Swiss IFIP Committee - SIC
Minutes of the 2014 annual meeting, Euresearch, Bern, January 13.1.2015
Present: R.Morel (Chair), G. Jäger, S.Koch, C.Rieder, H. Rudin, R.Winter, P.A.Bobillier (Minutes)
Apologies: J-L. Chappelet, Ph.Dallemagne, P.Felber, Julian Randall,
Absent: Mrs S. Ghernaouti, J-H.Morin
0. Welcome to new members
R.Morel welcomed the participants and thanked Euresearch and J.Randall for the hospitality. He
mentioned the apologies received for the meeting and regretted the absence of S. Ghernaouti(TC13) and JH.Morin (TC14). He welcomed Stephane Koch and Gerhard Jäger participating for the first time to the SIC
meeting.
1. Agenda: approved as distributed
2. Approval of Minutes of the last meeting (Januera 21 st, 2014)
The minutes were approved including the enclosed SIC Members list as no remarks were received.
Action List: TC delegates nominations: - TC 6: Stephan Koch was elected, - TC 10: no applicant so far,
search goes on.
Ercim: HR will announce the subjects in advance.
RM reminds all of the access to the intranet for the IFIP site. And its interest to consult
the latest TC news.
3Activity reports 2014
TC 1 G.Jaeger reported http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/ifip-TC1.pdf
The IFIP TC1 is an internationally active committee that aims at supporting the development
of theoretical computer science as a fundamental science aiming at:
(i) understanding the information processing wor
(ii) developing adequate methodology and technolog
(iii) exploring fundamental concepts, models, theories, and system
(iv) bridging theory and applications and developing bridges to other sciences and
their applications
The main scientific activities of TC1 are presently centered around the following working
groups (see also http://www.ifip.org/bulletin/bulltcs/memtc01.htm):
• WG 1.1 - Continuous Algorithms and Complexity
• WG 1.2 - Descriptional Complexity
• WG 1.3 - Foundations of Systems Specification
• WG 1.4 - Computational Learning Theory
• WG 1.5 - Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
• WG 1.6 - Term Rewriting
• WG 1.7 - Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design
• WG 1.8 - Concurrency Theory
• WG 1.9 - Verified Software
The main conference TCS 2014,
8th IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, took place in Rome, September
1-3, 2014; co-located to Concur 2014. It was open for papers in all areas of Theoretical Computer
Science and organized around the following two tracks:
Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation,
Track B: Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification.
The IFIP TC1 Business Meetings 2014 took place in Rome on August 31. Here is the summary of this
meeting:
2014 Business Meeting of IFIP TC-1 took place in Rome in two sessions: one on 31 August
with 11 attendees, one on 4 September with 5 attendees. 16 members of TC1 sent apologies.
The meeting started with two obituary talks for Alberto Bertoni and Wilfried Brauer who
passed away this year.
News from TC1
1. Four new national representatives, two new WG chairs.
2. Finance report. 2013: no expenses, 600\ income (royalties from 2012 proceedings).
2014: TCS 2014 support, 1000 + 300\. Business meetings expenses, 350\.
3. TCS 2014 organisation. Thanks to the efforts of the PCs and their chairs, a success-ful edition
(76 submissions, 26 accepted papers, 45 participants).
4. Still no secretary for TC1. Urgent to find one.
News from IFIP
1. IFIP AICT series published by Springer. Discussion about monitoring quality is ongo-ing.
2. Digital Library. Decision about a new tender is being taken very soon.
3. Marketing. A company is contracted to survey the opinion about IFIP in order to in-crease its
visibility.
News from WGs
Reports from 7 out of 9 WGs show a lively scientific activity. WG 1.4 has not shown any sign
of life for the past 2 years; action should be taken to establish its activeness or otherwise to
abandon it.
Main discussion points
1. A new domain has been open for TC1: ifip-tc1.org. Additions/corrections in the new
web page welcome.
2. TC1 has received a proposal for a new WG on `String Algorithms and Applications'.
All expressed opinions very supportive. Vote unanimously positive. [TC1 chair thus
proposed the creation of the WG at the following Technical Assembly (11 September)
which voted positively. The next day, IFIP General Assembly decided the creation of
WG1.10.]
