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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
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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/
-----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!"
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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/
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
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Best regards,
Jan Slavik
IFIP WG 6.8
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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
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
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
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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
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
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this!)
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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)
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
