International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting

Mon Nov 28 02:02:59 EST 2005

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*Call for Papers*

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*International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics
& Seventh COLLNET Meeting *

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in conjunction with the

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*/Extra Session on Information Visualization for Webometrics,
Informetrics and Scientometrics /*

(Special information below)

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* 10-12 May, 2006*

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*LORIA-INIST*

*Nancy**, France** *

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*/Scope/*

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Quantitative aspects of science of science. Collaboration and
communication in science and in technology. Science policy. Combination
and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects, for example:

-          Emerging issues in scientometrics/informetrics/webometrics
and history

-          Quantitative analysis of  S&T innovations

-          Informetric laws and distributions, mathematical models of
communication or collaboration

-          Information retrieval

-          Nature and growth of science and its relation with
technological output

-          Evaluation indicators

-          Collaboration in science and in technology from both
quantitative and qualitative points of view

-          Information visualization for webometrics, informetrics and
scientometrics (Special information below)

Please, note that these examples listed above give a broad outline of
the scope of the workshop theme but do not limit it.

*Special Information about the*

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*/Extra Session on Information Visualization for Webometrics,
Informetrics and Scientometrics/*

Information visualization involves the visual representation and
exploration of abstract information. Non-physical information can
advantageously be represented in a visual form, but such information has
no obvious spatial property by itself. Information visualization is thus
a computer-supported process which transforms data, information and
knowledge into a form that relies on the human system to perceive the
embedded meaning. It focuses on creating rich visual interfaces to help
users navigate through complex information spaces and analyse abstract data.

The development of this domain creates innovative graphical
representations of information. This workshop aims at exploring and
discussing the application of these methods and techniques for
visualizing quantitative aspects of science, collaboration and
communication in the domains of science and technology.

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Contributions should focus on one or more of the following topics:

Methods and techniques such as:

-          Hyperbolic geometry

-          Graphs and networks as visual display

-          Clustering visualization

-          Using neural networks for visualization

-          Models for navigation and interactivity

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Applications of these methods and techniques for:

-          Visualizing subspaces of the Web

-          Web log data visualization

-          Graphic representation of informetrics distributions

-          Maps of science

The Extra Session will start with a specific tutorial on *XML and
Metadata engineering, and their specific use in the context of
Webometrics*. The specific call for papers is associated and made
available for this workshop at the address: http://collnet.inist.fr
<http://collnet.inist.fr/>.

*/LORIA and INIST/*

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Conducting research in the domain of Information and Communication
Technologies, *LORIA*  (Lorraine   Laboratory in Computer Science and
its Applications) is a joint research unit - UMR 7503 common to several
establishments: CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique)
National Center of Scientific Research, INPL (Institut National
Polytechnique de Lorraine) National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine,
INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)
National Research Institute for Computer Science and Automation, UHP
(Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1) Henri Poincaré, University, Nancy
1, Nancy 2 (Université Nancy 2) Nancy 2 University.

*LORIA* is a laboratory of more than 450 persons including 150
scientific staff (full-time researchers or university professors or
assistant professors), 150 doctoral students and post-docs and
engineers, technical and administrative support staff, intern and
visitors organized in research teams and supporting services.

The main mission of *LORIA* is the fundamental and supplied research in
the field of information and communication technologies. LORIA plays
also a strategic role in the training of young researchers, in
partnership with Universities and in the technology transfer via
partnerships with industry and support in the creation of start-up companies

The institute for Scientific and Technical Information (*INIST*) is a
service unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research
(CNRS). Its mission is to collect, analyze and disseminate the results
and findings of worldwide research in science, technology, medicine,
humanities, economics and social sciences. Please have a view at *LORIA*
website at the address: http://www.loria.fr <http://www.loria.fr/>.

*INIST *is the leading integrated scientific and technical information
center in Europe and provides the major public research and academic
institutions as well as the socio-economic sector with resources and
services designed to improve dissemination of and access to
international scientific and technical information (STI).

Committed to the new information and communication technologies, *INIST*
offers a whole range of access services to scientific and technical
information on the Internet. *INIST* is not only the leading scientific
and technical document supplier in France, but it is also the producer
of two multilingual, multidisciplinary bibliographic databases
containing over 17 million bibliographic records covering the core
worldwide scientific literature. Please have a view at *INIST *website
at http://www.inist.fr <http://www.inist.fr/>.

*/COLLNET and ISSI/*

COLLNET is a global interdisciplinary research network of scholars who
are concerned to study aspects of collaboration in science and in
technology (see COLLNET web site at: http://www.collnet.de/). This
network of interdisciplinary scholars was established in January 2000 in
Berlin with Hildrun Kretschmer as coordinator. Since that time there
have been 6 meetings: the first in Berlin, September 2000, the 2^nd in
New Delhi, February 2001 and the 3^rd in Sydney (in association with the
8^th ISSI Conference), July 2001. The ISSI President Mari Davis has
mentioned in the Newsletter, July 2003: Importantly, ISSI needs alliance
with other groups, such as COLLNET, for broader reach among a range of
interdisciplinary researchers and to encourage new thinking and
perspectives on investigations in science and in technology. The 4^th
COLLNET Meeting took place on August 29^th in 2003 in Beijing in
conjunction with the 9^th International ISSI Conference. The
International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics
and 5^th COLLNET Meeting in Roorkee, India, in May 2004. The 6^th
COLLNET Meeting which took place in association with the 10^th ISSI
Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2005.