3. Financial behaviour of WGs. Long discussion on the paradoxical situation resulting
from the active WGs which declare no IFIP events. The invoked reasons are the cost
and the bureaucracy. The result is the lack of visibility and the difficulty of participat-ing to financial
resources from IFIP. It has been agreed to establish a one event per
year practice with a clear policy of cost return and improved information on proce-dures.
4. TCS 2016 Reproducing a TCS conference in the existing form in 2 years is possible
but cannot be expected to become a big success. It seems more interesting to or-ganise a federated
conference of WGs but it would require clear commitment of all
WGs and the project should be launched soon.
Planning for future events
1. Next business meeting to be held preferably earlier in the year. Possible co-locations:
STACS, ETAPS, ICALP-LICS. Doodle to be open in fall. Project of having two Business Meetings: one
in Europe in spring, and one in Asia, co-located either with ICALP
or with WCC.
2. TC1 chair election is to be held in 2015 (term of present chair ends 31 December).
Call for nominations to be sent in fall. Election process to be completed by next Business Meeting.
TC 2 P. Felber reported http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/IFIP-TC2-Report-2013with-minutes.pdf
No specific IFIP TC2 activity took place in Switzerland, although several IFIP-supported events
were organized elsewhere, e.g., the International Conference on Software Composition (SC 2013)
sponsored by IFIP WG 2.4 and the 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems
(OSS2013) sponsored by IFIP WG 2.13.
The IFIP TC2 Meeting was held in Poznan on September 10, 2013. I could not attend personally (I
was chairing P2P 2013, which was held at the same dates) but Julia Lawall acted as a proxy.
The
minutes of the meeting are attached.
Notable points discussed at the meeting include:
• Bertrand Meyer was nominated for the IFIP Silver Core Award.
• A new Web site forTC2 has been set up at http://ifip-tc2.paluno.uni-due.de/ , as well as a new
mailing list .
• The Manfred Paul Award has not been given last year but will be awarded by the OSS conference
for the next few years.
•
There are concerns that IFIP and TC2 are not visible enough. More work needs to be done by
WG's and representatives to advertise IFIP activities.
TC 3 R. Morel reported http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/TC3-SIC-report-2014-v6.pdf
1. Activities in and around the TC3
In Poitiers 23th-26thth of January 2014 IFIP TC3 Executice meeting:
In very brief : Unesco connections + links with WSIS + 10 and beyond till HLE, Finalization of An
Open Torun Vision - International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical
Committee 3 (TC3) - 2013 to 2017, Next WCCE’2017 in Dublin, Reshaping TC3 and its working
groups; new aims and scope, The eLex conference, Dubai, TC3 events in Potsdam, TC3 AGM in
Potsdam , WSIS follow-up, TC3 as an actor of WSIS + 10 and beyond, Worldwide "Information
Security Education & Solidarity" - ISES Initiative - Proposal for an IFIP TC3 Task Force 20142017 on ISES, Digital equity - IFIP project around IFIP strategy 2013-2016 - Role of TC3, A TC3
task-force to elaborate a computing education framework for school education, TC3 Budget cf
below, in the annex or at the link http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/TC3-SIC-report-2014-v6.pdf
 In Potsdam from 30th of June to 7th of July 2014
KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT,
To provide a forum to present and to discuss research, case studies, positions, and national
perspectives in this field, the IFIP TC3 event "Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT"
(KEYCIT 2014) was held at the University of Potsdam in Germany from July 1st to 4th, 2014. The
conference was organized into strands focusing on secondary education, university education and
teacher education
During KEYCIT’2014, there was an opportunity to finalize the document discussed during 20132014 :
An Open Torun Vision - IFIP TC3 - 2013 to 2017
Educational stakeholders and purpose: who and what can be supported better by computers?
To consider the futures of both CS and ICT in education… cf the full text ( 2 pages in IFIP
NEWS of Sept. 2014 page 7/8 or http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/880617/an-open-torunvision-international-federation-for-information-processing-ifip-technical-committee-3-tc3-2013-to2017
 After the conference KEYCIT the IFIP TC3 Committee held its Annual General Meeting.events in
Potsdam cf also below, in the annex or at http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/TC3-SIC-report-2014v6.pdf
The TC3 Strategy; working groups and task forces.
