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132 ADVANCES IN ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 1, NO. 1, APRIL 2010 V. CONCLUSIONS: A CREATIVE FUTURE The Information Society is such that technology is pervasive and a true necessity for individuals, which depending on their condition are faced more or less fiercely by the Information Divide. We believe that the impact of the psychological divide may be dramatic on some individuals, who may be overwhelmed by the feeling that learning anything has much reduced relevance when all information is available at your fingertips, and they may reduce to living their life in a very passive mode. Entire lives could be spent simply enjoying online content. Fortunately, there is a way out, which however requires a true paradigm shift in terms of the way we approach thinking and education. Throughout our history, we have always held at a prime the skill of critical thinking, i.e. the capacity to judge and criticize facts, ideas and happenings with respect to our knowledge. This is and will always remain a fundamental asset for any individual, in order to live a proper life. However, this will not be sufficient in the future evolution of the Information Society, because critical thinking does not generate new knowledge, rather it is a powerful filter that preserves our culture and our roots. We need to add the skill of creative thinking, intended as the capacity to generate new concepts and ideas in a disciplined and controlled manner. Creativity is not yet a science, although there are many sciences that deal with creative thinking, such as the history of science, the philosophy of science, psychology, engineering, to name a few. But we are still missing a coherent view and a scholarly approach, which is necessary to turn creative thinking into an educational subject, taught in schools and universities as a fundamental and transversal skill. But we strongly believe that creativity will become a general subject and will grow to become the principal tool to allow humans to deal with the psychological divide imposed by the Information Society. Only when one becomes a source of new ideas then it is possible to come to terms with the information ocean. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work has been supported by the EC FP7 NEWCOM++ project. REFERENCES [1] AAL Association, The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme website, http://www.aal-europe.eu. [2] A. Maslow, Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper, 1954. [3] Commission of the European Communities, Commission Recommendation on mobilising Information and Communications Technologies to facilitate the transition to an energy-efficient, low-carbon economy, October 2009. [4] Findings by the High-Level Advisory Group and the REEB Consortium On the Building and Construction sector, ICT for a Low Carbon Economy, Smart Buildings, July 2009. [5] Findings by the High-Level Advisory Group on ICT for Smart Electricity Distribution Networks On the Energy sector, ICT for a Low Carbon Economy, Smart Electricity Distribution Networks, July 2009. [6] Cross-European Technology Platforms (X-ETPs) Group, Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), version 1.0, July 2009. [7] F. Fotouhi, W. Grosky, and P. Stanchev, “The Many Faces of Semantics,” IEEE Multimedia Magazine,Guest Editors Introduction, vol. 16, pp. 16– 17, 2009. [8] The smart city project Final Report (www.smart-cities.eu), Smart cities, Ranking of European medium-sized cities, October 2007. [9] J. Alpert and N. Hajaj, We knew the web was big..., The Official Google Blog, July 2008. [10] CISCO Systems White Paper, Approaching the Zettabyte Era, June 2008. [11] International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Information Society 2007 Report, Beyond WSIS, June 2007. Giovanni Corazza is a Full Professor at the University of Bologna, Head of the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS), and leader for Wireless Communications inside the Advanced Research Centre for Electronic Systems (ARCES). He was Chairman of the School for Telecommunications in the years 2000-2003, Chairman of the Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Task Force (ASMSTF), Founder and Chairman of the Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI), a European Technology Platform devote to Satellite Communications. Since 1997, he is Editor for Communication Theory and Spread Spectrum for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is author of more than 200 papers, and received the Marconi International Fellowship Young Scientist Award in 1995, the IEEE 2009 Satellite Communications Distinguished Service Award, the 2002 IEEE VTS Best System Paper Award, the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISSSTA’98, at IEEE ICT2001, and at ISWCS 2005. He has been the General Chairman of the IEEE ISSSTA 2008, ASMS 2004, ASMS 2006, ASMS 2008, ASMS 2010 Conferences. His research interests are in wireless and satellite communications, information society, estimation and synchronization, spread spectrum and multi-carrier transmission, upper layer coding, navigation and positioning. Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli received the Dr. Ing. Degree (cum laude) in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Bologna (Italy) in 1991 and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (D.E.I.S.) at the University of Bologna where he is currently an Assistant Professor. Since 2001, he has been a Research Associate of the Advanced Research Center for Electronic Systems (ARCES) of the University of Bologna. During 2003 and 2005, he was a Visiting Scientist at Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, CA). He participates in national and international research projects on satellite mobile communication systems and he is Vice-Chairman of the R&D group of the Integral SatCom Initiative (ISI) technology platform. His research interests are in the area of wireless communication systems, physical layer techniques, and digital signal processing. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Wiley International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking and he has been co-editor of several Special Issues on Satellite Communications in International Scientific Journals. Dr. Vanelli Coralli is the General co-chair of the 5 th ASMS2010 and he has been the Technical Program Committee Chairman for the 4 th IEEE IEEE ASMS2008 and Vice-Chairman for the IEEE ISSSTA 2008 Conference. Dr. Vanelli-Coralli co-authored more than 130 papers and scientific conference contributions and is co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICT 2001 and at IEEE ISWCS 2005. He is an IEEE Senior Member. Raffaella Pedone was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1976. She received the Dr. Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering in 2002, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications, Electronics and Computer Science in 2006 from the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy). She is currently a Post- Doc Researcher at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Systems (DEIS) and the Advanced Research Centre for Electronic Systems (ARCES) of the University of Bologna. Her research interests are in the field of communication and information theory, with particular emphasis on synchronization techniques for spread spectrum systems and TDMA networks, and interference mitigation techniques. She is involved in several national and international research projects on satellite mobile communication systems, and satellite/terrestrial convergence. She is author of more than 30 papers published in International Journals and Conference Proceedings. She was corecipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the international conference IEEE ISSSTA 2004, Sydney, Australia, and of the Best Paper Award at the international conference IEEE ISWCS 2005, Siena, Italy.
Journal on Advances in Electronics and Telecommunications Call for papers for a special issue on “Recent Advances in Teletraffic” Issue editors: Wojciech Kabaciński, Maciej Stasiak ADVANCES in Electronics and Telecommunications is a new peer-reviewed journal published at Pozna University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications. It publishes scientific papers addressing crucial issues in the area of contemporary electronics and telecommunications. Detailed information about the journal can be found at: www.advances.et.put.poznan.pl During the last years telecommunications techniques made a revolutionary step forward. Such aprogress was stimulated by growing requirements from traffic being served in modern networks. Broadband service platforms offer a significant leap in types of information available to end users, offering a multitude of new services. Video on demand, multimedia, unlimited Internet access become also possible in wireless systems. There are many questions that need to be answered including: how to interwork existing services with future wired and wireless networks, how to manage and optimise the transmission of growing traffic volumes, how to enhance networks performance. To discuss aforementioned topics (and probably to give rise to many others) the following areas have been selected as the primary categories for article submission: • Teletraffic Models and Traffic Theory • Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Communication Protocols • Traffic Issues for Mobile Systems • Traffic Issues for Internet • Traffic Issues for High Speed Networks • Traffic Models for Optical Networks • Routing and Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks • Switching Fabrics and Node Architectures, Optimization, Evaluation and Modeling • Performance Analysis Methods and Simulation • Traffic Measurements • Intelligent Routing Protocols • Broadcast and Multicast Traffic Control and Management • Traffic Control and QoS • Network and System Architectures • Mobile Networks • Network Design and Planning • Traffic and Network Management • Computer Systems and Networks • Quantitative Measures The special issue of the Advances in Electronics and Telecommunications will collect original and unpublished research contributions in the area of teletraffic. The authors should submit their contributions electronically to: www.advances.et.put.poznan.pl/?p=authors. The authors are asked to submit their papers in English in accordance with the IEEE Transactions style defined at the website: www.advances.et.put.poznan.pl. The editor reserves the right to edit the contents of the paper if language and style still needs some improvements. Important deadlines: • Manuscript submission: September 1, 2010 • Acceptance notification: November 1, 2010 • Final manuscript due: December 1, 2010 • Publication: February 1, 2011
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