January 2001 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

WG aims and scope
by Augusto Casaca 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Dear TC6 members, I prepared a final document with the TC6 WG aims and scope, taking into consideration the comments I received from Peter Radford, Arun Iyengar and Harry Perros. Performance and QoS appear in a number of WGs but I hope that it is clear in the document that they relate to different levels of the network. Anyhow, I think that a complete separation of aims and scope in the 9 WGs is difficult to achieve. There are always border areas that lead to some overlapping. Please send me your final comments, if any, until Sunday evening (4/2/01). If no comments received I will consider the document approved within TC6 and I will submit it, by e-mail, to the IFIP Technical Assembly next week. Best regards Augusto Casaca

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ICCC/IFIP ELPUB2001 Conference - Important Announcement and 2nd CfP
by Klaus Kreulich 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

ANNOUNCEMENT The organisers of the 5th ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing (EPUB2001) are pleased to announce that IOS Press have agreed to publish and distribute the Proceedings of the Conference. IOS Press has the world-wide presence that will ensure a wide and rapid distribution of the Proceedings. This is additional reason for authors to submit their papers to the Conference! !!! IMPORTANT - Changes to Deadlines !!! This development does mean that we have had to revise the deadlines to give IOS Publishing the extra time they need to produce the Proceedings using their professional facilities. The Author Deadlines are now: Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 14 of February Acceptance notification 7 of March Deadline for receipt of full papers 18 of April A 2nd Call for Papers follows... -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- ICCC/IFIP 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ELPUB2001 - "2001: an Electronic Publishing Odyssey" University of Kent at Canterbury, UK - July 5 -7th, 2001 http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/pm/elpub2001 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS In the world of electronic publishing, formerly separate disciplines are merging and overlapping. Information exchange on a technical as well as on a cultural level will be essential for planning the future odyssey for electronic publishing. This information exchange between publishers, researchers, academics and professional information specialists has been at the core of the ICCC/IFIP series of ELPUB conferences from the beginning. This is a strong argument for participating in ELPUB 2001 in Canterbury! ELPUB2001 is the 5th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2001 is to bring together researchers, managers, developers, and users working on the issues related to electronic publishing for public, scientific and commercial applications. The conference will continue the tradition of the previous conferences which took place in Great Britain in 1997, Hungary in 1998, Sweden in 1999 and Russia in 2000. The focus is on electronic publishing for academic and commercial purposes and for the general public. We welcome speakers on non-technical and technical developments. PROGRAMME Submitted scientific papers, presentations of prototypes, operational systems, and associated experiences. Three main topics with several subsections are addressed: I. New Publishing Models XML and further standards, interchange networks, distributed systems, document input, document delivery, e-books and new output media. Global co-operation in publishing, scientific demands (Citing, Linking), education and training, user needs and user profiles. II. Digital Libraries Architecture, knowledge management, multimedia in digital libraries, multi-lingualism, navigation and information retrieval. New library services, content management, user interfaces, cataloguing and archives III. E-Commerce for Publishing Copyright saving and security systems, new business models, author-publisher-librarian: costs & payments; legal issues. Each topic has two tracks: 1. Technical focus 2. Human and cultural focus All contributions will be published in the Proceedings. NB. The list of topics is not meant to be exhaustive and submissions on any topic within the overall conference theme will be considered. AUTHOR GUIDELINES REVISED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: February 14th, 2001 Abstract submission must include: - Title of paper - Authors' names - Company name, if applicable - Full Address (including phone, fax, e-mail) - Abstract in English (200 - 400 words) Abstracts should be sent by e-mail (using text-only format; no formatting; double space between paragraphs) to the Programme Committee: elpub2001(a)tu-chemnitz.de The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted papers by March, 7th. The deadline for full papers will be April 18, 2001. NB - These dates have had to be changed to meet the needs of the new publisher of the Proceedings, IOS Press. Speakers will be given 35 minutes total including time for questions. One author per paper (speaker) will be charged a reduced conference fee. Travel and accommodation costs, however, cannot be reimbursed. GENERAL INFORMATION Host: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK < http://www.ukc.ac.uk/> General Chair: John W.T. Smith email: J.W.T.Smith(a)ukc.ac.uk Programme Chair: Arved C. Hbler Institute for Print and Media Technology at Technical University Chemnitz, Germany <http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/pm> Tel: +49 371 531 8091 Fax: +49 371 531 3780 email: arved.huebler(a)mbv.tu-chemnitz.de ELPUB2001 website: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/pm/elpub2001 If you need any additional information, please contact the Programme Committee: elpub2001(a)tu-chemnitz.de --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Klaus Kreulich Technische Universität Chemnitz Institut für Print- und Medientechnik Reichenhainerstr. 70 09126 Chemnitz Germany Fon +49 371 / 531-2345 Fax +49 371 / 531-3780 E-mail klaus.kreulich(a)mbv.tu-chemnitz.de WWW http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/pm