After the reorganization of TC3 decided last year, we now have 4 working groups in TC3:
WG 3.1 - Informatics and digital technologies in School Education.
WG 3.3 - Research into Educational Applications of Information Technology.
WG 3.4 - Professional and Vocational Education in ICT.
WG 3.7 - Information Technology in Educational Management (ITEM).
The working groups have rewritten their title and their aims and scope, and have established their priorities from the
next years. For the other main items and decisions cf. annex 1 or http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/tc3 report.pdf
2. Activities in and around the GA/ILC
 In Geneva 29th of January to 3rd of February 2014
Two books have been scanned and are now available on Internet (cf below IFIP News – December 2014 p.9) :
A quarter Century of IFIP edited by H.Zemanek, North Holland 1986.
http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/a-quarter-century-of-IFIP.pdf
The IFIP silver summary, 1986
http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/the-IFIP-silver-summary.pdf
 17th and 18th of February 2014 in Geneva (IUT with UNESCO and UNCTAD & Cie) :
Preparation of the « WSIS + 10 and Beyond HLE » (High Level Event in June)
 In Barcelona 20th to 22nd of February 2014
Working for the IFIP Digital Equity project (DEDDC) from the side TC3 and WSIS
Preparation of a IFIP Workshop DEDDC for the « WSIS + 10 and Beyond HLE “
 4th to 17th of April 2014 in Geneva (IUT with UNESCO and UNCTAD & Cie) :
Preparation of the « WSIS + 10 and Beyond HLE » (High Level Event in June)
Elaboration of a IFIP Workshop IP3 – IT Professionalism for the « WSIS + 10 and Beyond
HLE “
Elaboration of a IFIP Workshop ISES (Internet Security Education and Solidarity) for the
“WSIS + 10 and Beyond HLE “
 9th to 13th of June 2014 in Geneva (IUT with UNESCO and UNCTAD & Cie) :
The evolution of the problematic ? WSIS+10 and beyond ?
Forum WSIS +10 and beyond HLE (High Level Event)
Input Documents – WSIS Action Lines and Action Line Facilitators
Implementating WSIS outcomes : Experience to Date and Prospects for the Future (CSTD)
WSIS + 10 and beyond OUTCOME of 12th of June2014 : everybody i.e. all UN countries agrees with this
convergent text of 50 pages to ask UN GA to declare a new decade of activities for the process WSIS.
Full document : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/E_Outcome_Document_2014_V2.pdf
Other language versions :in Arabic, in Chinese, in French, in Russian and in Spanish
 In Vienna on 11th of September 2014
Presidents Meeting IFIP Membership Societies, namely for IP3
http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/880213/implementating-wsis-outcomes-experience-todate-and-prospects-for-the-future-cstd-2014
see also below for the IP3 annual report 2013-2014 at IFIP GA
 12-13 of September 2014 at Vienna
IFIP GA’2014 cf. références Minutes mentionned before the SIC meeting with the SIC agenda
http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/GA 2014 Minutes.pdf
 2nd and3rd of December 2014 in Brussels
European E-Skills conference Brussels 2 – 3 December 2014
the best slides during the two days
More information : http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/882104/european-eskills-conferencebrussels-2-3-december-2014
3. Feedbacks IFIP during 2014 in Switzerland
 About IT-Professionalism – Annual IP3 report 2013-2014
http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/882163/ifip-ip3-annual-report-20132014
International Professional Practice Programme (IP3) – A great process !
Notice the new web site dedicated to this project : http://www.ipthree.org/… ip3interactive.net
….. and the first attempt to have a reflection and why not an action in Switzerland
through the SI ? now it’s done : first step cf above section 1 on 11th of September 2014
 1-3 July 2015 in Vilnius
A New Culture of Learning:
Computing and Next Generations - IFIP Working Conference
IFIP TC3 education has a tradition of organising excit-ing conferences which stimulate discussion, foster the exchange of
ideas and knowledge, and generate more informed understanding of the issues of Informatics and digital technologies in
education. We hope some Swiss contributions ans Swiss participants.
