Call

We solicit:

• Papers or extended abstract for the full conference
• Extended Abstracts for the Open Educational Symposium
• Research Plans for the PhD Symposium
• Proposals for tutorials, workshops or panels
• Proposals for demos of OSS tools
• Papers or extended abstract for a special session on Italian PAs (in Italian)

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

• Submissions of papers or extended abstracts: January 15, 2005
• Submissions of proposals for tutorials: January 31, 2005
• Submissions of proposals for workshops: January 31, 2005
• Submissions of proposals for panels: January 31, 2005
• Submissions of proposals for demos of OSS tools: January 31, 2005
• Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2005
• Submission of abstracts for the Open Educational Symposium: March 1, 2005
• Notification of accept. for the Open Educational Symposium: March 15, 2005
• Submission of research plans for the PhD symposium: March 1, 2005
• Notification of acceptance for the PhD symposium: March 15, 2005
• All final manuscripts ready in final version: April 1, 2005
• Pre-registration ends: April 15, 2005
  
• Experience reports submissions: April 10, 2005
• Experience reports acceptance notification: April 15, 2005
• Experience reports final manuscript submissions: May 1, 2005
• Submission of papers for SESAMOSS: July 3, 2005
• Notification of acceptance for SESAMOSS: July 6, 2005
  

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SUBMISSION

• Papers or Extended Abstracts for the Conference and the Open Educational Symposium
  Papers must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors must clearly explain the contribution of the work in terms of its theoretical and/or practical value and relationship to previous work. Submissions must be full papers of about 3000-4000 words, or extended abstracts of about 1000-1500 words, in English. Full papers should contain an abstract, a list of keywords, and a list of references, extended abstract should contain a list of keywords.
  Note: for the Open Educational Symposium only extended abstracts are requested.
  

• Proposals for tutorials, workshops or panels
  Proposals for tutorials, workshops or panels are limited to one A4 page. They should clearly evidence the relevance of the proposal for OSS2005, and the contribution it could convey to the event.
  Each submission should have as attachment a one page bio of each tutorial presenter (for tutorials), of each organizer (for workshops), and of the moderator and of each panelists (for panels).

• Proposals for demos of OSS tools
  A proposal for a demo of an OSS tool is limited to one A4 page describing the tool, one A4 page detailing existing users of the tool, plus up to 6 A4 pages with screenshots evidencing how the tool works.

• Research Plans for the PhD symposium
  A submission to the PhD symposium should be limited to three A4 pages organized as follow:
  1. One page on the background of the research proposal
  2. One page on the motivation for the research
  3. One page on the foreseen research method

• Submission Process
  Submissions should be sent as a PDF email attachments to Marco Scotto (scotto@dist.unige.it).
  
  Submissions should be formatted as follows:
  - A4 Pages, single column
  - 12pt Times Roman
  - Research plans should have a list of references at the end.

• Inclusion in Conference Proceedings
  The conference proceedings will include:
  - Full papers
  - Panels positions (up to one page for each panel)
  - Summary of workshops (up to one page per workshop)
  - Outlines of tools (up to two pages per tool)
  
  
  All papers submitted will be peer-reviewed by multiple reviewers.