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TC-2 Software Theory and Practice Report to Council and TA London, February-March 2007 Period covered: September 2006 - February 2007 Robert Meersman (BE) and Judith Bishop (ZA)/Stefan Biffl (AT) Chair and Secretary (2006/2007), IFIP TC-2
PART I. Council a. Meetings held and scheduled. TC-2 held its annual meeting on June 10-11, 2006 in Como, Italy (reported earlier). The membership (see Annexure 1) stands at 46 (cf 43 in 2006). The next annual TC2 meeting is June 17-18, 2007, in Sofia, Bulgaria. b. Changes in membership and officers Robert Meersman (BE) was re-elected to serve as TC2 Chair for a second term (2007-9) Judith Bishop (ZA) resigned at the end of 2006 as Vice Chair and TC Secretary.
New Vice Chair: Bashar Nuseibeh (GB)
TC2 Membership: • New delegates/members:
RS Nenad Stefanovic
WG 2.2 I. Walukiewicz (F) new vice chair WG 2.4 Welf Löwe (SWE) WG 2.5 Shigeo Kawata WG 2.6 Thomas Risse WG 2.7 Simone Barbosa WG 2.7 Gerrit van der Veer WG 2.13 Brian Fitzgerald
• Membership ended or delegates resigned
JP Kakehi Katsuhiko
c. Working groups
WG2.1 Report submitted by Lambert Meertens 1. Changes in membership and officers: There were no changes during this period. 2. Last meeting The 62th meeting of WG 2.1 was held 11 − 15 December 2006 in Namur, Belgium. It was hosted by Michel Sintzoff and Charles Pecheur of the Université catholique de Louvain, and attended by - 1 - 1 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc 11 members and 12 observers, of which 5 were local observers. There were 22 technical presentations. The informal minutes, including abstracts of most of the talks and links to on-line working documents, are available on web page www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/wg21/meeting62/minutes.html
3. Next meetings Meeting #63: 10 − 14 September 2007, Kyoto, Japan. 4. Recent events: None 5. Upcoming event: None 6. Status of the group, general points, other activities The possibility of a joint WG2.1/WG2.8/WG2.11 Working Conference on Domain-Specific Languages, to be held in the middle of 2008, is being explored.
WG2.2 Report submitted by Davide Sangiorgi The last meeting of IFIP WG 2.2 took place during the period 11—13 September 2006 in Udine, Italy. It was a special meeting, as it celebrated the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the WG. The meeting was organized by our member Furio Honsell with the help of Marino Miculan, at the University of Udine. Both the organization and the talks were excellent. Furio Honsell, presently rector of the University of Udine, has provided funding for the meeting.
Five invited speakers retraced the development of the ideas at various stages in the history of programming language semantics and implementation or expressed a position on what concepts are central to this field. These talks were given by Hans Langmaack, Gordon Plotkin, Dana Scott, Leslie Lamport, and Manfred Paul.
Three more invited talks were given by members of WG2.2. For the rest, the program comprised 17 presentations by members of the group. These invited talks and ordinary presentations also contributed to a general perspective of the field by surveying wide areas of work or by reporting on works accomplished over long periods.
For some titles and abstracts of presentations, see http://www.cs.unibo.it/~sangio/IFIP/talks_Udine06.html
24 out of 29 members were present at the meeting: Given the exceptional event, in this case participation to the meeting was open. We therefore had a number of external participants (overall about 80 people registered)
The Chairman proposed the nomination of a vice-chairman, as exists in several other working groups, and suggested for this I. Walukiewicz (F). This proposal was approved by the WG, during its administrative sessions.
The WG has been asked by the organizers of the International Conference FSEN'07 (Fundamentals of Software Engineering, April 17-19, 2007) to be held in Teheran, to grant the co-sponsorship of the IFIP WG2.2 to this conference. The WG has accepted; the co-sponsorship has been approved by IFIP TC2. The WG involvement in the conferences concerns PC members, invited speakers, and tutorial sessions.
Planned events and activities: The next meeting of the WG will take place in Nancy, France, in September. The precise dates are still under discussion. It will be organised by our member Stephan Merz.
