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

FW: WSIS' 03 consultations
by Augusto Casaca 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '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 Fevereiro de 2002 12:07 To: all Subject: WSIS' 03 consultations To: IFIP Member Societies, GA members, TC & WG Chairs From: P. Nedkov, IFIP ED and UNESCO Liaison Officer, Subject: Consultations - World Summit for the Information Society Dear All, We have made it a point to regularly update our member societies, TCs and WGs about the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), December 2003, Geneva [ Previous messages http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00098.html & http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00034.html ]. The Geneva Summit is expected to adopt a Declaration embodying a set of principles and rules of conduct aimed at establishing a more inclusive and equitable Information Society; and a Plan of Action formulating operational proposals and concrete measures to be taken so that everybody benefits from the opportunities of the Information Society. Governments, UN agencies, industry and civil society are invited to contribute and to influence the debate. This February, UNESCO will organize a series of consultations. IFIP is invited to take part in one of these consultations on 8 February on the topic "Infostructure in developing countries". The other three consultations will concentrate on Cultural diversity and the public domain of information, Freedom of expression in the Information Society and Education in and for the Information Society. These meetings aim to develop a set of proposals to be included in the Declaration of Principles and the Plan of Action. These proposals will be consolidated into a common Civil society declaration forwarded to the WSIS organizers as a contribution to the WSIS preparation process. IFIP's mission is "to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization which encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of Information Technology for the benefit of all people". IFIP's Member societies, TCs and WGs are representative of professional activities in the IT field at the national, regional and international levels. Therefore, WSIS and its preparations are a unique opportunity for the whole IFIP network to influence future developments and regulations related to the Information society. Yesterday afternoon, we received a draft version of a text which will be considered by the meeting on 8 February. We have posted the whole document at http://www.ifip.or.at/discus/messages/25/46.html?WednesdayFebruary620021044a m and we invite you to contribute with your comments and recommendations specifically related to the text under Cluster 1: Infostructures in developing countries. If you wish to contribute to the process you can either post your comments by adding a message on the IFIP site or alternatively by sending me an email. Best regards, Plamen ----------------------------- 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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FW: Congratulations & February Reward
by Augusto Casaca 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: segunda-feira, 4 de Fevereiro de 2002 15:51 To: All Subject: Congratulations & February Reward Dear All - 1. New GA and TC 10 appointments We congratulate and welcome Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas as the IFIP GA representative of Lithuania. Apart of his academic positions and interests, Renaldas is a Councillor to the Prime Minister and the President of Lithuania and is our key contact for IFIP's World IT Forum in August 2003 in Vilnius. Following the recent TC 10 Chair elections Prof. Dr. Franz J. Rammig (DE) entered office as TC 10 Chair on 1 February. We wish him well in his new job. Franz holds a Chair in Informatics at "Heinz Nixdorf Institute", University of Paderborn.The area covered is "Design of distributed embedded real-time systems". He is also a member of the board of directors of "Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2)", one of Europe's leading research institutes on parallel and distributed computing, and one of two directors of "Cooperative Computing and Communication Lab (C-LAB)", a joint R&D institute of the University of Paderborn and Siemens AG. This is also an occasion to thank the outgoing TC 10 Chair, Dr. Jean-Claude Laprie (FR), and congratulate him for getting off the hook! There are, however, other projects in which he is involved as French GA representative and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of Congress 2004 and IFIP will continue to rely on his great (French?) style in doing things! Who else will pop the corks of half a dozen Moet & Chandon to treat the IFIP GA by the pool-side ...or will take you for a sight-seeing tour with a helicopter ...or will illustrate the technological advances of his city by putting you in the cockpit of an A-320 on the assembly line? Mais Oui! 2. Happy "Seventy", Blagovest! The Delivery Co. extends its congratulations and best wishes to Acad. Blagovest Sendov, IFIP President (1989-1992) and currently Vice-President of the Bulgarian Parliament, who turns seventy on Friday, 8 February 2002. Our contacts originate more than 2 decades ago. In 1982, B.S. was elected as Vice-President and Secretary General of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). That same year, the IFIP Executive Director, P.N., was employed by BAS as specialist for international organizations. Later in 1982, B.S. was appointed as the Bulgarian IFIP GA representative. 7 years later, in 1989, B.S., who was then BAS President and had just entered office as IFIP President, appointed P.N. as IFIP Contracts Officer. The two of them were involved in many avant-garde East-West and North-South initiatives. One of these took them one day in Jan.1991 to the Kremlin, as part of a small delegation including Robert MacNamara, Father Ted Hesburgh, Susan Eisenhower, David McTaggart, John Sculley and a few others, for a strategy meeting with President Gorbatchev. Blagovest's ID is <bsendov(a)argo.bas.bg> for all who wish to drop him a line. 3. Happy Chinese New Year - May your spirit be like the dragon and the horse! We congratulate our Chinese friends and colleagues with the coming Chinese Year of the Horse. The horse plays an important role in the mythology of China. It is closely associated with the dragon. Both were said to be able to fly and to carry their riders to the "home of the immortals." The ability to fly has been associated with survival throughout all of Chinese history. Now people wish each other well during Chinese New Year and on birthdays by saying, "May your spirit be like the dragon and the horse!" or "Success will come with the arrival of the horse!" Those born in the years of the Horse have a great capacity to excel. 4. New information at http://www.ifip.or.at/mail We recently posted information about Telemedicine projects and grants for an IFIP WG 3.5 conf. in June 2002 in the IFIP Newsroom. ...and now on to your February reward below! Enjoy, The Delivery Co. ***************************************** February Joke "The Lottery Winner" ***************************************** A wife comes running home from the store and into the house screaming at the top of her lungs, "Pack, pack! I won the lottery!" The husband, all excited, runs up to her and says, "Pack? Where are we going? The islands? The mountains? Pack for where?" The wife replies, "I don't give a damn. Just pack and GET OUT!" ----------------------------- 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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PWC2002
by Jan Slavik 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

