Berlin, Germany

Since the advent of mobile learning, developments in its practice and research have been triggered by technological innovation and advancement. For instance the arrival of laptops, afforded new models of technology integration and accessibility within the classroom and freed technology from the “imprisonment” of computer rooms.

The appearance of handheld devices offered potential for the exploitation of contextual outdoor learning and freed learners and technologies from the confinement of classrooms. The emergence of mobile phones democratized access to technology, revolutionized the concept of user generated content and freed learners and technologies to experiment with technologies outside classrooms and schools.

The incursion of multi-touch tablets in the mobile learning scene is the latest technological “wave”. Though in early stages, sensationalist reporting of the ipads for Learning initiatives already advocate ipads will displace playdough and finger painting in Kindergartens and the Horizon report 2011 states “electronic books are beginning to demonstrate capabilities that challenge the very definition of reading”

Against this background the relevance and need for mobile learning research and practice founded upon learning theories, focused on pedagogically meaningful approaches to mobile learning and systematically evaluated with appropriate data collection and analysis tools, remains paramount.

The “IADIS Mobile Learning 2012 International Conference” seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research which illustrate developments in the field.

We invite researchers, practitioners, developers and all those working in the mobile learning arena to submit work under the following topics:

- Pedagogical approaches, models and theories for mLearning
- mLearning in and across formal and informal settings
- Strategies and challenges for integrating mLearning in broader educational scenarios
- User Studies in mLearning
- Learner mobility and transitions afforded by mlearning
- Socio-cultural context and implications of mLearning
- Mobile social media and user generated content
- Enabling mLearning technologies, applications and uses
- Evaluation and assessment of mLearning
- Research methods, ethics and implementation of mLearning
- Innovative mLearning approaches
- Tools, technologies and platforms for mLearning
- mLearning: where to next and how?

Register for the IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2012

Berlin, Germany

The IADIS e-Society 2012 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital Divide, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in ESociety, eGovernment / eGovernance, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management.

These broad areas are divided into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees

Topics related to e-Society are of interest. These include best practice, case studies, strategies and tendencies in the following areas:

eSociety and Digital Divide

Connectivity may imply social coherence and integration. The opposite may result as well, when systematic measures are taken to exclude certain individuals or certain groups. Papers are welcomed on the next keywords:
· Social Integration
· Social Bookmarking
· Social Software
· E-Democracy
· Social Integration

eBusiness / eCommerce

· Business Ontologies and Models
· Digital Goods and Services
· eBusiness Models
· eCommerce Application Fields
· eCommerce Economics
· eCommerce Services
· Electronic Service Delivery
· eMarketing
· Languages for Describing Goods and Services
· Online Auctions and Technologies
· Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

eLearning

· Collaborative Learning
· Curriculum Content Design & Development
· Delivery Systems and Environments
· Educational Systems Design
. E-Citizenship and Inclusion
· eLearning Organisational Issues
· Evaluation and Assessment
. Political and Social Aspects
· Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
· Web-based Learning Communities

New Media and E-Society

- Digitization, heterogeneity and convergence
- Interactivity and virtuality
- Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy
- Innovation, identity and the global village syndrome
- Internet Cultures and new interpretations of “Space”
- Polity and the Digitally Suppressed

Digital Services in ESociety

- Service Broadcasting
- Political Reporting
- Development of Digital Services
- Freedom of Expression
- E-Journalism
- Open Access

eGovernment /eGovernance

· Accessibility
· Democracy and the Citizen
· Digital Economies
· Digital Regions
· eAdministration
· eGovernment Management
· eProcurement
· Global Trends
· National and International Economies
· Social Inclusion

eHealth

· Data Security Issues
· eHealth Policy and Practice
· eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
· Legal Issues
· Medical Research Ethics
· Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

