Workgoup Meeting, April 13, 2010 - Menuires, The Three Valleys, French Alps, France
17:30 - 18:30

Attendance: TBD

Agenda: one tutorial was presented:

  • Protecting Critical Telecommunications and Networking Infrastructure

as well as three keynore speeches:

  • Multimedia Data Distribution and Processing in IP Networks
  • Cyber-physical systems for aeronautical applications
  • I have a Dream - Vision on Database Technology

and an expert panel:

  • Robustness in Real-time Complex Systems

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 ICONS 2011was launched
  • Please have a look at ICONS 2011
    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 ICONS 2011 committee membership
  • Attract scientists in the committee to cover the newly intended areas

ICONS 2011:


Workgroup Meeting, Wednesday 2nd, 2009 - Cancun, Mexico
17:30 - 18:40

Attendance: 13

Special:

  • Everyone was impressed by the quick move from Guadeloupe to Cancun
  • The story was analyzed as ‘lessons learned’

Agenda:

  • No particular presentations were scheduled.
  • However, three tutorials

1. Cyber-Security: Current Practice and Future Trends
2. Mobility and Multi-access in Emerging Internet Architectures
3. Protecting Critical Telecommunications and Networking Infrastructure

were presented at GlobeNet 2009, along with two keynote speakers:

1. Goals and Policies for Telephony
2. Data Management for the Web: XML Standardization and Database Technology

See:  http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ProgramICONS09.html

  • The tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html
  • The keynote speeches are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html
  • Excellent discussions around these special talks.
  • There were discussions on enlarging the dissemination of ICONS (Claudia Arezio Ricardo)
  • Help is expected from all the committee members for a careful dissemination, avoiding spamming
  • The promotion of young researchers was appreciated (Julien Henaut); more work to be done offline with volunteers (Daniela Dragomirescu, Bernd Stadlhofer, Thomas Vlk).
  • It was an open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics under the Call on ICONS
  • Please have a look at:  http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICONS09.html
  • Suggestions are welcome (to 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
  • The Poster session ICONS-oriented was well received.

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.

Next steps:

  • Develop the new topics via off-line exchanges
  • Extend invitations for ICONS committee membership

ICONS 2010:

  • Announce the new topics with the CfP for ICONS 2010
  • The 2009 new explicit topics on “safety in industrial systems” and “Complex systems’ were not sufficiently promoted; as a result not too many papers to select from were submitted.
  • Location: yet to be defined, most probably in French Alps, Barcelona, or…Guadeloupe
  • Other locations, in Chile and Brazil, were also discussed; the distance was one of the main criteria when evaluating potential places.
  • ICONS 2010 will be organized under Globe Net 2010, most probably in March-April 2010
   

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