Dear All,

In this new edition of the newsletter we are glad to inform you about the latest developments of VE-Forum.

The major objective of VE-Forum is to offer a central forum or “cross-road” to all communities related to the VO domain; we therefore invite all who are active in related communities and projects – whether from academia, industry or service providers – to make use of the various opportunities provided by VE-Forum and to contribute to building a shared vision and knowledge basis in the domain.

We created a specific position of “Community Coach” and assigned this role to Olivier Rerolle, who joined CeTIM by beginning of 2005. Olivier shall help building new relationships between different communities and to users supporting broader exchange and collaboration. He has been active in the field since several years and has built considerable experience in practice, research and policy.

As examples, we have taken following actions during recent weeks:

·         Together with the ESoCE-Net community, we are building links to the AMI@work community family (www.mosaic-network.org ); the aim is to initiate exchange and synergies – starting with organising together the AMI@work Forum Day on Wednesday 22 June, as part of the ICE 2005 conference in Munich (June 20^th -22^nd); please visit: www.ice-conference.org

·         Parallel to the ICE 2005 conference, we are teaming with 2 further major events for our related communities: Bled 2005 and eChallenges 2005, please refer below to the “events” section.

·         We are initiating collaboration with the French association MICADO, which is focused on ICT for businesses and new working environments. MICADO has about 70 core members (industry, academia, solution providers) and 2000 subscribers. Starting as new member of their “Collaborative Work” committee, further cross-participations are under consideration (see: http://www.af-micado.com/default.asp?file=pg3-9_fr)

·         VE-Forum is supporting the 4 EU project clusters for Networked Businesses (Business networking, Digital ecosystem, AITPL, Interoperability) in their dissemination and collaboration: A dedicated web-space will go live during the next days, internal work spaces on VE-Forum are available, and Olivier is facilitating reflections on new strategies for better developing the European Research Area in the domain. This will be a considerable input for better sharing new “ICT for businesses” developments.

Of course, we will regularly inform you about the progress of these community coaching activities.

Last but not least, here are some key indicators of VE Forum site activity during the last 12 weeks:

·         Newly registered users:   301 (total: 1446)

·         Average number of visitors per week: 8960

·         Average number of document downloads per week: 1340

·         Most popular public areas (average visits per week during last month)

–         Library: 570

–         eJov: 270

–         News & events:110

·         Most popular Interest Groups (average visits per week during last month)

–         VOIG: 109

–         IG Collaboration tools:82

We hope you will find this newsletter interesting and helpful.

Simona Barresi, Hermann Loeh, Bernhard Katzy, and Olivier Rerolle

Note: as a registered user of VE-Forum you can suggest items to be included in subsequent newsletters by submitting news and event items directly in the “News & Events” section of VE-Forum (http://www.ve-forum.org). We would like to thank all the members for their useful contributions.

