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Journal "Logical Methods in CS"
by Logical Methods in CS 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

---------------------------------------------------------------------- year 1 of a new journal year 1 of a new journal year one of a new journal -------------------------EXCUSE MULTIPLE COPIES----------------------- Dear Colleague: We are writing to inform you about the progress of the open-access, online journal "Logical Methods in Computer Science," which has recently benefited from a freshly designed web site, see: http://www.lmcs-online.org In the first year of its existence, the journal received 75 submissions: 21 were accepted and 22 declined (the rest are still in the editorial process). The first issue is complete, and we anticipate that will be three in all by the end of the calendar year. Our eventual aim is to publish four issues per year. We also publish Special Issues: to date, three are in progress, devoted to selected papers from LICS 2004, CAV 2005 and LICS 2005. The average turn-around from submission to publication has been 7 months. This comprises a thorough refereeing and revision process: every submission is refereed in the normal way by two or more referees, who apply high standards of quality. We would encourage you to submit your best papers to Logical Methods in Computer Science, and to encourage your colleagues to do so too. There is a flier and a leaflet containing basic information about the new journal on the homepage; we would appreciate your posting and distributing them, or otherwise publicising the journal. We would also appreciate any suggestions you may have on how we may improve the journal. Yours Sincerely, Dana S. Scott (editor-in-chief) Gordon D. Plotkin and Moshe Y. Vardi (managing editors) Jiri Adamek (executive editor)

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CFP: Sentient Future Competition
by Kay Roemer 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Dear Colleague, As coordinator of the Embedded WiSeNts Coordination Action - "Cooperating Embedded Systems for Exploration and Control featuring Wireless Sensor Networks", funded by the EC/IST/FP6 at the objective of "Embedded Systems" I would like to invite you to participate at the: "The Sentient Future Competition" Please have a look at: http://www.embedded-wisents.org/competition/competition.htm for the announcement and rules "The Sentient Future Competition" is created to generate "Visions for Innovative Applications" in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks and Cooperating Objects - ten years from now - Scenarios somewhere near science fiction are very welcome! Cash prizes up to 6.000 EUR are advertised. We would appreciate if you would actively participate as well as further distribute this call. With kind regards Prof. Dr.-Ing. Adam Wolisz -- Adam Wolisz, Professor of EE&CS; http://www.tkn.tu-berlin.de Telecommunication Networks Group (TKN); Ph.: ++49.30.314-23819 Executive Director, Institute of Telecommunication Systems TUBerlin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Re: [ifip-tc6] LNCS Prices once again
by Roger Johnson 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Otto What we need to calculate is the NET cost to IFIP ie what the WG pays less the royalty to IFIP. How IFIP splits the money internally between TCs & WGs and IFIP's central costs is an IFIP issue not a matter for the publisher. It appears to me Route A (IFIP LNCS) 5850 - 1444 = 4406 Route B (Standard LNCS) 4242 - 0 = 4242 Route C (IFIP main series) 4759 - 3000 = 1759 (maximum) (No royalty on bulk sale and 12% on sale price of full price if/when all sold) Otto - if your figures are correct and I do not have the information to hand this means that after 500 euros of royalties the IFIP main series is cheapest for the IFIP "family". If this is correct then we have to find a way of funnelling more of the royalty back to the TC/WGs to reduce conference costs. For example in the above example why not give 10% of the royalty to the TC/WG that earns it. In most cases (except where full price sales are very low - which is very unusual) the overall cost to the TC/WG would be less than any LNCS price. PROPOSAL - Royalties come in to IFIP as the books sell. An increased proportion should be given to TC/WGs. Once a steady state is reached, TCs could subsidise future events with royalties from past events. Everybody wins. Note - Assuming these figures are correct, the most expensive route is IFIP/LNCS - which looks to be a rip-off. Basically rather than sharing profits with IFIP for offering the publisher a series to publish with the reduction of office work and marketing etc. involved in that, LNCS add a surcharge and pass it back to IFIP less a handling charge of 10%! Good wishes Roger ******************************************** Dr Roger Johnson Dean, Faculty of Social Science & Honorary Secretary, International Federation for Information Processing Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX UK. Telephone: (+44) 20 7631 6709 FAX: (+44) 20 7631 6727 URL: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~rgj College location: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=wc1e7hx&Z=1 IFIP: http://www.ifip.or.at/ ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Otto Spaniol [mailto:spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de] Sent: 21 October 2005 13:08 To: Spaniol; Eduard Dundler; Roger Johnson; Klaus Brunnstein; turner(a)cs.clemson.edu; Amy.Brais(a)springer.com; Ifip-Tc6Linformatik.Rwth-Aachen.De Subject: LNCS Prices once again Dear all, there was another mistake, sor for that ("Ifip regular" was meant to be ""standard LNCS"). Otto -------------------------------------- Proceedings publication example: Assumptions: 250 pages; 151 copies taken by the organisor; estimated 400 copies produced in total (out of which are 50 complimentary copies if IFIP LNCS is used). A1. Total cost for the organisor with "IFIP LNCS": Organisor pays 101 copies, gets 50 for free. Total price: 101 x 58 = 5,858 EURO A2: Royalties to IFIP with "IFIP LNCS": 10 percent of estimated 350 books: 0.10 x 350 x 58 = 2,030.20 EURO 10 percent of estimated 249 books: 0.10 x 249 x 58 = 1,444.20 EURO The second line would be valid if no royalties would be paid for the bulk copies; which line is the correct one? B1. Total cost for the organisor with "Standard LNCS": Organisor pays 101 copies, gets 50 for free. Total price: 101 x 42 = 4,242.00 EURO B2: Royalties to IFIP with "Standard LNCS": None at all. C1. Total cost for the organisor with "Regular IFIP series": Total price: 151 x 31.52 = 4,759.52 EURO C2: Royalties to IFIP with "Regular IFIP series": 12 percent of 400 books (list price!): 0.12 x 400 x 100 EURO = 4,800.00 EURO 12 percent of 400 books (bulk price!): 0.12 x 400 x 31.52 EURO = 1,512.96 EURO Is has been assumed here that all of the 400 produced copies would be sold. I assume that royalty paid would be a mixture of price for bulk sales and for books sold on the free market (whose number could be very near to zero since the normal list price is 125 USD, i.e. approx. 100 EURO, which is outrageously high) and that no rroyalties will be paid for books which have been produced but can nver be sold due to high prices. This needs explanation.

