FIS 2012 - Future Internet Symposium 2012: Towards a Smart and Sustainable Future Internet

Future Internet Symposium 2012: Towards a Smart and Sustainable Future Internet
We are pleased to announce that the 5th Future Internet Symposium will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 21-23, 2012, together with BIS 2012. We are looking forward to meeting you in Vilnius!
Mission
The Future Internet Symposium (FIS) is a venue for European and international researchers to share their work on next generation Internet technologies. FIS is a scientific forum for the European Union's Future Internet Initiative, an effort to align European research on the shared challenges presented by Europe's increasingly Internet-based society and economy. FIS is intended to bridge traditional disciplinary boundaries of Internet research, emphasizing the use of machine understandable semantics to promote sharing of Internet resources by diverse communities, devices, and organizational groupings.
An additional and equally important role for the Future Internet Symposium is to be a home for the Future Internet community. In this respect the Symposium will serve the interest of the emerging community and foster early-career researchers (PhD students and fresh Post-docs) as they progress to become the new leaders in this emerging field.
History
In March of 2008, the Bled declaration was published and endorsed by over 70 European research project at the first Future Internet Assembly led by the European Commission and attended both by academic and political representatives. The Future Internet Symposium was established following the first Assembly to provide a scientific forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the key issues in the areas of networks, services, security and trust, multimedia and Internet of things, related to the design of the Future Internet. The first Symposium was held in Vienna, Austria. The positive concluding sentiment and high-calibre publications resulting from the first Symposium proved the important role of FIS in establishing a scientific community to support the political directives of the Future Internet Assembly and the European Commission.