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International Federation for Information Processing Annual Report 2018 / 2019 www.ifip.org @ifipnews International Federation for Information Processing, 2020 2. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 4 3. PRESIDENT’S REPORT ................................................................................................... 5 4. HONORARY SECRETARY'S REPORT ................................................................................ 7 5. HONORARY TREASURER'S REPORT ................................................................................ 8 6. IFIP HISTORIAN'S REPORT ........................................................................................... 12 7. INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PROGRAMME (IP3) ................................... 15 8. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS ............................................................................... 22 8.1 Admissions Committee ...................................................................................................... 22 8.2 Publications Committee .................................................................................................... 23 8.3 Digital Equity Committee .................................................................................................. 30 8.4 Finance Committee ........................................................................................................... 36 8.5 Membership and Marketing Committee ........................................................................... 38 8.6 IFIP Elections ...................................................................................................................... 42 8.7 Statutes and Bylaws Committee ....................................................................................... 44 9. DOMAIN COMMITTEE REPORTS .................................................................................. 45 9.1 Doman Committee on Internet of Things ......................................................................... 45 9.2 Doman Committee on IT in Disaster Risk Reduction ......................................................... 50 10. MEMBER SOCIETIES ASSEMBLY ................................................................................. 51 11. TECHNICAL ASSEMBLY ........................................................................................... 52 12. MEMBER SOCIETY REPORT: INTERNATIONAL MEMBER AT LARGE .............................. 55 12.1 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ................................................................. 55 13. MEMBER SOCIETY REPORTS: COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS ........................ 61 13.1 Austrian Computer Society (OCG) ................................................................................... 61 13.2 Australian Computer Society Incorporated (ACS) ........................................................... 64 13.4 Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) ............................................................. 67 13.5 Croatian Information Technology Association (CITA) ..................................................... 69 13.6 Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI) ..................................................... 72 13.7 French Informatics Society (SiF) ...................................................................................... 74 13.8 Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) ................................................................................ 76 2 13.9 Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico (AICA) ........................ 80 13.10 Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) ............................................................. 81 13.11 IT Professionals New Zealand (ITP NZ) .......................................................................... 86 13.12 Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging van Informatie-professionals (KNVI) (Royal Netherlands Association of Information Professionals) .......................................................... 89 13.13 Norwegian Computer Society (NCS) ............................................................................ 104 13.14 Slovak Society for Computer Science (SSCS) ............................................................... 106 13.15 Dataföreningen I Sverige (The Swedish Computer Society) ........................................ 110 13.16 Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft (SI) ........................................................................ 111 13.17 British Computer Society (BCS) ................................................................................... 112 14. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORTS .......................................................................... 115 14.1 TC1: Foundations of Computer Science ........................................................................ 115 14.2 TC2: Software: Theory and Practice .............................................................................. 117 14.3 TC3: Education ............................................................................................................... 118 14.4 TC5: Information Technology Applications ................................................................... 122 14.5 TC6: Communication Systems ....................................................................................... 125 14.6 TC7: System Modelling and Optimization ..................................................................... 129 14.7 TC8: Information Systems ............................................................................................. 131 14.8 TC9: ICT and Society ...................................................................................................... 132 14.9 TC11: Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems .................. 138 14.10 TC12: Artificial Intelligence .......................................................................................... 142 14.11 TC13: Human-Computer Interaction ........................................................................... 146 14.12 TC14: Entertainment Computing................................................................................. 151 3 2. Introduction (Max Bramer, Honorary Secretary) This is the second in what will become a regular series of annual reports issued by IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing, based on papers prepared for our annual General Assemblies. This report covers the period from October 2018 up to the General Assembly in Kiev, Ukraine in October 2019. IFIP is a global non-profit federation of societies of ICT professionals. It aims to achieve the worldwide professional and socially responsible developmen8 and application of information and communication technologies. The Federation's membership comprises approximately 38 national and international ICT societies in six continents. Together its member societies represent over half a million ICT specialists worldwide. The Federation was founded under the auspices of UNESCO in 1960, so 2020 marks the important milestone of its sixtieth anniversary year. IFIP also has thirteen Technical Committees (TCs) covering all areas of ICT from Foundations of Computer Science through Artificial Intelligence to ICT and Society. The TCs have approximately 100 Working Groups which comprise around 3,500 international ICT specialists. Together they organise, sponsor or co-sponsor around 100 events each year, bringing together skilled professionals and thought leaders from ICT industry, research and policy to enable the sharing of knowledge and development of professional standards. Proceedings are published in major technical publications such as the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Copies of many papers are also made available free of charge in the IFIP Digital Library. As well as Technical Committees, IFIP has four Domain Committees, established to strengthen inter-disciplinary work, specifically in application domains where ICT is increasingly being deployed. There are currently Domain Committees on Cloud Computing, IT in Disaster Risk Reduction, Health Informatics and Internet of Things. As part of its commitment to professionalism, IFIP has established IP3, the International Professional Practice Partnership, which is developing an infrastructure to encourage and support the development of both ICT practitioners and employer organizations, recognise those who meet and maintain the required standards for knowledge, experience, competence and integrity, and define international standards of professionalism in ICT. It currently has members in 14 countries. IFIP pays special attention to the needs of developing countries and assists them in obtaining optimum benefit from information technology through its standing committee on Digital Equity and otherwise. The Federation's main flagship event is the World Computer Congress (WCC), which has run approximately every two years since 1959 and includes exhibitions of computer systems and services, world-class technical events, symposia and workshops. The twenty-fourth WCC was held in Poznan, Poland in September 2018. This document contains reports on all areas of the Federation's activity. Further information is available from the committees, societies etc represented here or from the General Secretary, Eduard Dundler, at [email protected]. Up to date news is also available from our free monthly publication, IFIP Insights,