ISCRAM Summer School: New Technologies for Crisis Management

3rd ISCRAM SUMMER SCHOOL ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Tilburg University, the Netherlands –

Citizen Participation for Crisis Response and Management

http://www.iscram.org or join ISCRAM on Facebook!

20-28 August 2009, Tilburg, the Netherlands

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION — Late registration is now OPEN until July 5

INTRODUCTION:

We are pleased to announce the 3rd edition of the ISCRAM Summer School on New Technologies in Crisis Management. This summer school series successfully started in 2006, offering a top level program at Tilburg University for students from all over the world.

Participants will gain insights from information systems for crisis response and management and emerging themes in the area of citizen participation in crisis preparedness and response. Participants will have ample opportunity to discuss their work with other researchers and practitioners.

The Summer School is intended to be an intellectually and socially stimulating environment, and expected to result in active networking long after the summer school is over.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:

* Interactive Lectures with leading experts from academia and research labs, the United Nations, and practice
* Social Activities
* Dinner Challenge Talks by Special Guests
* Full day site visit (secret location)
* Full day exercise in the City of Tilburg

LECTURERS (list incomplete):

* Professor Simon French (Manchester Business School, UK)
* Dr. Susanne Jul (Amaryllis Consulting, USA)
* Dr. Tom De Groeve (ISPRA, Italy)
* Erik Kastlander (UN OCHA, Geneva)
* Craig Duncan (UN ISDR, Geneva)
* Paul Burghardt (DECIS Labs, the Netherlands)
* Jonas Landgren (Viktoria Institute, Sweden)
* Professor Piet Ribbers (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS:

We have confirmed participants from the USA, Canada, Turkey, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, the UK and Vietnam – a truly global group!

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Students in PhD programs in Information Systems, Computer Science, Organization Research, Management Science, and Operations Research or in other fields with research interests related to crisis management are eligible for nomination. The nominee should have completed course work, developed a dissertation proposal and preferably have completed one year of
dissertation work with one year remaining (at the time of the summer school) before completion.

BENEFITS FROM ATTENDING:

Participants will gain insights in the use of information systems for crisis response and management and become informed of emerging themes in the area of community and citizen crisis preparedness and response. All students will be stimulated to interact and discuss their work with the experts. The Summer School is intended to be an intellectually and socially stimulating environment, and expected to result in active networking long after the
Summer School is over.

At the Summer School, participants are expected to work in groups whose tasks include:

- analysis and discussion of relevant crises cases;
- study the role of IT/IS in citizen and community preparedness and response;
- exercising, gaming and role playing;
- use of dedicated crisis response decision support software.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

Please contact the Program Committee (email address: summerschool2009@iscram.org) immediately if you are interested in attending. Include a Curriculum Vitae with your email. You will be informed of further procedures.

COST:

The late registration tuition fee is 600 EUR, plus 600 Euro which will cover full accommodation during the entire week (in a single room at Hotel De Postelse Hoeve), lunches and dinners (except for the weekend). Tuition fee covers lectures, excursion and other organized social events.

VENUE:

With a population of nearly 200,000 inhabitants, Tilburg is the Netherlands’ sixth largest city and is located in the South of the country, close to the Belgian border, in the Province of ‘North Brabant’. For more information on the Netherlands and Tilburg, see
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/netherlands/

ACCOMMODATION:

The Summer School classes will be held at the Campus of Tilburg University in Tilburg ( http://www.tilburguniversity.nl ). Accommodation is provided in Hotel Postelse Hoeve in Tilburg, which is conveniently located within biking distance from the University campus. Bikes will be provided to all participants.