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2nd Call for Papers - IFIP I3E-Conference
by Volker Tschammer 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this * Deadline approaching: February, 15, 2001 I3E The First IFIP Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business, e-Government 4-5 October 2001 in Zürich, Switzerland Announcement and 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS SCOPE This conference is the first IFIP conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government sponsored by the three committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: * Pre-sales support, ordering, settlement, delivery, and payment * Post-sales services and customer care * Innovative business models and business process re-engineering * Interorganizational systems, virtual organizations, and virtual markets * Supply chains, work flow management, control and audit mechanisms * Procurement, negotiations and dynamic pricing models (bidding, auctions) * Trading of intangible goods * Information & communication platforms, mobile agents, unified messaging * Security, privacy, and consumer protection * Smart Cards and biometrics * Information retrieval, data mining, semantic web * Legal, social, cross-cultural issues * Trust and confidence in digital signatures and certificates * Mobile e-commerce and ubiquitous electronic markets * Innovative government services for the citizen * Strategic management of e-commerce, e-business, e-government systems * Measuring of E-Commerce impact/results MAIN TRACK and MINITRACKS The conference will comprise a main track with papers in the topics above and several minitracks dedicated to special topics. INFORMATION for MINITRACK CHAIRS Proposal for minitracks should describe the title, scope and organizational structure of the minitrack. Minitrack chairs are responsible for both organizing the review process and promotion of their minitrack. Proposals for minitracks should be send electronically as Word or PDF files following the link at the conference homepage until December 10th, 2000. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages in length. Submissions should include title, authors and a 150-word abstract as a front page. Identify the author responsible for correspondence, incl. the authors name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The core paper should include the title only and no info about the authors. One of the authors of each paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Best papers are selected by the best paper award committee. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically as a Microsoft Word document, PDF, or in Postscript format by following instructions at the conference home page (www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference). Please note that together with the Conference, there are several mini tracks addressing specific subjects. You may wish to submit your paper under one of these topics. Submission address for the conference and the mini tracks is the same and is given below. Submission address: I3E.conference(a)netacademy.org. GENERAL INFORMATION For more information about the conference please visit our web site at www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference IMPORTANT DEADLINES Papers due: February 15, 2001 (deadline extended) Acceptance: May 1, 2001 Final papers due: June 15, 2001 Authors registration: June 15, 2001 COMMITTEES General Chair K. Bauknecht, Univ. Zürich, CH Programme Chair B. Schmid, Univ. St. Gallen, CH V. Tschammer, GMD FOKUS, D Programme Committee D. Avison, Essec Bus. School, F M. Bichler, Univ. of Econ., Vienna, A L. M. Camarinha-Matos, Univ. Nova, Lisboa, PT W. Cellary, Univ. of Econ., Poznan, PL E. Clemons, Univ. of Pennsylvania, US D. Deschoolmeester, Gent, B J. Dietz, TU Delft, NL F. Douglis, AT&T Labs, US J.H.P. Eloff, Rand Afrikaans Univ., ZA S. Field, IBM, Zürich, CH M. Funabashi, Hitachi Ltd., JP R.K.L. Gay, NTU, Singapore B.C. Glasson, Curtin Univ., AUS J. Griese, Univ. Bern, CH P. Grimm, TU Ilmenau, D D. Gritzalis, AUEB, Athens, GR V. Hara, Telecom Finland, FIN F. Kamoun, ENSI, Tunis, Tunisia D. Khakhar, Lund Univ., S K. Koen, Atio Corp., Johannesburg, ZA D. Konstantas, Univ. Geneva, CH W. Lamersdorf, Univ. of Hamburg, D R. Lee, Erasmus Uni., Rotterdam, NL*) C. Linnhoff-Popien, Univ. of Munich, D T. Magedanz, IKV++, Berlin, D M. Mendes, UNICAMP, Brasil M. Merz, Ponton, Hamburg, D Z. Milosevic, DSTC, Brisbane, AUS A. Molina, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK P. Moody, IncoTech, L E. Neuhold, Univ. of Darmstadt, D L.J.M. Nieuwenhuis, kpn, NL V. Ouzounis, GMD FOKUS, Berlin, D R. Posch, TU Graz, A K. Rannenberg, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK K. Stanoevska, Univ. St. Gallen, CH Ch. Steinfeld, Michigan State Univ., US M. Stolze, IBM, Rüschlikon ,CH R. Suomi, Turku School of Econ., FIN P. Swatman, Univ. Koblenz-Landau, D P. Timmers, European Commission, B A. Tsalgatidou, Univ. of Athens, GR M. Waidner, IBM, Rüschlikon, CH H. Weigand, Univ. Tilburg, NL R. Wigand, Syracuse University, US L. Yngstrom, DSV, Stockholm, S H.-D. Zimmermann, U. St. Gallen, CH Conference Organisation H. Haeuschen, Univ. Zürich L. Kuendig, Univ. Zürich, CH L.G. Mason, NTU, Singapore H. Rudin, Consultant, Zürich, CH

