The 2nd International Conference on Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems (OPAALS) will be organised on 7th and 8th October 2008, as one of the MindTrek workshops. The theme of the conference is Interdisciplinary Digital Ecosystems Research and the associated fields related to Social Science, Computer Science, and Natural Science. The conference is organised by the Hypermedia laboratory of Tampere University of Technology (TUT), as a partner in the OPAALS Network of Excellence (FP6-034824). The conference is organised in association with the Mindtrek Association and the W3C Finnish Office.

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OPAALS is a global Network of Excellence formed around multi-disciplinary research into Digital Ecosystems. OPAALS research covers social science, linguistics, computer science, software engineering, and biology.