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FW: [IFIP] Information Release-UNESCO, WITFOR, WSIS
by Augusto Casaca 19 Sep '02

19 Sep '02

-----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, 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/

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FW: [IFIP] Calls for Papers - WWW, May'03 / ISGLOB, HiNC / Jun'03
by Augusto Casaca 19 Sep '02

19 Sep '02

-----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 *********************************** 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 ------------------------- IFIP Secretariat Hofstrasse 3 A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 www: http://www.ifip.or.at/

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Photos from Saariselka
by Herbert Leitold 18 Sep '02

18 Sep '02

Dear all, Otto took some photos at the Saariselka meeting. They are on the Web at http://www.ifip.tugraz.at/TC6/meetings/Saariselka2002/index.htm Best regards, Herbert

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FW: [IFIP] GA 2002: Je me souviens
by Augusto Casaca 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

-----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/

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TC6 meeting (update)
by Augusto Casaca 16 Sep '02

16 Sep '02

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

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TC6 meeting attendance
by Augusto Casaca 16 Sep '02

16 Sep '02

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

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FW: Net-Con 2002 Conference, paris
by Augusto Casaca 16 Sep '02

16 Sep '02

-----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*** ======================================= C A L L for P A R T I C I P A T I O N ======================================= Net-Con'2002 Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility with focus on Policy-based Networking IFIP and IEEE Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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call for papers - CMSB2003
by Michela de Concini 16 Sep '02

16 Sep '02

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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meeting
by Farouk Kamoun 16 Sep '02

16 Sep '02

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

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Update of WG 6.8 scope
by Augusto Casaca 13 Sep '02

13 Sep '02

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

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