Future Internet Symposium - Vienna, Austria, September 28-30 - Call for Participation

***Apologies for cross postings****

[http://www.fis2008.org]

We are pleased to announce the Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008)  
which will take place in Vienna, Austria, September 28-30.  FIS 2008  
will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia  
and industry to exchange ideas related to the Future Internet - a new  
planet scale network able to truly meet the societal and business  
demands of the 21st Century.

In addition to a full refereed paper programme, and a poster and demo  
session FIS 2008 incorporates the following:

Three Keynotes
* William H. Dutton (Director of the Oxford Internet Institute)
* João da Silva (Director of the Network and Communication DG-INFSO)
* Alexander Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University)

Five Invited Papers
* The Nature of Our Digital Universe - presented by Michael L. Brodie  
(Chief Scientist of Verizon Services Operations)
* The Internet of Things in an Enterprise Context - presented by  
Stephan Haller (Senior Researcher and Architect in the Smart Items  
Research Program at SAP Research in Zürich)
* Security-By-Contract for the Future Internet - presented by Fabio  
Massacci (Professor at the University of Trento)
* eServices in a Networked World: from Semantics to Pragmatics -  
presented by Jaap Gordijn (Associate Professor of Innovative e- 
Business at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Two Workshops
* OneSpace2008: The1st International Workshop on Blending Physical and  
Digital Spaces on the Internet
* The 1st International Workshop on Complex Event Processing for  
Future Internet: Realizing a Reactive Future Internet

Three Tutorials
* Triple Space Computing: Large-Scale Integrated Knowledge Applications
* Beyond Google Earth: Surfing Petabyte Maps in the Future Internet
* Semantic Management of Business Processes in the Future Internet

Full details on the programme and details on how to register can be  
found at our website www.fis2008.org


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Prof. John Domingue,
Knowledge Media Institute,
The Open University,
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK6 7AA
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/

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