More info : http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/882074/a-new-culture-of-learning-computing-and-next-generations-ifipworking-conference-13-july-2015
 ERCIM News N° 100 - Scientific Data sharing and re-use - January 2015 - 25 years ERCIM
For full report
http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/882083/ercim-news-n-100-scientific-data-sharing-and-reusejanuary-2015-25-years-ercim
 Feedbacks from the EU Horizon 2020 - Main aera in 2015
- HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014 – 2015 14. Secure societies – Protecting freedom and security
of Europe and its citizens
- HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014 – 2015 13. Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative
and reflective Societies
- HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014 – 2015 12. Climate action, environment, resource efficiency
and raw materials
- HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014 – 2015 11. Smart, green and integrated transport
- HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014 – 2015 10. Secure, clean and efficient energy
- HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014 – 2015 8. Health, demographic change and wellbeing
- HORIZON 2020 WORK PROGRAMME 2014 – 2015 5. Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies –
 Information and Communication TechnologiesThe last IFIP Newsletters Q4 – 2014 and Q1 – 2015
It was published on 20th of December 2014. Each member of SI can reveive free each issue
http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/Newsletter/2013to2014/news_dec_2014.pdf
http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/Newsletter/2015to2016/news_march_2015.pdf
 WCC’2015 :The 23th IFIP World Computer Congress http://www.wcc-2015.org/
October 4-7, 2015 , Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea
World Computer Congress 2015 will be featured main symposiums that consisted of invited
speakers for “New Software Oriented Jobs” and “Software Education & Accreditation (K-12, Seoul
Accord, IP3 etc.)”
• IFIP Technical Committees and working groups are organizing three conferences, and in
paralleled with the ICT Eurasia Conference 2015. Also numerous forums will be held in parallel.
• Delegates at the World Computer Congress 2015 will be able to attend the exhibition, enjoy
technical tours of local research institute and universities such as ETRI, Chungnam National
University, and KAIST.WCC in Korea will provide an unparalleled opportunity to network with
international peers and experts for Swiss participants.
 Curia Vista - Objets parlementaires 14.4299 – Interpellation
Faut-il créer un secrétariat d'Etat de la société numérique - ou un autre outil de veille
transversale de la révolution numérique?
http://www.parlament.ch/f/suche/Pages/geschaefte.aspx?gesch_id=20144299•
Plaidoyer pour un Secrétariat d’Etat à la société numérique
http://www.agefi.com/forum-page-2/detail/artikel/une-telle-fonction-permettrait-dencadrercettenouvelle-revolution-industrielle-la-stimuler-et-lui-donner-un-sens-389115.html
• Plaidoyer pour un Secrétariat d’Etat à la société numérique
http://www.lereseau.ch/?p=4457
Le Réseau
4. Other facts linked with Education in Switzerland during 2014
Kommission Bildung of ICT switzerland
Position papers on : Lehrplan 21 ICT for Lehrplan-21 (curriculum for primary and low secondary
éducation) Informatik an Gymnasien ICT in Gymnasium Zürcher Schulblatt Vision in Zurich area. In
addition the Commission KB elaboreted a memorandum on insatisfactory/missing informatics in the
Swiss schools .
We are far away from a real reflection and real / efficient /concrete actions towards the
sustainable education in a knowledge society
From the SATW ICT Committee to the TPF e-switzerland
The SATW closed the Themen Plateform e-Switzerland without any preliminary discussion (it’s may
be what we can called a ? special non-ethical or no-deontology attitude in the Academic sphere ? more
details at the SIC AM 13.01.15).
To mesure the 13 years work refer to my annual reports since 2002.
 Questions numériques 2014-2015 : CONTROVERSES, cahier d'enjeux et de prospective
Après les cahiers d’enjeux sur les questions numériques de ces trois dernières années, voici que la FING sort son cahier
2014-2015, voici le temps des controverses
http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/881233/questions-numriques-20142015-controverses-cahierdenjeux-et-de-prospective
Technologieoutlook und IT-Trends als Chance für den Geschäftserfolg (Zürich) or 8. Zürcher
Konferenz und Netzwerktreffen 9. Sptember 2014
Vernetzung in der Informationstechnologie – www.future-network.at
T_e_c_h_n_o_l_o_g_i_e_o_u_t_l_o_o_k_ _u_n_d_ _I_T_-_T_r_e_n_d_s_ _a_l_s_ _C_h_a_n_c_e_ _f_ür_ _d_e_n_
_G_e_s_c_h_äf_t_s_e_r_f_o_l_g_
http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/fn_zuerich_outlook_neu_neu_01.pdf
http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Artikel_CW.pdf
 After the creation of the research cooperative Social-IN3
INNOVATION - INCUBATOR - INSTITUTE since October 2012
Social innovation has become one of the major social challenges of today.
