Dear TC6 members,
You may remember that in our last meeting we agreed to prepare a set of
conditions for the new publication contract. In the meantime I received the
following proposal from the TC5 chairman, which I submit to your
consideration for comments.
The idea is to have a common proposal from every TC for the new publication
contract.
Please let me know until June 20th your comments on this proposal and
additional points to be included from our side. I will then prepare a final
position paper from TC6 or simply support the TC5 one.
Best regards
Augusto
Augusto,
Some comments:
- Electronic publication should be mandatory: papers should be available
on-line (not necessarily for free of course).
- 75 Euros as target book price is still high for bulk orders. Springer
LNCS is about half that price if my recollection is correct. The price in a
bookshop could be 75 Euros though.
- I don't see the point of fixing the surplus to 50%. This is not our business.
- Do we have to request a surplus sharing between IFIP and TC6? I don't
think so. This is external to the problem of finding a good publisher for
our proceedings.
- I agree with Arun: authors should be allowed to put copies of their
published papers on their personal web page (even Kluwer accepted that
finally).
- It is nice to request that our books be registered in ISI, but there are
other places as well, e.g. the DBLP database, the NEC research index, which
are even more visible these days.
- The abstracts AND CITATIONS of every electronic paper should be
accessible for free, so that automatic citation index tools can fetch them.
- Publication delays should be short (less than 10 weeks, including shipping).
- Free copies of the books (e.g. 50) to the organizers would be
appreciated. (Springer does it.)
- And last but not least, we should not be bound to the official publisher.
Some freedom should remain in the hands of the TCs (or WGs).
Well that's all for now.
Best regards,
Guy
A (At) 14:45 12/06/02, Augusto Casaca ecrivait (wrote):
>Dear TC6 members,
>
>You may remember that in our last meeting we agreed to prepare a set of
>conditions for the new publication contract. In the meantime I received the
>following proposal from the TC5 chairman, which I submit to your
>consideration for comments.
>
>The idea is to have a common proposal from every TC for the new publication
>contract.
>
>Please let me know until June 20th your comments on this proposal and
>additional points to be included from our side. I will then prepare a final
>position paper from TC6 or simply support the TC5 one.
>
>Best regards
>
>Augusto
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On
Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov
Sent: sexta-feira, 14 de Junho de 2002 10:55
To: GA&MS
Subject: Assistance for WCC 2002 attendees
To: IFIP Member Societies
cc. GA representatives
Subject: Assistance for Developing Countries representatives to attend 17th
IFIP World Computer Congress in Montreal, 25 - 29 August, 2002
We are pleased to announce that 20 free registrations are provided by the
Congress Organizers to assist the participation of representatives from
Developing Countries in the 17th IFIP Congress in Montreal.
In reviewing the applications, the Organizers will give priority to
participants with accepted papers and participants from countries which are
not represented (or underrepresented) so far. Women IT specialists are
encouraged to apply.
E-Applications should be submitted by 15 July 2002 latest to Mr. George
Boynton, Chairman, Congress 2002 Organizing Committee
E-mails: george(a)cips.ca, contact-wcc2002(a)cips.ca
IFIP Full Member Societies in developing countries are also entitled to use
the IFIP Voucher scheme [ref.
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/C99/C99_part6.htm#a1 ] to partially offset
expenses for their Congress participants.
The Organizers have also applied for a UNESCO grant to assist Conference
participants from developing countries and if this application is approved
additional information about application procedures would be circulated.
--------------------------------
Plamen Nedkov
Executive Director, IFIP
Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169
http://www.ifip.org/
-----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, 13 de Junho de 2002 09:08
To: all
Subject: [IFIP] Seven Days... Mama mia/ $10,000 award
Mamma mia, the World is rocked by Footballmania!
The Tifosi are praying for Squadra Azzurra, the English are thinking the
unthinkable - another 1966 Summit, the Portuguese have a day off to prepare
for tomorrow... On 30 June there will be only one winner - c'est la vie!
Some of you could also win recognition and an Award of 10,000 US $.
---
The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) announced for distribution to
our members that the TWAS Prizes, which were launched in 1985, are among
the most noteworthy prizes in science in the developing world. The Academy
has recently expanded the fields in which the prizes will be given and is
now encouraging individuals and scientific organizations of excellence to
submit nomination forms. Prizes will be granted in the following fields:
biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, agricultural science, earth
sciences, engineering sciences and medical sciences.
Each prize carries a US$10,000 award and a plaque highlighting the
recipient's major contributions to his or her field. The prizes usually are
given at major events - for example, the TWAS General Meeting - where
recipients are asked to present a lecture in honour of receiving the award.
For additional information about the TWAS Prizes, contact Ms. Helen Grant,
the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), c/o The Abdus Salam
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 11,
1-34104 Trieste, Italy; phone: + 39 040 2240 387; fax: + 39 040 224559;
website: www.twas.org.
---
We were in contact with Helen Grant to check if Computer Science is
included (in engineering sciences). The reply was "Yes". For further
information, queries and nomination forms please
visit http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7Etwas/twas_prizes.html and contact
Helen Grant directly.
Good luck,
The Delivery Co.
***********
Fun zone :-) Joke lovers only!
