November 2002 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

FW: WCC 2004
by Augusto Casaca 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Dear TC6 members, For your information I send you the view of TC1 concerning its participation in WCC 2004. Best regards Augusto Casaca -----Original Message----- From: Giorgio Ausiello [mailto:ausiello@dis.uniroma1.it] Sent: quarta-feira, 13 de Novembro de 2002 17:41 To: Kurki-Suonio Reino; laprie(a)laas.fr; diaz(a)laas.fr Cc: haeberer(a)atxsoftware.com; Brian_Samways(a)birmingham.gov.uk; gjo(a)daimlerchrysler.com; Augusto.Casaca(a)inesc.pt; il2v(a)amsun.apma.virginia.edu; jdroode(a)postino.up.ac.za; jberleur(a)info.fundp.ac.be; franz(a)uni-paderborn.de; strous(a)iaehv.nl; neumann(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de; jkarat(a)us.ibm.com; jan.wibe(a)plu.ntnu.no; brunnstein(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de; ito Subject: Re: WCC 2004 Dear Colleagues, as you know I am going to finish my term at the end of December and since January 1st the new TC1 Chair will be Professor Takayasu Ito (who reads in cc). The current view of our TC concerning WCC 2004 is the following 1. TC1 is interested in having the conference TCS 2004 held in the framework of WCC 2004. We think that the names of organizers and the support of French academic and scientific institutions is very promising and that WCC 2004 will be a success. There are still a few issues of concern regarding the organization of TCS within WCC. Such issues were partly discussed in Montreal but they will have to find concrete solutions in the context of the organization of WCC 2004. I name some of them: - choice of a publisher that guarantees low cost and large distribution of Proceedings in the scientific community (if possible we would like to print the Proceedings of TCS 2004 with Springer); - invited speakers and keynote speakers; - visibility of TCS within WCC, - registration fees (in particular low student fees and possibility to have a (slightly) reduced fee for people attending only TC1). We are sure that for all these issues we will find suitable agreements with WCC organizers and IPC. 2. The TCS conferences are usually organized in two tracks (Track A: Algorithm, complexity, computation models etc.; Track B: Logics, semantics, verification etc.), therefore we will have one General Chair (hopefully from France) and two Program Chairs. 3. TC1 created a Steering Committee to supervise the organization of the TCS series of conferences. The Steering Committee will chose General Chair and Program Chairs for TCS 2004. The person that will be appointed as TCS 2004 General Chair will represent TC1 in the IPC of WCC 2004 We aim at deciding the name of the General Chair in the next few weeks. Please have my most sincere regards. Giorgio Kurki-Suonio Reino wrote: > > Dear TC Chair, > > The enclosed text is based on the discussions that we had on WCC 2004 at the > GA meeting in Montreal. (Notice that its purpose is only to summarize the > current situation to people who will be involved in the organization of > WCC 2004. Therefore, please, do not distribute it any more widely.) > > In order to proceed in the preparations, I am now asking you about the > current status of the potential contributions of your TC/WG's. Please, > indicate also, if you wish somebody else than yourself to represent your TC > in further preparation of the programme. Any other suggestions and comments > are also welcome. > > Information on the colocated conferences and working conferences is needed > by the end of the year. Please, inform us, however, on the current state > of your plans already by November 30. Send your reply to Jean-Claude > (laprie(a)wcc2004.org), me (rks(a)cs.tut.fi), and Michel (diaz(a)laas.fr). > > Thanking you in advance, > > Regards, > Reino > ============================================================================ > > Preliminary information on > the 18th IFIP World Computer Conference > to be held in Toulouse, France, August 23-26, 2004 > web site: www.wcc2004.org > > The first World Computer Conference in 1959 led to the establishment of > IFIP, a nonprofit umbrella organization for IT. National member societies > from 50 countries nowadays contribute to the work of this global federation. > > Reflecting the wide influence of IT on the modern society, the programme > of the 18th WCC will focus on technical, economic, legal, social and > cultural aspects related to the theme > > "On the Way towards a Global Information Society." > > In organizing WCC 2004, IFIP draws from the vast potential of its 12 > technical committees with a total of 80 working groups, many of which have > had deep impact on the development of IT and its utilization. A special > characteristic of WCC 2004 will be "l'esprit de Toulouse," the spirit of a > city that is proud of its history and culture, and of its wide diversity of > industrial and research activities in computing and communication. > > The programme will consist of several colocated events (conferences, > working conferences, workshops, etc.), tied together by plenary keynotes > and topical sessions of invited speakers. The provisional plan includes > the following variety of topics for the colocated events and topical > sessions (ranging from more or less confirmed events to ones for which > preliminary interest was expressed at the GA meeting in Montreal): > > Security (IFIPSec Conference; TC11) > Theoretical Computer Science (TC1) > Middleware (International Middleware Conference; WG6.1/ACM/USENIX) > E-commerce/e-business/e-government (TC6/TC8/TC11) > Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES; WG10.3/10.4/10.5) > VLSI-SOC (WG10.5) > Software (TC2) > Computers in Education (TC3) > Human-Machine Interaction (TC13) > Pioneers' day (WG9.7) > Dependable Computing > Aircraft safety and security > Formal methods in practice > Nanotechnology > Biocomputing > > Preparations for the conference will continue under the direction of > > Jean-Claude Laprie (laprie(a)wcc2004.org), Congress Chair > Reino Kurki-Suonio (rks(a)cs.tut.fi), Programme Chair > Michel Diaz (diaz(a)laas.fr), Vice Programme Chair > Alain Costes, Support Committee Chair > Marie Dervillers, Local Organization Chair > > The final structure of WCC 2004 will be decided by the International > Programme Committee, which will be augmented with members who represent > the TC's involved, as well as international industry and research. > Individual Programme Committees will be formed for the individual colocated > events. The principal publisher will be Kluwer Academic Publishers. > > Draft schedule: > > 1st Call for Papers (announcement): February 2003 > IPC meeting: May 2003 > 2nd Call for Papers: June/July 2003 > Deadline for workshop proposals: November 2003 > Deadline for paper submission: early January 2004 > Paper selection: end of February 2004 > Deadline for final papers: April 30, 2004 > Final programme: June 2004 -- Prof. Giorgio Ausiello Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Via Salaria 113 00198 Roma, Italia phone: +39 - 06 88 41 923 fax: +39 - 06 85 30 08 49 e-mail: ausiello(a)dis.uniroma1.it

