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Cheers
Stefano Borgo
on behalf of IAOA EC (05)
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Fortieth meeting of the IAOA Executive Council (EC)
Virtual Meeting of 28 Mar 2011 (07)
Attendees:
Nicola Guarino (chair)
John Bateman
Stefano Borgo
Michael Gruninger
Riichiro Mizoguchi
Leo Obrst
Laure Vieu
Peter Yim (08)
The EC has adopted the 2011 IAOA Budget. A virtual assembly will be organized
in April for the IAOA assembly to approve the budget (a vote is required). (09)
The EC has decided to allocate some funds to support IAOA activities. This is
also reported in the budget. (010)
The EC has discussed the pros and cons of moving to a VAT accounting system.
The budget includes a lump of money for moving to the VAT system in the case
this change is implemented (a decision has to be taken by October). (011)
The EC has decided that members of the Advisory Board
(http://www.iaoa.org/advisory/advisory.html) will receive an honorary IAOA
membership. (012)
The EC has delegated two EC members to complete and close the agreement with
IOS Press regarding IAOA publications. (013)
The contract with CIM on infrastructure support (hosting iaoa.org website,
providing Collaborative Work Environment infrastructure and support) is now
ready. The IAOA president will sign it in the next days. (014)
Finally, the EC has continued the analysis of the ByLaws draft. This section
concentrated on Article X on "Contracts, Checks, Deposits, and Funds", which
was reviewed and corrected. (015)
Three new conferences have been approved as IAOA supported events: (016)
- Deep Knowledge Representation Challenge @KCAP 201
https://sites.google.com/site/dkrckcap2011/
IAOA champion: Vinay Chaudhri
IAOA EC liaison: Peter Yim (017)
- Ontology between Philosophy and Computer Science @CLMPS-2011
https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Groups/OntoMed/Public/OntologySymposium2011
IAOA champion: Heinrich Herre
IAOA EC liaison: Oliver Kutz (018)
- Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences@Informatik 2011
https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Conferences/2011en
IAOA champion: Heinrich Herre
IAOA EC liaison: Oliver Kutz (019)
(End of Report) (020)
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