IARIA Workgroup on Advanced Topics

Workgoup Meeting, May 25, 2009 - Venice/Mestre, Italy
17:30 - 20:30

Attendance: 86

Everyone was impressed by the Expert panel:

Future Internet: Challenges in Virtualization and Federation

Agenda: no particular presentations were scheduled for this meeting, however two tutorials were preesnted at WebTel 2009:

From Software Radio to Cognitive Radio: the technical challenges
Automatic Generation of Web Interfaces from Discourse Models

were presented at WebTel 2009 along with two keynote speeches:

Technology and World Culture
e-Infrastructures for data and compute intensive applications [Networks, Grids, Clouds, P2P, and applications: how do they come together?]

See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ProgramAICT09.html

Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html

Keynote speeches are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

Panel slides are also posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html

Discussions:

Excellent discussions around the Panel topics, covering the dilemma Virtualization - Data Centers - Cloud computing Privacy/Security
Excellent discussions around government implications (rather lack of funding) for supporting large programs, like GENI (US)
There were discussions on enlarging the dissemination of AICT to cover new dimensions on Cloud computing, Data Centers, 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 AICT 2010 will be done offline, with many volunteers
There is an open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics of AICT events
Please have a look at: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPAICT09.html
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

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 AICT committee membership

AICT 2010:

Announce the new topics with the CfP for AICT 2010
Location: yet to be defined, most probably in Barcelona or Valencia (Spain), or Aveiro (Portugal)
AICT 2010 will be organized under WebTel 2010, most probably in May 2010



	Workgoup Meeting, May 25, 2009 - Venice/Mestre, Italy 17:30 - 20:30 Attendance: 86 Everyone was impressed by the Expert panel: Future Internet: Challenges in Virtualization and Federation Agenda: no particular presentations were scheduled for this meeting, however two tutorials were preesnted at WebTel 2009: From Software Radio to Cognitive Radio: the technical challenges Automatic Generation of Web Interfaces from Discourse Models were presented at WebTel 2009 along with two keynote speeches: Technology and World Culture e-Infrastructures for data and compute intensive applications [Networks, Grids, Clouds, P2P, and applications: how do they come together?] See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ProgramAICT09.html Tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html Keynote speeches are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html Panel slides are also posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html Discussions: Excellent discussions around the Panel topics, covering the dilemma Virtualization - Data Centers - Cloud computing Privacy/Security Excellent discussions around government implications (rather lack of funding) for supporting large programs, like GENI (US) There were discussions on enlarging the dissemination of AICT to cover new dimensions on Cloud computing, Data Centers, 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 AICT 2010 will be done offline, with many volunteers There is an open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics of AICT events Please have a look at: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPAICT09.html 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 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 AICT committee membership AICT 2010: Announce the new topics with the CfP for AICT 2010 Location: yet to be defined, most probably in Barcelona or Valencia (Spain), or Aveiro (Portugal) AICT 2010 will be organized under WebTel 2010, most probably in May 2010