Call for papers:

The 3rd International OPAALS (Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems) Conference on Digital Ecosystems is a public workshop to explore and discuss Digital Ecosystems Research issues. The workshop will be held in the city of Aracaju, Sergipe, located in the northeast part of Brazil on 22nd and 23rd of March 2010.

Any project concerning any Digital Ecosystems theme is invited to attend to the conference, including research, academic and private-sector institutions. The purpose of OPAALS 2010 conference is to cover topics such as Digital Ecosystems adoption, technologies, theoretical research and models, among others. Authors are encouraged to submit multidisciplinary papers, pertaining to multiple areas and topics.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Accessibility and Quality Issues
• Artificial Intelligence and Smart Applications
• Automatic Code Generation
• Business and Process Modelling
• Case Studies and Applications
• Community Currencies
• Community Networks and DE
• Contracts and Negotiation
• Distributed Identity
• Distributed Transaction Models
• Ecosystem-Oriented Architectures and SOA
• Evolutionary and Biology-Inspired Algorithms
• Formalisation of Knowledge and Business Modelling
• Governance of DE
• Knowledge Modelling (KM), KM in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks
• Knowledge and Information Visualisation
• Mathematical and Computational Models
• Natural Language and Communities
• Tools and Applications
• Open Source and Open Knowledge
• P2P Architectures
• Regulatory Frameworks
• Simulations and Dynamic Models
• Social Networks and Applications
• Standards and Regulations
• Trust and Accountability
• Web Technologies for DE

All submissions must be full papers (max 10 pages, peer-review, long oral presentation).
OPAALS 2010 will impose a double blind submission policy for all submissions, so authors must omit their names from the submission, replacing them with "Submitted for Blind Review". For more information, check the submissions topic.
Manuscripts must be submitted online following the IEEE A4 format:

• Microsoft Word format
• Latex (Windows)
• Latex Bibliography (Windows)
• Latex (Unix)
• Latex Bibliography (Unix)

Word documents (.doc, .docx) and PDFs are accepted. Submissions are made online at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opaals2010


Chair: 
Saulo F. A. Barretto - IPTI (Instituto de Pesquisas em Tecnologia e Inovação) 

Program Committee: 
Fernando A.B. Colugnati - IPTI (Instituto de Pesquisas em Tecnologia e Inovação)
Ossi Nykänen - TUT (Technical University of Tampere)
Paolo Dini - LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Frauke Zeller - University of Kassel
Thomas J. Heistracher - SUAS (Salzburg University of Arts and Science)
Jayanta Chatterjee - IITK (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Paul Krause - University of Surrey

Important dates: 
Submission opens: 15 October 2009
Submission deadline: 15 January 2010
Author notification: 10 February 2010
Camera ready: 1 March 2010
Conference: 22-23 March 2010

Send any inquiry about the conference to: opaals2010@easychair.org