ICIST 2012 - THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES

ICIST Conference (formerly known as the IT Conference) is hosted by the biggest technical university in the Baltic States ? Kaunas University of Technology. First organized as part of "Lithuanian Science and Industry" conference series in 1995, in Kaunas, Lithuania, the event turned international in 2008 immediately attracting attention from academicians from all over the world. In 2012, another page was turned as Springer have agreed to become exclusive publishers of the Conference Proceedings. Thematically the 2012 iteration of the Conference aims to maintain the focus on the promotion of multidisciplinary approaches and methods designed to further simplify the convergence of social and IT requirements as well as accompanying technologies. To further encourage such convergence, full length advanced industrial tutorials on Software Development Practices by well-known practitioners will be staged for the third time during the conference.
We kindly invite our old academic friends as well as new contributors to join the debate sharing the knowledge on system analysis and design, hardware and computer networks as well as other relevant topics.
RELEVANT TOPICS
Ontology, Conceptual Modelling and Databases
Ontology and Conceptual Modelling Data
Modelling and Database Design
Quality of Models and Modelling Languages
Advanced Databases (Web, Multimedia, Temporal, Spatial, etc.)
Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources
Distributed Databases
Database Security and Transaction Support
Data Warehouses and OLAP
Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Design
Business Process Modelling (methods, tools and technologies)
Business Process and Workflow Management
Business Process Management and IS Integration
Business Process Re-engineering and Optimization
Requirements Engineering and Business Rules
Business Rules Modelling and Tools
Business Rules in Information Systems
Advances in Requirements Engineering
Information and Software Systems Engineering
Systems Engineering Methodologies
Model-driven Development
Service-Oriented Architecture SOA) and Agents
Component-Based Development
Distributed, Mobile, and Open Architectures
Semantic Web Engineering
Software Quality, Testing, Verification and Validation
CASE Tools for Software Development
Security and Trust
Interoperability of Enterprises and Information Systems Information Technology Applications
E-Government and Public Sector
Enterprise Systems (ERP, SCM, CRM)
Workflow Management
Web Information systems
Medicine and Health Care
Language Engineering
Geographical Information Systems
Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Applications
Decision Support Systems
Natural Language Processing
Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications
Agent Oriented Modelling and Development
Web and Enterprise Knowledge Management
Knowledge-based Systems Engineering
Business Intelligence
Warehouses and Data Mining
Formal Analysis and Design Methods
Formal Systems Modelling and Simulation
Formal Verification and Validation
Applied Numerical Analysis
IT in Teaching and Learning
Computer-based Learning
Distance Education
Hardware and Computer Networks
Computer Networks Design and Management
Chip Design and Testing
GSM based solutions for objects localizationCase studies, experience reports and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged.