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Welcome

Welcome to the website of OPAALS (Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems), a multi-disciplinary network of research excellence for developing the science and technology behind Digital Ecosystems.

Digital Ecosystems represent the next generation of Internet usage. Applicable to many fields, they will perhaps have the greatest effect in enabling Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to compete on the global stage. Based on open and low-cost peer-to-peer architectures, Digital Ecosystems represent the future of technical, social, and economic aspects of the connected world.

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Project deliverable guide

Apr 2009

A new guide to OPAALS project deliverables has been published at:

http://wiki.opaals.org/DeliverableAbstracts,

The guide contains a brief abstract of each deliverable, giving an overview of the output of the project. The full deliverables, from OPAALS and other Digital Ecosystem projects can be downloaded from the Digital Ecosystem file repository, accessible from the links pod at the top right of our home page.

Latest Newsletter
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July 2009

  • Phase III and Sustainability
  • Interim Review Feedback
  • OPAALS Devolves its Web Presence
  • OPAALS Research Exchanges: Phase III Opportunities
  • Abstracts of Submitted Deliverables Now Available
  • Coming soon: 'Dissemination Storehouse'
  • Articles
  • Work Package News

January 2009

  • New Integration and Coordination Team announced
  • 2nd General Meeting report
  • Latin American mission (EULAKS)
  • Social science survey

August 2008

  • Welcome from new Project Officer Florent Frederix
  • Report on Digital Ecosystems at regions conference
  • Summer school video available
  • News and updates from each of the Work Packages

November 2007

  • News of the first offical project review
  • Report on the November EC Digital Ecosystems conference in Brussels
  • Feature article on the integration of OPAALS disciplines
  • News and updates from each of the Work Packages

June 2007

  • Virtual researtch space a reality
  • Digital Ecosystems repository launched
  • Mathematical symmetry the key to life's computer?
  • Language is the key to interdisciplinary research

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Upcoming


3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies

Date: 31 May -3 June 2009
Venue: Istanbul, Turkey
Details: The main conference theme is to strengthen ICT to support different digital ecosystems, especially focusing on cyber engineering and human space computing. It is the study of triangle relationship between industries, human endeavours and advanced ICT.

See the conference here http://dest2009.debii.curtin.edu.au/

Recent


OPAALS P2P workshop

Date: 4 -5 March
Venue: University of Surrey, UK
Details: Workshop on integrating the identity and trust work with the OPAALS P2P

Contact Paul Krause University of Surrey P.Krause@surrey.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1483 689861

OPAALS 2nd General meeting

Date: 12th - 14th January 2009
Venue: LSE, London, UK
Details: Hosted by LSE, this internal working meeting involved most of the project participants and discussed detailed developments at Work Package level, with an emphasis on integration between WPs. The event is reported fully in the January newsletter.

OPAALS 2nd Conference

Date: 7 - 8 October 2008
Venue: Tampere, Finland
Details: The theme of the conference was Interdisciplinary Digital Ecosystems Research and the associated fields related to Social Science, Computer Science, and Natural Science. Proceedings are available here.

OPAALS Summer School

Date: 19-20 June 2008
Venue: University of Limerick, Ireland
Details: The two-day OPAALS Summer School was held in Limerick, Ireland in June.
Hosted by OPAALS partner University of Limerick the event consisted of an intensive dialogue between the disciplines.

See the complete programme and videos

OPAALS 1st Conference

Date: November 26-27, 2007
Venue: Rome, Italy
Details: The first formal presentations of OPAALS work.

See the conference proceedings.