Workgoup Meeting, March 9, 2010 - Cancun, Mexico
18:30 - 19:30

Attendance: TBD

Agenda: one tutorial was presented:

  • Virtualization, resource management and autonomous systems

as well as three keynore speeches:

  • Intrusion Detection using Artificial Intelligence
  • The Nature of Robust and Reliable Communications: Theory and Applications
  • Methods for Measuring Offshore Wind Climatology

and an expert panel:

  • Robustness and Trust in Autonomic 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 ICAS 2011 was launched
  • Please have a look at ICAS 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 ICAS 2011 committee membership
  • Attract scientists in the committee to cover the newly intended areas

ICAS 2011:


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

   

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