Session A: IT Performance Management
Session Organiser: Ota Novotný
An IT Performance management system starts with assessment of internal or external customer expectations and IT organization objectives. The resulting performance management system provides IT leadership with the means to create business metrics, understand the drivers of IT performance and deliver the tools for improving performance on a targeted, continuous basis. This performance management approach creates a framework for simultaneously measuring what customers care about and focusing measurement programs on the factors that affect IT performance
Keynote: Ota Novotný: IT Performance Management as a Part of the Corporate Performance Management System

Session B: Information Management
Session Organiser: Václav Oškrdal
Information management is a timely topic for the majority of large and middle organizations. Its current presentation in the Department of System Analysis unifies system approach, managerial science and information technology. Modeling of processes in corporate management of information flows and information technology is the topic of this session. The other dimension of process modeling is process measurement and its integration into management reference models
Keynote: Petr Doucek: Applied Information Management - Management Reference Model – Security Metrics

Session C: Perspective(s) of Future(s)
Session Organiser: Gerhard Chroust
The rapid growth of Information and Communications Technologies seems to be unbroken, but where will it lead to? What are possible future scenarios and developments? What are the consequences? The uncertainties relate both to hardware (e.g. faster, smaller chips, new technologies), to software (Web 2.0), to resulting business models (e.g. Open Source) and to changes in society.
Keynote: Christian Loesch: Technological Perspectives of Future(s)

Session D: Software Project Management and Human Factors
Session Organiser: Tomáš Sigmund
The dependence of our society and our economy on ICT requires progressively higher quality, faster time-to-market and greater support by software, especially in view of globalization. A key role is played by the management of software projects and especially the consideration of human factors with respect to both production and deployment of software.
Keynote: Sonja Koppensteiner: Leadership concepts in software project management

Session E: Informal Systems Thinking in Project Management and Business Excellence
Session Organiser: Matjaz Mulej
Operation research, project management and business excellence belong to methods aimed at informal requisitely holistic thinking, decision making and action. This means that one does not see the slang of systems theorists, but the tendency to overcome one-sidedness and to come closer to holism on the level of the requisite holism as precondition of success in both research and practice.
Keynote: Vesna Čančer, Matjaz Mulej: Informal systems thinking in the form of operations research

Session F: Dependability of Systems - a Systemic Challenge
Session Organiser : Erwin Schoitsch
The complex property of "dependability" (comprising safety, reliability, availability, security, maintainability, survivability, etc.) is key to the ubiquitous deployment of computers, taking into account hardware, software, networking, environment and humans in different roles. Distribution of tasks, overriding of automatic decisions by humans, adaptation of human behavior and mind models, emergent properties impact not only dependability, but also job satisfaction, public acceptance, liability and other legal aspects, environmental and societal short and long term consequences etc., and require a holistic view.
Keynote: Erwin Schoitsch: Dependability of Systems

Session G: Cooperative Information Environments
Session Organiser: Konrad Klöckner
Today's Cooperative Information Environments aim at supporting platform-independent cooperation in geographically distributed projects. They typically combine concepts from Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Centered Computing, and Ubiquitous Computing in order to provide flexible and generic support for teamwork anyplace, anytime, and with any technology.
Keynote: Tom Gross, Thilo Paul-Stueve: Cooperative Information Environment

Session H: Privacy vs. Security: A clash of systems?
Session Organiser: Michael Sonntag
In current politics, security is paramount and improved by reducing privacy. But do those two always have to be diametrically opposed? Are technical solutions to provide security while maintaining privacy, perhaps with an option for disclosure, possible? This session will explore technical solutions as well as legal and social implications of this trade-off.
Keynote: Michael Sonntag: Towards un-personal security

Session I: Report of the PhD-Workshop
Session Organiser: Petr Doucek
For two half-days before IDIMT 2008 we invited several PHD-students to discuss amongst themselves issues relevant to them. In the IDIMT Conference they will present their findings. (no additional papers are accepted for this session!)