CALL FOR CHAPTERS:
Title: "E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques"

Co-Editors:
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D., Drexel University, ma33@...
Asokan Anandarajan, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology,
asokan.anandarajan@@njit.edu

Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg

URL For Chapter Call:
http://www.mynetresearch.com/Resources.aspx?id=%2012
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FOCUS OF THIS BOOK

With advancements of information and communication technologies,
physical boundaries of local social networks have evaporated. Online
social networks replicate and enhance the benefits of traditional social
networks across time and space and accelerate and globalize the process.
The collaboration efforts among researchers in this environment are
called e-research collaboration.

E-Research Collaboration can be defined as: the use of information
communication technologies which enable the collaboration among
individuals/group engaged in a research project. These technologies can
range from email to enterprise packages and online software services.

While we have seen the unprecedented growth of social networking tools
such as MySpace, Facebook and Linkedin, these were primarily designed
for social purposes. It is only in the last year that we have begun to
see the emergence of research-based social networking tools. These
tools, for example, MyNetResearch and 2Collab, can facilitate
collaborative environments to orchestrate interaction within networks of
researchers, partners, and customers to boost creativity and innovation.
E-Research collaboration technologies can supply seamless connectivity
to allow work anywhere and anytime.

The mechanisms of e-research collaboration are an emergent phenomenon.
We invite researchers to submit analytical, case-study, conceptual,
experiential ethnographic or narrative papers to enhance our
understanding of the frameworks, practices and tools and techniques in
e-research collaboration.

Hi Sam,

      Since you are the chair, you can organise it as early as possible
!! It is always better to organise it sooner rather than later !!

      Duncan and Tom have kindly offer to help out the next round of
organising, in case of eventualities. This will be a good tradition for
AKT DC to pass on and preserve knowledge, if this is ok with you and
other PCs !!

Best Wishes,
Jessica

Rev.Sam wrote:
> Hi
>
> Could we set up the aktors mailing list ASAP, could whomever at soton
> who can do this please make themselves known, I spoke to nigel and he
> likes the january meeting and thinks this will be a good time. This
> means we will have rush unless we really think this is not a good
> idea. Any opinions on this? otherwise we will head for the January
> meeting.
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> Sam
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> P.S. my MSN is sam_chapman74@... if anyone else organisors
> particularly want to give me theres please do.
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Hi

Could we set up the aktors mailing list ASAP, could whomever at soton
who can do this please make themselves known, I spoke to nigel and he
likes the january meeting and thinks this will be a good time. This
means we will have rush unless we really think this is not a good
idea. Any opinions on this? otherwise we will head for the January
meeting.

Sam

P.S. my MSN is sam_chapman74@... if anyone else organisors
particularly want to give me theres please do.

Hi All,

    Apology for a recent spam email. I have now changed the option so
that all postings will be moderated manually and this should prevent
any future unsolicited spam.

Best Wishes,
Jessica

Hello,

    This is the 2nd call for papers - AKT Doctoral Colloquium. We
have now a web site set up with uploading facility available. A big
thank you for Ajay and Sam's help !!

    This information will also be advertised via to the AKT project
mailing list very soon...  Let me know if you have any comments.

Best wishes,
Jessica
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                   The First AKT Doctoral Colloquium
                      as part of the AKT Workshop

                              June, 2005
                            Open University
                             Milton Keynes
               http://wit.shef.ac.uk:8080/aktds/index.html

The AKT Doctoral colloquium will be held in conjunction with AKT
workshop, June 14-16, 2005 at the Open University. It will last for
one full day (or two half-days). Core participants of this
colloquium are AKT doctoral students. The colloquium will be
organised and run by AKT doctoral students.

Goals:

     * Increase visibility for doctoral student's work,
     * Provide an informal discussion forum,
     * Practice writing skills for an informatics paper,
     * Obtain advice from those outside your own research group,
     * Create a centralized and sharable web based information
repository that is particularly tailored to the community,
     * Build a research and social network among AKT doctoral
candidates,
     * Gain experience by organising/participating the colloquium.

Example Research Topics Included in the Doctoral colloquium:

     * Knowledge management
     * Knowledge capturing
     * Knowledge representation
     * Knowledge reuse
     * Knowledge dissemination
     * (Semantic) Interfaces, Interaction and Visualization
     * Natural Language Processing
     * Web services
     * Constraint satisfaction
     * Agent Systems
     * Ontologies
     * Multi-media annotation and replay
     * Social network analysis and trust
     * Knowledge based systems

The topics can be approached from several different perspectives:
e.g.

     * Theoretical,
     * Systems engineering,
     * Application,
     * Case study,
     * System evaluation.

All contributions are required to state explicitly in the abstract
which topic they are addressing.

