Cyberspace, a potential home for creative development and enhancement of the human condition, is rapidly becoming a vast dangerous wasteland. Internet 2.0’s Blogosphere is rapidly becoming the “CLOGosphere”: MySpace, YouTube, shills making false product testimonials, and online (Un)civil rights. Unplanned and unregulated development of our central common space is destroying our Cyber commons. The risks to the cyber commons are described and some suggestions are offered to help application developers and vendors exercise their responsibility not to soil the commons. Responsible self-regulation is needed before the Clogosphere becomes either unusable or external regulation takes away the Internet’s potential for enhancing the human condition.

Professor Don Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University, USA

Chair: Denise Oram, CAIR, UK

“Doing the Route Thing: Connecting Virtual Machines to Virtual Networks” Eduardo Correia, Ricky Watson & Noel Morrison (New Zealand)

“A Read/Write Distributed Web Server” Njål T. Borch & Audun Heggelund (Norway)

“Parallel Strategies for Multimedia Web Services” Gil-Costa Verónica, Printista Marcela (Argentina) & Mauricio Marín (Chile)

Chair: Marte Skadsem, Norut IT as, Norway

“More IS Less” Nigel Papworth & Mats Liljedahl (Sweden)

“RDF and Topic Maps Interoperability: A Model-driven approach” Angelo Di Iorio, Silvia Duca, Valentina Presutti, Riccardo Solmi & Fabio Vitali (Italy)

“Java + XML as the Foundation for Enterprise Reporting” Ainhoa Serna, Jon Kepa Gerrikagoitia & Gorka Gil (Spain)

Chair: Nigel Papworth, Sonic Studio, Interactive Institute, Sweden

“Quality of Service Monitoring and Accounting” M.E. Culverhouse & B.V. Ghita (UK)

“Active Queue Management using Modified Stochastic Fair Blue Algorithm” V. Kushwaha, P.K. Chakravarty & S.K. Basu (India)

“A Survey of Performance Evaluation and Control for Self-similar Network Traffic” Karim Mohammed Rezaul & Vic Grout (UK)

Chair: Bogdan Ghita, University of Plymouth, UK

“Mobile Software for Gathering and Managing Geo-referenced Information from Crisis Areas” Luis Gens, Hugo Alves, Hugo Paredes, Paulo Martins, Benjamin Fonseca (Portugal), Elfneh Bariso, Leonie Ramondt, Yishay Mor (UK) & Leonel Morgado (Portugal)

“Relating Visual Disability and the Web” Rehema Baguma (Uganda), Patrick van Bommel (Netherlands), Tom Wanyama & Ogao Patrick (Uganda)

“Visualizing IT: A Graduate Course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)” Daniel Farkas & Narayan Murthy (USA)

Chair: Daniel Farkas, Pace University, UK

“An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Concepts”

Professor Dan Farkas, Pace University (USA)

"Improving Mobile Commerce Location Reorganization; Using Neural Network", Amir Talaei-Khoei & Omid Shahmirzadi (Sweden)

"Interactive Functions inVideo-on-Demand Systems", Amir Rizaan Abdul Rahiman & Putra Sumari (Malaysia)

"Analyzing fans of YouTube by means of Data Mining", Alberto Ochoa (México) & Javier Martinez-Ruiz (Belgium)

"A Web-based Student Portfolio", Helal Al-Hamadi (Kuwait)

"Architecture of Multiagent System of Market Information Management – Structural Diagrams", Robert Kuceba & Leszek Kieltyka (Poland)

"A New Adaptive Medium Access Control Protocol for Network Performance Enhancements", Pranab Kumar Chakravarty (India)

"Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP: A survey focusing on probable solutions", Kahkashan Tabassum, Sadaf Tanveer & Gouri Patil (India)

Chairs: Stephen Caulder and Richard Hebblewhite, CAIR, UK

The title of this talk may, at first sight, seem an unusual topic for a conference on Internet Technologies and Applications! However, the same technology that underlies the Internet is being applied by the Bradford Infection Group (BIG) to uncover the main routes of Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) that is the cause of so much government and public concern.

All Internet search engines retrieve lists of potentially relevant pages in response to keyword queries. Far and away the most popular of the search engines is Google?, with more than 70% of all searches. Google’s success is based on its unique ability to rank search results in a manner that users find particularly helpful. As Google’s spiders crawl the Web, they build a “connectivity matrix” of which pages point to which other pages. Google’s engine then uses the “PageRank” algorithm (named after Larry Page, one of Google’s founders) to analyse the principal eigenvector of this matrix. This eigenvector is then used to decide the order in which the pages are presented to the user.

