The topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Research Issues and Technical/ Industrial Application results on Advanced Information Management and Service
IMS_Scope1: Recent Issues on Business System, Modeling and Architecture
- SOA: Service-oriented Architecture
- Enterprise Systems and Architecture
- Enterprise service bus
- Service-component Architecture
- Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Business Processes and Systems
- Business Systems Dynamics; System Dynamics in Enterprise Modeling
- Technologies and Standards for Improving Business Productivity and Agility
- Business Systems Infrastructure Design for Information Integration
IMS_Scope2: Knowledge Management and Secure Information Management
- Decision Support and Knowledge-based Systems
- Database, Data Mining and Business Intelligence
- Information Privacy and Security Issues and their Solutions
- Meta Data and Semantic Web
- Information Management for Business Applications
IMS_Scope3: Convergent Approaches on Advanced Information Management
- Convergence Management and Services
- Complexities in Convergence
- Convergence in Technological Design and Evaluations on Management and Services
- Convergent Environment and Behavior
- Business Transformation using Convergence Technologies
- Innovation Adoption and Management Diffusion in View of Convergence
- Psychological Foundations of Convergence
IMS_Scope4: Media, Culture and Communications
- Communication Arts
- New Forms of Media and Communications
- Science and Technology Management
- Industrial Information System
- Convergence Culture
- Cultural Studies and Multicultural Collaboration
IMS_Scope5: Evaluation, Trust and Computational Finance issues
- Evaluation Principle, Methodologies and its Applications
- Trust Issues in Business and Systems
- Value-based Management and Systems
- Economics of Emerging Technologies
- Computational Finance Issues
IMS_Scope6: Social Issues on Advanced Information Management
- Social Network
- Social Capital and Collective Intelligence
- Empirical Investigation of Social Aspect of CIT and UC
IMS_Scope7: Management, Service and Business issues on Healthcare
- Healthcare Management and Systems in Business
- Service issues on Healthcare
- Medical Informatics, Science Informatics, and their Business Applications
IMS_Scope8: U-Service issues on Advanced Information Management
- Ubiquitous Computing Services
- U-Culture Services
- U-Tourism Services
- U-City Services
- U-Convention/Port Services
- U-Politics and U-government Services
- U-Learning Services