Message from the WETICE 2012 Conference Co-Organizers

The venue of WETICE 2012 (the 21st WETICE) is Toulouse, France, with Professor Michel Diaz of LAAS-CNRS and Professor Patrick Senac of ISAE, ENSICA, both from Toulouse, France, as the General Co-Chairs. WETICE 2012 consists of 12 tracks of which 8 are ongoing tracks from previous years and 4 are new: 1) ACEC: Adaptive Computing (and Agents) for Enhanced Collaboration (tenth year). 2) AROSA: Adaptive and Reconfigurable Service-Oriented and Component-Based Applications and Architectures (second year). 3) CDCGM: Convergence of Distributed Cloud, Grids, and Their Management (second year). 4) CKDD: Cooperative Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining( third year). 5) CoMetS: Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (third year). 6).. COPECH: Collaboration Tools for Preservation of Environment and Cultural Heritage (third year). 7) CPS: Cyber Physical Society with SOA, BPM, and Sensor Networks (second year). 8) CT2CM: Collaborative Technology for Coordinating Crisis Management (second year). 9) CAGing: Collaborative and Autonomic Green Computing (new). 10) MADYNE: Management of Dynamic Networked Enterprises (new). 11) CSP: Collaborative Software Processes (new). 12) Web2Touch: Modeling the Collaborative Web Knowledge (new). A total of 132 papers were submitted to the tracks, of which 70 were accepted as full papers (53% acceptance) and 17 as short papers. You will also find the summary reports from each track in the proceedings written by the track chairs/organizers. The authors of the accepted papers are from 26 different countries around the world, thus keeping with the tradition of the international nature of WETICE.