The overall objective of the SOCIAL-IN3 project is to develop a transnational collaborative network of IN3
centers as social innovation incubators focusing on testing social innovations in the local contexts with an
ultimate aim to enhance socioeconomic development and increase empowerment of their local communities.
cf http://www.social-in3.coop
Main recent actions :
Elaboration of a concept Living Lab ? l’ère numérique ? / LL Digital Age - Activities of Kdmk (Kid he
make) - Prototype of a gazette électronique SISR
 A Digital Agenda for 2020 in Switzerland ….
After March 2011, a 40-pages brochure to become conscious that Switzerland is not anymore leader in ICT
and needs a strong agenda to achieve to be in a better position in 2020.
http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/2749/lagenda-numrique-2020-la-suisse-de-retour-dans-le-peloton-de-tteictNothing new was happening till this last June 2013 with a new version and a new title
agenda numérique 2.0 en route pour ? smart switzerland ?
and now except the entry of ICTswitzerland in economiesuisse …. What else ?
http://www.le-blog-de-mathieu-janin.net/ICTswitzerland-nouvellement-represente-dans-lafaitiere-economique-suisse_a274.html
we are looking for concrete actions ….
http://www.ict-21.ch/l4d/pg/file/read/878721/agenda-numrique-20-en-route-pour-smart-switzerland-
TC 5 Ph.Dallemagne report http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/docx/TC5-report-2014.docx
TC5 is doing well and the TC5 Office is coming to its term. Erich Neuhold will be finishing his
second term as the TC5 Chair at the end of 2015. Elections will be organised at the end of 2015 or
at the beginning of 2016 to elect a new Chair.
The TC5 Executive Committee meeting was held on the phone on April 9, 2014.
The 54th TC5 annual meeting was held in Zurich, Switzerland, on September 27-28, 2014, in the
premises of CSEM. In contrast with 2013, we were happy to welcome most of the TC WG and SIG
chairs in Zurich, coming from many countries, such as Japan, China, Bulgaria, Germany, France,
etc. The people worked hard and exchanged a lot of viewpoints on various subjects. The TC is
trying to identify and nominate people for the TC5 award. The aims and scope of the TC will be
reviewed to assess their relevance and fitting with the current and future activities of the TC.
The TC5 PROLAMAT Conference was a great success in 2013. This success must not hide the
huge amount of work done by the organisers, in particular Dr. George Kovacs and Dr. Detlef
Kochan. TC5 is grateful for the accomplished job. The question is now how to take benefit from the
good restart of PROLAMAT and who or which organisations are able to support the future
PROLAMAT instances?
TC5 is still considering a number of new subjects, such as "Innovation In ICT to foster “Save The
Earth “, Cloud computing domain, etc. Cloud computing has been recognised as cross-TC subject
during the GA in Vienna and Dmiter Velev (BG) is the TC5 representative for that matter.
TC 6 H. Rudin reported http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/doc/CH-TC6-2014.doc
IFIP’s TC6, The Technical Committee on Communications Systems, is an active technical
committee which orchestrates some twenty international conferences and workshops a year. Our
chairman is now Aiko Pras. The first 2014 TC6 committee meeting was held in Trondheim from 45 June and the second in Dagstuhl Germany from 12 – 14 November. The Dagstuhl meeting was a
strategic planning meeting. The goals of the meeting were to bring new people or communities into
TC6 and to examine TC6’s structure.
We discussed new topics that are of interest to TC6. One possibility is closer ties to the COST
community. Network measurements is one particular topic and a number of leading lights in the
field were invited to give presentations. We also discussed the creation of a new journal. This would
be open access, extraordinarily selective and financially compensate reviewers. Another topic was
the possible creation of a new working group on communication aspects of social networking.
