Chair´s message

Kaleidoscope 2011 focuses on the multidisciplinary aspects of future human-centric systems. In this environment, virtualized networks, information technology resources, services and applications are adaptively and automatically configured to support users in their everyday activities. Whether technologies are competing or complementary becomes less significant; what counts is whether the service offer fulfils user needs and respects environmental and legal constraints. The programme committee chaired by Dr. Kai Jakobs selected 29 papers out of 84 submissions from 29 countries on the basis of double-blind reviews with the help of 150 international experts. They also worked diligently to identify candidate papers for the awards.