Current News
The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Budapest to Set Agenda on Secure Architectures
The Open Group announced the plenary agenda and preliminary line up of speakers for its 16th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, to be held October 22nd–26th, 2007 at the Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest, Hungary. The Budapest event will focus on several different aspects of Security Architecture and examine their roles in delivering safe and secure enterprise architectures. The three-day event will utilize real-world case studies to illustrate how security architectures can and must evolve to meet the challenges for secure information sharing that today’s agile computing business operations demand.
http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/
"IPCity" Public Event held on 27th September 2007.
IPCity is an integrated project coordinated by Fraunhofer FIT. During the event journalists were asked to participate in a "pervasive game" roaming the old city of Cologne, Germany. Equipped with mobile AR devices (augmented reality devices) the journalists used the new "TimeWarp" prototype developed by Fraunhofer FIT to solve various real-life tasks in the city of Cologne.
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/presse/07-09-19.html
BSCW: Version 4.4 (beta) released
OrbiTeam and Fraunhofer FIT release the first beta of the upcoming version of the BSCW Shared Workspace System. A host of new functionalities - including Web 2.0 features such as Blogs, Tags, Communities and Wiki-like document-based collaboration - have been added to the widely-used BSCW groupware.
http://www.bscw.de/english/bscw44.html
Pervasive Gaming
Fraunhofer FIT presents latest developments in the area of "Pervasive Gaming" at the Games Convention in Leipzip, Germany.
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/presse/07-08-21.html
Fraunhofer FIT releases "Mobota" (Mobile Outdoor Training Assistant).
Mobota is a mobile training assistant for sports people: a mobile application running on devices that are carried by the athletes and a community portal that supports social communities of athletes.
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/projects/kooperationssysteme/mobota_en.html
http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/presse/07-06-26/mobota_fahrer_b.jpg
COWI to advise on Copenhagen Metro
Together with international consultants ARUP and SYSTRA, COWI will be given consulting responsibility for all construction and engineering work for the new City Circle Line Metro to run beneath Copenhagen. In a joint venture with the British consultants ARUP and the French SYSTRA, COWI has signed contracts with the Ørestad Development Corporation to advise on all the construction and civil engineering works for Copenhagen's new City Circle Line. The task will include 15 km of bored tunnels and 17 stations.
http://www.cowi.com/cowi/en/menu/news/
International HPC User Forum Meeting
The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) hosted the International HPC User Forum Meeting in Stuttgart on October 1-2, 2007.
http://www.hlrs.de & http://www.hcpuserforum.com
Problems in Parallel Modelling and Simulation
The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) participated in an international research seminar on Problems in parallel modelling and simulation. The seminar took place in Sevastopol on September 10-15, 2007.
http://www.hlrs.de
CARSA, 20 Years Living Innovation
This year CARSA celebrates its 20th Anniversary and marked the occasion by hosting a celebratory event on 12th July at the Euskalduna Congress Hall in Bilbao, bringing together new and longstanding clients to commemorate some of the key experiences and achievements of the past 20 years, and to outline our vision for the future.
http://www.carsa.es
ICE’2008 - to be held on 23-25 June 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal
ESoCE-NET announced the International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising (Concurrent Engineering, Virtual Enterprise, and Collaborative Environments and Innovation) - ICE’2008 - to be held on 23-25 June 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Call-for-Papers will be available soon, so watch out for it on the ICE conference website at: http://www.ice-conference.org. All ICE conference papers are freely accessible on the ICE Proceedings website at: http://www.ice-proceedings.org
Recent News
New version of Fraunhofer Shared Workspace System
Fraunhofer FIT announced the release of a new version of the BSCW Shared Workspace System. A number of new features - including single sign on using Shibboleth, online presence and Web 2.0 features such as Blogs, Tags, Communities and Wiki-like document based collaboration - bring the widely used BSCW groupware in its new version 4.4 to an even more comprehensive solution for Web-based collaboration. The new version is available at: http://www.bscw.de/english/bscw44.html
HLRS Parallel Tools Workshop
HLRS announces the 1st HLRS Parallel Tools Workshop on 9 -10th July. Development for current and future processors will increasingly require the use of parallel programming techniques for application and library programmers. HLRS wants to offer its industrial and scientific user community, as well as the tool developers themselves, an in-depth workshop on state-of-the-art parallel programming tools, ranging from debugging tools, performance analysis and best practices in integrated development environments for parallel platforms. More information is available at:
http://www.hlrs.de/newsevents/events/2007/tools_ws/
New professional association for enterprise architects
The Open Group announced the launch of a new professional association for enterprise architects. Called The Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA), the body was formed to further the profession by maintaining and enforcing standards of excellence and ethics for all members, much like the fields of law and accounting. Prior to launch, the AOGEA registered over 700 Open Group certified practitioners as founding members. More information is available at: http://www.aogea.org.
Download the Roadmap towards the Collaborative Enterprise
ESoCE-NET announces that “A Roadmap towards the Collaborative Enterprise - CE Vision 2010” is available for download. The analysis has concurrently considered several complementary perspectives, namely social, customer, business, workplace, technology, and legal to build up the Collaborative Enterprise vision and roadmap providing important guidance for organisations towards improving collaboration within manufacturing enterprises. The Roadmap is available at: http://esoce.net/Roadmap%20Summary%20v17.pdf
ICE’2008 - to be held in Lisbon, Portugal
ESoCE-NET announced the International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising (Concurrent Engineering, Virtual Enterprise, and Collaborative Environments and Innovation) - ICE’2008 - to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 23 to 25 June 2008. Call-for-Papers will be available soon, so watch out for it on the ICE conference website at: http://www.ice-conference.org. All ICE conference papers are freely accessible on the ICE Proceedings website at: http://www.ice-proceedings.org
