At the 3rd Island Dynamics Conference, representatives from academia, government, business, and the third sector will explore island issues, past and present, worldwide. Although the conference will include talks on all aspects of maritime and island studies, this year’s conference theme is islands of culture and practice. Islands are often home to unique artistic, social, economic, and political traditions. They both preserve traditions that have been lost on the mainland and function as meeting places for traditions, the mingling of which results in new traditional forms. We can even speak of archipelagos of culture and practice, where traditions flourish in…

In response to fears at seaports and terminals over access to sufficient detection and container scanning solutions to combat the maritime CBRN threat, SMi is proud to present the inaugural CBRN in the Maritime Environment conference. This must-attend event will focus upon detection, response and recovery at sea for Naval and Government practitioners. Whilst the hazardous materials remain the same, combating the threat that these materials pose at sea requires a different approach, different equipment, and different training. As an island nation, the UK has a variety of critical national infrastructures placed close to the coast. In the event of…

SMi is proud to announce its inaugural Military Flight Training symposium to be held in London on Wednesday 19th & Thursday 20th September 2012. A new addition to the defence portfolio, this event will build on the success of SMi’s Joint Forces Simulation and Training and Air Mission Planning events to provide an innovative and unique forum for discussion and analysis of Military Flight Training. This event boasts a strong and well-balanced speaker line-up drawn from around the world delivering practical insight and experience of flight training techniques and procedures. This year’s programme will cover sessions on Human Factors –…

Targets set by the European Landfill Directive state that England and Wales must landfill no more than 8 million tonnes of biodegradable municipal waste by 2012/2013 and 5.5 million tonnes by 2019/2020. Currently 30.9 million tonnes of municipal waste is collected per year, and we must therefore find alternative methods of waste management and maximising this resource. Energy from Waste will now play a bigger role in contributing to these targets and a new energy policy. SMi's 5th annual Energy from Waste conference will evaluate the contribution and effect Energy from Waste will have on our energy future. To view…

The congress is under the aegis of the Minister of Defense of Republic of Bulgaria. The forum will be hosted by “G. S. Rakovski” Defense Academy. The Bulgarian Commission of Military History is delighted to welcome the Congress in Bulgaria for the first time in the history of the ICMH. The main theme of the Congress will be: TECHNOLOGY AND WARFARE and the working languages of the event – English and French. Event organizer: Company for International Meetings (CIM Ltd.) For more information: http://www.cim.bg/index.php/en/view/38-kongres-po-voenna-istoriya

STEM talent is indeed global and skills must be sourced worldwide. Companies will need visibility into where skills are located and access to them to overcome location mismatch, the challenge of STEM talent not residing where it is needed. Utilizing both traditional labor market intermediaries (staffing agencies, job boards) and emerging intermediaries to reach talent will be vital. This conference will focus on how organizations can recruit, develop and retain the STEM talent needed to excel in the 21st century. Representatives of industry, higher education and government are encouraged to attend and set a course for aligning our nation’s workforce…

The symposium brings together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application domains including policy-based networking, privacy, trust and security management, autonomic computing, pervasive systems and enterprise systems. POLICY 2012 is the 13th in a series of successful events, which have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. In addition to the areas mentioned above, we specifically encourage this year contributions on policy-based techniques in support of Data Management, Cloud computing and Enterprise Service Oriented applications as well as the use of reasoning, verification and learning techniques…

Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was founded by late Prof. S.R. Ranganathan in 1962. We are happy to announce ICTK-2012 as part of DRTC Golden Jubilee celebrations. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite extended abstracts in English on a wide range of themes and sub themes. Broadly the themes of the conference are divided into main streams. However, authors are encouraged to submit papers on narrower and related areas, as the following are only broader guiding themes. Stream 1: Trends in Library Education and Research Stream 2: Trends in Public Library Services Stream 3: Trends…

6-9 July 2012, Liverpool, United Kingdom As an expression of culture, a form of intangible heritage, a signifier of place, and a marker of moments, music provides an important and emotive narrative for tourists. Indeed, it is increasingly difficult to imagine tourism ‘in silence’, outside of the scores and songs which accompany and punctuate journeys. From touristic performances of traditional dance, pilgrimages to the homes and graves of composers and singers, impromptu street entertainments, tours to concerts, attending festivals, to the sounds of the car radio, the travelling with ipods and the ‘muzak’ of hotel lifts, music can both activate…

