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This
page contains news regarding UPGRADE, The European
Journal
for
the Informatics Professional, and UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork).
UPGRADE is a technical, independent, non-commercial, and freely distributed electronic publication, promoted by CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), an organization that unites 36 Informatics Professional Societies from 32 European countries and is the voice of more than 200,000 ICT Professionals in our continent.
UPENET is the network of publications, paper or electronic, from CEPIS member societies. It has UPGRADE as its anchor point.
Comments, criticisms, suggestions are much welcome and should be sent to the Editorial Team of UPGRADE.
- Latest issue of UPGRADE
available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
It features the following sections:
- A monograph
that under the title "Advanced
Information Systems Project Management" widely describes the
main aspects
surrounding Project Management Practices applied to Information
Systems, ranging from
training and methodological issues to budgetary analysis and decisions,
risk analysis and
control, and change management.
The guest editors of this monograph are Julián Marcelo-Cocho, José María Torralba Martínez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain), and Antonio Teti (Università G.D'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Italy).
- UPENET
(UPGRADE
European NETwork), with an article from the Italian digital journal
Mondo Digitale which describes how Internet market requirements,
especially in terms of increasing demand for mobile and multicast
communications, and overlay systems, should determine development
strategies of Internet protocols in the near future.
- CEPIS
NEWS which is intended to provide some news around the projects
in which CEPIS and its member societies are involved.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here and follow the directions described.
December 11, 2007: 2nd Edition of the Novática Award
The 2nd Edition of the Novática Award is presented to the best article published in 2006 by Novática, journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática).
From a final shortlist of five articles, the Jury, comprising the 49 editors of Novática's various technical sections, selected the winning one: "Scientific Publications: The Role of Public Administrations in The ICT Era", by Professor Roberto Di Cosmo (Université Paris VII, France).
The winning article was published in Novática issue 181 (May-June 2006), and in UPGRADE, Vol. VII, issue no. 3 (June 2006).
For the Spanish version of the article click here, and for the English one click here.
Detailed information about the award can be found, in Spanish, by clicking here or contacting Llorenç Pagés-Casas, Chief Editor of Novática and UPGRADE, at novatica AT ati DOT es
November 14, 2007: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE
available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
The latest issue of our open
digital journal, corresponding
to August 2007,
is
available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A
monograph that is intended to
present "Ambient Intelligence"
as a novel concept which refers to electronic environments that are
sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. The ambient
intelligence paradigm builds upon ubiquitous computing and
human-centric computer interaction design. It is noteworthy, as we will
be able to read in the monograph, that the European Comission has
played a crucial role in the further development of the Ambient
Intelligence vision by launching several major initiatives in the past
years.
The guest editors of this monograph are Julio Abascal-González, Alberto Lafuente-Rojo (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain), Yang Cai (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), and Tom GrossBauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany).
- UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork), with
an article from the British magazine ITNOW
which discusses about the
outright ban of the videogame Manhunt 2.
- CEPIS
NEWS which is intended to provide some news around the projects
in which CEPIS and its member societies are involved.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here and follow the directions described.
September 27, 2007: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- Call for papers for UPGRADE & Novática monograph
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
The
latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding
to June 2007,
is
available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A
monograph that, under the title "ICT
Certifications for Informatics Professionals", presents the wide
variety of ICT Certifications offered by the stakeholders in the ICT
industry, and the efforts that are being made to align the different
certification systems and provide a common framework that facilitate
their international recognition. Those efforts are connected to
international IT Professionalism programmes, in which some CEPIS
members and CEPIS itself are at present involved.
The guest editors of this monograph are Luis Fernández-Sanz, Maria-José García-García (Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain), and Peter Weiß (University of Karlsruhe, Germany).
- UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork), with an
article from the Spanish magazine Novática
which describes a new bioinspired algorithm particularly useful for
addressing the problem of Internet route optimization.
- CEPIS
NEWS which is intended to provide some news around the projects
in which CEPIS and its member societies are involved.
Call for papers for UPGRADE & Novática monograph on "Next Generation Technology-Enhanced Learning"
The journals UPGRADE and Novática are planning to publish in their June issues of 2008, under the title "Next Generation Technology-Enhanced Learning", a double feature on innovative recent advances and prospective future developments of technology-enhanced learning. Translations will be provided for English and Spanish. The special issue will examine current and emerging trends in research and practice of learning technology in order to depict the likely near future - better learning through new technology.
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
- Adaptive and adaptable learning,
- Attention meta-data,
- Competence mining,
- Game-based & virtual reality learning,
- Learning objects & microcontent,
- Open source software in education,
- Podcasting, vlogs, & educational IPTV,
- Positioning in learning networks,
- Process-oriented learning,
- Social software for learning,
- Third place learning
For further information contact the Guest Editors at <novatica@ati.es>:
- Carlos Delgado-Kloos (Dept. Telematic Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
- Fridolin Wild (Institute for Information Systems and New Media, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria)
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here and follow the directions described.
August 14, 2007: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
The
latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding
to April
2007,
is
available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A
monograph that, under the title "Information
Technologies for Visually Impaired People", widely describes
ideas, projects, tools, products and new technologies intended to help
blind and
partially sighted people to better integrate into our information
society.
The guest editors of this monograph are Jaime López-Krahe (Université de Paris 8, France), Josep Lladós-Canet (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), and Dominique Archambault (Université Pierre et Marie Curie de Paris, France).
- UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork), with an
article from the British magazine ITNOW
which examines some new technologies that will enable more and more
people to work from home.
- CEPIS
NEWS which is intended to provide some news around the projects
in which CEPIS and its member societies are involved.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here and follow the directions described.
May 26, 2007: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
The
latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding
to February 2007,
is
available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A
monograph that, under the title "Next
Generation Web Search", describes the most recent developments
around search technologies and how they can help to fulfil the
growing users' needs and to overcome the challenges derived from the
massive use of the Web.
The guest editors of this monograph are Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research Europe and Latin America), Paolo Boldi (University of Milano, Italy), and José-María Gómez-Hidalgo (Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain).
- UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork), with three articles: the first one from the Spanish journal Novática reports on the results of a survey intended to examine the maturity of IT Professionalism in several European countries, the second one from the Polish journal Pro Dialog introduces a portable declarative format for specifying graphical user interfaces, and the third one from the Spanish journal Novática too, analyses some of the most important aspects of the blog phenomenon.
- CEPIS
NEWS which is intended to provide some news around the projects
in which CEPIS and its member societies are involved.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here and follow the directions described.
March 19, 2007: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
The
latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding
to December 2006,
is
available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A
monograph that is intended to highlight the importance of having open standards in order to ensure
interoperability, and particularly to describe the Open Document Format for Office
Applications (ODF) which is the standard ISO/IEC 26300 since
May, 2006. Besides, while we were working on that monograph, a major
controversy surrounding the appearance of a second document
format standard (EOOXML), which has been submitted to ISO through a
fast-track process, has come up. The debate about the convenience of
competition among standards has become bitter and rooted on fundamental
values of standards openness. At
this point, our monograph will provide the readers with a deep insight
into those issues.
The guest editors of this monograph are Jesús Tramullas-Saz, Piedad Garrido-Picazo (Universidad de Zaragoza), and Marco Fioretti (Open Document Fellowship).
- UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork), with two articles: the first one from the Italian digital journal