1 PLANS FOR WCC 2006 PROGRAM by Ramon Puigjaner IPC Chairman September 5, 2005

2 WCC 2006 IPC Chair: Ramon Puigjaner (ES) Vice-Chair: John Atkinson (CL) Publication Chair: Leon Strous (NL) Workshop Chair: John Atkinson (CL) Tutorials Chair: Claudia Bauzer-Medeiros (BR) Members: TPC chairpersons of all parallel co-located conferences Graduate Theses Contest Chair: Benjamín Barán (PY)

3 WCC 2006 IPC Members: –TC1 representative (TBD) –Sindre Røsvik, NO –Guy Pujolle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, FR –Dominique Gaïti, Université Technique de Troyes, FR –Khaldoun Al Agha, Université Paris XI, FR –J. Dewald Roode, Inbekon Management Institute, PtyLtd., ZA –John Impagliazzo, US –Franz J. Rammig, Universität Paderborn, DE –Leon Strous, De Nederlandsche Bank, NL –Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK

4 WCC 2006 IPC Since last March several versions of the Call for Papers have been prepared collecting the information coming from each co-located conference Final CfP: October 1, 2005

5 WCC 2006 IPC Submission dates: –Papers: January 15, 2006 –Tutorials: February 15, 2006 Notification dates: –Papers: March 15, 2006 –Tutorials: March 15, 2006

6 WCC 2006 IPC Workshop schedule dates: –Proposals deadline: October 15, 2005 –Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2005 –Launching the call for papers: December 1, 2005 –Submission of papers: January 15, 2006 –Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2006

7 WCC 2006 IPC IPC meeting in Santiago: March 11-12, 2006 Camera ready paper due: April 7, 2006 Advance program: April 2006 Final program: May 2006

8 WCC 2006 Framework

9 WCC 2006 IPC Help given by the OC to the conferences: –One invited speaker –Possibility of discussing more invited speakers if supplementary funding is found –Paper management support –Travel and stay in Santiago for most of the IPC members to attend the IPC meeting in March.

10 WCC 2006 IPC TC1: Title to be decided TC3: Conference on Education for the 21st Century - Impact of ICT and Digital Resources –ICTEM II: Informatics Curricula, TEaching Methods and best practice –Teaching and Learning with ICT: Theory, Policy and Practice - From the world of research to classrooms and learning environments TC6: 8th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks, MWCN’2006

11 WCC 2006 IPC TC6: 5th Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Net-Con’2006 TC6: 1st IFIP Ad hoc Networking Conference TC8: Workshop on “The past and future of Information Systems: and beyond –Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the TC8 TC9: 2nd Conference on the History of Computing and Education

12 WCC 2006 IPC TC10: Conference on Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing, BICC’2006 –Celebration of the 30th anniversary of TC10 TC11: WCC 2006 Security Stream TC12: Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice, IFIP AI 2006

13 WCC 2006 IPC Tutorials: Oriented to Latin American attendees Workshops Graduate Theses Contest

14 WCC 2006 Parallel activities to be developed in parallel with WCC: –Annual meeting of the SCCC (Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias de la Computación) –Annual conference of CLEI (Conferencia Latino- Americana de Estudios en Informática) with all its associated conferences.

15 WCC 2006 Weak points: –CfP of some conferences have some delay –CfP of workshops has also some delay –SSBM has not yet prepared the Word template for preparing papers in due format

16 WCC 2006 Site Diego Portales Convention Center –Around 12 rooms ranging from 40 to 2000 people –Located at Santiago de Chile downtown and close to the official WCC hotels (for one of them you need just to cross the street)

17 WCC 2006 URL

18 WCC 2006 IPC Thank you for your kind attention Questions?