WCC 2006 PROGRAMME REPORT

1. WCC 2006 PROGRAMME REPORT by Ramon Puigjaner IPC Chairman August 26, 2006

2. 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

3. WCC 2006 Structure • 4 Key note talks • 10 Conferences • 1 Symposium • 6 Workshops • 6 Tutorials

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. WCC 2006 TUTORIALS • When Good Algorithms Yield Bad SoftwareErnst Leiss, Univ. of Houston, USA • Multidimensional Raster DatabasesPeter Baumann, International Univ. Bremen, Germany • Ontology Development in Database Systems and Software Engineering: A Hands-on TutorialKarin Breitman, Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

19. 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

20. WCC 2006 EVALAUTION • General feeling • Sound technical programme • Good ambiance

21. WCC 2006 EVALUATION Thank you for your kind attention Questions?