In a technology transfer research programme, BIG have developed a methodology to apply the same ideas to infection networks in hospitals. We have carried out studies in several hospital wards where interactions between human agents such as patients, nurses, doctors, visitors, porters, etc as well as inanimate agents such as light switches, hand washing stations, etc are monitored. From this, we build a connectivity matrix very similar to that for the Web. Using sophisticated eigensystem analysis of this matrix, we can discover the relative importance of the interactions between agents, and hence know where to focus (often limited) infection control measures. Thus far, studies have proved very encouraging with infections being reduced substantially by nurse cohorting, as reported by ourselves recently in the American Journal of Infection Control.

This talk will look at the use of this technology transfer from Internet search engines into the clinical infection control environment.

Professor Simon Shepherd, University of Bradford, UK

Chair: Vic Grout, CAIR, UK

“Security Analysis of Feature Interactions” Rui Gustavo Crespo (Portugal)

“Utilising Biometrics for Transparent User Authentication on Mobile Devices” Sevasti Karatzouni, Nathan L. Clarke & Steven M. Furnell (UK)

“Personal Privacy Threats: A Taxonomy for Risk Assessment” Shirley Atkinson, Christopher Johnson & Andrew Phippen (UK)

“Security Enhancement in Public ICT Services in Wales” Nick Robinson & Stuart Cunningham (UK)

Chair: Stuart Cunningham, CAIR, UK

“Evaluating Content Extraction on HTML Documents” Thomas Gottron (Germany)

“A Personal Semantic Desktop” Jimmy Borg & Matthew Montebello (Malta)

“Web Image Classification Algorithm: A Heuristic Rule-based Approach” Worasit Choochaiwattana (USA), Winyu Niranatlamphong (Thailand) & Michael B. Spring (USA)

“Ontology Based Information Retrieval Processes – Design Principles for Adequate Technique Portfolios” Jan Hermans & Christian Buddendick (Germany)

Chair: John McGinn, CAIR, UK

An ageing population may lead to a pensions crisis within the next 25 years – but this may be dwarfed by the effect of having too few people to care for an army of older and disabled people. Many of these people, who will make up between a quarter and a third of the population of the developed world will have physical, sensory or cognitive impairments. They will expect to be more independent whilst maintaining a higher quality of life through improved care services. Smarter working will be necessary, with technologies making healthcare systems more efficient and more cost effective.

This presentation will focus on three technologies which are likely to form the basis of future provision:

1. assistive technologies (including personal digital assistants and robots) within the home environment to manage unmet needs
2. remote monitoring of the home environment and personal well-being (i.e. telecare) to manage risk and to provide information, advice, health coaching and response to emerging problems, and
3. virtual presence interfaces and applications to overcome loneliness, isolation and depression and to enable people to socialise and share experience irrespective of their physical location and condition.

These technologies depend on the internet and on broadband technologies. Prototype hardware and software solutions are emerging from laboratories and will be appearing in pilot studies before the end of this year.

In the presentation, progress will be reviewed and predictions made on the research agenda required to address both technical and ethical needs.

Dr. Kevin Doughty, Centre for Usable Home Technologies, University of York, UK

Chair: Rich Picking, CAIR, UK

“Implementation of the OSGi-based Home SIP Proxy andUDP Relay for NAT Traversal” Ju-Hee Park, Choon-Gul Park, Seung-Hak Seok, Tae-Young Kim & Byung-Deok Chung (Korea)

“An Adaptive Routing based on Network Load Condition” Fazlollah Adibnia & Mehdi Sarram (Iran)

“Approximation of the Quantum Fourier Transform in Shor’s Interger Factoring Algorithm” Eimear Claire Buckley & Simon Shepherd (UK)

“Maintaining Cache Consistency in Mobile Environments: Temporal and Location Dependent Approach” Kahkashan Tabassum, A. Damadoram, Sadaf Tanveer & Gouri R. Patil (India)

Chair: John Davies, CAIR, UK

“Calculating the Return on Security Investments – An Alternative Approach based on Capital Budgeting” Heinz Lothar Grob (Germany), Jan vom Brocke (Liechtenstein), Gereon Strauch & Christian Buddendick (Germany)

“Usefulness Conditions of Information Technology aiding Marketing Management in Middle-size Enterprises in Southern Poland” Paula Pyplacz (Poland)

“Role of Databases in Marketing Management of the Contemporary Enterprise” Leszek Kieltyka & Paula Pyplacz (Poland)

“Important Points for Developing a Successful E-business” M.A.B.P. Bandara (Sri Lanka) & Sarath Gunathilaka (UK)

Chair: John Worden, CAIR, UK

Special Poster Session on "Technologies for Assisted Living"

"Technologies for Assisted Living", Rich Picking, John McGinn & Vic Grout (UK)

"The EU EASY LINE+ Project", Alexia Robinet, Armando Roy Delgado, John McGinn, Rich Picking & Vic Grout (UK)

Chairs: Stephen Caulder and Richard Hebblewhite, CAIR, UK

“A Highly Configurable Query-Oriented Portal for a Co-operative Environment” Roger Stone (UK)

