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• Languages, models and techniques for local coordination
• Distributed service orchestration
• Concurrency control
• Recovery management and compensation
• Forward recovery and omitted results

• Digital Ecosystems Performance
• Performance management of Digital Ecosystems
• Performance Modeling
• Evaluation and Optimisation of Digital Ecosystems

• Ontological based DES and knowledge design
• Annotation method for DES
• Knowledge modelling methods and tools
• Knowledge representation,sharing, dissemination and assimilation in DES
• Ambient intelligence

Scope

Digital Ecosystems are characterized by a shift in the conceptual definition of the organization. Organizational alliances are formed at an increased speed and scope, and teamwork support is required more extensively. These are created with the aim of cooperating effectively to achieve a common task, and are often performed within a targeted value chain.

Collaborative Systems form an important foundation for Digital Ecosystems, both conceptionally and technically. Conceptionally, the combination of communication, coordination and cooperation support leads to new scenarios for Digital Ecosystems. Technically, the scenarios are rooted in very recent innovations, such as mobility support and Smart Items (such as sensors).

An example for this is the usage of resources in a decentralized energy supply (e.g. based on solar cells or Stirling engines), which require sophisticated cooperative systems: the communication between Smart Items has to be complemented by the allocation of resources (such as the activation of a Stirling engine). In addition, collaboration support for the people involved is often very beneficial. Another example can be seen in the area of the Life Sciences. Here, cooperative systems based on Smart Items and Collaboration Support are just beginning to be designed and introduced.

The track aims to provide the correlation between Cooperative Systems and these radical new economic and lifestyle patterns of Digital Ecosytems.

Topics

• Collaborative Systems Dimensions for Digital Ecosytems
• Collaborative Systems Adoption in Digital Ecosystems
• Resource Allocation within Collaborative Systems for Digital Ecosystems
• Smart Items and Sensor Technologies for Digital Ecosystems
• Business Process Coordination in Digital Ecosystems
• Activity Coordination in Digital Ecosytems
• Models and Simulations of Cooperative System Support for Digital Ecosystems
• Context Awareness in Collaborative Systems for Digital Ecosystems
• Large scale infrastructures for Digital Ecosystems, such as Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks
  
• Resource allocation for Digital Ecosystems, such as dezentralized Energy Supplies

• Service-oriented collaborative environment specifications
• Service-oriented collaborative platforms for design of DES applications
• Service-oriented collaborative platforms for DES modelling
• Agent-based service-oriented collaborative architecture
• Distributed Web-service for DES
• Service-oriented collaborative platforms for middleware development
• Dynamic DES service-oriented architectures

• Discipline bridges
• Artificial Intelligence for DES
• Biology, genetics and physics paradigms for DES
• Cognitive science for DES
• Multi-linguistic and multicultural models
• Natural and social science research in DES
• Computer science and software engineering for DES
• Agile methodologies for digital ecosystems

• Economic clusters for DES
• Communication network to support DES
• Information infrastructure for DES
• Interaction protocols within DES
• Digital service discovery and composition
• Construction, operation and optimization
• Evolution of new businesses

• Existing business models for DES
• Innovative business models for DES
• Legal/business frameworks for DES
• Social frameworks in DES
• Business rules/policies
• eBusiness
• eEnterprise process models
• Workflows for digital ecosystems
• Industrial informatics
• Automated data capture and sharing – RFID
• Digital factory, digital highway and digital ports for DES
• Digital cinema, and gaming in networked ecosystems

• Self organisation in multi-agent systems
• Modeling self organisation of agents
• Self organisation of communicating agents

E-learning ecosystem provides the technologies, applications and models establishing ICT infrastructure that supports e-learning globally.  Authors are invited to submit papers in the following topics:

• E-learning ecosystem infrastructure
• E-learning ecosystem framework
• The development of e-learning ecosystem
• Theoretical framework underpinning e-learning ecosystem
• Technologies for e-learning ecosystem
• E-learning ecosystem for SMEs
• Collaborative e-learning ecosystem
• A scientific foundation for e-learning ecosystem
• Rethinking e-learning in education
• Understanding the role of e-learning ecosystem in the context of digital business ecosystem
• The evaluation of e-learning ecosystem
• Security for e-learning ecosystem

Authors of selected papers will be invited to revise and extend the paper for consideration to the International Journal of Learning Technology (IJLT), published by Inderscience, www.Inderscience.com.

