First International Workshop on
Emerging Data Technologies for Collective Intelligence (EDTCI-2010)

in conjunction with the
5th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing
(3GPCIC 2010)
November 4-6, 2010, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/computing/staff/nik-bessis/EDTCI-2010

Aims and Scope
The first International Workshop on Emerging Data Technologies for Collective Intelligence (EDTCI-2010) is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging data technologies yet most importantly of their applicability in business and academia towards a collective intelligence approach. In particular, EDTCI-2010 will discuss advances about utilizing and exploiting data generated from emerging data technologies such as Data Centers, Data Grids, Clouds, Crowds, Mashups, Social Networks and/or other Web 2.0 implementations towards a collaborative and collective intelligence approach leading to advancements of virtual organizations and their user communities. This is because, current and future Web and Web 2.0 implementations will store and continuously produce a vast amount of data, which if combined and analyzed through a collective intelligence manner will make a difference in the organizational settings and their user communities. Thus, the scope of EDTCI-2010 is to discuss methods and practices (including P2P) which bring various emerging data technologies together to capture, integrate, analyze, mine, annotate and visualize data ╨ made available from various community users ╨ in a meaningful and collaborative for the organization manner. Finally, EDTCI-2010 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions in the area.


Topics:
Papers should be focused on past, current and emerging methods and/or use of data technologies with a particular focus to collective intelligence. For example: Data Stream, Click stream, Cloud Computing, Crowd Computing, Data Annotation, Data Architecture, Data Capture, Data Clustering/Partitioning, Data Discovery/Management, Data Grids, Data Integration, Data Knowledge Management, Data Mashups, Data Query Systems and Languages, Data Push/Notification, Data Scheduling, Data/Text Mining, P2P, Data Visualization, Emerging Applications, Emerging/Enabling Collaborative Data Technologies, Trust and Security, Web 2.0.

The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:
o Critical Reviews on Theory and Practices in Collective Intelligence
o User Communities/Virtual Organizational Structures and Dynamics
o Ad-Hoc Social Networking Analysis, Business Intelligence
o Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents
o Data/Text Mining, Data Clustering, Graph Partitioning
o Groupware, Social Networks (Web 2.0)
o Ontology Management, Semantic Web, Web Services, Multi-Agents
o Meta-Data, Annotation, Intra-/Inter Tagging, Inference Engines, Reasoning
o Architectures, Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring
o Enabling Technologies (Grids, P2P, Cloud, Crowds, Mashups, etc)
o Data Management, Data Growth, Storage, Implications
o Security, Trust and Reputation, Identity Management and Privacy
o Languages, Components, Programs, Knowledge Portals and/or Applications
o Developments or future concepts and frameworks in various settings including (but not limited to) construction industry, transportation and other control systems, sensors, smart spaces, disaster management and threat detection, bioinformatics, environmental control, energy consumption control, business, economics, supply-chain management, planning and operations, etc

Organizing Committee

Workshop Co-chairs:
Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK
nik.bessis at beds.ac.uk

Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
fatos at lsi.upc.edu

Workshop Programee Committee Members (open list):
Vassiliki Andronikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Mehmet Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Darryl Coulthard, Deakin University, Australia
Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Tim French, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK
Elpiniki Papageorgiou, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece
Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Udai Shanker, M.M.M Engineering College Gorakhpur, India
Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Xiaoxun Sun, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Sergio Toral Marn, University of Seville, Spain
Michael Vassilakopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece

Submission
Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts following the IEEE Conference Proceedings Manuscript style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. Submission guidelines are available from the 3GPCIC 2010 web site.

The papers should be no longer than 6 pages. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two or more independent referees of the EDTCI-2010 Workshop programme committee and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The papers should be submitted electronically via the 3GPCIC 2010 web site.

Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and archived in the Digital Library.


Important Dates
Submission Deadline: May 30, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2010
Author Registration: July 30, 2010
Final Manuscript: September 15, 2010
Conference Dates: November 4-6, 2010


Contact
Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK
nik.bessis at beds.ac.uk

Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
fatos at lsi.upc.edu