November 2004 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

Shrinking attendance
by Otto Spaniol 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Dearr all, our meeting 2004/2 attendance is shrinking; just 14 delegates are left (if they all show up). Please communicate to me your view on the IFIP/IEEE case. Answers received thus far may be classified in two parts: - The Americans are in favour of IEEE (the copyright issue seems to be of no impoortance for them, at least nbody has said a single word about that aspect) - The Americans are more on the IFIP side. They say e.g. "Do you think that there should be only one organisation world-wide? There is need for more".

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Tissue Engineering & Stem Cell Research 2005
by Andrew Oliver 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

============================================ Tissue Engineering & Stem Cell Research 2005 12th and 13th January 2005 Marriot Kensington Hotel, London ============================================ **** CONFERENCE BROCHURE AVAILABLE NOW - REQUEST YOURS TODAY **** Visiongain Conferences are please to announce their next conference within the pharmaceutical sector; 'Tissue Engineering & Stem Cell Research 2005'. Stem cell therapy offers an opportunity to treat many degenerative diseases caused by the premature death or malfunction of specific cell types and the body's failure to replace or restore them. This conference will cover the main disease areas where progress in stem cell research is taking place along with a huge emphasis on regional regulatory issues. THEMES WILL INCLUDE: **Identify new routes to enter the market **Discover key market segments and profit from emerging trends in stem cell therapies **An update on stem cell therapies: CASE STUDIES on treating- spinal cord injuries, kidney disease, gastrointestinal cancers, neurological diseases, myocardial and tooth regeneration **Analyse manufacturing practices and learn how to overcome the challenges in tissue engineering **Become up-to-date on regulatory issues: a global and US perspective **Business Development: commercialisation for drug discovery and cell therapy KEY SPEAKERS **Dr. Jane Lebkowski, Senior Vice President, Regenerative Medicine, Geron **Julie Gruber Allickson, Technical Director - Laboratory Operations, Cryo-Cell International **Dr. Stephen Minger, Scientific Director/ Director of the Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, CereStem Ltd/ KCL **Dr. Christopher Bravery, Senior Scientist/Team Leader, Intercytex Limited **Larry Soler, Vice President of Government Relations, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International **Dr. Sara Patel, Head of NeuroImaging Group, ReNeuron **Dr. Karl Willert, Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University Medical Center **Dr Phil Bates, Lecturer in Medical Law, Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, Kings College London **Dr Chris Potten, Chairman, Epistem **David Hill, Scientific Director, Lawson Health Research Institute **Dr. Lior Gepstein, Head Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology **Professor Paul Sharpe, Head of Craniofacial Development, Odontis Ltd / King's College London **Professor Jon Dobson,Professor of Biophysics & Biomedical Engineering , Keele University **Professor Alicia El Haj, Institute of Science & Technology in Medicine, Keele University **Dr. Richard France, Project Manager, RegenTec Ltd **Professor Harry Moore, Director/ Centre for Stem Cell Biology, Axordia/ University of Sheffield ------------------ WHO SHOULD ATTEND ------------------ **Senior Vice President, Regenerative Medicine **Research Director for Assisted Reproduction and Embryonic Stem Cells **Vice President, Technology **Vice President, Therapeutic Development Operations **Director, Experimental Medicine **Vice President of Government Relations **Vice President Clinical Affairs, & Director **Vice President, Product Development **Business Development Manager --------------------- DELEGATE REGISTRATION --------------------- Places at this event are strictly limited so BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW. To make a booking on this event, please contact me via phone or email. Book early to secure a place. - PRICING - Attend the: 2 Day conference - ONLY GBP1299 plus VAT - BOOKINGS - Booking is easy, simply contact me: Andrew Oliver Sales Manager - Conference Division Visiongain B2B Conferences Tel. +44(0)20 8767 6711 Fax. +44(0)20 8767 5001 mailto:andrew.oliver@visiongaingroup.com www.b2b-conferences.com B2B Conferences is part of the Visiongain Group **** FULL CONFERENCE AGENDA BELOW **** ==================================== Day One Wednesday 12th January 2005 ==================================== 09:00 Registration and coffee 09:30 Opening remarks from the chair AN UPDATE ON STEM CELL THERAPIES 09:40 CASE STUDY: Advances in Stem Cell Programs- Treating Spinal Cord Injuries How to penetrate the emerging field of regenerative medicine Oligodendrocyte progenitors- can they restore normal neural function? - results in animal models: significant functional improvements Progress in phase I clinical trials: focus on treatment for acute spinal cord injury Technologies in this field- licenses and intellectual property Dr. Jane Lebkowski, Senior Vice President, Regenerative Medicine Geron 