• Information security
• Information authentication
• Content security applications
• Cryptographic application
• Digital rights managements for content ecosystems
• Digital watermarking for P2P and home media ecosystem
• Digital steganography applications
• Security in digital ecosystems
• Digital cash and payment systems
• Privacy preservation and policy administration
• Privacy assurance and privacy risk assessment
• Privacy policy analysis

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Data Representation and Visualization
• Biological Databases & Data Integration
• Microarray analysis
• Protein and RNA structure prediction
• Feature selection and pattern discovery in biological data
• System Biology and Pathways
• Biomedical Ontologies and taxonomies
• Text Mining
• Health Care Information Systems
• Electronic Health Records
• Clinical Assessment and Patient Diagnosis
• Disease Control and Prevention
• Privacy and Security in Healthcare

• Trust management for DES
• Reputation management for DES
• Quality of digital services
• Trust models and reputation models
• Methodologies for trustworthiness prediction
• Trust management system design and implementation
• Trust technologies
• Risk assessment in transactions
• Risk management and quantification methods and models
• Methodologies for risk mitigation in DES

Digital eco-systems occur through the interactions between both human and computer-based agents, operating in a manner that creates both relationships of cooperation and conflict within the system as well as the overall system itself. Analysis of the role of human perception, engagement and expectation is critical, therefore, to understanding the complexity of digital ecosystems as well as the operational dynamics of any specific system. Furthermore, our capacity to build, maintain and further develop viable digital ecosystems rests on clear, theoretical and applied, understanding of the way in which humans and computers interact with one another in digital, networked environments.

Put simply, the e-Humanities researchers will pursue a research agenda that will explore the social, cultural, political and economic determinants that constitute the foundational terrain within which ecosystems exist. In doing so, they will also analyse the manner in which, through human action within a digital ecosystem, human beliefs, understandings and desires come to influence that system. Through consideration of the results of human endeavours within digital eco-systems, these researchers will also come to understand the ways in which networked digital communications can enhance or, indeed, imperil social and cultural development.

There are several research directions of the work in e-Humanities. The first concerns the manner in which ‘intelligent’ interactive expertise networks might be developed to solve the problems of knowledge-based distributed collaboration between experts and those who draw on their expertise. A ‘networks of interactive knowledge’ (NIKs) approach can be usefully applied to education (both formal and informal), sustaining professional competence, e-research, e-participation, e-government and other forms of scholarly collaboration, as well as other situations in which people need to collaborate through exchanges of partial knowledge so that they might construct a collective expertise greater than the sum of its individual parts. This is related to a second component, working in standards-based, interoperable distributed service and resource environments, e. g. service and resource networks or grids that allow seamless integration on both tool and the resource side. The third component of research concerns the broader relationship of technology and society, with particular reference to the cultures and politics of society’s adoption of, and adaption to, new forms of technologically mediated communication and information sharing and of technology’s requirements to adapt to existing cultural semiotic processes.

This research is largely being pursued through individual research projects involving the development of theoretical knowledge to guide further practical development, or deeper understandings of previous technological developments, though in the future these projects can link together to form a larger digital eco-system of systems. To foster such cooperation is a major longterm goal of the track.

Papers are invited from students based on their research findings. The student should be currently enrolled full-time at an educational provider.

This is a special section of invited papers on business process frameworks for digital ecosystems. Papers / Speakers are invited.

This is a special section of papers from researchers, academics, and students. Topics of interest include:

• Semantic Web
• Web Services
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Intelligent Agent Technologies
• Data / Web Mining
• Semantics and Ontology Engineering
• Trust and Risk
• Social Networks
• Security and Privacy
• Advanced and Emerging Applications
• Software Engineering
• Information Systems and Information Technologies
• e-Learning
• e-Humanities

The due date for this track is on 5th December 2007.