- 2 - 2 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc The WG has co-sponsorship for the conference FSEN (Fundamentals of Software Engineering)to be held in Teheran, April 17-19, 2007, as discussed above.
WG2.3 Report submitted by Pamela Zave Meeting #46 took place in Sydney, Australia, 8-12 January 2007. The host was Prof. Annabelle McIver of Macquarie University. Facilities for the meeting were graciously provided by the University of Sydney. There were 18 participants, including 11 members and 7 observers. 5 other members had originally planned to attend, but were forced by circumstances to revise their plans. No observers were eligible for membership at this meeting. Discussion topics and abstracts are available on the Web site: http://research.microsoft.com/~leino/IFIP-WG2.3/
We regret to note the passing of long-time member Douglas Ross.
The International Conference on Tests and Proofs was held in Zurich, Switzerland, 12-14 February 2007. This event was organized by member Bertrand Meyer, endorsed by WG 2.3, and sponsored by IFIP. For further information see: http://tap.ethz.ch/
Meeting #47 will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 8-12 October 2007. The host will be Robert Balzer of Teknowledge.
WG2.4 Report submitted by Erhard Ploedereder Since the report to TC2 at its Como meeting, WG 2.4 met in Glasgow (UK) for a week-long meeting (July 16-21). There were 21 attendees, among them 4 members. While a slight improvement over the previous meeting, attendance levels are still not back to our normal number of about 30 participants. Nevertheless discussions of the presentations were lively and focused mostly on language capabilities and their implementation.
Welf Löwe, Vaxjö University, Sweden, was proposed as a new member.
Our next meeting is scheduled at the UCLA conference center at Lake Arrowhead, California, May 6-11, 2007. For the Lake Arrowhead meeting an increased number of invitations were sent out to prospective new members. This time they were personally contacted by members to familiarize them with the group and the meaning of the invitation extended to them. Early registration results indicate that the next meeting will have 30 participants or more.
We experienced a veritable avalanche of offers to host upcoming meetings. A place in Northern Italy, two locations in Germany, offers from Sweden, Qatar, USA, Canada and South Africa provide a wealth of opportunities to chose from. Following traditions, the next meeting will be either in Europe or some “remote” country.
4th IFIP WG2.4 Summer School, South Africa 26-30 March 2007. Attendance stands at 88, from 9 African countries, the Netherlands and Italy. The School is being run by Judith Bishop through the University of Pretoria under the auspices of WG2.4. IFIP has not provided any funding this time. Scholarships for students and airfares for speakers have been the responsibility of Microsoft Research and local Research organizations. There is no profit sharing with IFIP, but the day fee at 2 euros per day will be paid to IFIP.
WG2.5 Report submitted by Ron Boisvert Leadership
Chair Dr. Ronald F. Boisvert, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- 3 - 3 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc Vice-Chair Professor Michael Thuné, University of Uppsala, Sweden Secretary Professor Wayne Enright, University of Toronto, Canada
Membership
The Working Group currently has 34 full members representing 13 countries. The Working Group has an additional 12 affiliate members. (Affiliates are former WG 2.5 full members who are interested in working group activities, but are unable to regularly attend meetings or commit large amount of time to working group projects. They maintain email contact, and attend Working Group meetings when possible. They are considered members of the Working Group by IFIP.) The newest member of WG 2.5 is Professor Shigeo Kawata Utsunomiya University Japan He was approved by WG 2.5 in July 2006.
Aims and Scope
WG 2.5 recently re-evaluated its statement of aims and scope with an eye to updating its viewpoint in light of current trends in the field. The result of this process was a re-affirmation of the basic aim of the group, i.e., to improve the quality of scientific computation by promoting the development and availability of sound numerical software. However, it was felt that a re-statement and clarification of the objectives that lie within its scope was needed. In July 2006, the group approved a modified scope statement, which is included in Appendix 1 of this report. An important feature of this new statement is an expanded (one-page) rationale for each of the topic areas identified in the scope statement. This rationale is also attached.