10:20 CASE STUDY: Metanephroi Transplantation- Treating Kidney Disease How to develop normal renal structures by transplanting kidney precursors Transplanting between species without rejection- how to ensure minimal immunosupression, leading to success Conclusions: implanted metanephroi have intrinsic ability to continue developing and organising into functional tissue structures Advantages over renal transplant or dialysis: - better clinical outcome than intermittent dialysis, as filtration is continuous and active - unlimited supply of organs available by this procedure Dr. Christopher Bravery, Senior Scientist/Team Leader Intercytex Limited 11:00 Morning Coffee 11:20 CASE STUDY: in vitro and in vivo Model Systems- Treating Gastrointestinal Cancers in vivo models: using the in situ tumour model ADENOQUANT to directly compare tumour and normal tissue responses and assess therapeutic index Transgenic and xenograft models: how to determine the importance of gene pathways and treatment response in GI tissue in vitro screening assay: PRIMEQUANT to realistically predict the in vivo response and allow accurate comparisons of normal and matched tumour tissue biology How to use assays to assess stem cell regulatory effects to hyper- and hypoplasia therapies, wound healing agents and mucositis therapies Professor Chris Potten, Chairman Epistem 12:00 CASE STUDY: Development of islets from precursor cells in vitro and in vivo Generation of insulin-producing cells from embryonic stem cells or hematopoeitic stem cells Trans-differentiation capabilities of other pancreatic cell types to islets Barriers to clinical application Mechanisms of regeneration of islets in vivo David Hill, Scientific Director Lawson Health Research Institute 12:40 Lunch 14:00 Can Human Brain Cell Transplantation treat Neurological Diseases? Assess advantages and disadvantages of immortalised stem cell lines c-Myc gene cell lines: transplant strategies Graft effects in animal models of neurodegenerative diseasefunctional and structural integration How to use stem cells as a platform technology for drug discovery - identifying small molecules or proteins to mature a brain stem cell into a differentiated cell - stem cells for screening potential lead compounds for toxicity Dr. Sara Patel, Head of NeuroImaging Group ReNeuron 14:40 Myocardial Regeneration Strategies using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Heart cells from human embryonic stem cells- progress to date - derivation, in vitro differentiation and implications for basic research & clinical applications How to use it- development and testing of new drugs, genetic studies, engineering tissues, organ transplantation, study purposes Myocardial regeneration strategies- replacing the dysfunctional myocardium with new contractile tissue Regulations in Israel- looking to the future in research Dr. Lior Gepstein, Head Cardiovascular Research Laboratory Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 15:20 Afternoon Tea 15:40 CASE STUDY: Regenerative Dentistry- How to Grow a Tooth How to understand and genetically control the key processes forming teeth in the embryo Interactions between epithelial and mesenchymal cells - how to culture cells to form primordia Results from mice populations- tooth rudiments formed from in vitro cultures of non-dental stem cell populations Can rudiments be transferred to adults? - formation of complete teeth and associated bones Professor Paul Sharpe, Head of Craniofacial Development Odontis Ltd / King's College London MANUFACTURING PRACTICES: CHALLENGES IN TISSUE ENGINEERING 16:20 Implications of GTP/GMP for Cord Blood Processing Moving from Clean Lab to an ISO class 7 Cleanroom Environment How the FDA's proposed GTP affects cell processing Future Direction: cord blood processing - regulatory impacts Julie Gruber Allickson, Technical Director - Laboratory Operations Cryo-Cell International 17:00 Questions and Discussion 17:10 Chairman Summation 17:20 Close of Conference =================================== Day Two Thursday 13th January 2005 =================================== 09:00 Registration and coffee 09:30 Opening remarks from the chair An Overview of the Industry The panel session at the end of Day Two will offer you the chance to hear from Ray Scraggs, Head Consultant at visiongain on the most detailed and accurate market information available on Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Research. 09:40 Advances in Tissue Regeneration: Human ES Cells, Growth Factors and Biotherapeutic Molecules The sources of stem cell and ES cells- learn about the benefits of stem cell technology Cell nuclear replacement: the fight against type 1 diabetes and Parkinson's disease Exploiting novel growth factors: promoting the proliferation and lineage-specific propagation of stem cell populations Dr. Stephen Minger, Scientific Director/ Director of the Stem Cell Biology Laboratory CereStem Ltd/ King's College London 10:20 Magnecell's Mechanical Conditioning Bioreactor Systems: How to Activate Ion Channels Update on ex-vivo bone engineering results - speed of matrix mineralisation; regulation of genes involved in bone growth Patent technologies for tissue engineering: mechanisms for ex-vivo simulation of the in-vivo stress environment Applications of system: drug screening, in-vitro testing and stem cell research Future areas for growth: ex-vivo