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netw2006-lists: CFP: Networking 2006 (deadline November 20)
by Edmundo Monteiro 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Please distribute this call and apologize if multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS NETWORKING 2006 IFIP International Conference on Networking May 15-19, 2006 Coimbra, Portugal www.IFIP-Networking.org Full Paper Due: November 20, 2005 Notification: February 1, 2006 Edmundo Monteiro General Chair Networking 2006

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Re: [ifip-tc6] LNCS Prices
by Otto Spaniol 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Dear Amy (and all others), thank you so much for you long awaited information concerning the publication prices. I have somme coments, questions and an example (in order to see whether I understood it). When producing such an example, one sees that the conditions depend on page number, bulk sales number etc. for the three variants of publication. Comment: The list prices for "Regular IFIP are outrageously high". (125 USD for a book of 250 pages; instead as of 31,52 EURO if you take a bulk sale of 151 copies). Under such conditions, nobody will buy such a book "on the free market". Concerning Royalties: Question 1: Is the calculation based on the list prices or on the bulk sales price? Question 2: In the case of IFIP LNCS: Are royalties paid even for the 50 complimentary copies (probably not). Question 3: In the case of IFIP LNCS: Are royalties paid for the bulk sale? The answer to these questons has some impact on my example (which comes below). Best regards and thank you very much for the information Otto Spaniol -------------------------------------- Proceedings publication example: Assumptions: 250 pages; 151 copies taken by the organisor; estimated 400 copies produced in total (out of which are 50 complimentary copies if IFIP LNCS is used). A1. Total cost for the organisor with "IFIP LNCS": Organisor pays 101 copies, gets 50 for free. Total price: 101 x 58 = 5,858 EURO A2: Royalties to IFIP with "IFIP LNCS": 10 percent of estimated 350 books: 0.10 x 350 x 58 = 2,030.20 EURO 10 percent of estimated 249 books: 0.10 x 249 x 58 = 1,444.20 EURO The second line would be valid if no royalties would be paid for the bulk copies; which line is the correct one? B1. Total cost for the organisor with "IFIP Regular": Total price: 151 x 42 = 6,342.00 EURO B2: Royalties to IFIP with "IFIP Regular": None at all. C1. Total cost for the organisor with "Regular IFIP series": Total price: 151 x 31.52 = 4,759.52 EURO C2: Royalties to IFIP with "Regular IFIP series": 12 percent of 400 books (list price!): 0.12 x 400 x 100 EURO = 4,800.00 EURO 12 percent of 400 books (bulk price!): 0.12 x 400 x 31.52 EURO = 1,512.96 EURO Is has been assumed here that all of the 400 produced copies would be sold. I assume that royalty paid would be a mixture of price for bulk sales and for books sold on the free market (whose number could be very near to zero since the normal list price is 125 USD, i.e. approx. 100 EURO, which is outrageously high) and that no rroyalties will be paid for books which have been produced but can nver be sold due to high prices. This needs explanation.

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the internet should be for everyone
by Louis Pouzin 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Dear TC6 friends, As you know, the internet is not for everyone, but only for those who can write their name in english. For promoting multilingualism in the internet, I am collecting as many possible statements in native languages, provided that they use at least some non ascii characters. The statement should read, in each language: "Internet for everyone = internet in your own native language" or something close to it. Due to predictable problems with fonts available on each machine, it is highly desirable to get those statements in pdf or gif (or even jpg). Please don't forget to add (in english) the *name of the language* used. To everyone of you taking the time for this task, THANK YOU.

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FW: Icode 2006: International Conference on Distance Education