The IFIP TC6 digital library is up and running.
http://dl.ifip.org/
ERCIM News http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/ has a printed circulation of some 5000 copies. For the
online version, some 7300 people have registered. Thus ERCIM News is an excellent place to make
our Swiss research in ICT better known! The Swiss organization SIRA withdrew from ERCIM.
Happily, the University of Geneva joined in SIRA's place. We can continue to use the SIRA
mailing list for distribution of calls for papers.
TC 8 R. Winter reported : http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/docx/TC8 Report 2014-1.docx
1. TC8 meeting (Copenhagen/Denmark, May 31st and June 1st, 2014)
The 45th TC8 business meeting was attended by 13 TC8 country or WG representatives. The
minutes of that meeting can be accessed at http://ifiptc8.dsi.uminho.pt/images/44thMeeting/
44th_tc8_washington - minutes_sept9.pdf
(The server seems to be currently down. I hope this is only a temporary problem).
Two discussion items should be mentioned in particular:
1. Academic IS researchers are often working in Business Schools. In business research,
journal publications are much more valuable for tenure and promotion / reward purposes
than publications in conference proceedings. As a conference, many IS conferences,
even those with a long successful history, see a decline in submissions and in
attendance. This is considered a threat to the IFIP operations model because most IFIP
conferences have workshop character and are not regarded as very selective, high
quality publication outlets. Even highly ranked conferences started not to publish full
proceedings any more (only abstracts or extended abstracts) in order to give attendants
a chance to submit their work to a journal after presenting and discussing it at the
conference.
2. In order to provide some guidance from an IFIP perspective, TC8 built a committee that
collected IS relevant conference rankings/ratings, aggregated these rankings/ratings,
discussed problematic rank assignments, and produced a list of A/B/C ratings of
conferences to be approved by the TC8 meeting 2014. The list is available through a link
in the meeting minutes (URL see above, currently inaccessible).
2. TC8 activities in Switzerland or with relation to Switzerland
After its official start in 2013, CHAIS as a joint activity of IFIP TC8, SI and AIS has started its
activities in 2014. In addition to be the core of Swiss TC8 activities, CHAIS is also an official
Swiss chapter of the Association of Information Systems (see
http://start.aisnet.org/members/group_content_view.asp? gr oup=117293&id=308994) as well as a
Fachgruppe of the SI.
In 2014 CHAIS focused on team building and activities for PhD students:
PhD course (in conjunction with CUSO) on design science research on January 13th and 14th
 in Ovronnaz-les-bains.
IS doctoral consortium (in conjunction with ifi, Uni Zürich) on June 23rd in Zürich.
Meeting (in conjunction with the ICIS 2014 conference) for Swiss IS researchers on
December 14th in Auckland.
In CHAIS all Swiss IS research groups at Universities are represented.
3. The TC8 membership in Switzerland
To my knowledge, the following researchers are the active Swiss members of the Working
Groups of TC8 or are involved actively in CHAIS activities:
Prof. Dr. Christine LEGNER CHAIS
Prof. Dr. Gerhard SCHWABE CHAIS
Prof. Dr. Jean Henri MORIN CHAIS
Prof. Michel LEONARD WG8.1
Dr. Yves PIGNEUR WG8.1, CHAIS
Dr. Jolita RALYTE WG8.1
Prof. Dr. Stephan AIER WG8.2, WG8.9
Dr. Matthias BUCHS WG8.3
Dr. Giovanni CAMPONOVO WG8.3
Dr. Alexandre GACHET WG8.3
Prof. Pius HAETTENSCHWILER WG8.3
Ms. Evelina TRUTNEVYTE WG8.3
Prof. Dr. Felix WORTMANN WG8.3
Prof. Dr. Jean-Loup CHAPPELET WG8.5, WG9.9
Dr. Michael WAIDNER WG8.8
TC 9 no report from TC9 chair report : http ://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/tc9 report.pdf
TC 10 no report as no representative appointed yet
The position of TC 10 representative is open.
