25 Years of IDIMT

The annual IDIMT conferences, established in 1993, are today an established platform for scientific information interchange in the wide, interdisciplinary filed of computer science and informatics. On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary in 2017 this the booklet provides a retrospective on the long history and evolution of the IDIMT conferences, detailing for each conference some essential aspects of each conference with respect to location and their contents. It also presents statistical data about the development of the conference which now proudly contains around 50 papers and a proceeding volume of 450 pages.

Gerhard Chroust is an Austrian systems scientist and Professor Emeritus for Systems Engineering and Automation at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. He is the Secretary General of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) and a Board Member of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). He is an Honorary Member of the Austrian Society for Informatics (ÖGI) and of the Bertalanffy Center for Study of Systems Sciences (BCSSS). Chroust is an authority on formal definition of programming languages, compiler technology, software/system development processes, software quality standards, process assessment, on cultural differences in system development and on systemic aspects of disaster management. His current key research is in Human Aspects, Cultural Differences and Systemic Aspects of System Development and Disaster Management, and Representation and Enactment of Software Processes. 1964 he received a Master of Science (Electrical Engineering ) from the Technical University, 1965 a Master of Science (Computer Science) from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1975 he was awarded a PhD (Computer Science) from the Technical University Vienna and in 1980 a Habilitation (Computer Science) from the Johannes Kepler University Linz. From 1966 to 1991 Chroust worked at the IBM Laboratory Vienna, mostly on computer languages and compiler technology. From 1992 until 2007 he was tenured Professor for 'Systems Engineering and Automation' at the Kepler University of Linz. Since the foundation of the yearly IDIMT-Conferences in 1993 (see www.idimt.org) he is , together with Prof. Petr Doucek from the University of Economics, Prague, the co-chair of the IDIMT-Conferences. He has published 10 authored books, edited/co-edited approx. 60 proceedings, written approx. 220 scientific publications and approx. 300 other publications. Chroust is bearer of the Silver Medal of Honor of Upper Austria.