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FW: [IFIP] Kluwer sold to Candover and Cinven
by Augusto Casaca 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 14 de Novembro de 2002 09:05 To: GA&MS&WG Subject: [IFIP] Kluwer sold to Candover and Cinven To: IFIP GA reps., TC & WG Chairs cc. IFIP Member Societies Subject: IFIP's publisher continues under ownership of financial investors Wolters Kluwer has decided to sell Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) to Candover and Cinven, two private equity funds based in London. KAP will continue its activities as they are right now, meeting the needs of its customers, authors and other stakeholders. Candover and Cinven are highly enthusiastic about KAP's prospects as a business in its current form and under the leadership of the existing management team. They wish to provide KAP with the financial resources it needs to grow and thereby participate in its success, together with its management and employees. A small part of KAP's management is investing alongside Candover and Cinven, underlining the belief in a healthy development of the company. KAP is the principal IFIP publisher since 1998 when Wolters Kluwer purchased Chapman & Hall. * * * New IFIP titles are announced at http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/maillist.html The KAP sites for the IFIP series are at http://www.wkap.nl/prod/s/IFIP and http://www.wkap.com/ifip The IFIP Publications Portal is at http://www.ifip.or.at/dl.htm -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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RE: [ifip-tc6] ifip tc6 logo
by Radford, Peter 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Herbert has already made the change and put a link in, in case anyone has saved the old url Peter -----Original Message----- From: Augusto Casaca [mailto:augusto.casaca@inesc.pt] Sent: 13 November 2002 12:06 To: Radford, Peter; IFIP TC6 (E-mail) Subject: RE: [ifip-tc6] ifip tc6 logo Dear Peter, I attach the TC6 handbook with the correct address of the web page. Herbert, can you please update it in the web page? Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-admin(a)Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-admin@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Radford, Peter Sent: terça-feira, 12 de Novembro de 2002 14:40 To: IFIP TC6 (E-mail) Subject: [ifip-tc6] ifip tc6 logo Does anyone have a clear electronic version of the TC logo, please? Alan Marshall sent me some preliminary things on MMNS2003 and the logo he is using is a bit fuzzy (the edges are not very sharp). Incidentally, the TC6 handbook gives our home page as http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/index.html <http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/index.html> It is actually http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/index.htm <http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/index.htm> [i.e. no "l" at the end] Regards Peter Peter Radford Telecoms Solutions Logica www.logica.com T: +44 20 7446 1281 F: ask me! M: 07770 305506 E: <mailto:radfordp@logica.com> radfordp(a)logica.com This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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FW: [IFIP] Jan 2003 issue of Bulletin
by Augusto Casaca 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Dear WG chairs, Please check if the names of the members of your WG are correct in the IFIP Bulletin 2003. If there are modifications to be done please send them directly to Brigitte with cc to myself. Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: terca-feira, 12 de Novembro de 2002 09:49 To: GA&MS&WG Cc: bb(a)ifip.or.at Subject: [IFIP] Jan 2003 issue of Bulletin Importance: High To: IFIP GA members, Member Societies, TC and WG Chairs Subject: issue No. 33 of IFIP Bulletin/January 2003 Action: Please check and send updates to Brigitte Brauneis <bb(a)ifip.or.at> by 27.11.2002 We have started preparing the hard-copy publication of issue No. 33 of the IFIP Bulletin 2003. An electronic version is available on the IFIP website at http://www.ifip.or.at/bulletin/bulletin.htm It would be appreciated if our member societies and GA representatives check the data (address,tel. fax, email and URL) related to their national representation and let us know of any updates. It would also be appreciated if our TC and WG Chairs go through the coordinates (address,tel. fax, email and URL) and list of members and provide us with any changes that have to be made. TC and WG Chairs: Please also indicate known TC and WG Officer changes as of 1 January 2003. PLEASE SEND YOUR UPDATES TO: Brigitte Brauneis <bb(a)ifip.or.at> by 27 November 2002 latest since we need to prepare and send the camera-ready manuscript to the printers in early December. Thank you and best regards, Plamen -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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ifip tc6 logo
by Radford, Peter 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Does anyone have a clear electronic version of the TC logo, please? Alan Marshall sent me some preliminary things on MMNS2003 and the logo he is using is a bit fuzzy (the edges are not very sharp). Incidentally, the TC6 handbook gives our home page as http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/index.html <http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/index.html> It is actually http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/index.htm <http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC6/index.htm> [i.e. no "l" at the end] Regards Peter Peter Radford Telecoms Solutions Logica www.logica.com T: +44 20 7446 1281 F: ask me! M: 07770 305506 E: <mailto:radfordp@logica.com> radfordp(a)logica.com This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Call for Papers - International Conference on Communication and Broadband Networking
by Michiko Hashimoto 12 Nov '02