magnetic activation of in-vivo cellular processes Professor Jon Dobson, Professor of Biophysics & Biomedical Engineering/ Co-Founder and Technical Advisor Keele University/ Magnecell Limited 11:00 Morning Coffee 11:20 Biodegradable scaffolds - Delivery systems for Cell Therapies Osteochondral and corneal repair using cell therapies and tissue engineering approaches Delivery vehicles and biodegradable scaffolds for cell therapies Scaffold design and in vitro and in vivo tissue engineering strategies Stem Cell targeting Professor Alicia El Haj, Institute of Science & Technology in Medicine Keele University 12:00 Self Assembling and Injectable Materials for Regenerative Medicine Injectable biodegradable scaffolds for cell and growth factor delivery Crosslinking strategies for scaffold self assembly Controlling macroporosity within the scaffold environment Dr. Richard France, Project Manager RegenTec Ltd 12:40 Lunch 14:00 Stem Cell Maintenance: Results from Isolating the Wnts Protein Potential of isolating Wnt proteins- can stem cells be used for bone marrow transplants? Wnt signaling: a common theme in animal development How do Wnt proteins cause hematopoietic stem cells to divide? Analysis: pathways triggering stem cell growth Dr. Karl Willert, Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University Medical Center REGULATORY ISSUES 14:40 Global Perspective: Legal Framework for Stem Cell Research Global situation: US Federal ban on all bar 60 stem cell lineseffects on federally-funded research and privately funded research What is the legal framework for research in the UK? Lack of a co-ordinated global policy: effects on research Better results from stem cells derived from bone marrow and the placenta than embryonic stem cells Dr Phil Bates, Lecturer in Medical Law Centre for Medical Law and Ethics Kings College London 15:20 Afternoon Tea 15:40 Regulation in the US: Expanding the Current Federal Policy on Stem Cell Research The "Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2004" Problems with the existing policy and proposed changes to overcome them Is adult stem cell research a feasible alternative? California's Proposition 71- update on progress Slowing down research- JDRF perspective Larry Soler, Vice President of Government Relations Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 16:20 Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Commercialisation for Drug Discovery and Cell Therapy Cell lines and quality assurance the challenge of generating GMP ES cell lines Regulating proliferation and plurioptency Markers of differentiation Production platforms Professor Harry Moore, Director/ Centre for Stem Cell Biology Axordia/ University of Sheffield 17:00 Discussion: Attendees Perspective Presentation and discussion by Dr. Ray Scraggs of the previous days questionnaire results. An insight will be given into the market revenues, growth areas, new developments and new entrants to the Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Research industry. 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WCC 2006
by Ramon Puigjaner 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Dear friends, All of you have received the message of Klaus Brunnstein, President of IFIP. In this message I appear when he is talking about WCC. You should know that he has asked me to chair the TPC of this event. Personally I do not know if the effort of well organising such a “dinosaur”, like the last one in Toulouse, is compensated by its results both in scientific and personal exchanges aspects. However, my personal involvement in Latin America actions obliges me to carefully consider the proposal. After talking with Otto Spaniol, our chairman, my position is to accept the proposal only if I have a strong support of TC6 both by the organisation of some events in the next WCC and by the personal involvement of TC6 members in the TPC. Otherwise I will be obliged to withdraw the proposal. As this last time the electronic discussions are one of our main duties, I would like to know your position, before or during our next meeting in order to give me the inputs to take the correct decision. I wish to thank you in advance your help in clarifying my ideas. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es =========================================================================

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MED-HOC-NET 2005
by Otto Spaniol 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

4th Mediterranean Workshop on Ad-Hoc Networks MED-HOC-NET 2005 Ile de Porquerolles, June 21-24, 2005 First Call for papers The fourth Med-Hoc-Net 2005 is a major annual international workshop in the Mediterrnean region. It brings together researchers, technologists and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry, engineers and students to exchange, discuss and share their experiences, new ideas and research about theoretical and practical aspects of ad-hoc networking. Med-Hoc-Net 2005 will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative ad-hoc systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology directly affecting ad-hoc networking and communications infrastructures. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2005 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes, - Performance evaluation of ad-hoc network protocols through simulations, analysis, and measurements, - Metrology, Ad-Hoc network measurement Tools, - MAC protocols, scheduling, and radio resource sharing in ad hoc networks, - Power management and control, - Topology control, - Self-organization and network reconfiguration, - Unicast and multicast routing algorithms and protocols, - Energy-efficient communications in ad-hoc networks, - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks, - Resource discovery and management, - Protocols for QoS support in ad-hoc networks, - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks, - Multimedia location services, - Security in ad-hoc networks, - Fault tolerance and error recovery - Algorithmic challenges in ad-hoc networks, - Large scale ad-hoc networks , - Interconnection between ad hoc and wired networks, - Sensor networks: applications and protocols. After Sardinia (Italy), Mahdia (Tunisia) and Bodrum (Turkey), this year the workshop will take place in another beautiful spot on the Mediterranean Sea: Ile de Porquerolles (France). Steering Committee: Farouk Kamoun (ENSI, Tunisia) Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA) Guy Pujolle (LIP6, France) Khaldoun Al Agha (LRI, France) Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA) Conference Chairs: Khaldoun Al Agha (LRI, University of Paris XI) and Guy Pujolle (LIP6, University of Paris VI) Program Chair: Isabelle Guérin Lassous (INRIA, France) Proceedings chair : Erwan ERMEL (LIP6/France) Organization Chair :Davor MALES (LIP6, France) Webmaster : GAWDESKI Ignacy (LRI, France) Program Committee: Ian F. AKYILDIZ (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Khaldoun AL AGHA (LRI, France) Christian BECKER (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Brahim BENSAOU (Hong Kong University of science and technology, Hong Kong) Andrew T. CAMPBELL (Columbia University, USA) E. CAYIRCI (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) Andrea CLEMENTI (University Roma II, Italy) Marco CONTI (CNR, Italy) Silvia GIORDANO (University of Applied Science, Switzerland) Stephen HAILES (University College London, United Kingdom) Farouk KAMOUN (ENSI, Tunisia) P. R. KUMAR (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Pascale MINET (INRIA, France) Sotiris NIKOLETSEAS (CTI/Univ. of Patras, Greece) Giovanni PAU (UCLA, USA) Guy PUJOLLE (LIP6, France) Laurent REYNAUD (FT R&D, France) Christian PREHOFER (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany) David SYMPLOT-RYL (University of Lille, France) Isabela SIQUEIRA (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Stavros TOUMPIS ( Vienna Telecommunications Research Center, Austria) Christian TSCHUDIN (University of Basel, Switzerland) Guillaume VIVIER (Motorola, France) Stefan WEBER (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Vincent W.S. WONG (University of British Columbia, Canada) Hiroyuki YOMO (Aalborg University, Danemark) Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in the conference themes and related topics. Papers should not be longer than 12 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed and evaluated on the basis of relevance, originality, technical quality and clarity. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. The official workshop oral and written language is English. Paper Submission Deadlines Full Paper Electronic Submission : 11 March 2005 Notification of acceptance/Rejection : 15 April 2005 Camera ready submission of full papers: 13 May 2005

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CfP: Transport Protocols for the New Generation Networks
by Guy Leduc 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

--------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ---------------------------- Special issue on Transport Protocols for the New Generation Networks See www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~cpham/ADT-TCP New networking technologies with optical-based transmission as a foundation for achieving tremendous throughput in the order of tens of Gbit/s are changing the face of the wired Internet with new large scale high-performance infrastructures such as computational grids. In the wireless domain, mobility and ubiquitous access to the Internet is driving the emergence of new value-added applications and exhibiting new user needs. Self-organizing wireless networks such as ad-hoc networks may eventually become the natural way of connecting end-users to the network. In this all-digital, all-connected world, transport protocols have the very difficult task of providing reliable, fair and efficient communications to millions of (groups of) users with very different needs and profiles, across different underlying technologies. High-speed networks, often referred to as long fat networks, raise the problem of fair and efficient congestion control mechanisms. Wireless environments with mobility and ad-hoc features bring new concerns. Fast heterogeneous networks face all these difficulties. This special issue is devoted to these problems. We solicit two categories of contributions: (1) survey papers presenting state-of-the-art studies, and (2) papers presenting an original and unpublished work or experiment on, but not limited to, the following topics: * TCP variants or new transport protocols for high-speed networks * TCP optimisations and tuning methodologies, results from real experiments * New congestion control mechanisms