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*Program Chairs: *

Jean-Charles Lamirel, France

Hildrun Kretschmer, Germany

Claire François, France

Jacques Ducloy, France

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*Organizing  Secretary: *

Jean-Charles Lamirel LORIA France

Claire François, INIST France

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*Secretary: *

Patricia Gauthier, INIST France

Sabah Khalfa, LORIA France

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*Programme Committee: *

Isidro Aguillo, Spain
Petra Ahrweiler, India

R. Ambuja, India

Elise Bassecoulard, France

Aparna Basu, India

Donald deB. Beaver, USA

Sujit Bhattacharya, India

Maria Bordons, Spain

Martina Brandt, Germany

Linda Chan, Hong Kong

Stéphane Chaudiron, France

Blaise Cronin, USA

Robert Dalpe, Canada

Mari Davis, Australia

Jacques Ducloy, France

Taoufiq Dkaki, France

Leo C.J. Egghe, Belgium

A. Hossein Farajpahlou, Iran

Hubert Feger, Germany

Claire François, France

Lars Fuglsang, Denmark

Isabel Gomez, Spain

Ulla Große, Germany

Brij Mohan Gupta, India

Frank Hartmann, Germany

Frank Havemann, Germany

William W. Hood, Australia

Marianne Hörlesberger, Austria

Margriet Jansz, Netherlands

C.R. Karisiddappa, India

Sylvan Katz, UK

Lidiya Kavunenko, Ukraine

Mohsin U. Khan, India

Ved Prakash Kharbanda, India

Philippe Kislin, France

Rajesh Kochhar, India

Hildrun Kretschmer, Germany

Karl-Theo Kretschmer, Germany

Ramesh Kundra, India

Jean-Charles Lamirel, France

Alain Lelu, France

Loet Leydesdorff, Netherlands

Liming Liang, China

Sofía Liberman, Mexico

Zeyuan Liu, China

Bruno Maltrás, Spain

Valentina Markusova, Russia

Martin Meyer, Finland

Xavier Polanco, France

Ülle Must, Estonia

Ed Noyons, Netherlands

Dennis Ocholla, South Africa

Yoshiko Okubo, France

Farideh Osareh, Iran

Siew Hock Ow, Malaysia

Koti S. Raghavan, India

Ravichandra Rao, India

Ronald Rousseau, Belgium

Jane Russell, Mexico

Shivappa Sangam, India

Eric SanJuan, France

Andrea Scharnhorst, Netherlands

Annedore Schulze, Germany

Divya Srivastava, India

Johannes Stegmann, Germany

Yuan Sun, Japan

Dimiter Tomov, Bulgaria

Walther Umstaetter, Germany

Liwen Vaughan, Canada

Yan Wang, China

Caroline Wagner, USA

Roland Wagner-Döbler, Germany

Vera Wenzel, Germany

Concepcion S. Wilson, Australia

Paul Wouters, Netherlands

Yishan Wu, China

Michel Zitt, France

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*Please send your abstracts and papers to:*

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Jean-Charles Lamirel

LORIA

Campus Scientifique

BP 239

54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy CEDEX

France

Tel: +33-383592088

Fax: +33-383413079

Email: lamirel at loria.fr <mailto:lamirel at loria.fr>

Please, send also a copy to:

Hildrun Kretschmer

Email: kretschmer.h at onlinehome.de <mailto:kretschmer.h at onlinehome.de>

Both abstracts and full papers will be peer reviewed by the Programme
Committee. The accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings.

*Important dates:*

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·         *22 January 2006: deadline for abstract submission,*

·         *15 **February** **2006**: notification of acceptance,*

·         *15 March 2006**: final paper (camera-ready version, maximum
10 pages including tables, figures, references) *

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*Conference Fees: *

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·         *Collnet members: 160 euros.*

      ·         Non members: 200 euros.

·         *Accompanying person: 50 euros.*

Registration fees include coffee breaks and lunches, invited banquet and
proceedings. For persons who are interested in, a special "Ecole de
Nancy" Art Tour will be programmed the last day (with additional fees of
20 euros).

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*For more information please contact organizing secretary:*

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Patricia Gautier

INIST-CNRS

2, allée du Parc de Brabois

54514 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy CEDEX

France

Tel: +33-383504670

Fax: +33-383504646

Email: gautier at inist.fr

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*Other important contact emails:*

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*Claire.Francois at inist.fr <mailto:Claire.Francois at inist.fr>*

*Jacques.Ducloy at inist.fr <mailto:Jacques.Ducloy at inist.fr>*

*Sabah.Khalfa at inria.fr <mailto:Sabah.Khalfa at inria.fr>*

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