12 Nov '02

Dear Sir or Madam, It is our pleasure to inform that "International Conference on Communication and Broadband Networking" sponsored by The ATM Forum* and advanced Computing and Communication Society (ACS)** will be held in Bangalore, India on May 5-7, 2003. One of the objectives of this international conference is not only to provide a platform for exchange of technical challenges, experiences and networking solutions but also to create business opportunities on emerging IT based services among academics, researchers, practicing engineers and business leaders. We would like to encourage the submission of your papers as well as the provision of your ideas on other sessions. For more information on the event, please find the attached "Call for Papers." I would like you to circulate this information, encouraging your colleagues to submit their papers as well. Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us. Sincerely, Michiko Hashimoto Regional Manager The ATM Forum Notes: * The ATM Forum is an international non-profit organization accelerating the deployment of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and Broadband products and services. We currently have more than 150 member companies representing all sectors of the computers and communications industries, as well as government agencies, research organizations and end users. (for more information, please visit our website at http://www.atmforum.com). During the past decade, the ATM technology has evolved to support frame and packet-based services in an efficient and cost-effective way. It is the only technology that provides a multi service platform for voice, video and IP provisioning with deterministic Quality of Service (QoS). Recently, The ATM Forum launched "Roadmap to the future", focusing on key six areas - 3G/4G, Homeland Security/Public Safety, Content Delivery Services, Converged Network Services, Next Generation Networks and Optical Network. **Advanced Computing and Communication Society (ACS) which has a single mission of fostering awareness of computing and communication technology to a large number of professors, students, govt employees, and industry people and regularly holds international conferences past 9 years in India. ************************************************************************* Michiko Hashimoto / Regional Manager / The ATM Forum Asia-Pacific Office 1-2-11, Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0013, Japan Phone: +81 3 3438 3694 Fax: +81 3 3438 3698 E-mail: mhashimoto(a)atmforum.com URL: http://www.atmforum.com *************************************************************************

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IFIP publications
by Otto Spaniol 10 Nov '02

10 Nov '02

Dear all, a major topic for all our meetings has been (and will probably remain to be for a long time) the publication strategy of IFIP and of IFIP-TC6: Kluwer or Springer or IEEE or .... Yesterday I got the following information: a. Springer will probably be sold to a competitor, maybe to Elsevier (and Elsevier was even more expensive as former IFIP publisher than Kluwer has ever been). b. Kluwer will probably also been sold - either to a competitor in the same segment who would then close down the rival - or to another company whose intentions were not really known. For the moment being it seems that IFIP is in a severe trouble with the new publication contract. And to my opinion TC6 should also not be too much restricted to Springer as its only publisher since .... (see above). Best regards Otto p.s.: The new IFIP president was extremely impressed by our 30 year celebration event in Lisbon.