LID 09 – International Workshop on Logic in Databases

International Workshop on Logic in Databases

Roskilde University, Denmark, 29-30 October 2009

http://LID2009.ruc.dk

CALL FOR PAPERS – submission deadline July 10, 2009

Notification: August 21, 2009

Ever since Codd’s Relational Model, logic has played a major role in the field of databases. The significance and impact of this role have grown stronger over the years as data management research marched through many a data model, with logic keeping up and providing the foundations every step of the way. Some of the latest additions to this long list of models are XML, semantic web, probabilistic relational models, integrated model of DB+IR, data integration models, and models of unclean data to name a few. For some of these, corresponding logics already exist or are being explored. The significance of logic’s role for data management will
continue regardless of the data model. Logic is a fundamental tool for understanding and analyzing several aspects of data management. The Logic in Databases workshop, LID 2009, is a forum for bringing together researchers from around the world who are focusing on all logical
aspects of data management.

The present LID workshop series started with LID’08 in Rome as the confluence of three successful events series which had a strong overlap in interests.

* LID’96, an international workshop on Logic in Databases, which LID 2008 derives its name from
* LAAIC’05 and LAAIC’06, international workshops on Logical Aspects and Applications of Integrity Constraints
* IIDB’06, an international workshop on Inconsistency and Incompleteness in Databases

The workshop will be focused on applications of logic to every aspect of database management and related topics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following, as they pertain to logic in databases:

* consistent query answering
* data exchange
* data mining
* data warehousing and OLAP for novel forms of data
* database repairing
* DB + IR
* incomplete information
* inconsistency tolerance
* inductive databases
* knowledge discovery
* logical approaches to inconsistency
* logic programming
* nonmonotonic reasoning
* ordered data/query models (top-K)
* privacy/security
* semantic web
* social networks
* uncertain data (fuzzy, probabilistic, etc.) and imprecision

LID 2009 will have informal proceedings; details about the proceedings are found at http://LID2009.ruc.dk/Procs.html. Each submission will be reviewed by an international program committee; see listing below. Submissions must include original and previously unpublished results. A volume at an international publisher or a special journal issue will be considered for selected and revised papers, if number and quality of submissions permit.

Submission deadline is submission deadline July 1, 2009; see details at http://LID2009.ruc.dk

The workshop will take place in the historical city of Roskilde, Denmark
- city of vikings and kings, the fjord, the little harbour, etc. -
on 29-30 October 2009.

LID is co-located with FQAS 2009 that takes place the days up to LID,
26-28 October 2009.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Foto Afrati (Th. U. Athens)
* Pablo Barcelo (U. de Chile)
* Leopoldo Bertossi (Carleton University) (Co-chair)
* Alexander Borgida (Rutgers U.)
* Loreto Bravo (U. Concepcion)
* Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University) (Co-chair)
* Marc Denecker (K.U. Leuven)
* Wenfei Fan (University of Edinburgh)
* Floris Geerts (U. Edinburgh)
* Bart Kuijpers (Hasselt U.)
* Georg Lausen (Universität Freiburg)
* Sebastian Link (University of Wellington)
* Maarten Marx (U. Amsterdam)
* Riccardo Rosati (U. Roma)
* Marie-Christine Rousset (U. Grenoble)
* Francesco Scarcello (U. Calabria)
* Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
* Val Tannen (U. Pennsylvania)
* David Toman (U. Waterloo)
* Jef Wijsen (Université de Mons-Hainaut)
* Peter Wood (Birbeck College)

I-KNOW 09 – Call for Participation

Call for Participation

I-KNOW 2009

International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies

2-4 September 2009

Graz, Austria

http://www.i-know.at

I-KNOW ‘09 brings together international researchers (English speaking scientific part) and practitioners (German speaking industry part, Praxisforum) from the fields of knowledge management and knowledge technologies. Opening and closing keynotes, an international cooperation-event and a conference-wide exhibition complete the I-KNOW conference program. I-KNOW ‘09 will be held concurrently with I-SEMANTICS ‘09 – International Conference on Semantic Systems. This special concept aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields.

I-KNOW will offer its participants a unique platform either to present latest and leading edge developments or to catch up with the developments of most innovative IT technologies, content applications, knowledge management trends and emerging market opportunities.