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[Fwd: Call for Papers]
by Augusto Casaca 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

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TC6 Meeting, Cape Town.
by Koos Koen 22 Jan '01

22 Jan '01

Dear TC6 Delegates and WG/TG Chairmen, This is to invite you formally to attend the first IFIP TC6 meeting of 2001 that will take place on 31 May to 1 June in Cape Town. This meeting will take place after the AFRICOM'2001 conference which takes place from 28 to 30 May. The meeting and conference will take place at the University of Cape Town Business School, situated at the Cape Town Waterfront. Please note that delegates from some countries may need a visa to enter South Africa, so please contact the nearest South African embassy to obtain the necessary information and visa if required. I will soon forward details on the meeting programme, accommodation, costs, contacts, traveling, etc. It will appreciated if you can confirm your attendance and travel dates at an early stage in order for us to make the necessary hotel bookings. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you need any more details. We are looking forward to meet you in Cape Town in May. Kind regards. Koos Koen TC6 Representative for South Africa. ------------------------------------- Tel: +27(0)824436430 Fax: +27(0)821314436430 koos(a)knowinter.com ------------------------------------- ********************************************************************* IFIP AFRICOM2001 - International Conference on Communication Systems. Cape Town 28 - 30 May 2001. Be There!! http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/Research/DNA/Africom2001.htm *********************************************************************

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[Fwd: PWC'2001]
by Augusto Casaca 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

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TC6 chairmanship
by Augusto Casaca 18 Jan '01

18 Jan '01

Dear TC6 members, I was very pleased in receiving the results for the TC6 chair election and I thank your support for my continuation as chairman in the next three years. Looking forward for our continuing collaboration in TC6 Augusto Casaca

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TC 6 Chair Ballot results
by Plamen Nedkov 17 Jan '01

17 Jan '01

Dear TC 6 National Delegates, WG Chairs and Co-Chairs, The results of the TC 6 Chair election, in which Augusto Casaca was the only candidate, are as follows: 21 valid votes cast IN FAVOR - 21 AGAINST - 0 ABSTENTIONS- 0 Augusto Casaca is RE-ELECTED as TC 6 Chair for a second term of 3 years. CONGRATULATIONS! It was a privilege to assist TC 6 and a pleasure to be in contact with Andre Danthine to ensure the proper organization. The IFIP Secretariat wishes TC 6 and its members a successful 2001. Best, P. Nedkov ----------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 www: http://www.ifip.or.at/

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WG meeting dates
by Augusto Casaca 15 Jan '01

15 Jan '01

Dear WG chairs, Please tell me what are the next dates planned for your WG meetings in order to publish them in the IFIP bulletin. I need this information asap. Thank you and best regards Augusto Casaca

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DAIS 2001, Krakow (Poland)
by Otto Spaniol 15 Jan '01

