Workgroup Meetin, September 21st, 2009 - Porto, Portugal
19:15 - 20:30

Attendance: 14

Program: ICSNC 2009 Program

One presentation was scheduled :

  • A User-oriented Web Retrieval Summarizing Tool

Agenda: a tutorial was presented at SoftNet 2009:

  • A Functional Approach to Semantic Retrieval of Text Documents

as well as three keynore speeches:

  • European Technology Platform NESSI: delivering building blocks for the creation of service based ecosystems
  • Future Internet - challenges for the mobile world
  • We are confused about what software engineering activities we are performing!
  See ICSNC 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 discussion was mainly driven by improvment on reviewing process.
    The two-rounds of reviews and rebuttal process that are currently in use were considered appropriate.
  • An open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics for ICSNC was launched
  • Please have a look at ICSNC 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 ICSNC committee membership
  • Attract scientists in the committee to cover the newly intended areas

ICSNC 2010:

 

Workgroup Meeting, August 24th, 2009 - Cannes/La Bocca, France
17:30 - 19:00

Attendance: 41

Program: ICWMC 2009 Program

One tutorial:

Wireless Mesh Network Technologies: Architectures, Protocols, Resource Management and Applications

Two keynote speeches:

1. Computing Infrastructures for the Global Information Age [related to ICCGI 2009]

2. Future Vision of Business Oriented Innovations in the Wireless and Mobile Communications Sector. 3G, LTE, 4G and Beyond [related to ICWMC 2009]

One Expert Panel:

Future Internet: Challenges, Perspectives, and Beyond [related to INTERNET 2009]

Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html
Keynote speeches are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html
Panel slides are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

Agenda:

  • The [ICWMC 2009] keynote speaker, Dr. Reda was scheduled for the meeting
  • Excellent discussions around the keynote speech, covering the investment/services
  • Excellent discussions around financing and the role of user-oriented services. Unfortunately, only Dubai was identified as a place where investment can go ahead

Discussions:

  • There were discussions on enlarging the dissemination of ICWMC to cover new dimensions on mobility, anonymity, privacy, etc.
  • Help is expected from all the committee members for a careful dissemination of the Call for Papers, avoiding spamming
  • The promotion of young researchers was appreciated
  • More work for preparing ICWMC 2010 will be done offline, with many volunteers
  • There is an open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics of ICWMC events
  • Please have a look at: ICWMC 2010
    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

Some of the following items were also discussed either individually, or off-line, in small groups.

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

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 ICWMC 2010 committee membership

ICWMC 2010:

  • Announce the new topics with the CfP for ICWMC 2010
  • Location: yet to be defined, most probably in Valencia (Spain)
  • ICWMC 2010 will be organized under InfoWare 2010, most probably in September 2010
   

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