The program includes about 90 scientific presentations from all over the world. A German-speaking industry track offers further 30 industry presentations and an exhibition. The presentations cover, but are not limited to the following topics…

· Basics and Theories

· Knowledge Work Support

· Semantic Technologies

· Knowledge Services

· Knowledge Relationship Discovery

· Knowledge Visualization

· Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management

· Knowledge Management and Web 2.0

For more detailed information please visit the website.

Three internationally renowned experts will give keynote presentations.

· Paolo Traverso, FBK, Italy

· Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

· Peter Kropsch, Austrian Press Agency, Austria

I-KNOW 09 – Call for Participation

Call for Participation

I-KNOW 2009

International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies

2-4 September 2009

Graz, Austria

http://www.i-know.at

I-KNOW ‘09 brings together international researchers (English speaking scientific part) and practitioners (German speaking industry part, Praxisforum) from the fields of knowledge management and knowledge technologies. Opening and closing keynotes, an international cooperation-event and a conference-wide exhibition complete the I-KNOW conference program. I-KNOW ‘09 will be held concurrently with I-SEMANTICS ‘09 – International Conference on Semantic Systems. This special concept aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields.

I-KNOW will offer its participants a unique platform either to present latest and leading edge developments or to catch up with the developments of most innovative IT technologies, content applications, knowledge management trends and emerging market opportunities.

The program includes about 90 scientific presentations from all over the world. A German-speaking industry track offers further 30 industry presentations and an exhibition. The presentations cover, but are not limited to the following topics…

· Basics and Theories

· Knowledge Work Support

· Semantic Technologies

· Knowledge Services

· Knowledge Relationship Discovery

· Knowledge Visualization

· Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management

· Knowledge Management and Web 2.0

For more detailed information please visit the website.

Three internationally renowned experts will give keynote presentations.

· Paolo Traverso, FBK, Italy

· Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

· Peter Kropsch, Austrian Press Agency, Austria

New book "Metamodeling for Method Engineering" by MIT Press published

Image prepared by Martin Frericks.

I am more than happy to announce that finally MIT Press published the book “Metamodeling for Method Engineering” edited by Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Matthias Jarke and John Mylopoulos. It can be ordered from MIT Press and from major bookstores. A short introduction is given below.

This text is a guide to the foundations of method engineering, a developing field concerned with the definition of techniques for designing software systems. The approach is based on metamodeling, the construction of a model about a collection of other models. The book applies the metamodeling approach in five case studies, each describing a solution to a problem in a specific domain. Suitable for classroom use, the book is also useful as a reference for practitioners.

The book first presents the theoretical basis of metamodeling for method engineering, discussing information modeling, the potential of metamodeling for software systems development, and the introduction of the metamodeling tool ConceptBase. The second, and larger, portion of the book reports on applications of the metamodeling approach to method engineering. These detailed case studies range from telecommunication service specification, hypermedia design, and data warehousing to cooperative requirements engineering, chemical device modeling, and design of new abstraction principles of modeling languages. Although these chapters can stand alone as case studies, they also relate to the earlier theoretical chapters. The metamodeling approach described in the book is based on the Telos metamodeling language implemented by the ConceptBase system. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the ConceptBase system and a large collection of Telos metamodels discussed in the text. The CD-ROM enables readers to start directly with method engineering, from small method chunks up to complete method definitions. The complete definition of Ed Yourdon’s structured analysis method is included as an instructional example.

The table of content can be found here. There are also some sample chapters for download.

Series Foreword
Introduction
1 A Sophisticate’s Guide to Information Modeling – Alex Borgida and John Mylopoulos
2 Metamodeling – Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma and Kalle Lyytinen 43
3 Metamodeling and Method Engineering with ConceptBase – Manfred A. Jeusfeld 89
4 Conceptual Modeling in Telecommunications Service Design – Armin Eberlein 169
5 Metadata for Hypermedia Textbooks – From RDF to O-Telos and Back – Martin Wolpers and Wolfgang Nejdl 233
6 Monitoring Requirements Development with Goals – William N. Robinson 257
7 Definition of Semantic Abstraction Principles – Mohamed Dahchour and Alain Pirotte 295
8 Metadatabase Design for Data Warehouses – Christoph Quix 329
9 A Conceptual Information Model for the Chemical Process Design Lifecycle – Birgit Bayer and Wolfgang Marquardt 357
List of Contributors
Index

Congratulations to the editors!

