Skills matter is delighted to announce the DeNormalised NOSQL Roadshow, a two-day conference packed with talks and exchanges with experts of NOSQL solutions such as Neo4J, Cassandra, and MongoDB.

Talks and hands-on tutorials

Delve deep in the world of Big Data. The first day of the DeNormalised NoSQL Roadshow sees our NoSQL experts share their NoSQL solutions such as Cassandra, Neo4j, MongoDB and Riak with you. Put your NoSQL related questions to our panel of experts in the Park Bench discussion. Day two Lets you pick a track and work closely with our experts in hands-on workshops. In between, there’s plenty of time informal networking over a coffee or – eventually – a beer.

What, Where, and when

The first stop on the DeNormalised NoSQL Roadshow is the Skills Matter eXchange, London’s meetup space for the developer community. This two-day conference will take place on September 20th and 21st. Come and join us.

Early bird offer

We are keen to put together an intimate event with lots of opportunity to learn and share skills through discussion and socialising. We have limited the number of tickets to just 125 people. If you book by January 31st, you will benefit from the Early Bird Offer, with tickets going for just £175 (+VAT) for 2 days of learning and fun. Excited? Get your skates on and register today!

Conference Contact Details:

The Skills Matter eXchange
116-120 Goswell Road
London, EC1V 7DP
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)207 183 9040

Skills matter is delighted to announce the DeNormalised NOSQL Roadshow, a two-day conference packed with talks and exchanges with experts of NOSQL solutions such as Neo4J, Cassandra, and MongoDB.

Talks and hands-on tutorials

Dive deep in the world of Big Data. The first day of the DeNormalised NoSQL Roadshow sees our NoSQL experts share their NoSQL solutions such as Cassandra, Neo4j, MongoDB and Riak with you. Put your NoSQL related questions to our panel of experts in the Park Bench discussion. Day two Lets you pick a track and work closely with our experts in hands-on workshops. In between, there’s plenty of time informal networking over a coffee or – eventually – a beer.

What, Where, and when

The first stop on the DeNormalised NoSQL Roadshow is the Skills Matter eXchange, London’s meetup space for the developer community. This two-day conference will take place on March 16th and 17th. Come and join us.

Early bird offer

We are keen to put together an intimate event with lots of opportunity to learn and share skills through discussion and socialising. We have limited the number of tickets to just 125 people. If you book by January 31st, you will benefit from the Early Bird Offer, with tickets going for just £175 (+VAT) for 2 days of learning and fun. Excited? Get your skates on and register today!

Full Programme and booking details can be found here: http://skillsmatter.com/event/nosql/denormalised-nosql-roadshow-2012/ac-3454

Conference Contact Details:

The Skills Matter eXchange
116-120 Goswell Road
London, EC1V 7DP
United Kingdom

You’re invited to our 1-day conference on Functional Programming at the Skills Matter eXchange, London’s meetup space for the developer community. Join leading experts in the field to learn and share the latest innovative ideas, best tools and practices in the different programming languages (scala, clojure, haskell, F#) and environments. Programme and booking details at the link:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/functional-programming-exchange-2012/ac-3452

What: Functional Programming eXchange 2012

When: March 16th 2012, Breakfast and registration at 8.30

Where: Skills Matter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DP

Twitter: #functionalpx @AnaisatSM @skillsmatter

Experts:

Robert Pickering

David Pollak

Erik Hesselink

Loic Denuziere

Kevin Wright

Andres Löh

Conference Contact Details:

The Skills Matter eXchange
116-120 Goswell Road
London, EC1V 7DP
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)207 183 9040

With the great interest in Clojure and the fabulous success of recent London Clojure meetups, we decided the time is right for a proper, intensive, interactive day here at Skills Matter for everyone interested in this great technology to learn and share skills.

We are proud to announce this 1-day Clojure conference, starting the day with a 1/2 day workshop by Uncle Bob Martin!.

Full conference description: http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/clojure-exchange/wd-3006

Other talks come from Bruce Durling on Incanter, Sam Aaron on Overtone and a whole raft of Clojure lightning talks. Places are strictly limited — so sign up now! You can find more information about the conference and how to register here: http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/clojure-exchange/wd-3006

Looking forward to #clojurex? Tweet it! #clojurex

PROGRAMME

Thursday 1st December 2011

Track 1

08.30 – 09.30 WELCOME, REGISTRATION, COFFEE & TEA

Bruce DurlingBruce Durling: More details…

09:30 -13:30 CLOJURE, UP-CLOSE AND PERSONAL: THE ORBIT KATA.

Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin): In this workshop you will learn Clojure by following along with Uncle Bob, step by step, and test-case by test-case, as you build a simple Swing/Clojure orbital simulator app. You will learn the value of Functional Programming, how to design applications that use it, and why Clojure is the next important language that you should master. More details…

13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH

14.00 – 16.00 PROGRAMMING MUSIC WITH OVERTONE

Sam AaronSam Aaron: Can programming languages help us to free our creative potential? Formalised descriptions of data, events and process have been used to great effect within industrial settings but could they also be useful in artistic contexts? More details…

16.00 – 16.15 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS

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16.15 – 17.00 PRACTICAL MAGIC: INCANTER FOR NON-STATISTICIANS

Bruce DurlingBruce Durling: Incanter is a powerful library for statistical computing in clojure. While this might seem only useful to people who need to do scientific computing it is very useful for the everyday programmer. More details…

17.00 – 17.15 TEA, COFFEE & REFRESHMENTS

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17.15 – 17.25 LIGHTNING TALK – CLOJURE IN PRODUCTION

Robert ReesRobert Rees: Thoughts on trying to get Clojure into a live environment and having it stay there. More details…

17.30 – 17.40 LIGHTNING TALK – NOIR WEB FRAMEWORK

John StevensonJohn Stevenson: Noir is a micro-framework that allows you to rapidly develop websites in Clojure. And it couldn’t be any simpler. More details…

17.45 – 17.55 LIGHTNING TALK – INTRODUCING CLARITY: SWING APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FOR CLOJURE

Stathis SiderisStathis Sideris: In this talk I will introduce Clarity, a new Clojure framework that addresses some common aspects of GUI programming. More details…

Conference Contact Details:

http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/clojure-exchange/wd-3006

The Skills Matter eXchange
116-120 Goswell Road
London EC1V 7DP
England

Phone +44 207 183 9040

More information: http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/clojure-exchange/wd-3006

[KEY TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:]

Programming Languages

• Types of Inference

• Garbage Collection Techniques

• Continuations

• Macro Languages

• Types in Programming Languages

• Domain-specific languages

• Parametrised Classes

• Virtualization

• Scheduling and Spatial Programming

• Generative Programming

• Constraint Programming in OZ

• Embedded and Special Purpose systems

• High-level languages

• Structure of programming languages

• Current programming language models

• Development of High level languages

• Design and Implementation

• Programming language specification

• Measuring Language Usage

• Multi-Paradigm Programming Language

• FORTRAN

• LISP

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Web services

• XML processing

Operating Systems

• Parallel Applications, Algorithms and Techniques

• Benchmarking and characterization of OS activity

• Parallel processing

• Multiprocessor system

• Typical services offered by kernel

• Process Representation

• Interrupts and Interrupt Handling

• Interprocess Communication

• Input and Output Devices

• Device Independence

• Buffering & Spooling

• Resource Allocation

• Process Scheduling

• Virtual Memory

• Paged Systems

• Segmentation System

• Combined Paging

• Segmentation Systems

• Memory Allocation

• Hardware for Distributed Systems

• Software for Distributed Systems

• Design Issues

Conference Contact Details:

Email: info@operating-sys.org
Website: http://www.operating-sys.org
DID: +65 6327 0165/66
Fax: +65 6327 0162

A new paradigm is sweeping the society, organisations and the business environment. In fact, society and business world alike are moving from its tangible bases to intangible ones based on knowledge and information systems (IS) to support its management, use and sharing. In this emerging paradigm, terms like information, communication, knowledge, and learning have acquired a critical relevance to the understanding of the nature of contemporary business. This led authors such as Drucker (1993) to state that “we are entering the knowledge society in which the basic economic resource… is knowledge”.

In fact, since the mid-1980s, there has been a sudden avalanche of a new kind of vocabulary. Corporations, which so far had been economic entities, are being described as ‘information-based organizations’, ‘learning organizations’, ‘knowledge-creating companies’ or knowledge intensive organisations. Instead of product-market strategies, the fashionable business discourse invokes core competencies, intangible assets, knowledge-based capabilities, intellectual capital, knowledge management etc. Consequently, in this 21st century of ours, terms such as intellectual capital, knowledge management, and knowledge mapping have increasingly become part of the corporate landscape.

