<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_pnlNew" class=""><div id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_pnlIntroduction" class=""><span id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_lblIntroduction" class=""><p class="">Book: Handbook of Research on Open Source Solutions for Knowledge Management and Technological Ecosystems</p><p class="">More info: <a href="http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1492" class="">http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1492</a></p><div class="">Proposal deadline: February 15, 2015</div><h2 class="">Theme</h2><p class="">Over
recent years more and more companies and institutions are committed to
the use of Free Software and Open Source developments to cover their
technological needs, both for their internal processes management and
their public-facing visibility.</p><p class="">Small and medium enterprises
(SME), large corporations and universities generate a large amount of
data. The importance of transforming their data into knowledge has been
increasing over recent years and the correctly management has become one
of the main goals of companies and institutions.</p><p class="">In this context,
companies and institutions search technological solutions to support
these emerging needs and improve their current information systems.</p><p class="">There
are a wide variety of Open Source solutions covering the basic ICT
needs of any organization, from content management systems to decision
making tools or project management software. Therefore, it is not a
development issue but rather selecting, integrating and making
interoperable the different existing tools or components and also
defining the flows to support the information and knowledge management
peculiarities of each organization. These solutions are called
technological ecosystems and allow focusing on information and knowledge
to set aside the underlying technology.</p><p class="">This approach means a
more incremental and evolutionary system life-cycles, with a more
orientation to the system integration than to software development, but
with a very complex maintenance of both the system as a whole and each
component. This maintenance complexity means a real challenge to face
with more flexible and adaptable architectures and also using high-level
dashboard for ecosystems deployment and evolution.</p><p class="">The
technological ecosystems are the evolution of the information systems.
The technological ecosystem can be defined as a set of software
components and information flows in order to provide the required
functionality for managing the internal and external processes of an
organization. The simplest definition of mashup is a web-based
information system that combines components from different sources to
form a complete service. If we compare both definitions, we can define a
technological ecosystem as a mashup with high flexibility and
adaptability to the needs of both the end users and the technician or
specialist.</p><p class="">Moreover, each technological ecosystem is unique; it
is very difficult that two different institutions or companies share
exactly the same problems and goals about their own knowledge
management. Perhaps in an initial stage, the basic requirements may be
very similar, but the evolutionary characteristic, which is intrinsic to
the ecosystems, would cause that this similarity would last for a short
period of time since each ecosystem evolves differently, as it occurs
in nature. The key to control and improve the technological ecosystem
evolution is the main goal of this publication. Learn about new
methodologies, Open Source developments or software engineering
solutions and contrasting different case studies in institutions and
companies, provide a solid basis to enhancing technological ecosystems.</p></span></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_pnlObjective" class=""><h2 class="">Objective</h2><div class="headerdivider"></div><span id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_lblObjective" class=""><p class="">The
main goal of this book will explore the evolution of the knowledge
management systems in any kind of context, from companies to
institutions. It will illustrate powerful approaches for the definition
and development of technological ecosystems based on Open Source
software.</p></span></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_pnlTargetAudience" class=""><h2 class="">Target Audience</h2><div class="headerdivider"></div><span id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_lblTargetAudience" class=""><p class="">The
target audience of this book is composed by researchers, developers,
university teachers, university students and institutions and companies
whose goals include the knowledge management generated both their
internal and external processes.</p></span></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_pnlRecommendedTopics" class=""><h2 class="">Recommended Topics</h2><div class="headerdivider"></div><span id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_lblRecommendedTopics" class=""><p class="">Contributors
are welcome to submit chapters on the following topics relating to
Technological Ecosystems use, implementation, and adoption in developing
countries:</p><ul class="ul-margins-med"><li class="">Evolution of technological ecosystems</li><li class="">New proposal to enhancing technological ecosystems</li><li class="">Software engineering for technological ecosystems</li><li class="">Open Source developments for technological ecosystems</li><li class="">New methodologies supported by Open Source solutions for enhancing knowledge management in companies and institutions</li><li class="">Case studies: technological ecosystems in institutions</li><li class="">Case studies: technological ecosystems in companies</li></ul></span></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_pnlSubmissionProcedure" class=""><h2 class="">Submission Procedure</h2><div class="headerdivider"></div><span id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_lblSubmissionProcedure" class=""><p class="">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before <b class="">February 15, 2015</b>,
a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the
mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by <b class="">February 20</b> about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by <b class="">March 31</b>.
All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this
project.</p><p class="">Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, <i class="">Handbook of Research on Open Source Solutions for Knowledge Management and Technological Ecosystems</i>. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.</p></span></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_pnlImportantDates" class=""><h2 class="">Important Dates</h2><div class="headerdivider"></div><span id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_lblImportantDates" class=""><b class="">February 15, 2015</b>: Proposal deadline
<br class=""><b class="">March 31, 2015</b>: Full chapter submission
<br class=""><b class="">April 1, 2015 – May 15, 2015</b>: Review process
<br class=""><b class="">May 30, 2015</b>: Review results returned
<br class=""><b class="">June 30, 2015</b>: Revised chapter submission</span><br class=""></div></div><div id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_pnlForwardTo" class=""><h2 class="">Inquiries</h2></div><span id="ctl00_cphCenterContent_lblForwardTo" class="">Francisco José García-Peñalvo and Alicia García-Holgado
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GRIAL Research Group
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Educational Science Research Institute (IUCE)
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UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA
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Tel.: +34 923 294500 Ext. 3433 • Fax: +34 923 294514
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E-mail: <a href="mailto:fgarcia@usal.es" class="">fgarcia@usal.es</a> – <a href="mailto:aliciagh@usal.es" class="">aliciagh@usal.es</a></span></body></html>