Dear TC6 members,
For your information I send you the view of TC1 concerning its participation
in WCC 2004.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
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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
-----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/
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
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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/
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
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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
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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,
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Regional Manager
The ATM Forum
Notes: * The ATM Forum is an international non-profit organization
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**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.
*************************************************************************
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Phone: +81 3 3438 3694
Fax: +81 3 3438 3698
E-mail: mhashimoto(a)atmforum.com
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*************************************************************************
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.
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).
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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/
-----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/