for high-speed networks * Transport protocols for heterogeneous networks * Experiments and prototype implementations and lessons learnt * Multipeer and multicast transport protocols * Transport protocols in wireless/mobile/ad-hoc environments * Transport protocols for (near) real-time traffic * Performance modelling of TCP on high-speed or wireless networks * Fairness issues in new transport protocols * Transport protocols in all-optical networking * Very high-speed transport protocols for computational grids Paper Submission We invite you to submit a paper that should have a length of 25000-35000 characters. The preferred language for the contribution is english. Instructions for formatting your paper according to the journal's rule can be found here in english or in french. A PDF version of your paper should be submitted electronically to one of the guest editors (see below). Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is absolutely not possible. All submitted papers must not have been previously published and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere while they are under consideration. Please include a cover page which lists the following: * name, * affiliation, * address and e-mail address of each author * name of the contact author * a maximum of 5 keywords Important Dates May 1st, 2005: Full paper due July 15th, 2005: Notification of acceptance September 15th, 2005: Final version due Expected date of publication: spring 2006. Guest Editors ------------- Associate Prof. Congduc PHAM University Lyon 1, LIP/INRIA RESO 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex 7 FRANCE Congduc.Pham(a)ens-lyon.fr and Prof. Guy LEDUC University of Liège Research Unit in Networking (RUN) EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +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) Email: 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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IEEE WMAN 2005: Submission deadline extended to Nov 24
by Ioannis Chatzigiannakis 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

[Apologies for multiple postings] Last Call for Papers 5th IEEE International Workshop on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE WMAN 05) April 4-8, 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA (Omni Interlocken Resort) To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2005 Supported by the IEEE Computer Society http://ru1.cti.gr/wman05/ SCOPE: The field of wireless and mobile computing is an important research challenging area, that emerges from the integration among personal computing distributed computing, cellular technology and the Web. This is possible due to the continuously increasing interaction between communication and computing, which is changing the information access from the current reactive ``anytime anywhere'' into the incoming proactive ``all the time everywhere'' approach. Nowadays, there is a large variety of networks spanning from the well-known cellular networks to non-infrastructured wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks. This scenario raises a number of interesting, and difficult, algorithmic issues in diverse areas such as location management, resource allocation, ubiquitous information, network connectivity, reliability and security, and energy consumption. This workshop is intended to cover contributions in both the design and analysis of discrete algorithms and the system modelling in the context of mobile, wireless, ad-hoc, and sensor networks. In particular, it aims at bringing together the practitioners and theoreticians of the field. We are seeking for papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under review. The objective of this workshop is to bring together leading technologists and researchers in these ``critical areas'' of research in order to have a forum for discussing fundamental challenges, identifying future perspectives, and exchanging ideas about ongoing research. Authors are solicited to submit original unpublished manuscripts for this workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (by IEEE CS Press) of the IPDPS workshops. TOPICS: The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to: * frequency and channel assignment algorithms * cryptography and security * distributed algorithms * pricing modeling and solutions * algorithms for satellite communications * mechanisms design and cooperation enforcement * algorithms and modeling on satellite and radio networks * algorithms for resource management in mobile, wireless and ad-hoc networks * data management on mobile and wireless computing * algorithms for single-hop and multiple-hop packet radio networks * routing, and communication primitives in ad hoc and sensor networks * synchronization and scheduling issues in mobile and ad hoc networks * energy saving protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks * complexity analysis of algorithms for mobile environments * caching and prefetching for information access in wireless networks * algorithms and modeling for tracking and locating mobile users IMPORTANT DATES: Extended submission deadline: ** November 24, 2004, 5pm EST ** Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: January 6th, 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due: January 25, 2005 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the WMAN workshop. The length of the papers should be a maximum of 10 double-column single-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 10 point font (based upon IEEE Proceedings Style). Please remember that the final versions will be restricted to 8 pages. Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS (http://edas.info/) Note that once the paper gets accepted, it is MANDATORY that at least one author should attend the workshop and present the paper. The accepted papers will be published in the same printed abstract volume and CD-ROM proceedings as other workshops of the IPDPS 2005 conference by the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library. General Chair: Cristina M. Pinotti Dept. of Computer Sciences and Telecommunications University of Trento ITALY E-mail: pinotti(a)science.unitn.it Program Committee Co-Chairs: Azzedine Boukerche SITE University of Ottawa Canada E-mail: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Sotiris Nikoletseas Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute, Greece E-mail: nikole(a)cti.gr Publicity Chair: Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute, Greece E-mail: ichatz(a)cti.gr Steering Committee Sajal K. Das, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohan Kumar, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Committee: Azzedine Boukerche (Co-Chair), University of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Andrea Clementi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Khalil EL-Khatib, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Magnus Halldorsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel, Germany Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece Mirek Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Robert Leese, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Alessandro Mei, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Sotiris Nikoletseas (Co-Chair), University of Patras and CTI, Greece Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno, Italy Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland Peter Sanders, Max Planck Institute for CS, Germany Mirela Sechi Moretti A.N., Barddal University, Brazil Alex Shvartsman, MIT, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Peter Triantafilloy, University of Patras, Greece Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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RE: [ifip-tc6] (New) Accounting Information
by Radford, Peter 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Otto Looks good! May I make a few minor comments (which you are free to reject if they are not to your liking)? - Make "Surplus (or deficit)" "Estimated Surplus (or deficit)" [see note 1 below]. - Use the Roundup function on the break even number calculation. - Put the contingency on all of the expenses not just the variable income [see note 1 below]. - It might be worthwhile having two participant numbers: one for the full fee paying participants (or equivalent) and one for all participants - use the first in the income and the second in the costs. This may be complicating things too much and I'd be interested in feedback as to whether those numbers differ significantly. Regards Peter Note 1 "Prediction is always hard, especially when it concerns the future" - Niels Bohr -----Original Message----- From: Otto Spaniol [mailto:spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de] Sent: 29 September 2004 08:05 To: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: [ifip-tc6] (New) Accounting Information Dear all, the event request forms provided by IFIP are awful. This feeling is shared by everyone. Nobody is able to give half way correct information about the conference budget. This is a lot of unneccessary burden for TC and WG chairs. I promised to simplify that scheme and the first result is found in the attachments. There is: - an empty sheet (don't care about the #DIV!0 in the before last line; it will disappear when you fill the form) - and a virtual example. You may and should play around with the forms and tell me whether you find them easy enough to use. WG chairpersons should give it to prospective conference organisors. Some comments are in order: 1. The document has been kept as simple as possible (fool-proof, hopefully). You have to fill in only the figures in frames (light blue colours). The other figures (in light yellow) will then automatically be calculated. 2. A very crude approximation of registration fee is used: Only for full paying participants, no early bird registration, no special rate for members of diverse societies, no student fee etc. It would be impossible to have those concrete figures well before the event. Thus if you estimate for example that the total registration fee by students might be identical to, say, 10 full paying participants then you should increase the number of expected full paying participants accordingly. Similar for the variable expenses per participant. 3. "Contingencies" are meant to be a reserve just to be on the safe side. They are - according to IFIP - 10 percent of the variable cost per participant and could, of course, be already taken into account there. Nevertheless, since these costs are automatically calculated we can leave it in the document. 