Features

April 12, 2010
ICST — a Scientific Society with a New Approach

There are several scientific societies existing in the world. You can send application forms and pay membership fees if you wish to become a member. You can attend their conferences, submit papers to their journals, read their magazines, you know the story. But what if you could have your own society? A society that you govern, where you propose the ideas, define the directions and make the decisions? Well, we have got good news for you: you can have it, by joining ICST!

April 12, 2010
Innovative, Fast, and High-Quality Peer Review with e-SCRIPTS – the ICST’s Journal Publication System
Paolo Bellavista

ICST is exploiting the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 technologies to improve the quality, rapidity, openness, and effectiveness of the collaboration within the scientific community. Central to this strategic perspective, e-SCRIPTS enables an innovative, fast, and high-quality review process, for both the ICaST Magazine and the portfolio of ICST Transactions.

Gang Lu

May 21, 2010
China Web 2.0 Report – Twitter Voted Most Recognized International Service in China
Gang Lu

Gang Lu, Asia editor of ICaST has brought to you some interesting survey results from the grassroot web communities of Chinese netizens.

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Lisa Gualtieri

January 28, 2010
Social Media for Health and Safety
Lisa Gualtieri

Social media is transforming healthcare. Thirty-four percent of Americans turned to social media for healthin 2008, a number that is only growing.

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Newton Lee

May 25, 2010
Virtual Community Interactive Games (Part 2)
Newton Lee

In the last segment Newton Lee has introduced “Virtual Community Interactive (VCI)” for a new genre of games and interactive entertainment. In this new installment we go a bit deeper...

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Technical Articles

August 23, 2010
Virtual money in electronic markets and communities

June 8, 2010
Using Spatial Analysis and Geomatics for Meeting EIA Requirements of Regional Airports

Spatial multicriteria decision problems typically involve a set of geographically-defined alternatives (events) from which a choice of one or more alternatives is made with respect to a given set of evaluation criteria.

June 1, 2010
A Multimodal Approach and Implementation of an Extended UPnP QoS Architecture for Service Oriented Networks

Homenetworks comprise very heterogeneous devices interconnected through a residential gateway (RGW). They interact in a cooperative way to provide the final user with advanced functionality. A characteristic example for this kind of cooperative systems is a multimedia network.

June 1, 2010
Distributed eScience Applications in the DORII Project Test Bed – Architecture and Performance

Access, configuration, monitoring, control and management of remote laboratory instrumentation gained growing interest with the development of the so-called e-Science.

June 1, 2010
IMS Network Architecture and Assessment of its Clients for Various Access Networks

Many people nowadays are more interested in accessing web and other IP services over their hand-held devices. This shows that end users are getting more experienced with using Internet-based technologies in their everyday lives outside the closed PC world.

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Interviews

June 3, 2010
Interview with Professor Raj Muttukrishnan, Asst. Dean, eLearning, City Univeristy, London

To dig up some of the most interesting issues of e-health, we asked Professor Raj Muttukrishnan, Co-Editor-in-Chief of ICST’s E-Health transactions about this area.

May 28, 2010
Interview with James Joshi, General Chair of CollaborateCom 2010

This month we talk to James Joshi, General Chair of CollaborateCom 2010. We ask him about the conference itself, the latest challenges and recent innovations of the field, and also about personal commitments.

April 12, 2010
Interview with Dr. Ibrahim Baggili, General Chair of 2nd International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C)

The Internet has made it easier to perpetrate traditional crimes by providing criminals an alternate avenue for launching attacks with relative anonymity. The increased complexity of the communication and networking infrastructure is making investigation of the crimes difficult, while clues of illegal activities are often buried in large volumes of data that needs to be sifted through in order to detect crimes and collect evidence.

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News

January 31, 2010
AT&T Labs’ CEO Keith Cambron held key note speech at ICST’s Chinacom 2009

Mr. Keith Cambron served as a prestigious keynote speaker at Chinacom 2009, the 4th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China.

January 28, 2010
4th European Alliance for innovation Preparatory Meeting Budapest, 5 November 2009

The EAI initiative is a pan-European movement which will work as a unique Innovation Society composed of professionals at all levels of the Innovation Cycle. The EAI meetings have been ongoing since February 2009.

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