRANCHES' PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (D_193)
Fernando Alberto Freitas Ferreira

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session FSP 14.4: Information Systems (Intelligent
Agents) // (Storage Issues) (Theatre LB04)

INFORMED AGENTS FOR E-MARKET TRADING (F_032)
John Debenham and Simeon Simoff

AD HOC GROUP NEED IDENTIFICATION FOR NOMADIC COMMUNITY (S_103)
Ohbyung Kwon and Keunho Choi

DBAA/ACL - A DATABASE AGENT ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE
(S_092)
Markus Kirchberg

COMPRESSION METHODS FOR ARCHIVING SCIENTIFIC QUALITY ASTRONOMICAL
IMAGES (S_084)
C. D. Grünler, H. Weghorn and C. C. Chibelush

11:30-13:00 Session FP 14.5: eLearning (Educational Systems
Design) // (Evaluation And Assessment) (Theatre LB08)

THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS (F_183)
Tassos A. Mikropoulos and Joan Bellou

MEASURED EVALUATION MODEL IN E-LEARNING ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS (F_119)
Houda Zouari Ounaie, Yassine Jamoussi and Henda Hajjami Ben Ghezala

FACTORS AFFECTING TEACHERS' VIEWS AND PERCEPTIONS OF ICT IN
EDUCATION (F_189)
Athanassios Jimoyiannis and Vassilis Komis

11:30-13:00 Session FP 14.6: Information Systems (Wireless
Communications) // (Ubiquitous Computing) (Theatre LB11)

AWARENESS OF WIRELESS SECURITY BY HOME AND BUSINESSES USERS (F_297)
Carsten Maple, Helen Jacobs and Matthew Reeve

MOBILE TICKET CONTROL SYSTEM WITH RFID CARDS FOR ADMINSTERING ANNUAL
SECRET ELECTIONS (F_129)
Hans Weghorn, Cahya Kusuma Ratih, Hans Peter Grossmann, Dieter
Hellwig, Andreas Schmeiser and Heiko Hutschenreiter

MOBILE LOCATION-BASED GAMING AS ENABLER FOR LOCATION-BASED SERVICES
(LBS) (F_071)
Jörg Lonthoff and Erich Ortner

11:30-13:10 Session FSP 14.7: Information Management (Computer-
mediated Communication) // (Virtual Communities) (Room 1.20)

THE ASOCIAL RESPONSELESSNESS OF UNFOCUSED INTERACTION IN COMPUTER
MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (F_191)
Stefan Nilsson

A FRAMEWORK TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING INFLUENCES ON THE TYPOGRAPHIC
QUALITY OF TEXT (F_303)
Gerhard Bachfischer, Toni Robertson and Agnieszka Zmijewska

MEMBERSHIP AND ONLINE GROUPS (S_132)
Roy Rada

BOUNDARY CROSSING IN ONLINE GAMING COMMUNITIES: PHENOMENON AND
ANXIETY (S_167)
Holin Lin and Chuen-Tsai Sun

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:30 Session SP 14.8: eHealth (Healthcare Strategies and
Provision) (Theatre LB04)

PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION PORTALS: CHALLENGES OF ACCESS VS. TRUST
IN E-HEALTH (S_038)
Sharon Tabor and Rob AnsonS

TOWARDS AN INFORMAL ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY FOR STUDENT MENTAL
HEALTH AT UNIVERSITY (S_052)
Derek Richards and Brendan Tangney

FIRST AID INFORMATION WEBSITE IN THAI LANGUAGE AVAILABLE ON THE
INTERNET NETWORK (S_157)
Alisa Songsriwittaya, Adison Tamumnuaychoke, Jirawat Huyakorn and
Werayuth Chumpalee

A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM TO ASSIST RETRAINING OF MEMORY IN PATIENTS
SUFFERING FROM ALZHEIMER'S  DISEASE (S_165)
Gill Jones, Gillian Pearce and Ian Winchurch

TEXT MESSAGING AS A MEANS TO LOWERING BARRIERS TO HELP-SEEKING IN
STUDENTS WITH DEPRESSION (S_195)
David Joyce and Stephan Weibelzahl

INTEGRATING ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION SYSTEMS WITH HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
(S_106)
Juha Puustjärvi and Leena Puustjärvi

14:30-16:30 Session FSP 14.9: eBusiness / eCommerce (eCommerce
Application Fields) // (eCommerce Services) (Theatre LB08)

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE ADOPTION OF E-BUSINESS IN THE CHINESE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY (S_ 026)
Yan Deng, Jian Chen, Stephen C F Chan and Cane W K Leung

TOWARDS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN 3D E-TOURISM ENVIRONMENT (S_159)
Helmut Berger, Michael Dittenbach and Dieter Merkl

USING AN INTERNET ARCHIVE TO ANALYZE E COMMERCE TRENDS: A CASE STUDY
IN THE ONLINE APPAREL INDUSTRY (S_200)
Hsui-lin L. Winkler and Dennis Anderson

E-COMMERCE AND E-BUSINESS: A NEW PARADIGM OR OLD BUSINESS IN NEW
CLOTHES? (S_278)
Mike Brayshaw and Neil Gordon

A METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING THE LEVEL OF UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
SERVICES (S_102)
Ohbyung Kwon and Jihoon Kim

ACCEPTANCE OF THE DIGITAL SIGNATURE IN CEE: FINDINGS OF A SURVEY IN
FIVE COUNTRIES (S_194)
Michaela Denk

14:30-16:10 Session SP 14.10: eLearning (Collaborative Learning)
(Theatre LB11)

UNIVERITY COLLABORATION - INTERUNIVERSITY STUDIES AND STUDENT
VIRTUAL MOBILITY (S_300)
Bedrich Zimola, Jan Hán and Petra Poulová

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING: STUDENTS' REPRESENTATIONS OF GROUP WORK
(S_272)
Patrícia A. E. Dias Alves and António Moreira

THE USABILITY OF WEB-BASED COLLABORATIVE PLATFORMS AT THIRD LEVEL: A
LECTURER PERSPECTIVE (S_079)
James A. Redmond, Adrian Parkinson, Dudley Dolan, Catherine
O'Connor, Alan Mullally and Audrey Jennings

COLLABORATIVE PORTAL EXAMPLE FOR EDUCATIONAL OPERATORS (S_177)
Flavio Corradini, Alberto Polzonetti and Romeo Pruno

A NETWORKED MULTIPLAYER GAME TO FACILITATE PUPIL TO PUPIL CONTACT
WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A SCHOOL TWINNING SCHEME (S_293)
Rob Manton and Carsten Maple

ONLINE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (COP) AS A COLLECTIVIST LEARNING TOOL
FOR A CULTURALLY DIVERSE POSTGRADUATE STUDENT GROUP (S_215)
Charmaine Ryan and Vijaya Gururajan

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-19:20 Session FSP 14.11: eGovernment/eGovernance (Social
Inclusion) (Theatre LB04)

PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA TRIBAL COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT:  INNOVATION
THROUGH WIRELESS TRIBAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE DELIVERY ON A NATIVE
AMERICAN RESERVATION (F_184)
Dara O'Neil and Jeff Evans

USING WEB FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE: A CASE STUDY
(S_160)
Martin Svihla and Ivan Jelinek

SOCIAL INCLUSION, E COMMERCE AND LAW THE CASE OF LATIN AMERICAN
SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (S_179)
Noemí L. Olivera and Araceli N. Proto

EXTENDING E-GOVERNMENT TO E-SOCIETY: USABILITY LESSONS FROM THE UK
ID CARD TRIAL (F_307)
Peter Norrington and Carsten Maple

CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN CYBERSPACE, DETECTION PREVENTION AND SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITIES (S_039)
Paul Wright and William Fone

ALHAKEN: AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR THE SESSION DIARIES OF
THE PARLIAMENT OF ANDALUCÍA (S_099)
Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete and Sonia
Linares

17:00-19:00 Session FP 14.12: eLearning (Collaborative Learning)
(Theatre LB08)

COMMUNITY SPACE IN COMPLEX LEARNING COMMUNITIES: LESSONS LEARNT
(F_070)
Diane M. McDonald and George R.S. Weir

FROM SURFACE TO MEANINGFUL COLLABORATION: AN ACTIVITY-THEORY
PERSPECTIVE (F_161)
Christian Voigt and Paula M.C. Swatman

LEARNING ICT IN A FACULTY OF HUMANITIES: ROLE OF WEB-BASED
COLLABORATIVE TOOLS FOR WRITING (F_209)
Paolo Davoli and Matteo Monari

E-PORTFOLIOS: SUPPORTING REFLECTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY TEACHER
EDUCATION (F_182)
Victor McNair and Kevin Marshall

