1- Meetings held and scheduled
1.1- Annual meeting held
The annual TC10 meeting for 2000 was held on August 24, during WCC 2000, in Toulouse.
Attendees:
Apologies were received from Jean Arlat (WG 10.4 Chair), Carlos Delgado-Kloos (ES), Norbert Fristacky (HU), Jean-Luc Gaudiot (WG 10.3 Chair), Ceska Milan (CZ), Charles Rattray (WG 10.1 Chair), Luis Miguel Silveira (PT), Mateo Valero (ACM), Michel Verleysen (WG 10.6 Chair).
Jean-Claude Laprie reported on WG 10.1, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.6, from the reports received. Jean Mermet reported on 10.5. See below section 3 on WG activities for 10.1, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5. 10.6 and 10.7 are addressed in part 2 (TA), as it has been proposed to discontinue those WGs, as a conclusion of a clarification process undertaken previously.
Franz Rammig reported on he preparation of DIPES (DIstributed and Parallel Embedded Systems), a joint 10.3 - 10.4 - 10.5 event to be held in October in Schloss Eringerfeld, Germany. DIPES originated initially as a 10.5 event; it was agreed during last year meeting to turn it into a joint event between the 3 WGs. The 2002 edition will be proposed to be part of the Montreal World Congress.
Ricardo Reis reported on the activities of SBC, the Brazilian Computer Society, that are related to TC10 topics.
1.2- Annual meeting scheduled
The annual TC10 meeting for 2001 will be held in Brasilia, on Sept. 10. The meeting will be hosted by Ricardo Reis, and held in conjunction with SBCCI 2001, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Design.
2- Changes in Officers and Membership
2.1- TC
Three new members have been appointed:
Addresses of new members are as follows:
Patricia Borensztejn Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences University of Buenos Aires e-mail: patricia@dc.uba.ar
Marjan Krisper University of Lubljana e-mail: Marjan.Krisper@fri.uni-lj.si
Luis Miguel Silveira INESC/IST - University of Lisbon Rua Alves Redol, 9, 136 1000-029 Lisboa Ph: +351-21-3100337 Fax: +351-21-3145843 e-mail: lms@inesc.pt
2.2- WGs
The Chair of 10.1, Charles Rattray, has been re-elected.
The following individuals have been nominated by WG 10.3 and 10.4, and nominations have been approved by the TC:
Addresses are as follows:
Nader Bagherzadeh University of California, Irvine Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering ENG 544 F Irvine, CA 92697 USA Ph: +1 714 824 8720 Fax: +1 714 824 3203
Bertil Folliot Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIP6) Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 4, place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05 France Ph: +33 1 44 27 43 63 Fax: +33 1 44 27 62 86 e-mail: Bertil.Folliot@lip6.fr
Andrea Bondavalli Universita di Firenze Dip. di Sistemi e Informatica Via Lombroso 6/17 I - 50134 Firenze Italy Ph: +39 50 315 3068 Fax: +39 55 479 6730 e-mail: a.bondavalli@dsi.unifi.itNick Bowen IBM Research P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA Ph: +1 914 784 7331 Fax: +1 914 784 7595 e-mail: bowenn@us.ibm.com
Farnam Jahanian Dept. of EECS University of Michigan 1301 Beal Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 USA Ph: +1 7324 936 2974 Fax: +1 7324 936 4617 e-mail: farnam@eecs.umich.edu
Karama Kanoun LAAS - CNRS 7, avenue du Colonel Roche 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4 France Ph: +33 5 61 33 62 35 Fax: +33 5 61 33 64 11 e-mail: kanoun@laas.fr
Stefan Poledna TTTech Computerteknik GmbH 7, Schönbrunnerstraße A-1040 Vienna Austria Ph: +43 1 585 343 410 Fax: +33 1 585 343 490 e-mail: poledna@tttech.com
John Rushby SRI International Computer Science Laboratory 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Ph: +1 650 859 2844 Fax: +1 650 859 2844 e-mail: rushby@csl.sri.com
Bob Yeh Boeing Company M/S 02-KE P.O. Box 3707 Seattle, WA 98124-2207 USA Ph: +1 425 294 0802 Fax: +1 425 294 2299 e-mail: Ying.Yeh@PSS.Boeing.com
The following individuals have resigned from 10.4: Vinod K. Agarwal, Anton T. Dahbura, John P.J. Kelly, Kozo Kinoshita. The status of emeritus member has been granted to Jack Goldberg, George C. Gilley, and William C. Jones.
3- Working group activitiesAs in the past, the three most active WGs have been 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5. As already mentioned, 10.6 and 10.7 will be addressed in part 2 (TA), as the TC recommends these WGs to be discontinued.