Information Systems

· Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
· Intelligent Agents
· Intelligent Systems
· IS Security Issues
· Mobile Applications
· Multimedia Applications
· Payment Systems
· Protocols and Standards
· Software Requirements and IS Architectures
· Storage Issues
· Strategies and Tendencies
· System Architectures
· Telework Technologies
· Ubiquitous Computing
· Virtual Reality
· Wireless Communications

Information Management

· Computer-Mediated Communication
· Content Development
· Cyber law and Intellectual Property
· Data Mining
· ePublishing and Digital Libraries
· Human Computer Interaction
· Information Search and Retrieval
· Knowledge Management
· Policy Issues
· Privacy Issues
· Social and Organizational Aspects
· Virtual Communities
· XML and Other Extensible Languages

Register for the IADIS International Conference E-Society 2012

Berlin, Germany

A new paradigm is sweeping the society, organisations and the business environment. In fact, society and business world alike are moving from its tangible bases to intangible ones based on knowledge and information systems (IS) to support its management, use and sharing. In this emerging paradigm, terms like information, communication, knowledge, and learning have acquired a critical relevance to the understanding of the nature of contemporary business.

This led authors such as Drucker (1993) to state that “we are entering the knowledge society in which the basic economic resource… is knowledge”.

In fact, since the mid-1980s, there has been a sudden avalanche of a new kind of vocabulary. Corporations, which so far had been economic entities, are being described as ‘information-based organizations’, ‘learning organizations’, ‘knowledge-creating companies’ or knowledge intensive organisations. Instead of product-market strategies, the fashionable business discourse invokes core competencies, intangible assets, knowledge-based capabilities, intellectual capital, knowledge management etc. Consequently, in this 21st century of ours, terms such as intellectual capital, knowledge management, and knowledge mapping have increasingly become part of the corporate landscape.

However, none of this apparent revolution would be possible without the underlying technological support provided by IS. The IADIS Information Systems Conference (IS) aims to provide a forum for the discussion of IS taking a socio-technological perspective. It aims to address the issues related to design, development and use of IS in organisations from a socio-technological perspective, as well as to discuss IS professional practice, research and teaching. A set of key issues has been identified (see below). However, these do not aim at being prescriptive, or set in stone, and any innovative contributions that do not fit into these areas will also be considered.

Key issues in this conference will focus on:

IS in Practice, Technology Infrastructures and Organisational Processes

- Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues
- New Organisational Forms
- Dilution of Organisational Boundaries
- The centrality of IS and IT in Organisational Processes
- IS Management
- Information Management
- Knowledge Management
- IS and SMEs
- Innovation and IS
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- IS and Change Management
- IS and Organisation Development
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Business Process Change

IS Design, Development and Management Issues and Methodologies

- Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks
- Iterative and Incremental Methodologies
- Agile Methodologies
- IS Design and Development as a Component-Based Process
- IS Design and Development as Social Negotiation Process
- IS D Design and Development as a Global and Distributed Process
- Outsourcing in IS
- Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities
- IS Project Management
- IS Quality Management and Assurance
- IS Standards and Compliance Issues
- Risk Management in IS
- Risk Management in IS Design and Development

IS Professional Issues

- Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-society
- The role of information in the information society
- Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS
- Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects and Links
- Validity, Usefulness and Applicability of IS Academic Research
- Industrial Research versus Academic Research Issues
- Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic Laggards
- IS consultancy as a profession
- Organisational IS Roles
- Communities of practice and Knowledge Sharing

IS Research

- Core Theories, Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS Research
- Ontological Assumptions in IS Research
- IS Research Constraints, Limitations and Opportunities
- IS vs Computer Science Research
- IS vs Business Studies
- Positivist, Interpretivist and Critical Approaches to IS Research
- Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods
- Deductive vs Inductive Approaches
- Multi-method Approaches and Triangulations in IS Research
- Design Research and the Sciences of the Artificial in IS
- Multidisciplinary Views and Multi Methodological Approaches
- New and alternative approaches to IS research
- Examples of experimental research designs in IS

IS Learning and Teaching

- Patterns of Demand for IS Teaching Provision
- Fads, Fashions and Fetishes in IS Curricula
- Pedagogic practice in Teaching IS
- E-Learning in IS
- Instructional Design for IS
- National Cultures and Approaches to Pedagogy
- Multiculturality and Diversity Issues in IS Learning and Teaching

This is a blind peer-reviewed conference.