4. "Break even number of participants" should be clear but since I have been asked several times about this: This is the minimum number of full paying participants which will be needed if the conference should not make a deficit (and if all other parameters are valid). You will see that it is wonderfully easy to play around and to determine registration fees, fixed expenses,.. which are meaningful and which may end up with a reasonable surplus. It might be that the break even number will turn out to be negative! In that case you will have a serious problem with your budget: either the registration fee is too low or .... 5. I didn't nclude information about loan and grants (since IFIP says that in such a case "a more detailed budget information is needed). If you want I can add a few lines for that purpose (and also for different categories of registration but my first purpose was to keep the document as simple as possible). 6. Conferences (and the sponsorship fee to IFIP) are calculated in full days; thus if the conference lasts 2,5 days then the fee to IFIP will be calculated on a 3-day basis. Now: Please check the new forms and give me your comments within the next two weeks (improvements, modifications, what is missing, what should be deleted,...). I would then formally approve the new sheets in Bangkok and tell IFIP secretariat that we will not any more use the old bullshit versions. Best regards (and have fun with the new sheet) Otto 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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Great news: IEEE has all but lifted its embargo
by Guy Leduc 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

>Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:54:54 +0100 >From: gevers(a)csam.ucl.ac.be >Subject: Great news: IEEE has all but lifted its embargo > >Dear colleague, > >In these times of rather depressing news, I am >pleased to announce some great news indeed. > >Faced with the prospect of losing thousands of >members because of the continued embargo it was >applying against some of its members, the IEEE >President has announced that it was lifting just >about all sanctions it had applied on its own >initiative, such as access to Senior Member and >Fellow grade, access to IEEE webpages, etc. The >only remaining sanctions are those that are >almost certainly within the confines of the US >trade embargo laws. > >You will find details about the decision and >some comments on the Petition News webpage >(http://www.csam.ucl.ac.be/~gevers/Petition_News.html) > >or on the IEEE webpage >(http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875…) > >This decision, announced by IEEE on October 11, >was taken to coincide with the start of the >campaign for renewal of IEEE membership. (Note: >I have been too busy in the last few weeks to >organize this announcement earlier). > >It is great to see that our campaign has reached >its goal, and that our fellow members (if there >are still any) in Cuba, Iran and Sudan, are no >longer discriminated against. It is of course >sad to see that the IEEE leadership has lifted >these sanctions only because thousands of >members had expressed their outrage, with many >of them threatening not to renew their >membership. > >Thank you for the great response to our petition initiative. > >Yours sincerely, > >Michel Gevers >Coordinator of the petition. > > >-- >***************************************************************** >* Michel GEVERS * >* Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME) * >* Batiment Euler, Avenue G. Lemaitre, 4, * >* 1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium. * >* Tel (direct): +32 10 47 25 90 * >* Tel (sec): +32 10 47 20 55 * >* Mobile : +32 476 289540 * >* Fax: +32 10 47 21 80 * >* Email: gevers(a)csam.ucl.ac.be * >* URL: http://www.auto.ucl.ac.be/~gevers/ * >***************************************************************** -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +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) Email: 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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Re: [ifip-tc6] Shrinking attendance
by Otto Spaniol 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Peter Radford wrote: > >I have a suspicion that you've mis-typed something on the IFIP/IEEE case > >'Answers received thus far may be classified in two parts: >- The Americans are in favour of IEEE > (the copyright issue seems to be of no impoortance for them, > at least nbody has said a single word about that aspect) >- The Americans are more on the IFIP side. ^^^^^^^^^^ Non-Americans > They say e.g. "Do you think that there should be only > one organisation world-wide? There is need for more". Of course this was a "Freudian" mis-type'. Thanks for detecting it. Thanks to those of you who contributed to the discussion already. If others want (and agree) that their arguments will be included in the meeting documents then please send them to me today! Next week there is limited chance since our copy machine risks to explode. Best regards Otto

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Open email by Klaus Brunnstein to TC6
by Otto Spaniol 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear all, Klaus Brunnstein has sent an open email to TC6 (see annex) with the following issues: a. Publications b. IFIP World Computer Congress. Please read the document carefully. Best regards Otto

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