IT Revolutions [electronic resource] : First International ICST Conference, IT Revolutions 2008, Venice, Italy, December 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Mihaela Ulieru, Peter Palensky, RenȨ Doursat.

Position Papers -- IT Complexity Revolution: Intelligent Tools for the Globalised World Development -- ǣLow Power Wireless Technologies: An Approach to Medical Applicationsǥ -- Implementation of Virtualization Oriented Architecture: A Healthcare Industry Case Study -- Location Tracking Strategy Indicating Sufferers Positions under Disaster in the Buildings -- Measuring Cognition Levels in Collaborative Processes for Software Engineering Code Inspections -- New Possibilities of Intelligent Crisis Management by Large Multimedia Artifacts Prebuffering -- Paradox in Applications of Semantic Similarity Models in Information Retrieval -- Physically Based Virtual Surgery Planning and Simulation Tools for Personal Health Care Systems -- The Primacy of Paradox -- Semantic Service Search, Service Evaluation and Ranking in Service Oriented Environment -- Quality Measures for Digital Business Ecosystems Formation -- Future Information Technology for the Health Sector -- A Modern Approach to Total Wellbeing -- Applying Business Process Re-engineering Patterns to optimize WS-BPEL Workflows -- Applying Semantic Web Services and Wireless Sensor Networks for System Integration -- Beyond Artificial Intelligence toward Engineered Psychology -- Communication in Change Voice over IP in Safety and Security Critical Communication Networks -- Paradox in AI AI 2.0: The Way to Machine Consciousness -- Data Mining on Distributed Medical Databases: Recent Trends and Future Directions -- Economic Activity and Climate Change in a Structural Framework: A First Approach -- Towards Ontology as Knowledge Representation for Intellectual Capital Measurement -- NRC Papers -- e-Health in the Age of Paradox: A Position Paper -- Bio-Intelligence: A Research Program Facilitating the Development of New Paradigms for Tomorrows Patient Care -- An Integrative Bioinformatics Approach for Knowledge Discovery.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International ICST Conference IT Revolutions in Venice, Italy, in December 2008. It consists of 21 position papers as well as 3 NRC papers. It embraces the Internet as driving factor, and the socio-technical and industrial eNetwork ecosystems changing our lives in the first two decades of the 21 century. IT Revolution will account yearly on the progress made in building a critical mass for the radical shift while underlining the major issues and identifying gaps between the traditional and the new ICT-driven ways to provide strategic directions in adressing them - thus ensuring a smooth transition toward an IT-driven future.

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