Business Meetings
The working group holds yearly meetings. These are typically comprised of a two-day business meeting and an associated two-day workshop. The workshop provides an opportunity for the working group to interact with researchers in the local region on issues of mutual interest. The workshops are usually informal. The Working Group holds Working Conferences in association with some of its meetings. The most recent WG 2.5 meeting was held in conjunction with a Working Conference. The most recent and planned meetings are given in the table below.
Year Dates Location Host Meeting Theme 2006 July 15-21 Prescott, California Institute of Working Conference 9: Grid- Arizona, Technology (Dr. James based Problem-Solving USA C. T. Pool) Environments 2007 August 13-14 Uppsala, University of Uppsala Software Issues in Sweden (Prof. Michael Thuné) Computational Science and Engineering 2008 Toronto, University of Toronto Canada (Prof. Wayne Enright)
The agenda of the July 2006 WG 2.5 business meeting can be found in Appendix 2 of this report.
Status of Major WG 2.5 Activities
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1. WG 2.5 Working Conference 9
Working Group 2.5 organized an IFIP Working Conference on Grid-Based Problem Solving Environments: Implications for Development and Deployment of Numerical Software which was held July 17-21, 2006 in Prescott, Arizona, USA. The web site for the conference is http://www.woco9.org/. In this context, the phrase “Grid-Based Problem Solving Environments” is synonymous with “science gateways” or “science portals”, nomenclature introduced recently by the grid community. The conference was designed to bring together members of four communities: o users of both grid-based and traditional problem solving environments; o developers of both grid-based and traditional problem solving environments; o developers of grid infrastructure; and o developers of numerical software. The use of the Internet to bring together providers and users of computational resources has become commonplace. Web-based services such as NetSolve (for linear algebra) and NEOS (for nonlinear and optimization problems) have demonstrated the potential of grid-based problem solving environments from the numerical software perspective. Domain specific PSEs, such as Cactus (developed for numerical relativity) and PYRE (developed for shock physics), have been applied outside their original discipline to generate new PSEs and are being extended to exploit grid technology. Likewise, many tools exist for making a service available. However, there is more to making use of a grid-based service than simply knowing its web address. Does the service work reliably? What are its limitations? Can it be combined with other services? There are also opportunities for improving the ability of applications to use the best numerical software, for example, by simplifying the acquisition and use of high-quality numerical software. The development of numerical software can benefit from the experience of the scientific and engineering communities using and developing new grid-based PSEs, for example, defining interfaces more appropriate for integrating numerical software into grid-oriented applications and exploiting test sets and tools for comparing different methods. Issues considered by this working conference included: o accuracy contracts and software services; o standards for problem specification; o service models for the use of numerical software; o using the grid to link numerical and other services together; o experiences with web-based numerical services; o application-oriented numerical interfaces such as web portals; o software deployment issues including updates and bug fixes; o large data (including data security) and grid-based numerical software; o grid-based services as an alternative to deployment; and o evaluation and comparison of both production and research software. This conference was built upon the experience and insights gained during past working conferences organized by WG2.5, in particular, WoCo4: Problem Solving Environments for Scientific Computing, WoCo6: Programming Environments for High-Level Scientific Problem Solving, and WoCo8: Software Architectures for Scientific Computing Applications. The Working Conference was sponsored IFIP and the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Additional financial support was obtained from Hewlett-Packard, Intel and NAG. The organizational structure for the working conference was as follows.
- 5 - 5 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc Chair James C. T. Pool, Retired, formerly Executive Director, Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology Deputy Chair Brian Ford, Mathematics Faculty, Oxford University and Founding Director, Numerical Algorithms Group Executive Committee Conference Chair Deputy Conference Chair Program Committee Chair WG2.5 Chair: Ronald F. Boisvert, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology Program Committee Chair: William D. Gropp, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory Dennis Gannon, Department of Computer Science, Indiana University Jennifer Schopf, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory and UK National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh Masaaki Shimasaki, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University Michael Thuné, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University Anne Trefethen; Interdisciplinary e-Research Centre; Oxford University Conference Chair Conference Deputy Chair Proceedings Co-Editors Proceedings Co-Editors Conference Chair Patrick W Gaffney, Bergen Software Services International A/S, Bergen, Norway
Note that all Conference organizers except Gannon, Schopf, and Trefethen are members of WG 2.5.
