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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: quinta-feira, 19 de Setembro de 2002 11:24
To: all
Subject: [IFIP] Information Release-UNESCO, WITFOR, WSIS
19 September 2002, Laxenburg -- Two days ago, UNESCO Headquarters
distributed in English and French the "UNESCO-IFIP World Computer Congress
2002 Youth Declaration" [ref.
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002/youth_declaration.pdf ] to its 188
Member countries by way of their National commissions, field offices,
permanent delegations and partners. The accompanying note highlights the
importance for governments to include in national ICT policies the
development of ICT skills for young people and provides links to the web
sites of IFIP, the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) and
Fédération de l'informatique du Québec (FIQ). "Young people are at the
forefront of technological innovation and development" was declared during
the IFIP World Computer Congress in Montreal. It is important to "ensure
digital inclusion of youth in the field of education, sciences, culture and
communication" states the Declaration which is a contribution to the World
Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) and the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS).
This Information Release, distributed by UNESCO at an intergovernmental
level, is a unique publicity act for IFIP and its activities and comes to
show that the strategy agreed by the IFIP Executive Board in 1997 for
proactive IFIP partnership with UNESCO bears fruits for the international
community to harvest. Other recent developments relate to the IFIP-UNESCO
Summit meeting in 2001 and IFIP's involvement in the UNESCO organized
consultations for WSIS. The conclusion of UNESCO's recent evaluation of
IFIP's input to its programs is: "During the period under consideration,
IFIP has maintained excellent cooperation with the Communication and
Information Sector and the Education Sector... With regard to its
obligations as a partner admitted to formal relations, the Federation
contributed to the sexennial report and replied to the Director-General's
consultations on the C/4 and C/5 documents. Its collective cooperation was
vigorous and highly appreciated. It took an active part in strengthening
the mechanisms established by the 1995 Directives, in particular in its
capacity as member of the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, whose website it
helped to create. Its interest in the impact of the new information
technologies and the strengthening of cooperation with developing countries
make it an essential partner in the implementation of the Organization's
programmes in this field. Recommendation of the Director-General: Renewal
of formal consultative relations."
In Montreal, the IFIP General Assembly (GA) welcomed the Youth Declaration
and commended its recommendations to its member societies. IFIP is
encouraged to continue teaming its efforts with UNESCO [
http://www.unesco.org ], the International Council for Science - ICSU [
http://www.icsu.org ] and other organizations for a coalition of
professional partners to efficiently assist the WSIS
agenda. Coincidentally, the recent announcement of the United States'
return to UNESCO after an 18-year absence was welcomed by the UNESCO
Director-General who said on 12 September: I believe the United States
return to UNESCO supports effective reform and renewal within the
multilateral system, affirming UNESCOs steady forward progress over the
past years."
The issues of the Information Society and the Digital Divide are so great
that no one is in a position to address them alone without a wide
partnership network. IFIP, as a truly international
multi-cultural non-governmental professional organization, is a part of
that network. UNESCO is supportive of IFIP's efforts for the organization
of WITFOR in August 2003 in Vilnius, Lithuania [ http://www.witfor.org ],
organized under UNESCO auspices. ICSU would also provide input and has
offered to assist links between WITFOR and WSIS [
http://www.itu.int/wsis/ ].
--------------------------------
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_tcchairs(a)ifip.or.at
[mailto:owner-ifip_tcchairs@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Dorothy Hayden
Sent: quarta-feira, 18 de Setembro de 2002 13:02
To: MS&ED
Subject: [IFIP] Calls for Papers - WWW, May'03 / ISGLOB, HiNC / Jun'03
Dear Member Societies and Editors,
Please find enclosed Calls for Papers related to three IFIP events. For
full details please visit the conference websites below.
