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This workshop is meant for IT practitioners and researchers to give means to use existing knowledge in their organization to create new innovations. The workshop also provides hand-on exercises on how to build a solid theoretical basis for digital innovation research.

In this event two leading researchers and developers of cloud computing discuss topics around cloud computing, including security issues, service engineering, and possibilities for innovative companies.

Information technologies (IT) are more and more embedded in the structures of society, business, and private lives; therefore we are facing complicated moral challenges in the application and use of IT: intellectual property rights, security, privacy, reliability, internet-ethics, for example. In this seminar on computer ethics, the nature of evolving IT and the reasons why they produce moral conflicts is introduced. Also the current themes on the research on computer ethics are presented from the scientific and business viewpoints. There are apparent needs to develop computing research to take ethical and moral viewpoints into account. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to take into account these viewpoints.

Situational awareness is one of the key factors in modern warfare. The one who has better knowledge about the real time situation in the battlefield is always able to plan his actions and his reactions to the enemy actions in a superior manner. Modern communication technology enables us to collect a rich amount of different kinds of data from the battlefield. The information provided by satellites, air forces and radars must be combined with the data measured by local area networks scattered to the battlefield area or carried by soldiers and vehicles in the battlefield. In certain circumstances just some of the pre-listed monitoring systems are available. In urban warfare, satellites or any monitoring systems that require a line of sight can not be applied to figure out what happens inside the buildings. Some systems can also be temporarily or completely disabled because of the electronic warfare performed by the enemy. As a consequence, a secure communication, a novel use of the communication spectrum and advanced data processing methods are required to enable a robust operation of the tactical communication system.

This course gives an in-depth and self-contained introduction to stochastic geometry and random graphs, applied to the analysis and design of modern wireless systems. In many such systems, including cellular, ad hoc, sensor, and cognitive networks, users or terminals are mobile or deployed in irregular patterns, which introduces considerable uncertainty in their locations. Since signal powers and interference depend critically on the node distances, it is essential that the network geometry be accurately modeled for analysis and design purposes. As a consequence, stochastic geometry and the theory of random geometric graphs have emerged as essential tools for research in wireless networks. In the last decade, these techniques have led to important results and insights on the connectivity, capacity, and fundamental limits of wireless networks, and the coverage of sensor networks, and, in view of new emerging types of wireless networks such as cognitive and mesh networks and femtocell and relaying approaches to enhance cellular systems, their importance will only increase.

There are two temes for the seminar: The theme for the first day is Mobile Commerce and the focus of the second day is Virtual World.

There is increasing pressure on all academics to improve their publication list. More published research is required and academics are continually being told that they have to publish in better journals. To achieve this there is an increasing need for more rigour and relevance in academic research. However these two critical concepts are not all that well understood. Both faculty and research degree candidates often have difficulty with these concepts and that can lead to muddled arguments in dissertations and papers. In addition the concepts of generalisation, replication, integrity and value are sometimes raised when academic research is being evaluated. This seminar addresses how to improve academic research and how to present it so that it is clear it is both rigorous and relevance. The seminar addresses these issues as they affect research for degree purposes as well as research for publication in peer reviewed journals. The seminar is interactive with opportunities for the participants to contribute as well as ask question. The participants will have an opportunity to evaluate some published papers for themselves.