The following 28 persons spoke at the conference.
Jay Alameda National Center for Supercomputing Applications Gabrielle Allen Louisiana State University Mutsumi Aoyagi Kyushu University Bill Appelbe Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) Vania Boccia University of Naples Justin Burruss General Atomics Craig Douglas* University of Kentucky Pat Gaffney* Bergen Software Services International Dennis Gannon Indiana University Marc Garbey University of Houston Sebastien Goasguen Purdue University Kieth Jackson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tom Jackson University of York Ken Kennedy Rice University David Keyes Columbia University Suman Nadella Argonne National Laboratory Boyana Norris Argonne National Laboratory Julian Padget University of Bath Beth Plale Indiana University - 6 - 6 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc Brian Smith* Numerica21 & University of New Mexico Vaidy Sunderam Emory University Jem Treadwell Hewlett-Packard Anne Trefethen Oxford University Hitohide Usami National Institute of Informatics Mladen Vouk* North Carolina State University David Walker University of Cardiff Xiaoge Wang Tsinghua Unviersity Asim Yarkhan University of Tennessee at Knoxville * Member of Working Group 2.5
The complete program for the conference is provided in Appendix 3 of this report. The conference proceedings are currently being compiled and will be published in book form by the IFIP Publisher.
Seventeen members of WG 2.5 participated in the working conference. In total, more than 50 persons attended.
2. WG 2.5 Workshop on Software Issues in Computational Science and Engineering
The next WG 2.5 business meeting will be held at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, on August 13-14, 2007. In association with this meeting, WG 2.5 will co-host a workshop on the topic of Software Issues in Computational Science and Engineering. This is one of a series of informal “local” workshops held in conjunction with the yearly WG 2.5 business meetings. These workshops provide a venue for WG 2.5 members to interact with researchers and practitioners in the local region who are interested in numerical software. The workshop is being organized by WG 2.5 Vice-Chair Michael Thuné (University of Uppsala). The web site for the meeting can be found at http://www.it.uu.se/research/conf/SCSE07.
3. Minisymposium at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
WG 2.5 members Ronald Boisvert and Brian Ford have organized a minisymposium for the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) to be held in Zurich, July 16-20, 2007. Entitled “Recent Advances in Software Tools for Scientific Computing,” the minisymposium will feature eight technical talks on subjects of interest to WG 2.5, four of which will be presented by active WG 2.5 members. The event will be dedicated to James C. T. Pool, a long-time member of WG 2.5 who retired from the California Institute of Technology last year.
WG2.6 Report submitted by Tiziana Catarci Changes to Membership and Responsibilities
In the Montpellier meeting (Nov. 3, 2006), Thomas Risse has been approved by the WG 2.6 as new member. Working Group Meetings One meeting was held in Montpellier, France, November 3, 2006, in conjunction with the OTM Federated Event (http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/). The number of participants to the meeting was 19. The meeting discussed future research directions, the organization of the next group event, and possible funding opportunities within EU FP7.
The next meeting is scheduled for February 23, 2007 in Roma, Italy. WG Conference - 7 - 7 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc Arantza Illaramendi reported on the last conference of the group held in conjuction with EDBT, whose main numbers are: 14 people attended , 8 accepted papers, 24 submissions. Overall the last conference was not satisfactory and also caused some loss covered by EDBT.
There was a skype call with Marc Scholl, EDBT general chair, in order to discuss the best organization for the next conference. Suggestions included to have a workshop instead of a conference and one session for members of the group in addition to open sessions. Then, there was a discussion on the topics of the workshop. There was a bottom-up convergence to a unifying topic, namely data and service integration. The name of the workshop was decided as: SDSI: Semantic Data and Service Integration: theory and applications. It was decided to set up a proposal for a workshop to be held in conjunction with some major database conference, e.g. VLDB. The group will finalize the workshop call during the next meeting in Roma. Publications During the past year, the working group asked Karl Aberer and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux to coordinate a special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics on the theme "Emergent Semantics", which had previously been covered by papers and presentations by the working group. The special issue is now available, JoDS Volume VI, it contains eight peer-reviewed papers (out of 19 original submissions) plus an invited paper “Viewpoints on Emergent Semantics” that summarizes some of the discussions held within the working group.
