Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems

Keynote Lectures.- Searching in the "Real World".- Structured Data on the Web.- Middleware and Integration.- Worldwide Accessibility to Yizkor Books.- Biomedical Information Integration Middleware for Clinical Genomics.- Modeling.- Interpretation of History Pseudostates in Orthogonal States of UML State Machines.- System Grokking - A Novel Approach for Software Understanding, Validation, and Evolution.- Refactoring of Statecharts.- Healthcare/Biomedical.- Towards Health 2.0: Mashups to the Rescue.- Semantic Warehousing of Diverse Biomedical Information.- InEDvance: Advanced IT in Support of Emergency Department Management.- Service and Information Management.- Enhancing Text Readability in Damaged Documents.- ITRA under Partitions.- Short and Informal Documents: A Probabilistic Model for Description Enrichment.- Applications.- Towards a Pan-European Learning Resource Exchange Infrastructure.- Performance Improvement of Fault Tolerant CORBA Based Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) with an Autonomous Agent.- A Platform for LifeEvent Development in a eGovernment Environment: The PLEDGE Project.- Online Group Deliberation for the Elicitation of Shared Values to Underpin Decision Making.

Yishai Feldman received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1986. He was a faculty member at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. He is now at the IBM Research lab in Haifa, Israel, where he leads research on tools for program understanding and transformation.