IT revolutions : first international ICST conference, IT revolutions 2008, Venice, Italy, December 17-19, 2008 : revised selected papers

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. Front Matter....Pages - IT Complexity Revolution: Intelligent Tools for the Globalised World Development....Pages 1-13 “Low Power Wireless Technologies: An Approach to Medical Applications”....Pages 14-20 Implementation of Virtualization Oriented Architecture: A Healthcare Industry Case Study....Pages 21-27 Location Tracking Strategy Indicating Sufferers’ Positions under Disaster in the Buildings....Pages 28-31 Measuring Cognition Levels in Collaborative Processes for Software Engineering Code Inspections....Pages 32-43 New Possibilities of Intelligent Crisis Management by Large Multimedia Artifacts Prebuffering....Pages 44-59 Paradox in Applications of Semantic Similarity Models in Information Retrieval....Pages 60-68 Physically Based Virtual Surgery Planning and Simulation Tools for Personal Health Care Systems....Pages 69-78 The Primacy of Paradox....Pages 79-110 Semantic Service Search, Service Evaluation and Ranking in Service Oriented Environment....Pages 111-117 Quality Measures for Digital Business Ecosystems Formation....Pages 118-121 Future Information Technology for the Health Sector....Pages 122-139 A Modern Approach to Total Wellbeing....Pages 140-150 Applying Business Process Re-engineering Patterns to optimize WS-BPEL Workflows....Pages 151-160 Applying Semantic Web Services and Wireless Sensor Networks for System Integration....Pages 161-170 Beyond Artificial Intelligence toward Engineered Psychology....Pages 171-185 Communication in Change – Voice over IP in Safety and Security Critical Communication Networks....Pages 186-193 Paradox in AI – AI 2.0: The Way to Machine Consciousness....Pages 194-215 Data Mining on Distributed Medical Databases: Recent Trends and Future Directions....Pages 216-224 Economic Activity and Climate Change in a Structural Framework: A First Approach....Pages 225-231 Towards Ontology as Knowledge Representation for Intellectual Capital Measurement....Pages 232-239 e-Health in the Age of Paradox: A Position Paper....Pages 240-249 Bio-Intelligence: A Research Program Facilitating the Development of New Paradigms for Tomorrow’s Patient Care....Pages 250-253 An Integrative Bioinformatics Approach for Knowledge Discovery....Pages 254-257 Back Matter....Pages - “Mitigating Paradox at the eSociety Tipping Point” In the first two decades of the past Century, having as driving factor the automobile and its mass production, the command economy has radically changed our lifestyles, enabling the creation of offices, suburbs, fast food restaurants and unified school d- tricts. With the Internet as driving factor, socio-technical and industrial eNetworked ecosystems are about to change our lives again in these two decades of the twenty-first century, and we are just approaching the tipping point. As we have just reached the point where the tremendous changes fueled by concerted efforts in information communication technologies (ICT) research are unraveling the old society this is creating a lot of d- comfort, confusion and sometimes opposition from the traditional mainstream. This disconnect is being deepened even more by the rocketing speed of technological ICT advances. As technology is getting ahead of society, the old ways, although still do- nant, become more and more dysfunctional and we are experiencing an "age of pa- dox" as the new ways disrupt the way we used to do things and even the way we used to think about the world. Just like the major inventions that shaped the last century were made by 1920, it is expected that the major inventions that will shape the twen- first century are going to be made by 2020.