Best regards,
Dorothy
P.S. Information about IFIP events is posted at
http://www.ifip.or.at/cal_even.htm
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Call for Papers
IFIP Joint WG 8.2+9.4 Conference "IS Perspectives and Challenges in the
Context of Globalization"
ISGLOB'03
15 - 17 June 2003
Athens, Greece
http://www.aueb.gr/ifip-isglob03/
The conference focuses on organizational information systems from a global
perspective. 'Globalization' can be seen as a contradictory process, which
may imply increased interconnectedness of local actors but also 'globalism'
in the form of increased transnational uniformity. The Joint 8.2+9.4
conference urges Information Systems researchers around the globe "to study
particular individuals, groups, organizations, or societies in detail, and
in context."
Deadline for receipt of all submissions: October 30, 2002
***
Call for contributions
History of Nordic Computing
HiNC 1
16 - 18 June 2003
Trondheim, Norway
http://web.plu.ntnu.no/ansatte/janwib/ifip/conference/
The conference is organized as an activity within IFIP Technical Committee
9 (Relationship between Computers and Society) and Working Group 9.7 on the
History of Computing. It is sponsored and organized jointly by NTNU and the
Norwegian Data Processing Society.
Dead-line for contributions: 1 November 2002
****
Call for Papers
The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference
WWW 2003
20-24 May 2003
Budapest, HUNGARY
http://www2003.org/
Beginning with the first International WWW Conference in 1994, this
prestigious series of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee
(IW3C2) also provides a public forum for the WWW Consortium (W3C) through
the annual W3C track.The conference will start with a day of tutorials and
workshops and followed by a three-day technical programme. The fifth day
will be a "Developers Day."
Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2002
For more information please visit the conference URLs above
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IFIP Secretariat
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: terca-feira, 17 de Setembro de 2002 11:50
To: all
Subject: [IFIP] GA 2002: Je me souviens
Ahoy IFIP!
On the way to the Promised Land, Moses who was a heavy stutterer, said "
This way to Ca-Ca-Ca- ...." God heard him and ... made Canada! In the
process of making, Gabriel, who was next to God, asked " But Lord, aren't
you giving too much to the Canadians?". "Wait until you see their
neighbors", God responded :-)
There could be a lot of variations to this joke, such as "Wait until you
see their visitors" :-), but there is certainly one pivotal truth in the
story - that Canada is endowed with natural beauty. So is Montreal and
Quebec, and to prove this, we will later on post more photos to go along as
"Impressions" with the IFIP GA 2002 Minutes at
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002.htm .
With this note we hope to give you some flavor of the discussions,
decisions and highlights related to the Congress and the IFIP General
Assembly, as we saw it in Montreal. The official Minutes would be available
in mid October 2002. In addition, we have a lot of other valuable input
from the Congress and GA participants which we intend to share in the weeks
and months to come.
THE CONGRESS: The 17th World Computer Congress had a good program and a
fine setting - no one was heard to deny this! There were some excellent
speakers, among them KEIJI TACHIKAWA, President and CEO of NTT DoCoMo,
Japan's largest mobile telecommunication operator, ABDUL WAHEED KHAN,
UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information and
MIKE LAZARIDIS, President and CO-CEO of Research in Motion. One of the
highlights during the Congress was the UNESCO-IFIP WCC 2002 Youth
Declaration of 29 August [ref.
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002/youth_declaration.pdf ]. This activity
raised a lot of interest in the local press greatly due to the involvement
of Justin Trudeau, the son of the late Canadian prime minister Trudeau.
Here is what "The Gazette" wrote on 30 August: "Land-mine activists
enlisted Princess Di, famine relief organizations got help from rock star
Bono, and the World Computer Congress taking place in Montreal got a shot
in the arm from Justin Trudeau yesterday". At its meeting on 3 September,
the IFIP General Assembly considered this Declaration and resolved as
follows: " IFIP welcomes the Declaration, commends the recommendations to
its member societies and passes it forward as input to WITFOR and WSIS".
It would also be fair to say that some Congress participants expected a CD
with the complete set of proceedings and to have the proceedings accessible
on line. Some of the Canadian dignitaries for the Opening ceremony could
not come and were represented by their deputies and Julie Payette's keynote
address was cancelled. At the General Assembly, a preliminary report
suggested that there was an overall attendance of over 900 persons but the
actual number of paying participants appears to have been significantly
lower.
