Workgroup Meeting, April 21st, 2009 - Valencia, Spain
17:30 - 19:20
Demos on April 22nd, 2009

Attendance: 31 on the 21st, 48 on the 22nd

Agenda:  Program, Topics, Journals, comments/suggestions

According to the program, several exciting items were scheduled http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html

Two General Tutorials
The tutorial slide decks are/will be posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html

Three General Keynote speeches
The presentations are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

One General Expert Panel
The presentations are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

One A&A Keynote speech
The presentations are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

• Automatic testing and measurement of QoE in IPTV using image and video comparison
  by Antonio González

Two Invited A&A presentations
The presentations are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

• Autonomous Robots: Basic structure and two partial implementations
  by Henning Tolle
  
  Eurescom P1855: A utonomic Computing & Networking - The operators’ vision on technologies, opportunities, risks, and adoption roadmap
  by Bruno Dillenseger

Three A&A DEMOs (slide presentation and life applications/)

The DEMOs are posted at http://www.iaria.org/postersdemos.html

• Autobench, a software framework for self-benchmarking
  Bruno Dillenseger, Orange Labs, France
• Cooperation Strategies for Self-Protection
  Thomas Hirsch, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
  Cristián Varas, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany
• Handover Prediction-based Seamless Media Streaming for Wireless Packet Networks
  Mehdi Nafa, University of Evry Val d'Essonne - France

Excellent discussions were around these special invited presentations and demos.

There were discussions on:

• Want industry and academia understand by A&A
• The challenges for real autonomic applications
• The achievements on micro- and nano-robotics

- The current topics in the Call for Papers were considered as ‘up to date’
- Some of the topics require more attention, in terms if disseminating the Call for Papers to attract more and better submissions: CLOUD, CASES, MODEL, KUI…
- Please have a look at:  http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICAS10.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

Suggestions:

• Topics must be tuned according to the new trends; some of the current topics /and the Call for Papers itself/ must reflect these trends, i.e., CLOUD, AUTONOMY. Also, on these topics, special communities must be a target for invitations, as the number of submissions in this area was not too high.
• One suggestion was to keep the “demo section’; however, this was one of the most painful session to organize, due to the industrial perceptions.
• Definitively, the technical program committee must be tuned to reflect additional/updated topics and assure a fair peer-to-peer review process.
• Another suggestion was to list the author affiliation in the final program; the challenge with this is that the final list with the authors is provided by the Publisher, based on the camera-ready information; in listing the sessions, the Publisher do not specify the country, making it difficult to have it in the posted program

Next steps:

- Develop the new topics via off-line exchanges and update the current ICAS 2010 site
- Extend invitations to committee membership

ICAS 2010

- The CfP for ICAS 2010 is already posted at http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPICAS10.html
- Location: March 7-12, 2010 - Cancun, Mexico
- Under InfoSys 2010