The COST Strategic Workshop on Algorithmic Challenges in the Information Society was held in Brussels, on August 30-31, 2005.
The report on this workshop contains the main findings and recommendations of the workshop concerning the state of the Algorithmic research in Europe. The main areas discussed in the report are Massive Networks, Massive Data Sets, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Cooperating Selfish Agents, Hardware and Software Verification, Modelling Network Evolution and Dynamics, Modelling Distributed Systems, Autonomous Networks, like Sensor and Peer-to-Peer Networks, System Biology, and Automated Shape Recognition.