Register for the IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2012

Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, Germany,Munich

KEEPING NETWORKS SECURE IN AN AGE OF UBIQUITOUS MOBILE DEVICES AND CLOUD SERVICES

The proliferation of smartphones and emergence of cloud based services is redefining the mobile landscape and creating significant new revenue generating opportunities. From mobile banking to NFC to enterprise smartphone and tablet growth, mobile network operators are well positioned to capitalise on the popularity of next generation services. But the phenomenal growth of such devices and services simultaneously leaves networks at the mercy of malicious attacks from hackers and fraudsters alike.

In order to secure new business and alleviate concerns of prospective clients, mobile operators must ensure their networks employ a multi-layer security matrix which can protect the signalling, control, and application layers. With the global mobile security market forecast to reach $14.4 billion by 2017, the opportunity is ripe for mobile-security appliance and software developers to assist operators in minimizing the risk of data breaches and unauthorised access to and loss of personal information.
IIR’s inaugural Telecom Network Security 2012 is the only industry summit dedicated to mobile network security and brings together the respective key movers and shakers in the telecom, IT, and security markets.

Event organizer: IIR Telecoms and Technology

Register for the Telecom Network Security

Munich, Germany

ADF is a key framework in Oracle Database that enables the integration of different Oracle Fusion Middleware products. In this seminar, we will be looking at the BPM Suite 11g and Web Center Suite 11g technical integration from an application developer’s perspective; how to develop complex ADF functionality for BPM Human Tasks; and how to enable BPM Suite 11g Portal through integration with Web Center Spaces 11g.

We will explore how to set up SOA/BPM 11g and Web Center 11g domains for BPM Suite 11g Portal and how to extend and configure these domains for production usage. We will also demonstrate how to extend standard BPM functionality and integrate it with other enterprise applications through a unified portal environment. We will share many tips and tricks throughout the seminar.

Event organizer: Oracle University

Register for the ADF/WebCenter Spaces 11g & BPM Suite 11g Integration Training with Andrejus Baranovskis

Munich, Germany

Cloud Computing has taken the IT world by storm and is transforming applications, databases, data centers and all aspects of computing as we know it. This seminar discusses meaningful strategies and implementation examples on how Oracle Data Consolidation (ODC), Oracle High Availability (OHR) and Oracle Disaster Recovery (ODR) can be undertaken as phased enterprise-wide Cloud Computing initiatives.

In addition to reducing the overall cost of the data footprint, ODC lays the foundation for the initial phases of designing and implementing a Cloud.

Event organizer: Oracle University

Register for the Oracle Cloud Strategies with Gaja Vaidyanatha Seminar

Oracle Deutschland GmbH – Schulungszentrum Düsseldorf, Germany

This course will cover methods of reviewing data distribution patterns, use of indexes, use of views (stored and inline), analytic functions, sub query factoring, as well as statistics, hints, and a brief review of execution plans.

The “Writing Optimal SQL & Troubleshooting & Tuning with Jonathan Lewis” seminar organized by Oracle University will take place in Dusseldorf on 28 Feb 2012.

Event organizer: Oracle University

Register for the Writing Optimal SQL & Troubleshooting & Tuning with Jonathan Lewis

Hamburg, Germany

HIGHLIGHTS
- The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT
- All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world’s largest scientific libraries
- Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more.