TC 11 C. Rieder reported http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/doc/IFIP annual report 2014 TC11 Rieder
150107.doc
1. TC11 Contact
Chair:
Prof. Dr.Yuko Murayama, Japan, mailto:murayama@iwate-pu.ac.jp
Vice Chair:
Prof. Dr. ir. Bart de Decker, mailto:Bart.DeDecker@cs.kuleuven.be
Dr. Ronald C. Dodge JR, ronald.dogde@usma.edu
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl, mailto:ingrid.schaumueller-bichl@fhhagenberg.at
Contact:
http://www.ifiptc11.org/
2. Minutes of TC11 Annual Meeting
Marrakech, Morocco, Sunday, 1st June 2014 ,09:00 – 17:00
Hosting IFIP SEC 2015: Hamburg, Germany, 26.-28. May 2015
co-hosting
WISE9-2015 (Information Security Education) and
IFIPTM 2015 (Trust Management)
Hosting IFIP SEC 2016: Gent, Belgium, 30. May – 1. June 2016
Working groups
WG 11.1 Information Security Management (Chair: Gurpreet Dhillon)
WG 11.2 Pervasive Systems Security (Chair: Ioannis Krontiris)
WG 11.3 Data and Application Security (Chair: Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati)
WG 11.4 Network & Distributed Systems Security (Chair: Dogan Kesdogan )
WG 11.5 IT Assurance and Audit (Chair: Abbas Shahim)
WG 11.6 Identity Management (Chair: Simone Fischer Huebner)
WG 9.6 / 11.7 IT Mis-Use & the Law (Chair: Ronald Leenes)
WG 11.8 Information Security Education (Chair: Lynn Futcher)
WG 11.9 Digital Forensics (Chair: Mark Pollitt)
WG 11.10 Critical Infrastructure Protection (Chair: Jonathan Butts)
WG 11.11 Trust Management (Chair: Theo Dimitrakos)
WG 11.12 Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (Chair: Nathan Clarke)
WG 8.11 / 11.13 Information Systems Security Research (Chair: Merrill WARKENTIN)
WG 11.14 Secure Engineering (Chair: Fabio Martinelli)
Kristian Beckman Award 2014: Louise Yngström, Sweden
Publications IFIP TC11:
-Computers & Security (COSE)
-International Journal of Critical Infrastructure (IJCIP)
-Africa Research Journal (SAIEE)
To get a single point of contact for all IFIP SEC conferences, the website http://www.ifipsec.org has
been published.
Financial Results 2014 / status 2014 / Budget 2015 have been discussed and accepted
The first IFIP SEC was hold in 1984: “Computer security a global challenge”. After 30 years the
demand for security and privacy hasn’t really changed.
3 IFIP SEC 2014
IFIP SEC 2014, organized by
Frédéric Cuppens, Institut Mines-Telecom, France
Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT, France
Anas Abou El Kalam, UCA-ENSA Marrakesh & AMAN, Morocco
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Fairfax
was with about 150 attendees a great success.
155 submissions
28 accepted longpapers, 14 accepted short papers (acceptance rate 17.64 %)
Each paper was sent to 4 revivers
3 key note speakers
11 session
Workshop AIDP 2014 (Advanced Intrusion Prevention and Detection)
4 Working Groups: status of Swiss members
The status of Swiss members is stable on a very low level,
Feb 2014, 4 active members
Summary of Working Group reports 2014 cf. http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/doc/IFIP annual report 2014
TC11 Rieder 150107.doc
5 Publicity of IFIP TC11
The steering committee agreed on using Google Adword for advertisement of IFIP SEC conferences.
Without advertisement our link appears not before page 5 of a google search “information
security conference” or “security privacy conference
TC 13 No report submitted
TC 14 J-H Morin report: http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/docx/IFIP-TC14-Swiss-ETiS-2014-Report.docx
In 2014, several researchers from Swiss higher education institutions gathered to create the Swiss
chapter of the IFIP Technical Committee 14: Entertainment Computing.
Prof. Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, applied to be the the Swiss representative for TC14
and was nominated in June 2014. Participation in the anual TC14 meeting fas not possible due to
the far location in Sydney.
A Special Interest Group of the Swiss SI (Swiss Informatics Society, http://www.s-i.ch/ ) in the area
of Entertainment Computing was chartered to gather interested parties in this area for Switzerland.
