This issue includes articles of representatives of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). The articles reflect different aspects of scientific research in the field of development of intellectual information systems. These works represent scientific and educational cluster “Cognitive systems and telecommunications” of TPU.

The issue of the journal is opened by the article of  Nataliya Lukyanova, in which the Internet of things is considered as qualitatively new stage of development of World Wide Web, where the semiotic processes are particularly important in the implementation of new technologies.

The only article prepared by the international team of authors (Konstantin Ivanov, Michele Campagna, Anton Kudinov, Nikolay Markov) highlights the problem of citizen engagement in solving the problems of regional and municipal governance, considers the approach to decision of the problems based on modern geographic information technologies such as the use of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI).

The topic of this issue is "Information and communication technologies for science, education and production" is elaborated in six new publications.

Under the topic "Education in the information society" two articles on the use of modern information technologies for assessment of quality of the educational process of high school graduates and their competencies are presented. Yuliya Riesen, Alena Zakharova and Mikhail Minin in their article «Mathematical Modeling of the Educational Process in Assessing the Quality of a Higher Education Institution’s Operation» present a mathematical model that allows us to give an integrated assessment of the organization of the educational process. Elena Mokina and co-authors consider the information decision support system, which helps in evaluating the competence of bachelor degree graduates with a view to further study in MA course and choice of specialization.

Further in the rubric «Science and innovations in the Information Society» the article by Viktor Ivanchenkov with co-authors considers possibilities of the using information features of seismic signals for realization of optimum phase methods of information processing. Organization of information exchange between object of research and visual models of data is considered in the article by Alena Zakharova and Alexey Shklyar. The authors, in particular, show that the study and understanding of the principles of perception of visual information is a key fact in determining the effectiveness of visualization as a tool for the solution of scientific, research and technical problems.

In the final article by Olga Berestneva and co-authors attention is drawn to the problem of search for new means of communication, not only in the "man-man", but in the "man-information environment" and it is proposed to use visual programming languages as such means.

Despite the fact that the works presented in this issue significantly differ on subject, all of them are to some extent devoted to receiving, processing, storing and transmitting information, and each article fully reflects a current state of researches in the related subject domain.

This issue also announces the book of well-known expert in the field of ICT, Peter Knight (Peter Knight) "Internet in Brazil. Emergence, Strategy, Development and Governance", the foreword to which was written by one of the "fathers" of the Internet Vint Cerf (Vinton Cerf). By decision of the Editorial Board several chapters of the book will be published in the journal "Information Society" in 2014.