文档介绍：Mechanism and Machine Theory 44 (2009) 1093
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IFToMM Newsletter 2008
Report on the 2008 Meeting of IFToMM Executive Council
The 41th IFToMM Executive Council Meeting was held in Tokyo, Japan, on the 5th of July 2008 at Waseda University,
the site for ROMANSY 2008. The status and problems of IFToMM activity were discussed resulting in a full agenda.
Many of the main points of discussion were related to reports of activity by missions (PCs) and Tech-
mittees (TCs), reports of the EC Working Groups (WGs), the Treasurer’s report, and the report of aniz-
mittee for the 13th IFToMM World Congress. Unfortunately, and after voting, The EC decided that three reports
(two PCs and one TC) should be suspended because these were sent after the deadline. This point will be included in the
EC regulations, namely, ‘‘reports received after a given deadline will be suspended”.
The Secretary General Prof. López-Cajún reported on the business and correspondence of IFToMM. In particular, he
managed two email postal ballots among the EC members, namely, for appointing of Prof. . Ananthasuresh, Chair of
the TC for Micromachines, and also for the updated of the MoU with Elsevier. These matters required decisions and ac-
tions before the annual meeting. He also reported as Chair of