The IPC and OC Chairs delivered their preliminary reports at GA and were
thanked for all their hard work. A final report is expected soon and would
be reported at Council and GA 2003.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: The IFIP GA conducted its work immediately after
Congress. Among the participants [ref.
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002/attendance.pdf ] we were pleased to
see:
*Alain Costes, French Deputy Minister for Science and Technology and
Chairman of the Support Committee for IFIP Congress 2004 in Toulouse
*Willis King, President of IEEE CS
*Wolffried Stucky, President of CEPIS
The social program included a Reception of the French Embassy to Canada on
30 August, a Dinner hosted by our Canadian hosts CIPS and FIQ at the
Canadian Space Agency on 31 August and an IEEE CS Reception on 1 September.
On 2 September, an improvised "full-house" party was organized on the
occasion of Plamen's 20th Anniversary with IFIP and was sponsored by J.C.
Laprie and the Toulouse region [fine French wines], Z. Bubnicki [Polish
brandy] and W. Grafendorfer [hotel room]. A special congratulatory letter
from the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia was sent
by messengers.
A nutshell summary of some major GA highlights follows:
***Elections***
Klaus Brunnstein [DE], [
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/people/brunnstein/eng.htm ] was
elected IFIP President for 2002 - 2004
Jean-Claude Laprie [FR] and Basie von Solms [ZA] were elected as
Vice-Presidents. Niko Schlamberger [SI] was reelected and Dong Kim [KR] and
Joe Turner [US/IEEE CS] were elected as Trustees. The new composition of
the IFIP Council and Executive Board is available at
http://www.ifip.or.at/bulletin/b_counci.htm
Before the elections, Klaus Brunnstein felt it appropriate to step back as
IPC Chair of Congress 2004. Reino Kurki-Suonio [FI], the man who still
holds the title "King of the Net" until the next Minutes reading exercise,
was appointed as Chairman of the IPC for WCC 2004 in Toulouse.
***New IFIP Members***
GA admitted CITS and CCS as Full members.
--The Croatian Information Technology Society CITS --
http://www.hiz.hr/CITA.htm -- was founded in 1975 and is an open,
independent association for IT professionals, advanced IT users, faculties,
research and development institutions, and IT producers. CITS is a self
financed society with more than 1000 registered members and more than 800
company members. CITS was accepted as a CEPIS member earlier this year.
--The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) -- http://www.ccs.org.cy -- was founded
in 1984 as a professional and independent non-profit organization of
computer science and IT professionals. Its Board consists of 7 Members
elected every two years by the General Assembly. Currently there are 452
registered members. It is a member of CEPIS since 1991and a member of ECDL
since 1999.
***Technical issues***
Technical Assembly decided to establish a new Specialist Group on
Entertainment Computing [ref.
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002/sg_ec.pdf ]. This is the first major
IFIP decision for a new technical area since the establishment of TC 1
on Foundations of Computer Science in 1996. Dr. Tak Kamae [JP], the TF
Chair, was congratulated for all his efforts on behalf of IFIP.
Technical Assembly also established a new Task Force on IT and Sports [ref
http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/corner/it_sports.pdf ]. The IFIP
Executive Director was requested to contact persons who have previously
shown interest in this area with the objective to form a group to champion
this activity and to develop proposals for aims, scope, membership
structure, organization and activities.
Other technical decisions relate to the development of a consistent IFIP
publications policy for both printed and electronic distribution [ key
guiding principles for such a publications policy were adopted] and the
necessity to establish an IFIP "advisory" committee for future IFIP
Congresses [though the functions and organization of such a committee
remain to be investigated]. A set of actions related to the IFIP Digital
Library project was adopted by GA, the main one being that the project
needs to be synchronized and fully integrated into an IFIP general
publications policy and mechanism for dealing with its publications output.
We have posted all TC and Member Society reports to GA 2002 which were
submitted to us prior to the GA in electronic form
at http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002.htm trusting that our members
would be interested to review this information.