CALL FOR PAPERS
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AIM AND SCOPE
MONAMI 2012 aims at bringing together top researchers, academics and practitioners specializing in the area of Mobile Network Management, Service Management,
Virtualization and Object Management.
Multiaccess and resource management, mobility management, and network management have emerged as core topics in the design, deployment and operation
of current and future networks. Yet, they are treated as separate, isolated domains with very little interaction between the experts in these fields
and lack cross-pollination. MONAMI 2012 offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics around the world to meet
and discuss the latest advances in these areas and present results related to technologies for true plug-and-play networking, efficient use of all
infrastructure investments, and access competition. The aim of the forum is to disseminate the latest innovative mobile network solutions for increased
competition and cooperation in an environment with a multitude of access technologies, network operators and business actors.
MONAMI 2012 invites researchers to submit papers within the scope of the conference that follow either evolutionary approaches based on current IP-centered
architectures or introduce revolutionary approaches and new paradigms. Papers reporting experimental and empirical studies as well as implementation/industry results
(including testbeds and field trials) are also welcome.
TOPICS
Topics of particular interest include:
- Multiaccess networks and resource management
- Future Internet architectures for mobile network management
- Energy efficiency for multiaccess networks
- Emerging & visionary multimedia services, service enablers & management
- IEEE and 3GPP management standards and enabling technologies
- Design, implementation, and testbed/experimental evaluations
- Service and application management platforms
- Autonomic network monitoring and management
- Architecture and design of new services with smart objects
- Security solutions for managed and infrastructureless networks
- Management of wireless cognitive networks
- Mobile network management and virtualization
Papers accompanied by a live demonstration at the conference are actively solicited.
PUBLICATIONS
Accepted papers will be published in Springer’s LNICST series and will appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries online that covers
a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in the ICST’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL). LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services,
including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus.
See http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0 for more information about indexing.

Munich,Germany

Ensuring Compliance to Evolving Regulations and Standards whilst Incorporating Quality & Usability into Agile Design
Are you compliant with the upcoming 3rd edition of IEC 60601 in June? Are your processes Agile, and are those that are Agile really as Agile as they could be? Do you incorporate human factors into your software design? Are those processes compliant with the FDA’s new draft guidelines on usability in medical devices?

These are the sort of questions that the most clued-up software engineers and project leaders are asking themselves, which is why they are planning to attend Software Design for Medical Devices Europe 2012 (or SDMD 2012 for short) – the only pan-European and English-language conference that is dedicated to the important area of software design in the Medical Device industry.

The event addresses key issues in the development and regulation of medical device software, including:
- Building more effective usability/human factors methodologies into software development
- Learn from world leaders in usability such as Ed Israelski, Director Human Factors at Abbott, plus hear from the FDA on their usability guidelines and expectations in medical devices via our exclusive interactive video-link during the event!
- Making your development processes more agile, and improving your agile standards compliance
- Hear case studies on implementing Agile methodologies such as Scrum in a software development life cycle from Given Imaging and Flextronics
- Getting the latest regulatory updates from the perspective of the Notified Bodies – how does their interpretation of the standards such as IEC 62304 differ from yours? What do they expect?
- Quiz Underwriters Laboratories, BSI/Eurocat and TÜV Sud on what their interpretations of 62304 are, the upcoming 3rd edition of 60601, auditing processes and generally any other questions you have!
With the success of the long-running SDMD conferences in San Diego and Philadelphia, as well as the first ever European summit earlier this year, this event is not-to-be-missed. Register your place now, and See you in Munich!
Organized by: IQPC

Register for the 2nd Annual Software Design for Medical Devices Europe Conference

IHK zu Köln (chamber of commerce), Unter Sachsenhausen 10, 50670 Köln (cologne), Germany

The cologne IT summit_ is the most important ICT-conference in germany.
Different pannels, speaches and an exclusive trade fair show trends and up to date topics in the ICT-sector.

More Program details (e.g. registration, agenda, sponsoring, entrance fee,…) will be announced as soon as possible at www.cologne-it-summit.de.

Event organizer: JOGECON GmbH

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