More information on 2.6 can be found at http://wise.vub.ac.be/ifipwg26.
WG2.7 Report submitted by Morten Harning
Meetings held in second half of 2006 Working meeting, July 24-25, 2006, Dublin Future activities discussed, including a potential book project. List of participants Dr. Rémi Bastide, University of Toulouse 1, France Dr. Stéphane Chatty, IntuiLab (France) Dr. Nicholas Graham, Queen's University, Ontario (Canada) Mr. Phil Gray, University of Glasgow (UK) Dr. Morten Borup Harning, Dialogical/Priway/RFIDsec (Denmark) Dr. Philippe Palanque, CENA & Université de Toulouse 1 (France) Dr. Fabio Paternò, CNUCE-CNR (Italy) Dr. Chris Roast, University of Sheffield (UK) Dr. Kevin A. Schneider, University of Saskatchewan (Canada) Pr. Claus Unger, University of Hagen (Germany) Dr. Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Observers attending the meeting José Campos Invited guests Elspeth Golden, CMU Working Group web-site redesigned to adhere to new IFIP graphical identity http://www.se-hci.org
Planned activities 2007: Engineering Interactive Systems 2007 Joining Three Working Conferences IFIP WG2.7/13.4 10th Conference on Engineering Human Computer Interaction IFIP WG 13.2 1st Conference on Human Centred Software Engineering
- 8 - 8 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc DSVIS - 14th Conference on Design Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain March 22-24, 2007 36 papers accepted Working meeting, Fall, Amsterdam Plans to be finalized
New members: Simone Barbosa
WG2.8 Report submitted by Simon Peyton-Jones Meetings We have held one meeting since our last report, dated February 2006. This took place in Endicott House, near MIT in Boston, on 16-21 July 2006. The accessible location led to an unusually large number of members attended, 25 in all, together with 11 guests. Our next meeting, scheduled for July 2007, will be in Iceland. Membership We elected no new members at the Endicott House meeting. Officers Simon Peyton Jones remains Chair, with Ralf Hinze as Secretary. Other activities The WG2.8 membership continues to be very active in ACM SIGPLAN (programming languages) with significant participation on the SIGPLAN executive committee, and in the organization of the major conferences (POPL, PLDI, IFCP, OOPLSA). WG2.8 is co-sponsoring a TC2 Working Conference on Domain Specific Languages in mid-2008, organised jointly by WG2.1, WG2.8, and WG2.11. Benjamin Pierce is a member of WG2.8 and well serve as co-chair of the conference.
WG2.9 Report submitted by Bashar Nuseibeh The group continues to meet on an annual basis, in February, for a week long meeting to exchange ideas and present research in progress. In 2006 the group met in Costa Rica (19-24 February 2006) and chose to hold this as a closed meeting with no guests, in order discuss the future governance and plans of the group in a sustained and open discussion throughout the week. This was followed up by a short business meeting later in the year (12th September) in Minneapolis.. The next meeting will be held in Lugano, Switzerland (21-24 February 2007), organsied by Professor Carlo Ghezzi (Milano), and supported by the local university's head of computing, Professor Mehdi Jazayeri. Five guests have been invited as observers and have confirmed their attendance: Professor Manfred Broy (Munich), Dr. Davide Bolchini (Lugano), Dr. Marsha Chechik (Toronto), Dr. Anthony Hall (UK), and Dr.Bjorn Regnell (Sweden).
Some organisational and technical highlights from the previous meetings include:
- A decision and plan to streamline the process of inviting guests and new members. This is now much more explicit and transparent, and the result has been a systematic, documented, and inclusive process of inviting guests, and an open process to consider new members.