17:00-19:00 Session FP 14.13: Information Management (Policy
Issues) // (Social and Organizational Aspects) (Theatre LB11)

CONSTRUCTING THE MEANING OF DOCUMENT RETENTION: A POLICY RESEARCH
AGENDA (F_118)
Susan P. Williams and Catherine A. Hardy

POLICY FACTORS INFLUENCING CHINA'S INTERNET ACCESS MARKET (F_133)
Liang Xuefeng, Zhang Rui, Li Yijun and Guo Yong

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE ATTITUDE OF ADULT ICTS TRAINEES TOWARD
SOFTWARE PIRACY (F_063)
Konstantakis Nikos, Palaigeorgiou George and Tsoukalas A. Ioannis

ENACTING THE E-SOCIETY (S_130)
Björn Abelli

17:00-18:30 Session FSP 14.14: Information Management (Room 1.07)

BROADBAND IN TELEWORK, HEALTH AND SAFETY: THE USER PERSPECTIVE
(F_263)
Karianne Vermaas

KNOWLEDGE OF COMPLEX INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND
SUPPORT (S_138)
Richard Kingsford and Leone Dunn

ARE SOME INTERVALS BETTER THAN OTHERS? (S_078)
John Byrne

DISTRIBUTED.MAP – APPLYING WIKIWIKI CONCEPT TO SPATIAL DATA (S_074)
Piotr Gawrysiak

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Saturday 15th, July 2006
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08:30-16:00 Welcome Desk

09:00-10:00 Session KL3 – Keynote Session (Room Theatre LB01)

TECHNOLOGIES THAT MOTIVATE CHILDREN TO LEARN
Professor Cathie Norris, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
Professor Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

10:00-11:00 Session– Panel (Theatre LB04)

14:30-16:00 POSTER SESSIONS (Room 1.07)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session FSP 15.1: Information Systems (System
Architectures) (Theatre LB04)

INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT FOR ARCHITECTURE AND INTEGRATION OF
NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISES (F_042)
Nauman Javed, Adnan Javed and Amjad Umar

AN APPROACH TO MANAGE FLEXIBLE COMPONENT-BASED APPLICATION SYSTEMS
(S_086)
Tobias Grollius, Jörg Lonthoff and Erich Ortner

PATTERNS IN DATA MODELING AND THE DYNAMIC EXTENSION PATTERN AS
EXAMPLE (S_128)
Birthe Böhm, Norbert Gewald, Gerold Herold and Dieter Wißmann

THE INTERPRETATIONS OF INFORMATION ENGINEERS AND ARCHIVISTS IN
CONSTRUCTING A DIGITAL MUSEUM (S_140)
Peng-heng Tsai, Tien-Yu Huang - Hsungrow Chen

11:30-12:50 Session FSP 15.2: Information Systems (Security Issues)
(Theatre LB08)

A CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF AND FRAMEWORK FOR BENCHMARKING ONLINE SECURITY
(F_283)
Graeme Pye and Matthew J. Warren

NETWORK SECURITY DESIGN FOR THE NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISES (F_046)
Adnan Javed, Kamran Khalid and Amjad Umar

THE DERIVATION OF A CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR OUTSOURCING IT SECURITY
(S_302)
W. D.Wilde, M.J.Warren and W.Hutchinson

11:30-13:0 Session FP 15.3: eLearning (eLearning Organisational
Issues) (Theatre LB11)

YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE: USING DISTANCE LEARNING TO FACILITATE
AND ENHANCE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT THROUGH DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP (F_197)
Kenneth D. Jenkins, Sara O. Zimmerman and Doris M. Jenkins

A HYBRID MODEL FOR MANAGING ACADEMIC STAFF IN AN INTERNATIONAL
ONLINE ACADEMIC PROGRAMME (F_105)
Yoram M Kalman and Paul H Leng

ONLINE TEACHING OF LARGE GROUPS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: A SURVEY
OF STRATEGIES (S_154))
Agnieszka Zmijewska, Elaine Lawrence, Gordana Culjak and Julia Prior

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:30 Session FP 15.4: eHealth (Data Security Issues) (Theatre
LB04)

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (F_192)
Sean Pollonais and Carsten Maple

A PARTICIPATIONAL SECURITY METHOD FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS
(F_268)
M.J.Warren and S.Leitch

14:30-15:10 Session SP 15.4: Information Management (Cyber Law And
Intellectual Property) // (Privacy Issues) (Theatre LB08)

COPYRIGHT ISSUES IN SECURING DIGITAL EVIDENCE (S_311))
Michael E. Bright and William Fone

DATA PROTECTION IMPLEMENTATION: GENERAL REGULATIONS AND CASES STUDY
(S_135)
Messía de la Cerda, J. A , Fernández, E. and Arévalo, G.

16:00 -Tour and Conference Dinner

Sunday 16th, July 2006

08:30-14:30 Welcome Desk

09:00-11:00 Session FSP 16.1: eBusiness / eCommerce (eMarketing)
(Theatre LB04)

MANAGING RETURNS IN E-BUSINESS (F_285)
Dushantha Dissanayake and Mohini Singh

DOES ETHICS MATTER TO E-CONSUMERS? (F_312)
Avshalom M. Adam, Avshalom Aderet and Arik Sadeh

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES FOR E-BRANDING (S_211)
Darren R. Hayes

E-MARKETING AND WEBSITE PRACTICES: A STUDY OF SMALL AUSTRALIAN
WINERIES (F_095)
Carmine Sellitto

IMPORTANCE OF WEB USABILITY TESTS FOR INTERNET MARKETING AND PROCESS
INTEGRATION IN STRATEGIC E-BUSINESS PROJECTS – A CASE STUDY (S_126)
Birgit Hämmerling, Dirk Frosch-Wilke and Lars Wolter

09:00-11:00 Session FP 16.2: eLearning eLearning Organisational
Issues (Theatre LB08)

PREREQUISITES AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE E-LEARNING
PROJECTS (F_080)
Raul V. Ramirez-Velarde, Dudley Dolan and Jose R. Perez-Cazares

CALCULATING THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES USING DANTE
METHODOLOGY (F_212)
Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett and Stefan Weber

LEADERSHIP FOR A FORCED MARCH TO E-LEARNING: LURCHING TO THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE VALLEY (F_147)
Anna McFadden and John LeBaron

DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL DELIVERY MODES: MEETING STUDENTS' NEEDS (F_149)
Christine Bruff, Bruce Cheek, Alison Dean and John Nolan

09:00-11:00 Session FSP 16.3: Information Management (Knowledge
Management) // (Data Mining) (Theatre LB11)

MINING DOMAIN ONTOLOGICAL INFORMATION FROM ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
(F_101)
Chung-Yuan Huang, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Fu-Ming Shih and Ji-Lung Hsieh

FOCUS ON AN ONTOLOGY BASED REPOSITORY (S_058)
Marcus Elzenheimer, Erich Ortner and Joachim Sternhuber

IMPRECISE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS (S_083)
A. Mateos, A. Jiménez and S. Ríos-Insua

ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERS PERFORMANCE USING SEPARATION ACTIVES/INACTIVES
AND MEAN INTER-CLUSTER DISSIMILARITY (F_151)
M. Rosmayati, A. B. Zuriana, C. A. Arifah, C. M. Noor Azliza

USER PROFILING FROM CITIZEN WEB PORTAL ACCESSES USING THE ADAPTIVE
RESONANCE THEORY NEURAL NETWORK (S_111)
José D. Martín-Guerrero, Emilio Soria-Olivas, Paulo J.G. Lisboa,
Alberto Palomares and Emili Balaguer-Ballester

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:40 Session FSP 16.4: eGovernment/eGovernance (eGovernment
Management) // (Accessibility) (Theatre LB04)

IMPLEMENTING E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES FOR AGRICULTURE: THE GREEK CASE
(F_187)
M. Ntaliani, S. Karetsos and C. Costopoulo

GRID ENABILING E-GOVERNMENT THROUGH A UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY GRID
LAYER (F_207)
Soha Maad, Brian Coghlan, Eamonn Kenny and Pierantoni Gabriele

RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY AND SECURITY OF WIRELESS NETWORKS IN THE
COMMUNITY (F_291)
Geraint Williams, Carsten Maple and Yong Yue

A STANDARD METHOD OF PROFILING ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS (USING THE CAP)
(S_036)
David Fourney and Jim Carter

DASHGOV: DEVELOPING AN E-GOVERNMENT DASHBOARD (S_069)
Greet Jans and Pieter Verdegem