by Dr. Ahmed AL Naamany 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Last Call for Papers International Conference Distance Education ICODE 2006 http://www.Icode-oman.com March 27-29, 2006 Conference Location Muscat, Oman Paper Submission Deadline Extended

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Springer Prices
by Otto Spaniol 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Dear all, in order to prepare yourself for the price discussion debate here comes some very recent information (finally!) concerning the book prices of IFIP publications (together with an explaining message from Springer and a question made by Eduard Dundler, IFIP secretariat). As far as I can see, the second attachment is a subset of the third one. Thus number 1 and number 3 are of main importance. My interpretation is that "IFIP LNCS" is indeed more expensive than "Regular LNCS". However we habe to compare that price difference with the royalties and with the 50 complimentary copies (which are independent of an bulk sale size!). If we include the 50 copies then the prices are to my opinion comparable to each other (I will have to check that more in detail!). "IFIP series" (i.e. former Kluwer) is even a little cheaper than "Regular LNCS" and this price would be further reduced if a higher bulk size is ordered (e.g. from 40 USD to 21.01 USD for a 256 page book if you order 501 books instead as of just 75; the first line in the "number of copies" is superfluous since you have to order a mimimum of 75 copies). See you in Wroclaw Otto -------------------------------------- Dear All, For my understanding: Does this mean that books in the IFIP main series are at nearly the same level as "normal LNCS books" and IFIP LNCS is between 35% and 40 % higher than "normal LNCS"? Best regards Eduard ________________________________________ From: Brais, Amy [mailto:Amy.Brais@springer.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2005 20:01 To: spaniol(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de; brunnstein(a)informatik.uni- hamburg.de; turner(a)cs.clemson.edu; rgj(a)dcs.bbk.ac.uk; Eduard Dundler Cc: Evans, Jennifer, Springer US; Brais, Amy Subject: IFIP Publications Committee Meeting Follow-Up Dear All, Jennifer Evans is at a conference this week in Beijing, so I am sending the following information in her absence. I apologize for the delay in my response. Attached, please find three charts. The first attachment is the IFIP Bulk Sale grid (Eur), with list prices at the bottom (USD), as stipulated by the 2005 contract with IFIP. The second attachment is a comparison of LNCS to IFIP-LNCS list prices, depicted in Euros. The third attachment is an attempt to combine the information in the two previous charts. I have used the bulk sale price for the lowest number of copies from the IFIP grid, in order to get a sense of comparative conference costs. This comparison is imperfect at best, in that the sales of each are handled differently, and the page count brackets to determine price are slightly different for each series. Please feel free to consider the information in the way that seems the most accessible and productive to you. Please keep the following in mind when reviewing this information: 1. IFIP royalties are 12% on all copies sold. 2. IFIP-LNCS royalties are 10% of the estimated total sales of the volume. This is a one-time advance publication royalty. 3. IFIP-LNCS provides 50 complimentary copies with any conference order. After that, conference bulk sales cost 40% off the list price. 4. In the third chart, the IFIP bulk sale prices assume the smallest bulk sale order and are therefore the highest price for that page count bracket. For larger bulk orders, the price per copy decreases significantly. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can provide you with any additional information. Jennifer will be back in the office next week and will have the rationale for the pricing of the respective series to you by November 1. Thank you, Amy Amy Brais Springer Editorial Assistant to Jennifer Evans Email: amy.brais(a)springer.com Phone: (781) 681-0607