Important Dates:

Paper submission:  April 30, 2005
Notification:     May 15, 2005
Camera-ready version:  May 30, 2005
Colloquium date:        TBC: it will last for one full day or two
half-days during the AKT Workshop.

Submission:

All AKT supported PhD students are required to submit at least one
paper. There are two types of papers: full (up to 8 pages) or short
papers (up to 4 pages). There are two types of short papers:
position and demo papers. All papers should be formatted according
to the Springer LNCS guidelines.

Each submission needs to nominate one reviewer (e.g. own supervisor)
who will be responsible to review one or two AKT submitted papers.

All papers should include:

     * Motivation
     * An introduction to background technologies and related work
     * How the reported work is different from other existing work
     * Work progress so far
     * Future work and references.

Position papers should place emphasis on the existing work in the
field, the gaps left by current work, and the proposal of one's own
work. Demo papers should emphasize the use of a built system based
on typical or example user scenarios. A comparison with other
existing systems is most desirable.

Authors are encouraged to sign up to the AKT postgraduate discussion
forum at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/

Submission method:

Electronic submission via
http://wit.shef.ac.uk:8080/aktds/index.jsp.

Colloquium Proceedings:

All papers will be included in proceedings and may be made available
through a link from the colloquium web site as given above

Program Committee:

Chair: Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton University
Co-chair: Dave Lambert, University of Edinburgh
Co-chair: Li Guo, University of Edinburgh
Technical manager: Sam Chapman and Ajay Chakravarthy, Sheffield
University
Information officer: David Lambert, Edinburgh University
Communication officer: Li Guo, Edinburgh, Ian Millard, Southampton
University
Local Chair: Tom Heath, Open University

Steering Committee:

Fabio Ciravegna, Sheffield University
John Domingue, Open University
Hugh Glaser, Southampton University
Enrico Motta, Open University
Steve Potter, Edinburgh University
Alun Preece, Aberdeen University
Dave Robertson, Edinburgh University
monica schraefel, Southampton University
Nigel Shadbolt, Southampton University
Derek Sleeman, Aberdeen University
Austin Tate, Edinburgh University
Chris Walton, Edinburgh University
Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University
Jessica Chen-Burger, Edinburgh University

AKT Doctoral colloquium Discussion Site:

All are welcome to visit and sign up to the AKT Doctoral Forum:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/

Enquiries:

For any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Dave Lambert at
d.j.lambert@... and/or Guo Li at L.Guo@... (and/or
CC to Jessica Chen-Burger at jessicac@...) directly.

Jessica,

What is the status, of the PG colloquium site? do we have a call for
papers, we would like to get this integrated asap so we can do the site
changes our side and add the file loading code for paper submissions,
also not a single person sent a picture for the gallery?, or got back to
me about the location details?.... This means I have no material to
update anything with currently, does anyone have anything for me??.

or is this dieing again?

Sam

maybe 4th time lucky
RESENT AS YAHOO BLOCKED MY EARLIER MSG's - sorry if you receive this again


Hi all,

The current page (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~sam/aktds/) is currently
placed unlinked in my home directory but will move soon, (does anyone in
Southampton want to organise a local mirror or address mapping of some
sort - the bare minimum is we will need links from the AKT site)

Obviously this is somewhat out of date but it is the version I did last
time around, this was intended as a place holder from which to then
develop a better site, this clearly needs work...

as such

I would like to request any up-to-date, calls for papers, topics of
interest, roles and people lists etc, basically anything you have to
hand that could be appropriate.

Also if EVERYONE involved could send a portrait dimension photo of
themselves i will add the gallery of the organisation committee, if
anyone wants to add a link and/or two line description of themselves or
your work within AKT this would also be welcome and added to the page.
(let me know if you would like your email publishing or not)

As for the rest of the design I imagine a standard workshop site:

An intro page detailing the aims dates etc.
in depth call page (Jessica can you give the details when you have them)
committee gallery (I need details from EVERYONE for this)
paper submission page (anyone have details of formats, PDF, tex etc - is
this decided??)
location and details of venue? (anyone have this already, best if the
local organisor for the site gives me prose, please make yourself known
to me)
etc etc (feel free to suggest more i.e. do we have a page detailing
funding for travel, if so, is this being made available externally or
just for AKTors, also should we have a page of external speakers, I
imagine Nigel will organise some?? but i doubt we will know who until
nearer the time?)

or anything else you think may be helpful.

Sam

P.S. in Southampton we also mentioned adding additional people not at
the meeting to the organisation committee, i.e. other AKTors there are
no additions from Sheffield, what about anywhere else???