Od: Self <Slavik.33.TESTCOM> Komu: TC6 <ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, @LIST630F.PML,@LIST5C85.PML CfP for PWC2002 (Singapore) in pdf format is appended. Please, feel free to circulate this information. Best regards, Jan Slavik IFIP WG 6.8 Následující oddíl obsahuje soubor, který byl pro přenos upraven do formátu MIME. Používáte-li Pegasus Mail, nebo jiný pošt. program, vyhovující MIME, můžete jej zobrazit/oddělit přímo vaším pošt. programem, jinak požádejte o pomoc správce systému. The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance. ---- File information ----------- File: pwc_call.pdf Date: 6 Feb 2002, 10:33 Size: 83638 bytes. Type: Acrobat

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MWCN2002
by Jan Slavik 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

CfP for MWCN2002 in pdf format is appended. Please, feel free to circulate this information. Best regards, Jan Slavik IFIP WG 6.8 Následující oddíl obsahuje soubor, který byl pro přenos upraven do formátu MIME. Používáte-li Pegasus Mail, nebo jiný pošt. program, vyhovující MIME, můžete jej zobrazit/oddělit přímo vaším pošt. programem, jinak požádejte o pomoc správce systému. The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any another MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance. ---- File information ----------- File: mwcn13.pdf Date: 6 Feb 2002, 10:14 Size: 90307 bytes. Type: Acrobat

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I3E conference CfP
by Volker Tschammer 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

Dear colleagues, I tried to distribute the CfP for the 2nd I3E conference via the list - but have not got any message (which I should as I am a member of the list). So please could somebody tell me whether he/she got an announcement via the list. Best regards, Volker Tschammer

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Final CFP: Network support for GRID computing
by Olivier Bonaventure 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

This is the final call for full papers describing original contributions for a special issue of Computer Communications on network support for GRID computing. !!! Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2002 !!! Details of this special issue can be found at http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/laurent/GRID_CfP.html We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call. Please feel free to distribute a copy of this call to those who might be interested. David Hutchison Laurent Mathy Olivier Bonaventure Guest editors

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CFP Elpub2002 - LAST REMINDER
by Ana Maria 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