- A decision to examine ways of engaging further with the wider RE community. The support of the annual RE conference continues: this year the RE'06 conference selected and presented the Manfred Paul Award for best paper; and IFIP WG2.9 continues to have a visible presence in the conference literature (as a "supporter") of this IEEE sponsored conference. A further form of engagement is the planned organisation of an IFIP WG2.9 summerschool preceding the RE'07 conference in Delhi, India in October 2007. Plans are already underway, with summerschool chairs appointed: - 9 - 9 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc Professors Dan Berry (Waterloo, Canada) and Bill Robinson (WG2.9 Secretary - Georgia, USA). WG2.9 will of course support the RE'07 conference in India.
- Clear evidence of research benefits to the wider RE community; for example, working with a previous WG2.9 guest (Prof Betty Cheng - Michigan), WG2.9 Vice Chair, Professor Jo Atlee, has produced a "roadmap" of RE which will appear in the ICSE'07 "Future of Software Engineering", and will be presented in Minneapolis, USA, in May 2007. WG2.9 member Professor Axel van Lamsweerde is also in the final stages of writing his book on RE, which is discussed and supported by members of the group. Finally, joint research papers between members of the group and their guests continue to be authored, with topics such as feature-based development, security requirements engineering, automated analysis, adaptive systems development, and composition, all examples of intensive shared interest and activity.
Plans for 2008 activity are still being considered, but Brazil is one serious contender to host the 2008 meeting, and feasibility proposals are being drawn up.
WG2.10 Report submitted by Christine Hofmeister WG 2.10 met in Concord, Massachusetts, USA on October 23-26 2006. Nine members and two guests were present: Neeraj Singhal of Lattix LDM described his company's tool that identifies and categorizes dependencies in source code. John Kemp of Nokia discussed the architectural challenges of developing a web services framework for a mobile environment. Another discussion topic was what future research in software architecture should address, which resulted in several other discussions. One outcome was the plan for a working session on "Software Architecture: The Next Generation". This was then proposed by 2.10 members Jan Bosch, Paul Clements, Rich Hilliard, and Robert Nord to the WICSA 2007 program committee, and the working session was held at WICSA in January 2007 in Mumbai, India.
Also at this meeting the 2.10 members voted to recommend Hans van Vliet and Eoin Woods for membership.
The next 2.10 meeting will tentatively take place near London, although no date has been set yet.
WG2.11 Report submitted by Julia Lawall WG 2.11 met for two days (October 27-28) in Portland, Oregon following the conferences GPCE (Generative Programming and Component Engineering) and OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications), both of which are relevant to the working group. Attendance was around 30, with around 20 members and 10 guests. Several of the guests had attended the previous meeting in January as well.
For this meeting, since it was just following several conferences with many talks, we tried for a more discussion oriented format. On the first day there were talks in the morning from the new guests, and then the remainder of the meeting was devoted to discussions in small groups. Four discussions topics were planned by the members in advance, and two other topics came up spontaneously in the meeting. The discussion sessions were three hours in length, and included both a variety of short presentations and group discussions, permitting to go into the topics in some depth. Overall, the discussion format was found to be very successful.
The next meeting will be August 20-22 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Guests who participated in the October meeting will be reinvited as well as some new ones. As this meeting is not associated with a conference, we will mainly go back to the format of individual presentations, to allow members to
- 10 - 10 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc present their current work. Building on the success of the October meeting, however, we will also organize some discussion sessions on the same model.
WG2.12 (=WG12.4) Report submitted by Tharam Dillon − Membership & Officers o Chair: Prof Tharam S. Dillon o Vice-Chairs: Prof Elizabeth Chang Prof Ernesto Damiani o Secretary: Prof Elizabeth Chang − Past events o IFIP WG 2.12 / 12.2 book series titled “Advances in Web Semantics” with the first volume planned to be published by end of 2006, titled “Volume 1: Advances in Web Semantics, A State-of-the Art Semantic Web”, (Eds) Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon, Robert Meersman , Katia Sycara o Oct 29 – Nov 3, 2006: The 2nd IFIP WG 2.12 / 12.2 International Workshop in Semantic Web and Web Semantics (SWWS ‘06) held in France, as part of the OTM 2006. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=swws2006cfp A total of 34 papers were submitted to SWWS. Each submission was reviewed by at least three experts. The papers were judged according to their originality, validity, significance to theory and practice, readability and organization, and relevancy to the workshop topics and beyond. This resulted in the selection of 16 high quality papers for presentation at the workshop and publication in this proceedings. o NEW WG 2.12 / 12.4 website now located at : http://www.ceebi.curtin.edu.au/IFIP/
− Upcoming events o Nov 25 - 30, 2007: The 3rd IFIP WG 2.12 / 12.2 International Workshop in Semantic Web and Web Semantics (SWWS ‘07) to be held in Grande Real Santa Eulália Resort in Albufeira, Algarve, as part of the OTM 2007 (please see below for the draft workshop description) Special tracks on Security & Trust, Fuzzy Semantics, Biomedical Informatics o Q2 of 2007, Book release LNCS-IFIP AdWebS: Volume 1: Advances in Web Semantics, A State-of- the Art Semantic Web”, (Eds) Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon, Robert Meersman , Katia Sycara A collection of high-quality chapters written by the WG 2.12 / 12.4 members (and collaborators) addressing the future state-of-the-art of Semantic Web At present, editors are busy making recommendations to the authors on their submitted chapters.
