Transcript PLANS DOR WCC 2005

WCC 2006 PROGRAMME
REPORT
by
Ramon Puigjaner
IPC Chairman
August 26, 2006
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WCC 2006 IPC
• Task conditions
– IPC late appointment
• Withdrawal of Jerusalem and allocation to Santiago in August
2004
• Illness of the first appointed IPC Chair, obliged to withdrawal
• Appointment of the new IPC chair in December 2004 and
starting the task in January 2005
– Burning of the Diego Portales Convention Center
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WCC 2006 Structure
• 4 Key note talks
• 10 Conferences
• 1 Symposium
• 6 Workshops
• 6 Tutorials
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WCC 2006 Key notes
• Nanorobots and Nanoassembly
– Aristides A. G. Requicha, Laboratory for Molecular
Robotics, Univ. of Southern California, USA
• Innovation in the 21st Century: Challenges and
Opportunities
– Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President, Technical
Strategy and Innovation, IBM Corporation
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WCC 2006 Key notes
• Information and Communication Technologies in
Emerging Economies: The Microsoft Research
Experience
– Sailesh Chutani, Director, External Research and
Programs, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp.
• The BCS is leading a major programme to create
the ‘Profession of the 21st Century’
– Charles Hughes, President of the British Computer
Society, UK
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WCC 2006 Conference Statistics
• Total number of papers submitted: 410
• Countries: 43
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BR: 62
DE: 31
CL: 29
US: 28
FR: 20
AR: 20
CA: 14
AU: 13
PT: 12
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WCC 2006 Conference Statistics
• Reasons of the reduction of submissions with
respect to Toulouse 2004:
– The geographical situation of Santiago
– The reduction of the publicity actions
• Problems with the web server
• Low number of email messages announcing the event
• Time response of the web master too high
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WCC 2006 Conferences
• 4th International Conference
Computer Science, TCS 2006
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Theoretical
– Papers:
• Invited
• Submitted
• Accepted
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• Conference on Education for the 21st Century Impact of ICT and Digital Resources
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Posters
Workshop
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WCC 2006 Conferences
• 8th International Conference on Mobile and
Wireless Communications Networks, MWCN’2006
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Accepted
Workshop
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27
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• 1st International
Networking
Conference
on
Ad-Hoc
– Papers
• Invited
• Submitted
• Accepted
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WCC 2006 Conferences
• 5th International Conference on Network Control
and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility,
Net-Con’2006
– Papers
• Invited
• Submitted
• Accepted
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• International Conference on “The past and future
of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and beyond”
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Panel
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WCC 2006 CONFERENCES
• 2nd IFIP International Conference on History of
Computing and Education, HCE-2
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Accepted
Panel
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• Conference on Biologically Inspired Cooperative
Computing, BICC 2006
– Papers
• Invited
• Submitted
• Accepted
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27
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WCC 2006 CONFERENCES
• Security: from aspects and technology to security
management
– Activities
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4 invited talks
2 tutorials
1 panel
1 special session
2 security sessions of networking stream
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WCC 2006 CONFERENCES
• Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice, AI 2006
– Papers
• Invited
• Submitted
• Accepted
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• IFIP AI Symposium 2006, AIS 2006
– Papers
• Accepted
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WCC 2006 WORKSHOPS
• Women in Technology Workshop
– Organizer: Barbara Waugh
– 7 presentations
– Sponsored by HP
• Emerging computing trends: utility computing and
digital publishing
– Organizers: Alejandro Jofré and Bernardo Huberman
– 9 speakers
– Sponsored by HP
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WCC 2006 WORKSHOPS
• IFIP
WG
6.9
Workshop
on
Wireless
Communications and Information Technology in
Developing Countries, WCIT'2006
– Organizers: Ana Pont and Mieso Denko
– 7 papers out of 14 submitted
– Linked to MWCN 2006 Conference
• International Workshop on Informatics Education:
Bridging the University/Industry Gap
– Organizer: Barrie Thompson
– 4 discussion sessions and 1 plenary
– Linked to IFIP Conference on Education for the 21st
Century - Impact of ICT and Digital Resources
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WCC 2006 WORKSHOPS
• International Workshop on Advanced Software
Engineering, IWASE
– Organizer: Sergio Ochoa
– 1 invited talk
– 12 papers out of 27 submitted
• Improving IT Practitioners Skills
– Organizer: Roger Johnson
– 9 presentations
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WCC 2006 CONFERENCES AND
WORKSHOPS
• Strong problems with the paper handling system
– Problems for authors to upload papers
– Strong problems for reviewers to download papers and to
upload reviews solved by the conference and workshop
chairs by the use of email
– Slow reaction of the web master to the requests of the
conference and workshop chairs
• For solving problems
• For updating web pages
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WCC 2006 TUTORIALS
• When Good Algorithms Yield Bad
Ernst Leiss, Univ. of Houston, USA
• Multidimensional
Peter Baumann,
Germany
Raster
International
Software
Databases
Univ. Bremen,
• Ontology Development in Database Systems and
Software Engineering: A Hands-on Tutorial
Karin Breitman, Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC do
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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WCC 2006 TUTORIALS
• Mobile Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
(MCSCL)
Miguel Nussbaum, PUC de Chile
• Practical Approaches to Enterprise Security Auditing
& Compliance
Vijay Masurkar, SUN Microsystems, Inc
• Web Mining
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, U. of Chile
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WCC 2006 EVALAUTION
• General feeling
– Sound technical programme
– Good ambiance
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WCC 2006 EVALUATION
Thank you for your kind attention
Questions?
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