文档介绍：INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Relevant Theory and Informed Practice
IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing
IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the First puter
Congress held in Paris the previous year. An anization for societies working in
information processing, IFIP’s aim is two-fold: to support information processing within its
member countries and to encourage technology transfer to developing nations. As its mission
statement clearly states,
IFIP’s mission is to be the leading, truly international, anization
which encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of
information technology for the benefit of all people.
IFIP is a non-anization, run almost solely by 2500 volunteers. It operates
through a number of mittees, anize events and publications. IFIP’s
events range from an international congress to local seminars, but the most important are:
The IFIP puter Congress, held every second year;
Open conferences;
Working conferences.
The flagship event is the IFIP puter Congress, at which both invited and contributed
papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the rejection rate is high.
As with the Congress, participation in the open conferences is open to all and papers may be
invited or submitted. Again, submitted papers are stringently refereed.
The working conferences are structured differently. They are usually run by a working group
and attendance is small and by invitation only. Their purpose is to create an atmosphere
conducive to innovation and development. Refereeing is less rigorous and papers are subjected
to extensive group discussion.
Publications arising from IFIP events vary. The papers presented at the IFIP puter
Congress and at open conferences are published as conference proceedings, while the results of
the working conferences are often published as collections of selected and edited papers.
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