11:30-13:10 Session FSP 16.5: Information Systems (Software
Requirements and IS Architectures) // (Strategies and Tendencies)
(Theatre LB08)

A SURVEY ON OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN IMPROVEMENT (F_219)
Juan José Olmedilla Arregui

COMPUTER AIDED IT PLANNING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION ENTERPRISES
(F_045)
Kamran Khalid, Nauman Javed and Amjad Umar

IN PURSUIT OF AN AGILE PERFORMANCE SUPPORT SYSTEM DESIGN WITH SOA
AND SOFTWARE AGENTS (S_280)
Asghar Bokhari and Skip Poehlman

DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING WWW-BASED MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT:
CASE YOUTH WORK (S_060)
Anssi Jääskeläinen and Kari Heikkinen

11:30-13:40 Session FSP 16.6: eLearning (Collaborative Learning) //
(eLearning Organisational Issues) (Theatre LB11)

A MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURE FOR GROUP LEARNING (F_276)
Eliane Pozzebon, Janette Cardoso, Guilherme Bittencourt and Chihab
Hanachi

FACILITATING COLLABORATION AMONG STUDENTS IN E-LEARNING BY SOFTWARE
AGENTS (S_031)
Weidong Pan, Igor Hawryszkiewycz and Dongbei Xue

EFFECTIVENESS OF WEBQUEST ON HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS OF
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (S_173)
Mei-Ching Su and Ya-Ting Carolyn Yang

AN E-LEARNING ORGANIZATION FOR ADULTS ONLY: A CASE STUDY (S_022)
P. Henry R. van Zyl and Esther H. Pais

PRESENCE OF E-LEARNING IN SLOVENIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
(S_043)
Viktorija Sulcic and Dušan Lesjak

A STUDY OF INNOVATIVE TRENDS ON NETWORK COMMUNICATION MODELS IN
THAILAND DURING B.E. 2545-2550 (S_145)
Kalayanee Jitgarun, Jariya Neanchaleay, Rattanatip Mongkonwat,
Charathip Chunkul and Anuvat Tongsakul

13:45 Best Paper Awards Ceremony and Closing Session (Theatre LB01)
Prof. Pedro Isaías and Prof. Frank Bannister

we want to get together to build apresentation for this conf. have a
model. will sppend money. but don't know how to do it. anyone willing
to join

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2006
                     13–16 July 2006 - Dublin, IRELAND
                      (http://www.iadis.org/es2006)
   co-located with IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2006
                      (http://www.iadis.org/ml2006)

* Co-organised by Trinity College, Dublin

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Norm Sondheimer, co-Director Electronic Enterprise Institute,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Daniel Rainey, Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute
Resolution Services for the National Mediation Board, USA
Professor Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Professor Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of
Michigan, USA
Professor Cathie Norris, University of North Texas in Denton, USA

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2006 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment /
eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information
Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are divided
into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes
that don't fit into these areas will also be considered since they
might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* 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.

* Publication of Extended Versions in Journals
Appropriate best paper authors will be invited to publish extended
versions of their papers in selected Journals, including:
- IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)
- Interactive Learning Environments Journal (Print ISSN: 1049-4820;
Online ISSN: 1744-5191)
- Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and
Informatics (ISSN (print): 0350-5596 and ISSN (Online): 1854-3871)
- International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured
Transactions (ISSN (Online): 1748-5703 and ISSN (Print): 1748-569X)
- e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-JIST) (ISSN:
1324-0781)
- Journal of Digital Information Management (ISSN 0972-7272)

* Types of Submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and
Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind
refereeing process.

* Topics related to e-Society are of interest. These include best
practice, case studies, strategies and tendencies in the following
areas:

«« eGovernment / eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
· Accessibility
· Democracy and the Citizen
· Digital Economies
· Digital Regions
· eAdministration
· eGovernment Management
· eProcurement
· Global Trends
· National and International Economies
· Social Inclusion

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
· Business Ontologies and Models
· Digital Goods and Services
· eBusiness Models
· eCommerce Application Fields
· eCommerce Economics
· eCommerce Services
· Electronic Service Delivery
· eMarketing
· Languages for Describing Goods and Services
· Online Auctions and Technologies
· Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
· Collaborative Learning
· Curriculum Content Design & Development
· Delivery Systems and Environments
· Educational Systems Design
· eLearning Organisational Issues
· Evaluation and Assessment
· Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
· Web-based Learning Communities

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
· Data Security Issues
· eHealth Policy and Practice
· eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
· Legal Issues
· Medical Research Ethics
· Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
· Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
· Intelligent Agents
· Intelligent Systems
· IS Security Issues
· Mobile Applications
· Multimedia Applications
· Payment Systems
· Protocols and Standards
· Software Requirements and IS Architectures
· Storage Issues
· Strategies and Tendencies
· System Architectures
· Telework Technologies
· Ubiquitous Computing
· Virtual Reality
· Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
· Computer-Mediated Communication
· Content Development
· Cyber law and Intellectual Property
· Data Mining
· ePublishing and Digital Libraries
· Human Computer Interaction
· Information Search and Retrieval
· Knowledge Management
· Policy Issues
· Privacy Issues
· Social and Organizational Aspects
· Virtual Communities
· XML and Other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (second call): 8 May 2006
- Notification to Authors (second call): until 31 May 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration at Early Rates
(second call): Until 7 June 2006

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland at Trinity College.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: es-sec@...
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/es2006

* Program Committee

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Maggie McPherson, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Program Chair
Frank Bannister, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Track Chairs
eBusiness/eCommerce Track
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia

eLearning Track
Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Information Systems  Track
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Information Management Track
Christian Voigt, University Of South Australia, Australia

eHealth Track
Jane Grimson, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Committee Members (not complete):
Please check http://www.iadis.org/es2006/committees.asp for full list

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Mobile Learning 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/ml2006/) - 14-16 July 2006

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend the
Mobile Learning conference sessions free of charge.

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 13 March
2006 --

               IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2006
                     13–16 July 2006 - Dublin, IRELAND
                      (http://www.iadis.org/es2006)
   co-located with IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2006
                      (http://www.iadis.org/ml2006)

* Co-organised by Trinity College, Dublin

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Norm Sondheimer, co-Director Electronic Enterprise Institute,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Daniel Rainey, Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute
Resolution Services for the National Mediation Board, USA
Professor Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Professor Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of
Michigan, USA
Professor Cathie Norris, University of North Texas in Denton, USA

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2006 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment /
eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information
Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are divided
into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes
that don't fit into these areas will also be considered since they
might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* 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. The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended
versions of their papers in selected Journals, including IADIS
International Journal on WWW/Internet and International Journal of
Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (IJITST).

* Types of Submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and
Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind
refereeing process.

* Topics related to e-Society are of interest. These include best
practice, case studies, strategies and tendencies in the following
areas:

«« eGovernment / eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
· Accessibility
· Democracy and the Citizen
· Digital Economies
· Digital Regions
· eAdministration
· eGovernment Management
· eProcurement
· Global Trends
· National and International Economies
· Social Inclusion

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
· Business Ontologies and Models
· Digital Goods and Services
· eBusiness Models
· eCommerce Application Fields
· eCommerce Economics
· eCommerce Services
· Electronic Service Delivery
· eMarketing
· Languages for Describing Goods and Services
· Online Auctions and Technologies
· Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
· Collaborative Learning
· Curriculum Content Design & Development
· Delivery Systems and Environments
· Educational Systems Design
· eLearning Organisational Issues
· Evaluation and Assessment
· Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
· Web-based Learning Communities

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
· Data Security Issues
· eHealth Policy and Practice
· eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
· Legal Issues
· Medical Research Ethics
· Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
· Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
· Intelligent Agents
· Intelligent Systems
· IS Security Issues
· Mobile Applications
· Multimedia Applications
· Payment Systems
· Protocols and Standards
· Software Requirements and IS Architectures
· Storage Issues
· Strategies and Tendencies
· System Architectures
· Telework Technologies
· Ubiquitous Computing
· Virtual Reality
· Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
· Computer-Mediated Communication
· Content Development
· Cyber law and Intellectual Property
· Data Mining
· ePublishing and Digital Libraries
· Human Computer Interaction
· Information Search and Retrieval
· Knowledge Management
· Policy Issues
· Privacy Issues
· Social and Organizational Aspects
· Virtual Communities
· XML and Other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (new date): 13 March 2006
- Notification to Authors: until 7 April 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 21
April 2006
- Late Registration: After 21 April 2006

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland at Trinity College.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: es-sec@...
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/es2006

* Program Committee

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Maggie McPherson, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Program Chair
Frank Bannister, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Track Chairs
eBusiness/eCommerce Track
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia

eLearning Track
Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Information Systems  Track
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Information Management Track
Christian Voigt, University Of South Australia, Australia

eHealth Track
Jane Grimson, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Committee Members (not complete):
Please check http://www.iadis.org/es2006/committees.asp for full list