15 Jan '01

Call for Papers: DAIS'2001 Third IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems Krakow, Poland September 17 - 19, 2001 http://www.cs.agh.edu.pl/dais2001/ Proceedings to be published by Kluwer AP Organised by Department of Computer Science and Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet at the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow, supported by Polish State Committee for Scientific Research and Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee for Computer Science DAIS'2001 DAIS'2001 denotes the third international IFIP working conference on distributed applications and interoperability. DAIS'2001 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors and users to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing. DAIS'2001 will focus on integration and interoperability of different platforms, services and applications, as well as on scalability and management issues and the growing importance of mobile and wireless protocols and applications. DAIS'2001 includes invited speakers, full technical paper sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Also tutorials are encouraged. Themes The working conference seeks original, unpublished papers on various aspects of distributed computing. Areas of special interest include (but are not restricted to): * Experiences from development of distributed applications, * Enterprise application/platform integration and interoperability, * Scalability issues in distributed applications, * Extensions and refinements to open architectures (e.g. RM-ODP, OMA, COM+, TINA), * Experiences with distributed platforms and their scalability (e.g. CORBA, COM+, JINI), * Modelling and analysis of distributed architectures, * Components and frameworks for distributed applications (e.g. EJB, CORBA Component Model, application servers), * Managing and monitoring distributed applications, including QoS control, * Event-driven distributed information dissemination, * Services for distributed systems (e.g. location, transaction, security, persistence), * Mobile and wireless protocols and applications. * Context-aware and adaptive applications Submissions DAIS'2001 seeks submissions for * full technical papers, describing original, unpublished research, in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000 words); * work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 5 pages; and * tutorial proposals describing the contents and targets of the tutorial. All papers will be reviewed, and accepted full papers will be published by Kluwer. We strongly encourage submissions of papers in Postscript format according to Kluwer style instructions available at http://www.wkap.com/ifip/styles/ Submission dates * Deadline for full paper submissions: 10 February 2001 * Deadline for work-in-progress papers: 17 March 2001 * Deadline for tutorial proposals: 10 February 2001 * Notification of acceptance: 5 May 2001 * Final versions: 25 May 2001 Submission method We strongly encourage a Web-based submission via: * URL: http://www.cs.agh.edu.pl/dais2001/submission but e-mail submission is also possible: * email: dais2001-papers(a)cs.agh.edu.pl Further information * email: dais2001-info(a)cs.agh.edu.pl * phone: +48 12 617 39 82, ext. 22 * fax: +48 12 617 39 66 * URL: http://www.cs.agh.edu.pl/dais2001/ * postal address: DAIS'2001 Department of Computer Science University of Mining and Metallurgy Al. Mickiewicza 30 PL 30-059 Krakow Poland Conference Chairmen Krzysztof Zielinski (chair), UMM Krakow, Poland Kurt Geihs (co-chair), University of Frankfurt, Germany Organisation Committee Aleksander Laurentowski (chair), Jacek Kosinski, Zofia Mossurska, Radoslaw Ruchala, UMM Krakow, Poland Program Committee Y. Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium J. Brzezinski, Technical University of Poznan, Poland W. Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland S. Chanson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK P. Dembinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland N. Dulay, Imperial College, UK J. Filipiak, ComArch SA, Poland K. Geihs, University of Frankfurt, Germany A. Hopper, AT&T Research Cambridge, UK J. Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany H. Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L. Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W. Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany P. Linington, University of Kent, UK C. Linnhoff-Popien, RWTH Aachen, Germany L. Logrippo, University of Ottawa, Canada E. Najm, ENST Paris, France M. Noga, ACC Cyfronet UMM, Krakow, Poland K. Raymond, DSTC, Australia P. Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK J. Rolia, Carleton University, Canada A. Ruiz, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain A. Schill, TU Dresden, Germany A. Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland M. Tienari, University of Helsinki, Finland A. Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany A. Wolski, VTT, Finland Steering Committee Kurt Geihs, University of Frankfurt, Germany Hartmut Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany Kerry Raymond, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia Guy Leduc, Universite de Liege, Belgium About Krakow Krakow (Cracow) proves to be Poland's prime cultural and tourist attraction with hardly any equals in the entire Central Europe. The Old Town district is actually a medieval city with a well preserved original grid of streets. The huge central square, Europe's largest, seems the last stage in the perfection of the art of city planning in the Middle Ages. Wawel Hill in Krakow, a must to visit for foreign tourists is a micro-cosmos of Polish history and culture. From the 11th century on Poland's monarchs took up their residence here, in the Royal Castle, and they were both crowned and buried in the Wawel Cathedral. Krakow, the proud capital of a mighty kingdom for centuries, is now a city of a truly European status. A genuine pearl in the vicinity of Krakow is the 700-years old Wieliczka Salt Mine, one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites: http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/wieliczka/ http://www.unesco.org/whc/sites/32.htm In 1995, the Cultural Council of Ministers of the European Union passed a decision granting the title of the Capital of European Culture for the year 2000 to nine cities. Krakow was nominated as one of the first laureates, in Central Europe along with Prague. For further information, see http://www.krakow.top.pl/english/ http://www.krakow2000.pl/ and http://www.inyourpocket.com/Poland/Krakow_home.shtml

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