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Dear colleagues,
I encourage you to submit to the interdisciplinary conference
OpenSym (International Symposium on Open Collaboration) - this
year in Paris.
Here is the call:
OpenSym 2018 General Call for Papers
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OpenSym 2018, the 14th International Symposium on Open
Collaboration
August 22-24, 2018 | Paris, France
Conference Website and call for papers:
http://opensym.org
About the Conference
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OpenSym is the only conference that brings together the different
strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to
create synergies and inspire new collaborations between people
from computer science, information science, social science,
humanities, and everyone interested in understanding open
collaboration and how it is changing our society.
This year’s conference will be held in Paris, France on August
22-24, 2018. A Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 21,
2018.
OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and
the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital
library like all prior editions.
The research paper submission deadline is March 15, 2018.
All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
Submission Information and Instructions
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Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on
subjects related to open collaboration including:
- Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science
- Open Education
- IT-Driven Open Innovation
- Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law
- Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research
Paper Presentation: OpenSym 2018 will be organized as a one track
conference in order to emphasize the interdisciplinary character
of this conference and to encourage discussion.
Submission Deadline: The research paper submission deadline is
March 15th 2018. Submitted papers should present integrative
reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical,
empirical, and/or in the design, development and/or deployment of
novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be
reviewed to meet rigorous academic standards of publication.
Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality,
innovation and clarity of presentation.
All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018
Paper Length: There is no minimum or maximum length for submitted
papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the
contribution of a paper relative to its length. Papers should
report research thoroughly but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. A
typical length of a “long research paper” is 10 pages (formerly
the maximum length limit and the limit on OpenSym tracks), but may
be shorter if the contribution can be described and supported in
fewer pages—shorter, more focused papers (called “short research
papers” previously) are encouraged and will be reviewed like any
other paper. While we will review papers longer than 10 pages, the
contribution must warrant the extra length. Reviewers will be
instructed to reject papers whose length is incommensurate with
the size of their contribution. Papers should be formatted in ACM
SIGCHI paper format. Reviewing is not double-blind so manuscripts
do not need to be anonymized.
Posters: As in previous years, OpenSym will also be hosting a
poster session at the conference. To propose a poster, authors
should submit an extended abstract (not more than 4 pages)
describing the content of the poster which will be published in a
non-archival companion proceedings to the conference. Posters
should use the ACM SIGCHI templates for extended abstracts. An
example of a poster abstract can be found here. Reviewing is not
double-blind so abstracts do not need to be anonymized.
Paper Proceedings: OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB
and ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in
the ACM digital library like all prior editions. OpenSym seeks to
accommodate the needs of the different research disciplines it
draws on including disciplines with archival conference
proceedings and disciplines where authors usually present at
conferences and publish later. Authors, whose submitted papers
have been accepted for presentation at the conference have a
choice of:
- having their paper become part of the official proceedings,
archived in the ACM Digital Library,
- having their paper published in the conference website only,
with no transfer of copyright from the authors,
- having no publication record at all but only the presentation at
the conference.
Response from authors: For the second time at OpenSym, authors
will be given the opportunity to write a response to their reviews
before final decisions are made. This should be treated as an
opportunity to correct any mistakes or misconceptions in the
reviews as well as to propose minor changes that the authors can
make during the two weeks between notification and the
camera-ready deadline.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 15, 2018
Reviews sent to authors: May 11, 2018
Response to reviews from authors due: May 20, 2018
Final decision notification: June 15, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: June 22, 2018
Papers available online: July 13, 2018
Conference Organization
The general chairs of the conference are Nicolas Jullien and
Olivier Berger, IMT, France. Feel free to contact us with any
questions you might have at
info@opensym.org.
Best,
Claudia Müller-Birn
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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. C. Müller-Birn
Head of Research Group Human-Centered Computing (HCC)
Freie Universität Berlin | Institute of Computer Science
https://hcc.mi.fu-berlin.de
Cluster of Excellence
Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
https://www.interdisciplinary-laboratory.hu-berlin.de
Winter Term 2017/18 Lecture Series "Open Technology for an Open Society"
https://ot4os.imp.fu-berlin.de