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n is a non-governmental, not-for-profit umbrella
- rganisation of national learned societies working
in the field of Information Technology (IT)
n was established in 1960 under the auspices of
the International Federation for Information Processing n is a - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
the International Federation for Information Processing n is a - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
the International Federation for Information Processing n is a non-governmental, not-for-profit umbrella organisation of national learned societies working in the field of Information Technology (IT) n was established in 1960 under the
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Members
VLDB Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Syria Thailand United Kingdom USA based / ACM USA based / IEEE Zambia Zimbabwe SEARCC IMIA CEPIS
Affiliate IT international or regional organisations
Korea Lithuania Malaysia Mauritius Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Oman Poland Portugal Russia Serbia Singapore Czech Republic Denmark Ethiopia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland India Ireland Italy Japan Kenya Andorra Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China CLEI Croatia Cyprus
IT Societies from 56 countries or regions
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General Assembly
[Representatives of Member Societies, and TC Chairs]
Council
[Executive Board, and Trustees]
Technical Assembly 13 Technical Committees 97 Working Groups Executive Board President Secretary Treasurer Four Vice-Presidents IFIP Secretariat Standing Committees
Activity Management, Marketing, Admissions, Publications, Developing Countries Support, Statutes and Bylaws, Finance, Congress Steering, Member Society Relations, Awards
Organisation Chart
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Technical Committees
TC1 Foundations of Computer Science TC2 Software: Theory and Practice TC3 Education TC5 Computer Applications in Technology TC6 Communication Systems TC7 System Modelling and Optimization TC8 Information Systems TC9 Relationship between Computers and Society TC10 Computer Systems Technology TC11 Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems TC12 Artificial Intelligence TC13 Human-Computer Interaction TC14 Entertainment Computing
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TC10 Computer Systems Technology
WG 10.2 Embedded Systems WG 10.3 Concurrent Systems WG 10.4 Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance WG 10.5 Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems
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TC10 Computer Systems Technology
To remain attractive in the future, new areas should be investigated in the existing working groups.
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10.2: “Wearable Computing” (computing devices to carry around, posing specific questions related to I/O devices, size, weight and power consumption), sensor networks
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10.5: “Green Computing” (larger computer systems like server farms consume significant amounts of electrical power, which should be reduced)
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10.3: “Grid/Cloud Computing” (where both data and algorithms might not be local to a particular computer, but might be distributed over the internet).
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TC10 Computer Systems Technology
New technical areas should evolve into IFIP working groups through the following process:
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Discussion among WG members, creation of a special interest group (SIG) for new topic in WG, definition of aims and scope
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Bring in the community for this topic by inviting influential experts into the SIG, start organising technical events
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Once enough activity/momentum is created, potentially upgrade SIG to WG status
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IT member societies find a forum for sharing experience, and discussing challenges and
- pportunities
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TCs and WGs contribute to, and often lead, progresses in the state-of-knowledge and state-
- f-the-art: voluntary work of its WG members is
catalysed into creative synergy, with societal relevance
Within
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Forum for technical discussions among selected top experts in a field selected by the members of the WG
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Framework to organise workshops, summer schools, conferences etc. within a stable and respected international organisation (fee to IFIP depends on kind of sponsorship by IFIP, IFIP can also provide loan to cover up-front costs)
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Central publications contract with Springer to publish conference proceedings and other books (45 free proceedings for conference, royalties per published page to IFIP and TCs)
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Digital library for on-line publishing (dl.ifip.org, still to be improved)
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Funding for best paper awards, student travel grants or support for speakers from developing countries
Offer to WGs
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IFIP wants to improve its offering to volunteers for the organisation of conferences etc. Some work items under discussion:
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Moderated Wiki to support first-time conference organisers
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Collection of mailing lists to directly market IFIP events to past IFIP event participants
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New financial model for events considering fees to IFIP, risk sharing arrangements etc., insurance for conference organisers
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Standard terms for conferences in cooperation with IFIP member societies like IEEE-CS or ACM
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Improve digital library offering
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Plagiarism guidelines (including self- plagiarism and guidelines for reviewers)
Ongoing Discussions
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100 200 300 400 500 600 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Income Expenses Result
KEUR
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Like any organisation, IFIP has to balance income and costs
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With a wider time horizon, income and costs are balanced, however, with a negative trend in recent years that has to be reversed
Operations
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Fixed costs of IFIP (secretariat) are covered by dues from national societies
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Event proceeds and royalties to cover projects like developing country support, student travel grants, best paper awards, conference insurance, …
Operations
Expenses
Secre- tariat Other admin. costs Projects TCs
Digital Library
Member Society Dues Event Proceeds Other Income Publication Royalties
Income
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Increasing the offering of IFIP to the technical community (e.g. financial backup for commercial risk of conferences, travel cost support for TC and/or WG meetings, …) requires to create matching income streams
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Events only deliver an income to IFIP if IFIP is a main/full sponsor. Co-sponsorship by IFIP is possible at no cost to conference organiser, but also doesn’t provide income stream to IFIP for providing services.
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Publications deliver an income to IFIP if the publication is done through IFIP’s official publications contract (at this time with Springer). In addition, IFIP can provide publishing through its digital libary.