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OPAALS - A network of excellence

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.

OPAALS - What's Hot

New Project Officer appointed

August 2008

Mr Florent Frederix has taken over and Commission Project Officer for the OPAALS project.

With an educational background in Electronics, Computer Science and a Doctoral degree in Economics, before becoming a member of the EU commission in 2001 he spent 20 years in the Information and Telecom industry. He currently heads the RFID sector in the Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification unit of the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission.

File Repository
Repository for Digital Ecosystems Cluster projects.
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Click here for Open Knowledge Space> (Launch in December 2007)

Events

Upcoming

OPAALS 2nd Conference

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

  • April: Submission opens
  • July 11th: Submission closes
  • July 25th: Extended Submissions deadline
  • August 30th: Notification to authors
  • September 12th: Camera-ready papers due
  • October 7th-8th: OPAALS 2008 Conference

The conference is organised in Tampere, Finland, at the Scandic Rosendahl hotel. Bulk reservations have been made to the hotel.

Accommodation at hotel Rosendahl is organised jointly by the Mindtrek conference. See Mindtrek conference accommodation for more information.

OPAALS 2008 conference and hotel registration will open in April 2008. Note: Delegates from the OPAALS partner universities should contact the OPAALS 2008 conference secretary (tiina.savilahti@tut.fi) for significant discount rates for the OPAALS 2008 and of the Mindtrek Conference.

For details and registration, see http://matriisi.ee.tut.fi/hypermedia/events/opaals2008/index.html

Recent

OPAALS Summer School

Date: 19-20 June 2008
Venue: University of Limerick, Ireland
Summary: The two-day OPAALS Summer School was held in Limerick, Ireland in June.
Details: Hosted by OPAALS partner University of Limerick on their very attractive greenfield campus, the good weather and social programme added a relaxed holiday feel to what was also an intensive dialogue between the disciplines.

Questions and challenges were much more frequent than in more formalised events, and these initiated lively dialogue that contributed greatly to inter-disciplinary understanding. With a touch of foresight, UL arranged for the sessions to be videoed, so you can replay the entire event, including the discussion sessions. The only censored part being Gary Gaughan’s impromptu Irish Dancing during the evening social.

Subjects covered include:

  • The Construction of Order
  • P2P Networks, Computer Models and Social Science
  • Online Conferencing

  • Associative Systems, Language Power

  • Transaction Models

  • Systems Theory Autopoiesis: Strengths Weaknesses

  • Trust, Identity and Accountability

  • DE and Regional Development: The Hard Facts, Policies, Economic Models

  • OSS 2.0 and Open-Sourcing

See the complete programme and videos http://www.lero.ie/opaals

IEEE Conference Digital Ecosystems and technologies

Date: 26-29/02/2008
Venue: Thailand
Summary: A forum for IT frameworks and domain based collaborations such as e-humanities, cultural and economic systems
Details: http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/index.php

OPAALS Research Workshop

Date: 26-27/11/2007
Venue: Rome
Summary: The first workshop for establishing the theoretical foundation for Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems
Details: http://www.opaals.org/conference.php
Conference report and proceedings:
http://files.opaals.org/OPAALS/Year_2_Deliverables/WP09/D09.4_OPAALS_1st_Conference_Proceedings.pdf

European Commission Digital Ecosystems conference and Webcast

Date: 07/11/2007
Venue: Brussels
Summary: A high-level policy event reviewing the current state-of-the-art and future prospects
Details: http://de-2007.eu