Fred Douglis

Shannon Laboratory, Room B137

180 Park Ave, Bldg 103

P.O. Box 971

Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971

973-360-8775 (office)

973-360-7011 (fax)

mailto:douglis@research.att.com

http://www.research.att.com/~douglis/

Vice Chair: Please provide current name, address, phone, fax, and email address of "First Vice-Chair" (a second contact is necessary in case the Chair is not reachable).


 
 

Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal

Computer & Information Science & Engineering Dept.

Room 448 CSE Bldg. 

University of Florida 

Gainesville,FL 32611-6120

(352) 392-6845 (office)

(352) 392-3238 (fax)

mailto:helal@cise.ufl.edu

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~helal

Executive Committee: Please, describe the administrative organization of the Technical Committee. Include name, address, phone, fax, and email address of each individual.

Fred Douglis, Chair. 

Sumi Helal, Vice Chair. 

Javed I. Khan, Newsletter editor/webmaster. 

Department of Math and Computer Science
Kent State University

217 MSB, KSU, Kent, OH-44242, USA 
FAX:(330)-672-7824, Phone: (330)-672-4004/217 

javed@kent.edu

http://www.mcs.kent.edu/~javed

Arun Iyengar, Treasurer. 

IBM Research

T.J. Watson Research Center

P.O. Box 704

Yorktown Heights, NY10598

Office: 914-784-6468, Fax:

914-784-7455

aruni@watson.ibm.com

http://www.research.ibm.com/people/i/iyengar

Jim Isaak, Chair, Subcommittee on Standards. 

c.f. CS president J

Steve Chapin, Member-at-Large
Associate Professor of Computer Science 
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University 
Office: 2-179 CST 
Office Phone: (315) 443-4457
E-mail: chapin@ecs.syr.edu

William S. Harbison, Member-at-Large. 

Dr. William S. Harbison

Nortel Networks

Harlow Laboratories

London Road

Harlow

Essex CM17 9NA

UK

Tel:+44 (0) 1279 403560

Fax: +44 (0) 1279 403930

Dejan Milojicic, Member-at-Large. 

Hewlett-Packard Research Labs 

c.f. TCOS

Golden G. Richard III, Member-at-Large. 

Asst. Professor

Dept. of Computer Science 

University of New Orleans

Email: golden@cs.uno.edu

504-280-6045 (office)

http://www.cs.uno.edu/~golden

Aristotel Tentov, Member-at-Large. 

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

IKIT

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Karpos II bb, 91000 Skopje

Rep. of Macedonia

Tel: +389 91 363 566

Fax: +389 91 364 262

Arkady Zaslavsky, Member-at-large. 

School of Computer Science & Software Engineering

Monash University, 

900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Vic 3145

Room: C4.41

Melbourne, Australia

phone: (IDD + 61 3/Aus 03) 9903 2479

fax: (IDD + 61 3/Aus 03) 9903 1071

email: A.Zaslavsky@Monash.edu.au

http://www.ct.monash.edu.au/~azaslavs/

YEAR END REPORT (for the previous year)
Please answer the following questions by identify the activities the TC conducted that benefited Computer Society members. Please differentiate between on-going and new projects. 
 
 

Elections and Terms: Provide the start and end date of your term as TC Chair, and when you expect to conduct your next election for Chair. If you are currently holding an election, please provide the expected term start of the new Chair. 

Start date of your term as TC Chair: 11/30/97 [as task force], 11/30/98 [as TC]

End date of your term as TC Chair: 12/31/00

We will initiate an election this spring. We have a nominations chair and two candidates so far.A call for nominations did not produce any additional nominees.

Communication: How did your TC communicate with its members in the past year, i.e., through newsletters, special correspondence from the chair or other officers, etc.

We communicate via a set of electronic mailing lists,

tci-{announce,discuss,exec}@computer.org

and we have a web site with current information.
 
 

Web Assets: Please describe your TC's use of the World Wide Web, and provide your URL. What were the new developments in 1999? Is your page linked to the Computer Society Web page? Please provide the contact person or Webmaster for your TC's page.

Web page is http://computer.org/tab/TCI/, which is linked into the CS pages. 

Javed Khan’s contact info is above.

Meetings: How many TC meetings did your TC have this year, and over what venue (at conferences, teleconferences, video-conferences, etc.)?

We communicate only via email, but we intend to initiate face-to-face meetings at major events such as SAINT’2001.
 
 

Conferences: How many conferences did your TC sponsor, co-sponsor, or cooperate with this year? Were there any new conferences or were any existing conferences discontinued? What was the estimated average attendance? Was your TC actively involved on any program committees, technical committees or steering committees of these conferences? What was the most successful conference and least successful? How many outstanding final reports are there for conferences held this year?

·We sponsored the 1^st Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP’99).

·We cosponsored the 18^th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 1999) with Comsoc.