However, none of this apparent revolution would be possible without the underlying technological support provided by IS. The IADIS Information Systems Conference (IS 2011) aims to provide a forum for the discussion of IS taking a socio-technological perspective. It aims to address the issues related to design, development and use of IS in organisations from a socio-technological perspective, as well as to discuss IS professional practice, research and teaching. A set of key issues has been identified (see below). However, these do not aim at being prescriptive, or set in stone, and any innovative contributions that do not fit into these areas will also be considered.

Key issues in this conference will focus on:

IS in Practice, Technology Infrastructures and Organisational Processes

– Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues

– New Organisational Forms

– Dilution of Organisational Boundaries

– The centrality of IS and IT in Organisational

Processes

– IS Management

– Information Management

– Knowledge Management

– IS and SMEs

– Innovation and IS

– Innovation and Knowledge Management

– IS and Change Management

– IS and Organisation Development

– Enterprise Application Integration

– Enterprise Resource Planning

– Business Process Change

IS Design, Development and Management Issues and Methodologies

– Design and Development Methodologies and

Frameworks

– Iterative and Incremental Methodologies

– Agile Methodologies

– IS Design and Development as a Component-Based

Process

– IS Design and Development as Social Negotiation

Process

– IS D Design and Development as a Global and

Distributed Process

– Outsourcing in IS

– Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities

– IS Project Management

– IS Quality Management and Assurance

– IS Standards and Compliance Issues

– Risk Management in IS

– Risk Management in IS Design and Development

IS Professional Issues

– Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues

in an e-society

– The role of information in the information society

– Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS

– Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects and

Links

– Validity, Usefulness and Applicability of IS Academic

Research

– Industrial Research versus Academic Research Issues

– Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic

Laggards

– IS consultancy as a profession

– Organisational IS Roles

– Communities of practice and Knowledge Sharing

IS Research

– Core Theories, Conceptualisations and Paradigms in

IS Research

– Ontological Assumptions in IS Research

– IS Research Constraints, Limitations and

Opportunities

– IS vs Computer Science Research

– IS vs Business Studies

– Positivist, Interpretivist and Critical Approaches to

IS Research

– Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods

– Deductive vs Inductive Approaches

– Multi-method Approaches and Triangulations in IS

Research

– Design Research and the Sciences of the Artificial

in IS

– Multidisciplinary Views and Multi Methodological

Approaches

– New and alternative approaches to IS research

– Examples of experimental research designs in IS

IS Learning and Teaching

- Patterns of Demand for IS Teaching Provision

- Fads, Fashions and Fetishes in IS Curricula

- Pedagogic practice in Teaching IS

- E-Learning in IS

- Instructional Design for IS

- National Cultures and Approaches to Pedagogy

- Multiculturality and Diversity Issues in IS Learning and Teaching

The Conference will be composed of several types of contributions:

Full Papers – These include mainly accomplished research results and have 8 pages at the maximum (5,000 words).

Short Papers – These are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh developments and have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).

Reflection Papers – These might review recent research literature pertaining to a particular problem or approach, indicate what the findings suggest, and/or provide a suggestion – with rationale and justification – for a different approach or perspective on that problem. Reflection papers might also analyze general trends or discuss important issues in topics related to Applied Computing. These have two pages at maximum (1500 words).

Posters / Demonstrations – These have one page at the maximum (625 words) besides the poster itself (or demonstration) that will be exposed at the conference.

Tutorials – Tutorials can be proposed by scholars or company representatives. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.

Panels – Discussions on selected topics will be held. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.

Invited Talks – These will be made of contributions from well-known scholars and company representatives. An abstract will be included in the conference proceedings.

Doctoral Consortium – The Doctoral Consortium will discuss on going work of PhD students in an informal and formative atmosphere. Contributions to the consortium should take the form of either:

a critical literature review of the research topic providing the rationale for the relevance and interest of the research topic; or

a short paper discussing the research question(s), research objectives, research methodology and work done so far.

Doctoral Consortium Contributions should have a maximum 2,500 words (4 pages).

Corporate Showcases & Exhibitions – The former enables Companies to present recent developments and applications, inform a large and qualified audience of your future directions and showcase company’s noteworthy products and services. There will be a time slot for companies to make their presentation in a room. The latter enables companies the opportunity to display its latest offerings of hardware, software, tools, services and books, through an exhibit booth. For further details please contact the publicity chair – secretariat@is-conf.org.

This is a blind peer-reviewed conference.

Conference Contact Details:

http://www.is-conf.org/
secretariat@is-conf.org