This message is cross-posted to several lists - We apologize for possible duplicate postings! CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC / IFIP 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions" http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/ Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic November 06 - 09th, 2002 Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference. ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 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, Russia in 2000 and England in 2001. PROGRAMME The focus is on electronic publishing for academic and industrial purposes and for the general public. There will be two tracks: a general track and a technical track. The General track aims to provide an overview of the main issues of the area, such as Human, Cultural, Social, Economic and Legal issues. The Technical Track, on the other hand, aims to provide a more in depth view over the state of the art technologies, applications and tools worldwide. We welcome speakers on the following topics: GENERAL TRACK - New Publishing Models; - New services for the Web; - Old Actors - New Roles: Scholars, Publishers, Librarians, Journalists, Teachers, etc. and Electronic Publishing in E-Commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, advertisement, etc.; - The Semantic Web; - Multimedia and Multimodal Web; - Web for the TV / TV for the Web; - Multilingual Systems and translators; - Systems for disabled persons; - Metadata - its usage and interoperability; - Accessibility; - Infocracy / Infoexclusion; - Copyright and other rights issues; - Security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources; - Standards and recommendations from well-established bodies and their comparison. TECHNICAL TRACK - Using XML and its related technologies(XSL, XSLT, DOM, XLink, XPath, ...); comparing its use with older technologies (like DBMS, for instance); - Development and use of XML applications (XHTML, MathML, NewsML, RDF...) and tools; - Development and use of Metadata vocabularies, application profiles and metadata registries; - Development and use of codification mechanisms and technologies for metadata encoding (RDF, Topic Maps,...); - Knowledge discovery on the Web; Content Search and Retrieval on the Web; - Profiling and personalization; - Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing applications; - Electronic Publishing for mobile devices; - Technologies for the selection of content; their use and/or comparison; - Technologies for security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources; - Technologies for copyright assurance; - Mechanisms for the integration of recommendations, standards and standards proposals. THE LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE AND SUBMISSIONS ON ANY TOPIC WITHIN THE OVERALL CONFERENCE THEME WILL BE CONSIDERED. Proceedings of the conference will be published both as a book and electronically. AUTHOR GUIDELINES 1. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: February 15th, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission must include: - Title of paper - Authors' names - Affiliation - 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: programme-elpub(a)mail.uminho.pt The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted papers by May, 2nd. The deadline for full papers will be June 28th, 2002. Speakers will be given 35 minutes total including time for questions. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings (print and online version). One author per paper (speaker) will be charged a reduced conference fee. GENERAL INFORMATION Host: Chemnitz Technical University, Germany General Chair: Arved Hubler email: arved.huebler(a)mbv.tu-chemnitz.de Program Chair: João Álvaro Carvalho email: jac(a)dsi.uminho.pt Program Committee: - BAPTISTA, Ana Alice - University of Minho - Portugal - BORBINHA, José Luís - IST - Portugal; and National Library of Portugal - Portugal - CARVALHO, João Álvaro - University of Minho - Portugal - CHAN, Leslie - University of Toronto - Canada - CORREIA, Ana Maria Ramalho - Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ISEGI - Portugal; and University of Sheffield - UK - COSTA, Sely - University of Brasília - Brazil - DELGADO, Jaime - University Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona - Spain - ENGELEN, Jan - Catholic University of Leuven - Belgium - IYENGAR, Arun - IBM Research/T.J. Watson Research Centre - USA - JEZEK, Karel - University of West Bohemia in Pilsen - Czech Republic - KHAKHAR, Dipak - University of Lund - Sweden - KREINES, Mikhail - Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow Centre for New Information Technologies in Medical Education - Russia - KREULICH, Klaus - Chemnitz Technical University - Germany - LINDE, Peter - Blekinge Institute of Technology - Sweden - MATOUSEK, Vaclav - University of West-Bohemia in Pilsen - Czech Republic - OKERSON, Ann - Yale University - USA - RODRIGUES, Eloy - University of Minho - Portugal - SCHWÄNZL, Roland - University of Osnabrück - Germany - SMITH, John W. T. - University of Kent at Canterbury - UK - TARGINO, Graça - Federal University of Piauí - Brazil - TSCHAMMER, Volker - ECCO(Competence Centre for Electronic Commerce)- Fraunhofer FOKUS - Germany For additional information, please contact the Programme Committee: programme-elpub(a)mail.uminho.pt Ana Maria Pereira Centro Algoritmi Universidade do Minho

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How to reach Saariselkae
by Otto Spaniol 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

Dear all, I have been asked about how to reach Saariselkae (and where it is located). You can find more information via the Smartnet conference page http://www.lut.fi/~jhyvarin/Smartnet2002.htm but here is a short description. Saariselkae is a small town in the center of Lapland (Northern Finland). It is approxim. 10 or 15 kilometers south of the very small airport of Ivalo (IVL). You might reach Saariselkae also by bus from Rovaniemi but this will need much more time. When we had our first meeting in Saariselkae (it was in March 1992 and it was the first meeting when I was TC6 chairman) we had a really wonderful time there: snow, absolute quieteness, skidoo driving,... It was just great. Thus I can only recommend to attend the meeting. I hope that we a minibus can be provided from the airport to the hotel (such as for the previous meeting) but I suppose that both Friday flights from Helsinki to Ivalo will have several delegates who might also do some taxi sharing. Best wishes Otto

