This one's close to home. Well, my current home anyways. Via Steve.
2nd Annual Conference on
Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2004) Fredericton, N.B., Canada,
May 19-21, 2004 Submission deadline is December 15, 2003.
The topics include: Web Information
Retrieval, Web Information management, Adaptive Web Systems, Web
Services, Emerging Web Technologies.
I suspect that social software will benefit from that campaign as much as the campaign benefits from social software. As Ross argues,
"a critical mass of people are being exposed to tools for easy group
formation." Many people are becoming aware that uniting many strangers
towards a particular purpose using the Net is not only theoretically
feasible, but has actually been done successfully. This is sure to
influence future initiatives and feed into expanding adoption of SoSo
tools.
I just found out about Houssein Ben-Ameur's Semantic weblog.
Houssein is working towards a Ph.D. on semantic web services at my alma
mater. So a research blogger remains in the tower... nice!