DEST 2013 - 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies

IEEE DEST 2013 will be organized in two areas:
Area I: Foundations, Technologies
Area I deals with the basic ICT foundations of digital ecosystems, including large-scale, virtualized infrastructures, hosting ecosystem services and processes. Ecosystems require a novel approach to ICT technology development, closely related to the engineering of complex systems.
Area I includes two one-day tracks that feature contributions on how the technological support for digital ecosystems is emerging.
Track A: Foundations of Digital Ecosystems and Complex Environment Engineering
Track B: Convergence of Technologies for Sustainable Infrastructures
Area II: Sustainable Domain Solutions
Area II presents contributions in various application domains, organized in half-day tracks.
Just as the development of Smart Grids required the convergence of energy and information system infrastructures, radically new approaches to the design, convergence, and adoption of systems are required for future solutions in a variety of domains. Radically increasing the involvement of stakeholders with complex environments is one potential route for providing solutions in these domains, for example in energy systems or healthcare. In the longer term, approaches for enabling collaborative ecosystems may lead to high-impact solutions for today´s most pressing challenges.
The "Sustainable Domain Solutions" tracks will identify domain requirements, research challenges and systems solutions with respect to the concept of Digital Ecosystems and Complex Environment Engineering, as outlined in the background and objectives of IEEE DEST 2013:
Digital Ecosystems inherit concepts of open, loosely coupled, demand-driven, domain-clustered, agent-based, self-organized, collaborative environments, where species/agents form a temporary (or longer-term) coalition for a specific purpose or goal.
Within this context, the tracks will focus on, but not be limited to, the following issues:
Scalability and availability, with respect to large infrastructure platforms
Evolvability, with respect to the introduction and life-cycle of service platforms
Usability, with respect to human factors and user benefits
Track C: Digital Humanities
Track D: Cyber-Security Ecosystem
Track E: Hybrid Biological-Digital Systems
Track F: Healthcare and Sustainable Living
Track G: Platforms for Social and Community Involvement / Engagement
Track H: Cyber-Physical Energy Systems
Track I: Collaborative Platforms for Sustainable Logistics and Transportation
Track J: Fuzzy Semantic computing in digital ecosystems
Track K: Big Data Ecosystems