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Mobile Learning 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/ml2006/) - 14-16 July 2006

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend the
Mobile Learning conference sessions free of charge.

hi,

   Let me know about any related conferences in india.

regards
HLS

--- In irsindia@yahoogroups.com, "natreis2003" <nat@i...> wrote:
>
> ******************************************************************
>                                    IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
> WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
>                                             February 26-28, 2006 -
> San Sebastian, Spain
>
> (http://www.iadis.org/WBC2006)
>
> ******************************************************************
>
>
> * Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
> Professor Peter Kollock, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
> Professor Hermann Maurer, Graz U. of Technology, Austria
> Cliff Figallo, SociAlchemy, 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
> 2006 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 2006 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. 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 (2nd Call extension):
> - Submission Deadline: 23 January 2005
> - Notification to Authors: 3 February 2006
> - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 10
> February 2006
> - Late Registration: After 10 February 2006
> - Conference: San Sebastian, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2006
>
> * Conference Location The conference will be held in San
Sebastian,
> Spain.
>
> * Secretariat
> IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
> Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
> E-mail: wbc-sec@i... Web site: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006
>
> * Program Committee
> Conference Co-Chairs
> Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
> Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
> Portugal
>
> Program Chair
> Ambrosio Goikoetxea, University of Mondragon, Spain
>
> Committee Members:
> Adam Joinson, The Open University, United Kingdom
> Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano, Italy
> Alexandra Kopitar, EEE, Austria
> Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany
> Andrew Ravenscroft, London Metropolitan University United Kingdom
> Anne Jelfs, The Open University, United Kingdom
> Begoña Gros, University of Barcelona, Spain
> Bob Kemp, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
> Bryn Holmes, Concordia University, Canada
> Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
> Carmel McNaught, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
> Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China
> Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
> Chris Pegler, The Open University, United Kingdom
> Christine Smith, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
> Christopher Irgens, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
> Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece
> Colin Tattersall, Open University of the Netherlands, The
Netherlands
> Daniel Burgos, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands
> Demetrios G. Sampson, ITI-CERTH, Greece
> Deniz Deryakulu, Ankara University, Turkey
> Dmitry Bystrov, Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan
> Dragan Djuric, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
> Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
> Eliza Stefanova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
> Emanuel Gruengard, Shenkar School of Engineering and Design, Israel
> Erik Andriessen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
> Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain
> Fong-Lok Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
> Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
> Frieda Saeys, Gent University, Belgium
> Gail Miles, Lenoir-Rhyne College, USA
> Georgios Dafoulas, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
> Griff Richards, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
> Hans Hummel, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands
> Hans-Inge Persson, Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning, Sweden
> Iliana Nikolova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
> Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
> J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA
> Jan Frick, Stavanger University, Norway
> Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
> John Murnane, The University of Melbourne, Australia
> John P. Cuthell, Virtual Learning, United Kingdom
> Karen Lazenby, University of Pretoria, South Africa
> Kathleen Kelm, Edgewood College, USA
> Kia Ng, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
> Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
> Kirsti Lindh, Univeristy of Tampere, Finland
> 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
> Linda Price, The Open University, United Kingdom
> Liviu Cristian Miclea, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
> Ljuan Marko Gashi, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
> Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
> Lyn Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
> Maomi Ueno, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
> Maria Zenios, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
> Michael Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
> Nopphol Pauswasdi, Mahidol University, Thailand
> Paul Leng, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
> R. Karpaga Kumaravel, Bharathidasan University, India
> Radojica Petrovic, Technical Faculty of Cacak, Serbia and
Montenegro
> Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany
> Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
> Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
> Sandra Cairncross, Napier University, United Kingdom
> Slavi Stoyanov, Open University Netherlands, The Netherlands
> Spiros Sirmakessis, Technological Educational Institution of
> Messolongi, Greece
> Tarja Tikkanen, RF Rogaland Research, Norway
> Theo Bastiaens, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
> Thomas Köhler, Universität Potsdam, Germany
> Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, University of Patras, Greece
> Tsuneo Yamada, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
> Valery A. Petrushin, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
> Vanessa Dennen, Florida State University, USA
> Vasile Palade, Oxford University, United Kingdom
> Vicente Luque Centeno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
> Violeta Damjanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
> Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany
> Vyaceslav Shitikov, Riga Technical University, Latvia
> Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
> Yuko Terao, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan
>
> for the full Committee Members list please access
> http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006/committees.asp
>
> * See also the Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities (ET-
> WBC) Workshop 2006 (http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~kone/ETWBC2006/)
>
> * Co-located event
> Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2006
> (http://www.iadis.org/ac2006/) - 25-28 February 2006
>
> * Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
> may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of
charge.
>

******************************************************************
                                    IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
                                             February 26-28, 2006 -
San Sebastian, Spain

(http://www.iadis.org/WBC2006)

******************************************************************


* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Peter Kollock, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Professor Hermann Maurer, Graz U. of Technology, Austria
Cliff Figallo, SociAlchemy, 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
2006 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 2006 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. 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 (2nd Call extension):
- Submission Deadline: 23 January 2005
- Notification to Authors: 3 February 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 10
February 2006
- Late Registration: After 10 February 2006
- Conference: San Sebastian, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2006

* Conference Location The conference will be held in San Sebastian,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006

* Program Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Program Chair
Ambrosio Goikoetxea, University of Mondragon, Spain

Committee Members:
Adam Joinson, The Open University, United Kingdom
Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano, Italy
Alexandra Kopitar, EEE, Austria
Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany
Andrew Ravenscroft, London Metropolitan University United Kingdom
Anne Jelfs, The Open University, United Kingdom
Begoña Gros, University of Barcelona, Spain
Bob Kemp, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Bryn Holmes, Concordia University, Canada
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Carmel McNaught, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China
Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Chris Pegler, The Open University, United Kingdom
Christine Smith, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Christopher Irgens, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece
Colin Tattersall, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Daniel Burgos, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands
Demetrios G. Sampson, ITI-CERTH, Greece
Deniz Deryakulu, Ankara University, Turkey
Dmitry Bystrov, Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan
Dragan Djuric, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Eliza Stefanova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
Emanuel Gruengard, Shenkar School of Engineering and Design, Israel
Erik Andriessen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain
Fong-Lok Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Frieda Saeys, Gent University, Belgium
Gail Miles, Lenoir-Rhyne College, USA
Georgios Dafoulas, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Griff Richards, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Hans Hummel, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands
Hans-Inge Persson, Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning, Sweden
Iliana Nikolova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA
Jan Frick, Stavanger University, Norway
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
John Murnane, The University of Melbourne, Australia
John P. Cuthell, Virtual Learning, United Kingdom
Karen Lazenby, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Kathleen Kelm, Edgewood College, USA
Kia Ng, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
Kirsti Lindh, Univeristy of Tampere, Finland
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
Linda Price, The Open University, United Kingdom
Liviu Cristian Miclea, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ljuan Marko Gashi, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Lyn Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
Maomi Ueno, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Maria Zenios, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Michael Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
Nopphol Pauswasdi, Mahidol University, Thailand
Paul Leng, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
R. Karpaga Kumaravel, Bharathidasan University, India
Radojica Petrovic, Technical Faculty of Cacak, Serbia and Montenegro
Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Sandra Cairncross, Napier University, United Kingdom
Slavi Stoyanov, Open University Netherlands, The Netherlands
Spiros Sirmakessis, Technological Educational Institution of
Messolongi, Greece
Tarja Tikkanen, RF Rogaland Research, Norway
Theo Bastiaens, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Thomas Köhler, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, University of Patras, Greece
Tsuneo Yamada, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
Valery A. Petrushin, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
Vanessa Dennen, Florida State University, USA
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Vicente Luque Centeno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Violeta Damjanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany
Vyaceslav Shitikov, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Yuko Terao, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006/committees.asp

* See also the Emerging Technologies for Web-based Communities (ET-
WBC) Workshop 2006 (http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~kone/ETWBC2006/)

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/ac2006/) - 25-28 February 2006

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

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                                    IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
                                             February 26-28, 2006 -
San Sebastian, Spain

(http://www.iadis.org/WBC2006)

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* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Peter Kollock, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Cliff Figallo, SociAlchemy, 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
2006 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 2006 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. 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 (2nd Call):
- Submission Deadline: 6 January 2005
- Notification to Authors: 23 January 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 3
February 2006
- Late Registration: After 3 February 2006
- Conference: San Sebastian, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2006

* Conference Location The conference will be held in San Sebastian,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006