Three TC Chairs -- Giorgio Ausiello [TC 1], Brian Samways [TC 3] and Bernd
Neumann [TC 12] -- attended their last GA in their current capacity and GA
warmly thanked them for all their hard work. Giorgio will endeavor to
organize a TC 1 electronic ballot to select his successor while Brian has
already taken care of this - Jan Wibe [NO] was elected as the next TC 3
Chair during the last TC 3 business meeting. In the remaining months, Bernd
aims to identify possible successors so as to organize elections.
During the whole of 2001, there were a total of 64 events with IFIP
involvement while in 2002, as of 22 August, the number of IFIP events has
increased to 78. [Pls refer to
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002/amb_report.pdf for the Events
statistics]. For the whole of 2002 some 30 IFIP titles are expected to be
published by Kluwer, IFIP's principal publisher - [ref.
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002/publ_report.pdf ]
GA members were impressed by the brochure and the preparations for the IFIP
World Information Technology Forum [ ref. http://www.witfor.org ],
scheduled to take place from 27 to 29 August 2003 immediately before GA
2003 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Conference will convene under the auspices
of UNESCO. IFIP member societies are encouraged to visit the web site.
***Thanks***
Finally, the Delivery Co. wishes to express its thanks to George Boynton,
the Canadian GA representative and our principal contact for the
organization of the GA 2002 who, despite a tight budget, ensured the
necessary resources for our meetings in Montreal. Some time ago George
asked the Delivery Co. for two things - to be kept on the "jokes" list for
ever and ever and to have a place reserved on our "Islands in the Stream".
George, consider both requests granted :-) Here is your Island -
http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/ga2002/imp6.jpg
As mentioned above, there are other important issues which we intend to
cover in subsequent mails.
Servus,
The Delivery Co. - "Je me souviens"
P.S. - and here is a comment from one distinguished SC Holder and past TC
Chair related to the influence of the Rolling Stones on Scottish folklore
"Re: [IFIP]Friday's special - What's up?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:32:54 +0200
Your jokes get nicer and nicer. They contribute even to better
understanding of English language. I have to admit that I didn't understand
the joke at first since I knew an English word named "eve" (i.e. "the
evening before the actual day") but I had never heard about "ewe"; it was
considered by me as a misprint. But when I looked into the dictionary and
found out the real meaning of "ewe" (!!!).... "
Would a knighthood for popularizing the English language follow?
--------------------------------
Plamen Nedkov
Executive Director, IFIP
Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169
http://www.ifip.org/
Dear TC6 members,
I attach an updated list of the meeting attendance. We have just checked
with the hotel and the reservations done there are reflected in this list.
Those of you who have not booked in the hotel can still try as I think that
they still have rooms available. In case of difficulty please contact me or
my secretary Manuela Camal.
Best regards
Augusto
Dear TC6 members,
I am very pleased to announce that we have already 26 members attending our
next meeting. We will have also six guests for our meeting on Saturday
afternoon and for the remaining celebrations of the TC6 30th anniversary.
I attach the present list of attendees. For some of you I have not updated
the hotel yet as only later today I will have an updated list of presences
in the Melia hotel. Please let me know if I have some incorrection in this
list.
Best regards
Augusto
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Pujolle [mailto:Guy.Pujolle@lip6.fr]
Sent: segunda-feira, 16 de Setembro de 2002 02:00
To: net-con(a)net-con.org
Subject: Net-Con 2002 Conference, paris
[Sorry for multiple copies of this message. Thanks for your support in
promotion of education, research and development ]
**** Please note that the cut-off date for early registeration is September
25***
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C A L L for P A R T I C I P A T I O N
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Net-Con'2002
Network Control and Engineering
for QoS, Security and Mobility
with focus on Policy-based Networking
IFIP and IEEE Conference
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FULL TECHNICAL PROGRAM AND INFORMATION
http://www.net-con.org/
Early Registration cut-off ** September 25, 2002**
CONFERENCE HOTEL/VENUE:
ENST - Paris, France
October 21-25, 2002
Computational Methods in Systems Biology
University of Trento
24-26 February, 2003 Rovereto, Italy
www.science.unitn.it/~priami/cmsb.html
Molecular biology has until now mainly focussed on individual
molecules, on their properties as isolated entities or as complexes
in very simple model systems. However, biological molecules in living
systems participate in very complex networks, including regulatory
networks for gene expression, intracellular metabolic networks and
both intra- and intercellular communication networks. Such networks
are involved in the maintenance (homeostasis) as well as the
differentiation of cellular systems of which we have a very
incomplete understanding.