3.1- WG 10.1 — CAST: Computer-aided systems theory
3.2- WG 10.3 — Concurrent Systems
The PACT’99 conference (Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques) was held in Newport Beach (California) in October 1999, for the seventh year in a row. It was co-sponsored by IFIP and the IEEE CS. This year's PACT will take place between in October in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A third co-sponsor, ACM SIGARCH, will join IFIP and IEEE CS.
A WG business meeting took place in conjunction with PACT’99, and a technical workshop was held in Paris in January, attended by one-third of the WG members. The presentation will be compiled and proposed to be published by Kluwer (tentative title: "Parallel processing in the area of cheap computing").
Other events co-sponsored by the WG (without IFIP financial implication) are:
3.3- WG 10.4 — Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
The two regular yearly meetings of the WG took place:
Business meetings of the WG were conducted during each meeting.
The SIG on Dependability Benchmarking (chaired by Phil Koopman, CMU, and Henrique Madeira, University of Coimbra) held its first two meetings, in Boca Raton (Florida, in conjunction with ISSRE’99, the Int. Symp. on Software Reliability Engineering), and at Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, california. In both meetings, attendance was about 20, including representatives from several major industries (IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Sun, etc.).
The first edition of DSN, the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, took place in New York City in June, with T. Basil Smith (IBM) as General Chair, and Doug Blough (Georgia Tech') and Karama Kanoun as co-Program Chairs. DSN results from the merger of the IEEE CS-sponsored FTCS (Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium, 29 editions held) and the IFIP-sponsored DCCA (Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, 7 editions held). IFIP and IEEE CS act as co-sponsors for DSN, which . Attendance was 280, and the programme was composed of multi-track sessions, three workshops (e-business systems, IP-based applications, dependability despite malicious faults), two plenary keynote addresses, two plenary panels, a student forum, a fast abstract track.
WG 10.4 also provided "in cooperation" support for the following events:
The two annual meetings for the year 2001 will be held in Paraty, Brazil, in March 2001, and in Stenungsund Baden, Sweden, in June. The March meeting will be held in conjunction with the 9th Brazilian Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computers (Florianopolis), and the June meeting in conjunction with DSN 2001.
DSN 2001 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, co-located with ISCA, the International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
3.4- WG 10.5 — Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems
The WG held two meetings this year.
Organized and planned events are as follows:
The WG is also a co-sponsor for the DATE series of conferences and exhibitions.
The WG has sevral SIGS:
The record of TC meeting attendance is given as an annex.
The TC recommends the discontinuation of two WGs: 10.6 (Neural Computer Systems, established in 1991), and 10.7 (Microsystems, established in 1994).
Concerning 10.6, this recommendation is the termination of a clarification process undertaken for two years. The current WG 10.6 Chair, Michel Verleysen, successor to the founding chair, attempted unsuccessfully to revive the WG. He made additional attempts this year, via contacting several persons active in the field. Last year TC report mentioned that "The TC agreed [with these proposed new attempts], and asked for a report to be presented during the next annual meeting in Beijing. If this attempt proves to be unsuccessful, then the WG will have to be discontinued". In a recent message, Michel Verleysen declared that "most researchers in the neural network field already think that there are too many conferences, too many meetings, and that making the WG more active would only worsen the situation". Thus, although Michel Verleysen continues "if there is a new definition of the WG in TC10, and if neural networks still find their place after this reshaping, then I agree to take part to the discussion and try to set up something new", the TC concluded that it was time to put an endpoint.
Concerning 10.7, the WG Chair, Klaus Mueller-Glaser, informed the TC before last year's meeting that, after discussions held within the working group, the decision has been taken not to continue existence of 10.7, but to have the members be members of 10.5 again. This proposal, which had been approved by 10.5 during one of its meeting, was based on the opinion that the design methodologies and tools for microsystems are basically the same as for any other electronic systems. The TC felt that the opinion of the current members of 10.7 was indeed to be respected, and did not oppose to see the 10.7 members to join 10.5. The TC however thought that microsystems have their own specificities, including in their applications, and that they constitute an enough promising field of activity for IFIP to have a well-identified WG on the topic. It was agreed to ask to a person of the LAAS-CNRS research group on Microsystems to explore the possibility of continuing the WG (including holding a meeting during the first semester of 2000), and to report at the next TC meeting. Although the attempt was performed with a mutidisciplinary approach, centered on MEMS engineering (Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems, a term more accepted on the international scene than microsystems), the conclusion was similar to the situation encountered by 10.6: too many meetings already established. It is thus also proposed to discontinue WG 10.7.