* Program Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Program Chair
Ambrosio Goikoetxea, University of Mondragon, Spain

Committee Members:
Adam Joinson, The Open University, United Kingdom
Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano, Italy
Alexandra Kopitar, EEE, Austria
Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany
Andrew Ravenscroft, London Metropolitan University United Kingdom
Anne Jelfs, The Open University, United Kingdom
Begoña Gros, University of Barcelona, Spain
Bob Kemp, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Bryn Holmes, Concordia University, Canada
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Carmel McNaught, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China
Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Chris Pegler, The Open University, United Kingdom
Christine Smith, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Christopher Irgens, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece
Colin Tattersall, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Daniel Burgos, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands
Demetrios G. Sampson, ITI-CERTH, Greece
Deniz Deryakulu, Ankara University, Turkey
Dmitry Bystrov, Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan
Dragan Djuric, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Eliza Stefanova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
Emanuel Gruengard, Shenkar School of Engineering and Design, Israel
Erik Andriessen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain
Fong-Lok Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Frieda Saeys, Gent University, Belgium
Gail Miles, Lenoir-Rhyne College, USA
Georgios Dafoulas, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Griff Richards, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Hans Hummel, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands
Hans-Inge Persson, Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning, Sweden
Iliana Nikolova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA
Jan Frick, Stavanger University, Norway
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
John Murnane, The University of Melbourne, Australia
John P. Cuthell, Virtual Learning, United Kingdom
Karen Lazenby, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Kathleen Kelm, Edgewood College, USA
Kia Ng, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
Kirsti Lindh, Univeristy of Tampere, Finland
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
Linda Price, The Open University, United Kingdom
Liviu Cristian Miclea, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ljuan Marko Gashi, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Lyn Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
Maomi Ueno, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Maria Zenios, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Michael Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
Nopphol Pauswasdi, Mahidol University, Thailand
Paul Leng, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
R. Karpaga Kumaravel, Bharathidasan University, India
Radojica Petrovic, Technical Faculty of Cacak, Serbia and Montenegro
Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Sandra Cairncross, Napier University, United Kingdom
Slavi Stoyanov, Open University Netherlands, The Netherlands
Spiros Sirmakessis, Technological Educational Institution of
Messolongi, Greece
Tarja Tikkanen, RF Rogaland Research, Norway
Theo Bastiaens, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Thomas Köhler, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, University of Patras, Greece
Tsuneo Yamada, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
Valery A. Petrushin, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
Vanessa Dennen, Florida State University, USA
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Vicente Luque Centeno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Violeta Damjanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany
Vyaceslav Shitikov, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Yuko Terao, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/ac2006/) - 25-28 February 2006

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

An International Training Program on "INFORMATION":


STIMULATE
= Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and
Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 6)


Announcement


Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting from:
http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium,
from Monday morning October 2 to Thursday evening December 21, 2006.
Language used is English.


Context and evolution of the program:

The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council
(VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international
training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree
(Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and
documentation centers, and libraries, including of course university
libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.
The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program
reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is
stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the
infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".


Aim / goal of the training program:

The main aim and goal of this International Training Program is to offer a
stimulating learning environment to the participants. These are young
scientists and professionals who have a function as information
intermediary in the area of science and technology, so as to sharpen their
skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and managing
information. This can be of great benefit to the teaching and research
activities going on in their institute and to the further development of
their organisation and region.
This initiative corresponds well with the basic, general aim of all VLIR
the International Training Programs: to train young scientists and
professionals from developing countries in a domain that is relevant for
the further development of the country, and to stimulate the participants
to transfer their increased knowledge and skills to their colleagues and
other stakeholders in their home country.


More specific objectives of the training program:

-- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of
information in general and for their environment in particular, and on how
to manage information:
summarised: ”Management in libraries and information centers”
-- to learn the participants to cope with modern technology, in view of the
increasing importance of ICT;
summarised: “Information and communication technology for libraries and
information centers”
-- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on
an international scale:
summarised: “Information retrieval/searching”
and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information
resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level:
summarised: “Information architecture”

After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every
participant will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for
their organisation
-- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate
information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and management of information,
using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an
information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users of information,
information providers, colleagues,…
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information
systems and services
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users,
using information technology



Contents of the program:

The sessions are organised in such a way that
--the first month               = introduction level,
--the second month           = intermediate level, and
--the third month              = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may make sense to participate
exceptionally during only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships are granted only to persons
who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an orientation tour of the
University and the Library. Then some of the following subjects are
covered. Of course, due to the limited available time, not all the
mentioned subjects can be discussed in each training program, but a
SELECTION will be made by the organisers. The concrete content of each
training program depends on the availability of suitable expert lecturers
from Belgium and from abroad during the period of the training program. As
soon as possible, the concrete schedule is made available through the WWW
site of the program.


1. Management in libraries and information centers:

Statistics to support decision making for information science and for
library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of electronic journals and
databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification schemes; thesaurus systems,
ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Architecture of libraries and information centers.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and information technology
transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related to the establishment of an
information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.


2. Information and communication technology for libraries and information
centers:

Microcomputer systems: evolution of hardware.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data communication; computer networks; Internet.
Internet services.
Client-server systems.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system; writing a proposal for a
computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Methods for access to databases through Internet: telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50
and ISO239.50, Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol.


3. Information retrieval/searching:

Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database searching; search tactics and
strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge; open access.
Online access databases about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.


4. Information architecture:

Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family for information storage
and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data in a database, output of
selected data to file or printer; developing a database structure; indexing
data for fast retrieval; ISIS for Windows; WINISIS; history and future of
ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Relational databases.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.
Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).


Study visits:

In addition to the courses taking place at the university campus, study
visits are organised.
A selection from the following possible visits is made:
--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology Department of the Royal Museum
on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on information and library
science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the University of Antwerp in Wilrijk, Belgium
--to the human sciences library of the University of Antwerp in old Antwerp
city, Belgium
--to the old central library and to the modern science and technology
library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and documentation center near the
sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen
/ Antwerp, Belgium
--to the central library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the Royal Tropical
Institute), and to the high school on libraries, documentation and
information, both in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the headquarters of IFLA and to the National, Royal Library in Den
Haag / The Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands
--to the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in Den Haag / The Hague, in
Nederland / The Netherlands
More culturally oriented guided visits are also organised; these may
include trips to the old cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam,
Paris, and to the North Sea coast.
Short after the start of the program, each participant presents to the
other participants and to interested lecturers his/her interests, working
environment, planning, tasks, experience. This is organised with printed
posters in a small poster exhibition with time allotted for stimulating and
ice-breaking discussions.
At the end of the course, each participant completes a presentation
supported by slides managed on computer, with constructive comments on the
training program experienced and with concrete recommendations to the
organisers of this training program and to the director of their own
organisation.

About half of the time, the participants are guided by experts who are
invited to the university. They use the other half time to solve problems,
to make exercises, to use microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare
discussions, for self study...
Besides the formal, guided course activities, the participants have access
like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed material, CD-ROMs and PCs
with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.

At the end of the program all participants obtain a certificate stating
that they have indeed participated, with a reference to the full detailed
overview of the program contents on the WWW site of the program.
Several substantial parts of the program are followed by an evaluation by
the responsible expert of the knowledge and skills acquired by each
participant; this can lead to a certificate of active and successful
participation.

Participants should of course bring a notebook or laptop computer, if they
have one available.
Ideally they should buy or rent a personal notebook computer as soon as
they arrive, assisted by the program organisers.


Social activities planned:

-- Welcome reception with drinks and appetizers.
-- Evening with the possibility to taste some of the world famous Belgian
beers and some Belgian food.
-- Farewell gathering with drinks and snacks.


Participation and registration; tuition fee and costs:


Grants:

Participation is free of charge (!) for 12 to 15 participants from
developing countries, who are selected by the organisers, VL.I.R. (the
Flemish Inter-university Council) and DGOS. They also receive a grant to
cover the costs of accommodation and an airplane return ticket. The
detailed grant application form is available as a PDF file through the
Internet from http://www.vlir.be/ There you can also find an explanation of
the procedures to apply for the grant. That PDF file can be printed with
the suitable program provided free of charge by Adobe through the WWW:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Grant applications must be received by VLIR before the end of January! (and
NOT before the end of February as in previous years) Official and formal
requests for a grant or any other correspondence about the grants should be
sent to VLIR in Brussels, and NOT to the organizers of this specific program.
If this procedure is not suitable for you,
you can ask your local Belgian embassy for a printed version of the
application form for the grant, or you can ask further information from
VLIR: please  contact
Mrs. Kristel Wijshof, tel. +32 2 289 05 57 or kristel.wijshof@...
at the VLIR-UDC Secretariat; the general e-mail address is
scholarships@....
The ideal participant applying for a grant is younger than 40 years, and
will be able to apply what has been learned directly in a professional
scientific or technical environment afterwards.


