This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International ICST Conference IT Revolutions in Venice, Italy, in December 2008. It consists of 21 position papers as well as 3 NRC papers.

It embraces the Internet as driving factor, and the socio-technical and industrial eNetwork ecosystems changing our lives in the first two decades of the 21 century.

IT Revolution will account yearly on the progress made in building a critical mass for the radical shift while underlining the major issues and identifying gaps between the traditional and the new ICT-driven ways to provide strategic directions in adressing them - thus ensuring a smooth transition toward an IT-driven future.

Inhalt

Position Papers.- IT Complexity Revolution: Intelligent Tools for the Globalised World Development.- "Low Power Wireless Technologies: An Approach to Medical Applications".- Implementation of Virtualization Oriented Architecture: A Healthcare Industry Case Study.- Location Tracking Strategy Indicating Sufferers' Positions under Disaster in the Buildings.- Measuring Cognition Levels in Collaborative Processes for Software Engineering Code Inspections.- New Possibilities of Intelligent Crisis Management by Large Multimedia Artifacts Prebuffering.- Paradox in Applications of Semantic Similarity Models in Information Retrieval.- Physically Based Virtual Surgery Planning and Simulation Tools for Personal Health Care Systems.- The Primacy of Paradox.- Semantic Service Search, Service Evaluation and Ranking in Service Oriented Environment.- Quality Measures for Digital Business Ecosystems Formation.- Future Information Technology for the Health Sector.- A Modern Approach to Total Wellbeing.- Applying Business Process Re-engineering Patterns to optimize WS-BPEL Workflows.- Applying Semantic Web Services and Wireless Sensor Networks for System Integration.- Beyond Artificial Intelligence toward Engineered Psychology.- Communication in Change - Voice over IP in Safety and Security Critical Communication Networks.- Paradox in AI - AI 2.0: The Way to Machine Consciousness.- Data Mining on Distributed Medical Databases: Recent Trends and Future Directions.- Economic Activity and Climate Change in a Structural Framework: A First Approach.- Towards Ontology as Knowledge Representation for Intellectual Capital Measurement.- NRC Papers.- e-Health in the Age of Paradox: A Position Paper.- Bio-Intelligence: A Research Program Facilitating the Development of New Paradigms forTomorrow's Patient Care.- An Integrative Bioinformatics Approach for Knowledge Discovery.