Events

Atlanta Workshop on "Digital City" 15/05/2005 Atlanta / Georgia This international workshop is shared by Peter Nijkamp, director of the Dutch Science Foundation NWO. The umbrella topic of this workshop is "Digital City". It invites papers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds such that address problems in the transition of local communities.
Wireless & Mobile WorldExpo, May 18 & 19, 2005, Toronto, Canada 18/05/2005 National Trade Center, 100 Prince’s Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 3C3 Wireless & Mobile WorldExpo, May 18 & 19, 2005, Toronto, Canada Description/Content: The 2005 Wireless & Mobile WorldExpo, organized by WowGao, is the highly anticipated global meeting place for the wireless and mobile industry, attracting leading innovative vendors, expert speakers, and 2,000 IT professionals as attendees. Focusing on the.. more..
Training Seminar "Mastering Communication in the Intercultural Arena" 19/05/2005 Bern, Switzerland “The process of communication can be thought of as the mutual creation of meaning.” Milton J. Bennett In this age of increasing internationalization, a maximum amount of understanding of respect among people is necessary. Intercultural communication is of immeasurable value. You will learn to understand how to code and de-code culture.. more..
Information Day on ‘ICT for Enterprise Networking’ 24/05/2005 Brussels, Conférence Centre Albert Borschette - 36 rue Froissart - room 0D The European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, ICT for Enterprise Networking Unit, is pleased to inform you that an information day on IST FP6 - call 5 will be organised on 24 May, 2005 in Brussels. The objective of this event is to present the next call Strategic Objective 2.5.8. "ICT for Networked Businesses" and its three focus, and.. more..
Euro-India ICT Co-operation Workshops 30/05/2005 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore India This workshop focuses on: “Research Networks & Grid Systems & Services for Business and eApplications". More information can be found at: http://www.euroindia-it.org/contents/workshops
18th Bled eConference 06/06/2005 Bled, Slovenia This conference attracts speakers and delegates from business, government, information technology providers and universities and is the major venue for researchers working in any aspect of eCommerce. There will be a variety of keynote speakers from industry, government and academe. The conference venue is the alpine village of Bled, 30 km south of.. more..
10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law 06/06/2005 Bologna (Italy) 10th  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law   June 6-11, 2005 - Bologna - Italy       ICAIL 2005 will be held in Bologna under the auspices of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), an organization devoted to promoting research and development in the.. more..
2005 Euro-Thailand IT Co-operation Event (EuroThailand2005) 06/06/2005 Plaza Athenee Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand EuroThailand2005 is open to all European and Thai organisations (universities, SMEs, large companies, etc.) interested in the development of scientific and technological cooperation projects in the ICT field, and in the perspectives offered by the IST Programme. More information can be found at: http://www.eurothailand-it.org/es_ep.html
e-Gov Forum & Expo, June 9 & 10, 2005 09/06/2005 Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel, 101 rue Lyon Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1R 5T9 e-Gov Forum & Expo, June 9 & 10, 2005 Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa, Canada Description/Content: The 2005 e-Gov Forum & Expo, organized by WowGao, is the most anticipated learning and networking event for IT professionals from all levels of government in Canada, including federal and MASH (municipalities, academic institutions, schools and.. more..
2005 Euro-Malaysia ICT Cooperation Event (EuroMalaysia2005) 09/06/2005 The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The EuroMalaysia2005 event is open to all European and Malaysian organisations interested in the development of scientific and technological cooperation projects in the ICT field. Malaysian companies and research institutes are encouraged to collaborate with European partners and apply for research grants in response to IST Calls for Proposals... more..
NLDB05 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS 15/06/2005 Alicante - Spain Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. For more information on the conference and on paper submission procedure, please visit http://www.nldb.org
LEGAL-IST Annual Conference (within ICE 2005 Conference) 20/06/2005 Munich Workshop to support the IST research Projects Consensus Building session
ICE2005 - 11th Conference on Concurrent Enterprising 20/06/2005 Munich "Integrated Engineering of Products, Services and Organisations" Conference Topics Business to Business Networks Co-Innovation Collaborative Enterprise Collaborative Process Collaborative Workspaces Concurrent Engineering Methods and Processes Extended Products Human Approaches Industrial Cases Interoperability in.. more..
GRID workshop at ICE 2005 21/06/2005 Munich, Germany Virtual Enterprising on the Grid A special workshop of the11th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising,ICE 2005, Munich, Germany, June 21st 2005. The grid problem has been defined as "flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources - virtual.. more..
Workshop on Complexity and Policy Analysis 22/06/2005 Cork, Ireland Co-hosted by: Department of Government University College Cork ETHOS Project Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Boston School of Public Affairs, Penn State, Harrisburg Final Call 22-24 June 2005, Cork, Ireland Key Note Presentations: "Playing with C.A.R.S.: Perspectives on Management and Analysis in Complex Contexts"Graham.. more..
CIB W78 Conference on Information Technology in Construction 19/07/2005 Dresden, Germany Topics: Agent technology | Collaborative engineering & design | Distributed open platforms and services | E-management of supply chains | Grid technology | Integrated facility, project & construction management | Mobile computing | Networking business model for e-construction | Ontologies | P2P technology | Process modelling technology | Product.. more..
12th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering 25/07/2005 USA The 12th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications - Next Generation Concurrent Engineering: Smart and Concurrent Integration of Product Data, Services, and Control Strategies Renaissance Worthington Hotel - Ft. Worth/Dallas, USA 25 - 29 July 2005 http://www.ce2005.org
International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2005) 25/07/2005 Sydney, Australia The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, designers, and users of WIS to enable a fruitful exchange of ideas in the state-of-the-art of WIS modeling. Topics of interest include: WIS Architectures Semistructured Data in WIS Methodologies for WIS Design Semantic Web Information.. more..
EGOV 2005 22/08/2005 Copenhagen - Denmark This is the 2005 edition of the DEXA EGOV workshop series
PRO-VE'05 - 6th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES 26/09/2005 Valencia, Spain www.pro-ve.org “Collaborative Networks and Value Creation” Collaborative Networks (CN) correspond to a very active and steadily growing area. For instance, Virtual enterprises / virtual organizations (VE/VO) are already supported by a large research and business practice community. Also, Professional Virtual Communities (PVC) suggest new ways of.. more..
2005 China (Shanghai) International Multimedia Technology and Application Expo & Simposium, September 26-28, 2005 26/09/2005 Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China 2005 China (Shanghai) International Multimedia Technology and Application Expo & Simposium, September 26-28, 2005 Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China Description/Content: The 2005 China (Shanghai) International Multimedia Technology and Application Expo & Simposium, co-organized by WowGao, is the most anticipated event for the multimedia industry,.. more..
e-2005 eChallenges Conference 19/10/2005 Ljubljana, Slovenia e-2005 eChallenges focuses on eBusiness, eGovernment, eWork, eEurope beyond 2005 and ICT take-up by SMEs and International Co-operation on IST, the goal of e-2005 is to stimulate take-up of Research & Technology Development (RTD) results by industry, in particular SMEs, and the European public sector. e-2005 will provide a forum to.. more..

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