Normal registration:

Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through
VLIR, 5 to 8 persons can participate after paying a tuition fee that is
small in comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel, meals and accommodation, but
do include transport from the airport upon arrival, course materials, study
visits and social activities. The cost of living in Belgium is not exceptional.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euro
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate for the whole period can
nevertheless participate during 2 months only (1800 Euro) or during 1 month
only (1000 Euro). It makes sense to attend for instance the first month or
the first two months only. It makes less sense to participate only during
the second or the third month, as introductions to some activities or
topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from the program: 30 Euro per
half day.
To register and pay the tuition fee, send the form (see below) by classical
mail together with an international bank transfer / bank cheque / bank
draft, payable to
University Library V.U.B., Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable for you, then you can
transfer the required sum of money to the following bank account of the V.U.B.:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark: for WD006240 BIBL WER3
The money received by the VUB must be transferred internally to this account.
(Without your remark, the money may be not retraceable and lost.)

We recommend you to register as early as possible: “first come, first
served”: the arrival of your participation fee determines who can participate.

There is NO need to “apply” prior to the registration, to request
permission to participate from the organizers and their universities. The
decision if the program is suitable and appropriate for an interested
person is to be made by that person and not by the organizers.


Accommodation:

The organisers of this program normally book a single, cheap, basic room in
advance as accommodation for each participant, unless a participant writes
us that he/she wants to take care of accommodation personally, for instance
by staying with a friend or by renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their own accommodation. If we can book many weeks in
advance, then we can normally find basic accommodation for about 300 euro
per month; however, a late receipt of the tuition fee forces us to book a
more expensive room.


Medical insurance:

It is recommended that participants are covered during their stay by a full
medical insurance.
In Belgium, this costs about 40 euro per month. The program organisers take
care of this.


How to contact the organizers?

E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be (or in case that this does not
seem to work, to Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at vub.ac.be)
(change at in @ when you want to use an address)
Fax  32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)
Tel. 32 2 629 2629 or 32 2 629 2429  or 32 2 629 2609
Telex 61051 vubco-b
Classical mail:
STIMULATE-ITP (or Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN), University Library, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM


Location:

The training is mainly organized at the University Library of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B). The campus is located south of the older
centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be reached by Metro
(subway), tram and bus.
Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be found through the WWW; see
for instance:
http://www.agenda.be/ about events going on in Brussels (in French and in
Dutch)
http://www.disgruntled.ca/writings/brussels/ offers information on Brussels
and some photos, based on the experience of living there for some time
http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/brussels.shtml
http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm offers an interactive map
and photos of Brussels
http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/
http://www.jack-travel.com/
http://www.sievers.nl/visitbrussels/ shows some photos made in Brussels
http://www.timeout.com/brussels/
http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm
http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html
http://www.visitbelgium.com/

Trips are perhaps organised to places in neighbouring countries like The
Netherlands and France. Therefore, participants should try to obtain also a
visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).


Program and Steering Committee:

The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen, Science
and technology librarian, and Head of the information and documentation
department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
An official, formal Steering Committee is composed of members from the
co-operating universities in Flanders,
-Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
-Universiteit Antwerpen
-Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
This Steering Committee supervises the organisation, the program and the
budget; this committee reports formally to VLIR.

Feel free to distribute this document; this version is dated 10 November 2005.


____________________REGISTRATION FORM_______________________
to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B.),
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium
I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a letter and pay the
registration fee as described in the announcement of the International
Training Program.
(So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant.
Do not send this unless you pay the registration fee.)
   a. Family name (surname): ...............................
(married female participants please fill in maiden-name as well as name of
husband)
b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............
   Personal address: ...................................
     .....................................................
     Country:.............................................
     Electronic mail address
     Telephone, fax, telex:

Date of birth:                                     Place of birth:
Nationality:                                       Sex: male / female

Present employment:
     a. Name and address of employer: .................
        ...............................................
        ...............................................
     b. Since: ../../..
     c. Position – function - specialization
     d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:

Education - studies:
     Name of institute   Degree   Date





Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......
Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:


Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:
      .................................................................
      .................................................................

Please book a room for me   OR
Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation

I take care of a medical insurance myself          OR
Please see that I am covered by a medical insurance for my stay in Belgium
which will cost about 40 euro/month.

Date and signature:

Please include a recent photograph, as this will simplify identifying you
upon arrival.

******************************************************************
                                    IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
                                             February 26-28, 2006 -
San Sebastian, Spain

(http://www.iadis.org/WBC2006)

******************************************************************

* 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
2006 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 2006 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. 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 extended: 11 November 2005
- Notification to Authors: 5 December 2005
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 17
December 2005
- Late Registration: After 17 December 2005
- Conference: San Sebastian, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2006

* Conference Location The conference will be held in San Sebastian,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006

* Program Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Program Chair
Ambrosio Goikoetxea, University of Mondragon, Spain

Committee Members:
Adam Joinson, The Open University, United Kingdom
Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano, Italy
Alexandra Kopitar, EEE, Austria
Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany
Andrew Ravenscroft, London Metropolitan University United Kingdom
Anne Jelfs, The Open University, United Kingdom
Begoña Gros, University of Barcelona, Spain
Bob Kemp, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Bryn Holmes, Concordia University, Canada
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Carmel McNaught, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China
Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Chris Pegler, The Open University, United Kingdom
Christine Smith, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Christopher Irgens, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece
Colin Tattersall, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Daniel Burgos, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands
Demetrios G. Sampson, ITI-CERTH, Greece
Deniz Deryakulu, Ankara University, Turkey
Dmitry Bystrov, Tashkent State Technical University, Uzbekistan
Dragan Djuric, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Eliza Stefanova, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
Emanuel Gruengard, Shenkar School of Engineering and Design, Israel
Erik Andriessen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain
Fong-Lok Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Frieda Saeys, Gent University, Belgium
Gail Miles, Lenoir-Rhyne College, USA
Georgios Dafoulas, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Griff Richards, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Hans Hummel, Open University of The Netherlands, The Netherlands
Hans-Inge Persson, Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning, Sweden
Iliana Nikolova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA
Jan Frick, Stavanger University, Norway
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
John Murnane, The University of Melbourne, Australia
John P. Cuthell, Virtual Learning, United Kingdom
Karen Lazenby, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Kathleen Kelm, Edgewood College, USA
Kia Ng, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
Kirsti Lindh, Univeristy of Tampere, Finland
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
Linda Price, The Open University, United Kingdom
Liviu Cristian Miclea, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ljuan Marko Gashi, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Lorna Uden, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
Lyn Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
Maomi Ueno, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Maria Zenios, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Michael Henderson, James Cook University, Australia
Nopphol Pauswasdi, Mahidol University, Thailand
Paul Leng, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
R. Karpaga Kumaravel, Bharathidasan University, India
Radojica Petrovic, Technical Faculty of Cacak, Serbia and Montenegro
Rainer Malaka, EML, Germany
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Sandra Cairncross, Napier University, United Kingdom
Slavi Stoyanov, Open University Netherlands, The Netherlands
Spiros Sirmakessis, Technological Educational Institution of
Messolongi, Greece
Tarja Tikkanen, RF Rogaland Research, Norway
Theo Bastiaens, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Thomas Köhler, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, University of Patras, Greece
Tsuneo Yamada, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
Valery A. Petrushin, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
Vanessa Dennen, Florida State University, USA
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Vicente Luque Centeno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Violeta Damjanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany
Vyaceslav Shitikov, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Yuko Terao, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006/committees.asp

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Applied Computing 2006
(http://www.iadis.org/ac2006/) - 25-28 February 2006

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities conference
may attend the Applied Computing conference sessions free of charge.

Submission Deadline: 7 October 2005


******************************************************************
                                    IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
                                             February 26-28, 2006 -
San Sebastian, Spain

(http://www.iadis.org/WBC2006)

******************************************************************

* 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 2006 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. 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: 7 October 2005
- Notification to Authors: 5 December 2005
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 17
December 2005
- Late Registration: After 17 December 2005
- Conference: San Sebastian, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2006

* Conference Location The conference will be held in San Sebastian,
Spain.

* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED COMMUNITIES 2006
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3, 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: wbc-sec@... Web site: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006

* Program Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal

Program Chair
Ambrosio Goikoetxea, University of Mondragon, Spain

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.iadis.org/wbc2006/committees.asp

Dear Aswani,

> Im experimenting on Cranfield, Medline etc document collections. For
> Cranfield, Iam getting better interpolated precision values without any
> term weighting methodology, when I compare the same with various term
> weighting methods. But it is not the case in Medline document
> collection.