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ICN 2006 extension deadline
by magoni＠dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

================CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ================= (We apologize if you receive multiple copies) Call for Submissions The 5th International Conference on Networking, ICN'06 April 23-26, 2006 Mauritius (see http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICN06.html) *** Extended Submission date: October 24, 2005 *** Notification date: November 20, 2005 Camera ready: December 15, 2005 The ICN 2006 comprises the following tracks: Track 1: Types of communications Track 2: Networking technologies Track 3: Network metrics and evaluation Track 4: Network control and signalling Track 5: Network monitoring and management Track 6: Next generation networks Track 7: Special networks Track 8: Emergency services and disaster recovery We are inviting your contributions to the conference with some of the following: - Distribute the Call for Papers - Submit papers - Organize a special session - Propose a panel or tutorial Submit: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICN06.html The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and posted on IEEE Xplore portal. Industry is also welcome to participate with special contributions. We look forward to collaborate with you on making "ICN 2006" a successful and enjoyable conference. Topics suggested (but not limited to): Communication theory Communications switching and routing Communications modelling Communications security Computer communications Distributed communications Signal processing in communications Multimedia and multicast communications Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks) Next generation networks [NGN] principles Storage area networks [SAN] Access and home networks High-speed networks Optical networks Peer-to-peer and overlay networking Mobile networking and systems MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks GRID networks Broadband networks Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA] Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS] Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring Voice over IP services Performance evaluation, tools, simulation Network, control and service architectures Network signalling, pricing and billing Network middleware Telecommunication networks architectures On-demand networks, utility computing architectures Applications and case studies NGN protocol design and evaluation NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.] NGN Device Instrumentation Network Management, scheduling and policy NGN policy-based control Networks policy-based management Management of autonomic networks and systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged. The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICN06.html Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings to be published in IEEE Press. Papers must be structured according to the instructions of IEEE. Authors Instructions and should not exceeding 10 pages. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formattin… The deadline for submission of the paper is October 10, 2005 with notification of acceptance by November 10, 2005. Submission of camera-ready paper is by December 10, 2005. For more information please contact: conf(a)iaria.org, petre(a)iaria.org Check our Web page at http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICN06.html for the latest information concerning the conference. Best papers will be forwarded for consideration in a special issue of a journal. TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Tutorials and workshops provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals for half of full day tutorials are due by October 10, 2005. Please submit proposals to petre(a)iaria.org. ===================================== Yours sincerely, - Damien Magoni, Louis Pasteur University, France, magoni(a)dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr ====================================== Message composé et expédié avec la version d'évaluation gratuite de Sarbacane2®, le logiciel d'e-mailing professionnel pour Windows de GOTO Software. Attention, GOTO n'est responsable ni du contenu de ce message ni du fait qu'il vous a été expédié. Pour toute question au sujet de ce message, merci de prendre contact avec l'expéditeur.

