Welcome
to the International Conference
on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'11)
November
21 - 23, 2011
San Francisco, California, USA
In the
world of the
Internet, the rapid growth and exponential use of digital medias leads
to the emergence of virtual environments namely digital
ecosystems composed of
multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations,
services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and
focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. The
digital ecosystem exhibits self-organizing environments, thanks to the
re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which
resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and
used. The underlying resources mainly comprehend data management,
innovative services, computational intelligence and self-organizing
platforms.
Due to the
multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems and their
characteristics, they are highly complex to study and design. This also
leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower
digital ecosystems to be innovative and value-creating. The application
of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the
understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact
to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and
knowledge . These technologies can be improved through novel
techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as data
management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer
interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing
systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage
their resources.
The International
Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES)
aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia,
research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold
challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital
Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved
and adapted to this end.