“OPENADAP.NET – A Socialware for Knowledge Sharing” Alessandro E.P. Villa, Javier Iglesias (Switzerland) & Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie (France)

“The Internet Age – Ethics, Culture, Time, Place and Requirements: The Ethical Triangle Revisited” Denise Oram (UK)

“Check Points to Design an Accessible Web Application in Microsoft Dot Net Framework for Visually Impaired People” M.M. Rana, T. Reynolds, M. Cirstea & A. Entecott (UK)

“The Portugese E-Banking Activity” Fernando A.F. Ferreira & José Monteiro Barata (Portugal)

Chair: Roger Stone, Loughborough University, UK

“Developing Browser Based M-Learning to Enhance Student Learning Experience” P. Thomas, D. McPhee & N. Thomas (UK)

“Mapping IEEE LOM to WSML: An Ontology of Learning Objects” Salvador Sánchez-Alonso, Miguel A. Sicilia & Maria Pareja (Spain)

“Modelling the Lifelong Learner in a Services-based Environment” Hassan Baajour, George D. Magoulas & Alexandra Poulovassilis (UK)

“Evaluation-centred Design of E-Learning Communities: A Case Study and Review” Jonathan Bishop (UK)

“WiMax Business Opportunities in Belguim” J. Van Ooteghem, B. Lannoo, S. Verbrugge, D. Colle, M. Pickavet & P. Demeestet (Belgium)

Chair: Salvador Sánchez-Alonso, University of Alcalá, Spain

Foyer: Posters

"Online Transactions in the Stock Market", Fernando Silva Nunes Teixeira (Portugal)

"The Deployment of Major Principles of Pervasive Computing onWearable Devices", Nicholas Micallef & Matthew Montebello (Malta)

"Enhanced Dynamicity for Web Learning Applications: Web Techologies on the Move", Matthew Montebello & Vanessa Camilleri (Malta)

"Retrieval Information in Automobile Design Companies", Joao Ferreira (Portugal) & Francesco Furini (Italy)

"Xessibility: XML-XSL For Web Browser Accessibility", Moniruzzaman Bhuiyan (UK)

"DARC: The Digital Action Research Collaboration", Rich Hebblewhite & John McClenaghen (UK)

"Optimisation Techniques for Wireless Networks", Mike Morgan & Vic Grout (UK)

Chairs: Stephen Caulder and Richard Hebblewhite, CAIR, UK

“Orthonormal Implementation on Opto-Electronic Neural Network – A New Approach” Joseph Raj (Turkey) & Heren Chellam (India)

“Optimized Scheme for GRID Computations using Genetic Algorithm” K.J. Poornaselvan, S. Suresh, C. Divya Preya & C.G. Gayathri (India)

“VLC Search Complexity Analysis for Decoding VOP Content in MPEG-4 Presentations” Sarang Joshi & Bodhe S.K. (India)

Chair: Armando Roy Delgado, CAIR, UK

“Latency Reduction in Massively Multi-player Online Games by Partial Migration of Game State” Paul B. Beskow, Pål Halvorsen & Carsten Griwodz (Norway)

“DISTRIBUTedViews: Distributed Objects with Aspect Oriented Development Techniques” Hamid Mcheick, Hafedh Mili, Hassan Diab (Canada) & Rakan Mcheik (Lebanon)

“E-Mail as a Web-Teaching Tool in the ESP Writing Classroom”
Jafar Asgari Arani (Iran)

Chair: Hamid Mcheick, University of Quebec, Canada

B118: BCS SQM/INSPIRE

British Computer Society (BCS) SQM/INSPIRE Wales Workshop

Chair: Professor Margaret Ross, Southampton Solent University, UK

“Is the Semantic Web a Small World?” Daniel Bachlechner (Austria) & Thomas Strang (Germany)

“On the Path to a World Wide Web Census: A Large Scale Survey” Darcy Benoit, Deviv Slauenwhite & André Trudel (Canada)

“Generation, Documentation and Presentation of Mathematical Equations and Scientific Expressions using Pure HTML and CSS” Ken Alabi & Ted Uwague (USA)

Chair: Mike Morgan, CAIR, UK

“Wireless Online Utility Payment using GSM Control Channels” Zakaria Saleh (Jordan)

“SARIPOD: A Possibilistic System for Web Information Retrieval” Bilel Elayeb (Tunisia), Fabrice Evrard (France), Montaceur Zaghdoud & Mohamed Ben Ahmed (Tunisia)

“A Web-Database Application for Biological Data Management of Fungi Species” Nurul Akmar Emran (Malaysia)

Chair: Alexia Robinet, CAIR, UK

B118: BCS SQM/INSPIRE

British Computer Society (BCS) SQM/INSPIRE Wales Workshop

Chair: Professor Margaret Ross, Southampton Solent University, UK