Session A: ICT Innovation and Performance Measurement Models and Methods
Session Chairperson: Ota Novotný
Innovation of ICT could influence performance of the whole company. The problem is how to determine ICT innovations that have been in this context successful and what they have added to the overall company performance. In this session we will concentrate on topics connected with measurement and modeling of ICT innovation and effects. We would also like to examine models and methods of the overall company performance measurement which are useful in tracking the influence of ICT in the overall company results.
Keynote: Ota Novotny - "ICT Performance Reference Model in the context of Corporate Performance Management systems"

Session B: Information Management - Key Factors and Aspects of Enterprise Informatics
Session Chairperson: Petr Doucek
Information management became a key base for information use and processing in enterprises. Mechanic transported ways of information processing from non ICT environment into information technology driven information systems was caused of confusing in information processing and separation of business objectives and enterprise ICT objectives. Mission of enterprise information management is to integrate business and ICT objectives. Several factors and aspects have influence on this integration e.g. – human capital and knowledge level, applied managerial methods, way of system approach applied in problem solving and in decision making process, project management methodologies etc.
Keynote: Petr Doucek - "ICT Human Capital - Research and Development work in ICT"

Session C: Human Factors in Software Project Management
Session Chairperson: Sonja Koppensteiner
Human factors impact the team dynamics of a project team. They refer to the values, personalities, experiences, culture and beliefs of each individual contributor to a project. Successful teams influence the project outcome positively and dysfunctional teams can lead to project failure. This session focuses on any methods, measures, practices (e.g.peer reviews) or new software methodologies (e.g. Agile, Agile Project Management) that take the human factors in software projects into account and demonstrate to improve team moral.
Keynote: Sonja Koppensteiner - "Overview of practices and methods to influence human factors in software projects"

Session D: Social Responsibility for Information by Informal Systems Thinking
Session Chairperson: Matjaz Mulej/Vesna Cancer
Systems theory was established to fight over-specialization by creation of a worldview of holism of human behavior aimed at wholeness of human insight and outcome, and methodology supporting this world view. Decades have shown that the concept has been right in principle.
A rather new international perspective is labeled ‘social responsibility (SR)’. It is aimed at diminishing or preventing power-holders’ abuses/misuses. SR concerning information may have a crucial role for humankind to survive, for business to flourish, for humans to be happy, etc.
Papers for this session should be about theory and cases concerning social responsibility (of companies and other organizations and individuals) in the case of information topics. Social responsibility can be considered a new attempt to introduce more holistic thinking in human practices in an informal style, i.e. without ever mentioning systems theory.
Keynote: Matjaž Mulej, Vojko Potočan, Zdenka Ženko, Anita Hrast, Damijan Prosenak, Vesna Čančer - "Social Responsibility Concerning Information - A Way Of Informal Systems Thinking"

Session E: Safety and Security as a Systemic Challenge
Session Chairperson: Erwin Schoitsch
Safety and Security of technical systems now have both already a long tradition (although safety is the even longer lasting engineering issue in technical systems, dating back to days long before computers). Unfortunately, for a long time both communities have almost ignored each other, since they are looking at systems from different view points: Reduction of risks endangering live and environment by the system under control (safety) or reduction of risk to the system from outside by deliberate actions (security). With the mass deployment of embedded, networked safety-related or safety critical systems and the interdependencies between external systems and critical infrastructures, both properties (and some others as well) have to be taken into account when designing dependable and resilient systems. The complex property of "dependability" (comprising safety, reliability, availability, security, maintainability, survivability, etc.) is key for our society, taking into account hardware, software, networks and communications, environment and humans in different roles.
Distribution of tasks, overriding of automatic decisions by humans, adaption of human behaviour and mind models, cognition and machine perception, and other 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., thus requiring a holistic view - its not just a single technical issue, it's a systemic challenge!
Keynote: Erwin Schoitsch - "Resilient Embedded Systems - the next challenge"

Session F: Computer Support of Cooperative Work
Session Chairperson: Tom Gross
Cooperation in teams today is rapidly growing in importance. Cooperation is an interdisciplinary multilevel issue reaching from technical to organizational to human aspects. It combines concepts from Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-Centered Computing, and Ubiquitous Computing. In this session we want to examine this field from various possible angles and especially investigate these issues in groupwork including its basic information and communication technologies.
Keynote: Konrad Klöckner - "CSCW: four letters for a bunch of goals"

Session G "Systemic Aspects of Robots and Software Agents"
Session Chairperson: Erwin Grosspietsch
Both mechanical robots and software agents are intended to support or improve human limitations and take over some previously human tasks.
With regard to autonomous behaviour, for both instances of systems, the same operational properties are important: robots and agents must gain information from and about the environment, work for the time of mission without direct human guidance, avoid situations which are harmful to people, property or themselves, repair where necessary themselves without outside assistance, and adjust strategies without external help.
The topics for this conference session include:
* detail strategies, approaches or architectures to support one or several of the tasks listed above
* solutions for work constraints as dependability, real-time behaviour, energy awareness etc.
* impact on individual and social life as well as legal implications.

Session H: “The Magic of Open Everything: Open Source, Open Communities, Open Access?“
Session Chairperson: Gerhard Chroust
The Open Source Movement is much more than just a legal issue of allowing others to analyse and utilize some piece of code. For some it is the abolishment of unjust withholding of intellectual property. This idea spreads to communities, sharing and exchanging information leading to a ‘wisdom of crowds’ or to ignorance? Companies try to tap their customers knowledge by including them in their innovation business. The next logical (?) step is to request open access to all information, to all data etc.
In this session we would like to discuss approaches to the ‘Open world’, the advantages and the dangers with respect to all aspects, economic, legal, social and emotional. Are these models a new way to new software, new business, and a society – or just a fad?
Keynote: Michael Sonntag - "Boundaries of ‘Openness’ in the IT area"