Nevertheless, the progress of molecular biology has made possible the
detailed description of the components that constitute living
systems, notably genes and proteins. Large scale genome sequencing
means that we can (at least in principle) delimneate all
macromolecular components of a given cellular system, and microarray
experiments as well as large scale proteomics will soon give us large
amounts of experimental data on gene regulation, molecular
interactions and cellular networks. The challenge of the 21st century
will be to understand how these individual components integrate to
complex systems and the function and evolution of these systems, thus
scaling up from molecular biology to systems biology. By combining
experimental data with advanced formal theories from computer
science, "the formal language for biological systems" to specify
dynamic models of interacting molecular entities would be essential
for
1. understanding normal behaviour of cellular processes, and how
changes may affect the processes and cause disease. It may be
possible to correlate genetic properties and symptoms in new and more
efficient ways, based on an actual understanding of how various
processes interact.
2. Providing predictability and flexibility to academic,
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical researchers studying gene
or protein functions. In particular, it may save time by reducing the
number of experiments needed, if inadequate hypotheses could be
excluded by computer simulation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Modelling languages for Systems Biology
Concurrency theory in Systems Biology
Constraint programming in Systems Biology
Logical methods in Systems Biology
Formal methods to analyse biomolecular systems
Quantitative analysis of biomolecular systems
Simulation techniques for Systems Biology
Case studies
IMPORTANT DATES
Nov 9, 2002 Submission deadline for papers and demos
Nov 30, 2002 Notification of acceptance
Dec 16, 2002 Camera-ready version due
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and
will be available at the workshop.
SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit .ps or .pdf original research papers as
well as survey or tutorial papers of no more than 12 pages in LNCS
format (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
for instructions) at the address
concini(a)dit.unitn.it
For further information please contact us at the addresses
[concini,priami](a)dit.unitn.it. The papers will pass a peer review
process and the accepted ones will appear in the proceedings.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Ehud Shapiro, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
To be announced
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Charles Auffray, CNRS, Villejuif (F)
Cosima Baldari, Università di Siena (I)
Alexander Bockmayr, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy (F)
Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
Vincent Danos, Université Paris VII (F)
Pierpaolo Degano, Università di Pisa (I)
François Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt (F)
Drabløs Finn, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (N)
Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus - (D)
Ina Koch, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, (D).
John E. Ladbury, University College London (UK)
Patrick Lincoln, SRI (USA)
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo (JP)
Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Simon Plyte, Pharmacia Corporation (I)
Corrado Priami (CHAIR), Università di Trento (I)
Aviv Regev, Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
Magali Roux-Rouquié, BSMI Pasteur Institute (F)
Vincent Schachter, Hybrigenics Paris (F)
Masaru Tomita, Keio University (JP)
Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock (D)
Alfonso Valencia, CNB-CSIC Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia,
Cantoblanco Madrid, (E)
Olaf Wolkenhauer, UMIST, Manchester (UK)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Linda Brodo, Michela de Concini, Corrado Priami, Debora Schuch da Rosa Machado
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Dear Augusto
Sorry again for not being able to attend the next TC6 meeting.
I will hopefully make sure to come to the one after.
We plan to organize the next Med-Hoc-Net in june in Tunisia, Guy Pujolle
could talk about it .
good luck
Farouk
Please notice that the WG 6.8 scope was updated with the inclusion of
"Ad-hoc networks". This was approved in the last IFIP Technical Assembly. I
attach the updated TC6 handbook.
Could Herbert please update our web page?
Best regards
Augusto Casaca