Human Computer Confluence has been mentioned to become a research priority in "Horizon 2020" (2013-2020), the funding pro-gramme of the European Commission that follows after the 7th Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-2013). HC2 VISIONS is a research agenda solicitation action (FP7 FET Project HC2) which may or may not be influential to the FET work programme discussion on new directions in human computer confluence. The HC2 VISIONS workshop invites key experts to pose initial research challenge statements articulated by the scientific community in a crowd sourced solicitation attempt. The goals of the workshop are to shape research challenge statements indicating (i) vision, (ii) research approach and (iii) expected impact of prospective research issues by world leading experts in the field. HC2 VISIONS is accompanied by a web-based white-book initiative at www.pervasive.jku.at/hccvisions.

HC2 VISIONS is an open dialog and invites interested scientists, researchers as well as industrial stakeholders to participate and actively engage. If you want to present your idea in a 5 min position statement in the HC2 VISIONS dialogue sessions, please send an approx. 400 word summary to hc2visions@pervasive.jku.at by May 9, 2012.

DOA-SVI'12 is the second International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures (incorporating and extending the 13th DOA Symposium and 6th IS Symposium). DOA-SVI 2012 is organized as a component conference of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops. This year's OTM event will be held in Rome, Italy, from 10 - 14 September 2012.

Current and future software needs remain focused towards the development and deployment of large and complex intelligent and networked information systems, required for the internet- and intranet-based systems in organizations, and covering a very wide range of application domains as well as technology and research issues.