Dear colleagues,
also from my side a merry Christmas 2004 and a prosperous 2005 !
After a heated copyright discussion in Bangkok things became a little bit more quiet now. But as a disturbing new I have to tell you that Springer has refused for the first time to publish an event of TC6, namely Ie§ (Oct.2005) in Cracow!
See below.
I attach for your distraction:
1. A (maybe old) story concerning the nonexistence of Santa Claus
2. Some slides of a Christmas lecture concerning Computer Science and Religion which I held yesterday under a pseudonym name (we call it Anagramm in Germany). Have fun.
Best wishes Otto
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The rejection message by LNCS follows:
Dear Wojciech:
Thanks for your reminder regarding the status of IFIP I3E 2005 for publication in LNCS. I had been out for a two week trip to China and could not sort out the matter before I left. So, I ask for your understanding that I am coming back only now.
The main reason for the delay in coming to a decision at our side was that we had a controversial evaluation of your proposal going back and forth several times and that in this context we had to agree on a certain principled approach.
I very much regret to have to inform you that we have decided not to accept IFIP I3E 2005 for publication in LNCS. We feel that, topicwise as well as regarding the people involved, the focus of I3E is rather on the applications of techniques from information systems, computer communications networking, etc. to business solutions than on advancing these techniques themselves or the related methodologies or foundations. We therefore feel that LNCS, with ist focus on serving the technical computer science R&D community is not the propper platform for publication of this proceedings.
As said, I regret that the LNCS series editors could not agree on accepting I3E, however, I am sure that my colleague Jennifer Evans from Springer US/Norwell would be interested and happy to arrange with you for publication of I3E 2005 in the form KAP IFIP Proceedings publication style. Jennifer's email address is Jennifer.Evans@springer-sbm.com (Jennifer is my counterpart for the Springer CS publication program in America and she takes care of IFIP related proceedings (while Yana Lambert is out on illnee-leave)).
I ask for your understanding of our decision and hope that another opportunity will occur for successful cooperation.
Seasonal greetings and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
Alfred
PS: I am cc-ing Otto Spaniol as TC 6 chairman
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