I forget the sizes of these collections. Could you please tell us
how many documents, how many queries, what AvgP values you are getting
with various schemes, and the two collections, etc.?

Mandar.

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Dear Aswani,

> Im experimenting on Cranfield, Medline etc document collections. For
> Cranfield, Iam getting better interpolated precision values without any
> term weighting methodology, when I compare the same with various term
> weighting methods. But it is not the case in Medline document
> collection.

I forget the sizes of these collections. Could you please tell us
how many documents, how many queries, what AvgP values you are getting
with various schemes, and the two collections, etc.?

Mandar.

Hai everyone,
I need some clarification on term weighting.
Im experimenting on Cranfield, Medline etc document collections. For
Cranfield, Iam getting better interpolated precision values without any
term weighting methodology, when I compare the same with various term
weighting methods. But it is not the case in Medline document
collection.
Iam not getting the reason.

Can anyone help me out.

wishes
AswaniKumar

Dear Members,

Our yahoo Group will soon be one year old after its inception on 27th
may 2004. By this time we are 23 members from different countries who
are working in different fields of IR.
In this occasion please send few lines in the group. We hope this will
us help to know each other and will give IRSINDIA an anniversary
boost.

Please respond to this very short notice.
With Regards
Mandar Mitra
Prasenjit Majumder

Dear Members,

Our yahoo Group will soon be one year old after its inception on 27th
may 2004. By this time we are 23 members from different countries who
are working in different fields of IR.
In this occasion please send few lines in the group. We hope this will
us help to know each other and will give IRSINDIA an anniversary boost.

Please respond to this very short notice.
With Regards
Mandar Mitra
Prasenjit Majumder

http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/duc2005/call.html

An International Training Program on "INFORMATION":


STIMULATE
Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and
Libraries:
an Active Training Environment
(Edition 5)



Announcement



Information about this training program can be found on the WWW starting
from: http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/itp/
The program is planned to take place mainly in Brussels, Belgium,
from June to August 31, 2005

The initiative has been approved by the Flemish Interuniversity Council
(VLIR) and is sponsored by the Belgian Government (the directorate named
DGOS since December 2002). This fits in a series of similar international
training activities that have been organized since 1991, named MIST 1, 2,
3, KNOW-HOW, and STIMULATE 1, 2, 3 and 4.

This initiative is aimed primarily at persons with a university degree
(Bachelor or Master), who work in universities, information and
documentation centers, and libraries, including of course university
libraries, and who have a few years of practical experience.

The term Active Training Environment in the title of the training program
reflects our wish to create an environment in which each participant is
stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the
infrastructure provided by the training program. This fits well into the
general, worldwide trend away from "teaching" to "learning management".

Aims:


The main aim of this International Training Program is to offer a
stimulating learning environment to participants, who have a function as
information intermediary in the area of science and technology, so as to
sharpen their skills in collecting, storing, retrieving, presenting and
managing information, which can be of great benefit to the teaching and
research activities going on in their institute and to the further
development of their organisation and region.
More specific objectives are:
-- to provide participants with a clearer view on the importance of
information in general and for their environment in particular,
-- to guide them in retrieving information that is publicly accessible on
an international scale, and
-- to learn them to store, organise, present, manage, publish information
resources at personal, institutional, regional or national level.

After being actively involved in this International Training Program, every
participant will have improved the ability
-- to appreciate and explain the importance of access to information for
their organisation
-- to retrieve information from the Internet
-- to present information to users and potential users, using appropriate
information technology
-- to store information for later retrieval and access by potential users,
using information technology
-- to train interested persons in the use and management of information,
using appropriate presentation techniques
-- to apply quantitative methods in decision making related to information
systems and services
-- to contribute to the planning of the (further) development of an
information service
-- to communicate through the Internet with users of information,
information providers, colleagues,…


Contents:

It is our intention to organise the sessions in such a way that
--the first month = introduction level,
--the second month =  intermediate level, and
--the third month = more advanced level.
Thanks to this approach and organisation, it may make sense to participate
exceptionally during only one or two of the three months, depending on
expertise. However, the available scholarships are granted only to persons
who will participate for the full three months.
To start with, the participants are offered an orientation tour of the
University and the Library. Then some of the following subjects are
covered. Of course, due to the limited available time, not all the
mentioned subjects can be discussed in each training program, but a
SELECTION will be made by the organisers, depending on the availability of
suitable expert lecturers.


Information and communication technology for information centers and libraries:

Microcomputer systems: hardware.
Microcomputer operating systems.
Microcomputer systems: applications software.
Text editing; word processing; desktop publishing.
Presentation of data, using a microcomputer.
Creating charts to present information.
Data communication; computer networks.
Internet.
Internet services.
Electronic mail.
World-Wide Web; hypertext and hypermedia.
Disks for computers.
CD-ROM.
CD-ROM in a local area network.
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW.
Image processing; graphics file formats; photo/image editing.
Multimedia / Hypermedia.
Data-communications networks and librarians.
Selecting and procuring a computer system; writing a proposal for a
computer implementation.
Providing access to information through public Internet workstations.
Client-server systems.
Methods for access to databases through Internet: telnet, http/WWW, Z39.50
and ISO239.50, Open Archives Initiative - Metadata Harvesting Protocol…


Information sources:

Introductory concepts about information.
Internet-based information resources: introduction.
Bibliographic databases.
The information industry and the information market.
Online information retrieval and database searching; search tactics and
strategies.
Internet search engines.
Information available free of charge.
Online access databases about journal articles.
Electronic newsletters and journals.
Computer-network based interest groups.
Patent information.
Online systems versus CD-ROM.
Citation searching.
Theoretical and quantitative aspects of information retrieval.
Evaluating the quality of information sources.
Evaluation of information retrieval strategies and systems.


Information storage and retrieval:

Basic, fundamental, theoretical concepts.
Software packages for local storage and retrieval of bibliographic information.
Introduction to the ISIS software package family for information storage
and retrieval.
The application of ISIS: searching, editing data in a database, output of
selected data to file or printer; developing a database structure; indexing
data for fast retrieval; ISIS for Windows; WINISIS; history and future of
ISIS; programming in ISIS.
Formats: MARC; application of MARC in ISIS.
Databases (and ISIS in particular) through the WWW.
Downloading of information and record format conversion: principles.
Downloading of information and record format conversion.
Library automation.
Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs).
Archives and records management.
Archives in the domain of science and technology.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): an introduction.


Web technology and applications:

Developing a web site; HTML, CSS, XML, XSL; intranets; developing an intranet.
Information architecture.
Evaluating web sites.
Dynamic web pages.
Developing co-operative community WWW sites; Web contents management systems.
Setting up an electronic newsletter.
Extensions of the classical WWW. (Client-based and server-based).
Document+program hybrid systems.


Management in information centers and libraries:

Statistics for information science and for library management.
Business plans for libraries and information centers.
Using spreadsheets in the management of libraries and information centers.
Collection development.
Consortia of libraries for the acquisition of electronic journals and
databases.
Scientific writing methods.
ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description.
Formats for computer-based cataloguing; MARC formats.
National libraries and national bibliographies.
Knowledge organisation: subject classification schemes; thesaurus systems,
ontologies.
Citation analysis.
Assessing the influence of scientific journals; citations and impact factors.
The bibliometric laws.
Scientometrics.
Management of a library and information service.
Architecture of libraries.
Orientation of information users; relations with information users.
Interlibrary lending and co-operation; document delivery: an introduction.
Development of a national or regional information network.
The information society.
Cultural aspects of the information society and information technology
transfer.
Copyright; information security; trans-border data flow.
Writing a project proposal (for instance related to the establishment of an
information network).
Conservation/preservation of printed documents.
Conservation/preservation of digital documents.
Informetric aspects of the Internet.
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation in information science.
Electronic journals: implementation in a library.
Integration of e-learning environments and library services.
Libraries involvement in scientific publishing.
International co-operation projects.


About half of the time, the participants are guided by experts who are
invited to the university. They use the other half time to solve problems,
to make exercises, to use microcomputers and the Internet, to prepare
discussions, for self study...

Besides the formal, guided course activities, the participants have access
like any regular student at our university
--to several rooms equipped with microcomputers connected to the Internet,
--to the university library which offers printed material, CD-ROMs and PCs
with Internet access,
--to the university restaurant and to sport facilities at low student prices.

