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ERCIM evolves with new organisational structure

With the first general assembly of the ERCIM¹ association (AISBL²) in Trondheim, Norway, 10 June 2011, ERCIM has accomplished a major organisational restructuring. An important change in ERCIM’s membership policy is coinciding with the creation of ERCIM AISBL. ERCIM is now open to multiple members per country while retaining its membership criteria of excellence and active participation. The aim is to build a strong European community of research organisations to promote science, research and innovation.

CoreGRID/ERCIM Workshop on Grids, Clouds and P2P Computing CGWS 2011

Bordeaux, August 29th, 2011

CoreGRID is a European research Network of Excellence which has developed theoretical foundations and software infrastructures for large-scale, distributed Grid and P2P applications. The network has extended its interests to include the emerging field of (service based) Cloud computing which is of great importance to the European software industry.

ERCIM evolves - evolve with ERCIM

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For over twenty years, ERCIM has been a consortium of leading research institutions committed to cooperating for excellence in research. Focusing on information and communication science and technology (ICST) and related areas of mathematics, ERCIM has a successful track record of promoting ICST research and cooperation in Europe and beyond. ERCIM is now dropping its limitation of one member per country, allowing a small number of excellent research institutions in ICST per country to directly become members of ERCIM.

ERCIM opens to Multiple Members per Country

The ERCIM consortium is currently re-organising into a two-tier structure: a non-profit association (AISBL) open to any suitable institution based on criteria of excellence, and the current European Economic Interest Group (EEIG) composed of a few members which will act as the host of W3C Europe and the ERCIM office. The association will be able to drive the ERCIM mission without the current restriction of one member organisation per country.

Michel Cosnard elected President of ERCIM

Michel Cosnard, President of INRIA was elected President of ERCIM at the last ERCIM Board of Directors, held in Brno, Czech Republic, 4 November 2010. Michel Cosnard took office as ERCIM president 1st January 2011 for a two-year term. Michel succeeds Keith Jeffery who served as ERCIM President from January 2005.

Report on the 15th ERCIM Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems Workshop

by Stefan Kowalewski and Marco Roveri

The 15^th ERCIM Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS) workshop was held in Antwerp, Belgium, on 20-21 September 2010. It was co-located with the 25^th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE).

New ERCIM WG “Media Technology & Edutainment” to kick-off

The kick-off meeting of a Working Group on Media Technology and Educations is planned on Tuesday, November 30, 10:00 - 15:30 at Fraunhofer IAIS, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 St. Augustin, Germany. Scientists interested in participating in this group should contact Sepideh Chakaveh (see below)

Static Analysis versus Model Checking - Workshop Report

by Flemming Nielson

The second annual meeting of the ERCIM Working Group on Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis (MLQA) took place on Friday July 9th 2010 as part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) organized by the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. It was attended by more than 30 researchers, from senior researchers to PhD students, and was one of the best attended satellite events taking place at FLoC.