·We cosponsored the 2^ndIEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA’99) with TCOS.

·We cosponsored the 1^stInternational Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA’99), featuring the 3rd International Symposium on Mobile Agents and 3^rd Dartmouth Workshop on Transportable Agents, with USENIX.

·We cosponsored the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS’99) with USENIX.

We are not aware of any outstanding reports.All of these conferences were moderately successful; ASA may have been the most so.
 
 

Publications: Did your TC sponsor any publications or host any special issues of a Computer Society magazine?

No.

Collaborative Efforts: Was your TC involved in any collaboration with other TCs, IEEE, groups, organizations, or initiatives?

We cosponsored a conference with TCOS, two conferences with USENIX, and started a new conference that is cosponsored by the IPSJ. 
 
 

Volunteers: Estimate how many active volunteers were involved with your TC in this year? 

30, including program chairs and vice-chairs.

What mechanisms did you use for recruiting and training new volunteers? What was your volunteer turnover rate, i.e., how often did your volunteer leaders change (example: out of 15 key volunteers, half changed during the this year)? Is the change voluntary, or do you have scheduled election and appointment dates for revolving the volunteer leadership?

No changes so far (too early). No scheduled dates, other than the upcoming election for chair.
 
 

Awards and Recognition: Did your TC present any awards to its volunteers in 1999? Does your TC sponsor regular awards or student scholarships at particular conferences or meetings every year? If so, please specify those awards or scholarships, and the meetings where they are offered. 

We funded best student paper awards.
 
 

Member Database: Did your TC conduct any member list update or cleanup efforts this year? Did you provide all updates you received to your member list to the Computer Society for updating the database?

No update.
 
 

TC Reviews: Did your TC participate in a formal or informal review by TAB?

No.
 
 

Concerns: Describe problems or frustrations encountered as TC Chair. 

For the first part of the year, support for mailing lists and web page updates suffered greatly.Eventually, this support improved dramatically.

Staff Assistance: What services did you request of Computer Society staff? What services would you like to receive from staff?

We obtained a lot of help in planning SAINT’2001, for which we are grateful!

FUTURE PLANS (for the coming year)
Please answer the following questions by identify the activities the TC shall conduct that will benefit Computer Society members. Please differentiate between on-going and new projects. 
 
 

Communication: How will your TC communicate with its members in the coming year, i.e., through newsletters, special correspondence from the chair or other officers, etc.

Email and our web site.

Web Assets: How will your TC use of the Web? 

Our web site contains pointers to conferences and other useful information, but is not updated very frequently.
 
 

Conferences: How many conferences will your TC sponsor, co-sponsor, or cooperate with this year? Are there any new conferences or any existing conferences discontinued? Will your TC be actively involved on any program committees, technical committees or steering committees of these conferences?

·We cosponsored the 19^th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2000) with Comsoc.

·We are sponsoring the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2000).(IBM is providing financial support.)

·We are sponsoring the Joint Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications / Mobile Agents (ASA-MA’2000).Fred Douglis is steering committee Chair, and Dejan Milojicic is also on the steering committee (and past program chair).

·We are cosponsoring the 3^rdIEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA’2000) with TCOS.Fred Douglis is steering committee chair and.Sumi Helal is also on the steering committee.

·We are cosponsoring the 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT’2001) with the IPSJ.Everything but the conference itself is taking place in 2000. Fred Douglis is steering committee chair and program co-chair.Sumi Helal is tutorials chair. 

·We are starting to organize the next Workshop on Internet Applications, in 2001.
 
 

Publications: Will your TC sponsor any publications or host any special issues of a Computer Society magazine?

No, although it’s possible that papers from SAINT will be referred to IEEE Internet Computing for consideration.
 
 

Collaborative Efforts: Will your TC be involved in any collaboration with other TCs, IEEE, groups, organizations, or initiatives?

Conference co-sponsorships as detailed above.
 
 

New Activities, Opportunities, and Directions: What activities, opportunities or directions do you see as providing further viability and member benefit to your TC?

We need to increase our membership base.Currently we have an unexpectedly small number of members, and a small mailing list.This must change.We should budget for a mass-mailing to all IEEE-CS members advertising the TC.
 
 
 
 

Awards and Recognition: Does your TC plan to present any awards to its volunteers? Will your TC sponsor any regular awards or student scholarships at conferences or meetings? Please specify those awards or scholarships and meetings. 

We will continue to fund best student paper awards at our flagship conferences.

Meetings: How many TC meetings are planned for this year and over what venue (at conferences, teleconferences, video-conferences, etc.)? Please provide the dates, times, and locations.

There was a SAINT steering committee meeting in conjunction with the IEEE-CS meeting in February.No general TC meeting until SAINT occurs.

Membership and Volunteers: What mechanisms will you use to recruit and retain members and volunteers? 

A mass-mailing as described above.
 
 

Staff Assistance:What services would you like to receive from staff?