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Call for Paper IFIP I3E conference
by Volker Tschammer 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this!) ------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP - 2nd International Conference on e-commerce, e-business and e-government 7-9 October, 2002 Lisbon, Portugal SCOPE E-Commerce, E-Business and E-Government are not just the result of new important technological developments but also a new way of conceiving and implementing markets, changing administration and improving citizenship. Following the first IFIP Conference in Zürich (Oct. 2001) this second conference will be sponsored by TC6 (WG.6.11), TC8 and TC 11. This Conference will promote an inter-disciplinary forum for technologists and scientists as well as managers and policy makers. Papers are invited on the following topics (but are not limited to): * Markets integration, liberalisation of services and Internet * Innovative business models * Payment systems and security * Procurement, dynamic pricing models and auctions * New supply chains * Technology, marketing E-publishing * Electronic participation in public decisions * Data mining and Information retrieval * Privacy and Crime prevention * Digital cities * Digital regions * Rural networking * Multimode services * Personalization and CRM * ERM and Reengineering * Virtual organization * Electronic public services * E-Local administration * E-Learning * Marketplaces * B2B models * B2C models * Smart cards and Biometrics * Consumer rights and protection CONTRIBUTIONS: Submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 15 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 author's 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 DEADLINES: Submission of Papers: 5 April 02 Acceptance of Papers: 20 May 02 Camera Ready Papers: 1 July 02 GENERAL CHAIR * L. Valadares Tavares, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal PROGRAMME CHAIRS * Joao L. Monteiro, University of Minho, Portugal * Paula Swatman, University of Koblenz - Landau, Germany ORGANIZING CHAIRS * Jose Granado (Espirito Santo Data Inform., Portugal) * Conceicao B. Casanova (Portugal Telecom, Portugal) SPONSORED BY IFIP * TC6 - Volker Tschammer, GMD Fokus, Germany * TC8 - D. Roode, Pretoria University, South Africa * TC11 - Leon Strous, The Nederlandsche Bank, Netherlands PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Programme Chairs: Joao Monteiro (PT), Paula Swatman (DE) L. Amaral (PT) K.V. Andersen (DK) D. Avison (FR) K. Bauknecht (CH) M. Bichler (AT) L.M. Camarinha-Matos (PT) J.A. Carvalho (PT) A. Casaca (PT) W. Cellary (PL) D. Cisic (HR) J. Cooper (AU) R. Debreceny (SG) J. Dietz (NL) A. Economides (GR) J.H.P. Eloff (ZA) M. Funabashi (JP) R.K.L. Gay (SG) B. Glasson (AU) W. Golden (IE) R. Grimm (DE) D. Gritzalis (GR) V. Hara (FI) F. Kamoun (TU) D. Khakhar (SE) K. Koen (ZA) D. Konstantas (CH) R. Kowalczyk (AU) W. Lamersdorf (DE) R. Lee (NL) C. Linnhoff-Popien (DE) T. Magedanz (DE) M. Mendes (BR) M. Merz (DE) Z. Milosevic (AU) A. Molina (UK) G. Mueller (DE) E. Neuhold (DE) V. Ouzounis (DE) M.J. Pereira (PT) H. Pohl (DE) K. Rannenberg (UK) B. Roberts (UK) H. Rudin (CH) B. Schmid (CH) S. Shrivastava (UK) M. Singh (AU) K. Stanoevska (CH) Ch. Steinfield (US) L.A.M. Strous (NL) R. Suomi (FI) P.A. Swatman (DE) T. Terano (JP) R. Traunmüller (AT) A. Tsalgatidou (GR) V. Tschammer (DE) V.K. Tuunainen (FI) Pedro Veiga (PT) H. Weigand (NL) H. Werthner (IT) J. Wielki (PL) R. Wigand (US) Mary-Anne Williams (AU) H.D. Zimmermann (CH)

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Correction: Flights to Ivalo+Saariselkae
by Otto Spaniol 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

Dear colleagues, a few minutes ago I have sent you a message concerning flights Helsinki-Ivalo. I made a mistake when translating the Finnair information (given in Finnish abbreviations). The flights are: > Friday (!!!) 05APR HEL-IVL > > 1 AY 463 HEL IVL dep 1120 arr 1300 > > 2 AY 467 HEL IVL dep 2015 arr 2155 > Saturday (!!!) 06APR HEL-IVL > > 1 AY 461 HEL IVL dep 0720 arr 0900 > > 2 AY 463 HEL IVL dep 1120 arr 1300. The correct date, i.e. 05 april or 06 april, was given in the earlier message (but the day of the week was incorrect). The situation about availability remains as described. In order to attend the meeting (which is scheduled for April 6+7) you will normally have to arrive in Ivalo on Friday, April 5, at the laterst. Best wishes Otto

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