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CSE member, Dr. Abdelaziz Bouras, is the current Chair of the IFIP Working Group<br />
WG5.1 on advanced lifecycle management technologies and systems. He answered few<br />
of our questions related to IFIP and his WG.<br />
What is IFIP?<br />
IFIP, the International Federation of Information<br />
Processing, is a leading multinational, apolitical<br />
organization in Information & Communications<br />
Technologies and Sciences. IFIP is recognized by United<br />
Nations and other world bodies and has a formal<br />
consultative partnership with UNESCO. It represents IT<br />
Societies from around 60 countries or regions, with a total<br />
membership of over half a million and links more than<br />
3500 scientists from Academia and Industry. Formally<br />
IFIP is organized in about 100 Working Groups (WGs)<br />
reporting to 13 Technical Committees (TCs). TCs and<br />
WGs contribute to, and often lead, progress in the stateof-the<br />
art knowledge and practice.<br />
What are the activities of the<br />
WG5.1?<br />
IFIP’s forums and<br />
conferences providing<br />
unparalleled coverage from<br />
theoretical informatics to the<br />
relationship between<br />
informatics and society<br />
including hardware and<br />
software technologies, and<br />
networked information<br />
systems. As all the IFIP<br />
groups, the WG5.1 is making<br />
efforts to narrow the gap<br />
between the theoretical<br />
research in its fields and their<br />
applications in the industry<br />
and society fields. We have<br />
researchers and industrialists<br />
from more than 40 countries<br />
and we organize several<br />
activities, such as an<br />
International Conference with<br />
strong Academia-Industry<br />
exchange and an International<br />
Journal.<br />
What is your role as Chair of the WG?<br />
As Chair of the group, I am constantly looking for innovative ways to enhance such<br />
relationship, such as the creation of two Special Interest Groups, one on IT maturity levels<br />
and one on PLM to BIM (Building Management Modeling) knowledge transfer. I am<br />
currently working with the members of the group to attract more women and students from<br />
emerging countries to the group activities and to enhance the public/private research<br />
collaboration in our WG field. We have a strong international network, and to motivate<br />
young researchers, we provide every year two IFIP Awards, one for the best research study<br />
and another one for the best student proposal.
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