WG2.13 report submitted by Ernesto Damiani 1. MEETINGS No regular meetings since August 2006 (Founding Meeting was June 10th, 2006 - Como, Italy)
1.2 Informal business meetings Sept. 28th, 2006 - Brussels, Belgium. The informal meeting focused on the group initiatives for 2007 and in particular on the organization of the next editions of the WG conferences OSS2007 and OSS2008. The former is to be held in Limerick, Ireland, while the 2008 edition could be organized as part of the IFIP World Conference taking place in Milan, Italy.
1.3 Next meetings Business and regular meetings: June 14th, 2007 - Limerick, Ireland
2. EVENTS No Events were held since August 2006 (Founding WG Conference was OSS2006 held on June 10th, 2006 in Como, Italy. OSS2006 had 120 delegates, and hosted 6 workshops: WOPDASD 2006 FOSLET 2006 TOSSAD 2006 EFOSS F/LOSS 2006 and QOPEN 2006 plus the Italian workshop Esperta -- proceedings published as part
- 11 - 11 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc of the IFIP Springer series). The WG is focusing of the flagship OSS conference and its co-located workshops. Other events will be considered for sponsorship from 2008.
2.1 Next events OSS2007 June 14th, 2007 - Limerick, Ireland -- proceedings published as part of the IFIP Springer series. Hosts three workshops (FOSLET 2007, OSSEMP 2007 and OSSPL 2007). The main conference has around 100 submissions.
3. WG OFFICERS Founding officers continue their duties: Brian Fitzgerald, Univ. of Limerick (Chair) Giancarlo Succi, Univ. of Bozen/Bolzano Ernesto Damiani, Univ. of Milan
4. WG MEMBERSHIP The WG has now 27 members, with the following distribution: North America - 7 Europe - 16 Middle East - 1 Asia /Pacific - 2 Africa - 1
d. Events Past and planned events: see annex 3 for an overview of the events since August 2006 and overview of the planned events.
e. Publications Proceedings: see annex 3 for an overview of the published proceedings for events. Other publications: see annex 3 for an overview of the published proceedings books in preparation
f. Progress and status
TC2 is generally in very good shape, is having an impact on the community, and is expanding its activities.
The TC continues to improve its web sites, online document management system, and mailing list. All are being actively used by members. Finances are actively monitored.
