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WCC 2006 PROGRAMME

REPORTby

Ramon PuigjanerIPC Chairman

August 26, 2006

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WCC 2006 IPC

• Task conditions

– IPC late appointment• Withdrawal of Jerusalem and allocation to Santiago in August

2004

• Illness of the first appointed IPC Chair, obliged to withdrawal

• Appointment of the new IPC chair in December 2004 and

starting the task in January 2005

– Burning of the Diego Portales Convention Center

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WCC 2006 Structure

• 4 Key note talks

• 10 Conferences

• 1 Symposium

• 6 Workshops

• 6 Tutorials

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WCC 2006 Key notes

• Nanorobots and Nanoassembly

– Aristides A. G. Requicha, Laboratory for Molecular

Robotics, Univ. of Southern California, USA

• Innovation in the 21st Century: Challenges and

Opportunities

– Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President, Technical

Strategy and Innovation, IBM Corporation

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WCC 2006 Key notes• Information and Communication Technologies in

Emerging Economies: The Microsoft Research Experience– Sailesh Chutani, Director, External Research and

Programs, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp.

• The BCS is leading a major programme to create the ‘Profession of the 21st Century’– Charles Hughes, President of the British Computer

Society, UK

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WCC 2006 Conference Statistics• Total number of papers submitted: 410• Countries: 43

– BR: 62– DE: 31– CL: 29– US: 28 – FR: 20– AR: 20– CA: 14– AU: 13– PT: 12

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WCC 2006 Conference Statistics• Reasons of the reduction of submissions with

respect to Toulouse 2004:

– The geographical situation of Santiago

– The reduction of the publicity actions

• Problems with the web server

• Low number of email messages announcing the event

• Time response of the web master too high

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WCC 2006 Conferences• 4th International Conference on Theoretical Computer

Science, TCS 2006– Papers:

• Invited 6 • Submitted 44• Accepted 16

• Conference on Education for the 21st Century - Impact of ICT and Digital Resources– Papers

• Invited 2• Submitted 77• Accepted 53• Posters 8• Workshop 1

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WCC 2006 Conferences• 8th International Conference on Mobile and

Wireless Communications Networks, MWCN’2006 – Papers

• Invited 1• Submitted 27• Accepted 18• Workshop 1

• 1st International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networking– Papers

• Invited 1• Submitted 21• Accepted 13

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WCC 2006 Conferences• 5th International Conference on Network Control and

Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Net-Con’2006 – Papers

• Invited 1• Submitted 26• Accepted 17

• International Conference on “The past and future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and beyond”– Papers

• Invited 2• Submitted 38• Accepted 17• Panel 3

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WCC 2006 CONFERENCES• 2nd IFIP International Conference on History of

Computing and Education, HCE-2– Papers

• Invited 1• Submitted 17• Accepted 14• Panel 1

• Conference on Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing, BICC 2006– Papers

• Invited 3• Submitted 27• Accepted 17

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WCC 2006 CONFERENCES

• Security: from aspects and technology to security management – Activities

• 4 invited talks• 2 tutorials• 1 panel• 1 special session• 2 security sessions of networking stream

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WCC 2006 CONFERENCES• Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice, AI 2006

– Papers• Invited 4• Submitted 111• Accepted 50

• IFIP AI Symposium 2006, AIS 2006– Papers

• Accepted 37

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WCC 2006 WORKSHOPS• Women in Technology Workshop

– Organizer: Barbara Waugh– 7 presentations– Sponsored by HP

• Emerging computing trends: utility computing and digital publishing– Organizers: Alejandro Jofré and Bernardo Huberman– 9 speakers– Sponsored by HP

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WCC 2006 WORKSHOPS• IFIP WG 6.9 Workshop on Wireless

Communications and Information Technology in Developing Countries, WCIT'2006 – Organizers: Ana Pont and Mieso Denko– 7 papers out of 14 submitted– Linked to MWCN 2006 Conference

• International Workshop on Informatics Education: Bridging the University/Industry Gap– Organizer: Barrie Thompson– 4 discussion sessions and 1 plenary– Linked to IFIP Conference on Education for the 21st

Century - Impact of ICT and Digital Resources

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WCC 2006 WORKSHOPS

• International Workshop on Advanced Software

Engineering, IWASE

– Organizer: Sergio Ochoa

– 1 invited talk

– 12 papers out of 27 submitted

• Improving IT Practitioners Skills

– Organizer: Roger Johnson

– 9 presentations

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WCC 2006 CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

• Strong problems with the paper handling system

– Problems for authors to upload papers

– Strong problems for reviewers to download papers and to

upload reviews solved by the conference and workshop

chairs by the use of email

– Slow reaction of the web master to the requests of the

conference and workshop chairs

• For solving problems

• For updating web pages

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WCC 2006 TUTORIALS• When Good Algorithms Yield Bad Software

Ernst Leiss, Univ. of Houston, USA

• Multidimensional Raster Databases

Peter Baumann, International Univ. Bremen,

Germany

• Ontology Development in Database Systems and

Software Engineering: A Hands-on Tutorial

Karin Breitman, Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC do

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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WCC 2006 TUTORIALS• Mobile Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

(MCSCL)

Miguel Nussbaum, PUC de Chile

• Practical Approaches to Enterprise Security Auditing

& Compliance

Vijay Masurkar, SUN Microsystems, Inc

• Web Mining

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, U. of Chile

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WCC 2006 EVALAUTION• General feeling

– Sound technical programme

– Good ambiance

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WCC 2006 EVALUATION

Thank you for your kind attention

Questions?

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