Open issues in organizing computer systems conferences

Self-Organizing Networked Systems for Technical Applications: A Discussion on Open Issues

The concept of self-organization has been examined oftentimes for several domains such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. However, the current technical development opens a new field of self-organizing applications by creating systems of networked and massively distributed hardware with self-organized control. Having this view in mind, this papers reviews the questions: What is a self-org...

Open Issues in Fieldbus Based Systems

The fieldbuses have been developed for 20 years by different companies or consortia. And the research is always very active, even if the current subjects are more and more dedicated to the application design rather than to the protocols strictly speaking. This paper presents some main open issues in this area as an introduction of the session dedicated on fieldbuses and on fieldbus based system...

Media Integration Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems

Multimedia facilities are now becoming common-place on desk top PC systems. In order for such facilities to be of use to users it is important that software seamlessly integrates the different media types. Hypermedia is a technology that can enable users to browse through a corpus of multimedia information, and to make and follow links within this information. At the University of Southampton w...

Computer Society Announces Summer and Fall Conferences

Ten Conferences WORDS: Open Problems and Conjectures

In connection to the development of the field of Combinatorics on Words, we present a list of open problems and conjectures that were stated during the ten last meetings WORDS. We wish to continually update the present document by adding informations concerning advances in problems solving.