P.P.S. should site changes etc be required in the future and I'm
traveling etc, Ajay (A.Chakravarthy@..., also from Sheffield,
should also be informed please CC all site queries to him also and not
just to me as i may be unable to help at times)

>Hi Sam,
>
>    Just a quick reminder about letting us know where is the web
>site. Will produce a CFP soon.
>
>Best Wishes,
>Jessica
>
>
>
>
>

--- In akt-postgraduates@..., "jchenburger"
<jchen_burger@h...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Just a quick email to let you know that our web space has been
> changed, due to the change of its name. The new web site is below:
>
> http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduate

Sorry, it is

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates

(plural)

Jessica

> Jessica

Hello,

Just a quick email to let you know that our web space has been
changed, due to the change of its name. The new web site is below:

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduate

Jessica

The 1st AKT Doctoral Symposium

January 2005
Southampton University

The AKT Doctoral Symposium will be held in conjunction with AKT
workshop, January 2005, Southampton. It will last for one full day.
Core participants of this symposium are AKT doctoral students.  The
symposium will be organised and run by AKT doctoral students.

Goals:
· Increase visibility for doctoral student's work,
· Provide an informal open discussion forum,
· Practice writing skills for an informatics paper,
· Obtain external and independent advises, in addition to own
         supervisors,
· Create a centralized and sharable web based information
         repository that is particularly tailored to the community,
· Build a research and social network among AKT doctoral
         candidates,
· Earn experience by organizing/participating the symposium,
· Experience as a part of the process of becoming an
         independent researcher !!

Example Research Topics Included in the Doctoral Symposium:
· Knowledge management
· Knowledge capturing
· Knowledge representation
· Knowledge reuse
· Knowledge dissemination
· Natural language processing
· Web services
· Constraint satisfaction
· Ontologies
· Multi-media annotation and replay
· Social network analysis and trust
· Knowledge based systems

The topics can be approached from different perspectives:
theoretical, systems engineering, application, case study, system
evaluation, etc. All contributions are required to state explicitly
in the abstract which topic they are addressing.

Important Dates

Paper submission: Oct 30, 2004
Notification: Nov 15, 2004
Camera-ready version: Dec 15, 2004
Symposium date: Jan, 2004

Submission

The participants can submit full (up to 6-8 pages) or short (up to 4
pages) position papers. The accepted papers will be published in the
web-based proceedings. All papers should be formatted according to
the Springer LNCS guidelines.

All papers should include: motivation, an introduction to background
technologies and related work, how the reported work is different
from other existing work, work progress so far, future work and
references.

Position papers should put emphasis on existing work in the field,
gap of such work and proposal of own work. Demo papers should
emphasize the use of a built system based on typical/example user
scenarios.

Authors are encouraged to sign up to the PG Open Discussion Forum
at:   http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-doctoral-forum/.

Submit your papers in electronic format to Dave Lambert at
d.j.lambert@... (*.pdf) and Guo Li at L.Guo@...
(CC to Jessica Chen-Burger at jessicac@...).

All submissions should be entitled "Submit to AKT DS 2005".
Resubmission should be entitled "Re-submit to AKT DS 2005". Many
thanks for your cooperation on this.

Reviewer's Form

A copy of the reviewer's form is available below:
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/akt/pg-doc/reviewer-form.txt.
Symposium Proceedings

An on-line proceedings will be made available through a link from
the symposium web site: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-
doctoral-forum/.

Program Committee

Chair: Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton University
Co-Chair: Dave Lambert, University of Edinburgh
Co-Chair: Li Guo, University of Edinburgh
Technical manager: Sam Chapman, Sheffield University
Information officer: David Lambert, Edinburgh University
Symposium coordinator: Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton University
Communication officer:  Li Guo, Edinburgh; Y. Lei, Open University
Local Chair: Ian Millard, Southampton University; Suraj Ajit,
Aberdeen University

Steering Committee

Nigel Shadbolt, Southampton University
Dave Robertson, Edinburgh University
Austin Tate, Edinburgh University
Hugh Glaser, Southampton University
monica schraefel, Southampton University
Steve Potter, Edinburgh University
Jessica Chen-Burger, Edinburgh University

AKT Doctoral Symposium Web Site:

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-doctoral-forum/

Enquiries:
For any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Dave Lambert at
d.j.lambert@... and/or Guo Li at L.Guo@... (CC to
Jessica Chen-Burger at jessicac@...) directly.

Hi all,

I'm currently in Spain, then at a conference I'm helping orgainse, then
Italy, then potentially the US, so I may not have a lot of time to
currently set up the website - I will however create an initial
placeholder site in the next week or so.

When in Edinburgh we mentioned hosting this on the AKT site - how can i
get permissions or rights to post here? anyone in southampton want to help
organise this, if its problematic I can put it on the sheffield site for
now...

for instance

http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/AKT/

Reverend Sam
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~sam/