In recent years, with the aid of engineering and information technology, biomedical engineering has emerged as a high-tech field, generating innovation in such areas as medical imaging, bioinformatics, MEMS and nanotechnology, new biomaterials and sensors, medical robotics, and neurobiology. Scientists and engineers in this field have recently been working towards such advances as developing artificial organs that mimic natural human organs, conducting telemedicine, performing surgeries with robots, creating a laboratory-on-a-chip, and controlling robots through natural animal brain matter.

Providing secure and interoperable mobile deployable communications is imperative in achieving greater situational awareness and superior operational capabilities. Attend this event to share experiences, network with the people that matter and maximise your capabilities. Against this backdrop, SMi Group is proud to announce its Mobile Deployable Communications conference, to be held in Austria on 22nd and 23rd February 2012. Returning for its fifth year, this event will once again lead the way in providing the latest overview of in-theatre tactical communications, national roadmaps, technology, NATO and ISAF interoperability and industry support. Key reasons to attend: • Learn about NATO's steps…

Don’t miss SMi’s 6th annual MilSpace conference which will be held in Vienna, Austria on the 27th and 28th March 2012. MilSpace 2012 will allow delegates the opportunity to network with key Military Space experts from across Europe and the US and hear from a number of high-level speakers discussing key topics including interoperability, national space programmes and space situational awareness. With Military Space budgets tightening and the reliance on the private sector to partner military space programs, there is no better opportunity to discuss the key matters at our annual MilSpace conference. Visit http://www.smi-online.co.uk/2012military-space9.asp for more information. Hear keynote…

The nuclear industry has used the term Nuclear Renaissance for many years now. It is more important than ever to ensure this phrase becomes a reality instead of a cliché. It has been a difficult year for the industry following the events at Fukushima, in Japan, and the subsequent political decisions taken by European countries such as Germany, Italy and Switzerland to turn away from nuclear power altogether. The public perception of nuclear power has reverted back after years of steady acceptance. The Nuclear New Build Summit has an outstanding collection of speakers tackling the most pertinent issues. These industry…

Not a long time ago, in 2010, a British lady was considered bigoted by Gordon Brown upon asking ‘Where do all these Eastern Europeans come from?’(1). Maybe, despite her concern with the dangers of immigration for Britain, the lady was right in showing that such a question still awaits for answers in Europe. The ironic thing however is that a first answer to such a question would point to the fact that the Eastern Europeans come from the Western European imaginary. As Iver Neumann puts it, ‘regions are invented by political actors as a political programme, they are not simply…

The conference is an interdisciplinary organization; the papers in each session are drawn from a number of disciplines. The main objective of this conference is to create an effective medium for academia and industries to present and share ideas, innovations and problem solving techniques, the results of their recent research activities in the field of Information system, engineering and technology.

EuroVA 2012 is the third international Eurovis workshop on visual analytics held in Europe and aims at continuing the success of the previous editions, held in Bordeaux, France, on June 8th, 2010, and Bergen, Norway, on May 31st, 2011. The goal of the workshop is to promote and advance the combination and integration of visualization and analytics methods for the purpose of problem solving in a variety of application domains including engineering, business, public policy, medicine, security, etc. EuroVA 2012 will be held on June 4th-5th, 2012, in Vienna, Austria. The EuroVA 2012 program will include two keynote talks, from…

EuroVis 2012 is the 14th annual visualization gathering jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. Visualization has become an increasingly important research area due to its wide range of applications in many disciplines. EuroVis has been a Eurographics and IEEE co-supported international visualization symposium held in Europe annually since 1999. For the first time this year, EuroVis will be a conference. The objective is to foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, and to draw more researchers in Europe to enter this rapidly growing area of research. EuroVis…

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.

IT service management represents systematic approaches to the operations and maintenance of IT applications and IT infrastructure. The awareness of the importance of IT service management for the success of organizational IT projects and initiatives increases continuously in industry and research. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of IT service management. In particular, we want to discuss IT service management from a computer scientist and data expert viewpoint. We want to foster an interdisciplinary discussion of gaps, tensions and mutual dependencies between approaches from the disciplines of quality management, information systems,…

Situation Management is a new discipline which is primarily driven by the advances of sensor networks, event management, and situation awareness. The main goal of Situation Management is to provide semantically rich real-time views of observed areas or objects as needed in various domains, homeland security or disaster management for instance. These views base on sets of situations that are deduced from large-scale (integrated) real-time data sources by intelligent analysis. Dynamic workflows offer a possibility to pre-define a plan for supporting decision makers and task forces in situation handling. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and…

The markedly increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) underlines the importance of this metabolic syndrome congress. Discover pioneering research and explore the latest issues from gut hormones in obesity; GLP-1 mimetics and DPP-4 inhibitors in early diabetes and the metabolic syndrome; the role of the GLP-1 axis in prevention, cardiovascular health and cognition; and lessons from bariatric surgery and interventional diabetology. Learn from world leaders, network with fellow specialist, and enjoy the beautiful, historic setting of Vienna.