The SIG-ETiS (Entertainment Computing in Society) aims and scope are documented in the
following document :
http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/docx/Aim-Scope-ETIS-v1-=ct-2014.docx
An initial meeting for the Swiss SIG-ETiS was planed in Fall 2014 in Bern, but was finally relocated
to Geneva due to the lack of participants from the rest of Switzerland. The initial kickoff meeting
took place at University of Geneva, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique (CUI) on November 28,
2014. The meeting gathered 10 participants who shared their initial interests in the broad area of
Entertainement Computing.
The outcome of the meeting was an agreement to build the network of Swiss participants in the
area and to document their projets and interests. Also, creating a SIG-ETiS committee appeared to
be essential for the development of the its activities. This is planed for 2015 together with an event
to be held in Fall 2015 in a more central part of Switzerland.
4. General information
From RM, chairman of the Swiss IFIP Committee:
- IFIP looking for a change in the Countries representation. Today: 1 association
representative per country.. How to have other instances active: large industries, etc..
- Projects like Digital Equity.
RM recommends to read the Minutes of the Council Meeting where these subjects are
mentioned and developped.
- SI Newsletter: RM requets to all to submit contributions for the Newsletter: not full articles
but url's, pointers to interesting articles, good books, flyers for new events, etc..
- Reminder of SIC Rules and procedures:
Elections of TC reps by SI now, Terms of office,
Travel Budget requests,
Travel Expense requests with travel reports, etc..

From the other members of the IFIP Swiss Committee
S.Koch asked information on the task force of a WG 6.5 Secure Networking
5. Finances
- Accounts 2014: were not presented. R.Morel to communicate later to the SIC members
- Budget 2015-2016: idem
6. Visibility of IFIP in Switzerland. All
- The SI will contribute to papers presented / accepted to IFIP TC conferences (around 5 per
year) and not only for TC representatives.
- Web sites: ifip pages, etc...
- Articles on IFIP events in or out of Switzerland
- Possible invitations for TC / WG events in Switzerland
- Swiss participation in IFIP outside events (Working conferences, WCC's), submission of
papers, contribution to organising/program Ctees, etc..
- Report of the Swiss IFIP Committee fot 2014
- National Report of SI/SIC to the IFIP GA 2015: PAB/RM
- Other actions
7.
Date of the next SIC annual meeting 2015
RM will create a Doodle with the following dates:
- December 14, 2015, 9:45, Dec. 15, 2015, 13:45,
- January 18, 2016 and January 21, 2016 in Bern at Euresearch
Please keep these dates open in your calendar.
[after consultation the choosen date was 21st of January2016 from 13h45 to 16h00 in
Berne – please note immediately this in your calendar]
8. Miscellanous
P-A Bobillier reminded the open position for TC 10. published in the SI and Spektrum.
No application received so far.
PAB will send the updated lists of Swiss WG members to all. He recommended the TC
reps to check carefully these lists and, when appropriate, to contact the chairs involved
(TC or WG). Also inform PAB of any error, change, etc..
Action List after the meeting:
- Nominations for TC 10: PAB/RM
- 2014 missing Annual reports and associated documents to be submitted to R.Morel before
January 31st, 2015: All
- Expense requests for 2014 (requests and reimbursement forms) to be sent to Morel asap but
before 31st of January 2015: All.
- Trip reports must be established by TC reps for each attended meeting. These reports are
requested before payments of the trip expenses : All
- Articles for Spektrum and IBcom on TCs: - News, - Event announcements, - reports on past
events, etc..: All
- Report to the IFIP GA on activities in Switzerland (deadline end of August 2015) : RM & PAB
- Annual report to SI : RM
- TC rep's to check their TC Web sites and their personal info on Swiss web pages and
communicate errors and necessary changes to Morel & Bobillier: All
- ERCIM : Contributions / research items requested from all Members for publication in ERCIM
News. To be submitted to Harry Rudin hrudin@smile.: All
- List of Swiss WG members to be distributed: PAB check and report of errors/changes to PAB:
All.
- Idem for the list of SIC Members appended to the Minutes for this meeting
- 2015 Annual reports and associated documents:
- Reports to be circulated to all SIC Members: ALL before December 5, 2015
- Associated documents to be submitted to R.Morel before December 5, 2015
PAB 5.5.2015 /RM 18.5.2015