Co vice-chairs letter

Message from the Program Chair and Vice Chairs

It gives us a great pleasure to present you the technical program of the 4 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006. PerCom is a high-quality conference focusing on all issues of pervasive computing and communications: from underlying technologies to applications and services. This year conference received 280 submissions — confirming a trend of alway...

Poster Session Co-Chairs

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The 20th century brought about an“information revolution” which hasforever altered the way we work,communicate, and live. In the 21stcentury, it is hard to imagineworking without an increasinglybroad array of enablingtechnologies and the data theyprovide. Much of this data will formthe foundation for new discovery,advances, and policy over the next100...

Program Co - Chairs :

This keynote speech discusses the engineering of a system of systems. Systems architecting and associated design and integration are highlighted as central issues in engineering a systems of systems. Several conceptual models for systems engineering and management are discussed and the essential need for systems architecting, design, and integration is highlighted. Successful systems engineerin...

Workshop Co-Chairs

This work is motivated by the real-world challenge of detecting Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) from multiple administrative health databases. ADRs are a leading cause of hospitalisation and death worldwide. Almost all current post-market ADR signalling techniques are based on spontaneous ADR case reports, which significantly underestimate the true incidence. On the other hand, various administra...