Future Internet - FIS 2008 : First Future Internet Symposium, FIS 2008; Vienna, Austria, September 29-30, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

Domingue, John (EDT); Fensel, Dieter (EDT); Traverso, Paolo (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3642009840 / ISBN 13: 9783642009846

Published by Springer, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Future Internet - FIS 2008 : First Future Internet Symposium, FIS 2008; Vienna, Austria, September 29-30, 2008, Revised Selected Papers
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642009840
• ISBN 13: 9783642009846
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

The First Future Internet Symposium was held during September 28–30, 2008 in Vienna, Austria. FIS 2008 provided a forum for leading researchersand pr- titioners to meet and discuss the wide-ranging scienti?c and technical issues related to the design of a new Internet. The sentiment shared in Vienna was that we are at the beginning of something very exciting and challenging and that FIS 2008 has played a role in forming a community to address this. With overa billionusers,today’s Internet is arguablythe most successful- man artifact ever created. The Internet’s physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integralpart in the lives of everyoneon the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its ?fth decade, the Int- net has shown remarkable resilience and ?exibility in the face of ever-increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces gr- ing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scienti?c research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilization of the Internet. Japan, the USA and Europe are investing heavily in this area. The EU is shaping around the idea of the Future Internet its research programmes for the Seventh Framework. EU commissioners, national government ministers, industry leadersand researchersmet in Bled, Slovenia during March 31–April2, 2008, to begin developing a vision of a future Internet that will meet Europe’s needs a decade from now, and beyond. Abroadprogrammeofscienti?cresearchisessentialtosupportingtheaimsof the Future Internetinitiative.

From the Back Cover

This book constitutes the thorouhly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First Future Internet Symposium, FIS 2008, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2008.

The 10 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address novel ideas and current research results related to the future internet infrastructure, user-generated content, content visualization, usability, trust and security, collaborative workflows, the internet of services and service science.