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ICONS 2006 extension deadline
by magoni＠dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

============== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ================ (We apologize if you receive multiple copies) Call for Submissions International Conference on Systems, ICONS'06 April 27-29, 2006 Mauritius (see http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICONS06.html) *** Extended Submission date: October 24, 2005 Notification date: November 20, 2005 Camera ready: December 15, 2005 The ICONS 2006 comprises the following tracks: Track 1: Systems theory and practice Track 2: System engineering Track 3: Systems instrumentation Track 4: Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip Track 5: Target-oriented systems Track 6: Specialized systems Track 7: Validation systems Track 8: Security and protection systems Track 9: Application-oriented systems Track 10: Advanced systems We are inviting your contributions to the conference with some of the following: - Submit papers - Organize a special session - Propose a panel or tutorial Submit: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICONS06.html The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and posted on IEEE Xplore portal. Industry is also welcome to participate with special contributions. We look forward to collaborate with you on making "ICONS 2006" a successful and enjoyable conference. ICONS 2006 Topics suggested (but not limited to): Track 1: Systems Theory and Practice Systems design methodologies and techniques Formal methods to specify systems behavior Online and offline systems Open and closed systems Centralized and distributed systems Proactive and reactive systems System robustness Systems scalability Fault-tolerant systems Feedback systems High-speed systems Delay tolerant systems Track 2: Systems engineering Systems requirements Systems modeling Systems development lifecycle System-of-systems Systems ergonomics Subsystem interactions Systems decomposition Systems integration Track 3: Systems Instrumentation Metering embedded sensors Composing multi-scale measurements Monitoring instrumentation Smart sensor-based systems Calibration and self-calibration systems Instrumentation for prediction systems Track 4: Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip Real-time embedded systems Programming embedded systems Controlling embedded systems High speed embedded systems Designing methodologies for embedded systems Performance on embedded systems Updating embedded systems Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip Testing embedded systems Technologies for systems processors Migration to single-chip systems Track 5: Target-oriented systems Information systems Real-time systems Software systems Hardware systems Emulation systems Simulation systems Prediction systems Track 6: Specialized systems Sensor-based systems Biometrics systems Mobile and fixed systems Ubiquitous systems Nano-technology-based systems Multimedia systems Track 7: Validation systems Test systems Validation systems Performance measurement systems Maintenance systems Track 8: Security and protection systems Security systems Vulnerability detecting systems Intrusion detection systems Intrusion avoidance systems Presence detection systems Monitoring systems Management systems Alert systems Defense systems Emergency systems Track 9: Application-oriented systems Web-cashing systems Content-distributed systems Accounting and billing systems E-Health systems E-Commerce systems Radar systems Navigation systems Systems for measuring physical quantities Earthquake detection and ranking systems Financial systems Robotics systems Vehicular systems Entertainment systems Gaming systems Speech recognition systems Track 10: Advanced systems Interactive systems On-demand systems GRID systems Autonomic systems Autonomous systems Computing systems Mission critical systems Expert systems Tutoring systems INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS The ICONS 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society PRESS. Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system. The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICONS06.html Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formattin… Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance. Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conferences CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre(a)iaria.org. Tutorials Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre(a)iaria.org Panel proposals: The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. For more information, petre(a)iaria.org. ICONS Advisory Committee José Neuman De Souza, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Do van Thanh, Telenor R&D, Norway Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada Kazuo Iwano, IBM, Japan Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Alex Keller, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Manu Malek, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Andreas Hanemann, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Markus Kampmann, Ericsson GmBH, Germany Sakir Sezer, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland, UK Yours sincerely, ICONS 2006 Publicity Chair: - Damien Magoni, Louis Pasteur University, France, magoni(a)dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr =================================== Message composé et expédié avec la version d'évaluation gratuite de Sarbacane2®, le logiciel d'e-mailing professionnel pour Windows de GOTO Software. Attention, GOTO n'est responsable ni du contenu de ce message ni du fait qu'il vous a été expédié. Pour toute question au sujet de ce message, merci de prendre contact avec l'expéditeur.

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