Willy Picard, PhD, participated in The 13th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises PRO-VE 2012, which took place in Bournemouth (UK) from October 1 to October 3, 2012. Dr. Picard was involved in the ogranization of the conference as a member of Stearing Committee, Programme Committee and Pannel's Co-Chair. During a session "Identification of Patterns" Dr. Picard presented a paper entitled "Extracting the Dynamic Popularity of Concepts from a Corpus of Short-Sentence Documents", he chaired also a session "e-Governance".