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                                      Preface

It is our pleasure to bring you the volume of the selected papers of the seventh edition
of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications: Integration,
Harmonization, and Knowledge Transfer (ICTERI 2011) held at Kherson, Ukraine on
May 5-7, 2011.
    ICTERI 2011 is concerned with several interrelated topics that proved to be vibrant
for the research and industrial communities judging by the number of submissions we
have received this year:
 ICT infrastructures, integration and interoperability
 Machine Intelligence, knowledge engineering (KE), and knowledge management
    (KM) for ICT
 Cooperation between academia and industry in ICT
 Methodological and didactical aspects of teaching ICT and using ICT in education
    This year we gave a particular encouragement to the submissions that facilitate
bringing together academics and practitioners interested in the technological advances
and business applications of Information and Communication Technologies and
Infrastructures. Therefore, the call was primarily targeted to real world applications;
highlighting the benefits of research results or experience for industry and services, in
addition to academic world. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools
and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions were also
encouraged.
    We were lucky to attract quite a substantial number of submissions – a total of 128
– which broadly fell down into the four genres: full research papers (39), short
research papers (61), discussion or problem analysis papers (15), and the papers on
industrial experience or case study (13) – evenly covering the themes of the
conference scope. Out of those we have selected 11 top quality and most interesting
papers to be published in our proceedings. The acceptance rate was therefore 8.87
percent. In addition to those selected publications we included the papers of our
invited speakers.
    The invited paper by our keynote speaker Prof. Costin Bădică on dynamic
negotiations in multi-agent systems for disaster management opens the proceedings. It
is followed by the abstracts of the invited talks by Prof. Heinrich C. Mayr on
integrated university information systems and information system strategy, Prof.
Alexander Letichevsky on insertion modeling and its applications, and Prof. Abdel-
Badeeh M. Salem on intelligent technologies and methodologies for medical
knowledge engineering.
    The selected contributions cover the issues of:
 Foundations, Intelligence and Methodologies. This theme is represented by full
    research papers on: a gnoseology-based approach to foundations of informatics;
    pre-automata as mathematical models of event flow recognizers; insertion
    modeling system and constraint programming; simulation of expanded iterated
    prisoner's dilemma, and a discussion paper entitled “Is Your Ontology a Burden or
  a Gem? – Towards Xtreme Ontology Engineering” dealing with the
  methodological challenges in knowledge engineering for industries.
 ICT infrastructures, integration and interoperability. This theme is covered by
  a full research paper on design and implementation of a quality management
  system for electronic training information resources and short papers dealing with:
  optimization criteria for task assignment in cluster and wide-area computing; a
  lightweight approach to contact data synchronization in mobile social networks;
  and conceptual design and technology choices for building a virtual laboratory of
  distance learning.
 Methodological and didactical aspects. This theme is introduced by the case
  study report on the choices of topics and didactical support in a Software
  Engineering class and a short research paper on the influence of the labor market
  on the formation of competencies of the future IT specialists.

   The conference would not have been possible without the support of many people.
First of all we would like to thank the members of our Program Committee for
providing timely and thorough reviews, and also for being cooperative in doing
additional review work. We are also very grateful to all the authors who submitted
papers to ICTERI and thus demonstrated their interest in the research problems within
our scope. We would like also to thank the local organizers of the conference whose
devotion and efficiency made ICTERI a very comfortable and effective scientific
forum.


        May, 2011                                   Vadim Ermolayev
                                                    Heinrich C. Mayr
                                                    Mykola Nikitchenko
                                                    Aleksander Spivakovsky
                                                    Mikhail Zavileysky
                                                    Grygoriy Zholtkevych

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