New book "Metamodeling for Method Engineering" by MIT Press published

Image prepared by Martin Frericks.

I am more than happy to announce that finally MIT Press published the book “Metamodeling for Method Engineering” edited by Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Matthias Jarke and John Mylopoulos. It can be ordered from MIT Press and from major bookstores. A short introduction is given below.

This text is a guide to the foundations of method engineering, a developing field concerned with the definition of techniques for designing software systems. The approach is based on metamodeling, the construction of a model about a collection of other models. The book applies the metamodeling approach in five case studies, each describing a solution to a problem in a specific domain. Suitable for classroom use, the book is also useful as a reference for practitioners.

The book first presents the theoretical basis of metamodeling for method engineering, discussing information modeling, the potential of metamodeling for software systems development, and the introduction of the metamodeling tool ConceptBase. The second, and larger, portion of the book reports on applications of the metamodeling approach to method engineering. These detailed case studies range from telecommunication service specification, hypermedia design, and data warehousing to cooperative requirements engineering, chemical device modeling, and design of new abstraction principles of modeling languages. Although these chapters can stand alone as case studies, they also relate to the earlier theoretical chapters. The metamodeling approach described in the book is based on the Telos metamodeling language implemented by the ConceptBase system. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the ConceptBase system and a large collection of Telos metamodels discussed in the text. The CD-ROM enables readers to start directly with method engineering, from small method chunks up to complete method definitions. The complete definition of Ed Yourdon’s structured analysis method is included as an instructional example.

The table of content can be found here. There are also some sample chapters for download.

Series Foreword
Introduction
1 A Sophisticate’s Guide to Information Modeling – Alex Borgida and John Mylopoulos
2 Metamodeling – Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma and Kalle Lyytinen 43
3 Metamodeling and Method Engineering with ConceptBase – Manfred A. Jeusfeld 89
4 Conceptual Modeling in Telecommunications Service Design – Armin Eberlein 169
5 Metadata for Hypermedia Textbooks – From RDF to O-Telos and Back – Martin Wolpers and Wolfgang Nejdl 233
6 Monitoring Requirements Development with Goals – William N. Robinson 257
7 Definition of Semantic Abstraction Principles – Mohamed Dahchour and Alain Pirotte 295
8 Metadatabase Design for Data Warehouses – Christoph Quix 329
9 A Conceptual Information Model for the Chemical Process Design Lifecycle – Birgit Bayer and Wolfgang Marquardt 357
List of Contributors
Index

Congratulations to the editors!

PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 2009 – Week 26

*** Events in the next 7 days

Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2009)
Date: Jun 24, 2009 – Jun 27, 2009

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events

*** New Call For Papers

Future Learning Landscapes: Towards the Convergence of Pervasive and Contextual computing, Global Social Media and Semantic Web in Technology Enhanced Learning
Call-Art: Workshop, Paper submission deadline: Jul 31, 2009
Future Learning Landscapes: Towards the Convergence of Pervasive and Contextual computing,Global Social Media and Semantic Web in Technology Enhanced Learning a workshop of EC-TEL 2009 NICE, FRANCE September 29 or 30, 2009

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps

*** PROLEARN Academy – Measure

Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1572 projects, of which 238 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 515 web sites, 70 mailinglists and 654 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 141188 for the feeds, of which 5244 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3745 entries, of which 19 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 105634 entries, of which 357 last week and for the blogs there are 235750 entries, of which 635 last week.

There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase

We are continuously enlarging our project database.