From the diary of a Teleconference attendee:
I left Montreal heading toward Quebec city, when I decided to stop at a
comfort station. The first stall was occupied, so I went into the second
one. I was no sooner seated than I heard a voice from the next stall: "Hi,
how are you doing?"
Well, I am not the type to chat with strangers in highway comfort stations,
and I really don't know quite what possessed me, but anyway, I answered, a
little embarrassed: "Not bad."
And the stranger said: "And, what are you up to?" Talk about your dumb
questions! I was really beginning to think this was too weird! So I said:
"Well, just like you I'm driving east."
Then, I heard the stranger, all upset, say, "Look, I'll call you back,
there's a crazy guy in the next stall answering all the questions I am
asking you."
--------------------------------
Plamen Nedkov
Executive Director, IFIP
Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169
http://www.ifip.org/
Dear Augusto and others:
One thing that is needed is to allow authors to put copies of their papers
on their personal Web sites. This is now allowed by Kluwer (as well as
several other publishers including the ACM and IEEE). Given the fact that
we already have this feature with Kluwer and that this is allowed by
several other publishers as well, any agreement which does not allow this
feature isn't acceptable in my opinion.
Best Regards,
Arun
Augusto Casaca <augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt>@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE on 06/12/2002
09:45:13 AM
Please respond to augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt
Sent by: ifip-tc6-admin(a)Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE
To: TC6 <ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
cc:
Subject: [ifip-tc6] FW: TC Forum
Dear TC6 members,
You may remember that in our last meeting we agreed to prepare a set of
conditions for the new publication contract. In the meantime I received the
following proposal from the TC5 chairman, which I submit to your
consideration for comments.
The idea is to have a common proposal from every TC for the new publication
contract.
Please let me know until June 20th your comments on this proposal and
additional points to be included from our side. I will then prepare a final
position paper from TC6 or simply support the TC5 one.
Best regards
Augusto
Dear WG chairs,
Herbert Leitold is requesting a short description of the conferences of your
WG to insert in the TC6 web page under its new design. I would thank if you
can do that quickly and preferably not later than next week.
He has already received information from WG 6.1 and 6.8.
Thank you and best regards
Augusto Casaca
Dear TC6 members,
Having got the TC6 support I am going to proceed with the nomination of
Prof. Dominique Gaiti for WG 6.7 chairperson.
At this stage I would like to thank Prof. Olli Martikainen once again for
the great job that he has done in WG 6.7 during the last six years and I
have good expectations that he can continue to give his important
collaboration to our Committee.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
-----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, 3 de Junho de 2002 13:08
To: all
Subject: [IFIP] IT & Sport + Lottery
Dear All,
We hope you had enough beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the weekend as
"King Football" entered the world stage on Friday and the Football World
Cup, as the most watched sports event, will keep football fans "glued" to
the TV screen throughout June. In 1998, 33.4 billion viewers watched the
World Cup in France [with 1 billion viewers for the final alone] and 41
billion viewers are expected to see the matches in South Korea and Japan.
Why this amazing interest in sport?
Carl von Clausewitz once said that War is a continuation of politics by
other means and this phrase continues to dominate political and strategic
parlance. Can Sport then be regarded as a "war with acceptable [peaceful]
means"? There is passion, struggle, and victories .. but there is
camaraderie and respect for opponents. Sport reflects practically all
aspects of human activity and achievement - work, leisure, BIG money...
[The fact that FIFA got the fantastic sum of US $ 828 million for this
year's World Cup TV rights speaks for itself!]
How does IFIP relate to Sport?
In 1991, several IFIP officials met in Barcelona for dinner with members of
the Organizing Committee of the '92 Olympics, we held our General Assembly
'95 at the Olympics stadium in Calgary, Council '98 was hosted to a
sightseeing tour and Dinner at Old Trafford, the Manchester United
home-base.... and the Slovak IFIP GA representative is a world champion in
team correspondence chess. We have some 80 WGs in 12 major areas of IT
research, development and applications but it appears "Sport" is not
identified as a special area of IFIP's interest.
Is it time for IFIP to find a niche in the sport domain? - We hope you
could help us find the answer by responding to the following:
--------------------------------
Questionnaire -- please respond by 14 June 2002
1. Should IFIP systematically engage in IT activities related to Sport?
[YES/NO]
2. If YES, would you recommend that the specific activity is carried out
within one of IFIP's 12 TCs or it is initiated as a Specialist Group
[following the example of TC 1 "Foundations of Computer Science" which
formerly was Specialist Group 14]
3. Please identify one or two items which you feel such a body should
address.
4. Is there any person currently involved in IFIP you think would be
interested, knowledgeable and available to champion such an activity.
5. Would you be personally interested if this activity is endorsed?
5.a - to provide leadership
5.b - to take part as a participant
Name:
IFIP function:
------------------------------:<-------------------:<
IF it turns that many think it is worthwhile IFIP to be involved in "IT &
Sport" we would forward the matter to IFIP's Technical Assembly.
And now, going back to the World Cup in Korea and Japan, here is a question
to all the football fans out there:
1. Which two teams will play the World Cup Final on 30 June and who will
win?
All correct answers submitted by 14 June will enter a draw and there will
be a special prize for the winner.
Good luck,
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/
