Workgroup Meeting, November 16, 2009 - Athens/Glyfada,Greece
17:30 - 19:00

Attendance: 47

Agenda: two tutorials were presented at ComputationWorld 2009:

  • Event Computing: Towards Adaptive System Diagnosis
  • In Search of Design Patterns for Evolvable Modularity

as well as four panels:

  • Adaptiveness and Cognition: Towards Evolving Systems
  • Service Computing: Challenges and Achievements
  • Is Future Computing Driven by Content?
  • Patterns: Capturing Preventing and Reacting Facets of the Systems Behavior

and four keynote speeches:

  • The Tempestuous Future of Computing - Every Cloud Engenders not a Storm
  • Infrastructures and Technologies for Future Computing - Convergence of Bandwidth, Clouds, and Smart Devices
  • Services - The Next Major Frontier for Research & Innovation
  • The Intercloud: Cloud Interoperability at Internet Scale

Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html

Keynote speeches and Panel notes are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

Discussions:

  • The mains discussions on ComputationWorld 2009 were during the Panels and the closing session.
  • Based on the active participation of everybody, the event appeared as exceptionally interactive, fruitful, and promising.
  • We also took advantage of exceptional performance of keynote speakers, panelists, and tutorial speakers.
  • The promotion of young researches and PhD candidates was again reinforced; they can play different roles, and they are encouraged of being session chairs.
  • An open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics for ComputationWorld 2009 was launched
  • The procedure of invitation-only for extended versions of selected papers among those presented for on-line IARIA journals, with no additional fees, was appreciated.
    See: www.iariajournals.org

We highlight a self-initiate from Ali Beklen (IBM, Europe) alibeklen@gmail.com  who created a Google group, called  Computation World 2009 group . We invite you to join the ComputationWorld 2009 group. You can join the group via the following URL:

http://groups.google.com/group/computationworld

(if something does't work, please send an email to Ali at alibeklen@gmail.com)

Moderator: Ali Beklen (IBM)
Advisors: Paul Geraci (IARIA Emerging Technology Board Chair)
Petre Dini (IARIA Advisory Committee Board Chair)

Suggestions:

  • Continue with ‘Poster’ and ‘Work in Progress’ tracks
  • Definitively, the technical program committee must be tuned to reflect new topics and assure a fair peer-to-peer review process.

Special topics for further consideration:

  • It is the IARIA Board position that everybody should benefit the same access and service during the conference; some suggested to have partial services and reduced registration fees for students. A detailed discussion went on the structure of the registration fees, simply sharing with the audience where each penny goes.
  • A particular suggestion will be implemented from the next event: Student Consortium.
  • Another suggestion was to have many POPs; while feasible, the drawback is that this will split the community. A try will be prepared for the next event.

Proceeding publications:

  • The option to publish in an open digital library was discussed; this will allow having all the proceedings of the co-located events on the same CD Proceedings, and full free access to any publication.
  • This issue will be carried further on to the IARIA Board to careful attention.
  • It was suggested that some national research Centers encourage scientist to rather publish in openly searchable digital libraries.

ComputationWorld 2010 is planned to be in Portugal, Lisbon, during November time frame.

It was suggested that the spectrum of topics covered by ComputationWorld 2010 should also explicitly include events on:

  • embedded computing
  • multimedia computing
  • cloud computing
  • computational algebras
  • computational logics
  • computation languages
  • computation tools

These topics will be covered by special events that will be developed in the coming weeks.
Looking for additional suggestions; please send an email to petre@iaria.org.

 

Workgoup Meeting, October 14, 2009 - Sliema, Malta
17:30 - 20:30

Attendance: 67

Agenda: three tutorials were presented at NexTech 2009:

  • Secure Multicast Communications
  • Optimizing Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks with Machine Learning
  • Open Smart Cards for Access Control, Services and Applications

as well as three keynore speeches:

  • P2P Development: Do you need a lawyer?
  • Grids and Clouds for e-Science Applications
  • Tools and Services for Data Intensive Research

and one special demo

  • SmartMuseum

The meeting was captured by the discussions on Roger's and Wolfgang's  keynote speeches.
(see the slides on the site, Roger, Wolfgang)

Preceding to these speeches, there were discussions on the previous Demo and visit to the La Valletta Museum.
(see special presentations: Nima)

See ADVCOMP 2009 Program

Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html

Keynote speeches are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

Discussions:

  • The promotion of young researches and PhD candidates was again reinforced; they can play different roles, and they are encouraged of being session chairs.
  • An open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics for ADVCOMP was launched
  • Please have a look at ADVCOMP 2009
    Suggestions are welcome at petre@iaria.org
  • The procedure of invitation-only for extended versions of selected papers among those presented for on-line IARIA journals, with no additional fees, was appreciated.
    See: www.iariajournals.org

Suggestions:

  • Continue with ‘Poster’ and ‘Work in Progress’ tracks
  • Definitively, the technical program committee must be tuned to reflect new topics and assure a fair peer-to-peer review process.

Special topics for further consideration:

  • It is the IARIA Board position that everybody should benefit the same access and service during the conference; some suggested to have partial services and reduced registration fees for students. A detailed discussion went on the structure of the registration fees, simply sharing with the audience where each penny goes.
  • A particular suggestion will be implemented from the next event: Student Consortium.
  • Another suggestion was to have many POPs; while feasible, the drawback is that this will split the community. A try will be prepared for the next event.

Proceeding publications:

  • The option to publish in an open digital library was discussed; this will allow having all the proceedings of the co-located events on the same CD Proceedings, and full free access to any publication.
  • This issue will be carried further on to the IARIA Board to careful attention.
  • It was suggested that some national research Centers encourage scientist to rather publish in openly searchable digital libraries.

Next steps:

  • Develop the new topics via off-line exchanges
  • Extend invitations for ADVCOMP committee membership
  • Attract scientists in the committee to cover the newly intended areas

ADVCOMP 2010:
   

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