SeMuDaTe2009 – Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies

Call for Contributions

SeMuDaTe2009 – Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies
10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

The workshop is collocated with the 4th International Conference on
Semantic and Digital Media Technologies

2-4 December 2009
Graz, Austria

http://semudate2009.fim.uni-passau.de/

The Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe2009) searches for research contributions on the mapping and integration of multimedia metadata and ontologies into databases, on multimedia query languages, on the optimization and processing of semantic queries. Moreover, we are interested how multimedia data services are conceived to ensure interoperability, how to improve security and reliability of access and storage of multimedia data and metadata. It is the 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community:
http://www.multimedia-metadata.info/

Contributions

We invite the following types of contributions:

* Full papers (8-12 Pages)
* Position papers (4-8 Pages)
* Poster and Demo papers (3-4 Pages)

Submissions should be formatted according to LNCS style and submitted in PDF format. Please use the link below for your submission. The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of an international journal.

In case of questions please contact Florian.Stegmaier@uni-passau.de.

Topics

* Multimedia metadata models and mappings to databases
* Multimedia ontology and interoperability
* Multimedia ontology to database mapping and processing
* Multimedia query optimization and processing
* Ontology query languages and multimedia
* Semantic retrieval in multimedia databases
* Database management: security, indexing, reliability, distribution, transactions
* Indexing strategies for multimedia databases
* Semantic enrichment and annotation of multimedia
* Semantic metadata management
* Uncertainty in multimedia databases
* Human-computer interfaces for multimedia database access
* Mobile multimedia database services
* Context-aware multimedia
* Semantic adaptation of multimedia
* Proactive semantic multimedia delivery & distribution services
* Self-organization in service oriented multimedia architectures
* Semantic multimedia demonstrations and applications

Important Dates

All Papers

September 7, 2009 – Deadline for Workshop Papers
September 28, 2009 – Notification of Acceptance for Workshop Papers
October 19, 2009 – Camera-ready Workshop Papers due

General and Local Chairs
Harald Kosch, University Passau, Germany
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Mathias Lux, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Florian Stegmaier, Local Chair, University Passau, Germany

Workshop Technical Programme Committee
* Anna Carreras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Baltasar Fernández-Manjón (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
* Bill Grosky (University of Michigan, USA)
* Christian Guetl (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
* Dominik Renzel (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
* François Bry (LMU, University of Munich, Germany)
* Giuseppe Amato (ISTI Pisa, Italy)
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
* Marc Spaniol (MPI, Saarbrücken, Germany)
* Markus Strohmaier (Know Center, Graz, Austria)
* Oge Marques (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
* Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France)
* Romulus Grigoras (ENSEEIHT, France)
* Savvas Chatzichristofis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
* Thierry Delot (University of Valenciennes, France)
* Timothy Shih (NTUE, Taiwan)
* Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA)
* Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
* Yiwei Cao (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
* Lionel Brunie (INSA de Lyon, France)
* Yu Cao (California State University at Fresno, USA)

EC-TEL 2009 Workshops – Call for Papers

Here is the list of EC-TEL 2009 workshops with call for papers on my blog.

• Web2.0 approaches, tools and technologies to support research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TELSci2.0)
• 3rd International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for CoPs (TEL-CoPs’09)
  
• Methods & Tools for Computer Supported Collaborative Creativity Process
• 2nd Workshop on Mashup Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE09)
• 1st Workshop Learning Management Systems meet Adaptive Learning Environments (LMS-ALE)
  
• SEMHE ‘09 – Semantic Web Applications for Learning and Teaching Support in Higher Education

Web2.0 approaches, tools and technologies to support research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TELSci2.0)

(((Also Erik is organising a workshop at the EC-TEL 2009 conference. Please submit!)))

SCIENCE2.0 FOR TEL: Call for Papers

1st Workshop on Web2.0 approaches, tools and technologies to support

research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TELSci2.0)

at the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

(EC-TEL09), Nice, France, September 29 – October 2, 2009

http://stellarnet.eu/science2ectel/

SCOPE

In Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), the use of web2.0 technologies is now actively being researched, under banners such as “Personal Learning Environments” or “Open Learning Environments” and the like. In this workshop, we want to discuss how we can leverage the same opportunities for our research on TEL. Indeed, as researchers in Technology Enhanced Learning we already know how to include things like blogs, wikis and forums into the heart of our work to enhance collaborative working, but a full “Science 2.0″ framework might provide us with a much more powerful framework to make our research more effective. This workshop aims to bring together all those who want to turn a vision of the e-scholar and e-scientist of the 21st Century into reality in our own domain of TEL.