g. TC meeting attendance See annexure 2. The table has been reset to start at 2003, since records before that are lost. We have indicated the countries that do not have TC2 representatives separately. h. New initatives
i. Any other items
Manfred Paul Award 2006 In 2006, TC2 selected the RE'06 conference to select and present the Manfred Paul Award. The
- 12 - 12 Tab13b_TC-2 report.doc RE'06 conference was supported by IFIP WG 2.9 - www.re06.org. The RE'06 conference convened an Awards Committee comprising:
Professor Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland (RE'06 Programme Chair) Professor Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University, UK (IFIP WG2.9 Chair) Professor Alistair Sutcliffe, University of Manchester, UK (RE'07 Programme Chair)
After selecting a set of candidate nominated paper papers (based on recommendations and scores from the 40+ international programme committee of RE'06), the committee selected the following paper as the winner:
"The Detection and Classification of Non-Functional Requirements with Application to Early Aspects" Jane Cleland-Huang, Raffaella Settimi, Xuchang Zou, Peter Solc (DePaul University, USA)
The award was presented by IFIP WG2.9 Chair, Bashar Nuseibeh, at a Plenary session of the RE'06 conference in Minneapolis, USA, on 14th September 2006. Three photos capturing the event are available at: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/req/events/RE06/Album/pages/203.htm http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/req/events/RE06/Album/pages/202.htm http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/req/events/RE06/Album/pages/201.htm
PART II. Technical Assembly a. Changes of TC/WG aims and scopes None requested b. Proposals for establishment/discontinuation of WGs None requested. c. Strategic issues for TC-2 and Budget for 2006 A sum of 1024 euro is to be budgeted for the Manfred Paul Award 2007. d. Funding of TC2 meeting expenses A sum of 500 euros is to be budgeted to cover part of TC2 Secretary travel to the annual meeting. e. Other matters No other matters.
Annex 1. TC-2 Membership per 16 February 2007
TC2 Membership February 2007 TC2 Chair Robert Meersman
AR Marcelo Frias
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WG2.1 Lambert Meertens
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Annex 2. TC-2 meeting attendance
Country / Year 03 04 05 06
Argentina Australia X + + Austria A X + P Belgium + + + + Bulgaria P + P China P A Czech Republic + A Finland + France Germany A + A A Germany (2) / CEPIS Greece A Hungary + + + + India P Italy A R Japan R A P Netherlands + A Norway Poland A + + Slovakia A Slovenia A South Africa + + + + Spain P + + Sweden X Switzerland A + + R United Kingdom P P + + USA (IEEE CS) + A A A
SEARCC n n A A
No representative Andorra n Botswana n Brazil n Canada n Chile n CLEI n Croatia n Cyprus n Denmark n A P X Egypt n Ireland n
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Working groups WG2.1 A A + WG2.2 A + + + WG2.3 + + + + WG2.4 R R R R WG2.5 + A A R WG2.6 + R + R WG2.7/13.4 A + A WG2.8 A A P WG2.9 A A + WG2.10 A A A A WG2.11 + A P WG2.12 + + + WG2.13 +
+ = representative attended A = apologies R = represented X = resigned T = terminated P = proxy given (subsumes apologies)
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IFIP TC-2 activities held July 2006-February 2007
No 11-14 September WG2.2 Special 40th Anniversary meeting Udine, Italy 2006 Yes 11-15 September WG2.9 14th IEEE Intl. Requirements Minneapolis St http://www.re06.org 2006 Engineering Conference Paul Yes 29 Oct to 3 Nov WG2.12 2nd IFIP WG2.12/12.4 Intl. Montpellier, http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au 2006 Workshop on Web Semantics France /fedcont/index.html?page =swws2006cfp No October 23 2006 WG2.11 Generative Programming and Portland, Oregon http://www.cis.uab.edu/gp Component Engineering ce-qos/ No January 2007 WG2.10 6th Working Conference on Mumbai, India Software Architecture Yes 12-14 February TC2 International Conference on Zurich, http://tap.ethz.ch 2007 Tests and Proofs (TAP) Switzerland Yes 15-19 April 2007 WG2.2 International Symposium on Tehran, Iran Fundamentals of Software Engineering
IFIP TC-2 activities planned
Yes 26-30 March 2007 WG2.4 4th IFIP WG2.4 Summer School Cape Town, http://polelo.cs.up.ac.za/I South Africa SS2007
Yes 11-14 June 2007 WG2.13 3rd Intl. Conf. Open Source Limerick. Ireland http://www.oss2007.org Systems ongoing WG2.5 API for discrete Fourier API Transforms ongoing WG2.6 Special issue of Journal of Data Semantics 2007 WG2.7 Conference on Engineering Planning Planning Human Computer Interaction (EHCI) Nov 25 - 30, 2007 WG 3rd IFIP WG 2.12 / 12.2 Albufeira, 2.12 International Workshop in Algarve Semantic Web and Web Semantics (SWWS ‘07)
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