Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC9 2010 and the 1st IFIP TC 11 International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, CIP 2010, held as part of the 21st World Computer Congress, WCC 2010, in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2010. The 27 revised full papers presented at HCC9 were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in four tracks: ethics and ICT governance, virtual technologies and social shaping, surveillance and privacy, and ICT and sustainable development. The 7 revised full papers presented at CIP 2010 were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They address current thinking and research in critical information infrastructure protection.
Synopsis
The present book contains the proceedings of two conferences held at the World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia (September 20 23) organised by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). In the first part, the reader can find the proceedings of the 9th Human Choice and Computers International C- ference (HCC9) organised by the IFIP Technical Committee TC9 on the Relationship Between ICT and Society. The HCC9 part is subdivided into four tracks: Ethics and ICT Governance, Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping, Surveillance and Privacy, and ICT and Sustainable Development. The second part consists of papers given at the Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Conference (CIP) organized by the IFIP Technical Committee TC11 on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems. The two parts of the book are introduced by the respective Conference Chairs. Chapter 1 introduces HCC9, providing a short summary of the HCC conference series, which started in 1974, and explaining the overview of HCC9, detailing the rationale behind each of the tracks in this conference. The details related to the papers of each track are discussed by the Track Chairs in the respective introductions to the specific tracks of HCC9 (Chaps. 2, 10, 16 and 22). Finally, Chap. 22 introduces the CIP part."