The core of significant development in a “2.0 world” is

* leveraging web2.0 technologies (that rely on the “social graph”) for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of how we conduct science;
* the capacity to share and reuse data, and to benchmark scientific activity in the international community.

Key questions for this workshop include:
* How do we mesh social web2.0 technologies with the scientific workflow?
* How do we share the data of our activity wider in our community?
* How do we visualize that data and how do we provide researchers with powerful new frameworks for their scientific endeavor?

Early generic tools for science2.0 are beginning to appear:

* http://www.scivee.tv/,
* http://www.academiccommons.org/,
* http://www.academia.edu/,
* http://www.researchgate.net/,
* http://www.mendeley.com/,
* http://www.escidoc.org/,
* http://www.authormapper.com/,
* http://www.surfspace.nl/wiki/display/widgetswetenschappers/Home,
* http://www.plos.org/,
* http://www.openwetware.org/,
* http://www.galaxyzoo.org/,
* http://bosch.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:5080/AERCS/
* http://www.rkbexplorer.com/
* http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/edmedia/
* etc.

However, most of these focus more on the sciences. There is some discussion in blogosphere about how we could make use of science2.0 opportunities for TEL. Yet, there has not been a dedicated workshop or conference on this theme. That is the missing piece that this workshop wants to fill in, in the hope of moving forward this idea and accelerating the evolution that has considerable promise of improving how we conduct research on TEL.

FORMAT

The workshop will be highly interactive: presentations will be clustered and presenters will not only discuss their own work, but also to explicitly comment on the work of the other presenters in their session. We will make all the papers available beforehand, so as to facilitate this.

Participants will also be asked to do a 5 min vlog posting to the workshop web site before the event. (This will be a requirement for registration!) We will ask the editors of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies to host a special issue of the re-worked papers after the workshop.

ORGANISATION

This half-day workshop is supported by the STELLAR EU Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning; http://stellarnet.eu The workshop is organized by

* Erik Duval (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
* Peter Scott (Open University, UK)
* Stefanie Lindstaedt (KnowCenter, Austria)
* Nicolas Balacheff (UJF, France)

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as papers (4-8 pages). Including demonstrations is explicitly encouraged. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity, and quality. All questions and submissions should be sent to: erik.duval@cs.kuleuven.be

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Submission: July 5, 2009
* Results Notification: July 20, 2009
* Camera Ready Submission: September 1, 2009
* Workshop Date: September 29 or 30, 2009

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

* Martin Ebner (Technische Universitat Graz, Austria)
* Jean Marie Favre (Universite Joseph Fourier, France)
* Barbara Kieslinger (Zentrum fur Soziale Innovation, Austria) (tbc)
* Chad J. Kainz (University of Chicago, USA) (tbc)
* Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
* Erica Melis (Deutsche Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz, Germany)
* Xavier Ochoa (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador)
* Andreas Schmidt (Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany)
* George Siemens (University of Manitoba, Canada)
* Katrien Verbert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
* Martin Weller (The Open University, UK)
* Fridolin Wild (The Open University, UK)
* Martin Wolpers (Fraunhofer-Institut fur Angewandte Informationstechnik, Germany)

ABOUT EC-TEL09

After three successful EC-TEL conferences in 2006, 2007, and 2008, the Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to TEL, among them education, psychology, and computer science. The contributions will cover the design of innovative environments, the implementation of new technological solutions, results of empirical studies on socio-cognitive processes in learning, and field studies regarding the use of technologies in context.

EC-TEL is a competitive and broad forum for TEL research in Europe and beyond. In its specialised accompanying workshops and the highlighting main conference programme, EC-TEL09 provides unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and includes project meetings and discussions for ongoing and new research activities supported by the European Commission. See http://www.ectel09.org/ for details.