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RE: [ifip-tc6] IFIP publications
by Arun Iyengar 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

I agree with Augusto. Arun Augusto Casaca <augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt>@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE on 11/06/2002 09:38:17 AM Please respond to augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt Sent by: ifip-tc6-admin(a)Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE To: Lyman Chapin <lyman(a)acm.org>, Otto Spaniol <spaniol(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de> cc: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: RE: [ifip-tc6] IFIP publications Dear Lyman, Guy and Otto, I surely agree that on-line publication is a must for the present and future. However, conference proceedings in paper form continue to be appreciated by conference attendees and that might still be the case for the near future. In my view the correct strategy is to have a publisher which can print the proceedings and has also a digital library. Actually this was the TC6 recommendation to IFIP concerning the future publisher. Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-admin(a)Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-admin@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Lyman Chapin Sent: quarta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2002 00:09 To: Otto Spaniol Cc: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: [ifip-tc6] IFIP publications Otto, I agree with Guy - it doesn't matter what happens to any of the various print publishers, because the printed books are irrelevant. IFIP and TC6 must move very quickly in the direction of on-line publication; if they do not, they will also become irrelevant. - Lyman At 4:48 PM +0100 11/5/02, Otto Spaniol wrote: >Dear all, > >a major topic for all our meetings has been (and will probably >remain to be for a long time) the publication strategy of IFIP >and of IFIP-TC6: >Kluwer or Springer or IEEE or .... > >Yesterday I got the following information: >a. Springer will probably be sold to a competitor, maybe to Elsevier > (and Elsevier was even more expensive as former IFIP publisher > than Kluwer has ever been). >b. Kluwer will probably also been sold > - either to a competitor in the same segment who would then > close down the rival > - or to another company whose intentions were not really known. > >For the moment being it seems that IFIP is in a severe trouble with >the new publication contract. >And to my opinion TC6 should also not be too much restricted to Springer >as its only publisher since .... (see above). _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6

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Re: [ifip-tc6] IFIP publications
by Guy Leduc 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

Dear Otto, A (At) 15:58 6/11/02, Otto Spaniol ecrivait (wrote): >Hello, > >Lyman Chapin wrote (and was in line with Harry Rudin and Guy Leduc): >> >>I agree with Guy - it doesn't matter what happens to any of the >>various print publishers, because the printed books are irrelevant. >>IFIP and TC6 must move very quickly in the direction of on-line >>publication; if they do not, they will also become irrelevant. >> >Hmmm. I cannot fully agree on that. >Of course a CD-Rom or another electronic medium is nice, cheap and >maybe unavoidable for the future. >But a book is something else: from a useability aspect, >from a cultural point of view,..... >The major negative aspect of books is the time needed to print them >and the price (which becomes higher and higher and even unaffordable >if not enough books can be sold any more). >My feeling is that we still need books for a while >(and "for a while" could mean "for many years") >in addition to electronically available material. This is true for real books (which I personally like too), but not for proceedings of conferences, I'm afraid. When you buy a real book, usually you read (almost) all of it. When you buy (very costly) proceedings, you read almost nothing. Maybe only a couple of papers. That's the reason why the business model for conferences should be a per-paper cost, not a per-book cost. And a digital library is exactly what you need for that purpose. Of course, some complementary and cheap paper copies for conference attendees is nice. And an additional CD-ROM too. But the real visibility of a conference paper definitely comes first from its presence in a DL and second from the cost to get it as a single paper. If I have to buy a whole costly book to get a single paper, I just forget about it or I get in touch with the author to get an electronic copy of it for free. >Best regards >Otto Best regards, Guy ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/

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FW: [IFIP] A Developing Story: Sailboats in the Wind
by Augusto Casaca 06 Nov '02

06 Nov '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quarta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2002 08:06 To: all Subject: [IFIP] A Developing Story: Sailboats in the Wind Dear All, Following Ashley's and Dick's messages ref. http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00185.html we received a note from past president Pierre Bobillier re. his first experience in computer connection between Switzerland and New York. May years ago, Pierre and a colleague were in Radio Suisse in Bern to establish a first computer connection with New York. They used a separate line for voice at the cost of 4.30 CHF/minute and "succeeded" to get a message from NY: "Hello Switzerland". Then the connection was lost and they were told that the transatlantic cable had been cut. They repeated the trial two weeks later, succeeded to exchange two or three messages and the line was cut - believe it or not, but the transatlantic cable had been cut again. Pierre's message made the IFIP Executive Director reminisce of his first email experience. One story leads to another so we decided to post both Pierre's full message and Plamen's account at http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/tc6/e_experiences.pdf The article will tell you about a Foundation, in which Saharov, McNamara, Sculley, the IFIP President and other personalities helped converge East and West by intensive use of email communications and of the planning of an education project based on Soviet and US satellites. It would also tell you who were the pioneer email users in IFIP and how many individual sessions are currently recorded at the IFIP website. If anyone of you has an interesting story to tell related to the first days of the Internet and IFIP (or covering national experiences) please write to the Delivery Co. and we will post your stories as a collection on the IFIP web site along with the TC 6 30th Anniversary report and related material. Greetings from Laxenburg, The Delivery Co. -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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