In addition to the courses taking place at the university campus, study
visits are organised.  Possible visits:

--to the Royal (National) Library, in Brussels, Belgium
--to the European Patent Office in Brussels, Belgium
--to the Information Service of the Geology Department of the Royal Museum
on Africa, in Tervuren near Brussels, Belgium
--to the inter-university postgraduate school on information and library
science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the University of Antwerp in Wilrijk, Belgium
--to the human sciences library of the University of Antwerp in old Antwerp
city, Belgium
--to the old central library and to the modern science and technology
library of the KUL (university) in Leuven, Belgium
--to the VLIZ marine science information and documentation center near the
sea coast in Oostende / Ostend, Belgium
--to the library of the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen
/ Antwerp, Belgium
--to the library of the University of Gent / Ghent, Belgium
--to the Documentation Department of the KIT (the Royal Tropical
Institute), and to the high school on libraries, documentation and
information, both in Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands
--to IFLA headquarters and the National, Royal Library in Den Haag / The
Hague, in Nederland / The Netherlands

More culturally oriented guided visits are also organised; these may
include trips to the old cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam,
and to the North Sea coast.
At the end of the course, each participant completes a presentation
supported by slides managed on computer, with constructive comments on the
training program experienced and with concrete recommendations to the
director of their own organisation.



Social activities planned:

-- Welcome reception with drinks and appetizers.
-- Evening with tasting of some of the world famous Belgian beers and some
Belgian food.
-- Farewell gathering with drinks and appetizers.


Participation and registration; tuition fee and costs:





Grants:

Participation is free of charge (!) for 14 participants from developing
countries, who are selected by the organisers, VL.I.R. (the Flemish
Inter-university Council) and DGOS. They also receive a grant to cover the
costs of accommodation and an airplane return ticket. The detailed grant
application form is available as a PDF file through the Internet from
http://www.vlir.be/ There you can also find an explanation of the
procedures to apply for the grant. That PDF file can be printed with the
suitable program provided free of charge by Adobe through the WWW:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Grant applications must be received by VLIR before the end of February! (Do
NOT send requests for a grant or any other correspondence about the grants
to the organisers, but only to VLIR: scholarships@...)
If this procedure is not suitable for you,
you can ask your local Belgian embassy for a printed version of the
application form for the grant, or
you can ask more information through email: scholarships@...
(or Maarten.Timmermans@...).
The ideal participant applying for a grant is younger than 40 years, and
will be able to apply what has been learned directly in a professional
scientific or technical environment afterwards.


Normal registration:


Besides the persons who receive a grant from the Belgian Government through
VLIR, 6 persons can participate after paying a tuition fee that is small in
comparison with similar programs.
The costs mentioned do NOT include air travel, meals and accommodation, but
do include transport from the airport upon arrival, course materials, study
visits and social activities. The cost of living in Belgium is not exceptional.
-To participate during the full period: 2400 Euros
-Exceptionally, persons who cannot participate for the whole period can
nevertheless participate during 2 months only (1800 Euros) or during 1
month only (1000 Euros). It makes a lot of sense to attend for instance the
first month or the first two months only. It makes less sense to
participate only during the second or the third month, as introductions to
some activities or topics may be missed.
-To participate to particular items selected from the program: 30 Euros per
half day.
To register and pay the tuition fee, send the form (see below) by classical
mail together with an international bank transfer / bank cheque / bank
draft, payable to
University Library V.U.B., Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium,
with no need for any bank account numbers.
If however this simple procedure is NOT suitable for you, then you can
transfer the required sum of money to the following bank account of the V.U.B.:
Fortis Bank located at Warandeberg 3 in B-1000 Brussel, Belgium,
account number 001-0686459-66 or IBAN = BE07 0010 6864 5966
and do not forget (!) to mention as a remark: for WD006240 BIBL WER3
The money received by the VUB must be transferred internally to this
account of the University Library. (Without this remark, the money may be
not retraceable.)

We recommend you to register as early as possible: “first come, first
served”: the arrival of your participation fee determines who can participate.


Accommodation:

The organisers of the Program normally book a single, cheap, basic room in
advance as accommodation for each participant, unless a participant writes
us that he/she wants to take care of accommodation personally, for instance
by staying with a friend or by renting a room that offers more luxury.
Participants pay for their own accommodation. If we can book many weeks in
advance, then we can normally find basic accommodation for about 300 euro
per month; however, a late receipt of the tuition fee forces us to book a
more expensive room.


Medical insurance:

It is recommended that participants are covered during their stay by a full
medical insurance.
In Belgium, this costs about 40 euro per month.


Contact:

E-mail (Internet): stimulate at vub.ac.be or Paul.Nieuwenhuysen at
vub.ac.be (or Patrick.Vanouplines at vub.ac.be )
(change at in @ when you want to use one of these addresses.)

Fax  32 2 629 2693 (or 2282)    Tel. 32 2629 2429  (or  2609)    Telex
61051 vubco-b

Classical mail:  Paul NIEUWENHUYSEN (or Patrick VANOUPLINES)
STIMULATE-ITP, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM



Location:

The training is mainly organized at the University Library of the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B). The campus is located south of the older
centre of the city of Brussels, and can easily be reached by Metro
(subway), tram and bus.

Information about Brussels (and Belgium) can be found through the WWW; see
for instance:
http://www.agenda.be/

http://www.ilotsacre.be/site/en/default_en.htm

http://www.interknowledge.com/belgium/

http://www.jack-travel.com/

http://www.timeout.com/brussels/

http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-touristattractions.htm

http://www.virtourist.com/europe/brussels/index.html

http://www.visitbelgium.com/

Trips are perhaps organised to places in neighbouring countries like The
Netherlands and France. Therefore, participants should try to obtain also a
visa for those countries (a so called Schengen-visa).



Other information:


Language used is English.

The course director is Dr. Paul Nieuwenhuysen, professor at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and guest professor at Universiteit Antwerpen, Science
and technology librarian, and Head of the information and documentation
department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Other official supervisors and co-promoters of this program are
--Prof. Dr. Ludo Simons, University of Antwerp, who has been the president
of the Steering Committee of the inter-university postgraduate study
program on Information and Library Science until October 2004..
--Prof. Dr. Raf Dekeyser, K.U.L., Leuven, a physics professor who has been
head of the K.U.L. university library, one of the largest libraries of
Belgium, until October 2004.
An official, formal Steering Committee is composed of members from the
co-operating universities in Flanders, to plan the organisation, the
program and the budget; this committee reports to VLIR.

Participants obtain a certificate when they have participated actively and
successfully.

Participants should of course bring a notebook or laptop computer, if they
have one available.
Ideally they should buy or rent a personal notebook computer as soon as
they arrive.

Feel free to distribute this document; this version is dated 12 December 2004.

REGISTRATION FORM

to STIMULATE, University Library, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (V.U.B.),
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 BRUSSEL, Belgium

I want to participate. Therefore I send this as a letter and pay the
registration fee as described in the announcement of the International
Training Program.

(So the following is NOT the form to apply for a grant.

Do not send this unless you pay the registration fee.)



a. Family name (surname): ...............................

(married female participants please fill in maiden-name as well as name of
husband)

b. First or given names (according to your official passport): ..............



Personal address: ...................................

     .....................................................

     Country:.............................................

     Electronic mail address

     Telephone, fax, telex:



Date of birth:                                     Place of birth:

Nationality:                                       Sex: male / female



Present employment:

     a. Name and address of employer: .................

        ...............................................

        ...............................................

     b. Since: ../../..

     c. Position ­ function - specialization

     d. Telephone, fax, telex and/or e-mail of the employer:



Education - studies:

     Name of institute   Degree   Date











Knowledge of English: writing: ........ speaking: ........ reading: .......



Have you been abroad earlier? Please specify:





Duties that you will carry out after returning to your country:

      .................................................................

      .................................................................



Please book a room for me   OR

Do NOT book a room for me; I will take care myself of accommodation



I take care of a medical insurance myself          OR

Please see that I am covered by a medical insurance for my stay in Belgium
which will cost about 40 euro/month.



Date and signature:



Please include a recent photograph, as this will simplify identifying you
upon arrival.

Hi Friends
I would like to know the Information Retrieval Society of India.
Also, I would like to suggest if we have list of professors and
scholars working in IR, from India, then it will help us in getting
in exchanging information and ideas.
wishes
AswaniKumar

Workshop on Machine Learning
November 5 - 6, 2004

Organised By:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

visit the link for details
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/pmitra/mlworkshop/workshop.html

CACM or CISI collections are Relevance Judgemented. One can submit
the queries and check the recall / precision values. Lemur tool kit
did such testing on CASM and you can find the test reasults here

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~lemur/3.0/install.html

here is another link about the evaluation issues on CSAM or CISI

www.csie.ncu.edu.tw/~chia/ Course/IR/IR2001/Chapter3Evaluation.ppt

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