Sandy A. Johnson 2011 From Global to Community Perspectives A friend and development practitioner once told me that development is a messy business. It lacks a clear beginning and a clear ending, it often entails unforeseen consequences, and it cannot happen in isolation—multiple policy sectors must be involved to establish the conditions for ‘development’ to occur.  

A Min Tjoa Gerald Quirchmayr IlsunYou Lida Xu (Eds.) 2011 IFIP WG 8.4/8.9 International Cross Domain Conference andWorkshop, ARES 2011 The Cross-Domain Conference andWorkshop on Multidisciplinary Research and Practice for Business, Enterprise and Health Information Systems is focused on the relevance of availability, reliability and security within the domain of information systems.

Mor Peleg Nada Lavraˇc Carlo Combi (Eds.) 2011 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011 The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) was established in 1986 following a very successful workshop held in Pavia, Italy, the previous year.

Silvia Gabrielli Dirk Elias Kanav Kahol (Eds.) 2011 Ambi-sys 2011, the Second International Conference on Ambient Systems and Media, was held in Casa da Musica, Porto, during March 24-25, 2011. The conference focus was on emerging technologies, services and solutions for new, human-centric ambient environments.

José Bravo Ramón Hervás Vladimir Villarreal (Eds.) 2011 Third InternationalWorkshop, IWAAL 2011 AAL is an initiative supported by the EU Commission through a Joint Programme aiming to enhance the quality of life of elderly people living in their own homes.