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Shared services/national and international collaboration, cloud services, cloud computing - End-user needs, end-user feedback, end-user surveys - Primary research data - New skills for library staff - New (mobile) devices - Economic crisis: how libraries have managed, success stories; ideas for cost reductions - New models for academic publishing; alternative publication methods to journals and books - Linked data, open bibliographic data - Open Access - Intellectual property rights - Digital preservation: ensuring the future accessibility and usability of knowledge We invite submissions of: Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but…

The promise of Demand Response and Dynamic Pricing could save utilities billions in capital expenditure on peak demand infrastructure, and create synergies between networks, producers and customers that will assist in managing cost, and reducing environmental impact of power generation and consumption. SMi Group’s 2nd annual European Demand Response and Dynamic Pricing will cover the latest on the different stakeholder roles, consumer needs and actions, and the initiatives to shift consumer behaviour, enabling technologies, and specific programs in Europe and beyond. We will address key Demand Response and Dynamic Pricing issues such as: • The most advanced European markets for…

Scholars from various academic disciplines converge at the premises of the Knights of Malta in Prague for a four-day conference celebrating multidisciplinary research and international education.

The conference seeks original research papers in all areas of computational complexity theory, studying the absolute and relative power of computational models under resource constraints. We also encourage results from other areas of computer science and mathematics motivated by topics in complexity theory. The following list of possible topics is not exhaustive: Complexity classes Algebraic complexity Proof complexity Interactive and probabilistic proof systems Circuit complexity Kolmogorov complexity Logic and descriptive complexity Average case complexity Reducibility and completeness Communication complexity Complexity in other concrete computational models Cryptographic complexity Complexity of optimization, including inapproximability Complexity and learning Complexity and coding theory Pseudorandomness…

SMi is proud to present its 12th annual International Software Radio symposium, to be held in London on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of June 2012. This event returns to take up its placing as a leading forum for discussion and analysis in the field of Software Defined Radio. Building on the success of previous events, this year brings an international line-up of speakers and keenly focused agenda. International Software Radio 2012’s programme will discuss key topics such as multi-national interoperability, airborne SDR, military applications of cognitive radio, waveform portability & SDR/DSA security, presented by key military experts with practical…

A rejuvenating conference in Mozart’s Austria. Open to various academic disciplines including economics. Five-day conference includes tours to Salzburg and Alpine towns. Luxurious recreational facilities. An Austrian gift in the Alps after a strenuous academic year. This will be one of two IJAS conferences in Austria during Spring; the other conference will be on the other side of Austria, in Vienna.

SMi Group is proud to present the 5th annual Cyber Defence conference, to be held in London on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th June 2012. This conference follows on from SMi’s previous highly successful Cyber Defence events and offers the opportunity to keep up-to-date with the latest developments, challenges and solutions that you need to keep up to speed and fully aware what is coming up on the cyber defence policy horizon. This year's programme will focus on the continuing and future key cyber defence challenges and opportunities for the armed forces and security services. With military cyber systems having…

Today's diverse workforce requires new leadership perspectives in order to take advantage of emerging opportunities for business innovation and growth. A unique synergy between older and younger workers can be unleashed by leading effectively across generations. Both business and public sector need to mobilize this potential in their workforce to develop the creative and profitable solutions for new markets in a world in transition. The in-depth discussions, high-caliber keynotes, and workshops will deal with: • Workplace Structure • Mentoring and Coaching • Generational Transfers in Family Businesses • Retention and Motivation • Lifelong Learning The high-caliber conference - jointly organized…

SMi Group proudly presents the 3rd annual Air Mission Planning conference, which will be held in London on 11th & 12th June 2012. From tasking to re-tasking, mission planning is the core competence that underpins air operations for our flight crews and airmen. Advances in technology have increased capability and safety in the air whilst the evolution to dynamic mission planning has been supported by the modern tools at our disposal over the last two decades. In the 21st century, mission planning equipment must now work in partnership with the rest of an aircraft’s avionics suite to establish air superiority.…

The 6th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics will be held from June 6th to June 8th 2012 at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). Prof. Dr. Ulrich Weidmann, Uwe Kirsch (both ETHZ) and Prof. Dr. Michael Schreckenberg from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) are going to be the hosts of this event. Confirmed keynote speakers Uwe Hanebeck Karlsruhe Institute of Technology "Multimodal Extended Range Telepresence in Pedestrian Simulation" Paul I. Weinmann ICTS Europe, Amsterdam "Behavior Assessment of Individuals in Crowds - a View from the Perspective of…

The 2012 International Conference on Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems, CITS 2012, is an international forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research and development results in all areas of Computer, Information technology and Telecommunication Systems, CITS. The conference will last for four days and will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, workshops and distinguished keynote speeches. All full paper submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. The accepted full papers will be published in the refereed conference proceedings. The conference is sponsored by…