Minutes of the IFIP Working Group 10.5 Meeting

Munich, ICM Messe, March 7th, 2005

Present :          D.Borrione, K.-H.Diener, N.Dutt, T.Margaria, K.Muller-Glaser, W.Nebel, H.Ofek, F.Rammig, R.Reis, P.Schwarz, E.Villar, F.Wagner

Apologies :      E.Aas, L.Claesen, J.Darringer, C.Delgado-Kloos, W.Grass, S.Johnson, A.Pawlak, L.M.Silveira, W.Wolf

Delegates :      L.Indrusiak (for M.Glesner), A.Abashkin (for A.Stempkovski)

 

1. VLSI-SoC series

R.Reis made a report on the VLSI-SoC series of events.

The organization of VLSI-SoC’2005, to be held in Perth in October, is running according to the plans. Local proceedings will be distributed to the participants and will hold the IFIP ISBN. A book with extended versions of the best papers will be edited by Springer. A PhD forum will be held together with the event.

The 2006 edition will be held in the Côte-d’Azur, France, also in October. Salvador Mir, from the Laboratoire TIMA, in Grenoble, will be the general chair, and Giovanni De Michelli will be the program chair. Members noted that the exact dates should not conflict with FMCAD.

The 2007 edition will be held in Atlanta, USA, with local organization of the Georgia Tech, and Vincent Mooney will be its general chair. For 2008 there is a pending proposal from the University of Patras, Greece, which shall be analyzed by the VLSI-SoC steering committee and by the WG.

 

2. EduTech’2005

The organization of EduTech in 2005, together with VLSI-SoC in Perth, Australia, has been approved by the WG. The organizers will be Achim Rettberg, from C-Lab, Germany, and Christophe Bobda, from University of Erlangen, Germany.

 

3. International Embedded Systems Symposium

Franz Rammig gave a brief report on the International Embedded Systems Symposium, to be held in Manaus, Brazil, in August 2005. The full sponsorship of this event by WG 10.5 had been already approved by electronic voting. General chairs are Achim Rettberg, from C-Lab, Germany, and Mauro Zanella, from ZF Lemfôrder Fahrwerktechnik, Germany, and co-chair is F.Rammig. The home-page of the event may be found at http://www.iess.org.

 

4. TC 10 joint conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing

Franz Rammig, the TC 10 chair, reported on the organization of a joint TC 10 conference during the next IFIP World Computer Congress, to be held in Santiago de Chile in 2006. This conference will celebrate the 30th anniversary of TC 10 and its subject will be Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing. All former chairmen of TC10 are being invited to participate in this conference. General chairs will be F.Rammig and Mauricio Solar (from Chile, also a member of TC10). Program chair will be Hartmut Schmeck, from University of Karlsruhe, Germany. The conference shall have four streams, reflecting the four active WGs of TC10, but a single program committee. The subject of the WG 10.5 stream shall be "design and technology of collaborative self-organizing systems". The WG nominated Tiziana Margaria as stream chair. She will define the exact title of the stream and will gather representative researchers to participate in the program committee.

 

5. New co-sponsorships

The WG approved the co-sponsorship of PDES’2005 - The 1st Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems, to be held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 2005, together with ICPADS’2005 — The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems. This event is also co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. It is planned that this event will have a joint steering committee with DIPES, the SIG-ES biannual event, and that people involved with PDES will join SIG-ES. DIPES will continue to be held in even years, while PDES will be held always in odd years. The quality of this year’s edition of PDES will be analyzed and a future full sponsorship from WG 10.5 will be considered. The home-page of the event may be found at http://juliet.stfx.ca/~lyang/icpads05-pdes.

The WG also approved the co-sponsorship of EUC’2005 — International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, to be held in Nagasaki, Japan, in December. The organizers are the same as for PDES’2005. The home-page of the event may be found at http://euc05.euc-conference.org.

 

6. CHARME’2005

Dominique Borrione gave a brief report on the organization of CHARME 2005, to be held in Saarbrücken, Germany, from October 3rd to 6th 2005. Springer will be the publisher of the proceedings, which will appear in the Lecture Notes series. A longer report on CHARME 2005 had already been given by Tom in der Rieden, from the University of Saarbrücken, during the previous WG meeting in Toulouse.

 

7. ISOLA’2004

Tiziana Margaria made a brief report on ISoLA’2004 — 1st International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, which was successfully held in October 2004 in Paphos, Cyprus, and had co-sponsorship from WG 10.5. More details on the event may be found at http://sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de/isola2004.

 

8. SBCCI’2005

Ricardo Reis gave a brief report on SBCCI’2005 — 18th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design, to be held in Florianopolis, Brazil, in September 2005, which has co-sponsorship from WG 10.5, together with the Brazilian Computer Society, the Brazilian Microelectronics Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and ACM SIGDA. Proceedings will be published by ACM Press. Extended versions of the best papers of the event are invited to re-submission to IEEE Design & Test of Computers and to JICS — Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems, edited by the above mentioned Brazilian scientific societies. More details on the event may be found at http://www.sbc.org.br/sbcci.

 

9. Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems

The WG approved co-sponsorship to the Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems, edited by the Brazilian Computer Society and the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. The journal has an international editorial board, and an international distribution through Springer is being considered. Main editors are Ricardo Reis and Fernando Moraes (from the Catholic University in Porto Alegre, Brazil). More details on the journal may be found at http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/jics.

 

10. New member

The WG considered an invitation to Juergen Becker, from the University of Karlsruhe, as new WG member. It has been decided that his CV will circulate to the members. After a preliminary approval of his name by electronic voting, he will be able to present himself in a next meeting, for final approval.

 

11. Election of new officers

Flavio Wagner has been re-elected as WG chair for a new term. Considering that his previous 3-year term should run from March 2001 to February 2004, his new term will run from March 2004 to February 2007. He will invite members to build a small WG steering committee, which will replace the current vice-chairs.

The WG members considered that refreshing the membership, by attracting new and young active members, is very important for the future of the WG. Dormant members should be removed, while members who have given a valuable contribution to the WG in the past, but who are now inactive, should be offered a status of "honorary members".

It has been also discussed that communication among the members should be improved, such that members can contribute even if they cannot come to the meetings. Video-conferencing should be considered for next meetings.

 

12. New activities

Ricardo Reis suggested the organization of Summer Schools on developing countries, with tutorials given by WG members, using special funds available from IFIP for that purpose. He also suggested an "IFIP Academy" series, with tutorials and talks given by specialists. This series of events would also be funded by IFIP and would be mainly targeted at PhD students.

 

13. Next meeting

Next WG meeting will be held in Perth, Australia, together with the VLSI-SoC conference and the EduTech workshop, in October 2005. An informal meeting at DAC, in June in Anaheim, may be held if possible.